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That brought his career poker winnings to $1.3 million — a feat he never imagined when he started dabbling in poker by playing with pretend chips on the Internet back in 2004. Zinno, 32, said by about 2007, he started playing professionally. It was …

That brought his career poker winnings to $1.3 million — a feat he never imagined when he started dabbling in poker by playing with pretend chips on the Internet back in 2004. Zinno, 32, said by about 2007, he started playing professionally. It was …

The 2014 Borgata Spring Poker Open kicks off on April 8 with a massive $560 event with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. The series-opening tournament will allow re-entries during the three starting flights. Last month, the $560 opening event of the …

On Monday, February 24th the Florida Senate Gaming Committee released their anticipated gaming reform bill. After hiring a consulting firm to review Florida's gaming industry last year and taking feedback from the public, the Senate Gaming Committee …

Like California, this is one of the states PokerNews will be keeping tabs on in 2014, and for a complete overview of poker legislation in the United States, check out the first part of our series The 50-State iGaming Initiative. Photo courtesy of SXC …

Season 2 of the Hollywood Poker Open Regional Tournament Series rolls on this weekend at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania, and PokerNews will be on hand to cover the $1,800 Main Event. "We want the players …

The event lost steam after Black Friday in April 2011, when the major offshore poker sites — Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and Absolute Poker — shut down their U.S.-facing operations. The tournament didn't run in 2012. The $20,000 buy-in is an …

The fifth season of the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) is off to a strong start. Mark Sandness won the first stop at Running Aces, and last week Shawn Schoreck emerged victorious at the Belle of Baton Rouge. Next, from March 1-9, the MSPT will be at the …

After 1,050 days, more agonizing to some than others, more than 30,000 American poker players are finally seeing their Full Tilt Poker money in their bank accounts. The Department of Justice made Black Friday a day of infamy in the poker industry, but …

Former World Series of Poker champion Chris Moneymaker will field reader questions live on PennLive today, tentatively from 11:15-11:45 a.m. Moneymaker is at PennLive headquarters in advance of the Hollywood Poker Open main event, which begins …

There are a number of things that set this WPT Main Event apart. First of all, it is the only one to have bounties, but is not a bounty tournament in the typical sense. Each table starts with at least one “Shooting Star,” a famous professional poker …

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 …

If someone asked me what it takes to succeed in tournament poker, I wouldn't hesitate to say patience. As a tournament reporter, I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone flirt with elimination only to turn their luck around and emerge victorious.

State police said Tuesday that they have arrested two individuals and are looking for two others for allegedly passing fake $100 chips in poker games last month. The alleged crimes took place at Maryland Live! Casino in Hanover. The casino opened its …

The eventual champion will receive the diamond-encrusted Championship ring, as well as a seat into the World Series of Poker National Championship in Atlantic City, where they will be televised on ESPN competing for $1,000,000 of prize money and a …

Earlier this week, rumors surfaced that the NBC National Heads-Up Championship would not take place in 2014, and earlier today Mori Eskandani of Poker PROductions confirmed the news to PokerNews. "NHPC will not be on calendar this year," Eskandani …

On Monday, the firm in charge of assisting the government with compensating victims of the old Full Tilt Poker released an update to its website. Garden City Group said that the first round of payments will come tomorrow, Feb. 28, 2014, in the form of …

“We'll certainly be the leading name in Pennsylvania [if online poker is legalized], and we would partner with one of the major brands that everyone plays on already, allowing them to use our facilities as a base for their site,” Glantz says. The …