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New York, NY — (SBWIRE) — 12/20/2013 — Gagachips has been a major seller of Facebook Poker chips for quite a few years since it got started back in 2009. Over the past few years, the site has taken thousands of players to high stake tables in …

Few of us will ever experience the extreme pressure of playing in front of the ESPN cameras on the bubble of the Main Event final table. Ten remain, nine will return to play for millions months later, and one will leave with half a million dollars to …

The World Poker Tour's inaugural event on Korean soil has come to a close! The WPT Korea at Ramada Plaza Jeju crowned its champion on Thursday as Masato Yokosawa conquered the final table of six to claim the $100,000 in first-place prize money.

Everyone has a chance to win a poker tournament, no matter the age or experience. 21-year-old Tokyo business manager, Masato Yokosawa showed that once more in the first ever World Poker Tour (WPT) main event held on the Asian continent. Yokosawa …

The full schedule is expected to be released sometime in January. Stay tuned to CardPlayer.com for more information. WSOP.com's real-money online poker offerings in New Jersey and Nevada will allow players in those states to win seats into WSOP events.

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 …

Nevada's online poker market is almost forgotten now that New Jersey has launched its online gambling sites. Currently, Nevada has only two licensed online poker rooms—WSOP.com and Ultimate Poker, and as the market matures, the traffic to both sites …

It was an incredibly eventful week in the 2013 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by Lock Poker, with a number of players making moves inside the top ten. Here is a look at the events that made the biggest impact on the overall standings …

Arthur M. Pfeiffer, a software developer and entrepreneur, has announced that he will soon develop an app that offers an entirely skill-based poker game. The president of Thwart Poker Inc., which is based in Palo Alto, Pfeiffer says that the game will …

These circular obstacles will inevitably tilt any poker players driving there today to take part in the super satellite or first session of the “PartyPoker WPT National UK: Milton Keynes” (http://tinyurl.com/ WPTNUK2)! This £200 inc. buy-in WPTN UK …

The 47-event European Poker Tour / Eureka Poker Tour Prague festival was has been an unmitigated success, with a number of huge tournaments and big name winners like David Peters and Vanessa Selbst. However big any of the prelims were, however, …

John Wesley Hardin was the second son born to a Methodist preacher near Bonham, Texas, who named him after the godfather of the Methodist church. Two things remained constant in Hardin's short life, violence and poker. A road gambling, bon-a-fide …

The bwin World Poker Tour Prague Main Event continued on Tuesday at the Card Casino Prague in Prague, Czech Republic. Players came out to try their skills in the third and final starting flight of the event. In the end, 92 players survived the day …

But that doesn't take away the fact that Week 3 of online poker and casino gambling was a defining week for the Garden State – one in which winners and losers emerged, system flaws were revealed and the big picture became all the more clear.

The 11th stop on the 2013/2014 World Series of Poker Circuit schedule wrapped up its $1,675 Main Event on Tuesday night at Harrah's Rincon near San Diego, CA. The tournament attracted 330 entries and created a prize pool of $495,000. After three days …

Alec Torelli is a poker professional originally from California, but regularly travels the world. Torelli has over $1.5 million in live tournament earnings and over $500,000 in online tournament earnings. On his record are two World Series of Poker …

12 as part of the $1.2 billion Solaire Casino and Resort complex that opened last March, the poker room is part of an ambitious plan rolled out by initiator Mike Kim which intends to "explore a brand new market for the local entertainment industry and …

Daniel Negreanu Canadian professional poker player Daniel Negreanu (L-R), former Ukrainian soccer player Andriy Schevchenko, former Brazilian soccer player Ronaldo, Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, former Italian skier Alberto Tomba and former …