Debates about the best-ever poker movie nearly always resolve into discussions of the relative merits of a few favorites, with The Cincinnati Kid (1965) usually figuring as one of a small group of candidates for top honor. The relative
A healthy contingent of star players is expected to be on hand for the main event of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour's upcoming Auckland stop, which begins Oct. 9th at Auckland's SKYCITY Casino. It's the third of five...
Using a formula which has been part of the Dutch government's official determination for games of skill when compared to games of chance, Dutch mathematics professor Ben van der Genugten has criticized the Netherlands' official...
After two days and a couple of timely double-ups, EPT San Remo champion Jason Mercier came out atop the 85-player field at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London £1 Million Showdown. Mercier made it through...
With the World Series of Poker Europe finished and the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London final table in progress, what better way for 85 of poker's biggest stars, champions and action junkies to spend a rainy Sunday than...
For the second consecutive Sunday, the major online tournaments at PokerStars and Full Tilt fell just short of their announced guarantees, thereby offering a bit of extra money for the players that did make it to the fun...
In a brief update to its home page and a similar e-mailing to its customer base, US-facing site Duplicate Poker pulled the plug on its operations on Sunday, effective immediately. A check of the online Duplicate Poker...
In a comeback from the ages, Michael Martin battled back from a one-time micro stack to take down the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour London Main Event title and its £1,000,000 first prize. The young American beat out...
The last 32 players standing in the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour London Main Event returned to the Grosvenor Victoria Casino to play down to the eight-handed final table. Frenchman Philippe D'Auteuil started the day...
I'll admit right up front that I haven't been impressed with most of the Harrah's poker rooms I've visited. They're adequate, to be sure, but they tend to be, in my opinion, somewhat cold and inflexible with too many rules...
The recent introduction of the Internet Skill Game Licensing and Control Act of 2008 by U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) is important for its specific mention of online poker as a game needing protecting in the form of definition...
Only a couple of hours after John Juanda took down the WSOP Europe Main Event at the Empire Casino in a marathon final-table battle, 158 competitors returned to action across the city at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in the...
Razz -- the game that poker players love to hate. Razz is a game so universally reviled that once upon a time in some areas, H.O.R.S.E. mixed games were transformed into S.H.O.E. solely for the purpose of eliminating razz from...
Day 1b of the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour London Main Event kicked off with a field full of EPT champions, WSOP champions, online superstars and one Olympic gold medalist. A field of 309 players started the day...
Erica Schoenberg is one of those rare women who could stack you at no-limit hold'em in one moment and school you in beer pong the next. Equally at home in Manolo Blahnik stilettos or her beloved Cleveland Cavaliers jersey, Schoenberg...
Methodical would be an understatement in describing the final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe. Clocking in at a record 22 hours, the finale was as much an endurance test as a poker tournament, as John Juanda...
Women have come a long way in poker. There is no doubt that we are strong in numbers behind the scenes and online but the number of women playing live is nowhere close to what it could be. I ask
John Juanda kicked off Day 4 of the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event as the chip leader, and carried that designation throughout the day and all the way to the final table as top players from the
An overflow crowd of nearly 300 players descended upon the Grosvenor Victoria Casino for Day 1a of the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour London Main Event. The field was originally capped at 500, but the turnout far exceeded initial...
The Empire Casino in London's Leicester Square continued hosting many of the most famous faces in poker as Day 3 of the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe kicked off. Andy Bloch started the day with the chip lead, followed
