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The 10-day poker series features a live Web broadcast from main event final tables, highlighting a variety of events including No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha with buy-ins ranging from $100-$1,000.

Merson successfully kicked a serious drug habit just over one year ago before going on to win two World Series of Poker bracelets in the summer – the $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em six max championship and the $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event - netting himself just over $9.66 million in the process.

The Heartland Poker Tour will be going to nine-handed televised final table play starting this season. For the HPT's first eight seasons, the televised final tables had six players.

Chad Lawson, of Pleasant Hill, Iowa, will be featured on the set of Heartland Poker Tour’s nationally syndicated TV show during the weeks of December 20 and December 27.

Raymer captured three events on the tour in July, September and October. He followed up that run by capturing the Heartland Poker Tour’s Championship Open last week, taking home the year-end title and $106,030.

The companies will publish digital and printed poker magazines throughout the world.

PokerTek to add 11 PokerPro tables representing 110 gaming positions at OLG's Woodbine facility in Toronto.

The first-place prize of $71,875 was much smaller than the $5 million Raymer collected in 2004 when he won the World Series of Poker’s Main Event at Binion’s Horseshoe.

Card Player Media and Ken Lambert, Jr., team up for new live poker tournament series.

The Heartland Poker Tour is launching its ninth season next year with one-week cruise vacation that includes a $1,100 Main Event aboard the ship.

Federated Sports + Gaming, a company started by former World Series of Poker Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack, filed the bankruptcy in Maryland late Tuesday.

The Heartland Poker Tour started out in 2005 as a series of poker events in the Midwest. Seven seasons later it has exploded into a full-fledged national poker tour, complete with televised coverage and prize pools that can top $1 million.

PokerTek to demonstrate new ProCore platform at G2E.

Poker Controls' hand-held controller allows players to play in their favorite online poker games without having to touch a mouse.

Subscription-based poker room SpadeClub has shut down and players from the site will be migrated to the Zen Entertainment Network.