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After he monopolized during four months the head of the ranking of the Global Poker Index (GPI), Jason Mercier gave his place to the German Marvin Rettenmaier during last week. As he occupied the second place of the ranking during the same period, the …

Gun rights supporters from across Connecticut are invited this coming Saturday for a combination motorcycle and automobile Poker Run, starting at the Woodbridge Firearms Trading Post. The event raises funds to finance a legal challenge against PA 13-3, …

After an inaugural step in Barcelona, which ended with the victory of the Englishman Tom Middleton, the Season X of the European Poker Tour will link up with a step in England, at the beginning of October. The change concerning the place of reception …

Now an Internet gambling company that runs a nationally known play-in-person poker tournament is bringing its championship to Atlantic City, creating one of the many hoped-for marriages between online gambling firms and brick-and-mortar casinos.

Chris Moorman is not considered to be the best online poker tournament player for nothing. He has won more than $9.9 million playing online poker tournaments alone, finishing in the cash 5,856 times online and winning 15 triple crowns. PocketFives.com …

Four months after Station Casinos rolled out Ultimate Poker, Caesars Interactive will enter the online gambling ring with its World Series of Poker site, the second fully-legal, pay-to-play poker platform in Nevada. The site goes live at 9:19 a.m …

Preflop, with the blinds at 4,000 and 8,000 and a 1,000 ante, Marotta raised to 19,000 from the cutoff seat, and Cherif called in the big blind. On the flop Ben Cherif checked, Marotta went all-in, and Ben Cherif called.

LAS VEGAS — The World Series of Poker's webpage will enable Nevada gamblers to go online and play for the first time ever on Thursday. The new gambling trend could affect the traditional casinos as well as the thousands of jobs they provide for our …

The Oakhurst Sierra Rotary Club's Fourth Annual Texas Hold'em Poker Tournament will be held at 6 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 5 at the Oakhurst Community Center. The winner of the tournament will receive $500, a trophy, and bragging rights as this year's top …

CINCINNATI, Ohio — The World Series of Poker circuit will begin a 12-day run Thursday at the Horseshoe Casino in Cincinnati. As many as 8,000 players are expected to participate in one- to four-day tournaments, including the No-Limit Hold'em Main Event.

It's been an exciting week for poker players in Nevada. On Monday, the World Series of Poker announced that its real-money online poker operation will launch in the Silver State on Thursday, Sept. 19. More exciting news came on Tuesday when WSOP.com …

After Ultimate Poker, casinos in the United States rush also to develop their platforms of online poker. This week, enthusiasts of online poker of the State of Nevada are going to receive a new online poker room, after the legalization of online …

On Monday and Tuesday, the Garden City Group, Inc. (GCG), the company tasked with redistributing seized Full Tilt Poker funds, sent email notices to "all potentially eligible petitioners GCG identified utilizing data supplied by Full Tilt Poker." The …

There was a time when online poker sites were handing out sponsorship deals willy-nilly, as if they were as trivial as the latest edition of the Argos catalogue. Then Black Friday came along and put an end to all of that nonsense and although IveyPoker …

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — (PRESS RELEASE) — While still in the official soft launch phase of Full Flush Poker (FFP), growing player support has urged the new online poker site to up the ante yet again for the second time in as many weeks, adding more …

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The World Poker Tour made a major announcement during Day 2 of the WPT Borgata Poker Open on Tuesday. Starting this season (Season XII), the prestigious $25,000 buy-in World Poker Tour World Championship will take place outside of the Bellagio in …

The 2013 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open Main Event continued on Monday as 813 players took to the felt on Day 1b, bringing the total number of entrants up to 1,189. That created a prize pool of $3,805,989, of which $825,099 will be awarded to the …