A South Carolina priest has turned his poker playing exploits into funding for a new church, using his $100,000 in winnings to help cover the costs of the new building. In total, the new facility will cost about $6.5 billion to build. Father Andrew Trapp, who many are...

A bill that would have made California the first state in the United States to legalize online poker was pulled from consideration this week. State Senator Rod Wright withdrew the bill from the State Senate in order to address concerns that had been raised by opponents of the ...

Chris Bell took care of business at the final table to win the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha H/L event, earning his first ever World Series of Poker Bracelet in the process. The win came just over a day after Bell’s friend Gavin Smith took down his first bracelet. With a f...

 The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act – better known as UIGEA – has now been in effect for about a month. Designed to cut the flow of funds to and from online gambling sites, UIGEA was designed to make it difficult for players from the United States ...

PokerStars and PartyGaming were among the big winners who were awarded licenses to operate online poker rooms in France. The two industry giants were part of the second round of licenses awarded, following the licenses given to companies including Everst Gaming and Bwin earlie...

Erik Seidel took an early lead after the first day of play at the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions. Seidel amassed over 72,000 chips to put himself narrowly ahead of Johnny Chan and Mike Matusow.

Meanwhile, five players were eliminated, cutting the original field...

For a while now, Gavin Smith has been known as one of the best players to never win a World Series of Poker bracelet. It’s not the worst title to have, but fortunately for Smith, nobody will ever be able to say that about him again. Gavin Smith earned his first World Ser...

The Los Angeles Times has found that special debit cards issued as part of California’s welfare program could be used to withdraw cash at over half of the casinos and poker rooms in California, creating a controversy over whether steps need to be taken to prevent this fr...

 In a way, it didn’t take very much time at all. In another way, it took more time than most poker players could possibly imagine. Either way you look at it, a group of players in Kufstein, Austria claim to have flown well past the record recently set by Phil Laak t...

Australia’s Productivity Commission recently made a recommendation that the country legalize online poker. However, the Australian Government as a whole seems unlikely to take that step anytime soon, meaning that online poker is unlikely to become legalized in the countr...

If you’re both a poker player and a sports fan, your attention is sharply divided right now. While the World Series of Poker continues in Las Vegas, the world’s biggest sporting event – the World Cup – is just hitting the knockout stages in South Africa...

So close, and yet so far. Phil Hellmuth entered the final table of the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha High-Low tournament looking for his twelfth World Series of Poker bracelet, which would expand his lead over Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson to two in the race for the most all-tim...

When most people talk about poker in today’s world, they’re talking about Hold’em. Ever since ESPN’s coverage of the World Series of Poker led to an explosion in poker’s popularity about a decade ago, millions of players have learned Hold’em...

Beginning on July 1, Seminole casinos in Florida will begin spreading no-limit and high stakes poker games in their poker rooms. This change was prompted by actions of the Florida Legislature and the Seminole Tribal Council, which helped to remove the previous limit of $10...

A New Zealand Court made a critical ruling this week, determining that .net advertisements are not gambling promotions – and perhaps just as importantly, that poker tournaments are a form of competition, not gambling. These decisions could prove vitally important for pok...

Valdemar Kwaysser earned his first ever World Series of Poker bracelet by winning the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold’em Championship. Kwaysser won $617,214 for first place, beating out a strong final table in the process. Kwaysser had already cashed at two smaller no ...

Phil Ivey overcame a stacked final table to win the $3,000 HORSE event at the World Series of Poker on Monday. The win not only earned Ivey another $329,840 to pad his already healthy bank account, but it also gave him his eighth World Series of Poker bracelet, tying h...

The California State Senate has set a date of June 29th for a hearing on proposed legislation that would create online poker rooms specifically for California residents. The hearing follows the introduction of a bill in May to the Senate which would unambiguously legalize onli...

Actress Shannon Elizabeth is a well-known celebrity poker player, having cashed in several World Series of Poker events and reaching the semifinals of the 2007 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. But recent allegations suggest that she may also be running a less than rep...

You know what they say: if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. At the 2010 World Series of Poker, nobody has better exemplified this mantra than Jeff Papola, the 25-year-old law student from New York who took down the $5,000 Six-handed No Limit Hold’em e...