Category: Poker and the Law
Online poker room PokerStars yanked the $1.2 million payoff to online poker player Void, real name Natalie Teltscher, because a third part helped her play her hands, which is against tournament rules...
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Category: Poker Players
In what is being called a freak accident a 20 year old poker player, participating in a prop bet that had him hurtling down a hotel hallway clad in only socks and underwear, crashed through a fifth floor window and fell 40 feet to his death...
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Category: WSOP
The prize was $1.9 million and the respect of his peers - respect that he already had. The game was the $50,000 buy in H.O.R.S.E. World Championship at the 2008 World Series of Poker, and the victor was Scotty Nguyen...
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Category: WSOP
The World Series of Poker for this year has had its share of exciting moments, including the finish of Event 48, the $2,000 buy in No Limit Holdem event...
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Category: Poker Fun
The major poker rooms in California will get serious coverage from one of the biggest poker magazines today, Poker Pro Magazine...
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Category: WSOP
The 39th annual World Series of Poker continues to offer up firsts this year in Las Vegas. For the first time a single poker player has won two gold bracelets in the Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split event...
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Category: Poker and the Law
The former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson has plans on participating in the $10 million Aussie Millions Poker Championships at the start of next year, and victims of violent crimes are calling for the Australian government to step in and say no...
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Category: WSOP
The world leader in World Series of Poker bracelets made a run at pulling even further ahead of his closest competitors but came up short by two spots...
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Category: Poker Players
Poker author and pro David Sklansky has recently joined PokerTek as an "Executive Poker Consultant", a role to which he is well suited...
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Category: Software
The online poker software company CryptoLogic recently announced two new features that will have online poker players excited...
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Category: WSOP
The World Series of Poker for 2008 is currently running in Las Vegas and players that couldn’t make it from Europe are in for some good news - the schedule for the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe has been announced...
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Category: Poker Fun
Today is Independence Day in the United States, an issue that is relevant on many levels, including the right to play poker online...
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Category: Poker and the Law
Poker players in the US celebrated Independence Day yesterday, a special holiday that reminds Americans of their freedom, an issue that some online poker players see as ironic given the UIGEA...
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Category: Online poker rooms
Freerolls are good deals for online poker players, offering them a chance to earn money and prizes without putting up any risk, and online poker room Titan Poker recently announced that they are offering a slew of new online poker freeroll tournaments...
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Category: Tournaments
The charity event hosted and run by Annie Duke and Don Cheadle that raises money for Darfur has run its course, and the winner is John "Johnny World" Hennigan, a pro poker player...
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Category: Online poker rooms
Online poker room Chili Poker is spicing up this coming Autumn with a $2,500,000 Mega Mega Prizepool, offering their players a chance at paying for their Christmas presents a few months early...
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Category: WSOP
The World Series of Poker main event is running now in Las Vegas, with the third Day One event starting today...
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Category: WSOP
The Player of the Year at the World Series of Poker for 2008 is 3rd place finisher in the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event Erick Lindgren...
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Category: Tournaments
Early July was the time when more than fifty poker players gathered at the Gibraltar Gala Casino to push chips around for a good cause...
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Category: WSOP
The pro players are feeling good about this year’s World Series of Poker events, currently playing at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas...
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Category: Poker Players
The Godfather of Poker is giving his nod to presidential candidate Barack Obama and the Democratic Party...
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Category: WSOP
While it isn’t technically a record setting year in terms of main event attendance, this year’s World Series of Poker is still doing better than last year...
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Category: Poker and the Law
The Payment System’s Protection Act was put forth for a vote and failed to move on, thanks to a split vote in the US House Financial Services Committee that saw members crossing party lines...
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Category: Poker Players
When Florida attorney Michael Gaetjens walked by the All In Energy Drink booth, he made a decision that wound up worth $100,000 to him...
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Category: Poker and the Law
A man has been arrested in Hagerstown as a suspect of a robbery of a poker game where 18 players, including a state trooper, lost a total of $4000...
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Category: Online poker rooms
Online poker room CelebPoker is sending players to the Master Classics of Poker in Amsterdam, Holland...
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Category: Online poker rooms
One of the more innovative ways to anticipate in a poker game, Sky Poker, has changed channels. Sky Poker players are able to play online poker as well as Poker on TV using the remote control for special events...
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Category: WSOP
The 2008 WSOP is currently wrapping up in Las Vegas, but fans don’t have to feel sad: Harrah’s Entertainment, the company that owns the WSOP brand and organizes the events, has just announced the schedule for the WSOP Circuit for this year...
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Category: Online poker games
The second man versus machine poker challenge recently took place in Las Vegas between a team of poker pros and a computer program called the Polaris II...
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Category: Poker and the Law
A banishment from casinos for a year has come down the pike for an Edmonton poker player who lost his temper after losing a pot and physically assaulted another player...
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Category: Poker Fun
The Big House Sports Bar recently opened their establishment as a poker room with bonus casino games, all for a good cause...
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Category: Online poker rooms
The online poker room Ladbrokes Poker has announced that they have acquired one of the top Swedish poker pros of the year for their team of poker players...
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Category: Poker Players
When 24 year old Donald Hobbs got to the Amazon poker room at the Rio this year, it was in a wheelchair - but don’t feel bad for this survivor of a horrible car accident, his doctors are calling his progress miraculous...
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Category: WSOP
The Main Event of the 39th annual World Series of Poker is running currently, and they have finally got the field down far enough that all remaining players are guaranteed at least $21,000, more than double the $10,000 entry fee...
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Category: Online poker games
Mobile game lovers, poker lovers and iPhone owners can rejoice as a new game has been added to the App Store on Apple.com: MotionX-Poker...
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Category: Software
A MMOG platform has been acquired by Vega Promotional Systems, Inc. to be used as a gaming platform, according to a recent press release...
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Category: Poker and the Law
The Finance Minister in Sweden has drawn the line for online poker games run by the State owned monopoly...
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Category: Online poker rooms
Online poker room Titan Poker has plans for their poker players headed for the Masters of Poker in Ireland, part of the Irish Winter Festival coming this October...
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Category: World Poker Tour
The newest face on the online portion of World Poker Tour reporting is Amanda Leatherman. A poker player herself, Leatherman is right at home interviewing poker players and discussing poker strategy, all part of her role as the new Live Updates Hostess...
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Category: Poker Fun
NBC has announced their fourth season of their popular poker TV show, Poker After Dark, and there will be a few surprises in store...
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Category: Online poker rooms
One online poker site’s solution to trouble with poker law was to create a new game that had less to do with chance, duplicate poker...
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Category: Poker and the Law
While he had never once played a game of poker online, and in fact doesn’t even like playing the game, Democratic congressman Barney Frank has become the most popular politician among poker players in the United States...
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Category: Poker Fun
Poker runs are a great way to play "poker" and help a good cause, all while enjoying a recreational motorcycle journey...
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Category: WSOP
The 2008 World Series of Poker is wrapping up in Las Vegas right now, but the TV show hasn’t yet started...
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Category: Online poker rooms
Online poker room Titan Poker has announced a slew of new prizes available for winning by new players at their poker room...
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Category: WSOP
The Final Table is set for the 2008 World Series of Poker, and no big name poker pros are among the final nine...
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Category: Online poker games
The latest version of the Apple iPhone has hit the market and right on its heels is a new poker application available at Apple’s App Store...
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Category: WSOP
The 39th annual World Series of Poker is being paused till November now, the records are all being tallied, and one record is the number of countries that attended the play in Las Vegas this summer...
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Category: WSOP
Poker fans are already familiar with some music stars participating in the biggest poker game on the planet, the WSOP: rock stars such as Sully Erna have proven that musicians can hold their own in a professional poker world, and country music has finally joined the game...
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Category: Online poker rooms
Online poker room Titan Poker recently announced that they have had their youngest ever winner for their $250,000 Guaranteed Prize tournament...
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Category: Poker and the Law
Since the beginning of the year the German Interstate Lottery Treaty has been in force, which makes privately run online poker sites illegal in the European country...
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Category: Poker and the Law
There is a bill moving through the California legal system that would legalize intrastate online poker, and it is taking a few more steps towards becoming a reality...
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Category: WSOP
While technically the 39th annual World Series of Poker won’t end until November, when the final table of the main event is held, the last event on the roster was completed Tuesday when 930 players came together to play the Casino Employees No Limit Holdem tournament...
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Category: Online poker rooms
Online poker room Poker Room.com has put out a new Facebook application that will leverage the power of the social networking site to raise awareness of their poker room...
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Category: Poker and the Law
A business in central Indiana has been raided on suspicion that illegal games of poker were being played on the site...
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Category: WSOP
Poker player Tiffany Michelle has gone further in the World Series of Poker main event than any woman since Annie Duke, finishing in 17th place this year, but her victory has been blemished by accusations of misconduct...
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Category: Poker Fun
With the premiere of Batman Dark Knight fresh in movie goers’ minds, the timing is right for a Batman themed poker set, and one can be found at Big Bad Toy Store.com..
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Category: Tournaments
Poker pro Marcel Luske, "The Flying Dutchman," has launched the Federation Internationale de Poker Association (FIDPA) in an effort to standardize the rules of tournament poker worldwide...
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Category: Poker and the Law
When a West Virginia resort wanted to hold a poker tournament, there was some concern that the local law enforcement would want to prevent the game from going forward, or that they could expect a raid the day of the event...
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Category: World Poker Tour
Once again an online poker player showed he can hold his own and win in a live event, as Sir Watts took down a field of over 400 in the first event of the seventh season of the World Poker Tour...
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Category: World Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour, much to the relief of fans of the hit poker show, has found a home for the broadcasting of their seventh season...
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Category: Online poker rooms
While the 2008 World Series of Poker was going on, online poker room Bodog Poker was holding their Bodog Poker Mini Series, where players were picking up seats to the 2009 WSOP a year in advance...
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Category: Online poker rooms
Players have a shot at winning a tropical vacation and playing major poker when they play at online poker room Doyles Room, which is offering prize packages to the Costa Rica Challenge...
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Category: Poker Fun
The hit NBC poker show Poker After Dark debuts with a new theme week tonight, the Nets versus the Vets, a showdown of six poker pros for a winner take all prize of $120,000...
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Category: Poker Fun
A new show is coming to the Venetian Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas, and it involves poker and a few big name poker pros...
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Category: WSOP
The World Series of Poker is wrapped up until the final table resumes in November, and the ESPN coverage of the WSOP is about to be showcased on TV, and the fans of the poker world can’t wait...
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Category: Poker and the Law
Four illegal poker rings were recently busted by police raids in Pickering and Toronto, resulting in 47 people facing charges...
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Category: Poker and the Law
There will not be a drop in poker machine numbers if Tasmanian Government Treasurer Michael Aird has his way...
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Category: Poker Players
A documentary surrounding the 2005 victory of Australian Joe Hachem over the international crowd at the World Series of Poker could be in the works, with Hachem’s brother Michael as a producer...
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Category: Online poker rooms
Online poker room Titan Poker just recently announced they have added the Russian language to their poker room, giving Russian speakers the chance to play poker at the popular site in their native language...
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Category: Poker and the Law
The online gambling licensing agency Kahnawake got a stern talking too from one of the largest poker advocacy organizations on the planet recently when the Poker Players Alliance came out against the agency about their reticence in working with PPA...
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Category: Poker Fun
Chris Webber is a retired basketball great, and he is looking for some great action this Friday at Planet Hollywood to raise money for the Chris Webber Foundation...
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Category: Poker Fun
While the World Poker Tour will not return for their Seventh Season to GSN, it appears that the network’s other poker show will be back to run their Fifth Season...
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Category: Online poker rooms
CEREUS poker will be the newest poker platform on the net soon, but they are not starting from scratch...
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