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After his recent "Ask me anything" on PokerVIP it looks like Daniel "jungleman" Cates is in the mood for talking as a new interview has recently appeared at CardPlayer.com. In the interview Cates talks about the relative dearth of online high stakes games at the moment, pointing to both the increase in the skill of the players and the consistent rise in rake as the main contributing factors. 

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Martin Jacobson, one of the most popular and well-respected World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champions from the game’s modern era, has been headhunted by rapidly growing Asia-based network ‘Tencent Poker’ to act as one of its ambassadors for the game in China.

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This year's EPT Grand Final has already dipped in to the record books with a 349-strong field for Day 1a of the €1,100 FPS Monaco Main Event today - up more than 80 player's on last season which attracted 265 players on Day 1a. Russian player Andrey Andreev had the most productive day, bagging up 281,300 in day 1A.

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Hillary Clinton’s campaign is renting a private jet that’s owned by infamous high-stakes gambler Dan Bilzerian, according to reports.

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AB 2863, the online poker bill proposed by Californian Assemblyman Adam Gray, was amended last Wednesday just six days before its hearing date on April 27^th with the hope that this latest version will finally get the state’s bid to bring back the virtual felt moving.

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It's been a great week of Poker at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, which wraps up later today with the final table of the WPT Tournament of Champions but earlier in the week there was a controversial incident at the final table of a satelitte for the $25k High Roller.

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Joe "ChicagoJoey" Ingram is gradually working his way through the best of the best highstakes poker pros on his Poker Life Podcasts and once again he's pulled off a major coup - this time getting some screen time with the notoriously media-shy crusher, Dan "mrGR33N13" Colman.

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Doyle Brunson said on social media Monday that he had a successful surgery to treat more skin cancer that was discovered.

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Despite having only one starting flight, the Season XIV WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship attracted 1,222 entries, nearly doubling the $2 million guarantee. It is the sixth-largest WPT Main Tour event in history, and the winner of this $3,500 buy-in event will take home $654,161 and lock up a seat in the Monster WPT Tournament of Champions.

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One of the world’s most successful poker tours has partnered with an India-facing online poker site in order to cater to the rapidly expanding market in the country.

The World Poker Tour said Thursday that it reached an international brand licensing agreement with Gaussian Networks Pvt. Ltd.’s poker brand, Adda52.com.

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A political group in Australia is pushing a bill to place a ban on all sports betting ads.

According to Huffington Post Australia, Australian Greens leader Senator Richard Di Natale said Friday that his party wants to treat the ads just like the ones for cigarettes.

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Almost four years after Phil Ivey was refused the £7.8m he had made at the punto-banco tables of Crockford's Casino in London, he will finally get his chance to appeal 2014's court decision which ruled in favour of the Casino in his infamous "edge-sorting" case.

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