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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Call it the Moneymaker Effect. For the second straight year, an Internet unknown won the famed World Series of Poker on Saturday, ravaging a field of professional players on his way to glory and riches. ... More
Despite the success of online poker, U.S. law enforcement officials continue to try to stamp out online gambling. Their new strategy is to target companies they accuse of ‘aiding and abetting’ gambling operations. ... More
A patent lawyer from Connecticut beat a Dallas college student to win the World Series of Poker tournament Friday on a final hand worth $5 million. Both Greg "Fossilman" Raymer and David Anthony Williams finished with a full house, but Raymer, 39, had eights over twos, while Williams had fours over twos. Williams earned $3.5 million for his second-place finish. ... More
Sycuan Resort and Casino in El Cajon, California is the first gaming facility in the United States to debut the new World Poker Tour All-In Hold ‘EmÒ table game. ... More
Harrah's Entertainment Inc. has said that the bulk of next year’s World Series of Poker will be at the Rio Hotel-casino, with only the culminating final two days at the Horseshoe. The company has previously said that the Rio is its preferred venue, due to its size and the increasing volume of entrants each year, but this year bowed to pressure from Mayor Oscar Goodman who clearly felt that the WSOP would be ... More
In Las Vegas, close to 2,600 hopeful card sharks have entered the World Series of Poker, playing rounds of a game called Texas Hold 'Em. ... More
For the first time in three decades, Binion's Horseshoe Casino couldn't accommodate the poker crowd. So many players showed up for the 35th World Series of Poker in Las Vegas that Binion's, which has staged the event since 1970, had only half the field compete last Saturday and made the other half wait until Sunday. The surviving contestants combined when the tournament resumed the next day. The winner will ... More
Las Vegas - For a guy who makes his living playing poker, Phil Hellmuth Jr. doesn't play as much as he used to. The 39-year-old Madison native is the youngest winner of the World Series of Poker, has earned millions playing the game, and his life story - up to the age of 24 - has been optioned in Hollywood, with Ashton Kutcher possibly playing the part of the erstwhile Cheesehead turned poker pro. ... More
Jennie Garth, star of the WB's What I Like About You and the '90s classic Beverly Hills, 90210, knows the pressure of performing. Yet the burden of playing a part is nothing compared to what she experiences on Celebrity Poker Showdown. "It's the most stress I've been under in I don't know how long," she said. ... More
ATLANTA - Just $150 has enabled a Duluth, Ga., man to earn at least $45,000 and a chance to win a record $5 million purse for playing poker. ... More
Hood Countians – put on your poker face or rather your poker gear. Boaters and bikers can participate in the second annual Cajun Poker Run Saturday beginning at the Cajun Café and Oyster Bar. ... More
The World Series of Poker's championship event, the $10,000 No Limit Hold 'em finals, kicked off Saturday with a staggering 2,576 contestants, more than triple last year's 839 players. ... More
LAS VEGAS -- The world's richest sporting event keeps getting richer -- and so do its champions. The winner of this year's World Series of Poker World Championship event will walk out of Binion's Horseshoe Casino on May 28 with an estimated $4.5 million in cash. But the top finisher of the No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em event won't be the only millionaire that day: based on this year's record participation, the fi ... More
Harrah's Entertainment Inc. expects to hold the final round of next year's World Series of Poker main event at Binion's Horseshoe, with the rest of the event held at the company's Rio hotel-casino, Harrah's officials said Thursday. ... More
LAS VEGAS - The best poker player in the world quickly does the math and doesn't like his odds at this week's World Series of Poker. Thanks to a poker craze created by TV, the Internet and last year's remarkable storybook victory by a young unknown, a staggering 2,576 people are competing this time for a record $5 million first prize. ... More
Defending World Series of Poker champion Chris Moneymaker was knocked out of the legendary tournament Saturday. ... More
Las Vegas - Dewey Weum has been playing poker for 45 of his 60 years. He's earned wads of money and won his share of tournaments. Darren Johnson, 35, started playing poker online just six months ago. ... More
Randy Burger needed just $12 to buy into a satellite Internet tournament for World Poker Tour. The Scottsdale resident walked away with $41,000. ... More
ST. PETERSBURG - Rose Richie will be in a tight spot. Even she acknowledges that. The people sitting across the table from her will be total strangers with mirrored shades and bad intentions. They'll have names like Men "The Master" Nguyen, Dennis "Swami" Waterman and Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott. Their sole mission will be to eliminate her. ... More
Gambling on college campuses is hardly a new phenomenon, and putting money on card games is probably its most common variant. The Hanover Police has recently expressed an unwelcome interest in pursuing legal action against individuals found to have participated in online poker games. Two issues are at work in this situation, and both merit comment. ... More
Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Cheat Major Charles Ingram is taking part in a new TV show which could help him pay off a slice of his debts. ... More
Bikers hoping to rev their engines for a good cause need not look any further. Montana's and Island Ford are hosting a poker run Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. at Island Ford. ... More
It's OK for Thomas Keller to play games at work, after all, his "job" is playing poker. If you want to call that a job. But there is no arguing that Keller is earning a handsome living. On May 5, he won $382,020 for finishing first among 254 players in a $5,000 buy-in no-limit Texas Hold 'em event at the prestigious World Series of Poker under way in Las Vegas. With it, he earned one of the series' coveted ... More
The world’s most prestigious poker game, the World Series of Poker’s championship event, kicks off at Binion’s Horseshoe on Saturday and continues for seven days as a record number of players battle for a purse that could exceed $10 million for the first time. ... More
TOMS RIVER, New Jersey (AP) - A man scheduled to be sentenced for masterminding an illegal million-dollar investment scheme went to Las Vegas instead to play poker. ... More
If lingo such as "flops," "big blinds" and "check-raise" are in your vocabulary, you have been spending a lot of time at the poker table playing Texas Hold'em. ... More
Women have made a tremendous impression on fans at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. In the first 20 events completed in the 35th annual event being contested in Binion's Horseshoe Casino, four have been won by women. ... More
The room is silent except for the occasional sigh or groan. Players take a peek at their cards and then mindfully eye each other, anticipating the other's move. A high stakes poker game, perhaps? ... More
Barry Shulman, one of the elite players in the world of poker, will appear on The Travel Channel's hit TV series, World Poker Tour, Wednesday, May 12th at 9:00 PM Eastern/Pacific time. Shulman will compete on the show with five other world-class players in the final round of the Ultimate Poker Classic for the winner's share of a prize pool totaling nearly $1,700,000. ... More
Responding to the overwhelming popularity of poker, Excalibur Hotel & Casino recently doubled the size of its poker room. Still located in the rear of the casino, the poker room now offers 20 tables of either seven card stud and Texas Hold ‘Em. ... More
It was so much fun participating in a Corvette poker run and scavenger hunt in the Black Hills that Corvette owners Phil VanDeWalle and Jeff Trandall of Huron decided to organize one here. ... More
Ariel Sharon and Yassir Arafat are playing poker years from now in Purgatory. ... More
There's often a full house at Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity - in more ways than one. At any time, day or night, the University of Georgia fraternity brothers and their friends are playing poker, putting aside homework in favor of learning the tricks of Texas Hold 'em and other card games. ... More
As the popularity of poker rages across the country, fueled by TV coverage and the World Poker Tour (WPT), casinos can cash in on the craze with a new table game called World Poker Tour All-In Hold’em. ... More
DEAR DR. BROTHERS: A friend and I had a falling out when we got into an argument during one of our regular poker games. I made an amusing -- and, yes, rather insulting -- comment about his playing skills, but it was really nothing, because the whole group is pretty relentless about insulting one another, all in good fun. But for some reason, this time my friend suddenly and unexpectedly took offense and los ... More
Harrah's Entertainment paid $39.7 million for the World Series of Poker tournament and an additional $2.4 million to buy the right to use the Horseshoe brand name in Nevada, the company disclosed Friday. ... More
If anyone wants to gauge the popularity of the current obsession with poker, the stardom reached by some of the game's greatest players may be the way to do so. ... More
Model Caprice is the new face of an internet poker site. ... More
GARY — Gambling might’ve brought Jerry Usewicz to the Steve Dahl Celebrity Poker Match on Saturday night, but honestly, he couldn’t have cared less about the poker. ... More
Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas is the site for the World Series of Poker. Action began April 22 and will continue through May 28. ... More
Schryver, 31, and the owner of Paul Revere's Pizza, recently took Las Vegas by storm and whipped up a recipe for success en route to a first-place finish and a $4,200 pot at a poker tournament at The Orleans Casino. ... More
Thanks to his two victories on the World Poker Tour (WPT), 27-year-old Erick Lindgren of Las Vegas was named the Tour's first Player of the Year. ... More
What happens in this year's World Series of Poker is definitely not staying in Las Vegas. In addition to drawing many more players to the tables, the 35th annual edition of the Binion's Horseshoe poker tournament -- which Harrah's Entertainment now owns and operates -- is attracting a lot more television attention. ESPN's presence, for instance, is impossible to miss at this year's World Series. ... More
The Texas Hold 'Em poker craze has spawned a hit TV show, and the next big thing could be free, legal tournaments in neighborhood bars, coast to coast. ... More
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