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Professional poker player Pratyush Buddiga has won over $2.3 million playing live poker tournaments in the last 18 months. Most of his winnings come from three major high roller tournaments, in which the world's top poker players took part. The 25-year …

Armed with data provided courtesy of PocketFives, I sought to analyze the first-year performance of New Jersey's regulated online poker market from the perspective of the tournament grinder. And my findings revealed insights not immediately apparent by …

The $10,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic main event at Bellagio in Las Vegas drew an incredibly large field, by today's standards, of 582 entries. The field created a total prize pool of $5,684,200, $1,477,890 of which will …

The 2014 European Poker Tour Prague €5,300 no-limit hold'em main event attracted a field of 1,107 entries, the highest turnout in the event's history. Seven days after the first card was dealt the field was narrowed down to just one player: 26-year-old …

New Jersey's biggest winners over the weekend came in a two-way chop in the partypoker NJ/BorgataPoker.com $50,000 Guarantee, with "RiverMan" winning $8,304.60 and "Leonka99" taking home $8,280.41. New Jersey poker player "HelloNewman" …

Instagram celeb and high-stakes poker player Dan Bilzerian has hired the lawyer who got the infamous Casey Anthony off on a murder charge in 2011 to help him fight a lawsuit from a woman in Florida who wants damages after Bilzerian allegedly kicked her …

… Productions (SEP) that seem to indicate it's only a question of time, not when, "Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker" will be turned into a movie …

Only eight players are left in the European Poker Tour Prague Main Event following Day 4 action and American poker pro Stephen Graner ended the day as the chipleader. Graner finished the penultimate day with 10,030,000 – over 30% of the chips in play.

The cancellation may be a major blow to WPN, which was hoping to put together the largest poker event on a site that accepts American players in nearly four years, since the events of Black Friday forced PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker …

It's that time of year again. Poker writers throughout the globe are asked to produce a series of 'Best Of' articles. It's one of the most difficult tasks of the year. It's also one of the most subjective. For a start, there are so many different forms …

All that Danish police commissioner Torben Koldborg Frederiksen told local press to date was that the suspect was a 32-year old poker player. Charges were filed in October of this year with investigations currently underway, with some non-Danish …

The Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) recently completed its second stop of Season 11, which took place at Ameristar Casino Hotel East Chicago. The $1,650 Main Event attracted 498 entrants and created a prize pool of $714,120, and after three days of play, …

The Winning Poker Network (WPN) was forced to cancel its $1 million guaranteed prize pool tournament on Sunday, after an apparent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack caused disruptions and connectivity issues for players participating in the event.

In his book, The Mental Game of Poker, Jared Tendler discusses some reasons that people go on tilt. The reasons are many and varied, but injustice is one of the ones he mentions and the one that applies here. Players, even good ones, can sometimes …

British poker pro Sam Grafton sits third with 2,610,000, triple crown winner Davidi Kitai is fourth with 2,307,000 and Vanessa Selbst sits fifth with 2,040,000. The only player between Sperling and that group of three is Stephen Graner who bagged up 3 …

Of that total, $1,877,603 came from online poker. That's the smallest figure since the Garden State saw the launch of real-money online gambling late last year. October saw $1,967,904 from online poker, which was part of $9.48 million in overall I …

Described as the "largest poker site in the world" by ESPN, Zynga Poker caters for players of all ability levels, from beginners to experts. With support for a number of languages, including Turkish, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Portuguese …

Mornings are never fun. The best way to manage them – to get through them really – is to create a routine. For most people that means a shower, a commute, a coffee and spending the first 15 minutes of your day procrastinating before getting your …