Andrew Burnett

It’s either an elaborate and extremely well-played troll, or the world’s biggest poker site PokerStars have decided to share the wealth with their biggest losing players.

Day 6 of the World Cup of Online Poker (WCOOP) ended in a Finnish success after more than 3400 heads rolled in the bounty hunt.

HarperCollins, one of the world’s largest publishing companies, has bought the world book rights to the much-anticipated screen version of Molly’s Game.

There is no arguing with Mother Nature as Pokerstars pro Jaime Staples and Bill Perkins’ Streamboat 2 found out this week.

Cormier took down the World Cup of Cards $10K High Roller title and C$160,000 after edging out Australia’s Jonathan Karamalakis for the trophy.

This week’s Paul Phua Poker School offering sees Phua receiving a lesson in tournament play, with none other than Sam Trickett in the teacher’s seat!

For Spanish poker pro Dragan Kostic trying to skip the taxes has resulted in an 18 month jail sentence after his appeal against an earlier court decision failed.

Viktor Zelinger, Vyacheslav Malkeyev, Leonid Gershman and Aleksey Tsvetkov planned the attack because the rival gang was ‘stealing their clients’.

Tim Chung took advantage of the Dusk Till Dawn DTD 1000’s popularity to scoop his biggest win to date with a first prize of £76,500 ($101,668).

For $5,000 players can pick up a massive 2,500,000 in Gold Coins and also get a promotional amount of SC$5,000.

Live tournament poker is on its way to Tallinn next month as the MPN Poker Tour descends on the Estonian capital for the next stop in its 4th season.

While the Twitterati audience grabbed their popcorn and wait for the inevitable escalation from snide comments into full-blown warfare – then shit got very real!

As long as marijuana consumption and possession is viewed as a felony by federal authorities, it will have no place in Nevada casinos.

Negreanu had something to say about the Commander in Chief’s wildly solipsistic handling of the Texas hurricane disaster.