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Dan Bilzerian Raises The Stakes On Cycling Gamble

High-stakes gambler Dan Bilzerian was risking $600,000 on a Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas cycling bet, but now he could end up losing his private jet. Bilzerian and hedge fund manager Bill Perkins (also a poker player) agreed to the bet last month, which calls for Bilzerian to cycle roughly 300 miles to the iconic “Welcome to […]

Japanese Government Ditches Casino Plans: Report

Hope for Las Vegas-style casino gambling in Japan appears to be over for the indefinite future as the government disbanded a team in charge of the proposal. According to Asia Gaming Brief, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will no longer have a 30-member team working on the legislation. Prior to this development, there […]

Somerville First Twitch Poker Streamer To 10M Views

At around 1:30 PM pacific time on Monday, March 21 the view counter on Jason Somerville’s “Run It UP!” Twitch Poker live stream channel ticked over 10,000,000 views. Twitch is the world’s foremost video game live streaming community, with more than 100 million unique views across the platform each month. It was created to allow […]

11 Arrested In South Carolina Poker Game Raid

Eleven poker players in Lexington County, South Carolina are in trouble with the law after police raided their underground game Thursday, according to a report from thestate.com. The police seized $32,000 in the players’ money. Edward Brown, 51, was accused of being the organizer of the games. The other players were arrested for being there. […]

Poker Strategy: Changing Hand Values Postflop

In my last column, I wrote about how the value of your actual cards changes with the circumstances you find yourself in. While this is a concept that is unique to poker among card games, it certainly is not unique just to preflop play. There are many situations post-flop where the value of a hand […]

New York Budget Proposal Includes Online Poker

Ongoing budget talks in the state include online casinos in New York as a tax revenue stream, which could provide a route for an online poker bill on the table to become law. An outline of the budget proposal, Senate Resolution No. R4330, lists online poker as one of many possible ways to help form […]

Amaya Gaming CEO Charged With Insider Trading

The man at the helm of Amaya Gaming, the parent company of the largest poker site in the world, has been charged with insider trading by Quebec’s security regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers. David Baazov, president, CEO, board chairman and a significant shareholder of Amaya, is facing five charges “for aiding with trades while […]

2016 POY Race: Harrison Gimbel Wins Big

After several weeks of absolute pandemonium things are mostly back to normal 2016 Card Player Player of the Year race. Although things weren’t quite as crazy as in the beginning of March, there were still a few tournaments that wrapped up this week that awarded plenty of money and POY points. Here is a look […]

More Full Tilt Poker Money Coming From Feds

Money is still being returned to customers of the former Full Tilt Poker that was shut down by the federal government in early 2011. The group hired by the feds to help facilitate the return of funds to victims said earlier this month that it was informed by the Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture and […]

The Rules Guy: Stay Out Of The Dealer's Way

Most players learn poker’s explicit rules pretty quickly: the “one-chip rule,” for example, or “verbal declarations are binding.” But not everyone seems to have digested the game’s vast book of unwritten rules, admonitions like “don’t berate other players (particularly bad ones)” or “say ‘nice hand’ even when you mean something entirely different.” Enter “The Rules […]

PokerStars Announces 4-Percent Rake Increase

The world’s largest online poker site announced this week that it will be raising its pricing, better known as rake, for a number of its offerings, a move that’s sparked increased interest in top rakeback deals across competing platforms. PokerStars said the changes will only be in its “global, shared liquidity markets,” which means it won’t […]

DraftKings, FanDuel Reach Agreement With New York

DraftKings and FanDuel, two of the leading gaming sites in the daily fantasy sports space, have agreed to stop doing business with people physically located within New York. The sites were told by the Empire State’s attorney general in November that DFS violates state gambling laws. DraftKings and FanDuel challenged the state in the following […]

Legalizing Online Video Poker In America

Video poker is a popular game in brick-and-mortar casinos across the country, and so it’s no surprise that it is one of the games offered on licensed online gaming sites in New Jersey and Delaware. In a sense, the game has the same core rules as you would see at a poker table where you […]

SugarHouse Casino To Celebrate New Poker Room

On Wednesday, SugarHouse Casino in Philadelphia will unveil their brand new 6,000-square foot poker Poker Night In America poker room. The 28-table room will be commemorated in an event featuring Philadelphia Eagles legends Dick Vermeil and Vince Papale, as well as poker room ambassador Matt Glantz. To celebrate the new room, SugarHouse Casino will kick […]

German Soccer Player In Trouble Over Poker Winnings

A top German soccer player has been dropped from upcoming matches thanks to a tabloid report detailing his “questionable” behavior, which includes leaving a bag of money he used for playing poker in the back of a taxi, according to multiple media reports. Max Kruse was fined roughly $25,000 last week for leaving €75,000 ($84,500) […]

Talking Stick Resort To Host Getaway Classic

This April, Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona will be hosting the 2016 Getaway Classic, a three-tournament no-limit hold’em series that boasts a combined prize pool worth up to $120,000. Right now, you can reserve your spot in all three tournaments and the poker room will comp you a free two-night stay at Talking Stick […]

'a.urli' Wins 10th Anniversary Sunday Milly For $970k

For over a decade now the PokerStars Sunday Million has stood as the gold standard of weekly online poker tournaments. The $215 buy-in sports a $1 million guaranteed prize pool each week and as a result has been a staple of online tournament grinders’ schedules for the past ten years. Over the weekend PokerStars hosted […]

Wynn's $2B MA Casino Gets New Name

Wynn’s new casino coming to Everett has a new name—Wynn Boston Harbor. Steve Wynn, Chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts, visited Massachusetts last week to show a new 3D model of the $2 billion casino. The price tag most recently was $1.7 billion. Wynn Boston Harbor is still engaged in a legal battle with the […]

PokerStars Goes Live In New Jersey

After a soft launch last week, PokerStars is now live in the state of New Jersey. Amaya Gaming, PokerStars’ parent company, said Monday that it received “technical approval” from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement to go ahead with the full launch of PokerStars NJ. Amaya received a gaming license for PokerStars last fall. […]

Poker Strategy With Ed Miller: Two Flop Bets

I recently watched an episode of the excellent live poker show Live At The Bike when I saw two pots played in quick succession that neatly illustrate a critical no-limit hold’em hand reading concept. The game was $5-$10 with a $20 straddle under the gun. The stacks in the game ranged from about $1,500 to […]

Nick Petrangelo On Calling Short-Stack Shoves

Nick Petrangelo had a breakout year on the tournament circuit in 2015. He ended up finishing third in the Card Player Player of the year race, making 11 final tables and winning his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet along the way. The young poker pro now has more than $4.1 million in lifetime […]

Poker Hand of the Week: What's Your Play?

Give us your opinion in the comments section below for your chance at winning a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription. Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they’ll come up with dozens of different opinions. That’s just the nature of the game. Each week, Card Player will select a […]

Online Poker: Alex Kostritsyn Wins $700K In A Week

Russian poker pro Alex “joiso” Kostritsyn won $710,000 over the past seven days on the Internet, according to tracking data from HighstakeDB. It was the most in the online poker world during the stretch. It took him roughly 9,400 hands to win the amount, which bested “supernova9” ($438,000), Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky ($214,000), “fjutekk” ($136,000) and […]

Expert: Poker Bots 'Already Better' Than Many Players

In his new book, THE PERFECT BET: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling, author Adam Kucharski explores the long and complex relationship between science, math and gambling. The casino world has been a great “playground” for testing mathematical concepts, according to Kucharski. Kucharski is a researcher at the London School […]

Harrison Gimbel Wins 2016 WPT Rolling Thunder

Harrison Gimbel has won the 2016 World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder $3,500 no-limit hold’em main event, topping a field of 409 players to win his first WPT title and the top prize of $275,112. Gimbel also earned 1,080 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win. This was his third final table of […]

Get $50 Free Tournament Bucks At ACR

Are you a current member at Americas Cardroom? If so, you’ve probably been enjoying all their recent promotions like the $150,000 Freebuy Super Series III. If you’re not a member, don’t worry as your timing is perfect. The US-facing poker site just announced an addition of $50 Free Tournament Bucks to its welcome package. These […]

Poker Player Anna Khait Eliminated From Survivor 32

New York poker pro Anna Khait was last night’s elimination on the 32nd season of Survivor, the casualty of a tribe swap on the show that can be viewed as more or less a bad beat. She was the fifth person voted out of Survivor Kaôh Rōng, telling Parade.com: “[I]n this game, there’s a lot […]

2016 POY Race: Anthony Gregg Climbs To 2nd

It really has been madness so far this March, nowhere more so than in the 2016 Card Player Player of the Year race. The past week saw several big events wrap up that resulted in major changes to the POY leader board. Here is a look at the events that most impacted the rankings over […]

America Being Dealt Another I-Poker Hand

With the upcoming launch of PokerStars in New Jersey, the real-money online games industry in the world’s top economy is set to get a big boost. PokerStars, which has nearly 70 percent of the world’s online poker market, averages roughly 16,000 cash game players over a week these days, according to PokerScout. 888poker, which is […]

MGM's Maryland Casino To Open By Year's End

The most expensive casino in Maryland’s history won’t be opening by August as once planned, but it should still open by the end of 2016. MGM’s $1.3 billion casino at National Harbor in Prince George’s County is expected to receive an extension on its opening date from the state’s gaming regulators, according to a report […]