One player won almost $75,000 in one of the country's biggest ever poker tournaments in Queenstown on the weekend.

Fifteen lucky poker players are headed from Auckland to Queenstown this week for a chance to strike it rich.

The country’s premier poker tour makes its mid-winter stopover in Queenstown next month.

Dylan Rimoni was in bed struggling to breathe and slowly dying from a brain injury while his caregiver played internet poker.

A New Zealander has become the first Kiwi to win one of the poker world’s most coveted trophies.

It may be Queen's Birthday Weekend, but for a group of card sharps assembling in Auckland this week, the only royalty they'll be thinking of is a royal flush.

For the first time, a major poker tournament at Auckland's SkyCity casino has been taken out by a woman.