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Maryland Casinos Have Nearly $100-Million July

A new record for Maryland casinos was set in July, as the properties had $99 million in gaming revenue, according to figures released this week by state gaming regulators. That’s the amount of money won from gamblers at all the games. There are five casinos in the state. The Horseshoe Casino Baltimore opened in August […]

Gambler Fined For Dropping Cocaine On Casino Table

A man in Australia has received his sentence for dropping 0.34 grams of cocaine on a table while gambling, according to a report from the Australian Broadcast Corporation. The drugs fell out of his wallet when he was grabbing money to place a bet. The man, who tried to shrug off the incident and keep […]

CPPT: Four Stops on the Horizon

In the coming months the Card Player Poker Tour will touch down coast-to-coast in the United States and take a dip in international waters. In August, the tour will make a stop at bestbet Jacksonville in northern Florida. From there, players can hop aboard the Oasis of the Seas for a Card Player Cruises sponsored […]

2015 Player of the Year Update: Harwood, Brin Win

A number of exciting poker events wrapped up this week, awarding plenty of prize money and Card Player Player of the Year points. Here is a look at the tournaments that made the biggest impact on the 2015 POY race over the past seven days: 2015 WSOP National Championship Loni Harwood has won the 2015 […]

Jason Brin Wins Inaugural WPT Choctaw Main Event

The inaugural World Poker Tour Choctaw $3,700 no-limit hold’em main event featured a $2 million guaranteed prize pool, which was easily surpassed when 1,175 entries were made to build a final prize pool of $3,989,125. In the end the lion’s share of that was awarded to Jason Brin, a 42-year-old carpet store owner from De […]

Poker Strategy: Turning Your Hand Into A Bluff

I make some bone-headed mistakes sometimes. One I’ve noticed that I make all too frequently is that I fail to turn a hand that has some showdown value into a bluff when appropriate. It’s not a situation that comes up all the time, but missing the opportunity when it arises can mean losing a big […]

Negreanu: 99.9 Percent Vegas Gets NHL Team

Poker pro Daniel Negreanu, who just recently finished 11th in the 2015 World Series of Poker main event, is apparently using thoughts of hockey to take his mind away from such a close call to reaching the November Nine. Negreanu told the Toronto Sun that Las Vegas is 99.9-percent certain to get a professional hockey […]

Alabama Casino Bill Clears Senate Committee

A bill in Alabama that would let voters in the state decide whether to have a lottery and four Las Vegas-style casinos at four existing dog tracks cleared the Senate Tourism and Marketing Committee on Tuesday, according to a report from the Montgomery Adviser. Lawmakers in the committee voted 6-2 in favor of the legislation. […]

A Look At The 2015 WSOP ESPN Television Schedule

The 2015 World Series of Poker has closed up shop at the Rio in Las Vegas, but soon you will be able to relive all of the excitement of the summer as ESPN is set to begin its coverage of the WSOP in a few weeks, starting with the WSOP National Championship on Tuesday, Aug. […]

SHRPO To Host $5M Guarantee Championship

The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino kicked off the third annual Seminole Hard Poker Open on Thursday, July 30. The signature series features a single-entry $5 million guarantee championship and The Big 4, a first ever four final table finale, televised by Poker Night in America on CBS Sports Network in early 2016. Offering […]

Darren Elias Headlines 2015 WPT Choctaw Final Table

The inaugural World Poker Tour Choctaw $3,700 no-limit hold’em main event attracted a huge field of 1,175 players to nearly double the $2 million prize pool guarantee with a final total of $3,989,125 paid out to the top 145 finishers. After three full days of exciting action there are now only six players remaining to […]

High Roller Ordered To Pay £2million Gambling Debt

Swiss businessman Safa Abdulla Al-Geabury, who gambled away £2million at London’s Ritz casino and later said “the devil made me gamble,” has been ordered by a court to pay his debt, according to a report from the Guardian. Al-Geabury claimed he had an addiction and that the casino should not have let him play, arguing […]

Macau Casinos Win $2.3 Billion In July

Gaming revenue in Macau, the only place in China where gambling is legal, fell in July to an amount worth $2.3 billion, according to data released by the local government on Monday. The drop was 34.5 percent year-over-year. The good news is that the drop wasn’t as large as the one witnessed in June, when […]

Another Firm Grabs CA Online Poker Partnership

Efforts to legalize real-money online poker in California this year are likely dead, but that doesn’t mean stakeholders in a future industry there aren’t already gearing up for the long road ahead next year and possibly beyond. The most recent firm to form a partnership for online poker in the Golden State was Louisville-based Churchill […]

Mike Caro to Host Poker Seminar During CPPT bestbet Jacksonv

Mike Caro, known to many as the Mad Genius of Poker, is one of the most colorful and successful poker players of all time. His teachings are used by players the globe over and during the Card Player Poker Tour bestbet series, Caro will share his skill-set and knowledge during a poker seminar just prior […]

Harwood Wins 2015 WSOP National Championship

Loni Harwood has won the 2015 World Series of Poker National Championship. The 25-year-old poker pro from Staten Island, NY earned her second WSOP gold bracelet and the $341,599 first-place prize for the win. En route to the title Harwood topped a tough final table that included the likes of all-time tournament earnings leader and […]

VIDEO: Seven Card Stud With Brian Hastings

For a lot of poker fans the name Brian Hastings will always be linked with the highest-stakes pot-limit Omaha and no-limit hold’em cash games online. It’s understandable. He did win over $4 million in one session playing playing against Viktor “Isildur1” Blom in 2009. But in the year’s since Black Friday forever changed the online […]

CPPT: Hollywood Park Added to Schedule

With the addition of a new stop at Hollywood Park Casino, the Card Player Poker Tour now has four stops in the immediate future. In August, the tour will make a stop at bestbet Jacksonville in northern Florida. From there, players can hop aboard the Oasis of the Seas for a Card Player Cruises sponsored […]

Rep Porter Recaps WSOP and Has a Special Offer

ThePokerAcademy.com’s lead instructor Rep Porter had one heck of a 2015 World Series of Poker. He is currently seventh on the leaderboard (the standings will be updated after the completion of the WSOP Europe and the final table in November.) To put that another way, Rep is squarely in the top .01% of the player […]

5 Crazy Hands From Super High Roller Cash Game

The Super High Roller Cash game that aired nearly live on Twitch early this month (thanks to Poker Central) featured some of the biggest and most interesting hands the poker world has seen this year. The game, which had a minimum $250,000 buy-in and no maximum, featured some of the game’s top poker pros, including […]

Florida Lotto Hints At Possible Internet Future

Some in the Sunshine State are pondering a possible future of allowing the sale of lottery tickets on the Internet, according to a report from the Associated Press. Even though the lottery hasn’t officially announced plans for web services, it is asking companies, those seeking a $300 million contract with the state within the next […]

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 […]

Negreanu At WSOP National Championship FT

From a field 122 players in the 2015 World Series of Poker National Championship only seven now remain with a chance to capture the gold bracelet and the $341,599 first-place prize. Among them is none other than than six-time WSOP bracelet winner and two-time Card Player Player of the Year award winner Daniel Negreanu. Just […]

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Megachurch Claims Accountant Stole $5M For Gambling

A church in New Jersey with roughly 4,000 members is suing its former accountant over claims that he embezzled $5 million from it from 2007 until 2014 and spent a lot of it at casinos, according to Courthouse News Service. “In 2007, [Donald] Gridiron began writing unauthorized checks to himself and third parties drawn on […]

Crazy Gambling Stories From July

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. July was no exception, as there was plenty that happened in […]

Casino To Pay Poker Dealers $100K In Settlement

The Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of poker dealers. The lawsuit stemmed from the dealers not getting paid for attending meetings and picking up and dropping off uniforms before and after work, according to reporting from Courthouse […]

Gambler Sues Casino Over Roulette Ball Injury

A Washington, D.C. resident is suing Maryland Live! Casino for injuries he claims were sustained after a roulette ball became airborne and hit him above the eye in December 2013. The original complaint was filed in November, but this week a second amended complaint was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. […]

2015 Player of the Year Race: Bohn Wins In Iowa

The World Series of Poker wrapped up for the summer a few weeks ago now, and although there has been a bit of a lull, things are starting to heat up again in the 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race. Here’s a look the tournaments that most impacted the standings over the last […]

WV Lottery Trying To Thwart Charity 'Casino Nights'

Lottery officials in West Virginia want an end to charity gambling happening in some parts of the state and are setting up a “public education campaign” to combat them, according to a report from the Associated Press. In addition to a lottery, the state has five gambling facilities, and the state charges $2.5 million per […]