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Florida Casino Fined Over Poker Tournament

A top poker room in the state of Florida was fined $20,000 by the state for alleged misconduct in an August poker tournament that players claim was full of irregularities. According to the Sun Sentinel, Hialeah Park casino agreed to pay the fine but “neither admits nor denies the violations” that the Division of Pari-Mutuel […]

2016 EPT Grand Final Schedule Announced

The 12th season of the European Poker Tour is going to end in style with the 11-day, 79-event 2016 EPT Grand Final taking place once again in Monaco from April 26 to May 6. The festival will be the largest in terms of events’ history, with buy-in ranging from €100 up to the €100,000 super […]

Washington Online Poker Bill Fails To Advance

Real-money online poker regulation appears off the table in the state of Washington for 2016, as a bill aiming to legalize and regulate the games failed to advance past a Wednesday legislative deadline. House Bill 1114 was introduced last month by Representatives Sherry Appleton and Vincent Buys. It isn’t surprising that it didn’t gain momentum. […]

Bryn Kenney: Hunting For The No. 1 Ranking

There are very few players who can match the volume put in by high-stakes grinder Bryn Kenney. A quick look at his tournament cash list proves that not only is the New York native consistent, but he also has no problem traveling all over the globe to stay in action. In the past year alone, […]

New Jersey Continues Sports Betting Fight

A Wednesday afternoon court hearing in Philadelphia on New Jersey’s years-long challenge to a federal law banning it from authorizing sports betting seemed to be another win for the sports leagues and the NCAA that have so far successfully blocked it, according to media reports. According to reporting from ESPN’s David Payne Purdum, the U.S. […]

Ex-NFL Star Allegedly Used Charity Funds For Gambling

A former Cleveland Browns player has been charged by the federal government for allegedly using charitable donations to fund his gambling, according to a report from Cleveland.com. Reggie Rucker, 68, has been charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of making false statements to law enforcement, the FBI said in a press […]

Poker Players Bet $1.2M On LA To Vegas Bicycle Ride

High-stakes poker players Dan Bilzerian and Bill Perkins have agreed on a prop bet that calls for the former to attempt a bicycle ride from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in a 48-hour time frame. $1.2 million is on the line for the ride that must happen within the next two months. Perkins, a film […]

2016 POY Update: Kornuth Climbs To Seventh

Big events held in Ireland and Florida wrapped up this week, making some changes to the landscape of the 2016 Card Player Player of the Year race. Here is a look at the events that most impacted the standings over the past seven days: 2016 EPT Dublin €25,750 High Roller The 2016 European Poker Tour […]

Poker Strategy: Two Key Tournament Concepts

I recently played a hand in a $2,200 turbo event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure that I think is quite instructional. It demonstrates two key concepts that you must master if you want to succeed at poker tournaments: First, you should avoid playing gigantic pots without the nuts and second, you should constantly analyze your […]

PokerStars, Full Tilt To Merge Player Pools

PokerStars and Full Tilt, once massive rivals in the online poker space before the former acquired the latter in a 2012 deal, are going to be merging their respective player pools, according to their parent company, Amaya Gaming Group. Amaya said Tuesday that the Full Tilt brand will remain in existence, but customers will soon […]

Pahuja Wins 2016 WSOPC PBKC Main Event

A total of 613 entries were made in the 2016 World Series of Poker Circuit Palm Beach Kennel Club $1,675 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event building a prize pool of $919,500. In the end Mukul Pahuja emerged victorious, outlasting a stacked final table that included the like of Adam Levy, Tristan Wade and Daniel Weinman […]

Marco Rubio Reiterates Support For Poker

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio is currently campaigning in South Carolina and in a town hall meeting this past weekend reiterated his position on real-money online gaming. According to Breitbart News, Rubio said in response to a question about online gaming, which GOP mega-donor Sheldon Adelson has long opposed because he thinks it hurts his […]

New Jersey I-Gaming Starts 2016 On Big Upswing

New Jersey’s online gaming sites collected $14.6 million from gamblers in January compared to $11.6 million during the same month last year, reflecting an increase of 26.5 percent, according to figures from New Jersey gaming regulators. Casino win for the month of January was $175.5 million compared to $186.0 million in January 2015, a 5.6-percent […]

Burglar Leaves Casino Player's Card At Crime Scene

A man from Biloxi, Mississippi ran bad when his casino player’s card helped put him behind bars. According to sunherald.com, Edward Parker Eldridge, 61, was given eight years Thursday for a 2014 burglary where he decided it was a good idea to make himself at home by eating the victim’s food and drinking his wine. […]

Seminole Hard Rock Will Feature Two WPT Events

The $3,500 buy-in, $2 Million Guaranteed WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Championship and $10,000 buy-in, $2 Million Guaranteed WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale headline the action along with the Seminole Hard Rock Poker High Roller and the WPT Tournament of Champions. Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida will return with the […]

Mustapha Kanit Wins EPT Dublin €25,000 High Roller

Over the last two years Mustapha Kanit has become a force to be reckoned with on the live tournament scene. The 25-year-old from Italy made 15 combined final tables in 2014 and 2015, going on to win five titles and finish inside the top 20 in the Card Player Player of the Year race both […]

Poker Strategy: Balance In Live Cash Games

Balance is a commonly misunderstood concept. The idea is that if you take the same action with different types of hands—very strong made hands, strong made hands, draws, air, and so on—and you pick the right frequencies to have each of these hand types, you are balanced. If you are balanced, your opponents can’t choose […]

Poker Strategy: Jason Somerville On Floating

Floating. It’s not just for pools anymore. It’s also a way to combat opponents who continuation bet a ton on flops, by calling with a hand that doesn’t merit a call on it’s own value with the intention of taking the pot away on a later street. Card Player TV caught up with World Series […]

Buddhist Monk To Stand Trial For Gambling Spree

A prominent religious figure with a gambling problem could soon find himself behind bars. The gambler, a Buddhist monk in the state of Louisiana, is set to go to trial next month for allegedly taking $200,000 from his Lafayette temple and dusting it off at the L’Auberge Casino in Lake Charles. According to a report […]

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 […]

Bay 101 Gears Up For Shooting Star With Satellites

This March, the World Poker Tour will roll in San Jose for the 20th yearly running of the Bay 101 Shooting Star, the largest poker tournament in Northern California. It’s almost unheard of to see a tournament last two decades, but the annual series has become a staple of the poker world thanks to consistently […]

Online Poker: Alex Millar Wins $160,000

British poker pro Alex “Kanu7” Millar was down $720,000 on 2016 going into this week, but he was able to take a chunk out of those losses by winning $160,000 over the past seven days, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. His profits were the most in the online poker world during the stretch. Despite […]

Card Player Announces New Poker Twitch Page

This week Card Player has launched a new Twitch Poker section on our website, compiling a collection of some of the best Twitch poker broadcasters channels for you to enjoy. Right now you might be asking yourself, “What is Twitch and what does it have to do with poker?” Well, Twitch is the world’s foremost […]

Nevada Gaming Regulator Under Federal Investigation

One of the Nevada Gaming Commission’s five members is under investigation by the federal government for allegedly failing to implement proper anti-money laundering practices when running a casino in the past. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada Gaming Commission member Michonne Ascuaga, the former CEO of Northern Nevada’s Sparks Nugget, is in the cross […]

Obama Says He Bet On Super Bowl, Will 'Pardon' Himself

It has been known for a long time that President Obama is a sports fan, but he arguably took it to another level this past weekend in a pre-taped interview on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Obama and Colbert acted like it was live, as the segment aired immediately after the Denver Broncos’ victory […]

Perkins Talks About Controversial Bet With Esfandiari

Hedge fund manager Bill Perkins has been cashing in high buy-in poker tournaments for a handful of years now, but the pressure he has put on some people in the form of prop bets has given the Texan a special place in poker. He once bet someone $500,000 that they wouldn’t get a tattoo of […]

FanDuel Executive: Poker Is Not A Game Of Skill

An executive for a leading daily fantasy sports site might have ruffled some feathers in the poker community. In an interview with PBS, the chief financial officer of FanDuel said that poker is not a game of skill, while daily fantasy sports contests are. The comments drew heat Wednesday from the Poker Players Alliance, a […]

Gear Up For Seminole Casino Poker Challenge

The new Seminole Center has big plans this March, with its Seminole Immokalee Poker Challenge taking place Mar. 8-13. Last September, Seminole Casino Hotel held the first major tournament series in Southwest Florida, offering the largest guarantee ever paid in the area. This year another record breaker will be the $1,650 no-limit hold’em main event […]

Poker Strategy: Playing Postflop As The Aggressor

In my last column, I asserted that having position and being the aggressor is the most profitable situation you can find yourself in as you move to the flop in limit hold’em. I suggested that when you are entering the pot, you should almost always be raising. You should be trying to limit the amount […]

Alabama Considers Legalizing The Lottery

Alabama lawmakers were set to having two separate hearings Wednesday to talk about bringing the lottery to the state. The committee hearings come just weeks after the Powerball reached a record $1.6 billion. The state could be leaving the no-lottery group that includes Nevada, Mississippi, Utah, Hawaii and Alaska. More than a dozen states have […]