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Neil “Bad Beat” Channing has won the the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Luton Main Event 2010, after defeating a field of 229 players over four days to take down the title and the £64,050 ($104,316) first place prize. With his latest win the Londoner has now earned in excess of $2.5 million from live

Nauv Kashyap has just won the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) Gold Coast, after defeating a field of 287 players to take down the title and the $182,965 first place prize. The 26-year-old dentist from Brisbane only entered the $2,500 buy-in tournament by chance after having the day off from work. As he explains:

Since HighStakesDB.com started tracking Gus Hansen’s cash poker results at Full Tilt Poker, the ‘Great Dane’ has yet to post a winning year on the site and is currently down a whopping -$7,753,624. Presently down $830k for 2010, Gus got off to a flying start at the beginning of the year and was in profit $2.33

Yesterday’s Perseid Meteor Shower is set to continue disrupting the gambling action in casinos across the USA, as the annual astronomical event nears its celestial climax. Despite taking place between July 23 and August 24, the meteor storm reaches its peak this year between the 9th and 14th when more than 60 meteors can be

Alexa Fisher has been causing quite a stir in the poker community lately, not only because she seems to have already mastered all the poker disciplines which are played at the WSOP, but because she has managed to do all that at the tender age of just 7 years . As little Alexa Fisher announced recently:  “I

In an official ceremony due to take place on September 3rd at Las Vegas’ Golden Nugget Casino, Jennifer Harman, Kathy Liebert and Billie Brown will find themselves inducted into the ‘Women in Poker Hall of Fame.’ The annual recognition award designed to honor women in poker, was founded in 2008 by the Ladies International Poker

CEO Brian Hadfield of Gaming software provider CryptoLogic has just announced his resignation after the company posted a record Q2 loss of $12.7m. CryptoLogic had previously posted a $3.2m loss for Q1 and the huge loss for Q2 of $12.7m was enough to have Chairman David Gavagan stepping in as an interim chief executive in

Two Canadian friends were celebrating their incredible fortune after hitting a massive jackpot on The Monte Carlo slot machine on Sunday Aug 1st. However, things didn’t start off all that well for Jesse and Brandon who had been losing steadily on the roulette wheel at the Casino Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada on the Saturday afternoon.

Atlantic City’s 11 casinos posted yet another fall in their combined monthly revenue, down 5% in July compared to the same period a year ago. Although traditionally one of the busiest months of the year, July’s disappointing figure now represent 23 consecutive months of decline for the beleaguered gambling resort. Adding to the concern of

Mike “The Mouth” Matusow has just collected $103,000, after taking down the main event of the Florida State Poker Championship at the Isle Casino & Racing in Pompano Beach. Matusow was in Florida to promote and run a seminar for poker online training site ‘Deepstack’ and while there decided to take time out to enter the

Pauline Medoff from Delray Beach was celebrating her ‘bad luck’ last Wednesday, after having four queens beaten by her opponent’s straight flush during a $2 limit poker game at a Florida casino. After hitting quad queens on Aug. 4th at 10:50 a.m at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, Pauline Medoff couldn’t have been in much

Casino and amusement product maker PokerTek have just announced its financial results, revealing a net loss for the company in the second quarter of 2010 of $2.04 million. The second quarter results announced by the company show that its total revenue reached $1.6 million in Q2 2010 compared to its Q2 2009 figure of  $1.5 million.

Matthias Habernig has won the 2010 LAPT Florianopolis, after defeating a field of 364 players over three days to take down the title and the $247,441 first place prize.  The 19-year-old Austrian player became the chip leader on day 1 of the competition, and by the time he had secured a place at the final

Despite Ted Forest managing to shed an incredible 50lbs of weight over just 2 months to win his massive $2 million prop bet with Mike Matusow, tensions have risen between the two poker pals over the precise terms of the agreement. The duo are no strangers to making high stake diet prop bets against each

Look for the word ‘loser’ in the English dictionary and you will come up with the definition; ‘a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently.’ It would hardly be considered the most flattering name for a poker player to be saddled with, but one man determined not to live up to his

The decision by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) to allow table games inside the previously slots-only casinos last month, has already starting paying dividends. The state’s nine casinos posted a record $211.1 million in revenue from slots alone in July, almost 18% higher than the figure for the same period in 2009. Commenting on