Houston City Councilman Greg Travis told a talk radio host he believes Texas poker clubs are “illegal under Texas law,” but card room operators disagree. On April 30, Tom “3betpanda” […]
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The Asian Poker Tour (APT) offered reassurances that their tournaments scheduled for later this year in Macau will still be happening as scheduled, even as the coming ban on social […]
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The French online gaming market is seeing growth across the board, with gross gaming revenues (GGR) increasing by 28 percent over this time last year. The situation is particularly encouraging […]
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Gordon Vayo, the 2016 WSOP Main Event runner-up, is suing a PokerStars parent company for $700,000, alleging that the online poker giant wrongly withheld winnings from a 2017 Spring Championship […]
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High-stakes poker regular and wealthy hedge fund manager Bill Perkins is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of whoever shot shot Tom “3betpanda” Steinbach outside a Texas […]
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If you’re going to be in Las Vegas on May 25 and don’t have plans, you may want to check out the $25,000 buy-in WPT Bellagio High Roller final table, […]
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Larry Greenberg dominated the final table of the inaugural WPT Bellagio Elite Poker Championship to win his first ever World Poker Tour title. Greenberg won $378,879 for winning the tournament, […]
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Poker rooms and tournament operators in Macau are beginning to react to the Chinese government’s announcement of an upcoming ban on social online poker apps, with some suggesting there will […]
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The Stars Group is ramping up its presence in the sports betting sector by announcing the details of a nine-figure World Cup giveaway. Announced on May 6 and available to […]
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The Vegas Golden Knights, Sin City’s expansion NHL team, advanced to the Western Conference Finals on Sunday, defeating the San Jose Sharks in six games, and the Las Vegas poker […]
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Partypoker Live will bring the Party brand to the Balkans — joining forces with high roller tournament organizer Triton Poker for a four-event big-money series in Montenegro. Partypoker Live president John […]
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Phil Galfond and his online poker project Run It Once will tackling the issue of player tracking with some innovative ideas. In a lengthy blog post outlining his rationale for […]
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Nicolas Dumont loves the ladies. Pocket queens on the final hand against Honglin Jiang catapulted the inexperienced French tournament player to the European Poker Tour’s Monte Carlo Main Event title […]
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Author Maria Konnikova began writing The Biggest Bluff, a book on using poker skills to become a better decision-maker but has put that project on hold to play poker full-time […]
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The EPT Monte Carlo, which is playing out at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort, wraps up this weekend, and some big stories have come out of the stop. […]
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Poker players are used to finding themselves in race situations, but Zynga Poker is taking it to a whole new level by striking a deal with Nascar. Zynga Poker branding […]
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Don Nelson is the NBA’s all-time winningest regular season coach, and he’s continuing to win big in retirement, at least in the game of life. The former coach of the […]
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The end of April closed out the first third of the year, and with it, the race to become online poker’s biggest winner came into focus. Right now, no one […]
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With the worldwide PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) on the horizon, the United States is getting its taste with the New Jersey SCOOP, running now in the Garden […]
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WSOP.com has officially launched its new software with shared player pools between Nevada, Delaware, and New Jersey. A day into the experiment, things have gone mostly smoothly, and players are […]
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