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The deputy manager at a UK bowling alley has received nine months in prison after stealing £73,295 ($117,616) in order to fund his gambling habit. Stuart Lee Todd, 29, worked at the Hollywood Bowl in Kingswood, Hull and apparently stole thousands of pounds over... 

South Korean frowns upon gambling and only permits non-nationals to play inside its licensed casinos. Consequently, the country experienced a bit of an uproar recently after eight Buddhist monks were caught on film drinking, smoking and playing high-stakes poker... 

Tom ‘Durrrr‘ Dwan has become a regular participant in the Macau Big Game, where he plays nose bleed cash poker games against an assortment of rich Chinese businessmen, as well as various other top card pros. Although precise details about what takes... 

Viktor “Isildur1” Blom has won PokerStars SCOOP Event #2, after overcoming a huge field of 8,240 players over two days on his way to taking down the title, and collecting the $247,200 first place prize. Known mostly as an online cash game player, earlier... 

PokerStars launched real money play back in December, 2001, and a little over ten years later the poker room has dealt its 80 billionth hand which was celebrated as part of its ongoing 100 billionth milestone hand promotion. The winner of the hand was Spanish player... 

This week, PokerStars announced the start of a new competition series called ‘The Limit Hold’em Challenge,’ in which selected pros would play each other for high stakes in the once popular poker variant. The first challenge then presented a fascinating... 

Online betting firm Betfair saw its share price jump 45p to 839.5p, after it was announced the British company had received one of Germany’s first ever online gambling licences. Germany has 16 states and yesterday, three licences valid until 2018 were awarded... 

An Arizona man who recently won $5,707,069 on a casino slot machine has forked out $361,184 of his winnings to help settle his wife’s outstanding debt related to a 2007 felony theft conviction. Kimberly Lemke was recently released from prison after spending... 

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board  has released its casino figures for the month of April, revealing a 1.3% increase in revenue to $214.1 million compared to the same month last year. However, the Northeastern state’s gambling figures were given a boost... 

At the end of 2010, PokerStars started its SuperStar Showdown challenge in which contenders would pit their skills against no-limit heads-up specialist Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom. Now the world’s largest online poker room has announced another absorbing...