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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 […]

CPPT: bestbet Jacksonville Up Next

The Card Player Poker Tour will make its way back to bestbet Jacksonville after a year-long hiatus for a 10-tournament series Aug. 13-24. “It’s been over a year since our last Card Player Poker Tour event and we are very excited to have them back,” said Jesse Hollander, bestbet Jacksonville director of poker operations. Typically […]

Anti-Internet Poker Propaganda Mailed In Pennsylvania

The Sheldon Adelson-backed Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling is sending out mail in Pennsylvania that contains anti-online poker propaganda, according a representative from the Poker Players Alliance, a lobbying group on Capitol Hill. The bulk mails cites a discredited poll that claimed nearly three in four Pennsylvanians are against the state regulating online gaming. The […]

Report: US Military Improperly Spent $952K At Casinos

Members of the US military improperly spent nearly $1 million at casinos over a year-long stretch using government-issued credit cards, according to the Defense Department Inspector General, the Washington Post reported. In the 12 months ending June 30, 2014, $952,258 was improperly spent using government charge cards in casinos. Air Force members led the way […]

Man Pleads Guilty To Illegal Poker In Michigan

The state of Michigan could jail a man for two years after he admitted to running charity poker games without a charity gaming license, according to DetroitNews.com. Joseph Puertas, 54, ran some games from his bar called Shark Club between February 10-13, 2012. He gave the state the $11,800 in proceeds from the poker games. […]

Poker Strategy: Variance Is Your Friend

One of my first trips to Las Vegas after I turned 21 was with a few software engineer friends. These were sharp guys with degrees from elite universities and already considerable career accomplishments. We played some red chip blackjack. None of us was trying to get an edge at the game, though I knew basic […]

CA Lawmakers Talk More About Online Poker

On Thursday, lawmakers in California held an informational hearing on gambling in the Golden State. The hearing was titled “Overview of Gambling in California: Legality, Authorization and Regulation”—and it touched on efforts to legalize real-money online poker. It featured testimony recapping the state’s current gambling industry and what could be in store for the future. […]

Poll Shows Strong Support For PA I-Poker

A new poll in Pennsylvania shows that by a more than two-to-one margin people in the state support the government regulating online gaming. The poll was conducted by Omega Group. It surveyed 769 Pennsylvania registered voter households. It found that 58 percent support Pennsylvania legalizing and regulating online gaming, as compared to 26 percent who […]

Check Out The Las Vegas Poker Summer Schedule

Los Angeles may be the live poker capital of the world and Macau may host the biggest high-stakes games on the planet, but nothing beats the action in Las Vegas when the World Series of Poker rolls into town. While all eyes will be focused on the bracelets awarded at the Rio for the annual […]

Kansas Governor Signs Fantasy Sports Bill

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a bill making it clear that playing fantasy leagues for money is legal in the state. He signed the proposal into law on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. Rep. Brett Hildabrand, a Republican, said he introduced the bill to make sure residents aren’t going to be hit with […]

Minnesota To Discontinue Online Scratch-Offs

The Minnesota Timberwolves just won the NBA’s draft lottery, but the state itself its going to be discontinuing some of its online lottery offerings. A bill was passed this month by the Minnesota legislature and now has become law after the governor decided last week not to veto it. He vetoed a similar bill last […]

2015 POY Update: Nicholas Pupillo Into 13th Place

The World Series of Poker is just weeks away, and although that will certainly be the busiest time of the year in the 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker, there was still plenty going on in what might be called the ‘calm before the storm’ on the tournament circuit. Here’s […]

Negreanu To Push For California Online Poker

Poker pros Daniel Negreanu and Jason Somerville will be in Sacramento on Thursday to host a “media briefing” on behalf of PokerStars, just a day after lawmakers in the Golden State meet to talk more about potentially legalizing and regulating online poker. Last month, one of several online poker bills on the table in the […]

Join Card Player Poker School, Get Free $15

The Card Player Poker School has teamed up with CarbonPoker to provide students with a free $15 online poker bankroll to practice their skills. At the Card Player Poker School, students can start learning and earning with a free, comprehensive poker education website that includes ten lessons full of Card Player’s best strategy articles, videos […]

New York Lawmakers Against Online Gaming Ban

At around the same time that another online poker bill emerged in the New York legislature, some lawmakers in the Empire State urged the New York congressional delegation to oppose the Sheldon Adelson-backed bill seeking to ban online poker at the federal level. According to the New York Daily News, a group of Senate Democrats […]

Poker Business: 888, Bwin Could Merge

There has been a lot of interest in Bwin.party lately, and now 888 Holdings, which is heavily involved with U.S. regulated online poker in Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware, is interested in buying the company. According to the Guardian, 888’s interest in acquiring Bwin follows similar interest from Amaya Gaming Group, owner of both PokerStars […]

Bill Seeking To Limit NV I-Gaming Dies In Committee

A piece of legislation that would have limited Nevada’s future online gambling compacts with other jurisdictions failed to get out of committee by the May 15 deadline. The bill, AB 414, which was backed by Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corp., would have prevented the Silver State from partnering up with another state for online […]

Floyd Mayweather Wins $830K Gambling In Vegas

Floyd Mayweather reportedly earned around $200 million for beating Manny Pacquiao in the so-called “fight of the century,” and recently he used $350,000 of his bankroll to gamble on sports in Las Vegas. On Sunday, Mayweather posted photos of four of his bets to his Instagram account. “The last four days have been great,” Mayweather […]

Report Calls For Casinos Outside Of Atlantic City

According to a report filed last week from Deutsche Bank, a couple of more casinos are likely to close in Atlantic City in the near future. The report concluded that New Jersey should seriously consider casinos outside of the city, especially given budget concerns lawmakers are facing. But the report stressed that the casino situation […]

Lawmaker: Mississippi I-Poker Not Coming Soon

Despite past bills attempting to authorize online gaming in Mississippi, the industry is not going to be launching there anytime soon, according to a report from the Sun Herald. The chairman of the House Gaming Committee said that sports betting and lottery games are more likely to be approved first. Mississippi is one of only […]

New York Online Poker Bill Introduced

Last week, an online poker bill was introduced in New York, which follows an unsuccessful online poker push in the state last year. A bill at some point this year was expected. The legislation, authored by Sen. John Bonacic, a Republican, calls for a cap of 10 online poker operators. Operators would be taxed at […]

Explain Poker Like I'm Five: Freeroll

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 […]

Feds Pursue New Charge Against Paul Phua

Thanks to key evidence being deemed inadmissible, federal prosecutors are pursuing a new indictment against high-stakes poker player Paul Phua. Phua, a wealthy Malaysian businessman who has competed at the WSOP, was arrested last year for allegedly running a more than month-long illegal sports betting operation in Las Vegas. He, along with other co-conspirators, allegedly […]

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 Has Huge Week At Virtual Tables

Poker pro Phil Ivey won $280,000 on Full Tilt over the past seven days, according to tracking from HighstakesDB. Ivey was the second-largest winner over the stretch, trailing only Ben “Ben86” Tollerene’s $373,000 in winnings at the virtual tables. However, if you factor in winnings from PokerStars screen name “RaiseOnce”, which is rumored to be […]

PokerStars 'Still On Track' For New Jersey License

The CEO of Amaya Gaming Group said that PokerStars is “still on track” to be licensed by New Jersey gaming regulators in the third quarter of this year. David Baazov made the comments during a first quarter earnings call on Thursday. PokerStars’ sister site Full Tilt recently received a license to operate in Denmark, which […]

UIGEA Author Not Happy About Daily Fantasy Sports

With Disney recently investing $250 million into DraftKings and PokerStars’ parent company moving towards entering the same space, the daily fantasy sports industry is big business these days, at times entering into the same types of conversations as online poker. According to a piece on the industry by ThinkProgress, the author of the 2006 Unlawful […]

New Jersey I-Gambling Win Growing In 2015

April was a good month for online gambling in New Jersey, even though revenue from peer-to-peer poker play continues to represent a smaller chunk of the pie than it did last year. Statewide, online gambling sites in the Garden State collected $12.7 million in April compared to $11.4 million in April 2014, reflecting an increase […]

A Poker Life: Garrett Greer

Garrett Greer is one of the rising stars of the tournament poker circuit, having won more than $2 million since he began to seriously play in 2012. The Newport Beach, California resident has become a recent staple on the World Poker Tour, racking up four final-table appearances in the last two years. But Greer’s success […]

Nebraska Poker Bill Gets Mixed Signals From AG

Since January, a lawmaker in Nebraska has been pushing a bill that would classify poker as a game of skill and make it legal for some businesses to host games in the state. It’s the first time any lawmaker has tried to legalize poker individually in Nebraska. This week, at the request of a poker […]