Poker News

Players in the UK and Ireland Poker Tournament will battle it out over four days in the Villa Marina entertainment complex in a competition which has prize money totalling half a million pounds. Major sponsors for the tournament are Pokerstars who are …

An anti-gambling law drafted to crack down on organized crime was appropriately used to prosecute a man who ran a twice-weekly poker club from the back room of his Staten Island bicycle shop, a federal appeals court held yesterday in reinstating a …

The home of football giants Manchester United is the venue for a special two-day poker tournament that starts this Friday. The affordable £250 buy-in should attract a bumper crowd through the doors of the famous Old Trafford ground. Among the many …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Poker may be a game of skill, but that does not protect a man who hosted games of "Texas Hold 'Em" from being prosecuted under an anti-gambling law, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of …

The PokerNews Mid-States Poker Tour is excited to announce a new tournament format: Keep It or Cash It (KICI). The new format will be implemented for the first time at Downstream Casino Resort in Quapaw, Okla., Aug. 30-Sept. 8, 2013. This format is not …

A while back a federal judge in New York decided that poker wasn't illegal gambling under federal law, and we discussed it here, and so I feel a certain sense of responsibility to all of the Dealbreaker readers who quit their jobs to start poker rooms.

But they're also expecting them to visit the complex's restaurants, hotels and shops during the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, a series of 33 tournaments that will begin Thursday and run through Aug. 29. "There'll be a few thousand people coming to …

The M Resort, an off-the-Strip casino in Las Vegas, has closed its 14-table poker room to make way for a slot machine tournament area, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Monday. Slot tournaments at the casino were previously held in a …

Dennis Bowen works on a poker table at BBO Poker Tables in Pittsburg, Calif., on Friday, May 31, 2013. While the tables themselves are made in China, the custom finishing and upholstery work is done at the company's Pittsburg warehouse. The company …

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York has reinstated the gambling conviction of a man who operated an underground poker club. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan says Lawrence Dicristina should be sentenced for his …

LAS VEGAS — M Resort closed its 14-table poker room last week to make space for additional slot machines that will be used for tournament play. Rina Foster, a spokeswoman for the casino, said employees displaced by the closure were offered other jobs, …

The Bicycle Casino's Legends of Poker tournament series, long considered one of poker's elite events for pros and amateurs, has begun its month-long series. Thousands of players are expected to step up their game and take their shot, vying for an …

Mo Abedi-Arani When the final card was dealt in the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw $1,500 main event it was cash games specialist Mo Abedi-Arani who received the chips, the title and the money after overcoming a heads-up chip deficit that was at one …

The 3rd Annual Poker Run of the Men's Auxiliary of Ramona Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3783 will be held Saturday, Aug. 10. All proceeds will stay in San Diego and will benefit the Men's Auxiliary Post 3783 Relief Fund, service projects of the Navy …

For the first time in the history of Nevada's legalized Internet poker regime, a website won final approval from the Nevada Gaming Commission to continue its operations. The website, Ultimate Poker, was launched by Ultimate Gaming for the mandatory …

In January the Garden City Group created a website devoted to the payback of American Full Tilt poker players called fulltiltpokerclaims.com. The site laid out all the information that almost every player already knew. Namely, the site told how the …

When the WPT was last in Montreal it smashed the attendance records for a poker tournament in Canada thanks to 1,173 players turning out for the $3,650 buy-in main event. That record-breaking tournament was eventually won by Jonathan Roy, a talented …

In this Card Player weekly feature we look to provide our readers with a guide to some of the biggest poker events taking place in their area for the upcoming week. Check out all the tournament action set to go down in your own backyard from August 5th …