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PROFILE Name: Pius Heinz Age: 22 Hometown: Cologne, Germany Online Handle: MastaP89 Pius Heinz used his fearless style to become the first German ever to reach the World Series of Poker Main Event final table. The 22-year-old has an extensive online backg

In a video interview with the Financial Times’ Matt Garrahan over the weekend, Caesars Entertainment Chief Executive Officer Gary Loveman reaffirmed his company’s desire to see online poker completely legalized and regulated in the United Stat

The José “Girah” Macedo cheating scandal is just the gift that keeps on giving.  For a while, it looked like it was just Macedo who had some explaining to do (which he did), but now the poker world has found out that one of Macedo’s friends, D

Lock Poker announced late last week that it has signed Spaniard Leo Margets to its LockPRO ELITE team.  With the signing, Margets becomes the first female member of the Lock Poker team. Margets, who hails from Barcelona, Spain, first rose to prominence i

With just 137 of the 254 eligible players competing in last week’s inaugural Epic Poker League Main Event, there were obviously a lot of people who decided to pass on the new tournament.  There are any number of reasons someone might not have wante

David “Chino” Rheem bested one of the toughest tournament fields of the year by winning the inaugural Epic Poker League Main Event at the Palms Resort in Las Vegas Friday. Rheem collected $1,000,000 after defeating arguably the two hottest pla

Surprise, surprise. The final table of the inaugural Epic Poker League Main Event is stacked with poker superstars. The invite-only event featuring the many of game’s most accomplished tournament players is down to the final six, five of which boast

PROFILE Name: Sam Holden Age: 22 Hometown: Canterbury, Great Britain Online Handle: SAMDMND Sam Holden is the lone Brit — and the short stack — at the 2011 World Series of Poker final table. Still, you can almost guarantee his rail will be the

PROFILE Name: Ben Lamb Age: 26 Hometown: Tulsa, Oklahoma Online Handle: benba In 2011, Ben Lamb put together one of the most impressive performances the World Series of Poker has ever seen. And with a date at the Main Event final table set for November, L

The inaugural $20,000 Epic Poker League Main Event is down to three six-handed tables as the loaded field of 137 has been trimmed down to 18. Each remaining member of the star-studded field is guaranteed a minimum payday of $43,190 with the winner receivi

According to report from Poker Affiliate Solutions, the Merge Gaming Network will begin allowing new players from the United States to sign up at its member poker rooms within the next week.  One of the rooms on the network, Sportsbook.com, started accep

The first day of the inaugural Epic Poker League Main Event kicked off on Tuesday and when the players bagged up their chips, it was New York’s Eugene Katchalov that sat in the lead.  With 356,300 chips, Katchalov has almost a 70,000 chip lead over

As the first Main Event of the new Epic Poker League gets set to kick off at the Palms Resort Hotel in Las Vegas, Steve O’Dwyer might find it hard to concentrate.  O’Dwyer, a 29-year old poker pro, won the league’s first Pro/Am tourname

I know what you have been thinking. “Online poker needs another juicy cheating scandal.  The World Series of Poker is on hiatus until November and the excitement surrounding Black Friday has died down.  We need something to talk about.”  We

Starting this coming Friday, Party Poker players will be able to take the first step on a possible trip to Germany to join in one of the world’s most famous parties.  Through the first week of September, Party Poker will award 16 packages to the 20

Every day of our lives, our well-being hinges on the trust we put in others.  We trust that the pharmacist gave us the correct medication, we trust that our children’s pre-school teacher will keep them safe, we trust that the house cleaner isn̵

PROFILE Name: Phil Collins Age: 26 Hometown: Aiken, South Carolina Online Handle: USCPhildo No, he’s not that Phil Collins. But you will hear dreadful versions of the popular musician’s songs during the WSOP Main Event final table, as Collins&

The eighth season of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) has its first champion. Switzerland’s Ronnie Kaiser became the country’s first EPT winner by running over the field at Tallinn this week to earn a first-place prize of €275,000. Kaise

PROFILE Name: Matt Giannetti Age: 26 Hometown: Austin, Texas Online Handle: hazards21 Poker pro Matt Giannetti is a Longhorn through and through, but the 26-year old makes his home in Las Vegas, the Mecca of the poker world. Giannetti left the University

On Friday, the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) released a statement regarding Full Tilt Poker’s overdue licensing fees that were disclosed during the hearing in London last month. The AGCC said that Full Tilt has paid the fees, which wer