 | The Internal Revenue Service announced last week that beginning March 4 it will require casinos and sponsors of poker tournaments to file paperwork when a player wins $5,000 or more.
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Poker players made their presence felt in Washington D.C. last week as they lobbied to have poker exempted from the online gambling ban.
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Johan Storakers won the 2007 Swedish Open Poker Championship last week, securing a first-place prize of more than $185,000.
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A series of seven episodes of High Stakes Poker IV will begin running on Monday, Nov. 5 and this time the event will raise the maximum buy-in for the world's best poker players to $500,000.
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PokerStars.com's Simon Poker Day is closing in on the €100,000 mark in charity funds raised for the homeless.
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The second of PlayersOnly.com's monthly Million Dollar Free Roll finals happens this weekend as players will try to qualify for the $75,000 prize by winning one of the qualifying free rolls or cash satellites scheduled for this week.
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