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Nenad Medic, the winner of the World Poker Tour’s World Poker Finals for Season 5, is just another one of those highly-skilled, highly-successful, big-stakes poker players who has flown under…

www.pokerlistings.com first met Jason Sagle at the last World Poker Tour event, the North American Poker Championship in Niagara Falls, where he was excruciatingly close to his first WPT title…

www.pokerlistings.com was in Las Vegas this past summer when Scott Clements won his World Series of Poker bracelet in Omaha Hi-Lo and tonight he has added a No-Limit Hold’em title…

President George W. Bush signed the SAFE Port Act into law today which includes the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) preventing banks and other financial institutions from allowing people…

Jim Perkins, a corporate/finance attorney in Santa Monica, Calif., is helping poker players take a stand against the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), recently passed as part of the…

The first few months as World Champion of Poker have been both hectic and dramatic for Jamie Gold. He has been sued for half his $12 million prize money, and…

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs came to the final table hoping to create a great piece of drama and to cause another classic upset. Instead they found themselves in…

Allen Cunningham is no stranger to final tables at the World Series of Poker, but he’s never been as close to a win in the Main Event as he is…

It is assumed that all young players at the WSOP are Internet kids. They’ve seen very little live play, and they’re uncomfortable playing in anything other than their underwear in…

Jamie Gold was, quite simply, unstoppable on Day 4 of the Main Event. He was either bluffing people out of their money or busting them out of the tournament with…

Daniel Negreanu gets pumped up for the Main Event by watching “Rocky” movies – all five of them. His dream is to play heads-up for the title against Phil Ivey…

The unthinkable happened on Saturday when 21-year-old Jeff Madsen won his second gold bracelet within a week. Even more remarkable is the fact that Madsen turned 21 just six weeks…

Phil Gordon, perhaps best known to the general public as former co-host of the televised “Celebrity Poker Showdown” alongside actor Dave Foley, has come to this World Series of Poker…

Erik Seidel started out as a backgammon player and turned to poker while trading stock for Paine Weber on Wall Street in the mid-1980s. For years, he worked the stock…

Today was a good day for James Woods. Earning himself a seat in Day 2 of the $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout and his first ever WSOP cash, Woods rolled over…

Chip Reese is the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. champion. This extremely competitive event turned out to be a three-day poker marathon that not only tested the players’ poker skills but their stamina…

Not only is big money at stake at this year’s WSOP, big egos are at stake as well. But despite all the larger-than-life characters making names for themselves here at…

Mike Matusow‘s nickname is “The Mouth,” and he’s got a lot to say. About how he played world champion Joe Hachem “like a fiddle,” but still lost $75,000 in one…

Phil Hellmuth Jr. is in the hunt for golden WSOP bracelets, and he wants them badly. He turns down golf games with big time celebrities. He spends less time with…

Billionaire banker Andy Beal and pro player Phil Ivey have concluded their super high-stakes heads-up Limit Texas Hold’em battle at the Wynn Las Vegas. According to reports, Ivey championed Beal…