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Carbon Online Poker Series Underway

The Carbon Online Poker Series has kicked off on CarbonPoker. The 76-event series boasts over $2.3 million in guarantees over the course of 15 days of action. There will be a minimum of four events each day, with buy-ins ranging from as low as $5.50 to as high as $530. The Carbon OPS has five […]

Poker Pros Extend Lead In Match Against Claudico

Through 61,000 of the 80,000-hand requirement, the team of poker pros taking on the poker bot Claudico at heads-up no-limit hold’em have a commanding leading of 680,450. Doug Polk, Dong Kim, Bjorn Li and Jason Les all put in sessions yesterday against the machine, which was developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers. Claudico is considered […]

Bill Would 'Make Alabama Look Like Vegas': Governor

Given Alabama’s budget issues that could soon be as severe as $700 million, some in the state want a lottery and casino gambling at a handful of facilities in the state. However, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley came out this week to bash plans for the gambling expansion in his state. “It is one of the […]

Kansas Senate Passes Fantasy Sports Bill

State senators in Kansas on Monday approved a bill that would classify fantasy sports as legal games of skill in the state. The bill passed the full Senate by a huge 37-1 margin. The bill still needs to pass the House and then be signed by the governor before becoming law. According to a report […]

Capture The Flag: Randy Lew

Randy “nanonoko” Lew, a former world class video game player, is now one of poker’s premiere high-volume online grinders. He typically plays 24 tables of six-max no-limit hold’em cash games. Lew studied managerial economics at UC Davis and it was there that he discovered poker would be a much more lucrative endeavor. According to PokerStars, […]

The Riviera Casino Ends 60-Year Run

As planned, the Riviera on the Las Vegas Strip ended its 60-year history on Monday at noon. The casino was bought by city officials who are going to turn it into a section of the $2.3 billion Las Vegas Global Business District project. In other words, the property is going to become convention space. Thousands […]

Poker Pros Dominating In Human Vs. Machine Match

Through the seventh day of the Brains Vs. AI match run by Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, poker pros Doug Polk, Bjorn Li, Dong Kim, and Jason Les are up a combined 458,902 against the poker bot named “Claudico”. It has so far been pretty easy for the team. Polk is leading the […]

Win WSOP Seats With Americas Cardroom

Between now and June 21, Americas Cardroom (ACR) will be awarding at least 50 prize packages valued at $12,500 to the World Series of Poker main event in Las Vegas this July. That’s a total of $625,000 in prizes up for grabs! The tournaments, which features buy-ins of $50+$5 on Sundays and $100+$9 on Wednesdays, […]

Macau Casino Industry Has $2.4 Billion April

Macau had yet another poor month, winning $2.40 billion from gamblers in April. That’s nearly 40 percent less than gaming revenue in April 2014. Gaming win has declined 11 straight months for Macau. Year-to-date gaming win has fallen 37 percent compared to the same period last year. Macau is the only place in China where […]

WSOP No Longer Allowing $100 Bills In Cash Games

Unlike in years past, the upcoming World Series of Poker will not allow $100 bills to be in play at cash game tables, the WSOP said on Friday in a notice posted to Twitter. “We believe this decision best aligns our guest experience to stay up to date with evolving industry standards and ensure our […]

Seidel Wins EPT Grand Final €100k Super High Roller

Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel has done it again. The 55-year-old American poker pro overcame a record field of 59 entries in the 2015 European Poker Tour Grand Final €100,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em super high roller. Seidel defeated 19-year-old Polish rising star Dzmitry Urbanovich heads-up to capture his 28th career tournament title and the […]

Enrici Christophe Wins CPPT St. Maarten Main Event

The energy inside Maho Bay, St. Maarten’s Casino Royale was high as the final table of the inaugural Card Player Poker Tour St. Maarten main event played out to the sounds of the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight in the background. The 138-player $1,650 no-limit hold’em $200,000 guarantee main event came down to local players Enrici Christophe and […]

Crazy Gambling Stories From April

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

CPPT St. Maarten: Mark Gregorich Leads Final 39

The final starting day of the inaugural Card Player Poker Tour St. Maarten main event came to a close with a total of 138 entries and a $207,000 prize pool. Mark Gregorich leads the final 39 players with a stack of 231,900. Joan Sandoval put away 203,300 for the night and Slamani Tahar will return […]

MGM CEO Not Concerned About Web Poker Ban

MGM Resorts International CEO Jim Murren had some interesting comments about the proposed ban on Internet gaming when he was speaking to the LVRJ’s Washington Bureau, among other news outlets, on Wednesday. Murren said that it wouldn’t be the end of the world, for MGM, if online gaming is banned. Internet betting is just a […]

Online Poker: Viktor Blom Takes In $1 Million

Poker pro Viktor Blom won $1 million yesterday at the online poker tables, according to HighstakesDB. Blom ran super well at $1,000-$2,000 limit Omaha eight-or-better. Blom was having about a break-even week until Thursday when he started to kick things into high gear. The Swede logged sessions on both PokerStars and Full Tilt. Other big […]

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 […]

Smaller Online Poker Player Pools Show Market Slowdown

Fragmented online poker networks, especially a largely closed-off American player pool, are a big reason why online poker traffic continues to decline globally. Data from PokerScout shows that, if you take the last seven-day running average (April 21-28) for ring game players as your point of reference, cash game traffic on the world’s poker sites […]

CPPT St. Maarten: Mark Stephen Edwards Leads Day 1A

With the crisp ocean breeze blowing just outside the doors of Casino Royale and the sound of crashing waves mixing with clicking chips, Mark Stephen Edwards bagged the largest stack of the night on Day 1A of the Card Player Poker Tour St. Maarten inaugural $1,650 no-limit hold’em $200,000 guarantee main event. Edwards bagged 164,400 […]

888Poker Partners With Pennsylvania Casino

888 has partnered with Pennsylvania’s Mount Airy Casino in anticipation of online gaming being legalized in the Keystone State, according to a report from EGR North America. 888 is a technology partner with the World Series of Poker in Nevada and New Jersey and is the back-end software for Delaware’s three-site online poker industry. Nevada […]

Indiana Casino Bill Sent To Governor's Desk

The Indiana legislature has passed a bill that would allow the state’s 11 riverboat casinos to move onto land adjacent to where they are docked. The bill is now in the hands of the governor, who actually has not indicated whether or not he will sign the legislation into law, according to nwitimes.com. The commercial […]

CPPT St. Maarten Results

The fifth stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Casino Royale in Maho Bay, St. Maarten April 24. The series will continue until May 3 and feature a $1,650 no-limit hold’em $200,000 guarantee main event April 30 – May 3. Here is a look at the latest results: Event: […]

New Hampshire House Again Kills Casino Plan

A proposal in New Hampshire would have allowed two Las Vegas-style casinos to open in the state, but House lawmakers on Wednesday decidedly voted against it. The New Hampshire House disapproved of a similar plan last year. A handful of pro-casino proposals have died in recent years. The Senate has proven to be open to […]

Nevada Poker Rooms Collect $9.7 Million In March

Revenue from poker rooms in Nevada was $9.69 million in March, according to a gaming revenue report released by Silver State regulators this week. In March, Nevada had 70 poker rooms and 666 poker tables, the report said. That’s a significant drop from the 736 tables in March of last year, when poker revenue was […]

Asher Conniff Wins 2015 WPT Championship

For the second year running the World Poker Tour Championship was held at the Borgata Casino Hotel and Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The 2015 WPT Championship $15,000 no-limit hold’em main event drew a total of 239 entries and in the end Brooklyn poker pro Asher Conniff emerged victorious, earning $973,683 and 1,152 Card […]

Daniel Negreanu Partners With Poker Central Network

Poker Central has announced that poker pro Daniel Negreanu has partnered with the network to help make 24/7 poker a reality. “We are excited to add Daniel to the Poker Central team,” said Clint Stinchcomb, chief executive officer of Poker Central. “Daniel is a great ambassador of the game and will help take televised poker […]

Watch The WPT Championship Live Stream

The final table is set in the 2015 World Poker Tour World Championship and features a stellar lineup that includes three-time WPT winner and all-time WPT money winner Carlos Mortensen, former WPT champion Tony Dunst and two-time WSOP bracelet winner Brian Yoon. The table is rounded out with notables Ray Qartomy, Asher Conniff and Alexander […]

Casino Legislation Finally Submitted In Japan

A long-awaited casino proposal has been submitted to the Japanese Parliament, according to a report from Reuters. It’s probably too late, though, for the Las Vegas-style casinos to be open in time for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Japan is seen as a lucrative gambling market and has the attention of some of the top […]

2015 POY Update: Joe Kuether Climbs To Third

With the WPT World Championship playing on and the EPT Grand Final is about to get underway in Monte Carlo, one might assume that not much changed in the past few days in the 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. They’d be wrong. Over past seven days the Borgata Spring […]

Penn National Buying Las Vegas' Tropicana

The Tropicana casino on the Las Vegas Strip is being bought by Penn National Gaming, according to a report from VegasInc. Penn National also operates the M Resort in Las Vegas, but the Tropicana will be its first property on the Strip, the report added. The casino operator has 26 casinos and racinos sprinkled throughout […]