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Shaun Deeb Wins WSOP $10,000 PLH Championship

As a high stakes cash game player with millions in tournament winnings, Shaun Deeb already had the respect of his peers. What he lacked was a signature live tournament win and a World Series of Poker gold bracelet. All of that changed on Saturday, June 6th, when he topped a stacked final table in the […]

Maslak Wins WSOP $2,500 Omaha/Stud 8/OB

Konstantin Maslak topped a field of 474 players in the 2015 World Series of Poker $2,500 buy-in Omaha/seven card stud eight-or-better tournament, capturing his first gold bracelet and $269,612 in prize money. The 30-year-old from Volgograd, Russia took up poker just six years ago, but with a strong background in other strategy games has quickly […]

Idan Raviv Earns Israel's First Bracelet of 2015

A total of 1,651 players turned out for the $1,500 six-handed no-limit hold’em tournament at the 2015 World Series of Poker, generating a total prize pool of $2,228,850. After three days of action, the win went to 24-year-old IT professional Idan Raviv, from Holon, Israel. This is the second year in a row that a […]

Rep Porter: Using Your Chips As Weapons

In this column, I want to explore the dynamics of what happens when the action folds to the button. Let’s suppose we are playing with antes, and the antes add up to at least one big blind. Let’s first look at how the small blind and big blind react to a normal raise by the […]

Scott Davies Prepared For WSOP "Global Melting Pot"

Scott Davies has been on an action-packed ride around the world since taking down the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific $10,000 AUD main event in October of 2014. That score, the largest of his career, earned him $744,781 and the bankroll to play some larger tournaments and games across the map. Since then Davies has […]

Is Bridge A Sport? UK Judge To Decide

In September, a judge in London will determine whether or not the card game bridge is a sport, according to reporting from the BBC. The English Bridge Union wants the country’s sports council, named Sport England, to recognize the game as a sport. Doing so would allow the EBU to receive state funding. A spokesman […]

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 […]

Phil Ivey Still A No-Show At 2015 WSOP

Phil Ivey, winner of 10 World Series of Poker bracelets, is not yet in Las Vegas for this summer’s festival. He’s rumored to still be in Macau, and while he has been there Ivey lost around $340,000 playing online poker over the past week, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. Ivey logged around 6,200 hands […]

William Kakon Wins WSOP $1,500 LHE Event

The $1,500 limit hold’em event at the 2015 World Series of Poker drew a field of 660 players, creating an $891,000 prize pool. After three days of action, it was 38-year-old real estate broker and healthcare professional William Kakon who emerged with the victory, the $196,055 first-place prize and his first gold bracelet. Kakon, who […]

Lehr Wins 2015 WSOP $10k Heads-Up Championship

Keith Lehr has emerged victorious from a field of 143 entrants in the 2015 World Series of Poker $10,000 heads-up no-limit hold’em championship, capturing the $334,430 first-place prize and his second gold bracelet in the process. “As I get older, I realize it’s a kid’s game,” said the 51-year-old Lehr after play ended. "Winning is […]

Judge Tosses Case Against American Pharoah Owner

The owner of racehorse American Pharoah, which will be competing this week for the first Triple Crown since 1978, happily saw a judge this week toss out a gambling debt lawsuit against him. The federal judge in New Jersey ruled that Ahmed Zayat wasn’t on the hook for the $1.65 million Florida resident Howard Rubinsky […]

Turning Stone Gears Up For Summer Poker Classic

This June, the Turning Stone Casino in central New York will host the Summer Poker Classic, a nine-event series that culminates with the $500+$50 buy-in $75,000 guarantee main event. The main event begins Friday, June 26 with the first of two starting flights and will continue until Sunday, June 28. Each player will start with […]

Paul Michaelis Wins WSOP $1,500 PLH Event

The $1,500 pot-limit hold’em event at the 2015 World Series of Poker drew a field of 639 entrants, creating a total prize pool of $862,650. In the end, it was 24-year-old Paul Michaelis who came out on top, besting high-stakes poker pro Tom Marchese heads-up for his first gold bracelet and the $189,818 first-place prize. […]

Two Nevada Sports Betting Bills Become Law

A pair of sports betting bills in Nevada became law this week, which will likely increase the state’s already robust market for betting on athletics, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. One of the measures allows for business entities to accept money for wagers on behalf of investors and place them at Nevada sports books. […]

Max Pescatori Wins Third Career WSOP Bracelet

Max Pescatori was a staple of the tournament circuit during the early years of the poker boom and had quite a bit of success at the World Series of Poker, earning bracelets in both 2006 and 2008, but other than a few small victories in Europe, it had been a while since he had seen […]

Sixth Pennsylvania I-Poker Proposal Pitched

You can tell Pennsylvania has momentum going for legalizing and regulating online poker, as a sixth proposal this year that has provisions related to the web games was pitched on Wednesday. In a memorandum from Pennsylvania Senators Kim Ward, Robert Tomlinson, Elder Vogel and Joseph Scarnati, the lawmakers said they will be introducing a bill […]

Cord Garcia Wins WSOP Colossus Event For $638,880

The $5 million guaranteed $565 buy-in 2015 World Series of Poker ‘Colossus’ no-limit hold’em event drew the largest field in live tournament history. An incredible total of 22,374 entries were made in the re-entry event, blowing away the guarantee to build a $11,187,000 prize pool. There were 14,284 unique players in this historic event, including […]

2015 POY: Michael Wang, Bryn Kenney Into Top Ten

The World Series of Poker began a week ago, and already it has shaken up the standings in the 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race. Here’s a look at the biggest tournament results from the first seven days at the Rio: 2015 WSOP $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em The first open event of the 2015 […]

New Revel Owner Open To Selling Beleaguered Property

It’s possible that Revel Atlantic City could be sold again before it re-opens—assuming it ever resumes taking bets from gamblers. According to the Philadelphia Business Journal, Florida real estate developer Glenn Straub, who bought the shuttered casino for $82 million earlier this year after a long, tortuous process to acquire it, has said that he […]

HPO Championship Returning To M Resort In June

The Hollywood Poker Open Championship has been scheduled to return to Las Vegas this June 26-28 at the M Resort Spa Casino. The $2,500 buy-in event, which is expected to have a prize pool of near $2 million this summer, will close out the third season of the HPO tour. In 2014, the event drew […]

Poker Home Game Killing Ruled Justifiable Homicide

A man who killed another man who allegedly was trying to rob a home poker game in Michigan won’t face charges for the incident. According to MLive.com, the shooting death of 25-year-old Ramon Vasquez was ruled a justifiable homicide. Police said that on Mar. 11 Vasquez and another would-be robber entered the apartment hosting the […]

Ivey's 'Edge-Sorting' Partner Loses Foxwoods Case

Cheung Yin Sun, who is currently fighting a lawsuit in Atlantic City involving Phil Ivey, had her $3 million lawsuit against Foxwoods casino in Connecticut dismissed by a judge this week. Sun, along with two other gamblers, Long Mei Fan and Zong Yang Li, used what they consider to be a legal method of gaining […]

Le Goes Back-To-Back In WSOP $10k Triple Draw 2-7

Tuan Le has done it again. Last year he emerged victorious in the World Series of Poker $10,000 triple draw deuce-to-seven lowball championship, topping a field of 110 players to win his first bracelet. He had one less competitor to deal with, but otherwise the story was the same in the 2015 WSOP triple draw […]

Phil Hellmuth Partners With Poker Central

Poker Central, soon to be the world’s only 24/7 poker TV network, announced last week that 13-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth is a new Poker Central partner. Hellmuth is the latest poker pro to commit to the upcoming 24/7 poker TV network. Antonio Esfandiari and Daniel Negreanu both partnered with the […]

Casino Janitor Arrested For Sweeping Up Money

A janitorial worker at casino in Stateline, Nevada was arrested and is looking at a $25,000 bail for allegedly sweeping $10,000 in cash a gambler had accidentally dropped on the ground into his dustpan, according to a report from The Record-Courier. Police said the gambler had won $70,000 and while leaving the gaming floor dropped […]

Ancient 'Casino' Discovered In Utah

Around 700 years before Las Vegas popped up in the Mojave Desert, people in what is currently Utah were apparently really into gambling, according to ongoing research from archaeologists at the University of Alberta and Brigham Young University, Westerndigs.org reported last month. A cave on the shore of the Great Salt Lake reportedly has turned […]

Op-Ed: Web Poker 'A Resource PA Should Mine Now'

A newspaper in Pennsylvania’s capital city is calling for lawmakers to legalize and regulate online gaming. The Patriot-News posted an op-ed Friday detailing how the state’s current budget issues is a strong reason for online poker legalization this summer. The piece came just days before lawmakers in the state’s House Gaming Oversight Committee were scheduled […]

John Reading Wins 2015 WSOP $1,000 Hyper Hold'em

With the newly increased starting stacks across the board this year at the 2015 World Series of Poker events have consistently been running long. The third tournament of the summer had to add an extra day in order to play down to a champion. Nothing like that was necessary in the $1,000 hyper turbo no-limit […]

Judge Dismisses Case Against Paul Phua

The government’s improper collection of evidence that resulted in an illegal gambling indictment against high-stakes poker player and wealthy Malaysian businessman Paul Phau has finally resulted in the case against him being dismissed. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a federal judge in Nevada made the ruling Monday. Last July, FBI agents seized evidence from […]

Macau's Decline Reaches One-Year Mark

Gambling revenue in Macau was $2.5 billion in May, down from the $4 billion from one year ago, according to figures released this week by the local government. The 37-percent decline marks 12 consecutive months that gaming win has fallen year-over-year in the former Portuguese colony, the only place in China where gambling is legal. […]