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The televised final table of the World Poker Tour World Championship is set after four days of play at Borgata Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City. The two biggest stacks of Day 3, Asher Conniff and Ray Qartomy, will be returning for the final table but defending champion Keven Stammen won't. Stammen, who brought the third largest stack to Day 4, went out in 9th place after losing his final chips (approx. 450k) to Ray Qartomy.

Read more » WPT World Championship: Tony Dunst & Carlos Mortensen Ready For The Final Table

German football professional Max Kruse proved his poker skills last year when he took third in Event #36: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball at the World Series of Poker. He received $36,494 in prize money that time.

Read more » Max Kruse Donates Poker Winnings

Scott "Aggro Santos" Margerson made a name for himself in the online poker world when he won two World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) bracelets within the span of three days last fall. He won WCOOP Event #18 for almost $110,000 and followed that up with a first place finish in a four-way chop of WCOOP Event #22 for $202,000.

Read more » Two-Time WCOOP Champ 'Aggro Santos' Wins Sunday Million ($194,479.20)

Illari "Ziigmund" / "Ilari FIN" Sahamies is currently $594k in the black this year from playing cash games on PokerStars. Apart from poker, some of you might know that he's a big fan of hip-hop music and a rather talented rapper in his native language (Finnish).

Read more » Illari Sahamies In New Hip-Hop Music Video

Day 3 of the WPT World Championship saw the return of 68 players. In the final level of the day, the money bubble burst when 27 player remained. The day eventually concluded with 23 players, all of whom are guaranted to take home at least $31,297 each.  

Read more » WPT World Championship: 23 Players Left - Defending Champion Keven Stammen in 3rd Place!

As most of you probably are aware of, Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott passed away at the age of 61 on April 6, 2015 after losing a battle against terminal bowel and liver cancer. Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Daniel Shak and many other poker pros all over the world have paid tribute to his memory via Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms since his death.

Read more » From Prison Inmate To Poker Millionaire

There are 68 players remaining in the World Poker Tour World Championship after two days of play. The average stack is 175,000 (58 big blinds) and Michael Rocco (American pro with $646,341 in live tournament earnings) has the lead with 439,500 in chips.

Read more » WPT World Championship: 68 Players Remain, Michael Rocco Leads

Admit it. All of you who have spent at least one or two hours a day playing poker have wondered, at least one time, what it would be like if you were able to make a living out of it.

Read more » A poker fan's wet dream

Alex Jacob's winning streak on Jeopardy! came to an end on Monday. It was the former poker pro's seventh appearance on the popular game show and he ended up in second place after answering incorrectly ("What is twitter?") in the final clue "This social media company launched in October 2010; in 2012, with about a dozen employees and no revenue, it sold for $1 billion." - the correct answer was "what is Instagram?"

Read more » Alex Jacob's Winning Streak Ends After Six Straight Wins

22-year-old poker professional Griffin Paul entered yesterday's final table of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event with almost a third of the chips in play, however, early in the final table, the chip lead was traded back and forth between Joe Ebanks and Andrew Crooks.

Read more » WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown: Griffin Paul Defeats Joe Ebanks Heads-up For The Title

Rumours that PokerStars and Jonathan Duhamel had split up started earlier this month after the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event winner showed up at the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown without PokerStars patches. 

Read more » Jonathan Duhamel No Longer Under The PokerStars Flag

The main idea behind a charity poker tournament is to collect money for the less fortunate. It's not that common that players actually leave a chairty tournament with more than their buy-in back.

Read more » Flopped Royal Flush At Charity Event - Won $100,000!

History was made on Monday at Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa when Michelle Chin became the first female to win a World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event. Chin, who was born in Taiwan but moved to the states 12 years ago, received her first gold ring and $88,126 in first-place money for winning the tournament, but little did she know that she was the first female in the Circuit's 11-year history to win a Main Event.

Read more » Michelle Chin Becomes First-Ever Female Winner of a WSOP Circuit Main Event

Ely Levy and Griffin Paul were the only two players with over 6 million in chips when Day 3 kicked off on Tuesday. Levy eventually finished in 11th place for $58,500 while Paul continued accumulating chips throughout the day. In total, he had 14,290,000 or almost a third of the chips in play when the final table of six was set and play ended.

Read more » WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown: Six Players Left; Joe Ebanks Third In Chips

On Sunday, a trailer for an upcoming poker documentary called 10 for 10 was uploaded to youtube. 10 for 10 is about Martin Jacobson's historic run at the 2014 Main Event (he bested a field of 6,683 entrants to win the title and $10 million). The team behind the documentary, Natural Stacks, describes their creation in the following way...

Read more » WSOP: Upcoming Martin Jacobson Documentary (Trailer)

It really insults my intelligence and annoys me greatly when people try and tell me something is free. It is not. Nothing in this world is free and there is always a catch.

Read more » It is NOT free!!!!

It took six levels of battle on Day 3 before a field of 92 players had been narrowed down to two tables and 18 players. Ely Levy (pictured) accumulated lots of chips early and maintained the chip lead for the majority of the day, eventually bagging up 6,285,000 in chips. The only other player who accumulated over 6 million chips was Griffin Paul (6,055,000).

Read more » WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown: 18 Players Remain

The World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event is currently underway. In total, a field of 1,476 entries has been narrowed down to 92 players (everyone is guaranteed at least $8,000 each from now on) over two days of intensive play. Ray Vohra will lead the remaining pack into Day 3 with 1,675,000.

Read more » WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown: Several Big Names Among Final 92 Players

The last 37 players of 1,026 entrants returned on Sunday to play the final day of the UK and Ireland Poker Tour Nottingham Main Event. Among the 37 players were a former UKIPT winner, a UKIPT leaderboard winner and three players who had previously played a UKIPT final table.

Read more » PokerStars Qulifier Wins UKIPT Nottingham (£182,000)

Guy Laliberté, the man behind the One Drop Foundation, has had tough times at the poker tables, both live and online (according to a Swedish poker site, he has lost around $20 million playing online poker alone.)

Read more » Guy Laliberté To Sell His Company For $1.5 Billion

Day 1C of the UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) Nottingham Main Event concluded around midnight on Thursday. Some players who busted on Day 1A and 1B were back for a second bullet (and third) but most players were entering for the first time. At the end of registration, 291 players (265 unique players and 26 re-entries) had pushed the total number of entries for the tournament to 469.

Read more » UKIPT Nottingham Day 1C: Alex Harriman Takes Overall Chip Lead

As you already might have noticed, Full Tilt made several changes earlier this week in the poker client to make the game lobbies easier to navigate, i.e. to make it easier for new players to find active tables, but also, of course, to generate bigger revenues. These are the games that have or will be removed from the poker client:

Read more » Full Tilt's Major Change To Ring Games

On Tuesday, for the first time ever, Daniel Negreanu used Twitch (a live streaming video platform) while playing on PokerStars. Despite the fact that the Team PokerStars Pro only played cash games, the stream attracted over 152,000 views.

Read more » Negreanu Gives Twitch A Shot: First Session Got Over 150,000 Views!

PokerStars' UK and Ireland Poker Tour is currently in Nottingham, Robin Hood's land in the heard of England. So far two of four starting days of the £1,00,000 Guaranteed Main Event are in the books. Day 1A saw 50 entries (40 players and 10 re-entries) and Day 1B 128 entries (115 players, 13 re-entries).

Read more » UKIPT Nottingham Is Underway

Some poker players struggle to score one single live tournament title in their career, then there are those who just keep on winning tournament after tournament. Angela Radich Jordison has created several headlines this week after scoring three straight tournament victories at the Spring Poker Round Up at the Worldhorse Resort & Casino in Pendelton.

Read more » Oregon Woman Wins One... Two.... THREE Tournaments in a row!