WSOP.com has leapfrogged party/Borgata as the top poker room in New Jersey in terms of cash game traffic, barely a week after its decision to share liquidity with 888poker. Just days after the merging of player pools, WSOP.com’s traffic has shot up by 49 percent over the seven-day moving average, while 888poker’s has risen even […]

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Darren Woods, a former World Series of Poker bracelet winner, has been jailed by a UK court for 15 months for fraud for cheating online poker players out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and claiming bogus commissions from his former sponsors, 888.com. Woods, AKA  “Dooshcom” online, has been ordered to pay back £1 million […]

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PokerStars has introduced a novel way for poker players to combine their love of the game and the need for quality food. As one of the biggest names in poker, it would be easy for PokerStars to rest on its laurels supported by the countless customers across the world. Yet the popular online poker room […]

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A Russian turned a $5 Spin & Go into $1 million dollars after the prize pool landed on the jackpot. Competing under the moniker “sss66666,” the player bested his two opponents in 13 minutes and 25 seconds. The PokerStars event was part of its “December Festival” promotion that it had extended through January, giving players […]

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California Assemblyman Mike Gatto has made amendments to his Golden State online poker bill, scrapping the widely criticized clause that demanded mandatory in-person registration at land-based casinos. Under the initial proposal of Bill AB 9, new players would only be able to create an online poker account by visiting the poker site’s affiliated land-based cardroom, a […]

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Online poker may not have found much traction in the Mississippi legislature over the past few years, but at least you can’t say that proponents of the game aren’t trying. State Representative Bobby Moak (D-53rd District) has once again introduced a bill that would legalize online poker and other Internet gambling games in the state. […]

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Kevin Schulz has done America proud, sweeping the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event championship last night with a brave final call. The PCA is the year’s first great poker festival, and for many players, it’s the place where they’ll make their first major score of the year. And while PokerStars may not be available to […]

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Amaya’s volatile stock price has seen more than its share of ups and downs since the Canadian-based gaming company acquired PokerStars and Full Tilt for $4.9 billion in June of 2014. Shareholders and market analysts have debated the value and whether the stock was a buy or sell over the last six months, but one […]

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The 12th annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event is down to the final six after 18 players busted on Day 5. The nearly 12-hour session ended with Chance Kornuth compiling 7,860,000 chips, the big stack heading into today’s final table and chance at the $1,491,580 first-place prize. Kornuth has built-up a resume over the […]

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A bill that seeks to legalize and regulate online poker in Washington State has been presented this week, just as the new legislative session got underway Monday. While efforts to regulate the game have been ongoing for some time in California, and murmurings, but not much more, have been coming out of Pennsylvania, the Washington […]

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The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) rolls on to Day 5 today, and, as the chips were bagged up at the end of play last night on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, it was Eugenio Mattar, the CEO of Localiza, the biggest car rental company in Latin America, who emerged as chip leader. And while Mattar […]

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WSOP.com and 888poker.com have announced that they will share some player liquidity in the New Jersey market. It’s a move that will allow for more a wider variety of choice in ring games and bigger prize pools and guarantees for tournaments. It could even be enough to unseat Party Borgata from its perch as the […]

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The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event moves into Day Four today, and no one needs to cry for Argentina. Argentina’s Juan Etcheverry was the chip leader at the end of Day 3 of the PCA Main Event, in a field that has just 59 players remaining. The $10,000 buy-in tournament boasts a whopping $7.9 […]

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A new dot-poker or “.Poker” generic top level domain name has just entered the first phase of a three phase release process. The .Poker internet domain name will be the first and only one that is dedicated to the game of poker. For players and operators looking for an effective web address, the domain name […]

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Scientists and researchers from the University of Alberta in Canada are claiming they have built a computer program that plays perfect poker that is unbeatable. The developers behind the new computer software program stated to multiple scientific journals and news outlets that they have “solved” Fixed-limit heads-up Texas Hold’em. Perfect Program Making Perfect Moves for […]

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Paul Phua and his son Darren are attempting to have a ban that prohibits them from playing poker in casinos lifted ahead of their trial on illegal gambling charges, but federal prosecutors say that the prohibition should stay in place. The Phuas are known for their high-stakes poker play in Macau and Las Vegas, but […]

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Steve O’Dwyer is almost $2 million richer today, after taking the top prize of $1,872,580 in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $100,000 Super High Roller event. The three-day tournament saw O’Dwyer beat out a record-setting 66 entrants, and it’s not his first rodeo, either: the poker pro also snapped first in November’s Hong Kong Super […]

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Phil Ivey is already among the biggest poker losers in 2015, according to multiple industry reports. His profile in the poker world has gained him a fair share of both notoriety and infamy. Most know that 2014 was a trying year for the pro, as he faced a highly publicized legal battle amid allegations of […]

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PokerStars Caribbean Adventure 2015 (PCA 2015) kicked off Tuesday in a big way. Where many tournaments gradually build up to massive action, Event #1 at the PCA 2015 was certainly a spectacle, with the $100,000 Super High Roller tournament. Leading into Day 2, the Super High Roller tournament led to some record-breaking results and a […]

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