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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 […]

Rep Porter: Using Your Chips As Weapons

How often have you walked away from a poker tournament wondering when the cards will break even and you will finally win? We all know that, over the long run, we’ll all end up with the exact same number of good hands and bad hands. So what is it that allows the same players to […]

AGA: NFL's Perception Of Casinos 'Ridiculous'

Even though the NFL owes a lot of its popularity to legal gambling, the league has a strong policy against its players participating in events at casinos. Recently, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo was told he couldn’t be involved with a fantasy football convention in Las Vegas. Three Miami Dolphins players were also recently told […]

Sam Greenwood Wins $1K NLHE WSOP Bracelet

The latest $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament at the 2015 World Series of Poker drew a massive field of 1,915 players, creating a total prize pool of $1,723,500. After the final hand had been dealt, it was 26-year-old Toronto, Canada native Sam Greenwood who was the last man standing, earning his first bracelet and the […]

Christian Pham Wins Deuce Bracelet At WSOP

The $1,500 no-limit deuce to seven draw lowball event at the 2015 World Series of Poker attracted a field of 217 players, creating a total prize pool of $295,650. After three days of poker, it was St. Paul, Minnesota poker pro Christian Pham who emerged with the win, his first bracelet and the $81,314. What […]

Explain Poker Like I'm Five: M

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 […]

Poker Pro Phil Ivey Loses $968K Online

Still missing from the 2015 World Series of Poker, gambling legend Phil Ivey has been playing online poker from Macau and managed to drop $968,000 this past weekend. Ivey played roughly 3,500 hands between Friday and Sunday and lost nearly seven figures, according to the tracking data from HighstakesDB. The losses were on PokerStars. Between […]

Ben Zamani Wins WSOP $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Benjamin Zamani had quietly put together more than $1.8 million in live tournament earnings, but despite plenty of titles online he had yet to capture a signature live tournament win. He fell just short less than a week ago when he finished runner-up in the $1,500 no-limit hold’em shootout to Barry Hutter. All of that […]

Bernard Lee Gives Away Two WSOP Buy-Ins

Professional poker player and media personality Bernard Lee has chosen two amateur poker players to each receive a $777 buy-in to a World Series of Poker bracelet event in Las Vegas, Nevada next month. The buy-ins were among 20 prizes Lee distributed in celebration of the eighth anniversary of The Bernard Lee Poker Show. “I […]

Capture The Flag: Natasha Barbour

Natasha Barbour is a Tampa-based poker professional who was born in Beirut, Lebanon. Though she came to the country for school, Barbour eventually transitioned into making a living playing cash games and tournaments. She grinds $2-$5 and $5-$10 full-time. “Always grinding,” Barbour said of her life right now and of the past 11 years. Barbour […]

Daniel Alaei Wins Fifth Career WSOP Bracelet

It seems like every couple of years Daniel Alaei decides to give his cash-game victims a break and hops into a World Series of Poker event, only to punish the field and win yet another bracelet. This time, the 30-year-old California native took down the $10,000 Omaha Eight-Or-Better event, banking $391,097 and his fifth WSOP […]

Police: Junket Operator Tried To Steal $30M

A person who worked as a middleman to help high rollers get the funds they wanted to gamble with has been accused of trying to steal $30 million worth of gambling chips from Solaire Resort and Casino in Manila, according to The Strait Times. Dominic Sim, 37, allegedly received $8 million in chips from the […]

Report: Rumor Of MGM, Wynn Merger Totally Bogus

Just days ago CNBC host Jim Cramer speculated on his widely-watched TV show “Mad Money” that rival Nevada casino giants MGM Resorts International and Wynn Resorts could join forces. Though it garnered a lot of attention and pretty quickly sent Wynn stock up seven percent, Cramer’s comment that they “might merge” reportedly has basically been […]

2015 POY Update: Paul Volpe Joins Top 10

The World Series of Poker is now in full swing, and after only two weeks it has already had a gigantic impact on the 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race. Here’s a look at the biggest tournament results from the past seven days at the Series: 2015 WSOP $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em A total […]

Top Bracelet Holders Good At Closing Out Wins

In a 2011 interview with Card Player Magazine, after a summer filled with a record three runner-up finishes in World Series of Poker events, Phil Hellmuth was asked how he felt about his then-nine missed opportunities to add to his bracelet count. “Wow,” said Hellmuth. “I didn’t know until this moment that I have nine […]

Cops: Deaf Poker Champ Killed While Trying To Buy Weed

Minnesota-based poker player Jonathan Cyril Collins, a three-time winner of National Deaf Poker Tour events, was killed last month in Las Vegas, according to court documents made public this week, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. The 39-year-old Collins and his girlfriend drove to Las Vegas to meet with a man Collins knew only by first […]

Matthew Elsby Wins WSOP $3K Limit Hold'em Event

The $3,000 six-max limit hold’em event at the 2015 World Series of Poker attracted a field of 319 entrants, creating a total prize pool of $870,870. In the end, it was 38-year-old poker pro Matthew Elsby who came out on top, earning his first gold bracelet at his second WSOP final table appearance, along with […]

Pennsylvania Further Ponders I-Poker

A Wednesday morning hearing held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was largely favorable to the online gaming issue, as numerous casino operators told lawmakers they support the state legalizing and regulating virtual casino games to help them and the state bring in more money. Pennsylvania faces a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall and the state’s casino industry has […]

Adrian Buckley Wins 2015 WSOP Millionaire Maker

Imagine if your first ever cash at the World Series of Poker was for $1,277,193 and a gold bracelet. That dream just became a reality for 27-year-old electrical engineer Adrian Buckley when he topped a gigantic field of 7,275 entries in the 2015 WSOP ‘Millionaire Maker’ $1,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em event. After overcoming the sixth-largest […]

Poker's Paul 'Eskimo' Clark Passes Away

Three-time WSOP bracelet winner Paul “Eskimo” Clark passed away in April, according to an online posting that has been circulating through the poker community this week. Clark was born on June 2, 1947 in Stockton, Missouri, grew up in Louisiana and died on April 15, 2015 in Las Vegas. He is survived by three sisters […]

NFL Bars Several Players From $94 Poker Tournament

The No Fun League is at it again. The NFL reportedly has told several players on the Miami Dolphins that they can’t participate in a $94 buy-in poker tournament Tuesday at the Seminole Casino in Coconut Creek. AJ Francis, Jason Fox and Jordan Cameron all had agreed to play and were featured on an advertisement […]

PA Lawmakers To Talk More About I-Poker

With California online poker efforts possibly dead for the remainder of 2015 to basically no one’s surprise, the state of Pennsylvania is by far the most likely out of any jurisdiction in America to legalize and regulate the virtual version of the card game next. Six proposals pertaining to online casino games are currently being […]

Hellmuth Wins 14th Bracelet In 2015 WSOP $10k Razz

The “Poker Brat” has made history yet again. Phil Hellmuth has come out on top in a World Series of Poker event for the record 14th time. The 50-year-old poker pro who resides in Palo Alto, CA topped a field of 103 players in the 2015 WSOP $10,000 seven-card Razz Championship to add even more […]

John Gale Wins 2015 WSOP $1,000 NLH Turbo

John Gale won his first bracelet at the 2006 World Series of Poker. Nine years later the 61-year-old Englishman won his second WSOP title, topping a field of 1,791 players in the $1,000 no-limit hold’em turbo event to earn his second bracelet and the first-place prize of $298,290. “It is still incredible,” said Gale after […]

David Baker Talks About Razz Tournament Strategy

The $10,000 razz tournament kicked off Saturday at the 2015 World Series of Poker with 103 entrants. The tournament was just one of two razz events scheduled at the summer series, but the poker variation still remains as a popular game rotated into many mixed games around the country, including several mixed games tournaments at […]

NBA's Earl Barron Cashes At World Series

No matter what happened, the WSOP’s “Millionaire Maker” tournament couldn’t make him a millionaire. Earl Barron, a seven-foot center/power forward for the Phoenix Suns, on Sunday made the money in the 2015 World Series of Poker Millionaire Maker tournament, which had a buy-in of $1,500 and drew 7,275 entries, second most of the series so […]

Another Round Of Full Tilt Poker Payments Coming

Late last week, $4.3 million in additional money that is still owed to poker players from the old Full Tilt Poker site was given the green light to soon be returned. Garden City Group, the claims administrator in the remission process, said that the Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section has approved […]

Phil Hellmuth Eyeing 14th WSOP Bracelet

On Monday, poker pro Phil Hellmuth entered the final day of the $10,000 Razz Championship third in chips with just 12 players remaining. The deep run is Hellmuth’s first cash of the summer and 109th life-time at the WSOP. He has 20 more cashes than Erik Seidel, who also happens to be alive in the […]

Barry Hutter Wins WSOP $1,500 Shootout Event

A total of 1,000 players turned out for the $1,500 no-limit hold’em shootout event at the World Series of Poker, creating a prize pool of $1,350,000. After three days of what amounted to basically ten-handed sit-n-gos, 29-year-old poker pro Barry Hutter was the last man standing, banking $284,546 and his first career bracelet. “I think […]

Mobile Gambling In Australia Fits Lifestyle Like Glove

Aussies are a very special kind of people. In fact the entire continent is a very special kind of continent. They say what doesn’t kill you probably doesn’t live in Australia, referring to all the dangerous and venomous animals that live there. In fact, everything Down Under is out to kill you! Except for the […]