Nowadays, online payments are the easiest and fastest methods of payment, either for customers or for businesses, all over the world. In 2003, PayPal stopped supporting online gaming in the United States, even though it was one of the biggest transactors for online gaming sites at that time. A few onling gambling websites have started accepting PayPal as a payment method for online casinos.

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Just yesterday in the evening PokerStars released a statement on their corporate blog called "PokerStars Announces Revised Pricing". Named beautifuly just to fool people, we give you this as we see it: PokerStars announced rake increases that go live on March 28th.

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It's been a while since the biggest winner of the day has come from the NLHE tables, but with a bit of a lull in the PLO and 8-Game action the $50/$100 NLHE tables provided the day's biggest winner yesterday, as Swedish pro wilhasha ended a long day up $99.6k.

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TV network Poker Central is headed to The Bicycle Casino in LA to produce a brand-new live show based around Live at the Bike.

Russian poker pro Alex “joiso” Kostritsyn won $710,000 over the past seven days on the Internet, according to tracking data from HighstakeDB. It was the most in the online poker world during the stretch.

It took him roughly 9,400 hands to win the amount, which bested “supernova9” ($438,000), Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky ($214,000), “fjutekk” ($136,000) and Mikael “ChaoRen160” Thuritz ($102,000). Kostritsyn put in more volume than anyone on the leader board.

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Computers cannot yet beat the world’s top poker pros, but they can dominate the world’s most elite Go players.

This week, a historic match in South Korea between Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo and world champion Lee Sedol ended with the machine winning four games to the human’s one.

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Ludovic Geilich has won the 2016 Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Classic $1,600 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, outlasting a field of 499 entries to win the title, the trophy and the $150,662 first-place prize.

The 28-year-old Scottish poker pro from Glasgow also earned 720 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win, enough to move him into 90th place in the overall standings.

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Following on from its successful debut last summer, the Aria will once again be hosting the massive Super High Roller Bowl in 2016.

Last year the event had a monstrous $500,000 entry fee, but this time round it’s been reduced to $300,000 and as a result the 49 available seats have already sold out.

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Stanley Sludikoff, a groundbreaking publisher who printed the first gaming and the first poker magazines, passed away March 12 at the age of 80 after a long battle with leukemia. He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Ann Blumberg Sludikoff, and three children. Services are scheduled for Wednesday at Mt. Sinai in the Hollywood Hills.

Mayu "marroca5" Roca is one of Columbia's live top money winners claiming fourth place at the European Poker Tour Grand Finale two years ago earning $579,682. Roca was already established as a force online before that EPT final table winning a WCOOP bracelet and SCOOP watch along with nearly four million dollars in online winnings. Add a Sunday Warm-Up title to the list as the Columbian took down the $400,000 guarantee earning $70,912.00. Coming into the final table Roca would only have nearly a third of the chips held by the final table chip leader. But, he would grind the beginning of the final table while blasting the latter half to earn the Sunday Major victory.