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​Today is the day when Full Tilt finally closes its doors as a poker site in its own right, disappears into the fold of PokerStars, and essentially becomes ‘just another skin’ in a market replete with them.

​The second ‘Town Hall’ conference of the year for the World Series of Poker will take place this coming Thursday May 19th as officials preview the 47th Annual WSOP.

We compile a short list of other games to try when you are tilted or just not feeling in the mood to play the classics.

​The majority of mainstream sports award prizes and money that is ponied up by sponsors and the organisation itself. Poker is pretty unique in that all of the prize money being played for is stumped up out of the player’s own pockets.

Just because two games are played by the same rules does not mean that they are played the same way. Online Poker and Live Poker have some major differences you need to know before shifting between them.

The demigods descend into the casino pit and throw in a little of their fame-money in with our filthy lucre. Movie stars, directors, athletes, comedians, and writers all do it, even educated fleas do it. They all play poker.

Some poker players are as well-known for their accessories as they are for the tournaments they have won and the money they have earned. Here are a few of the best known examples.

The high-stakes pro was one of those disgusted by the PokerStars' VIP changes late last year, changes which cost him some $50k in bonuses. And last week matters came to a very public head when Bonomo tweeted his plans.

It would be hard to find a more strikingly different couple than Matusow and Coren-Mitchell. One is a brash, loud-mouth, American who is never far from controversy whenever he plays; the other is a mild-mannered, thoughtful ,and intelligent English rose

Modern myths about online poker and suchlike - urban or otherwise - are all well and good, but the really juicy stuff comes when we delve deep into the past!

Elba, widely regarded as the finest black actor of his generation, is hotly-tipped to join Jessica Chastain, who will play the eponymous lead role in the screen adaptation of the best-selling book.

Whether or not we are first to act or can see our opponents layout, NutsBet will almost instantly compute many thousands of calculations and display the mathematically best choice we can make from the first five cards.

No woman has ever picked up a WPT title in the history of the event, thus there were absolutely no representatives of the fairer sex in the inaugural WPT champions event.

Midnight raid at an apartment in the capital’s Foggy Bottom district saw three men, one armed with ‘an Uzi-style’ gun and his accomplices carrying pistols, targeting seven poker players during their underground poker game.