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CPPT Atlantis: Rockowitz and Gilbert Lead Main Event

Jesse Rockowitz (left) and Zak Gilbert (right) One of the remaining 26 players in the Card Player Poker Tour Atlantis main event will leave Sunday night with the top prize of $38,625. The home stretch of the three-day $1,650 no-limit hold’em $150,000 guarantee main event will begin Sunday at 1pm and play down to a […]

Jean Montury Wins First Ever EPT Malta Main Event

An impressive field of 895 entries turned out for the inaugural running of the European Poker Tour Malta €5,300 no-limit hold’em main event, building a prize pool of €4,340,750 ($4,740,898 USD). In the end it was France’s Jean Montury who emerged victorious, capturing his first EPT title and the €687,400 first-place prize. The 40-year-old former […]

CPPT Atlantis: Jesse Rockowitz Leads Day 1A

Jesse Rockowitz is the zone. Fresh off a runner-up finish in the World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder $3,500 main event, Rockowitz, also a World Series of Poker bracelet winner, bagged the chiplead on Day 1A of the Card Player Poker Tour Atlantis main event. The Northern California native is poised to make yet another deep […]

CPPT: Choctaw and St. Maarten Stops Coming Up

The month of April is going to be a big one for the Card Player Poker Tour. The tour will host two stops, the first at Choctaw Resort Casino in Durant, Oklahoma Apr. 2 – 12 and the second at Casino Royale in St. Maarten Apr. 24 – May 3. The site of some of […]

CPPT Atlantis Results: Events 13-14

The third stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, Nev. Mar. 20 and will host a series of 19 tournaments through Mar. 29, culminating with a $1,080 no-limit hold’em $150,000 guarantee main event Mar. 27-29. Here is a look at the latest […]

Florida Gambling Expansion Bill Faces Long Odds

Legislation that would make sweeping changes to Florida’s existing gambling industry had a four-hour long hearing on Thursday in Tallahassee. It was apparent from the hearing that the bill doesn’t stand much of a chance this year, according to tallahassee.com. The hearing was held by the House Regulatory Affairs Committee and no vote occurred. The […]

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: Ben Tollerene Wins $232K

Poker pro Ben Tollerene (pictured right) won roughly $232,000 playing online over the past seven days, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. The Texan won around $140,000 on Full Tilt under his “Bttech86” screen name, while taking in $92,483 on his PokerStars account with the name “Ben86.” The big winner on the week was Kyle […]

CPPT Atlantis Results: Events 11-12

The third stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, Nev. Mar. 20 and will host a series of 19 tournaments through Mar. 29, culminating with a $1,080 no-limit hold’em $150,000 guarantee main event Mar. 27-29. Here is a look at the latest […]

CPPT Atlantis: Main Event Begins Friday

No less than $150,000 awaits players in the Card Player Poker Tour Atlantis main event, set to begin Mar. 27. With the series already off and running, the CPPT Atlantis has already awarded more than $103,000 in prize money. The main event will begin Mar. 27 and feature two starting flights. Play will begin at […]

Tennessee Considers Poker Rooms

A new proposal in the state of Tennessee would allow for table games at gambling facilities, ushering in an era of gambling that the state and its residents have never seen before. The amendment to the state Constitution went before the House’s State Government Subcommittee on Wednesday, but it was deferred to a summer study, […]

2015 POY Update: Dimitry Urbanovich Joins Top 10

After a huge shakeup last week, things settled down slightly the past seven days in the 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. There were still several tournaments that went down that awarded big prize money and POY points this week, however, so here is a look at the events that […]

Online Poker Hearing Dismays Poker Community

On Wednesday, the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations discussed the anti-online poker bill from Rep. John Chaffetz (R-Utah). It featured re-runs of old arguments against the popular web card game, as the Poker Players Alliance called it “an exercise in fear mongering” and “an unfortunate waste of everyone’s time.” The hours-long […]

Gunmen Rob Chicago Poker Game, Police Say

A private poker game in the back of a Chicago cafe was robbed by a pair of armed men pretending to be police officers, according to a Wednesday report from dnainfo.com. Police said that the cash game, held in the back of Cafe Zippo at 5645 N. Lincoln Ave., was robbed at 2 a.m. on […]

WATCH: Federal Lawmakers Discuss Online Poker

At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security will discuss H.R. 707, which is the anti-online poker bill dubbed the “Restoration of America’s Wire Act”, or “RAWA” for short. Online poker players apparently are still linked to terrorism in the minds of some Republican Capitol Hill lawmakers. Click on the […]

Nevada, Delaware Begin I-Poker Liquidity Sharing

Nevada and Delaware have entered into a soft launch phase of their agreement to share online poker player pools in order to bolster revenues, according to social media reports. 888Poker indicated in a financial report released Tuesday that this month would see the “successful deployment of [a] shared poker network across states of Delaware and […]

CPPT Atlantis Results: Events 4-10

The third stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, Nev. Mar. 20 and will host a series of 19 tournaments through Mar. 29, culminating with a $1,080 no-limit hold’em $150,000 guarantee main event Mar. 27-29. Here is a look at the latest […]

Resorts World Las Vegas Construction To Begin In May

A massive $4 billion casino called Resorts World Las Vegas will begin being built on May 4, Malaysia-based Genting Berhad said this week, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The construction process will take several years. No official timeline has been released due to the size of the project. It reportedly will be built in […]

MGM Breaks Ground On Springfield Casino

MGM Resorts International broke ground Tuesday morning for its $800 million casino in downtown Springfield. MGM was one of three firms to get the OK to build a new gaming facility in Massachusetts. According to the Associated Press, the Las Vegas-style casino is the largest economic development project the region has seen in generations. Thousands […]

HPO Coming To Charles Town Races In West Virginia

The third exciting year of the Hollywood Poker Open is in full swing and heading to the Mid-Atlantic. Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races in West Virginia will host the upcoming HPO Regional Tournament beginning Apr. 30 and running through May 10. Once again, regional play features poker champion Chris Moneymaker with head-to-head action culminating […]

'Tortured' Revel Situation Could Be Resolved Soon

A judge will consider signing off on Revel’s sale to Florida real estate developer Glenn Straub, which has already collapsed on more than on occasion, on April 2, according to Press of Atlantic City. Even though the deal between Straub and Revel was recently called off, no other bidders emerged and so the sale will […]

New York Okays Fourth Upstate Casino

New York’s Gaming Commission on Monday said that it will begin accepting applications for a fourth casino license, according to timesunion.com. Last year the state awarded three, but many wanted regulators to approve another to help struggling local economies. Earlier this year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged New York gaming officials to solicit bids from casino […]

CPPT Atlantis Results: Events 1-3

The third stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, Nev. Mar. 20 and will host a series of 19 tournaments through Mar. 29, culminating with a $1,080 no-limit hold’em $150,000 guarantee main event Mar. 27-29. Here is a look at the latest results: […]

Witness List Released For Anti-Online Poker Hearing

On Wednesday, there will be a hearing on Capitol Hill to discuss a bill known as RAWA (Restoration of America’s Wire Act) which seeks to ban online poker nationwide. A list of witnesses was recently released. Scheduled to testify are John Kindt, professor at the University of Illinois’ School of Law, Les Bernal, National Director […]

Judge Denies Ivey's Request To Dismiss Borgata Case

Professional poker player Phil Ivey saw his request to get the Borgata’s $9.6 million lawsuit against him thrown out denied by a judge last week. The 10-time WSOP bracelet winner used a technique called “edge sorting” with playing partner Cheng Yin Sun during a series of Atlantic City mini-baccarat sessions in 2012. Ivey admitted he […]

Pennsylvania Holds Online Poker Hearing

Last week, lawmakers and industry insiders held a hearing in Harrisburg to discuss the merits of online gaming in Pennsylvania. There are a pair of bills currently on the table in the state that would legalize and regulate online poker sites from the state’s existing brick-and-mortar casinos and their respective technology partners headquartered wherever. According […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: March 23 - 29

In this Card Player weekly feature we look to provide our readers with a guide to some of the biggest poker events taking place in their area for the upcoming week. Check out all the tournament action set to go down in your own backyard from March 23rd through the 29th. Head to our tournament […]

A Poker Life: Bryn Kenney

Bryn Kenney isn’t afraid of a little hard work. The 28-year-old has been a professional poker player for nearly a decade now and is showing no signs of slowing down his jet-setting lifestyle that takes him from one destination tournament stop to another. After crushing the game online, Kenney focused on tournaments after Black Friday […]

CPTV Classic: High-Stakes Living With Lee Watkinson

During the summer of 2008, Card Player TV got a chance to tour the home of high-stakes poker pro Lee Watkinson, who is one of the more original players on the tournament circuit. The 48-year-old from Longbranch, Washington has just over $4.1 million earned in his career from live poker tournaments. Watkinson earned his World […]

California Online Poker To Make Progress In 2015

California likely won’t legalize online poker for a couple of years, but 2015 is shaping up to be a year in which progress is made that will allow the industry to kick off in the near-term. The progress isn’t always quantifiable, but given the volume of discussion on the topic in 2015, the future is […]