260 plus players made the $2500 buy-in for the main event of the Asian Poker Tour recently held at the Dusit Thani hotel in Manila. Three exciting days of No Limit Texas Hold’em tournament play saw some of the best poker professionals from all over Asia visit the Philippines and take their shot at [...]

Here’s one victory for us poker folks who are forced to tangle with so many legal issues just to enjoy the sport we love. In a decision handed by one very smart judge from Eastern Pennsylvania, poker has now been officially declared (at least in his courtroom) as NOT a game of luck. Instead, [...]

The 2009 PokerStars Carribean Adventure’s Main Event has ended and when the dust cleared, an underdog emerged as champion. Online qualifier Poorya Nazari has joined the list of poker millionaires with his triumph in a tough field of 1,347 entrants. To win his millions, Nazari had to wade through a sea of 746 [...]

So he can swim like a fish and he can win gold medals just like that in the Olympics. But really, who cares? The question is, “Can Michael Phelps play poker?” Well, if we’re going to judge him based solely on event No. 2 at the Caesars Palace Classic, our version of Aquaman certainly can.

The [...]

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The PokerStars.net APPT Auckland Main Event was the largest poker tournament ever held in New Zealand. A total of [...]

Wynn Resorts Ltd. on Thursday announced the company’s earnings for the second quarter and they were far higher than in the same quarter last year. The company more than tripled their earnings from last year with $272 million. That is $2.42 per share. Last year their earnings were only at $.82 per share with a [...]

The Poker Players Alliance which now has over 1 Million poker members and has become a very powerful non-profit membership organization. The Poker Players Alliance mission is to establish favorable laws that provide poker players with a secure, safe and regulated place to play.
“Our membership consists of enthusiasts from around the United States who have [...]

Blackjack and baccarat are among the table card games now available at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
One of the hotel’s competitors, the Isle Casino in Pompano Beach, filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging the games and a compact with Gov. Charlie Crist allowing them are illegal.
The Pompano casino says the agreement between [...]

Two popular Miami ships have ceased operations now that local officials have negotiated with existing dog and horse racing tracks to permit them to open on-shore casinos rather than sailing three miles out into international waters where the law allowed unrestricted casino gambling.
And now the Seminole Tribe of Florida has expanded the Hard Rock Casino [...]

The controversial Massachusetts bill that would allow three resort-style casinos while criminalizing online gambling was defeated by a House vote of 106-48 on Thursday. But it turns out that the provision to criminalize online gambling may have played a pivotal role in the bill’s defeat.
Defeating the proposed bill by Governor Deval Patrick, had become the [...]