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Just days after the Mid-States Poker Tour announced its Mid-Season Championship event will take place at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino during the very popular Deep Stack Extravaganza series, the tour has revealed another expansion maneuver.

Another, titled “Good Flop,” is relevant to the serious poker player. It shows five players' hands after the three-card “flop” in Texas Hold 'em: One player has two pair, another three of a kind, one a straight, another a flush and the fifth is one …

Action continued on Wednesday from the 2014 Borgata Spring Poker Open at the Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ. Event 7: $2,700 Spring Poker Championship concluded Day 2 action with 45 players remaining, while Event 9: $300 $100,000 Guaranteed …

Poker pro Nikolaus Jedlicka, who plays under “Niki Jedlicka”, didn't start playing on Full Tilt Poker this year until this month, but over the past couple of weeks or so he is up a staggering $1.6 million, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB …

One of the most exciting spots of the Card Player Poker Tour – the Paddy Power Irish Open – will begin April 18 with a race to crown the latest champion. Complete live coverage of the four-day €2,250 no-limit hold'em main event will be provided on …

Each week, the Global Poker Index releases a list of the top 300 tournament poker players in the world using a formula that takes into account a player's results over six half-year periods. The GPI also ranks the top performers of the year over two six …

Give us your opinion in the comments section below for your chance at winning a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription. Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they'll come up with dozens of different opinions. That's …

TonyBet Poker just announced the launch the first and biggest open-face Chinese poker tournament series ever held online. "This is what we have been working towards to all this time," TonyBet Poker founder Tony G told PokerNews. "We wanted to give …

Nevada's online poker industry is coming up on its one year anniversary, and New Jersey and Delaware now have five full months under their belts and the industry has been steadily chugging along, making improvements and solving problems. That being …

Helo Hancock, the tribe's legislative director, said several legal opinions have led the tribe to conclude that poker is exempt from state regulation under the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. But Jeff Anderson of the Idaho State Lottery …

WORLEY, Idaho (AP) – The Coeur d'Alene Tribe in northern Idaho plans to offer poker after deciding Idaho's constitutional ban on the game doesn't apply to the tribal-owned casino. The Spokesman-Review reports that the tribe has announced plans to open …

Sky Poker has again joined forces with the Dusk Till Dawn casino to create a festival that has the players in mind. Coming to Nottingham in August is the inaugural Sky Poker 6-Max UK Poker Championships that have £1 million in prizes guaranteed across …

Sweden's authorities have indicted 10 people for what the Värmlands District Court described as a "major fraud case" involving an online poker scandal which occurred between 2007 and 2011. The incident supposedly involved a large number of players …

The Edison High third annual Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournament, a fundraiser for Edison Athletics and Foundation, will be held April 26 at the Huntington Beach Elks Lodge (7711 Talbert Ave., Huntington Beach). On-site registration is at 5 p.m. and first …

The fifth and final day of the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown saw six players return to fight for the title. Leading the field to the final table was Mukul Pahuja, for his third WPT final table this season. After seven hours on the …

HAGERMAN • High Desert Back Country Horsemen will hold its Gambler's Draw Ride on April 26 at Niagara Springs Wildlife Management Area, and the public is welcome. Sign-in begins at 9 a.m. and runs until 11 a.m. Lunch will be available for a small cost.

Recently released revenue data from the DGE reveals that New Jersey's online poker market grew slightly in March, with month-over-month gross revenue margins increasing from $3.1 mm to just over $3.2 mm. Taken at face value, these numbers indicate a …

The Amateur Poker Association & Tour's (APAT) 2014 World Championship of Amateur Poker kicked off on Tuesday April 15 with the first two of the 16 bracelet-awarding events. These 16 events have buy-ins ranging from £55 to £220, making them …