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US pro Dan Smith has won the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge, after defeating a field of 22 players over two days to claim the title, as well as the AUS$1,012,000 (US$1,041,828) first place prize. With his latest victory in Melbourne, the online grinder with... 

Top UK pro James Akenhead is number eight on the country’s money list, having earned $2,994,779 from live play since cashing at his first tournament in 2005. Counted amongst the 28 year-old’s achievements include a 9th place finish at the 2009 WSOP... 

Sunday night in Melbourne, 22 players skipped the $10,000 Main Event to take a shot at the $100,000 Aussie Millions Challenge, instead. Last year the event was won by Sam Trickett, who walked away richer to the tune of AUS$1,525,000 (US$1,508,258), after overcoming... 

Back in 2005, Aussie poker pro Joe Hachem joined PokerStars after taking down the WSOP Main Event that year for $7.5 million. Then in December 2011, after six years of service with the world’s largest online poker room, Hachem and PokerStars parted ways. At... 

Michael Pedley has won Aussie Millions Event #6: the $1,100 NL Rebuy, after overcoming a field of 92 players (total of 331 rebuys) to lift the title, and collect the $122,670 first place prize. As the final table of ten got underway at the Crown Casino in Melbourne,... 

Thai police have vowed to locate an illegal gambling den believed to be in Bangkok, after photos of bare chested women surrounded by male gamblers was released onto the internet recently.  The two attendants wearing nothing but their panties can clearly be seen... 

Retired National Hockey League professional and former part-owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Len Barrie, 42, is currently being pursued by the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas for outstanding debts. Apparently, back in May, 2008, Canadian Len Barrie negotiated credit... 

The state of Louisiana has released its casino figures for December 2011, showing a 1.2% decline in revenue to $201.9 million compared to the same month in 2010. Breaking the figures down further, around 2.6 million people visited Louisiana casinos in December... 

Sky Poker TV has just announced the addition of Stuart Rutter to their team of TV channel analysts, which also includes more recent recruits Ryan Spittles and Julian Thew. Commenting on its new recruit, Sky Poker TV Head of Channel Caire Cook, said: “Stuart... 

Nathan “Blackrain79″ Williams is a university graduate in his thirties from Canada, who is also the biggest winner ever at PokerStars’ micro stakes cash games. With around $30,000 in winnings playing at the  1c/2c and the 2c/5c levels alone,... 

Three young men have just had $26,158 in cash seized and confiscated by US authorities, after failing to declare the amount while at US pre-clearance at Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau, Bahamas. The three men included brothers Sean Ruane, 18, and... 

At the end of 2010, card enthusiasts were thrilled to hear that a sequel to the cult poker movie Rounders (1998) had been agreed and was scheduled for a 2012 release date. Thirteen months later and the collaboration between Miramax, which produced the original... 

Apparently, Jonathan Duhamel was on the end of another attack this week, if the AIM log chat between German poker pro Martin Finger (Piggybank) and friend (PlauZee) is to be believed. The story, which later appeared on the 2+2 poker forum, took place in the Bahamas... 

Dutch poker player Joran van der Sloot has now been sentenced to 28 years in a Peruvian jail for the murder of 21 year-old Stephany Flores, whose body was discovered in his hotel room in Peru in June 2010. Later on, Sloot may also face extradition to the US in...