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GPI Player of the Year Race Comes Down to the Wire

27.12. | It’s almost all over for the 2015 Global Poker Index Player of the Year race, save some final calculations and the production of an official end-of-year list by the GPI.

Daniel Negreanu: "Bank of America Closing All My Accounts"

25.12. | Daniel Negreanu, who has earned over $32 million from live tournaments during his career, announced recently on Twitter that he is having some major problems with Bank of America.

Eureka Poker Tour returns to King's Casino Rozvadov

24.12. | Eureka Poker Tour returns to King's Casino Rozvadov to kick off season 6 in March. Last season, the Eureka 5 Rozvadov attracted a 664-entry field, creating a €644,080 prize pool.

Mike Sexton autobiography coming next year

23.12. | Legendary World Poker Tour commentator and poker hall of famer Mike Sexton will release his autobiography titled "Life's a Gamble" next year.

Phil Ivey Granted Court Appeal Against Crockfords in $12m Lawsuit

01.12. | It's been over a year since Phil Ivey set the wheels in motion to appeal the decision made in a British court that Ivey was not due the £7.8m ($12m) which London casino, Crockfords, witheld from him after he used an "edge sorting" technique to win the huge sum at punto banco back in August 2012.

Teenager sentenced for DDoS attack on a gambling operator

29.11. | A teenager named Max Whitehouse, from the United Kingdom, has been accused and sentenced for a cyber attack on an online poker site that resulted in an estimated 18,000 pound losses.

Felix Stephensen takes down Norway's first legal poker tourney

27.11. | For the first time in history the Norwegian Poker Championships have been staged on home turf, with a record breaking 1,974 hopefuls anteing up the $580 entry fee in Oslo this week to celebrate their home government’s decision to legalise the tournament in their nation.

Jewish Grandmas Busted In Florida For Illegal Mah Jongg Games

26.11. | Police in Altamonte Springs, Florida, "shut down" a senior citizens' clubhouse for illegal gambling. What were the elderly Jewish residents doing? Playing Mah Jongg.

Jennifer Shahade: Prague is a Poker Player’s Paradise

25.11. | For the past few weeks Tonybet Poker has been the busiest poker site around. Just recently they’ve launched Texas Hold’em and Pot-limit Omaha to its poker client which was previously dedicated solely to Open Face Chinese. The news came just before the second annual OFC World Championship which will take place in Prague, Czech Republic from December 6th to 9th.

Poker player accused of co-hosting a $31M fraud

24.11. | A professional poker player from New York, Travell Thomas, who has live tournament earnings of $510,885, has been charged by the federal agents for being a part of fraudulent debt collection scam that stole almost $31,000,000 from the victims.