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Today's Day 3 of Paddy Power Irish Poker Open started with 59 players – some short stacked, some with a lot of ammo, but all of them looking to make it over the first barrier. 411 initial entries meant that 47 players were going to cash, and, in turn …

Three men from Canada were accused of posing as poker players in a tournament at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia as part of an effort to set up a “local drug laboratory for a sophisticated international syndicate,” the Herald Sun reported. The …

With online poker players potentially facing jail time and stiff fines Washington State has without question the strictest online gambling laws in the country, but there are plenty of people fighting to not only repeal the current ban, but to take the …

Today's Day 3 of the Paddy Power Irish Poker Open started with 59 players – some short-stacked, some with a lot of ammo, but all of them looking to make it over the first barrier. With 411 initial entries, it meant that 47 players were going to cash …

The presenter and television journalist won almost £400,000 and made poker history when she became the first ever two-time winner of the European Poker Tour (EPT) by winning the latest season of the tournament in Sanremo, Italy. She beat off 556 …

Ole Schemion German pro Ole Schemion has won the European Poker Tour Sanremo €10,300 no-limit hold'em high roller, topping a field of 105 entries to win €265,000 and his tenth career title. The 21-year-old has amassed more than $4.6 million in …

It took 98 tournaments for the European Poker Tour to find it's first two-time main event champion, but it finally has. Nearly eight years after taking down the 2006 EPT London, Vicky Coren Mitchell topped a field of 556 entries in the 2014 EPT Sanremo …

A poker night held in Nether Broughton Village Hall helped raise £650 for Macmillan Cancer Support. The recent event was organised by Angela Purves as a way of saying thank you to the charity for supporting her in her illness. Angela was diagnosed with …

We've seen many notable eliminations yesterday and for many hopes of winning the Paddy Power Irish Poker Open 2014 were crushed. Some of the names include Nick Newport, Dermot Blaine, Daniel Laming, Jude Ainsworth, John O'Shea, Andy Black…

But, as the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida's Sun-Sentinel reported, he was stuck in a poker tournament while his mother hosted 20 people at her West Boca Raton home. Afriat, 45 was playing in the World Poker Tour/Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, and the …

Tournament season is always underway in the poker world. Whether it is full-fledged poker tours that hop around locations or a week-long spectacle, there's plenty of entertainment and money to be had. The deluge of online poker websites has also given …

Eric Afriat brooded Monday night about missing his mother's Passover celebration in her West Boca Raton home, and considered ditching his seat in a Hollywood poker tournament. Monday night's poker session went especially late, running from noon until …

The Heartbleed Bug serves as a compelling reminder of the inherent flaws in a security approach founded exclusively – or even primarily – on the password. In addition to a password, New Jersey online poker sites are required to offer a “strong …

The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Phillip Ivey Jr., considered one of the best poker players in the world. The lawsuit alleges Ivey and an associate exploited a defect in cards made by a Kansas City manufacturer …

The tournaments have $7,500 guaranteed prize pools, but the Ante Up Poker Cruise package for two for the July 28 sailing out of Port Canaveral, Fla., will come out of the tournament jackpot fund, not the prize pool. Ante Up Poker Cruises transform the …

While the figures for online poker are disappointing, they're not utterly alarming – yet. The growing gap between these two sectors in the virgin US market does mirror the current trend in online gaming around the world, where casinos are outstripping …

Poker legend Phil Hellmuth, winner of 13 World Series of Poker bracelets, will emcee “Tiger's Poker Night” presented by the World Poker Tour. All proceeds from this exclusive poker event will benefit the college-access programs of the Tiger Woods …

The World Poker Tour (WPT) and the Tiger Wood Foundation organize the poker tournament Tiger's Poker Night by the occasion of the Tiger Jam 2014. This poker event will be held on Friday, May 16th in Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino of Las Vegas, in the …