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$500,000 Super High Roller Bowl to Attract 50 Pros

The tournament world might be moving towards decreased buy-ins and increased guarantees, but a new poker TV network is planning to buck that trend with an event costing $500,000 to enter. Announced earlier this week, the...

WPT500 Set For Summer Vegas Return at ARIA

The WPT500 tournament is set for a return to Las Vegas this summer. The popular reasonably-priced World Poker Tour stop will hit the ARIA resort over the July 4 weekend while thousands of poker players are busying themselves with...

PokerStars Adds Jaime Staples to Twitch Streaming Stable

PokerStars seems to be committed to making the most of the growing popularity of live streaming poker on Twitch. The leader in online poker has already signed Jason Somerville to Team PokerStars, ensuring that they had the first...

Sexy Men Bring Out the Inner Gamble in Average-Looking Male Poker Players, Researchers Claim

Attention, male poker players: don’t play poker against sexy men unless you’re prepared to lose your not-quite-as-sexy shirt. That’s the advice from University of Technology Sydney researchers, following a...

Alex Dreyfus Reveals Details for Global Poker League

Global Poker Index (GPI) CEO Alex Dreyfus has made no secret of his plans to “sportify” the game of poker. That effort truly started with the Global Poker Masters, the team “World Cup of Poker” that saw Team Italy defeat...

Christian Lusardi Sentenced to Five Years After Borgata Chip Incident

Christian Lusardi, the man accused of filtering more than two million forged chips into the Borgata Winter Poker Open, has been sentenced to five years in jail for trafficking counterfeit DVDs worth more than $1.3 million. The...

Poker Community Mourns Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, Dead at 61

Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, the exuberant British poker pro who was as big a celebrity in the US as he was in his native UK, has died at the age of 61. The poker legend died in his home town of Hull, in the north of...

Ioannis Triantafyllakis Wins the 2015 Irish Poker Open

The 2015 Irish Poker Open, Europe’s longest running live poker event, reached its final table on Sunday night after welcoming 321 players over the Easter weekend. Generating a prizepool in excess of €1,000,000...

Sweden Cracking Down On Unlicensed Internet Gambling Companies

Sweden is one of the more tightly controlled online poker markets in the European Union, as the national government really only allows Internet gaming through one licensed firm: the state-backed Svenska Spel. That hasn’t...

Dan Bilzerian Shows It’s Good to Be Rich and Indifferent in BLM PSA

Dan Bilzerian has released more than a few crazy videos over the years. Viewers have seen the “King of Instagram” shooting high-powered weapons and driving tanks over cars, among other audacious stunts. But his latest video...