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CPPT St. Maarten: Main Event Begins Today

The $1,650 no-limit hold’em $200,000 guarantee main event of the Card Player Poker Tour St. Maarten series begins April 30. The tournament will run for four days with two starting flights, a play-down day and the final table day. Players will begin with 20,000 in starting chips with the option buy an additional 10,000 in […]

Nevada Charges Bryan Micon Over Bitcoin Poker Site

Nevada officials are charging poker pro Bryan Micon over allegedly running an unlicensed online gaming platform, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Micon allegedly operated Seals with Clubs, which was a poker site that used bitcoins. Seals with Clubs, which utilized servers overseas, was shut down in February. Micon said his home was raided at the […]

Maine Considers Two More Casinos

On Monday, lawmakers in Maine met to discuss eight separate bills proposing more gambling in the state, according to a report from the Sun Journal. Last year, a report was released that said that Maine could support two more casinos, one in the south and a smaller one in the north. The minimum investment for […]

Iowa Lottery Considering Online Gaming

Iowa has in the past flirted with the idea of online poker, and now the state lottery is considering bringing real-money games to the Internet, according to a report from wnax.com. The state’s lottery CEO testified before the Iowa House Government Oversight Committee that bringing games to the Internet is needed to remain competitive. CEO […]

California I-Poker Bill Advances Out Of Committee

One of several online poker bills on the table in California cleared a legislative committee on Monday, marking the first time that lawmakers in the state have voted on an online poker proposal. They had failed to do so for years. The bill, AB 431, navigated out of the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee. The coalition […]

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: […]

Rand Paul Gets Poker 'Lessons' From Bilzerian

Libertarian U.S. Senator Rand Paul, who is running for president, recently played some “poker” with notorious Instagram celeb and high-stakes poker player Dan Bilzerian. Bilzerian recently resolved a case in Nevada in which he was accused of bomb-making. The Daily Caller reported that Paul sent out a Snapchat Friday morning of him taking “lessons” from […]

AUDIO: California Online Poker Hearing Today

Poker players and online poker advocates can listen to today’s online poker hearing in Sacramento, which starts at 1:30 p.m. PST. It’s the first of four California online poker hearings planned between now and mid-July. Seven pieces of legislation pertaining to various issues will be discussed at the public hearing, so in a sense it’s […]

Pennsylvania Casino To Host I-Gaming Hearing

Pennsylvania is getting serious about regulated online poker. On Tuesday, Mount Airy Casino Resort, one of the state’s 12 casinos, will host a public hearing for online gaming held by the House Gaming Oversight Committee, according to a report from the Pocono Record. The hearing reportedly will be on the topic of how to keep […]

Watch The 2015 CPPT Atlantis Final Table Recap

A total of 150 entries were made in the 2015 Card Player Poker Tour Atlantis $150,000 guaranteed $1,080 no-limit hold’em main event. In the end only the top nine finishers made the final table and earned the right to battle it out for the title and the first-place prize of $38,625. This marked the third […]

Grandmother Denied $41 Million Slot Jackpot

Slot machines are the cash cow for the U.S. casino industry, but sometimes they can be the biggest headaches. According to the Associated Press, the Iowa Supreme Court said on Friday that Isle Casino Hotel doesn’t have to pay a grandmother $41 million because the penny slot machine she was playing on was defective. Pauline […]

Web Poker: Viktor Blom Loses $340,000

A week after he won $385,000, poker pro Viktor Blom gave $340,000 of it back, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. Blom had a very nice stretch from April 10-17, but since then has lost most of the profits. It took the Swede roughly 1,800 hands to lose the $340,000. The online poker star is […]

New Bill Seeks To Ban PA Online Poker

Pennsylvania has three bills on the table that would legalize online poker and lead to its regulation. As of Monday, there is now an anti-online poker bill on the table as well. House Bill 1013, which was introduced by Rep. Thomas Murt, sits in the House Gaming Oversight Committee. The Committee is chaired by Rep. […]

CPPT: St. Maarten Event Begins April 24

For the first time ever the Card Player Poker Tour will make a stop at Casino Royale in Maho Bay, St. Maarten in conjunction with Card Player Cruises for a 22-tournament series set amid the backdrop of the breathtaking Caribbean April 24-May 3. The feature event will be the $1,650 no-limit hold’em $200,000 guarantee main […]

2015 POY Update: Griffin Paul Joins Top 20

By taking down a huge event in Florida one more player has joined the top twenty in the 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. Here is a look at the results of the tournaments that made the biggest impact on the POY standings in the past seven days: 2015 WPT […]

Sheldon Adelson's Profits Fall Drastically In Q1

Revenue for Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corp. fell 24.9 percent to $3.01 billion compared to $4.01 billion in the first quarter of 2014, the company said this week. Its net profits on the $3.01 billion were $512 million, down from $776 million year-over-year. According to Bloomberg, Sands’ revenue has fallen every quarter over the […]

Poker Professional Throws Out First Pitch

Poker pro Bryan Devonshire had the opportunity two weekends ago to throw out the first pitch in a Rockies game in Denver. The veteran grinder was offered a chance to perform the honors before the Rockies took on the Cubs thanks to an offer from daily fantasy sports site DraftKings. Lately, there has been an […]

CA I-Poker Hearing Rescheduled For Monday

An online poker hearing in California that was originally planned for Wednesday has been rescheduled for Monday. The proposal, Assembly Bill 431, will be discussed at 1:30 p.m. local time in Sacramento. The Assembly Governmental Organization Committee is where it will be discussed. According to Chris Krafcik of GamblingCompliance, the legislation is considered a “shell” […]

Griffin Paul Wins 2015 WPT SHR Poker Showdown

Griffin Paul has won the 2015 World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $3,500 buy-in $5 million guaranteed no-limit hold’em main event, topping a field of 1,476 entries to capture the title and a $1,000,000 payday. The 22-year-old poker pro from Calabasas, California also earned 1,440 Card Player Player of the Year points, moving […]

Hollywood Poker Open Coming To Columbus

The third exciting year of the Hollywood Poker Open is in full swing and heading to the Midwest. Hollywood Casino Columbus will host the upcoming HPO Regional Tournament beginning May 14 through May 25. Once again, regional play features poker champion Chris Moneymaker with head-to-head action culminating the weekend of the Main Event starting May […]

Adelson-Backed Nevada I-Poker Bill Advances

On Friday, members of Nevada’s Assembly passed AB 414, a Sheldon Adelson-backed proposal to limit online gaming compacts with other states to just web poker. The vote was pretty close: 23 were in favor, while 17 were against and two abstained. The bill, which was introduced on Mar. 19, has been moving swiftly through the […]

California Online Poker Hearing Postponed

The first of four scheduled online poker hearings in California has been removed from today’s calendar and currently doesn’t have a new date, according to the Poker Players Alliance. Wednesday’s hearing was titled “Gambling: Internet poker” and was going to feature discussion on AB 431, one of four proposals, from four men, on the table […]

Ed Miller Releases New Poker Strategy Book

Poker author and Card Player columnist Ed Miller has announced that his ninth book, The Course: Serious Hold’em Strategy For Smart Players is now available for pre-order. Miller, who has sold more than 250,000 copies of his books in the last decade, is following up favorites such as Small Stakes Hold’em: Winning Big With Expert […]

Mohegan Sun Pursuing $5B Casino In South Korea

While a casino arms race is ongoing in the Northeast United States, the operator of Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun has partnered with an airport in South Korea in a pitch for a $5 billion casino in the country, according to Reuters. The country will eventually award two new casino licenses. Mohegan Sun and Incheon International Airport […]

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 […]

Alabama Could Become 45th State With Lotto

Thanks to a 2011 Department of Justice re-interpretation of the Wire Act, the lottery and online casino games, including poker, are in the same boat these days, especially as the federal government considers legislation (RAWA) pertaining to both. In the meantime, the state of Alabama is weighing a lottery since it is facing a budget […]

Paul Leads WPT SHR Poker Showdown Final Table

The televised final table is set in the 2015 World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown no-limit hold’em main event. A total of 1,476 entries were made in the $3,500 buy-in, $5 million guaranteed event, but from that sea of potential champions only six remain to battle it out for the $1,000,000 first-place prize […]

Jonathan Duhamel, PokerStars Part Ways

Jonathan Duhamel, the 2010 World Series of Poker main event champion, is no longer a PokerStars-sponsored pro, the online poker platform’s website indicates. The 27-year-old Canadian’s departure from the site follows 2009 main event champion Joe Cada leaving the site’s stable of poker pros late last year. Last year, PokerStars cut ties with a number […]

Alex Jacob Falls Short On Latest Jeopardy

“This social media company launched in October 2010; in 2012, with about a dozen employees and no revenue, it sold for $1 billion.” This was the Final Jeopardy clue that cost former poker pro Alex Jacob his winning streak on the latest episode of Jeopardy Monday night. Jacob answered incorrectly when he wrote down, “what […]

Jon Stewart Rips Chris Christie Over Online Gaming

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart criticized New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in an airing of the show yesterday (video below) which featured commentary on the marijuana issue. Christie, a Republican, is, predictably, against the legalization of marijuana, even at the state level. Stewart basically called Christie a hypocrite for legalizing online gaming and sports […]