The recent Washington State Supreme Court ruling on a state law banning online gambling has led PokerStars to disallow Washington residents from playing for real money on their site.

The Washington State Supreme Court recently found that a law passed by the Washington State...

The European Poker Tour London Main Event has drawn a record crowd, as the field of 848 players makes it the largest tournament ever held in England.

The EPT London Main Event had a buy-in of £5,250, making the large field all the more impressive. The strong turnout m...

Several top online casinos have decided to no longer take bet from Canadian gamblers this week, suddenly and unexpectedly pulling out of the Canadian market. The real mystery, however, has been exactly why they decided to do so.

Several different major casinos made the deci...

New proposals to track international electronic funds transfers have American poker players worried about the impact on online poker and gambling.

The new Treasury Department proposal would require banks to make weekly reports on any electronic money transfers that moved in...

James Bord, a 29-year-old professional poker player from Stanmore, England, became the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Champion after outlasting eight others at the final table Monday. Bord won £830,401, or a little over $1.3 million, for his first place...

Philadelphia became the largest city in the United States to be home to a casino on Thursday, as the SugarHouse Casino opened for business in the Fishtown neighborhood of the city. The previous largest American city with a casino was Detroit.

The SugarHouse Casino features ...

Over 80,000 players who received birthday mailings from Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. are entitled to $100 in damages, thanks to a class-action lawsuit filed by Debra Smerling. The case started when Smerling took a trip to Harrah’s Atlantic City on Saturday, A...

Many of the biggest names remaining in the tournament were eliminated Monday, as the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event played down to its final table. Of the nine survivors, it’s Dan Fleyshman who holds the chip lead, having nearly 2 million in chips.

While the ...

Ronald Lee leads a star-studded field at the end of Day 3 of the World Series of Poker Europe’s Main Event. Lee has collected an impressive stack of 947,000 chips, but is being pursued by some of the biggest names in poker, including Phil Ivey and Hoyt Corkins.

In all...

After delays, reschedulings and the two finalists finally getting eliminated from the Main Event so that they could finish their match, Gus Hansen ultimately won the High-Roller No-Limit Hold’em Heads-Up Championship at the World Series of Poker Europe. The win earned Ha...

Viktor Blom gathered over 443,000 chips in the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event to lead the 66 players who remain in contention after Day 2.

Blom is best known to the poker world as the probable identity of online poker superstar Isildur1. While it’s uncertain ...

The Washington State Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday to uphold the state’s ban on Internet gambling. The court found that the ban on online gambling does not violate the United States Constitution.

The lawsuit was brought by Lee Rousso, an attorney and online...

The 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event drew a total of 346 players, setting a new record for the event and creating a £830,401 first prize for the eventual winner.

It was clear after Day 1A that there would be a strong turnout, as 137 players turned out for the fir...

Dwyte Pilgrim finished strong to win the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open, besting a record field of 1,042 players to win the $733,802 first prize. According to Card Player Magazine, Pilgrim now leads their Player of the Year standings, as this win comes on t...

PokerStars dealt their 50 billionth hand Wednesday, earning one lucky player over $50,000 in cash and prizes. The hand was played at 10:35 am on Wednesday, at a .02/.05 No Limit Hold’em 6-max table. Anticipation built in the hours leading up to the fateful hand. A...

Many of the biggest names were eliminated at the Borgata Poker Open’s fourth day of play, but six strong players still remain for the final table of the World Poker Tour event.

Entering Day 4, there was still the potential for some great storylines as a few very notab...

Brandon Novena has amassed over 3.3 million chips, vaulting him into the pole position at the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open. With just 27 players left to play, Novena leads a field that features several big names still in contention for the $733,802 first pri...

Four players remain in the World Series of Poker Europe’s £10,350 no-limit hold’em high roller heads-up event, including Gus Hansen, who is looking for his first ever World Series of Poker bracelet. The final four in this event also includes three other profe...

Jason Mercier blew through a high profile final table at the 42nd event in the World Championship of Online Poker, adding a WCOOP title to his ever growing resume of tournament victories. Mercier won $435,862 for taking first place in the $1,050 buy-in event. Event ...

John D’Agostino has taken the chip lead as the Borgata Poker Open heads into Day 3 of action. D’Agostino leads a field of about 175 remaining players at the World Poker Tour event, having amassed a stack of 681,200 chips.

D’Agostino is not the only familia...

Despite being directly in competition with the World Series of Poker Europe, the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open attracted a strong field, as over 1,000 players are expected in Atlantic City to play in the $3,500 buy-in event. At the end of the first day of ...

Jeffrey Lisandro won the £5,000 Pot Limit Omaha event at the World Series of Poker Europe on Saturday, taking down his fifth World Series of Poker bracelet, along with £159,514. Lisandro overcame a field of 119 players to win his forth WSOP title in the last two ye...

What started out as a typical tournament turned into a long struggle for survival, as the World Series of Poker Europe’s £5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha began late this week.

The tournament began with a field of 120 players, and began to proceed as most tournaments do, w...

SpadeClub.com, an online poker site that used a subscription model to circumvent US gambling law, has closed down amid financial difficulties that had made the site unprofitable.

SpadeClub.com was a property of Card Player Magazine, and catered to the American market by offer...

The PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge is set to air a new season, beginning this Sunday (September 19) on FOX. The second season will feature seven episodes and the same familiar format featured in Season One. The show gives players a chance to win up to $1 millio...

A total of 91 member of Congress received “A” grades for their stance on poker-related issues, according to the 2010 Congressional Ratings Guide released by the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) this week. Conversely, 194 members received either “D” or &ldqu...

Phil Laak added another bright spot to a tumultuous 2010 by winning the first event at the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe. Laak topped the 243-player field at Event #1, the ₤2,500 Six-Handed No Limit Hold’em tournament, winning ₤170,802. The victory also g...

Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi and Full Tilt Poker have found themselves to be the targets of a lawsuit by Deliverance Poker, though a recent ruling has left the future of the case in doubt.

The breach of contract lawsuit concerns Mizrachi’s sponsorship de...

Fabian Quoss emerged atop a field of 193 poker players to win the 2010 English Poker Open. The tournament, held at the Palm Beach Casino in London, England, was a £3,500 + £250 no limit hold’em event, with a first prize of £220,000 (approximately $3...

The World Series of Poker Europe has kicked off in London, England, beginning with the first tournament of the Series: a £2,500 Six-Handed No Limit Hold’em event.

At the end of the first day of play, Andrew Pantling finds himself on the top of the leaderboard, h...

Daniel Negreanu took down first place at the Fairways and Felts tournament, a side event at the European Poker Tour: Vilamoura tournament. The tournament was a unique mixture of poker and golf that rewarded players for solid play on the golf course with more chips on the poker...

Online poker players are known for playing a lot of hands. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of hands a year aren’t uncommon for serious poker players. But 50 billion hands – now that’s something special. PokerStars, the world’s...

They say that everything is bigger in Texas – apparently, this even applies to bad beat jackpots. A sixty-year-old woman from Ferris, Texas won over $218,000 this week as her quad nines were cracked at one of Ultimate Bet’s Bad Beat Jackpot tables. The woman, ...

Switzerland’s Federal Council upheld a Supreme Court ruling that makes playing poker tournaments outside of casinos illegal, continuing a policy that leaves poker in a grey area in the small European country.

In Switzerland, poker tournaments are perfectly legal in ca...

Jake Cody won his second major title of the year, taking down the 2010 World Poker Tour London Poker Classic. Cody, 22, earlier won the European Poker Tour event in Deauville this January. For first place, Cody took home £273,783 (approximately $420,000). Cody, a ...

Toby Lewis navigated a tough final table to win the PokerStars European Poker Tour Vilamoura main event, winning €467,835 for first place. Lewis came into the final table with a slim chip lead over Sam Trickett, but faced some stiff competition from some of the shorter st...

A star-studded cast of players have been nominated for the World Series of Poker Hall of Fame class of 2010. The ten finalists include a number of household names, none of whom would seem out of place in the WSOP Poker Hall of Fame.

The finalists are as follows, in alphabet...