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Fox’s Hit TV Show Bones Airs Poker-Focused Episode

Bones, the popular Fox TV hit series about a forensic anthropologist who can deduce crime clues from victims’ bones, is going to have a special guest star in the form of the former vampire-loving hunk from Buffy the...

Michelle Chin Becomes First Woman to Win WSOP Circuit Main Event

Michelle Chin won the 2015 Horseshoe Council Bluffs $1,675 Main Event on Monday, becoming the first woman to win a World Series of Poker Circuit main event in the process. That ended a streak of 156 WSOP Circuit main events...

Former WSOP Champ Jonathan Duhamel and PokerStars Break Up After Long Bromance

The World Series of Poker Main Event 2010 champion, Jonathan Duhamel, has parted ways with his longtime sponsor, PokerStars. The reason for the split is as yet unknown. The lone statement given to PokerNews by PokerStars’...

FBI Evidence Thrown Out in Phua Case

Paul Phua, the high stakes poker player currently standing trial for allegedly masterminding a multi-million dollar World Cup betting ring from inside Caesars Palace, has received a huge lifeline in his bid to leave court a free...

Daniel Negreanu Twitches Successfully with His Own Live Stream Channel

Daniel Negreanu has started Twitching, and the poker community seems to love it. The PokerStars pro jumped in earlier this week to the live streaming matrix with his own channel, and fans were happy to tune in. Negreanu Plays...

Open-Face Pineapple Texas Hold’em? UK Students Invent New Poker Game

Poker has no shortage of different variants to choose from. Texas Hold’em and Omaha are the standards today, while the classics like Seven-Card Stud and Five-Card Draw are still quite popular as well. Those looking to be a bit...

Three Found Guilty in Mehmet Hassan Murder Case

When Mehmet Hassan, a London-based poker player and professional gambler, was found dead in his home last March, friends immediately believed that he may have been the victim of a planned robbery. Now, just over a year later,...

Poker Players Cure MTT Boredom with Grinder Gadget

Finding a way to push through the monotony of a live tournament when all you’re seeing is bad cards can be tough. Fortunately, modern technology is on hand to help players push through the boredom barrier and the latest...

Poker Player Alex Jacob Winning on Jeopardy

Jeopardy is one of the world’s most popular game shows, and now a professional poker player has proven that he can hang with the trivia experts and geniuses among the show’s contestants. Alex Jacob, winner of the 2006 United...

PokerStars Struck By Massive Server Issues

PokerStars might be the largest online poker site in the world, but that doesn’t mean it’s immune to server difficulties. Despite investing millions of dollars in the latest computing technology, many players were...