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Casino Boss Engaged To Pop Star Mariah Carey

Australian casino developer James Packer and singer Mariah Carey are engaged, according to various media reports. The announcement came last week for the pair, who have been dating about a year. The billionaire gambling boss owns Crown Resorts, which is actively working toward a new casino in Antigua and Barbuda with actor Robert DeNiro. He’s […]

Top Indian Poker Site Signs Sam Trickett

Poker pro Sam Trickett is the new ambassador for a top poker site catering to people in India. Starpoker.in said in a press release that it has brought on the services of the British poker star, who is the country’s all-time tournament money earner. Trickett’s last sponsorship was with Everest Poker. Before that, he represented […]

The Rules Guy: Learning To Let It Go

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 […]

Ben Tollerene Leads Aussie Millions $100k Final Table

With so many super high roller poker tournaments on offer these days it is easy to forget just how incredible these events are. The average annual wage for a full time adult worker in Australia was $77,168 AUD according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. That means that in the 2016 Aussie Millions $100,000 AUD […]

L.A. Times: California Should Regulate I-Poker

California’s largest newspaper is in clear support of regulated online poker. The daily fantasy sports industry has fallen under review by a handful of states, with California being one of the most recent to take a look at regulating DFS. Legislation on the table in the Golden State would place some oversight on those Internet […]

Woman Gives Birth While Still In Poker Tournament

About a week ago, Australian poker player Katrina Sheary had bagged her chip stack in one of the preliminary events of the 2016 Aussie Millions tournament series in Melbourne when she came home and not long after went into labor. Unable to return to play the next day after giving birth, her husband, Peter Sheary, […]

CPTV Classic Video: Phil Hellmuth's High Stakes Living

Phil Hellmuth is one of the biggest stars in poker history. With 14 World Series of Poker bracelets, including a win in the 1989 main event, he is one of the most accomplished tournament players to ever play a hand. His $18.8 million in live tournament earnings also put him in eighth place on the […]

Online Poker: Ronny Kaiser Wins $283,000

Poker pro Ronny “1-ronnyr3” Kaiser had one of the best performances in the online poker world over the past week. The cash game grinder, who hails from Switzerland, won $283,086 since Jan. 15 after a little over 1,000 hands of play, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. Unknown player “Educa-p0ker” won $295,014, which was tops […]

California Must Regulate I-Poker Soon, Says Insider

If California doesn’t move to regulate online poker soon, the future for the issue in the Golden State could be pretty bleak, according to one tribal gaming insider. Steve Stallings, chairman of the influential Cali­fornia Nations Indian Gaming Association, told Card Player that tribal groups with gaming should find a consensus on online poker in […]

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 […]

New York Online Poker Bill Re-Introduced

New York will have another crack at online poker. Legislation that would regulate online poker sites in the Empire State was re-introduced this week. The measure was considered last year but didn’t gain any traction in Albany. The bill is from Assemblyman Gary Pretlow, who is pushing legislation along with Sen. Bonacic, who has yet […]

Poker Players Hit 5 Of 6 Powerball Numbers

A group of 11 poker players in Stockton, California had five of the six Powerball numbers for this month’s record $1.6 billion drawing. Kcra.com reported that the men, who are all members of a poker club, will split $780,000. Those poker players were a lot luckier than high-stakes gambler Dan Bilzerian, who said that he […]

Man Robs Casino, Gets Caught At Nearby Casino

A man robbed a casino in Montana, then went to a nearby casino to gamble where he was later arrested, police said, according to a report kbzk.com. Authorities allege that George Leon Goodrie robbed the Emerald City Casino in Great Falls on Saturday and then drove in a stolen pickup truck to another casino in […]

CPPT: Tour Returns to the Wynn February 24

It has been one year since the Card Player Poker Tour made a stop at the Wynn poker room on the famous Las Vegas Strip. Beginning Feb. 24 with a $600 no-limit hold’em seniors $50,000 guarantee, the series features 13 tournaments in all and multiple satellites. The series concludes Mar. 14 with a $300 no-limit […]

'Poker Continues To Gain Popularity' In Macau: APPT

Despite a prolonged gaming revenue decline in Macau, the game of poker remains strong there, according to an organizer of a prominent tournament series in the former Portuguese colony. “Poker continues to gain popularity in countries such as China, Japan and India,” Danny McDonagh, the president of the organizing body of the Asia Pacific Poker […]

2016 POY Update: Mike Watson Surges Into First

The 2016 Card Player Player of the year race is just getting started but we are starting to see results from events that have historically had big impacts on the POY rankings throughout the year. Here is a look at the tournaments that have most affected the overall standings in the past seven days: 2016 […]

Casino VP, Cocktail Waitress Accused Of Slot Scheme

A former casino vice president, a cocktail waitress and a regular gambler are accused of having conspired together to steal more than $400,000 from a Pennsylvania casino. The state alleges that between May 2014 and April 2015, Robert Pellegrini, a former executive at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, employee Rochelle Poszeluznyj and patron Mark Heltzel […]

South Korea Fines MLB Pitcher Over Gambling

Newly-signed St. Louis Cardinals reliever Seung Hwan Oh has been fined $8,000 by South Korea for gambling in Macau, according to a report from the Associated Press. The country also has punished ex-Chicago Cubs pitcher Lim Chang-yong, who was Oh’s teammate with the Samsung Lions of the South Korean baseball league. Both men were charged […]

Court: Illinois Gamblers Can't Sue PokerStars

A federal court in Illinois has found that former poker players on PokerStars can’t recover their losses from years ago. According to Courthouse News Service, the Seventh Circuit Court in Chicago said that anti-gambling laws in the state don’t allow losses to be recovered in this case because the poker site facilitated the games by […]

Poker Strategy: How To Make Better Decisions

Most players don’t analyze the methods they use in their poker decisions. But your poker edge is defined by your decisions. How you approach and devise the thought process leading to your decisions will dramatically affect your game. Poker is both an art and a science. After you learn the science, the art should follow […]

Texas Says DFS Sites Violate State Gambling Laws

Texas is the latest state to take a hard position against daily fantasy sports sites. The Lone Star State’s Attorney General said Tuesday in a nine-page opinion that the games are illegal under state law. Texas is known for not being that welcoming to gambling. “It is prohibited gambling in Texas if you bet on […]

Nebraska Poker Bill Declared 'Defeated'

A bill in Nebraska that would classify Texas hold’em as a game of skill won’t have any hope this year unless it is designated as a priority measure, according to a report from the Associated Press. An amendment to the bill making it so only card games involving community cards would be allowed was not […]

Get A Discount On An Upcoming Card Player Cruise

This September, the Card Player Poker Tour hits water with Card Player Cruises aboard Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas. The seven-night pacific coast cruise features a $550 buy-in CPPT main event, as well as ports of call in Astoria, San Francisco and Victoria. Each Card Player Cruise passenger gets to play in a professional, […]

ACR Kicks Off 2016 With High Five Tournament Series

Up until last year, there really wasn’t much to get excited about if you were an online poker tournament player residing in the United States. But in 2015 Americas Cardroom really made a lot of headway in bringing the excitement of big prize pool tournaments back to US customers. Before I get too far into […]

Philachack Wins 2016 WSOP Circuit Choctaw Main Event

The 2016 World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw $1,675 no-limit hold’em main event brought out a huge field of 1,565 entries to blow away the tournament’s $1 million guarantee. In the end a total prize pool of $2,347,500 was built, with the lion’s share of that eventually going to Andy Philachack. The 41-year-old chiropractor from […]

Poker Player Spent $100,000 On Powerball Tickets

High-stakes poker player and Instagram celebrity Dan Bilzerian said on social media that he spent a whopping $100,000 on tickets for last week’s Powerball drawing. The record jackpot was worth more than $1.5 billion. Unfortunately for Bilzerian, but perhaps fortunately for everyone else, he didn’t have a winning ticket. The jackpot was hit in California, […]

Delaware Online Gaming Yields $1.8M In 2015

Delaware’s online gaming industry won roughly $1.8 million off of gamblers in 2015, according to figure’s from the state lottery. December had overall I-gaming win of $180,109.82, of which $31,124.74 came from peer-to-peer poker player. The poker revenue figure was the second straight month that win for that game increased after October’s all-time low of […]

Nevada Committee To Meet To Discuss I-Poker

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, once a Silver State gaming regulator, has decided to relaunch the Nevada Gaming Policy Committee, with a plan to discuss online gaming, according to a report from the Associated Press. Daily fantasy sports will also be a topic of conversion for the 12-member panel consisting of Sandoval and other lawmakers, as […]

Poker Player Wins $5M In DFS NFL Championship

On Sunday, DraftKings wrapped up the NFL season of their daily fantasy sports slate with the $15 Million Fantasy Football World Championship contest. In the end, it was poker pro Aaron Jones who came out on top, earning the $5 million first-place prize and a championship belt. The contest gathered qualifiers for the first 14 […]

Pennsylvania Sees Record Gaming Revenue

Pennsylvania gaming regulators said Friday that the state’s casino industry won $3.17 billion from gamblers in 2015, an all-time high for the Keystone State. The figure was an increase of 3.41 percent compared to 2014. The grow of table games was the reason. Gross revenue of $808 million from table games at Pennsylvania’s 12 casinos […]