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‘On a warm summer’s evening, on a train bound for nowhere…’ — Thus begins what has to be the single most recognizable poker-themed song in American popular music. By 1978, country music star Kenny Rogers had already established…

November capped an incredible fall run of poker news with perhaps the biggest story of the entire year, when Denmark’s Peter Eastgate returned to the Rio to capture the WSOP’s Main Event. It was one of several huge tournaments…

As anticipated, the attempt by leading online poker site PokerStars to break its own mark for most players in a tournament went off without a hitch on Sunday. Stars’ ‘Guinness World Record Tourney’ easily reached its 35,000…

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The record-setting activites as part of quot;World Record Weekquot; at PokerStars dominated Sunday’s online poker world, including a special edition of the Stars Sunday Million that guaranteed $2.5 million in prizes, but shattered…

In our first Aussie Millions Flashback, we covered the early years of the event, wherein the Crown Casino worked hard to solidify poker in Australia. In some ways, they picked a difficult era to start their quest. The late 1990…

October saw major poker events on several continents, again a testimony to the game’s global maturing during 2008. John Juanda enjoyed one of the best 48-hour periods in poker history, including winning the WSOP Europe…

The number of sites licensed to offer poker to residents of Italy now includes four sites of using Playtech network’s software. The member sites approved are Snai s.r.l., Eurobet Italia SpA (a division of Gala Coral), Sisal SpA…

I’ve often wondered if there was any room left in the expanding casino world for a first-class, independent casino. So many places I’ve played in are either run by the super-large corporations or are faltering, especially…