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The 2014 European Poker Tour Barcelona €5,300 no-limit hold'em main event drew the largest ever field on European soul in the tour's history. A total of 1,496 players turned out to the 100th EPT main event to build a €7,480,000 prize pool. From that …

Along with co-founders Gregg Weisstein and Farbod Shoraka, Daneshgar went to Los Angeles to compete in a two-day poker tournament to win $30,000 – exactly how much the three would need for BloomNation's seed funding. While Daneshgar played …

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 …

Newsweek has published an article on Bitcoin online poker and gambling less than one week after a scathing cover story about online gambling in general. Poker players and gamblers were up in arms over the last story penned by Leah McGrath Goodman, …

Now you may ask what does this have to do with poker? In my opinion positivity is essential to being a successful poker player in the long term. No matter how good you are at this game there are going to be times when things aren't going smoothly and …

The eight-table poker room at Texas Station in North Las Vegas closed for good this week, according to a report from USPoker.com. Despite having online poker in Nevada, Station Casinos Inc. elected to close the room. The casino operator also closed …

Las Vegas has lost another poker room. Texas Station ceased its poker room operations this week. Texas Station, located on the Rancho Strip in North Las Vegas, is owned by Station Casinos. Others casino operations are not affected by this move.

888 Poker, also known as the All-American Poker Network, is one of the premier online poker companies in the United States. 888 Holdings serves as both a backend operator and a standalone provider in the U.S. They provide the backend for WSOP.com …

Online poker market in Delaware has experienced a downfall in terms of revenue compared to that of other States which, month after month, has been increasing. The State of New Jersey generates the highest revenue with its $ 2,146,500 from online poker …

The Celebrity Poker Challenge was organized by Antonio Villard's Chief Operating Officer (COO) Tristan McMurphy, who said: “Our goal is not just give our e-cigars to the celebrities in attendance, but rather to do something unique that is fun and …

Ed Miller Most players don't bluff often enough. Part of the problem is that bluffing consistently requires a certain leap of faith that can be hard to muster. It can be especially hard to muster if you've been enduring a bad run. But another part of …

"I'm not here to play perfectly," is how one player in my regular home game described what our semi-weekly poker gathering means to him, "I just want to get out of the house, have a little fun, and play cards." During the Poker Boom players such as my …

The third and final Day 1 flight for the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker Main Event was the largest yet with 222 entries. After ten levels the field was trimmed to 95 survivors with Tyler Cornell leading the field as the only player over the 200,000 …

I'm trying to develop a poker-tool and I'm having a little tought-problem. There are 1326 poker starting hands. I want to be able to identify each of them with a number between 0 and 1325. Then, when I have an input of f.e. 768, I want to be able to …

Full Tilt Poker may have two of the biggest names in the game as its official brand ambassadors, but they also happen to be two of the biggest losers in the online game with Gus Hansen currently showing a -$19,620,039 loss since May 2007, and Viktor …

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 …

A Christchurch pub has lost its bid to keep operating poker machines after emails about its operation were leaked to Internal Affairs. The Gambling Commission upheld the cancellation of the Sideline Bar's licence to operate pokies over concerns about …

While Tony Korfman had modest career earnings of a little more than $350,000 on record, he gained most of his poker tournament playing fame by finishing in second place at the 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Seniors' Event. Even without that finish, …