Sure, government rake-offs from an open slather on online betting could lift Prime Minister Rudd out of the mining tax mire.

But when it is easy to lose $1500 an hour on the poker machines, governments federal and state will remain under pressure to impose new gambling restrictions ... such as $1 pokie games or cheques for winnings over $300...

The latest World Series of Poker statistics as poker’s biggest tournament sails past the halfway mark suggest that so far the revised schedule has been a positive move in regard to entries, if not in prize pools...

Paul ‘Smalls’ Kitsos, a well known professional poker player and mainstay on the World Series of Poker Tour since 2005, has died on a flight to the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event. Kitsos was known for his large stature and was morbidly obese. WSOP officials say that Kitsos died of an apparent heart attack...

Had the Swiss Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Texas hold 'em was a game of skill, it would have permitted private competitions to continue. But it said simple math, tactics and psychology played smaller roles than luck in determining the winner...