The World Poker Tour has signed a new three-year deal with Fox Sports Net, which should guarantee more consistent coverage of the WPT season for poker fans.

The first season of the new deal, Season Nine, will begin airing in January. New seasons of World Poker Tour coverage...

A massive bad beat jackpot that was shared between several Atlantic City casinos was hit Thursday, earning one Floridian $163,343. Sheryl Wallace, who hails from Auburndale, Florida, was playing poker at Caesars Atlantic City Thursday morning, when she found herself sta...

Andrew Frankenberger started in front at the final table of the Legends of Poker World Poker Tour event, and though there were some bumps in the road, the leader ended the day where he started – in first place. Frankenberger won $750,000 for first place in the $5...

Andrew Frankenberger has grabbed a slim chip lead heading into the final day of the Legend of Poker main event. The tournament, the latest on the World Poker Tour schedule, features a $750,000 prize for first place. The final table features six players who are neatly di...

A total of 462 players showed up to contest the Legends of Poker tournament at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. After the first day, only 241 players remain, chasing a total prize pool of $2.15 million. The first day actually took two days to complete, thanks to the l...

PokerStars gained the ability to expand into yet another poker market this week, earning an activity license in Estonia. The license, granted by the Estonian Tax and Customs Board, means that PokerStars now only needs an operational license to get up and running in the country.

The FBI recently reached an agreement to keep over $13 million previously seized from two online poker payment processors, who settled with the U.S. Government to avoid harsher penalties. The two processors – Allied Systems and Allied Wallet – were both owned b...

New laws that have allowed expanded poker in Florida seem to be paying off for the state’s poker rooms, which showed an immediate 35% increase in their month over month revenues from June to July. Florida’s poker rooms took in about $11.3 million in July, compa...

At the poker table, players usually try to hide their motives by keeping a blank expression – better known as a poker face. While conventional wisdom says that a poker face helps a player avoid giving off tells, some new research suggests that if you really want to get y...

Kevin Stani fought through a field of 420 players to win the PokerStars European Poker Tour: Tallinn. Stani won €400,000 and a seat in the EPT Grand Final for the win.

The 27-year-old Norwegian took over the chip lead with three players remaining, and never looked back...

Jennifer Harman, Kathy Liebert and Billie Brown are the latest women to be inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame. The three will be inducted at a ceremony on September 3rd at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas.

This marks the third class of inductees into the Hal...

Just 25 players remain at the PokerStars European Poker Tour: Tallinn event, fighting for the €400,000 prize which will go to the ultimate winner. All remaining players are in the money. Most of the 420-player field has been eliminated over the first three days of play, b...

We all know that poker players are getting younger every year, but this is ridiculous.

Meet seven-year-old Alexa Fisher, a budding poker prodigy from Texas. Alexa came to the attention of the poker world recently when she was profiled in a recent issue of Card Player Magazine

Maybe Mike Matusow spoke a little too harshly when declaring Florida’s poker players to be “terrible.” Then again, after his performance at the 2010 Florida State Poker Championship, maybe he still feels the same way.

Matusow topped a field of over 400 pla...

Talk about a bad beat! Sothea Sinn, a 28-year-old man from New Zealand, was excited to win 60,000 New Zealand dollars (or $44,000 US) by winning the progressive jackpot on a Caribbean Stud Poker table at the Skycity Casino in Auckland. However, his celebration soon turn...

Phil Laak – known also by his nickname, “The Unibomber” – was hospitalized Thursday after an accident involving an all-terrain vehicle (ATV). Laak was reportedly on a camping trip with several friends, including poker pros such as Antonio Esfandiari, wh...

Atlantic City casinos, once thought to be strongly opposed to legalizing online gaming in the state of New Jersey, are now saying that they would be reading and willing to take advantage of a regulatory framework that allowed New Jersey residents to gamble online. This positio...

Sometimes, a name really is just a name. Such was the case for German poker player Manig Löser, who was happy not to live up to his name this week, as he instead proved to be the winner of the European Masters of Poker: Bulgaria tournament. The tournament, which features ...

Typically, it pays to enter the final table of a poker tournament as one of the chip leaders, as that’s where the winner usually comes from. However, the 2010 Italian Poker Tour: Venice tournament proved to be an exception to this rule. Though he came into the final tabl...

If you’re a golfer and poker player, chances are you’ve played in a lot of tournaments for each game. However, at the EPT Vilamoura event on September 1st, PokerStars and the European Poker Tour are combining to create quite possibly the first tournament in the wor...

PokerStars responded to questions regarding the legality of their operations in the United States this week, stating that to the best of their knowledge, they have behaved lawfully in the US market. These issues came to the forefront as a provision was added to legislation wor...