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If you’ve ever dreamed of playing poker in a beautiful location with lots of money on the line, the upcoming WPT Cyprus should satisfy both of these desires. WPT Cyprus, which runs from August 16th-21st at the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino, will offer a massive $1.5 million guaranteed prize pool…

Whether you want to play in the 2014 WSOP or just hope to win major cash, it’s definitely worth checking out Bovada Poker’s $150,000 Mini Series. The Mini Series runs from now until July 18th and will pay $150k over the course of 37 tournaments. Players can expect to see at least two Mini Series tourneys running every day, including a $40,000 Main Event on July 14th. In addition to the $40k Main Event, there’s also going to be a Mini Series Finale on July 18th, where the top two prizes are 2014 WSOP prize packages (worth $4k each). The …

Pathology professor Corey Harrison is used to giving lessons at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. However, he was giving his lessons on the felt in the Event #24 $1,500 NL Hold’em tournament…

If you’re looking to earn some extra money for a nice summer vacation, Everest Poker are giving you the perfect opportunity to do so. From July 1st-28th, 2013, they’ll be running the Summer Sprints rake races, which offer a collective $21,400. In order to participate in Summer Sprints, you first need to opt-in to the promotion. From here you can play in cash games, MTT’s and/or SNG’s to generate rake within the given race periods. Assuming you finish within the top 30 rake earners, you’ll share in that race’s prize pool. Now here’s a look at the four races as …

As if PokerStars hasn’t already broken enough records within the online poker industry, they recently broke another mark. PokerStars held a $1 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed tournament in hopes of smashing their own record for the largest tourney in history. The old mark was 200,000 grinders, which happened in…

Playing in a major live poker tournament is fun no matter where it’s held. However, live tourneys are especially nice when they’re held in a beautiful tropical destination. Caribbean Poker Tour organizers understand this better than anybody since they’re holding events in Punta Cana and St. Maarten – two breathtaking paradises!

After the first 16 tournaments, the 2013 World Series of Poker was starting to look more like the North American Series of Poker. By this point, Americans had won 11 gold bracelets while Canadians captured the other 5 bracelets. However, this monopoly was finally broken up when Greece’s Athanasios Polychronopoulos won Event #17 and set a record in the process. Check out what record he set below along with other stories like Taylor Paur winning a very strange heads-up match, and NBA star Kobe Bryant addressing the 2013 WSOP crowd. Europe strikes with Wins by Polychronopoulos and Kitai Regardless of …

From August 21st-25th, the Latin Series of Poker (LSOP) will be jetting off to Puerto Varas, Chile for another fantastic event. And you can join them in this beautiful Oceanside town by winning an LSOP Chile prize package through Americas Cardroom. Each prize package is worth $1,500, and this covers the $1,000 + $100 LSOP Chili Main Event buy-in along with $400 for travel/hotel expenses. To win, you simply need to play in LSOP Chile satellites, which run every night. The actual prize packages are given out in the Thursday night “Seat-Only” satellites, and you can see the entire schedule …

The 2013 World Series of Poker is currently taking place right now and there have been some great stories so far. An amateur became a millionaire, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow won and gave a “F**k you” to the haters, and Tom Schneider reclaimed lost glory…

Playing online poker seems like about the last way to make it onto the field at Old Trafford. After all, Manchester United’s stadium has been home to some of the greatest footballers in history such as Cristiano Ronaldo, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney. But Party Poker are holding a poker tournament at the legendary stadium and giving players an opportunity to win…