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This Week's Big Winner: Kevin Eyster At Bellagio

Kevin Eyster has put together three consecutive solid years on the tournament circuit and now has more than $4 million in career earnings to show for it. The Colorado native started his run in 2013 when he took down the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown for $660,395. Then in 2014, he picked up his first […]

CPTV Spotlight: Joe McKeehen Wins WSOP Main Event

With the new year just days away it seems like the perfect time to look back at the year that was. The biggest poker tournament each and every year for the past few decades has been the World Series of Poker main event, and 2015 was no different. The $10,000 no-limit hold’em world championship drew […]

Poker Strategy: A WSOP Main Event Hand

I was sitting at the Commerce Casino the other day, playing poker and watching the WSOP main event on TV. Then, this hand comes up three-handed where Josh Beckley raises on the button with A-10 offsuit and Joe McKeehen is the small blind. Right as I was saying, “Joe should be raising here a lot,” […]

Bernard Lee Delivers Holiday Packages To MA Children

New England’s top professional poker player and media personality Bernard Lee on Dec. 23 donated holiday packages to over 50 children in the Milford, Mass. area as part of The Full House Charity Program, which has provided a minimum of $10,000 worth of goods annually for the past five years to organizations across New England […]

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 […]

Kentucky Judge Orders PokerStars To Pay $870M

A Kentucky judge on Wednesday ordered PokerStars to pay $870 million for doing business with state residents between 2006 and 2011. The online poker site, under the ownership of online Canadian gaming giant Amaya, plans to appeal the ruling. According to the Associated Press, Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate said that PokerStars willfully violated Kentucky […]

Poker Strategy: When To Play ABC Poker

Over the years, I have been unkind to ABC play. The subtitle to my book Playing The Player is Moving Beyond ABC Poker To Dominate Your Opponents. I regularly write articles about how to beat ABC-playing opponents. If you read too much of my stuff, you might come to think of ABC as a dirty […]

Harvey Was Gambling Shortly Before Miss Universe Slowroll

Las Vegas might have gotten the best of Steve Harvey. The TV personality has been causing a stir on the Internet this week for his recent Miss Universe slowroll, and there may be an explanation for him announcing the wrong winner on live TV, before correcting it minutes later. According to a report from TMZ, […]

Las Vegas Woman Wins $100K On Sick NFL Parlay

A Las Vegas woman is $100,000 richer after hitting a 20,000-1 parlay betting on the NFL this past weekend, ESPN reported. Marketing manager Tayla Polia bet $5 on a 15-team parlay at one of Nevada’s mobile sports books. Nevada is the only state in the country with full-scale sports betting, and one of three with […]

California Casino Allowed To Reopen After Tribal Dispute

A federal court on Tuesday approved a plan for the Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino to reopen after the property closed in October 2014 amidst a dispute between tribal factions that resulted in an attempted armed takeover. According to the Sacramento Bee, the judge’s ruling could allow the casino to open its doors again sometime […]

New York Hands Out Three Casino Licenses

It was a long wait, but the state of New York has finally licensed the commercial casinos it authorized in a 2012 bill. The state decided which projects it wanted to go with back in December 2014, but the process to formally license them took awhile, ending with decisions Monday from the State Gaming Commission. […]

Betfair, Paddy Power Merger Approved By Shareholders

The massive merger of online gambling giants Paddy Power and Betfair was approved by shareholders of both companies this week, according to a report from the Irish Times. Paddy Power shareholders will own 52 percent, while Betfair shareholders will own 48 percent, of the new company. The deal creates a company with a combined value […]

2015 POY Race: Nick Petrangelo Closing The Gap

With the holidays just around the corner some of the last major events of the year have recently wrapped up as we approach the end of the 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race. Here is a look at the tournaments that made the biggest impact on the POY standings over the past seven […]

Australian Cricketer Punished For $9 In Bets

Only $9 in bets on a men’s cricket match has landed Australian female cricketer Angela Reakes in hot water with the sport’s officials. According to the Associated Press, Reakes this week received a suspended two-year ban for betting on the men’s Cricket World Cup final between Australia and New Zealand in March. The suspended ban […]

Borgata Wants $62 Million From Atlantic City

Atlantic City could be forced into bankruptcy if it has to give the Borgata casino $62 million in tax refunds all at once, which is what the casino asked a court for this week, according to a report from the Associated Press. The court had already determined that the casino is owed the money from […]

Phil Ivey Continues Long Online Poker Downswing

It wasn’t long ago when Phil Ivey seemed nearly unstoppable on the Internet. However, the 39-year-old poker pro lost roughly $3.7 million in 2015, the most in the online poker world. Since assuming his “Polarizing” screen name on Full Tilt in late 2012, Ivey has dropped $6.3 million, $1.25 million of which came this year. […]

Explain Poker Like I'm Five: Range Merging

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 […]

Glendale Casino Opens Its Doors Despite State Opposition

The planned tribal casino for the Glendale, Arizona area opened up this past weekend, despite the state trying to block it. The Tohono O’odham Nation opened its Desert Diamond Casino West Valley even though it doesn’t currently have the ability to offer any table games, according to a report from abc15.com. The $400 million casino […]

Delaware Online Poker Rebounds In November

Delaware online gambling revenue was $182,664.45 during the month of November, according to figures released by the state lotto. That was a slight dip compared to the $182,969.50 won in October. Revenue from peer-to-peer poker was $28,985.11 in November, compared to $24,030.03 in October, which was an all-time low for web poker in the state. […]

Justin Bieber Plays Poker For The Most Micro Of Stakes

It wasn’t a high-stakes home game with a bunch of celebrities, but Justin Bieber apparently has somewhat of an interest in card games. Bieber posted a photo to his Instagram last week showing a poker game he was playing on a yacht moored at Newport Beach, CA. The stakes? Just some Sour Patch Kids candy. […]

Fedor Holz Wins 2015 WPT Alpha8 Las Vegas

The final super high roller event of 2015 is now in the books. This year’s WPT Alpha8 Las Vegas drew a total of 45 entries at the Bellagio this year, building a total prize pool of $4,414,500. In the end there could be only one champion and that player was Fedor Holz. The German poker […]

Eyster Wins WPT Bellagio Five Diamond Main Event

The last World Poker Tour main event of 2015 was also one of the biggest. This year’s WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic $10,400 no-limit hold’em main event drew 639 entries, the second largest in the tournament’s 14 year run. As a result the prize pool swelled to $6,198,300. In the end the lion’s share […]

Alex Millar: PokerStars Changes 'Worse' Than Expected

British online poker pro Alex “IReadYrSoul” Millar surprised the poker community in mid-December by walking away from his PokerStars sponsorship, just weeks after the company announced major reductions in its VIP rewards program. The site’s decision made many top poker pros unhappy. Millar, who is up more than $4 million lifetime playing online cash games, […]

WSOP Hopes To Break Record With 'Colossus II'

The field size record for a live poker tournament will likely be broken just a year later. On Friday, the World Series of Poker announced that the second running of the $565 buy-in “Colossus” poker tournament, to be held in early June, will have a $7 million guaranteed prize pool, up from $5 million in […]

Tony G Challenges Canadian PM To Poker Match

Former poker pro and currently Lithuanian politician Antanas “Tony G” Guoga has challenged Canada’s Prime Minister to a game of poker, promising to “take everything you have.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised eyebrows recently when he was asked a question about his favorite Baltic country. Trudeau responded, “That’s not a thing,” and apparently has pissed […]

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 […]

Amaya May Ask Stars' Founders For Money In Suit

Amaya Gaming, the owner of PokerStars, will “seek recovery against the former owners of the PokerStars business” if a legal battle in Kentucky doesn’t go its way. The Canada-based Amaya said it’s still fighting a “frivolous” lawsuit filed by Kentucky five years ago that is seeking to recover what Kentucky residents spent on PokerStars from […]

ACR Giving Bonuses To PLO Players

Starting Dec. 17, Americas Cardroom is providing pot-limit Omaha fans with lots of opportunities to cash in with the MO MO MO PLO promotion. Until Dec. 31, players can earn bonus money by sitting down in PLO cash games. There is also seven Happy Hours where players can earn $10 in bonuses for every 100 […]

Anti-Online Poker Backer Buys Top Vegas Newspaper

The poker community’s arch-nemesis is the new owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Las Vegas Sands owner Sheldon Adelson, who is still trying to see a federal online gaming ban pushed through Congress, had his son-in-law lead the $140 million purchase, the Review-Journal reported this week. “Our motivation for purchasing the R-J is simple,” the […]

Hossein Ensan Wins 2015 EPT Prague Main Event

The final European Poker Tour main event of the year is in the books. The 2015 EPT Prague €5,300 no-limit hold’em main event drew a massive 1,044-player field, creating a prize pool in excess of €5 million. In the end the lion’s share of that went to 51-year-old Hossein Ensan, who emerged victorious at his […]