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What are some of the hottest headlines in the world of poker? Here you will find all the latest juicy stories along with other important news and tournament results. A must read for the poker enthusiast with articles published throughout the day.

Economy Really Affecting 2009 World Series of Poker?

There was great buzz during the initial week of the 2009 World Series of Poker as record participation had been declared for certain events.

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Jeffrey Lisandro Most Likely 2009 WSOP Player of Year

It won't be long until we discover the 2009 WSOP Player of the Year but it seems like a "given" at this point that Jeffrey Lisandro will receive that honor.

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Poker Author David Slansky’s Home Robbed

Respected poker author and theorist David Sklansky's home took a bad beat as it was burglarized last night.

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Antonio Esfandiari Goes Topless at Vegas Party

The "magician" Antonio Esfandiari has been up to a few tricks, but not up his sleeve as he indulges in some topless partying.

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Barry Greenstein Says Russ Hamilton is Innocent

Implicated in a highly publicized insider cheating scandal, Russ Hamilton has his supporters.  The 1994 World Series of Poker winner was implicated by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, stating it h

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Phil Hellmuth Still Holds World Series of Poker Record

Despite some recent bad luck and two other poker pros vying to break his record, Phil Hellmuth still holds on to the record for most bracelets won at the World Series of Poker.

Poker pro Johnny "The Orient Express" Chan's attempt to win his 11th career World Series of Poker (WSOP) championship gold bracelet and tie Phil "Poker Brat" Hellmuth Jr. for the all-time lead fell short this week, Thomas Somach of PokerHelper.com reports.

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Jeff Lisandro Hat Trick Reaps in the Plaudits

Jeff Lisandro looks to be on a collision course for the WSOP ‘Player of the Year' title.

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More Hot Poker Babe Shots: This Time Christina Lindley

Christina Lindley on Thursday released her first shot from the Dirty Pretty Things shoot, calling photographer Josh Ryan "the best photographer ever".

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Tax Firms Warn IRS Cracking Down on Offshore Monies

Tax firms are now scrambling to comply with stricter regulations that require any clients who maintain monies offshore must file the proper forms and claim every last penny.  And this applies to t

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Lacey Jones Poker Babe Ups The Ante

It may be the 2009 World Series of Poker, but that won't stop the lovely Lacey Jones from stripping down to a bikini and posing for a photo shoot at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego (and, yeah, we

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Online Poker Rooms: Cereus Becomes 5th Biggest

In just a one month period, the Cereus Poker Network (comprised of UltimateBet.com and Absolute Poker) has beco

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Poker Players Need to File a 90-22.1 Says Tax Expert

In light of a US Government crackdown affecting Internet poker's two biggest rooms, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, Gambling911.com recently spoke to a tax expert who questioned what might happen i

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Brandon Cantu Finishes Strong at WSOP for UB Poker

Just a few weeks into joining UltimateBet's Team UB, Brandon Cantu is catapulting the leading online poker site's team of pros into the spotlight once agai

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World Series of Poker Academy Teaches Main Event Primer

Phil Hellmuth, Phil Gordon, Annie Duke, Greg Raymer, Mark Seif, Joe Navarro, Sam Chauhan and Annette Obrestadt Among Instructors Who Will Prepare Participants for the 2009 World Series of Poker Mai

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Richard Austin Causes World Series Stir

Richard Austin is a bit of an enigma.

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Player Collapses During $2500 Razz at WSOP

Poker player Miami John Cernuto collapsed while playing at the $2500 Razz table of the 2009 World Series of Poker Tuesday.

From Pokerati.com:

Apparently he was raking a pot, at first people thought he was asleep, and then someone said I don't think he's breathing ... at which point they kinda poked him, and he fell to the ground felt.

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UltimateBet’s Matt Graham Grabs Hold of 2nd WSOP Bracelet

Matt Graham is making a habit out of winning WSOP bracelets.

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UIGEA Appeals Judges Named: Oral Arguments July 7

The US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals today announced that it will hear oral arguments from lawyers representing the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) and the US Depart

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Redemption Through Poker

Particularly to the older generation, poker and gambling are seen as vices for the weak and foolish.

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Eastgate vs. Demidov Rematch in the Cards

World Series of Poker Main Event champion and Team PokerStars Pro Peter Eastgate is to take on his 2008 opponent - fellow team member Ivan Demidov, in a unique heads-up charity tournament held onli

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Vanessa Rousso to Shoot Steamy Poker Commercial

Everyone's favorite poker babe and one of this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit models, Vanessa Rousso, filmed a commercial for the online poker room, PokerSt

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Daniel Negreanu Catches Phantom Crapper

Poker pro Daniel Negreanu is mad as Hell and not going to take it any more.  It seems u

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Mexico Poker Pro Angel Guillen Wins WSOP Bracelet

Team PokerStars Pro Mexico member Angel Guillen has secured a World Series of Poker bracelet only six months after playing in his first live poker tournamen

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Harrah’s Believes They Will Have Success in Online Gambling

MGM tried and failed to enter the online gambling market several years back.  Like MGM, Harrah's has planned to start offering its Internet gambling product in Europe where it will compete head on

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Jeff Lisandro Pulls a Triple Double at the Rio

Jeff Lisandro became the third double bracelet winner of this year's 2009 WSOP when he took down the $10,000 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better World Championship a couple hours ago def

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Hygiene a Major Problem at This Year’s World Series of Poker

With Twitter, the popular social networking and micro-blogging service, us peons now get a glimpse of what players at the World Series of Poker are really thinking.  And what's the issue they are

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Positive Thinking Helps Hellmuth at WSOP

11-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, Phil Hellmuth, admits that negativity has gotten in the way of his poker play.  The past few days, Hellmuth has posted positive thoughts on

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Check Problems Continue at Online Poker Sites: Stars, Full Tilt

It's been over two weeks since news first broke on the Gambling911.com website that the US Government had froze funds belonging to online poker giants:  PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.   The hea

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UltimateBet's WSOP 50 Package Guaranteed - June 21st @ 17:30ET

UltimateBet.com ("UB") is gearing up to hand out at least 50 Main Event seats tomorrow in their World Series of Poker ("WSOP") *50 Package Satellite, a $530 buy-in event schedul

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Poker Stars Hit Hardest by Asset Freeze

PokerStars is the poker site hit the hardest by US authorities' squeeze on payment channels, according to data provided by monitoring site PokerScout.com.

Traffic to PokerStars was down 7% since 1 June, as the effect of the asset freeze by federal prosecutors of US poker player accounts, reported on EGRmagazine.com, begins to reveal itself.  

The main beneficiaries of the drift of US players away from PokerStars since the start of the month would appear to be Full Tilt and Cake Poker, where traffic was up 3% for both.

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Top Gambling News Stories for Monday July 27, 2026

Top Gambling News Stories for Monday July 27, 2026

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Fire at casino

Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City Closed Monday Following Fire, Water Leak: Slot Tournament Canceled

Atlantic City Fire Department crews responded to the casino for a fire some time around 5:30 a.m. Monday morning. The fire was contained to a linens room but while putting out the blaze, a pipe burst and flooded portions of the building.
Fanatics to Acquire Exchange and Clearinghouse from BGC;  Parties to Partner on Prediction Markets

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 His Clock Cleaned - What Really Happened During the Detroit Funeral Home Incident

Mob Rat Gets His Clock Cleaned - What Really Happened During the Detroit Funeral Home Incident

The title says it all. This video exposes what happened at the funeral of a close relative of deceased Detroit LCN Boss Joseph Zerilli, and leaves questions as to why certain Mob genre content creators refuse to report when Rats and Snitches misbehave. The incident in question happened back in April.