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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 […]

Football Player Gets 50 Years For Casino Shooting

A player on the 2003 college football national champion LSU Tigers was sentenced to 50 years in prison Thursday for attempted murder at a Louisiana casino in 2011. Demetri Robinson, 32, pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted second-degree murder. He got about the harshest sentence he was facing. Robinson was accused of shooting at […]

Bill To Protect PA's Online Poker Right Introduced

The state of Pennsylvania is looking at legalizing and regulating online poker within its borders at a time when the federal government is considering a nationwide ban on real-money online gambling. To prevent a hairy situation from arising, Keystone State lawmakers are pushing a separate proposal to protect its rights as a state to decide […]

Zinno Wins 2015 LAPC For Back-To-Back WPT Titles

Anthony Zinno added his name to the poker history books this week when he emerged victorious from a field of 538 players to win the 2015 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event and $1,015,860. Winning a WPT main event is an accomplishment in it’s own right, but the real story […]

Cort 'thecortster' Kibler-Melby Drops $400K

German poker pro Cort “thecortster” Kibler-Melby had a rough week at the online poker tables on the Full Tilt software. He has lost more than $400,000 so far this month, after logging nearly 1,000 hands over a handful of unique sessions, according to HighstakesDB. He lost the hefty sum despite not playing a pot worth […]

MGM To Break Ground This Month On MA Casino

Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts International told gaming regulators in the state of Massachusetts this week that ground will be broken on Mar. 24 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 the state. Construction for a slots parlor […]

Son Of Paul Phua To Plead Guilty In Gambling Case

The son of high-stakes poker player Paul Phua has decided to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge in the case that alleged he was involved in facilitating illegal betting on the World Cup via a villa at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Darren Phua, 23, will plead guilty to the transmission of wagering information, according […]

Don't Bet On CA I-Poker This Year Or Next Year

The situation with online poker in California might be more tilting than anything that could happen to you at the poker table. As the weeks move by in 2015, it has become clearer and clearer that online poker almost surely won’t be legalized in California this year. The odds of it happening in calendar year […]

Cancer Surgery Successful, Doyle Brunson Says

Poker legend Doyle Brunson had surgery this week to remove cancerous growths on the skin on the top of his head, and he said on Twitter Monday that it’s “all clear.” Brunson announced early last month that he needed the surgery. It was the third time he has had melanoma taken care of, but at […]

Zinno Going For Back-To-Back WPT Titles At LAPC

Anthony Zinno is already a two-time World Poker Tour main event champion, but the 33-year-old poker pro from Cranston, Rhode Island now has a chance to join Carlos Mortensen and Gus Hansen as only the third ever three-time WPT winner. Zinno’s second win came in the last WPT main event, the Fallsview Poker Classic. Now […]

Michigan Charity Poker Lawsuit Continues To Play Out

Charity poker in Michigan has been limited over the past year or so, but concern over the rules are still the driving force behind a lawsuit that continues to unfold. According to Detroit News, lawyers for the state as well as the Michigan Charitable Gaming Association were in court Tuesday regarding the complex restrictions that […]

CPPT Wynn: $250,000 Guarantee Begins March 5

The Card Player Poker Tour Wynn $300,000 guarantee $2,100 no-limit hold’em main event is still about one week away, but players have the chance to scoop up a piece of another large prize pool with a much cheaper buy-in beginning Mar. 5. The largest prize pool offered outside the main event, event 10 features a […]

2015 POY Update: Jason Koon and Josh Turner Win

March is here, and 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: L.A. Poker Classic $50,000 Six-Max NLH High Roller The L.A. Poker Classic tried out a new event with this […]

Poker Player Gets 2-3 Years In Prison For Fatal Punch

A Massachusetts man who pleaded guilty in December to manslaughter at a poker tournament after “sucker punching” a fellow player who he mistakenly thought had insulted his girlfriend received 2-3 years in prison for the crime during a Tuesday sentencing hearing. James Walsh, 41, admitted to striking 45-year-old Daniel McDonald on the night of Mar. […]

Online Poker Hearing Postponed Due To Weather

The planned Thursday hearing for the proposed federal online gaming ban has been postponed due to winter weather in the region, according to the Poker Players Alliance, a grassroots pro-poker lobbying group on Capitol Hill. At 9:30 a.m., the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations was scheduled to discuss Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s (R-Utah) […]

Nevada Poker Rebounds In January

Nevada’s nonrestricted gaming licensees reported a total gaming win of $952,704,123 for the month of January 2015. This amounted to a 7.75-percent increase compared to January 2014, when licensees reported a gaming win of $884,191,833. For the fiscal year (July 1, 2014 to January 31, 2015), gaming win has decreased 2.12 percent. Nevada gaming win […]

Revel Casino Drama Far From Over

The Revel deal that supposedly was the deal to end the string of aborted deals reportedly could be yet another case of an agreement unraveling at more or less the last minute. According to Philly.com, a L.A.-based group has made an offer to purchase Revel out from underneath Florida real estate developer Glenn Straub, who […]

New Florida Gaming Expansion Bill Introduced

On Monday, the state of Florida saw the latest attempt to legalize giant brick-and-mortar casinos for commercial gaming groups based outside of Florida hit the legislature. Rep. Dana Young, a Republican from Tampa, introduced a massive 316-page proposal dubbed the “Gaming Control Act of 2015.” In it, she wants two “destination resort” casinos in Broward […]

Macau Gaming Revenue Falls Record 49 Percent

Macau, the only place in China where casinos are legal, saw gaming revenue in the month of February fall a record 49 percent compared to gaming revenue in the same month last year. The February drop was the ninth consecutive month that gaming revenue has declined year-over-year in the former Portuguese colony. Revenue in the […]

Court Rules Against Gambler In Marker Case

Nevada’s Supreme Court decided to rule against an appeal by a gambler who says that he didn’t commit a felony when failing to repay the money casinos loaned him to gamble with. California ice cream businessman Harel Zahavi was convicted in 2011 of defrauding the Venetian, the Palazzo, Hard Rock and Caesars Palace out of […]

CPPT Wynn Results: Events 1-3

The second stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at the Wynn in Las Vegas Feb. 25 and will host a series of 14 tournaments through Mar. 15, culminating with a $2,100 no-limit hold’em $300,000 guarantee main event Mar. 15-18. Here is a look at the latest results: Event No. […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: March 2 - 8

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 2 – 8. Head to our tournament database […]

Nevada Approves GTECH-IGT Merger

Nevada gaming officials last month approved the $6.4 billion acquisition of Nevada-based International Gaming Technology (IGT) by Italy-based lottery firm GTECH. The deal is comprised of $4.7 billion in cash and stock and the assumption of $1.7 billion in net debt. IGT will be the name of the new company, as GTECH will soon be […]

Jason Somerville Snags PokerStars Deal

Despite shedding many of its sponsored players over recent months, PokerStars and poker pro Jason Somerville have reached a deal to make him an ambassador for the site. Somerville was previously with Nevada-based poker site Ultimate Poker. That site closed down last year due to insufficient traffic. The New York native has $5.4 million in […]

Hooters Las Vegas Closes Its Small Poker Room

The two-table poker room at Hooters Las Vegas located near the intersection of Tropicana and Las Vegas Blvd. is closed. According to USPoker.com, the poker room at the casino-restaurant opened at 2 p.m. daily, but often had no games running. It had $1-$2 no-limit hold’em, but no tournaments. Hooters’ poker room is the second in […]

Federal Online Gaming Ban To Have Hearing Thursday

A bill seeking to ban online poker at the federal level will get a hearing on Thursday. At 9:30 a.m., the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations will discuss Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s (R-Utah) H.R. 707. It’s been dubbed the “Restoration of America’s Wire Act.” It aims to undo the progress made in December […]

A Poker Life: Bryan Paris

When Black Friday hit the poker world in April of 2011, many U.S. online poker players were forced with the tough decision of moving abroad or taking their game to the variance-heavy waters of live tournament poker. It wasn’t a tough decision at all for California native Bryan Paris, who found himself in Amsterdam, where […]

WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Begins Mar. 9

The 2015 World Poker Tour will continue the California Swing in the heart of Silicon Valley when it returns to San Jose, CA. The short series of events, highlighted by the unique $7,500 World Poker Tour Shooting Star main event begins on March 9th and runs until the 13th, with days 1A and 1B beginning […]

Capture The Flag: Tristan Wade

Poker pro Tristan Wade, 29, had more than ten cashes last year on the tournament circuit, including a ring in a World Series of Poker Circuit event in August for $106,806. The 2011 WSOP bracelet winner, who hails from Florida, might be known as a tournament expert, but he is also well-versed in cash game […]

Dan Gilbert Now Owns 100 Percent Of Ohio Casinos

Dan Gilbert’s Rock Gaming has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Caesars’ interest in two of Ohio’s four casinos, as well as a racino. Caesars previously had 20 percent of the partnership’s overall Ohio gaming business. The firm, which is going through chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, reportedly will continue to manage the […]