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Recently, Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) revealed that their $80 million deal to buy Full Tilt Poker was being held up, in part, by their need to recover $16.5 million in outstanding debts from 19 Full Tilt pros.  It was perhaps GBT’s frustration with the situation... 

One lucky player was celebrating his good fortune recently, after taking down the Bad Beat Jackpot at online site Americas Cardroom, which had risen to over $500,000. The action took place at a $0.25/$0.50 6-Max NL table where ‘Poohbah911′ had been... 

UK singer-songwriter Robbie Williams may have gambled both with his health and career over the years, but the 37 year old has now decided to well and truly embrace his gambling side by launching his own poker site called Robbie Williams Poker. The former member... 

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner on February 14th, It seems appropriate to give a mention to one of poker’s more recent couples; UK pro Liv Boeree and US pro Kevin MacPhee. Kevin “ImaLuckSac” MacPhee is a highly successful poker... 

The 2010 WSOP Champion Jonathan Duhamel received some good news yesterday when police revealed they were able to retrieve half of the $160,000 stolen from his home recently. On December 21, 2011, Duhamel opened his front door to a man holding a package, only then... 

A hacker enjoyed some high-stakes poker action at Daniel Negreanu‘s expense, after breaking into his e-mail and PokerStars account. The Canadian poker pro was on his way back from competing in the Aussie Millions, when he discovered the break-in, and tweeted: “Important:... 

According to Canadian pro Daniel Negreanu, the modern dominance of the game by the internet generation means poker is now in danger of becoming too serious and boring. Negreanu cashed in at his first live tournament in 1997 and is currently ranked number three... 

Wealthy music executive Alan Meltzer (pictued right) died October last year , with an outpouring of sympathy then flooding in from the poker playing community, of which he was a big part. Known as a larger than life character, Alan Meltzer was a huge name throughout... 

UK man Barry Denson has set his sights on taking down Phil Laak’s poker playing marathon world record of 115 hours, achieved by the US pro back in June 2010. The Manchester man usually plays most of his live poker in a pub tournament known as ‘The Nuts... 

The winners of the 11th Annual European Poker Awards were named at a ceremony in Paris yesterday, and amongst those players receiving honours were two members of PokerStars Team Pro; Bertrand Grospellier and Pius Heinz. French number one Bertrand “ElkY”...