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CoinPoker has expanded its reach into Asia even further by teaming up with the Japanese Poker Association (JPA) as this year's sponsor of the Japan Poker Cup.

The evolution of digital currency and its place in poker - both live and online - took a step forward as CoinPoker announced a partnership with the Asian Poker Tour.

The hope is that tournaments and players will adopt the new rules as the industry-standard, helping to avoid horrible situations.

The security theatre of an airport should keep the crims at bay and the influx of bored tourists might just make for full tables with high turnover.

Richard Branson has joined the moguls of Vegas’ casinos with his purchase of the Hard Rock Casino for “an undisclosed sum”.

A shutdown is appearing ever so likely for the Poker Players Alliance come April 1.

Cheating at ACR has been confirmed, with the site refunding players and stating they have “investigated and recently uncovered unfair gameplay practices”.

The Stars Group acquired CrownBet for over $100 million; and recently, under their new leadership CrownBet bought the Australian branch of William Hill.

Casino Barcelona has announced it has further strengthened its partnership with PokerStars, with the sponsorship of the casino’s CEP.

Players who had unwithdrawn funds on their accounts on the late Microgaming room have until February 28th to submit their claims for reimbursement to PokerStars.

The unregulated US-facing poker site Jao Poker has apparently closed its doors with players and affiliates unlikely to see a cent of their money.

Failure to receive $25K in donations "by the end of March" could force the grassroots organization into the muck of online poker history.

Poker's all-time WSOP champ has partnered with YouStake, lending his name to the relaunched backing platform

They are being billed as the Missketeers, but as opposed to the three (or sometimes four) Frenchmen, this bunch of fighters consists of nine poker-playing Indian women.