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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 …

To learn from your mistakes, you must first be aware of them. Sadly, at the poker table, you seldom know it when you make a bad decision. Most blunders simply go unnoticed because they're rarely revealed as mistakes. It's easy to ignore a leak in your …

Page 1 of 1. NEW YORK (AP) — A former high-stakes poker game hostess pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges she helped run underground games for Wall Street financiers and celebrities in guest rooms at The Plaza hotel. Molly Bloom was among more …

Matt Matros It's hard to win at poker. Brutally hard. It's so hard, in fact, that approximately 75 percent of poker players lose (some studies say it's even higher). Last year, the federal government argued in court that because so few players win …

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Kyllönen was playing in the European Poker Tour event in Barcelona last September when he discovered that his laptop had gone missing from his hotel room. Since the laptop reappeared exactly where he had left it a short while later, he thought maybe …

Lehavot cashed in his first event since the World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table – where he finished in third place for $3.7 million. He played in a $5,180 preliminary event at the Bellagio in the Five Diamond World Poker Classic series and …

In addition to the money and the title Smith also earned 1,800 Card Player Player of the Year points, which moved him into 61st place in the overall POY standings. This was his first title and second final table of 2013, after having won six titles and …

Yesterday, TonyBet launched its new poker software, TonyBet Poker with an early Christmas present many poker players will love. The excitement and suspense has been building throughout the month about what this present could be with teasers being …

The series will be highlighted by the World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship from Jan. 26-31. The tournament features three starting flights and a $3 million guaranteed prize pool. Earlier this year, Andy Hwang took down the 2013 World …

Snoqualmie Casino near Seattle, Wash., is giving away 10 Ante Up Poker Cruise packages through promotions starting in January and running through February. Players can earn entries into cruise drawings by making a flush or better in any live poker game …

The pro, Jens Kyllönen, was the victim of the incident in September that researchers describe as “sharking,” targeted attacks against professional poker players, according to a blog post by security firm F-Secure. During the European Poker Tour event …

The hearing was also probably completely pointless, since it is very widely considered that there is an infinitesimally small chance of online poker being legalized, or banned, at the federal level. States like Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey have …

Richard Dunn The Card Player Poker Tour will be focusing on the familiar faces at card rooms and casinos during Season II stops in a new web series. CPPT Local Heroes will highlight the regular, everyday average Joe, who may not be known world wide …

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 …

Rafael Nadal, taking just a few weeks off from tennis, is today in Prague fulfilling his obligations of being a PokerStars ambassador and will tomorrow contest a a live charity poker tournament in the Czech capital. The world no.1, who maintains …

The 10th stop on the 2013/2014 World Series of Poker Circuit schedule wrapped up its $1,675 Main Event on Monday night at Harrah's Resort Casino in Atlantic City, NJ. The tournament attracted 578 entries and created a prize pool of $867,000. After …

A laptop apparently stolen from a top-flight poker pro's hotel room and mysteriously returned while he played in a card tournament was infected by spyware. That's according to security firm F-Secure, which today said it had analyzed the computer, owned …