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Kenney Leads PCA $100k Super High Roller Final Table

A total of 44 players generated 58 entries in the 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 eight-max no-limit hold’em super high roller event, building a total prize pool of $5,626,000. Now only six players remain to battle it out out for the title and the first-place prize of $1,687,800. The chip leader heading into the final […]

Charlotte McKinney Hosts Encore Player's Club Grand Opening

On Wednesday night, the Wynn Las Vegas held a grand opening party for the all-new Encore Player’s Club, a 5,013-square foot venue located across from Surrender Nightclub. The Encore Player’s Club was built specifically to appeal to millenials and features interactive and social games and mobile sports betting in a luxurious lounge that boasts its […]

Players Abandon Stacks In $200K For Baccarat

A $200,000 buy-in poker tournament with a $3.4 million first-place prize apparently wasn’t “high roller” enough for a few players among the starting field of 52. The $200,000 World Poker Tour event held at the Solaire Resort and Casino in Manilla, which was won by 22-year-old Fedor Holz on Monday, saw three players leave their […]

Poker Dealer Accused Of Hiding Chips In Socks

A poker dealer in the U.K. didn’t have a card up his sleeve, but he did have chips in his socks. The dealer at the Cromwell Mint Casino in West London was arrested recently for theft after he allegedly dropped chips into his socks using a secret tube in his pocket, according to a report […]

Florida Compact With Seminoles Faces Uphill Battle

The Sunshine State won’t have clear skies this year on the casino issue. Florida’s governor recently signed a new gaming compact with the Seminole Tribe, which would give the state $3 billion over the next seven years. However, lawmakers in the state very likely will not sign off on the deal, according to a report […]

Study: Elevated Level Of Testosterone Bad For Poker

Maybe women are naturally better at poker. A recent article, dubbed “Effects of Testosterone Administration on Strategic Gambling in Poker Play”, published by the prestigious journal Nature, laid out evidence that higher testosterone levels could negatively affect a person’s ability to win at poker. The study was done on a group of 20 women, all […]

Japan Casino Plans Delayed Yet Again

Japan, one of the largest untapped gambling markets in the world, will have yet another delay on potentially passing legislation to authorize Las Vegas-style brick-and-mortar casinos. According to a report from the Macau Daily Times, lawmakers in the island nation have decided not to pass the so-called Integrated Resort Facilities Promotion Bill at a legislative […]

Shuttered Atlantic City Casino Back On Market

The casino in Atlantic City once called the Atlantic Club is back on the market. According to the Associated Press, Endeavor Property Group, the Pennsylvania company that was planning to turn the shuttered casino into an indoor water park with no gambling, won’t be buying the property. The deal fell through on Monday. The current […]

California Online Poker Bill Pulled From Hearing

The first week of 2016 was set to have an online poker bill in California considered in a hearing, but the proposal unfortunately has been pulled from the hearing’s agenda. Lawmakers in the state’s Governmental Organization Committee will have a hearing Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. local time in Sacramento, but a measure previously on the […]

Explain Poker Like I'm Five: Backdoor Draw

When you’ve played poker for years, it’s easy to forget that technical poker speak may as well be a different language. Many players just picked up a deck of cards for the first time and are wondering what the hell a reverse implied range merge against a large stack to pot ratio is. Maybe you […]

2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Preview

For the thirteenth year in a row the new year begins in earnest on the poker tournament at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, which kicks off on Jan. 6 at the Atlantis in the Bahamas. Over the course of nine days the festival will play host to a total of 104 tournaments (including satellites), a new […]

Iowa Tribe Plans International Poker Site

The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma has announced plans to launch an online poker site that will be available to players overseas as well as in the three U.S. states were online gambling is regulated. The tribe currently has two brick-and-mortar casinos located within Oklahoma. According to a report from NewsOK.com, the tribe is seeking to […]

Sorel Mizzi Beats Brian Rast In Charity Fight

Sorel Mizzi handedly beat fellow poker pro Brian Rast last week in a boxing match in Las Vegas, which was organized to raise money for charity. They were scheduled for four two-minute rounds at Syndicate MMA Gym in Las Vegas. In the first round, Mizzi knocked Rast to the ground three separate times. The match […]

Nevada Poker Rooms Take In $8.9M In November

Revenue from Nevada’s live and online poker tables was $8,973,000 during the month of November, according to a report released last week by Silver State gaming regulators. The amount was a 3.87-percent decline compared to November 2014. There were 71 poker rooms with a combined 667 tables this November. The Las Vegas Strip area had […]

Poker Strategy With Ed Miller: The War Of Information

Most people try to learn no-limit hold’em as a set of rules. These are the hands you play preflop. When you flop a draw, you do this. When you start with a pocket pair and an overcard hits the board, you do that. Because of this rules-based mindset, when people review the hands they’ve played, […]

Manziel Seen Gambling In Vegas Before Browns Game

Controversial Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel reportedly was seen gambling on the Las Vegas Strip the night before his then 3-12 team played the final game of the regular season Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Casino employees and patrons saw or interacted with him at Planet Hollywood, according to a report from USA Today. The […]

Holz Wins 2016 WPT $200k Philippines High Roller

The first major event of 2016 is now in the books, and it will likely end up as one of the biggest high roller events of the year. The inaugural WPT Triton Super High Roller Cali Cup $200,000 buy-in event drew 52 entries to the Solaire Resort Casino in Manila, Philippines. The huge turnout built […]

Macau Gaming Revenue Falls To $29B In 2015

December was the 19th straight month of year-over-year gaming revenue decline in Macau, the local government said Friday. When added to the rest of the year’s months, the casinos in Macau won $28.93 billion from gamblers in 2015, a drop of 34.3 percent compared to 2014, Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau said. It was […]

California To Consider Online Poker Bill Wednesday

One of several bills that were introduced last year aiming to legalize and regulate online poker in California will have a hearing this week. Assembly Bill 167, authored by Assemblyman Reginald Jones-Sawyer, will be discussed Wednesday in the California Assembly Governmental Organization Committee starting at 1:30 p.m PST. The legislation was referred to the committee […]

2015 Year In Review: Tournament Recap

The new year is here and we are just days away from high-stakes, exciting poker action with the 2016 tournament circuit set to heat-up following the holidays. In the calm before the storm we pause and look back at the last year in poker, remembering the events that shaped 2015 and made it one of […]

Anthony Zinno Wins 2015 Player of the Year Award

By July 2, 2015 this year’s Card Player Player of the Year race already looked to be all but over. By that point Anthony Zinno had already accumulated 6,488 POY points, a massive amount that easily dwarfed the year-long point totals of the past three Player of the Year award winners, with 5,498 for 2014 […]

Turning Stone Offers New Year Poker Room Promotions

The fun and the money continues into the new year at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. Frank Foti, the man in charge of poker room operations will make sure 2016 is a year full of valuable promotions for players in this first-class poker room. January is full speed ahead with seven different […]

Craziest Gambling Stories From The Year 2015

The gambling world can sometimes produce really off-the-wall stories. Every month there are plenty of cases of individuals going to extreme lengths to pay back debts, or of simply bizarre behavior at casino properties around the globe. It can be entertaining and sometimes sad. We at Card Player compile monthly lists of the craziest gambling-related […]

Online Poker's Largest Pots Of 2015

The high-stakes action on the Internet in 2015 featured some huge pots, mostly in pot-limit Omaha. Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, who won roughly $2 million this year, was involved in most of them. The Swede indicated yet again that he is willing to take on pretty much anyone on the web. Blom won the year’s top […]

Court Dismisses Kansas' Gaming Suit Against Tribe

A federally recognized Native American tribe with reservation land in both Kansas and Oklahoma saw a judge toss Kansas’ lawsuit attempting to block gambling that would occur within Kansas’ borders, according to a report from sekvoice.com. Kansas was trying to challenge the National Indian Gaming Commission’s ruling that the Quapaw Tribe’s land in Kansas was […]

Antigua Announces Resolution To I-Poker Dispute

A 12-year-old dispute between the United States and the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda appears to finally be coming to an end. In the early 2000s, the U.S. effectively banned the country’s lucrative online gambling industry from doing business with Americans. Antigua and Barbuda said that its regulated online gambling sites contributed $3 billion […]

Van Patten: Poker Movies Have 'Missed The Mark'

Vince Van Patten, known as the jack-of-all-trades co-anchor of the World Poker Tour alongside Mike Sexton, is currently gearing up for his latest project, a movie focused on the Los Angeles gambling scene. The 58-year-old former tennis pro, who was once ranked no. 25 in the world and even beat John McEnroe, learned poker from […]

PokerStars To Appeal $870M Kentucky Ruling

Amaya Gaming announced that it will be appealing a $870 million judgement in Kentucky, saying that the damages award “is notable only for its absurdity.” Last week a judge in the state ruled that PokerStars should pay Kentucky the massive sum for allowing roughly 34,000 Kentuckians to spend money on the site from late 2006 […]

Dan Bilzerian In New Movie With Bruce Willis

Infamous high-stakes poker player Dan Bilzerian is in a new movie with Bruce Willis. The film, called Extraction, is a shoot-em-up style movie about an effort to save a CIA operative. In addition to Willis, Gina Carano, Kellan Lutz and D.B. Sweeney also star in the movie, which hit theaters nationwide on Dec. 18. Reviews […]

New Jersey Lawmakers Hashing Out New Casino Plan

Lawmakers in the Garden State want to put casinos outside of Atlantic City in an effort to compete with gambling expansion in neighboring states. However, there is still a lot to work out in terms of how to frame the ballot question next year. State voters are going to be asked whether to amend the […]