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Man who lost drunk poker bet with friends gets ridiculous new name. Mark Molloy Saturday 8 Mar 2014 2:49 pm. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. Drunk poker bet loser gets ridiculous new name A man changed his name after losing a drunk poker bet …

The online firm, owned by Station Casinos, has struck a partnership to be the official online poker site for the company that owns Reno's Peppermill Hotel Casino, as well as four other carpet joints in the northern part of the Silver State, the Las …

Winamax, France's leading online poker site, has announced the hosting of a live poker tournament in Morocco in late May that combines several nights of music-filled partying with exciting live poker action. Running from May 21-25, 2014 in the Moroccan …

More than $1,000,000 is waiting to be won by players taking their seats in the Latin Series of Poker Millions main event March 8-15 in Panama City, Panama at Majestic Casino inside the Hard Rock Megalopolis. A truly revolutionary international poker …

The Senior Poker Tour, which recently Glen Biddle of Centerville, AR take down its inaugural event at Horseshoe Tunica for $16,432, has announced its next event — the SPT Vegas Spring Classic from April 8-13 at Stratosphere Casino in Las Vegas.

It took a little while before poker pro Dan Cates got going in 2014, but when he did it happened in a big way. Cates played around 3,600 hands through the first week of March, winning $486,380, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. The upswing …

This included tours of the Manx Telecom facility at Douglas, tours of the PokerStars offices in Onchan, a charity poker tournament that supported a number of local charities, and a breakfast briefing presentation to the Junior Chamber of Commerce at …

Under the deal, UltimatePoker.com, the online poker room operated by Station Casinos, Inc.-owned Ultimate Gaming, will become the Internet poker destination for the five casinos in Reno, Sparks and Wendover. “The Peppermill has a pretty active poker …

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes had brokered a revenue-sharing deal with Oklahoma for a PokerTribes.com online poker site. The federal government objected not to the online poker activity itself, but to the nature of the deal between the two parties.

Moorman entered the final table is second chip position behind Michael Rocco. The two start-of-day leaders survived to three-handed play, which is when the hand of the tournament arose. Glenn Lafaye, who started the hand as the chip leader, raised to …

In order to be a poker superstar, you need to do more than win. Winning is paramount – no one wants to idolize a player that always busts before the money or gets stacked in cash games – but personality, charisma, and openness are also important …

The concept behind No-verlay is simple: If a tournament with a guaranteed prize pool at Ultimate Poker NJ hits the guarantee, then all participants receive their buy-in back. The No-verlay promotion concludes Sunday, March 9th. Obviously the promotion …

The Card Player Poker School has teamed up with CarbonPoker to provide students with a free $15 online poker bankroll to practice their skills. At the Card Player Poker School, students can start learning and earning with a comprehensive poker education.

The current cash game numbers for New Jersey poker sites are as follows (numbers represent the most current seven-day peak): PartyPoker/Borgata — 579; WSOP — 342; 888 (All American Poker Network) — 286; and Ultimate Poker — 52. For comparison …

Most of the poker world is in Los Angeles for the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic (LAPC) right now. And even though Southern California is known for its fantastic sunny weather and amazing beaches, that is of no concern to poker players. They are …

The Peppermill Resort Spa Casino today announced a partnership with Ultimate Gaming to offer online poker play at the Peppermill's Reno property as well as the company's other properties, Western Village Inn & Casino in Sparks and three hotel-casinos …

NASA space physicist James Spann sends this picture from Poker Flat, Alaska, where he is attending a scientific conference to study auroras. A solar wind stream hit Earth's magnetic field during the early hours of March 1st. The impact sparked a polar …

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 …