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Dan Colman And Olivier Busquet Auction Poker Lesson To Benefit Charity

Dan Colman went from being a mostly anonymous poker player to one of the world’s most famous professionals in just a few months. And while he had a number of excellent results that made it clear he was an elite tournament pro,...

WSOP Coverage To Include Live Streaming Coverage Of Final Tables

When the World Series of Poker announced that it would be handling the primary media coverage in house for the first time, it left a lot of poker fans wondering exactly what kind of coverage they could expect. Would it result in...

Pennsylvania Online Poker Bill Author Optimistic About Chances

Pennsylvania State Representative John Payne (R-Hummelstown) has expressed optimism about the chances that his bill to regulate online poker and gambling in the state, saying that most of his colleagues have remained open-minded...

Amaya Tapping Growing Asian Poker Market

Amaya Inc., owner of Rational Group subsidiaries PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, has announced a series of initiatives to grow the game in Asia. While the company’s US fate is still uncertain, the world’s largest...

WSOP Officials Warn Players To Pre-Register For Colossus Tournament

The World Series of Poker Colossus tournament may very well end up being the largest live poker tournament in history in terms of field size. In fact, the tournament is expected to be so large that even WSOP officials aren’t...

Full Tilt Black Friday Victims To Receive $2.8 Million

Full Tilt Poker announced this week a new round of restitution payments have been approved for some 3,500 petitioners who claim they lost money as a result of poker’s Black Friday in 2011. The Garden City Group (GCG), the...

Sunday Million 9th Anniversary Tops $10 Million

PokerStars’ Sunday Million, the most popular weekly online poker tournament in the world, celebrated its 9th anniversary with a bang over the weekend by creating a prize pool of $10,086,400. The original $9 million...

RAWA Congressional Hearing to be Held March 24

The Restoration of America’s Wire Act’s Congressional hearing is now scheduled for March 24. The Sheldon Adelson-backed bill, which was reintroduced to the House by Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) in January, will be...

PokerStars Enjoys Major Upswing In Italy

This week has proved to be one of contrasting fortune for PokerStars’ Italian platform. Earlier this week news broke that the operator’s Italian business brand, Halfords Media Italy, is currently being investigated...

Tribal Coalition Slams Jones-Sawyer Bill

The California poker bill presented by Reggie Jones-Sawyer has been attacked by the anti-PokerStars tribal collation, which has dismissed the legislation as “fatally flawed” and “not sufficient to protect the integrity of...