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Home poker games have been a staple in Hollywood for many years. Recently, actor Owen Wilson appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live on American television and talked about his own home game in Maui, Hawaii. Sometimes, the game is held at musician Willy …

When Maryland Live! Casino opened the state's very first legal, live poker room in August, players from all over the East Coast flocked to Hanover, Md. in droves. The room launched at noon on Aug. 28, and within an hour every available seat in the 52 …

WATSONVILLE — A poker tournament and dinner this Saturday will serve as a fundraiser to defray costs for a local 2-year-old girl who is battling cancer. On July 30th, just four weeks after her second birthday, Effy Watson was diagnosed with leukemia.

Few states are more enthusiastic for poker than Minnesota. Back in July, Canterbury Park, one of the state's most popular horse tracks and card rooms, announced the creation of the Minnesota Poker Hall of Fame, which inducted Lyle Berman as its first …

Jake Cody was an inconspicuous online grinder with precious little live success when he rocked up with his poker buddies to the chic French seaside resort of Deauville. But despite this being his EPT debut, the laid-back 21-year-old from Rochdale …

Snap Poker has been available to alpha and beta testers since September and although early reports suggested Snap Poker would only be available to some new accounts at launch, my own personal 888poker account has access to the new format.

The doors of Poker's celebrated “Hall Of Fame” will creak open next month to admit two new members to its illustrious body of Greats. From this year's nominees, Tom McEvoy and Scotty Nguyen (baby!) have been judged to be those most worthy of a place in …

This Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 9 p.m. ET, Bloomberg Television's Trish Regan will host “Poker Night on Wall Street” — a $50,000 buy-in single-table tournament — at Borgata in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The game will feature six Wall Street heavyweights …

The Players Poker Championship (PPC) Poker Tour, which recently saw Robin Kazemieh defeat Joe Ebanks to win the 2013 PPC Aruba World Championship $2,500 Main Event, has announced that they will be headed back to The Silks Poker Room at …

It's the same with poker! Getting a bad beat or a river suck-out is as much a part of a poker player's life as that flat tyre and we need to learn to deal with this. Experienced poker players understand this really well. They look at the long-term …

MONTREAL, Oct. 22, 2013 /CNW/ – Amaya Gaming Group Inc. ("Amaya" or the "Corporation") (TSX: AYA), an entertainment solutions provider for the regulated gaming industry, today announced that it has entered into an agreement (the "Agreement") to …

More than 300 poker players turned out for comedian and actor Brad Garrett's 2013 Maximum Hope Charity Poker Tournament, his sixth-annual event, at MGM Grand on Saturday to raise funds for his foundation named after his two children, Max and Hope.

Representing poker monsters: keeping up a table image. WITH the right table image and against the right opponent (one who'll recognise your alleged strength) you can represent a strong hand to steal the pot. By Marbella Slim/ Published 22nd October 2013.

The determination and desire to win that Kevin "Phwap" Boudreau displayed on the poker table is also highly evident in the young poker pro's efforts in attempting to overcome a brain hemorrhage suffered just four months ago. While competing at the WSOP …

I believe online poker coming to NJ is an absolute necessity in the movement to get the online game back in America on a federal level. NV is a start, but more states need to fall in line. Right now, I'm not sure other states see the true potential …

Most professional poker players play both live and online, and so going back and forth between the live and virtual felt has challenges but also presents a lot of benefits. One thing I'm realizing as summer ends and we start to move into the cooler …

Back in Sept., 10 finalists eligible for induction into the Poker Hall of Fame were presented to 37 voting individuals — the 19 living Hall of Fame members and an 18-person media panel. Two men were selected for the Class of 2013 in 1983 World Series …

Football and poker may well require different skill-sets, but some attributes are needed for both; calmness under pressure, a steady eye and a calculated approach. Whether footballers are picking up poker tips from their dressing room card games or …