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Plan For More Connecticut Casinos Advances

As more casinos continue to pop up in the Northeast, the state of Conneticut is geting more serious about the possibility of up to three additional casinos within its borders. Connecticut officials are especially concerned about a casino in Springfield, Massachusetts, which is very close to the border between the two states. That MGM property, […]

Poker Strategy With Gavin Griffin: Embracing Variance

Last month I played in what is probably the toughest $5,000 buy-in no-limit tournament of the year during the Los Angeles Poker Classic at the Commerce Casino. There were 86 runners and a very good structure. My starting table was tough, with only one real soft spot who busted very early in the tournament. There […]

Wyoming Considering State Gaming Commission

In anticipation of next year’s legislative session in Wyoming, lawmakers in the state are going to be studying a number of their gaming options. Wyoming is weighing whether to establish a gaming commission, which could oversee gaming expansion, according to a report from the Casper Star Tribune. Late last year, Wyoming kicked off its lottery, […]

California Schedules Online Poker Hearings

Though a California-regulated online poker site could be a handful of years away, the state will keep at working through the complexities of legalizing the industry in four separate hearings planned in the coming weeks and months. The number of hearings planned is the same as the number of online poker proposals currently on the […]

Judge Sides With High-Stakes Poker Player

A federal judge has said that the FBI’s tactics to gather evidence against a high-stakes poker player violated his privacy rights, according to a report from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Wealthy Malaysian businessman Paul Phua is currently fighting charges related to illegal sports gambling on last year’s World Cup. He allegedly operated the lucrative online […]

Chinese Cops Raid PokerStars Live Tournament

A PokerStars-sponsored poker tournament in Nanjing, China was shut down on Friday by the Chinese National Police. Gambling is illegal in mainland China, but apparently authorities in the city don’t quite see poker as the game of skill that it is and need questions about the tournaments addressed. Even though gambling is illegal under Chinese […]

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. The series will begin April 24 with a $125 no-limit hold’em tournament and wrap up […]

Jeopardy Fans Irked By Alex Jacob's Playing Style

We’ve been reporting on former poker pro Alex Jacob and his unorthodox, but successful Jeopardy playing style all week. In fact, on Friday Jacob won for the sixth time, increasing his earnings to $149,802, but some game show purists out there still aren’t sold on the 30-year-old’s strategy. Jacob has been dominating his competition by […]

Explain Poker Like I'm Five: Blocker Bet

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 […]

Pennsylvania Sets New Table Games Record

As lawmakers in Pennsylvania ponder whether to legalize and regulate online gaming, the state’s 12 brick-and-mortar casinos sprinkled throughout the state just turned in their best ever month for table games revenue. Revenue from table games was $69.7 million in March, the highest monthly total in the five years that the form of gambling has […]

Online Poker: Viktor Blom Win $385,000

Over the past seven days, online poker pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom scooped $385,000 in winnings, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. He was one of the top earners. Most of those profits came on Full Tilt, and they more than cut in half his losses on 2015. Blom is in the red roughly $315,000 this […]

Alex Jacob Ups Jeopardy Win Streak To Five

On Thursday night, former poker pro Alex Jacob upped his winning streak on the TV game show Jeopardy to five while also increasing his earnings to a total of $129,401. The Chicago currency trader breezed past his competition and for the fourth time in five appearances, he did not have to sweat the Final Jeopardy […]

Win Ultimate High Roller Vacation In Las Vegas

Right now, you can win the ultimate high roller vacation for yourself and a friend to watch the final table of the 2015 Super High Roller Bowl at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas this summer. The best part is that no purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter and […]

California Online Poker Matter Of When, Not If

Many people had high hopes for California online poker in 2015, but it appears at least a couple of years away right now. Implementation of an online poker network would take a little while as well, so the first site to launch in California probably wouldn’t happen until 2019 or 2020, according to industry estimates. […]

Family Pleads Guilty To Illegal Sports Betting

One of the top sports bettors in Las Vegas is pleading guilty to illegal sports betting, according to a report from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The report said that Glen Cobb has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of the misdemeanor “accessory after the fact to the crime of transmission of wagering information.” His […]

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 […]

Global Sports Betting 'Worth Trillions'

An estimated $1.3 trillion, at least, is bet on sports globally every year, according to testimony by an expert on the industry in front of the United Nations. He said that other experts believe it could actually be three to four times that, given the difficulty in measuring illegal betting, with so much money circulating—especially […]

Alex Jacob Challenged On Fourth Jeopardy Appearance

It wasn’t easy, but Alex Jacob won for the fourth time on Jeopardy Wednesday night. This time, he was actually forced to play Final Jeopardy against worthy opponent Becky Hammer. The 30-year-old former poker pro still went into the final round of the game with lead, having racked up $20,700, but the formidable Hammer used […]

Pennsylvania Holds Online Poker Hearing

On Thursday, Pennsylvania’s House Gaming Oversight Committee held a roughly 130 minute-long hearing on an online gaming proposal in the Keystone State. H.B. 649, which is a proposal from Rep. John Payne, was the legislation being discussed. The hearing in Harrisburg featured testimony about how online gaming works well in other jurisdictions, in Europe, as […]

Guy Laliberté Selling Cirque du Soleil: Report

High-stakes poker player and Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté has agreed to sell the company, according to a report from CTV Montreal. TPG Capital, as well Fosun Capital of Shanghai China and the Quebec government’s Caisse de Depot are all buyers in the deal, according to an unconfirmed report. The deal reportedly is less […]

A Poker Life: David Paredes

David Paredes loves the game of poker, but to call him a poker player would be to sell him short. The New York native has his life as a chess player, video game prodigy, child actor, and fiction writer. He’s also worked on Wall Street, graduated from Harvard and NYU Law, and played a major […]

Win WSOP Colossus Seat With Card Player Poker

Right now, you can win your way into the $565 Colossus event at this summer’s World Series of Poker, which is guaranteeing a whopping $5 million prize pool, with Card Player Poker. Qualifiers are running now for the Apr. 30 online final. The best part is that it’s absolutely FREE to play. Memberships to Card […]

New Revel Owner Threatens To Abandon Casino

The Revel drama is far from over, as the buyer has threatened to scrap the redevelopment project altogether, even after a torturous process to buy it recently concluded. The utility company that once supplied power to the shuttered casino in Atlantic City decided to shut off service to the casino over a dispute with new […]

Poker Player's Unorthodox Strategy Crushes Jeopardy

Former poker pro Alex Jacob won for the third time on Jeopardy Tuesday night, bringing his total winnings to $72,200, but what makes his run so impressive is the dominating fashion in which he is winning. Out of his three wins so far, Jacob has yet to even sweat the Final Jeopardy round, having locked […]

Woman Found Guilty In Poker Player's Murder

A 25-year-old woman has been convicted of manslaughter in last year’s murder of high-stakes poker player Mehmet Hassan, 56, which resulted from the woman’s boyfriend and another accomplice beating him in his U.K. flat for his gambling winnings. The two male co-defendants, Kyrron Jackson, 28, and Nicholas Chandler, 29, were convicted of murder. Leonie Granger […]

New Jersey I-Poker Win Inches Up In March

Compared to February, online poker revenue in the Garden State in March increased from $2,045,655 to $2,227,629, according to figures released Tuesday by the state. March’s figure was a drop of 30.6 percent compared to the same month in 2014, which was $3,210,663 collected in rake. The steep drop was actually less than the year-over-year […]

2015 POY Update: Mizrachi and Pelton WIn

Another week has gone by without any changes to the top 20 in the 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. There were a few big poker tournaments that went down this week, however. Here is a look at the biggest results of the past seven days: WPT DeepStacks Calgary A […]

Pennsylvania To Hold I-Poker Hearing Thursday

With California out of the equation in 2015, the state of Pennsylvania is the best hope for another state jumping on board with regulated online poker this year. On Thursday, lawmakers in Harrisburg will discuss an online poker proposal. The hearing will be on H.B. 649, which is a proposal from Rep. John Payne. It’s […]

Oregon Woman Wins Three Straight Poker Tournaments

Angela Radich Jordison is turning heads in the poker world this week after winning the first three events at the Spring Poker Round Up at the Wildhorse Resort & Casino in Pendleton, Oregon. Jordison, who had a number of small cashes in Pendleton and Las Vegas between 2006 and 2013, hadn’t ever recorded a live […]

Former Poker Pro Dominating On 'Jeopardy'

Former poker pro Alex Jacob is having a great run on the TV show Jeopardy this week. He has won nearly $50,000 in his back-to-back wins, the second of which was dominating. Jacob, now a currency trader in Chicago, has $2.6 million in career poker tournament earnings. His biggest scores came during the height of […]