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NV Could Limit I-Gaming Deals To Just Poker

Nevada has what you would call traditional online gaming in the form of peer-to-peer poker, though there is also mobile sports betting in the Silver State. A new bill in the Nevada legislature calls to preemptively limit Nevada partnerships with other online gaming states to just poker and not any other games. Nevada is currently […]

Online Poker: Alex Kostritsyn Wins $450K

Over the past seven days on the Internet, poker pro Alexander Kostritsyn won roughly $450,000. The Russian played about 7,300 hands on PokerStars and Full Tilt during the stretch. On Full Tilt, he plays under the screen name “PostflopAction”, while on PokerStars he grinds under “joiso”. Kostritsyn has opted out of having his long-term results […]

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 […]

Pala Interactive Debuts New Jersey Gambling Site

Pala Interactive, which is majority-owned by the California-based Pala band of Mission Indians, has kicked off its online gambling business in the state of New Jersey. The group is partnered with the Borgata, which also has a partnership with bwin.party. The Pala band of Mission Indians own the Pala Casino Spa and Resort near San […]

Vee Quiva Casino Hosting Tournament Of Champions

This summer, the Play Poker Room at Vee Quiva Hotel & Casino is bringing back to the Tournament of Champions, a freeroll where you can win your share of up to $10,000! All you have to do to qualify is play and finish in the top two of the weekly tournaments between now and May […]

2015 Player of the Year: Paur Climbs To Second

There was a ton of movement this week in the 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker, is Marching forward. Here is a look at the events that made the largest impact over the past seven days: World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event Taylor Paur has emerged victorious […]

Indiana Looks At Gambling Expansion

Thanks to increased competition in nearby states, Indiana is taking a serious look at expanding its gambling offerings. A gambling expansion bill cleared the first of two Senate committees this week, after already passing the House, according to nwitimes.com. The House Bill would allow riverboat casinos in the state to move onto land. In addition, […]

The Riviera Hotel-Casino To Close May 4

The Riviera Hotel-Casino on the Las Vegas Strip will close for good on May 4, after it celebrates its 60th birthday in April. The casino is one of the oldest still standing in Las Vegas. Last month, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors voted in favor of buying the Riviera for […]

Delaware Online Poker Revenue $27K In January

Revenue from online poker in Delaware was $27,695.45 in January, according to the most recent figures released by state officials. That’s the lowest since June when online poker win (rake) was $25,607.60. The revenue from January 2015 was a big drop from the $88,588.29 in online poker revenue in January 2014. Delaware’s online gaming industry […]

Mathi Wins 2015 WPT Rolling Thunder Main Event

Just days after finishing sixth in the 2015 Bay 101 Shooting Star main event Ravee Mathi topped a field of 379 entries to win the WPT Rolling Thunder $3,500 no-limit hold’em main event. For the win the 37-year-old software engineer from Dublin, CA was awarded the $266,857 first-place prize and his first major tournament title. […]

Maxim Sorokin Wins CPPT Wynn $2,100 Main Event

Maxim Sorokin came out on top after four days of play and stacked final table, which included World Poker Tour champion Keven Stammen, World Series of Poker bracelet winner Jared Hamby, Zo Karim, Eric Molina and Dan Alspach in the Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Classic main event. Sorokin defeated Kevin Calenzo heads-up for $101,619, […]

Follow Live Updates from CPPT Wynn Final Table

Follow the action as it unfolds with the live updates available here. Day 3 of the Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Classic main event began with just 13 players of the 248 who entered, and now only two remain. Kevin Calenzo and Maxim Sorokin are heads up for the title! More than $111,600 awaits the […]

NJ Bill Would Legalize Lotto Ticket Delivery

New Jersey is looking at yet another way to shore up its revenue from gaming. A piece of legislation in the Garden State would allow lottery players to have tickets delivered to their homes. The bill, which was approved by an Assembly committee on Monday, would require the State Lottery Commission to register and authorize […]

CPPT Atlantis: Series Begins March 20

For the third time in as many seasons, the Card Player Poker Tour will return to Reno, Nevada for a stop at Atlantis Casino Resort Spa. Nestled amid the backdrop of the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Truckee river, action will get underway with a $120 no-limit hold’em $5,000 guarantee Mar. 20 to kick off […]

New Jersey Looks To Renew Sports Betting Fight

Despite the U.S. Supreme Court deciding not to take up its sports betting case last year, the state of New Jersey will take to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia this week to continue its years-long quest for sports books at Atlantic City casinos. New Jersey legalized sports betting within its borders, […]

Watch WPT Rolling Thunder Final Table Live Stream

Check out the live stream of the WPT Rolling Thunder main event final table below beginning at 12:30 p.m. PT. The California Swing of the World Poker Tour has had some dramatic final tables. Anthony Zinno won the L.A. Poker Classic main event just weeks after taking down the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic main event, […]

New Jersey Online Poker Drops 34.2 Percent

Revenue from New Jersey’s online poker sites was $2,045,655 in February, a decline of 34.2 percent compared to February 2014, according to figures released by the state. New Jersey’s online gaming industry began in late 2013. The combined online poker revenue of January and February of this year was $4,345,081, down from the January-February total […]

CPPT Wynn: Stephen Graner Leads Final 13

After 10 levels of play on Day 2, Stephen Graner leads the final 13 players in the Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Classic $2,100 no-limit hold’em $300,000 guarantee main event. Other players still alive include Zo Karim (704,00), Kevin Clanezo (519,000), Keven Stammen (482,000), Jared Hamby (223,000) and Leo Wolpert (214,000). Play began with 79 […]

Salomon Won $40M Last Year Playing Poker: Report

Wealthy poker player Rick Salomon and actress Pamela Anderson are going through a divorce, and the latter is alleging in court documents that Salomon won $40 million playing poker last year, with a lot of it coming from billionaire poker player Andy Beal, according to TMZ. Anderson reportedly is looking to claim half of that […]

PokerStars Signs Liliya 'Liay5' Novikova

Moscow-based online poker Liliya ‘Liay5’ Novikova has become the newest member of PokerStars’ “Team Online”, which is a group of high-volume players sponsored by the site. PokerStars made the announcement Monday on its website and on social media. Novikova, 22, said she plays hyper-turbo six-max sit-and-gos. She’s a “Supernova” on the site, which means she […]

The Trump Taj Mahal Casino Won't Be Closing

The Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City will not be closing. That risk is over. Late last week, a judge approved a plan for billionaire investor Carl Icahn to take ownership of the bankrupt property in a deal worth more than $290 million, according to Bloomberg. Icahn now owns two Atlantic City casinos. The […]

CPPT: Demoulin Leads, Hamby & Hawes Near Top

No player on Day 1B of the Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Classic main event was able to top Day 1A chipleader Scott Demoulin, who will lead the final 79 players when Day 2 begins. Demoulin bagged 257,400, and Gary Sewell and Stephen Graner, the second and third largest stacks from Day 1A, were also […]

More Full Tilt Poker Money To Be Released To Victims

It has been a years-long process, but roughly 3,500 more people will soon be getting their money from the beleaguered online poker site, the group who is facilitating the remission process said Monday on its website. Garden City Group said that it was informed by the Department of Justice’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section […]

WSOP Prepares For 24K Entries In Colossus

This summer the World Series of Poker will host a record-breaking tournament called the “Colossus” in which a $565 buy-in and a deep run will guarantee you a piece of a $5 million prize pool, though the pot could be much, much greater than that because of re-entries. On Monday, the WSOP released some details […]

Gavin Griffin Tackles The Ongoing Tanking Debate

People in the poker community often come up to me and ask about whatever is on their mind. Some of these questions are good questions, and some are bad beat stories in disguise. I’ve been through quite a few things in my poker career and I like to help whenever possible, and in this new […]

Anti-Online Poker Hearing Rescheduled

The hearing on the proposed HR 707, which is the bill you’ve heard referred to as RAWA (Restoration of America’s Wire Act), will have a hearing on Capitol Hill on Mar. 26, according to the Poker Players Alliance, a pro-poker lobbying group in Washington, D.C. The hearing was supposed to be held earlier this month, […]

Win Seat To Beach Poker Classic Via CarbonPoker

Take your seat at the CarbonPoker tables for your chance to win 1 of 10 exclusive $3,500 prize packages. The Card Player Poker Tour III – Beach Poker Classic $200,000 Guarantee Main Event takes place on Apr. 30, 2015 over four days at the Sonesta Maho Beach Resort & Casino in St. Maarten, Caribbean. Starting […]

AGA: Brackets Show 'Americans Embrace Gaming'

The American Gaming Association, the commercial casino industry’s top lobbying group on Capitol Hill, said last week that Americans will fill out more than 70 million March Madness brackets, with the average bet per bracket being $29. That’s more than $2 billion in bets. The poll was conducted by GfK Custom Research North America. The […]

CPPT Wynn: Scott Demoulin Leads After Day 1A

A total of 83 entries were put up in the first of two starting flights of the Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Classic main event. The players began the first stretch of a three-day process to scoop up their piece of the $300,000 guaranteed prize pool in the $2,100 no-limit hold’em tournament, and when the […]

CPPT Wynn: Main Event Begins March 15

Over $1 million has been awarded in prize pool money to players in the Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Spring Classic and there is one final tournament left before the event comes to a close. The main event will begin Mar. 15 at 12 pm PST and will offer the largest buy in and the […]