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Card Player Holiday Subscription Special

Right now, you can get your subscription to Card Player Magazine for just $1 per issue with the new Holiday Subscription Special. That’s 26 issues (one every two weeks) for just $26. Additional shipping costs for international subscriptions. The magazine, as well as an archive of more than 500 issues, is available to be viewed […]

Brawl Breaks Out At Mississippi Casino

Authorities in Tunica, Mississippi are investigating a brawl that happened at Resorts Casino early Sunday morning after a party. The fight involved more than a dozen individuals and featured clothes being ripped off. No arrests had been made as of Monday, according to wreg.com. Police are currently looking at the video of the incident, which […]

Firehouse Poker Game Robbed At Gunpoint

A masked man robbed a poker gaming being held at a firehouse in Union Beach, New Jersey this past weekend, according to a report from NJ.com. The thief was wearing a ski mask and entered the side door of the establishment at around 8:45 p.m. on Saturday and made off with $3,000. Fortunately, no one […]

Florida Signs New Compact With Seminole Tribe

After a long stalemate, Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed a new $3 billion gambling compact with the Seminole Tribe, which is seen as a significant increase in revenue sharing. The deal comes amidst a bitter fight between the tribe and Florida over the expired compact. The state said that the tribe was illegally offering […]

PPA Joins Suit Between Kentucky And PokerStars

The Poker Players Alliance said Friday that it has filed a motion to join a years-old case that pits the state of Kentucky against PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site. The state has a pending lawsuit against certain PokerStars entities and former affiliates. The aim is to collect “tens of millions of dollars” in […]

Coushatta Gears Up For Winter Classic Poker Event

There is still time for you to make arrangements to play some poker at the Winter Classic Poker Tournament this December. The four-event series runs Dec. 9-13 at the Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder. The highlight of the series is the $930+$70 buy-in main event, which features 20,000 in starting chips, 40-minute blind levels on […]

Javier Gomez Wins 2015 WPT Prague Main Event

The 2015 World Poker Tour Prague €3,300 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event attracted a field of 256 entries to build a prize pool of €730,340 ($773,824 USD). In the end it was Spain’s Javier Gomez who came out on top, earning €175,000 ($190,347 USD) and 612 Card Player Player of the Year points. Gomez overcame […]

New Jersey To Finalize Rule For Celebrity Poker Players

A rule change in New Jersey that will let online gambling sites in the Garden State hire celebrities to play for promotional purposes is set to be finalized early next year. Though the rule has been around since late last year and some well-known poker players are already sponsored in New Jersey, the Division of […]

Poker Player Gets Prison Time For Ear Bite

A poker player in the U.K. will have to spend three years behind bars for attacking and biting off part of the ear of a fellow poker player. According to the Ipswich Star, Nicholas Salisbury, 27, challenged his opponent, Robert Reed, to a physical fight during a poker tournament in January 2014. Reed declined to […]

Alabama Casino Proposal Off The Table Indefinitely

Efforts to legalize Las Vegas-style casinos and a lottery in Alabama are off the table for next year, as the lawmaker pushing a bill says that the support isn’t there. “I can count votes. The votes are not there at this time for the bill,” Alabama Sen. Del Marsh told AL.com. “I continue to believe […]

CPTV Spotlight: Negreanu Discusses Being Adaptive

Daniel Negreanu is poker’s all-time money leader with $30,533,198 in live tournament earnings. He’s a two-time Card Player Player of the Year winner, a six-time WSOP bracelet winner and a two-time WPT champion. This week he also had a documentary about his life and career premiere on TSN, the largest sports network in his native […]

Maryland's Largest Casino Gets I-Gaming Partner

Maryland Live! Casino, the state’s largest gambling facility in terms of revenue, announced this week that it has teamed up with GameAccount Network plc to run social casino games under the Maryland Live! brand. The free-play games, which have already launched, are available at www.MarylandLiveCasino.com and www.livecasino.social, according to a December 1 press release from […]

Judge Dismisses Suit Against Planned Wynn Casino

A proposed casino near Boston won a major victor in court this week after a judge dismissed one of the city’s lawsuits trying to block it. Billionaire Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn and Boston Major Martin Walsh have been fighting over Wynn’s casino plan in Everett. Boston has complained that the state played favorites […]

Portugal Could Ring-Fence Online Poker Market

Portugal apparently has decided to follow in the footsteps of France, Italy and Spain by not allowing its online poker player pool to play with those of other countries, at least for now. PokerStars, the world’s largest poker site in terms of users, stopped offering its product in Portugal during the third quarter. The online […]

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 […]

Poker Strategy With Ed Miller: Find The Short Cuts

I’ve played a number of different games over the years. I’ve studied seriously chess, debate, and poker. I’m presently looking at daily fantasy sports with a similar level of time investment. I’ve also dabbled in dozens of other games from card games like bridge to computer strategy games to strategy board games to athletic games […]

Massachusetts Bill Would Legalize Online Poker

A bill filed by Massachusetts state Sen. Bruce Tarr would allow gambling facilities in the Bay State to one day offer their casino games on the Internet, according to a report Thursday from The Sun Chronicle. The state Gaming Commission would determine which games would be offered, but it’s safe to assume poker would be […]

Check Out This Poker Player's $9 Million Home

The Las Vegas home of poker pro Andy Bloch is up for sale, according to a posting on realtor.com. The 10,591 square-foot mansion has a hefty price tag. Listed at $8,999,000, the custom-built three-story home has six bedrooms, along with six full bathrooms and four half-bathrooms. Bloch, who has $5.2 million in career tournament earnings […]

Vegas Casinos Receive OK To Leave NV Energy

Three of the largest casino operators in Las Vegas have received approval to stop doing business with NV Energy, but they will have to pay tens of millions of dollars to do so. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, MGM Resorts International, Wynn Resorts and Las Vegas Sands, who all want to find their own […]

Anti-Online Poker Hearing Gets A Title

A planned anti-online poker hearing in the nation’s capital now has a title. The planned Dec. 9 hearing from the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee is entitled: “A Casino in Every Smartphone — Law Enforcement Implications,” according to the committee’s website. The title says a lot about how biased and misleading the public hearing […]

2015 POY Race Update: Joe Kuether's Closing The Gap

We are down to the 12th and final month of the 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race. As time runs out the top POY contenders are scrambling to make one last push. Here is a look at the many tournaments that made the biggest impact on the POY standings over the action-packed past […]

Bazeley Wins SHR Rock 'N' Roll Poker Open Main Event

Jacob Bazeley’s time of being poker’s best under-the-radar players might be coming to an end. The Cincinnati-based poker pro topped a huge field of 766 entries to win the $2 million guaranteed $3,500 buy-in SHR Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open no-limit hold’em main event. For the win he was awarded $568,687 and 1,368 Card Player […]

Man Becomes Mayor After 'High Card' Breaks Tie

Bradenton Beach, FL, a city of roughly 1,500 people not too far from Tampa, early last month had an election for mayor and when the votes were counted, and recounted, each candidate had 195 votes. According to a report from mysuncoast.com, the city had the candidates “high card” for the post. The candidates were made […]

Cat Shelter Accused Of Using Funds For Gambling

A cat shelter in Australia has been accused of using some of the money it raised, purportedly to help the animals, for online betting, according to various online media reports. Help Save Furry Ones, a charity founded by Nicky Hocking (pictured right), reportedly has lost its licence over the allegations. “Consumer and Business Services (CBS) […]

Macau's Economy Shrinks 24 Percent In Q3

Macau’s GDP fell 24 percent in the third quarter, according to government data released Monday. The drop was less than the 26.4-percent contraction seen in the second quarter. The local government also said this week that gaming revenue in November was 32 percent less than the same month last year. It was the 18th straight […]

'KidPoker' Documentary Airs To Public In Canada

Last night on Canada’s The Sports Network (TSN), poker pro Daniel Negreanu, along with poker fans who get the channel, saw the airing of his much-anticipated “KidPoker” documentary. “Totally blown away,” Negreanu said on Twitter shortly before Thanksgiving after seeing the film for the first time, adding that he cried “through half it.” He didn’t […]

Tony G Ineligible For Lithuanian Parliament

One-time poker pro Antanas “Tony G” Guoga, who was elected last year to represent Lithuania in the European Parliament, isn’t having things go his way in his recent bid for a seat in Lithuania’s government. According to a report from the Lithuania Tribune, Guoga can’t run for Lithuania’s Seimas because he also has Australian citizenship. […]

Las Vegas Sees Record Visitation In October

The city of Las Vegas saw a record 3.78 million visitors in October, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority said this week. That was up from the 3.5 million people seen in September. It was the best September the city has ever had in terms of visitors. The October results come just days after […]

ACR Kicks Off Online Super Series V

Some might say we’re gluttons for punishment. After all, we’ve now run a total of six $1,000,000 GTD Million Dollar Sundays tournaments this year and have yet to cover the guarantee on one of them. Still, no sweet without the sour and we’re determined to bring huge prize pool tournament action back to US players. […]

Macau Gaming Win Falls 32 Percent In November

Macau gaming win fell more than 30 percent in November year-over-year, a performance for the region’s casino industry that unfortunately was worse than anticipated. The casinos there won $2.1 billion from gamblers during the month, 32.3 percent less than a year ago, the local government said on Tuesday. Gaming revenue fell 28.5 percent in October, […]