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$5M Gtd. SHR Poker Open Main Event Starts Saturday

The 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $5,250 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event is set to begin at noon on Saturday, August 15th. This year the tournament sports a $5 million guarantee and for the first time in it’s young history will not allow re-entries, instead adopting a more traditional freezeout format. Along those lines, […]

Cates: Lost $5 Million Playing Poker In Manila

The 2015 PokerStars APPT Manila wrapped up this week, and the tournament stop reportedly had some high-stakes cash game action as well, featuring some of online poker’s heaviest hitters. One of them was Dan “jungleman” Cates, who took to Twitter on Thursday to say that his trip to Manila was terrible. Cates said that he […]

Lusardi Pleads Guilty In Phony Chip Case

Christian Lusardi was just indicted last month over last year’s poker tournament at the Borgata that had counterfeit chips in play, but he has already pleaded guilty to the crime. Lusardi took a plea deal this week, admitting to trademark counterfeiting and “criminal mischief,” the AP reported. He will receive five years in prison thanks […]

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 Players Likely Face Long Court Battle Over $100K

A man from Hawaii driving through Nevada in a motor home was originally stopped because law enforcement thought he was driving too slow, and he later saw authorities seize the $167,000 in cash he had in the vehicle. Footage of the search is above. The report from the Las Vegas Review-Journal reminds one of the […]

CPPT: bestbet Jacksonville Underway

The Card Player Poker Tour bestbet Jacksonville series began Aug. 13. After a year-long hiatus, the tour has returned for a 10-tournament series through Aug. 24 with a $1,500 no-limit hold’em $300,000 guarantee main event to cap off the action. “It’s been over a year since our last Card Player Poker Tour event and we […]

Win WSOP Circuit Seat With Card Player Poker

Looking for exciting poker action, but not ready to put up a deposit? Check out Card Player Poker. It offers FREE, legal poker play and welcomes U.S. players. Starting July 24, Card Player Poker is running the Rock The Felt II series, a promotion that will award one lucky winner a $580 buy-in into one […]

Jury: Cocktail Waitress Owed $150,000 By Casino

According to a report from The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a Rivers Casino employee saw a federal jury on Wednesday decide that she is owed $150,000 by the property because the casino rescinded a lifetime ban against a high roller that allegedly sexually harassed her. In April 2014, the high roller put a $1 chip into her […]

Pot-Limit Omaha Strategy Q and A With Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown took down the 2008 World Series of Poker $2,000 Omaha eight-or-better event and four years later placed second in the WSOP $10,000 pot-limit Omaha championship. He also won the 2011 $25,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha heads-up championship on Full Tilt, taking home $393,750 for the win. Needless to say, Brown knows Omaha. That is […]

PokerStars Parent Company Acquires DFS Site

Canada-based Amaya Gaming Group, the parent company of PokerStars and Full Tilt, announced Thursday that it has acquired Texas-based daily fantasy sports (DFS) operator Victiv. The price tag was not disclosed. “The current Victiv team will manage the DFS business, which will be rebranded StarsDraft and will be initially launched at StarsDraft.com in select U.S. […]

Selbst Wins $1 Million In SHR Celebrity Shootout

Poker pro Vanessa Selbst just added to her already incredible list of poker accomplishments. The New Jersey native won the $1 million winner-take-all top prize in Poker Central’s 2015 Super High Roller Celebrity Shootout, which was an invite-only freeroll. The event was held in late June at the Aria casino on the Las Vegas Strip, […]

NFL Fight Could Have Been Over Gambling Debt

Former New York Jets linebacker IK Enemkpali and the team’s quarterback, Geno Smith, got into an altercation in a locker room on Tuesday, resulting in a broken jaw for Smith. He could be out of action for six to 10 weeks, according to reporting from ESPN. Enemkpali was released from the team shortly after the […]

English Footballer Uses Racial Slur At Poker Table

English footballer Jamie Vardy is in hot water for using a racial slur against a fellow poker player he believed was trying to look at his hole cards, according to a report from the Daily Mail. Vardy reportedly was at the local casino with his fiancée late last month. The opponent who Vardy berated was […]

2015 POY Update: Paul Volpe Into Ninth Place

After a slow month in the wake of the World Series of Poker things are starting to heat up in Card Player Player of the Year race. Here is a look at the tournaments that made the biggest impact on the 2015 POY standings over the past seven days: 2015 Borgata Summer Poker Open The […]

Wynn: Boston Mayor 'Obviously Irresponsible'

Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn’s $1.7 billion casino planned for the town of Everett, which sits just outside Boston, is on hold after Boston filed a lawsuit involving it. The mayor, Martin Walsh, doesn’t want Wynn to build a casino there. According to The Boston Globe, Wynn has been getting frustrated with the situation. “I […]

Vanessa Rousso Still Competing On Big Brother 17

After starting with 17 initial members, or houseguests, the cast of Big Brother is down to 11. Professional poker player Vanessa Rousso is still in the running, competing for the $500,000 first-place prize given to the eventual winner. Big Brother, which started in 2000 on CBS, is a reality game show where contestants live in […]

Company Pitches $650M Indianapolis Casino

A Las Vegas-based casino operator is asking Indiana lawmakers to do something they have never done before—allow a Las Vegas-style casino in Indianapolis. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Full House Resorts has proposed building a $650 million casino complex on land once used by the city’s airport. The proposed casino would be called “American […]

ACR Brings Back $150K Freebuy Super Series

After a successful launch in May, Americas Cardroom (ACR) has announced the return of the Freebuy Super Series, a $150,000 guaranteed tournament series that allows players to enter at absolutely no cost and compete for real money. That’s right. Every tournament is absolutely FREE! All initial buy-ins are free and no deposit is required. Players […]

NJ I-Poker Advocate To Run For Governor

New Jersey lawmaker Ray Lesniak is going to be running for governor in 2017, according to reports, and it could be good news for future enhancements to the state’s still young regulated online gaming industry. Lesniak, a Democratic State Senator, was the sponsor of legislation that legalized online gaming in the Garden State. New Jersey […]

Public Voting For Poker HoF Ends Saturday

On Saturday, Aug. 15, the WSOP will close the public voting period for the 2015 Poker Hall of Fame class. Ten finalists will be the result of the first round process. Living Poker Hall of Fame members and a blue ribbon media panel will then cast votes on the final list of nominees to determine […]

The Rules Guy Tackles Showing Cards And Sickness

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 […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: August 10 - 16

In this Card Player weekly feature we look to provide our readers with a guide to some of the biggest poker events taking place in their area for the upcoming week. Check out all the tournament action set to go down in your own backyard from August 10 – 16. Head to our tournament database […]

Lindsey Graham's White House Chances Hit Big

Though it isn’t actually taking action on the outcome, the sports book at South Point casino in Las Vegas has set lines on individuals getting the Republican party nod in the run for the White House next year, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. There was a key debate in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday, resulting in […]

Former ER Nurse Transitions To Full-Time Poker Player

Former ER nurse Angela Parker is “ready to make dreams come true” on the felt. Parker, a 32-year-old from Houston, recently transitioned to poker full-time and currently grinds live low-stakes no-limit hold’em for an income. Poker, as nearly everyone knows by now, is considered a hard way to make an easy living. But for Parker, […]

Rep Porter: Expanding Your Draws

Today, I want to talk about a strategy that you can employ from out of position. I like to think of this strategy as “expanding your draws.” Let’s start by looking at the situation from the point of view of the player with position. You raise preflop and the big blind defends. Some flop like […]

A Poker Life: Amit Makhija

It’s been nearly a decade since Amit Makhija established himself as an emerging force in the poker world, and since then he’s cemented himself as one of the top players in the game. With $2.6 million in live tournament earnings, $3 million in online tournament earnings, and an undisclosed profit in high-stakes cash games, Makhija […]

UK Betting Industry Depends On I-Casinos

The betting market in the United Kingdom is worth more than £6 billion annually (roughly $9.8 billion USD), according to the country’s Gambling Commission. As of last year, there were more than 107,000 people employed in the industry. A lot the growth in the UK gambling sector is thanks to online betting, driven by the […]

Nevada Skill-Based Slots Possible This Year

Slot machines with a large skill component rather than just pure chance could hit Nevada casino floors by the end of the year, according to a report from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Nevada regulators met this week to talk more about regulations pertaining to the new technology, which could help casinos attract younger gamblers. State […]

Online Poker Still On Table In Pennsylvania

Efforts to legalize and regulate online poker in Pennsylvania are still very much alive, State Rep. John Payne (R-Dauphin County), author of one of several I-gaming bills in the Keystone State, told Card Player on Friday. “Nothing is further from the truth,” Payne said of speculation that the window is closing on online gaming legalization […]

Explain Poker Like I'm Five: Implied Odds

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 […]