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The Mega Poker Series Dublin Main Event Attracts Just Seven Players on First Day

What do you do if you promote a large poker tournament, but nobody shows up? That was almost the problem that tournament organizers in Dublin had to deal with this week, as what was hoped to be a major poker event turned into a...

Jason Somerville Sets New Highs with WCOOP Final Table Stream

Jason Somerville has attracted lots of views to his poker streams on Twitch, but nothing so far had compared to the attention his play received on Monday night. That evening saw Somerville go on a very long run in a World...

PokerStars Bolsters Team Pro Roster in Asia with Two New Signings

PokerStars has made no secret of the fact that they want to make Asia one of their biggest targets for growth in the coming years, seeing it as the great untapped market for poker players in the world. That strategy has largely...

Hialeah Park Casino Poker Tournament Ends in Scandal

The Hialeah Park Casino is being accused of running a deceitful poker tournament to celebrate its two-year anniversary, with players alleging that the prize pool and chip count totals didn’t add up. According to an...

Urban Justice Center Poker Tournament Headlined by Vanessa Selbst and Daniel Negreanu 

The Urban Justice Center will hold its “Blinds & Justice 2015” poker tournament on September 29th with Vanessa Selbst, the only woman to ever reach #1 on the Global Poker Index serving as host, but the future hall...

Jason Somerville Inks Deal with DraftKings, Run it UP Satellites Planned 

Jason Somerville and his Run it UP (RIU) brand is joining forces with DraftKings, the second largest daily fantasy sports (DFS) network that is currently in a battle for player liquidity and overall popularity with frontrunner...

Online Legend Chad Batista Passes Away Aged 35

Chad Batista aka ‘lilholdem954’, the man who terrorized the online tournament world for a number of year’s back in the game’s heyday has sadly passed away. The 35-year-old was once one of the most...

Omar Zazay Wins 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship

Omar Zazay outlasted his final table opponents and survived a heads-up duel that lasted over 100 hands in order to take home the 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship title. Zazay took home a prize of $1 million after...

Borgata Admits Destroying Cards in Phil Ivey Edge-Sorting Case

The Borgata in Atlantic City sued poker pro and high-stakes gambler Phil Ivey last April for allegedly cheating its casino out of $9.6 million in 2012 by using illegal edge sorting techniques that gave Ivey and his co-defendant...

Vanessa Selbst Wins $1 Million in Super High Roller Celebrity Shootout

The World Series of Poker may have been the biggest attraction in the poker world this summer, but there was a sideshow that stole some of the spotlight just before the WSOP Main Event. The $500,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl,...