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London has hosted the inaugural World Strip Poker Championships.

Over 200 players competed for the £10,000 prize by seeing who could keep their clothes on the longest.

Organised by Irish bookmaker Paddy Power, the event took place at London's Cafe Royal with players ...

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LONDON (Reuters) - Up to 200 strip poker players competed on Saturday to see who will lose their shirts -- and more -- and who will scoop 10,000 pounds by retaining their clothes and modesty.

Organized by Irish bookmaker Paddy Power, the inaugural World Strip Poker Championship ...

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Now that the 37th World Series of Poker has come to a close, I think we can all collectively exhale a monumental sigh of relief!

I think anyone who participated in the World Series, either as a player, spectator, official or journalist, would have to agree that the six-week long ...

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LAS VEGAS - When Jamie Gold bluffed, his opponents folded. When he had the best hand, they threw in all their chips.
    With a run of cards, a huge chip stack and an uncanny knack for reading other players, Gold, a talkative former Hollywood talent agent, cajoled his way to victory ...

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Norman Chad is bewildered, too. Not that he's complaining, but ...

Why would anybody watch a sporting event on TV weeks after it was held, and everybody knows who won, and by how much?

That's just what happens each year when ESPN shows the World Series of Poker — over ...

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An Ulster poker star has scooped more than $$1m by playing his cards right in the world's toughest poker competition.

John Magill, from Co Antrim, has now bowed out of the World Series of Poker Tournament in Las Vegas, picking up a whopping $$1,154,527 in prize money.


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LAS VEGAS - The final table is set at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, and a Duke University graduate is among the nine player who have a seat.

They have a day off today after playing into the wee hours this morning.

The nine, including Duke grad Douglas Kim, ...

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Less than 30 minutes before he was due at the table to begin his last push toward the final table of the main event at the World Series of Poker, Jamie Gold of Paramus was spending quality time with a man who's been there.

"Right now I'm with Johnny Chan and we're talking ...

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Former Hollywood agent Jamie Gold will have $13 million in tournament chips and a commanding lead in the World Series of Poker championship event when play resumes at noon today, but Allen Cunningham hopes the experience he's gained by winning four impressive pieces of jewelry will work in ...

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It's an unspoken partnership that has raised a few eyebrows.

The unusual link between the World Series of Poker -- owned by Harrah's Entertainment -- and the Internet poker universe invokes a number of descriptions and images. Symbiotic, curious and troublesome seem to top the list. ...

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Marty acknowledges that his insistence on anonymity -- "No last name. No description. I won't tell you where I work." -- undermines his tepid claim of innocence.

The fact is he's guilty when he taps his keyboard and goes all in, when he gets a bad beat in his empty ...

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Electronic tables would speed up play, but some players unconvinced

MATTHEWS, N.C. - No chips to stack, cards to flip, or dealer to tip. Could this be the future of casino poker?

A North Carolina company hopes to hit the jackpot with a version of the game that gets rid ...

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In "The Grand," a celebrity poker film being shot in Las Vegas, Woody Harrelson's character faces a woman for the title.

Insiders tell me she wins.

Over at the Rio, site of the World Series of Poker, life soon might imitate art. Few doubt that the day is ...

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In golf, it's called making the cut. In poker, it's called being in the money -- and at the World Series of Poker, it means the difference between a player winning back some of a $10,000 buy-in, or going home with nothing.

When 1,159 players sat down at the tables Friday, ...

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The Internet and televised poker events have made Daniel Negreanu one of the game's most recognized players, a status he has used to his advantage during the 2006 World Series of Poker.

Negreanu, a Toronto native now living in Las Vegas, said Thursday a newfound aggressive style ...

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