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Despite Black Friday in the US, many American players have chosen to ignore their government’s directive and continue playing at PokerStars. So far, some US online poker players have been logging on to the site using a Virtual Private Network (VPN), which... 

As the $10,000 WPT World Poker Finals enters Day 5 at the Foxwoods Casino, the eight remaining players are expecting a short day of action with just two eliminations necessary for the competition to break overnight for the six-handed final table.  As Day 4 got... 

Day 3 of the WPT World Poker Finals at the Foxwoods Casino began with 66 runners still in contention from the original starting field of 189 players. As the competition thinned, a whole slew of big names then found themselves on the rail with no recompense for... 

After much deliberation, the two newest members to be voted into the World Series of Poker Hall of Fame have been named as Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson. The two poker ambassadors will now take their place amongst a pantheon of legendary poker figures, although... 

US pro Kevin MacPhee may have made $2,028,520 playing poker over four short years, but the customary emotional discipline associated with top pros went out the window after he was eliminated from the EPT San Remo Final Table in 8th place for $91,370. Back in 2010,... 

Andrey Pateychuk has triumphed at the EPT San Remo, after overcoming a field of 879 players over six days to lift the title, and collect €680,000 ($963,056) in prize money after a heads-up chop was agreed. The Russian pro cashed in at his first live tournament... 

French investment business Group Bernard Tapie (GBT) has spoken out recently expressing optimism that a deal could be struck to help save beleaguered online poker room Full Tilt. However, a lawyer for the business which specialises in the recovery of bankrupted... 

A World Series of Poker (WSOP) winner has just been arrested after police acting on a tip-off stopped him with 25 pounds of marijuana in his vehicle. Professional poker player Al Krux, 68, has now been charged with first-degree criminal possession of marijuana,... 

Day 6 of the 2011 EPT San Remo gets underway later today with just eight players left competing for the €800,000 ($1,121,530) top prize at the Casino di San Remo in Italy. Taking their seats at the prestigious tournament’s final table are players from eight... 

Day 5 of the European Poker Tour San Remo gets underway later today, when the remaining 24 competitors still left in the tournament will play down to a final table of eight. Day 4 of the €4,900 EPT event started with 64 players and Christopher McClung (pictured... 

Robert Chow has just won the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Hammond Main Event, after defeating a record field of 1615 players over four days to lift the title, and collect the $393,584 first place prize. The 51 year-old US player is a semi-retired head... 

A 96-year-old man from Morrisonville, New York has been celebrating his good fortune after winning a $129,697 slots jackpot at the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino last Sunday. Edward Garrow enjoys a weekly gamble and was visiting his regular casino with his daughter when... 

Ahead of the 2011 WSOP Europe Main Event in Cannes, last year’s champion  James Bord took a rather forward position and proclaimed that no American was going to win the competition due to the superiority of the European poker players.   Judging from the... 

The EPT San Remo managed to attract 879 competitors to the Casino di San Remo in Italy to create a prize pool worth €3,734,694 ($5,189,000). By the finish of the two starting days of the €4,900 event the field had been cut in half with 482 players starting...