Poker News

Disney Invests $250M Into DraftKings

Walt Disney Co. is investing $250 million into daily fantasy sports site DraftKings, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The investment puts the company at a $900 million evaluation, according to sources. Others investors in DraftKings include the Raine Group, Redpoint Ventures, GGV Capital and Atlas Venture. Disney isn’t the only massive […]

CPPT Choctaw Results: Events 1 & 6

The fourth stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Choctaw Resort Casino in Durant, Oklahoma Apr. 2. The series will continue until Apr. 12 and feature a $1,080 no-limit hold’em $300,000 guarantee main event Apr. 10-12. Here is a look at the latest results: Event No. 1: No-Limit Hold’em […]

Explain Poker Like I'm Five: Squeeze Play

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 […]

CPPT Choctaw Results: Events 2,3 & 5

The fourth stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Choctaw Resort Casino in Durant, Oklahoma Apr. 2. The series will continue until Apr. 12 and feature a $1,080 no-limit hold’em $300,000 guarantee main event Apr. 10-12. Here is a look at the latest results: Event No. 2: Pot-Limit Omaha […]

CPTV Classic: High-Stakes Living With Eli Elezra

Eli Elezra has achieved a lot as a poker pro. The 54-year-old former lieutenant of the Israeli military has $2.5 million in live tournament earnings and has sat in some of the biggest cash games in the history of the game. Elezra also has two World Series of Poker gold bracelets to his name, the […]

Footballer Turns Down Lucrative Offer From PokerStars

According to a report from leparisien.fr, football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic has turned down a sponsorship offer with PokerStars worth between €3-4 million a year. The report said that he already has an annual salary of around €16 million, though Forbes put his actual earnings for 2014 at around $40 million. The Forbes calculations have his […]

Harry Reid's Poker Position Gets Confusing

Poker players in the United States looking for regulated online poker to become widespread in the country might not have a friend anymore in soon-to-be-retiring Congressman Harry Reid (D-NV). The Senator’s position on regulated online poker has been perplexing over the past half-year or so, and it was ratcheted up another level just days ago. […]

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 […]

Online Poker: Jean-Robert Bellande Wins $121K

High-stakes poker player Jean-Robert Bellande had a solid week at the online poker tables on Full Tilt. He won $121,457, which was the third most for any one online poker account over the past seven days, according to HighstakesDB. Bellande logged 15 unique sessions and played roughly 2,000 hands. According to Bellande’s Twitter account he’s […]

WSOP Circuit National Championship Details Finalized

It was announced on Thursday, April 2 that the 11th season of the World Series of Poker Circuit will conclude with its WSOP Circuit National Championship event taking place at the Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort in North Carolina. The $1 million freeroll event will run from July 29-31, highlighting a 14-event series that begins on […]

Social Casinos: GSN Acquires Idle Gaming

The Game Show Network has acquired Idle Gaming, the creator of the social game “Fresh Deck Poker”, for a rumored $10 million, according to Venture Beat. “The acquisition of Idle Gaming aligns perfectly with our strategy of leveraging first-rate teams and leading edge technology to create outstanding game experiences for our players,” Steve Brunell, the […]

Amaya Gaming To Pursue Daily Fantasy Sports

In addition to saying that it is planning to launch PokerStars in New Jersey this fall, Amaya Gaming Group also indicated in a recent earnings call that it will be venturing in the daily fantasy sports space. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Amaya will release a DFS product marketed to its former online poker […]

Petition Calls For Defeat Of Proposed I-Poker Ban

A proposed ban on some forms of online gaming faces long odds in Congress, but you should still take the threat seriously. A petition to protect and preserve regulated online poker has appeared on petitions.whitehouse.gov, and it’s seeking 100,000 signatures within the next month. Sign it. Even if you think RAWA doesn’t stand much of […]

Tribe Inches Closer To New Indiana Casino

The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians are planning a casino in South Bend, Indiana, and last month the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs issued a draft of an Environmental Impact Statement for the project, which moves the plan along, nwitimes.com reported. “This is an important first step in a lengthy process that began over two […]

Americas Cardroom Gears Up For Million Dollar Sundays

On Apr. 12, Americas Cardroom will crown its second major winner of the year with the Million Dollar Sundays, a $1 million guaranteed online poker tournament with a $200,000 first-place prize. The $540 buy-in tournament features 15-minute levels and a deep, 10,000 starting chip stack. Best of all, you can satellite your way into the […]

'Back To The Future' Might Help Vegas Sports Books

The Chicago Cubs, who haven’t won a World Series title since 1908, reportedly are popular this year at Nevada sports books, like they are every year. However, this year could yield even more bets on the Cubs because the 1989 film “Back to the Future Part II” had the team winning the World Series in […]

Macau Casino Win Falls 39 Percent In March

Casinos in Macau had gaming revenue of $2.7 billion during March, down 39 percent year-over-year, according to figures released this week by the city’s government. February gaming revenue fell a record 49 percent year-over-year. Macau gaming win has now fallen 10 straight months. According to Bloomberg, gaming win for 2015 is expected to be the […]

Sportsbook Poker Kicks Off $40K Grand Prix

the month of April, you can win your share of $40,000 in daily hand races with the Sportsbook Poker Grand Prix! In order to participate, simply play real money no-limit hold’em, limit hold’em, or pot-limit Omaha cash games. Finish on top of the Grand Prix leaderboard and take home the cash. Here’s a look at […]

CPPT Choctaw: Series Begins Thursday

A new name will soon be added to the list of Card Player Poker Tour champions hailing from Choctaw Resort Casino in Durant, Oklahoma. Hosting some of the most successful tournaments in the region, Choctaw will host the CPPT in a series of 33 tournaments and satellites April 2-12, culminating in the $1,080 no-limit hold’em […]

PokerStars Eyes Fall Debut In New Jersey

Amaya Gaming Group, which bought PokerStars and its sister site Full Tilt last year for $4.9 billion, believes that it will be able to launch real-money online poker in New Jersey this fall, Amaya’s CEO David Baazov said in a conference call this week, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. PokerStars has long indicated it wanted […]

Congressman To Renew Online Poker Push

While some of his colleagues on Capitol Hill debate banning online poker nationwide, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) has indicated that he will introduce another one of his pro-online poker bills in the next month or so, according to reporting from the Star-Telegram. Barton has for years tried to pass legislation that would establish a federal […]

2015 POY Update: Jean Montury Joins The Top Five

It was an eventful week in the 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. The European Poker Tour Malta festival played host to several events that made awarded huge amounts of prize money and Player of the Year points. Here is a look at the events that made the biggest impact […]

Morgan Stanley Slashes U.S. I-Gambling Estimate

Prominent financial services firm Morgan Stanley has nearly cut in half its previous prediction for the size of the U.S. online gambling market by 2020, the Associated Press reported. The research was released Tuesday. The firm believes that in 2020 it will be worth $2.7 billion, down from $5 billion in a report released last […]

Nevada Poker Revenue Falls 8 Percent In February

Nevada poker revenue was $8.53 million in February, according to figures released by the state on Tuesday. That’s a decline of just under 8 percent compared to February 2014’s $9.27 million in poker revenue. Revenue is the rake. During this year’s February, Nevada had 70 poker rooms and 660 live poker tables. That’s the fewest […]

Crazy Gambling Stories From March

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

Poker Player Dan Shak Settles With CFTC

High-stakes poker player Dan Shak has agreed to pay the federal government $100,000 to settle a dispute over betting on derivatives, according to Bloomberg. Shak admitted to accidentally trading two gold futures contracts 14 seconds into the closing range after agreeing not to trade in that period. In 2013, Shak consented to a Commodity Futures […]

Iowa State Newspaper Calls For Online Gaming

The Iowa State Daily posted an op-ed Monday about the need for online gambling in Iowa. The state has been pondering online poker for years but has never passed a bill to regulate it. “It’s time to move forward with our progressive technology and means of online entertainment,” the ISD staff wrote. “Maybe we don’t […]

U.S. Tribal Gaming Revenue Reaches New Record

Tribal casinos in the United States won $28.3 billion off of gamblers in 2013, according to Casino City’s annual Indian Gaming Report, authored by economist Alan Meister. The figure is a record for the tribal gaming industry. The research found that in calendar year 2013, there were 244 Native American tribes operating more than 353,000 […]

Graham Considering RAWA Lottery Carve-Out

Congressman Lindsay Graham (R-SC), who said he has never used email in his life, is open to the idea of a RAWA carve-out for state lotteries wishing to sell tickets and offer other lottery-like games online, according to GamblingCompliance. Right now there is a bill dubbed the “Restoration of America’s Wire Act” being pushed by […]

Nick Weinberg Wins Card Player Poker Tour Atlantis

Nick Weinberg Nick Weinberg cleared the house with a full-house. That’s how the end of the Card Player Poker Tour Atlantis $1,080 no-limit hold’em $150,000 guarantee main event came to an end Mar. 29. After 148 players had been sent to the rail over the course of three days, Weinberg and James Colson were staring […]