BY TOM SOMACH

It’s not just in the U.S. that law enforcement likes to break up poker games that are not occurring in casinos. (more…)

BY TOM SOMACH

It’s not unusual these days to turn on the television and see a commercial featuring a well-known professional poker player. (more…)

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Is poker greatness in the genes? (more…)

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Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson, probably the best-known poker player in the world, is to be the keynote speaker for the annual European convention of the Casino Affiliates Program (CAP) in Spain in October, CAP has announced. (more…)

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The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), a San Francisco-based lobby group seeking to legalize online poker, has announced it is relocating to Washington, D.C., in order to be closer to the legislative process it is trying to influence. (more…)

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What a difference a continent makes! (more…)

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Two men who tried to use rattlesnakes as deadly weapons to collect on a poker debt have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, the Associated Press reported. (more…)

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The home poker game crime wave in the U.S. continues. (more…)

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High-stakes home poker games can be profitable not just for the players, but, it seems, for the criminals too. (more…)

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The question of whether poker is a game of skill or a game of chance is not just being debated in the U.S., it’s being debated around the world. (more…)

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Not all online poker rooms will be affected by a new law in the U.K. that restricts the advertising of Internet gambling sites. (more…)

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The worldwide poker craze isn’t really worldwide if one-fifth of the world’s population–a billion people–isn’t playing. (more…)

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Top poker pro Daniel Negreanu says the reason he played poorly at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event last month in Las Vegas is because he “cracked under the pressure.” (more…)

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Online poker players and other online gamblers now have one less option for funding online wagering. (more…)

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A dozen people, including two former sherriff’s deputies, have been arrested in the U.S. by the FBI on charges of running illegal video poker operations, the Associated Press reported. (more…)

BY TOM SOMACH

Less than a day after an armed robbery of a home poker game in Indiana left one man wounded, another home poker game was robbed by gunmen in Virginia. (more…)