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BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -The AT&T National is missing eight of the top 10 players in the world, only one of them on crutches. ''As everyone knows, I'm not going to be there to play in the event,'' Tiger Woods said. He won't be at Royal Birkdale or ...

Members of the Off Broadway cast of The Fantasticks will perform songs from the show at the annual Summer in the Square event to be held at the South Plaza of Union Square Park on Thursday, July 10, 2008.

Phil Hellmuth is known as a hold'em specialist, perhaps the greatest hold'em player in the world. He has an astounding 11 World Series of Poker bracelets, all of them in various forms of hold'em. So it was considered a little unusual...

Day 2 of the $10,000 PLO Championship promised to be a long affair, and it delivered on that promise; it would take more than fourteen hours to reach a final table. Michael Mizrachi surged late in the session to take the lead...

The 2008 WSOP main event is in sight, and today signaled that the lead-up to it has finally arrived. The opportunity for players to try their luck at the last $1500 no-limit hold'em event - cheap compared to the $10K price tag on the main event - was met with excitement and a bit of desperation, as players hoped to parlay this event's buy-in into a nice payday that would catapult them into the main event, or a main event satellite at the very least. It's almost game time. read more in pokerworks.com

All along, we thought Paris Hilton's best sporting event was shopping. Would you believe it's actually...ice hockey?No, that's not a typo.'I've played ice...

The last $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em tournament of the 2008 World Series of Poker drew 2,693 players, each hoping to grab one of the few bracelets left to be won. After ten rounds of play, the field was slashed to just 228, all well inside...

2,718 players took their place in this 2nd to last $1,500 NLHE tournament at the 2008 World Series of Poker but only one player would be able to walk away with the bracelet. The final table included two well known pros in Joe Pelton and J.C. Tran but if they were going to have any chance at winning the title, they would have to overcome the massive chip lead of Rasmus Nielsen. The final nine were as follows: read more in pokerworks.com

J.C. Tran came into the finals of event #49 with an impressive poker resume, including one WPT title, five WPT final tables, a second place in a WSOP $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event, and a PokerStars WCOOP Main event title. Now he can...

At the start of event #48's final table, Marco Johnson had almost exactly twice as many chips as middle of the pack dweller, Alexandre Gomes. In fact Gomes was firmly ensconced in fourth place when the day started, but these two would eventually meet at the final table. Of course before that could happen, seven other players would have to find their way to the rail, and in most tournaments, nobody is really anxious to be relieved of their place at the final table. This tournament was a little different. At times it looked more like speed dating than a poker tournament.