Poker News

Two Asian broadcasters have joined the table for US-based WPT Enterprises' flagship show World Poker Tour, bringing the total roll-out of the gaming series to 154 territories worldwide.

Macau Cable in Macau, a Special Administrative Region of China, and MediaCorp in Singapore have ...

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The questions that I'm probably asked the most are, "How do you read players and how do you figure out what they have?"

Well, there is no secret, earth-shattering formula to put opponents on a hand, but there are some things you should look for ...

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JAMIE GOLD should have returned to Hollywood basking in his cool celebrity.

A former talent agent and manager with a respectable list of clients to his credit, he had just embarked on a career as a television producer and was about to start casting for a reality show called ...

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The questions that I'm probably asked the most are, "How do you read players," and, "how do you figure out what they have?"

Well, there is no secret, earth-shattering formula to put opponents on a hand, but there are some things you should look for when sizing ...

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Capitalizing on a poker craze sweeping the country and extending overseas, actress, pop culture icon and former Playboy centerfold Pamela Anderson has launched her own entry into the world of online poker.

"A lot of my friends play poker, and I thought, 'What is this?' " ...

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Hearing delayed on lawsuit claiming he owes partner half

World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold has been awarded half the prize pool for beating out more than 8,000 players in poker's premier event last month, but he continues to challenge a lawsuit filed against him for the ...

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Game boaters played before crash may be illegal

'Poker run' contests violate state law; fatal accident being reviewed

The Lake Texoma "poker run" contest, in which four North Texas residents and a Tennessee woman died Saturday when two power boats collided, ...

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It's a question facing every university in the nation as online poker has become a $12 billion industry fed largely by young gamblers.

Yes, college students such as onetime Lehigh University sophomore class President Greg Hogan are going to lose their money, and maybe even their ...

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As business travel goes, what could be more glamorous than if your business is poker and your travel is to poker tournaments around the world?

Yet for Barry Greenstein, one of the top professional poker players in the world, the grind of business travel is just that, a grind.

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San Antonio police Tuesday night searched a home owned by Richard Lee, the recent winner of nearly $3 million at the World Series of Poker, for evidence of an extensive illegal Internet gambling operation.

"This operation is the largest here in San Antonio," said police ...

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People who read up on Texas Hold'em first learn the hands that are strong enough to play. Most every poker book goes into detail explaining premium hands such as A-A, K-K, Q-Q, A-K, as well as marginal starters like 8-8, 9-9 and A-Q.

However, knowing what cards to start with is ...

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A PROFESSIONAL internet poker player has been convicted of possessing cannabis with intent to supply.

Jamie Dean told a jury he had been smoking cannabis since the age of 14.

That was 16 years ago and he had started to grow his own to ensure quality as he did not want ...

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There could not have been a more appropriate winner of the $80 million main event at the World Series of Poker earlier this month than Jamie Gold - not because Gold was the best, the worst, or the luckiest of the 8,773 players in the tournament, but because of his day job as a Hollywood ...

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Mike Zakarian is president of the student government at Emmanuel College and co-captain of the baseball team. He hopes to go to graduate school in education. But he's also a whiz at online poker. He's so good that, at age 21, he won $12,000 and a seat at the World Series of Poker in Las ...

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Recently crowned World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold is being sued for half of his mammoth, $12 million winnings.

According to a suit filed Monday in District Court, Los Angeles-based "television development executive" Bruce Crispin Leyser claims that Gold promised ...

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