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California Online Poker Garners Additional Support as New Year Approaches

California online poker appears positioned to once again be an important topic of discussion in Sacramento when the legislature reconvenes on January 4, 2016. Both the state senate and assembly have been on recess since the end...

Holidays and Poker: Family or a Card Game?

The holidays are upon us. For poker players, that means a time to get away from the card room and spend some quality time with the ones you love, the ones that love you, and the ones you tolerate once a year. Or does it?...

Oklahoma Poker Home Game Shooting Leaves One Man Deceased in Modern-Day “Dead Man’s Hand” Scene

An Oklahoma poker home game shooting terrified neighbors in the tiny town of fewer than 5,000 residents over the weekend. The small town of Sulphur in the Sooner State is eponymously named for its sulpher springs, for which it...

Alex Jacob Uses Poker Skills to Become Jeopardy Legend in Tournament of Champions

Alex Jacob, the former poker player turned trader, has just become the 2015 Jeopardy Champion of Champions. Following a successful run in the show in April, Jacob was invited back to compete in the Tournament of Champions last...

Goodfellas’ Paul Sorvino Stars in New Poker Movie Cold Deck, Indie Film Now Seeking a Buyer

A “cold deck” in poker means one in which you are about to be played by the illusion of success followed by a guarantee of pre-fab failure (unbeknownst to the victim, of course) from a hustler, where no matter what...

Travell Thomas Alleged $31 Million Fraudulent Debt Collection Agency Wire Charges Could Land Poker Player 20 Years

Travell Thomas, a New York poker player who holds two WSOPC rings, has been indicted by the US Attorney’s Manhattan office on charges of wire fraud, and is accused of being the head of the “largest fraudulent...

Alex Jacob Goes All-In for Jeopardy Tournament of Champions

Former high stakes poker player turned currency trader Alex Jacob has stepped into the spotlight once again as part of Jeopardy’s Tournament of Champions show. Following a successful run on the show back in April, Jacob not...

GPI Continues Mission to Sportify Poker with USA Today

The Global Poker Index (GPI), the tournament ranking system owned by Alex Dreyfus, has just secured a media partnership with USA TODAY. A major media outlet in the US, USA TODAY Sports covers every major sport from around the...

$10 Million in WSOP 2015 Taxes Goes to IRS and State and Local Outfits

The IRS, also known as the Internal Revenue Service to every tax-paying American citizen, is watching you. Especially if you just took down millions in the recently wrapped up 2015 World Series of Poker. Sadly for this...

Joe McKeehen Proves Talent and Luck Are a Winning Combo At WSOP 2015 Main Event, Wins $7.6M and Championship Bracelet

Joe McKeehen combined enormous talent with extraordinary good luck to take down the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Tues night after three days of play against his fellow November Niners. And he continued what had...