Poker

Chad Brown Memorial Poker Tournament Coming to Binion’s

When Chad Brown lost his battle with cancer earlier this month, the entire poker world was united in honoring one of the most well-respected members of their community. Brown received an honorary World Series of Poker bracelet...

Dutch Boyd Apologizes to Mason Malmuth for Domain Squatting

The legal battle between poker player Dutch Boyd and Two Plus Two Publishing hasn’t exactly been setting the poker world on fire over the last five years, but it has been one of the longer-running unresolved legal feuds in...

Lottery SNGs Latest Trend in Online Poker

Cash game players will often derisively refer to poker tournaments as lotteries. This isn’t entirely true, of course, but tournament play does come with much greater variance, and even the best players can go dozens of...

Spanish Poker Players Permeate Unregulated Online Market

Forty-three percent of Spain’s online gamblers and poker players play on illegal sites, and many care little about their country’s regulatory efforts. Those are the findings of  a new research study conducted by...

At WSOP Main Event 2014, Whose Pot Is It, Anyway?

Imagine trying to run a poker tournament with over 6,000 players and tens of millions of dollars in prizes. There’s a lot you’d plan for: how to prevent cheating, how to make sure nobody gets an advantage, how to...

Crazy WSOP 2014 Satellites: $10,000 Coin Flips

Ever since Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event after qualifying from a $39 online satellite at PokerStars, the idea of winning a smaller tournament to play in the big one has become one of the most...

$10M for First as WSOP Main Event Kicks Off

There’s been another Big One for One Drop and a thrilling Poker Players Championship. Phil Ivey, Vanessa Selbst and many other big names have added to their bracelet collections, and Daniel Negreanu vaulted to the top of...

PokerStars and Amaya Up for Possible Stock Exchange Listings

PokerStars could experience another round of financial growth in the coming months if the poker site’s parent company, Amaya Gaming, goes ahead with plans to obtain a dual stock market listing. At present, Amaya is...

Michael Borovetz Admits to Running Scams at McCarran Airport

It’s unfortunate to admit, but scammers have been (and probably always will be) a part of the gambling world, for as long as anyone can remember. Often, it’s up to the community to police the activity themselves,...

Daniel Colman Shows Disdain for Poker After One Drop Victory

When Daniel Colman won $15.3 million by taking down the Big One for One Drop at the World Series of Poker, he didn’t engage in the traditional post-victory bluster or interviews we’ve come to expect from poker’s...