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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 […]

PokerStars Sues Erick Lindgren For $2.5 Million

The parent company of PokerStars is suing gambler Erick Lindgren in federal court in Nevada for $2.5 million, according to court documents filed on Jan. 30. The debt dates back to Lindgren’s days as a Full Tilt Poker sponsored player when the company was run by the likes of Howard Lederer and Ray Bitar. PokerStars […]

CPPT Foxwoods Results: Events 5-6

The first stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut Jan. 31 and will host a series of 13 tournaments through Feb. 9 culminating with a $1,650 no-limit hold’em $300,000 guarantee main event Feb. 7-9. Here is a look at the latest results: Event No. […]

Utah Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Web Poker

On Wednesday, a bill backed by casino boss Sheldon Adelson that would ban online gaming nationwide was introduced into Congress. It’s very similar, if not identical, to efforts last year to enact a prohibition on the web card playing business. Currently, three states—Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware— have regulated intrastate web betting industries. The bill […]

Carbon Online Poker Series Starts Sunday

CarbonPoker is featuring the return of the Carbon Online Poker Series in February, with 76 events boasting a total of $2 million in guarantees. The 15-day series kicks off Feb. 8 and concludes on Feb. 22 with five different main events with $480,000 in guarantees up for grabs. Main event buy-ins range from just $11 […]

Jump Into Ring Games On Card Player Poker

Card Player Poker is now offering Ring Games where you can take your token bankroll from zero to hero with one swift click. We didn’t have to recreate the wheel with the ring game offering but we did elevate your social play. Just like cash ring games, you are behind the wheel when it comes […]

Mississippi Online Poker Bill Dies In Committee

The landing page for the “Mississippi Lawful Internet Gaming Act of 2015” was updated this week with the word “Dead” in red. The bill lasted less than a month in the legislature. The online poker proposal, pushed once again by state lawmaker Bobby Moak, has failed to gain any traction the last several years. The […]

2015 POY: Aussie Millions Events Make Big Impact

The 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker, has now moved into it’s second month, with plenty of gigantic results recorded this week. Here is a look at the five events that made the biggest impact over the past seven days: Aussie Millions Main Event The 2015 APPT Aussie Millions $10,600 […]

Singapore Blocks Hundreds Of Gambling Sites

Singapore, one of the top online casino markets in the world, has blocked hundreds of offshore gambling sites catering to those within the country, the government said this week. It is now a criminal offense to gamble online in the country on an unauthorized site. According to The Jakarta Post, the new law went into […]

Brad Pitt Loses $25K To Chauffeur In Poker Game

RadarOnline.com reported that movie star Brad Pitt hosted a very short poker game where he gave his chauffeur, and others, a $25,000 freeroll. If Pitt lost, he would fork over $25,000 to the winner, but if he won, he could make his opponents perform a task of his choosing. They were playing flips, which involves […]

Nevada Sports Books Win $3.2M On Super Bowl

Sports books in the Silver State saw $115,986,086 in wagers on this past Sunday’s Super Bowl and won $3,261,066 of it, according to figures released Tuesday from Nevada gaming regulations. The hold percentage was 2.8 percent, the lowest since the 2011 Super Bowl. Seattle was the favorite this past weekend, but New England edged them […]

Judge: Evidence Against Phua Should Be Tossed Out

High-stakes poker player Paul Phua, who was arrested this past summer with other defendants for what the feds said was an illegal online sports betting operation run out of villas at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, scored a win in court this week as the judge said that the evidence against him is not admissible […]

CPPT Foxwoods Results: Events 1-3

The first stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut Jan. 31. The casino will host a series of 13 tournaments through Feb. 9 culminating with a $1,650 no-limit hold’em $300,000 guarantee main event Feb. 7-9. Here is a look at the latest results: Event […]

World Series Of Poker Unveils 2015 Schedule

On Monday, the World Series of Poker unveiled the schedule for the 2015 running of poker’s richest and most prestigious tournament series. A total of 68 bracelets will be awarded, three more than in 2014 and the most ever for a single summer in the WSOP’s storied 46-year-old history. “We feel very good about the […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: Feb. 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 February 2nd through the 8th. Head to our tournament […]

Ivey Wins Third Aussie Millions $250,000 High Roller

The Aussie Millions has hosted a $250,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em super high roller event five times. Three out of five titles in this gigantic event have now been won by American poker superstar Phil Ivey, who topped a field of 25 entries in the 2015 LK Boutique $250,000 Challenge to win $2,205,000 AUD ($1,713,285 USD) […]

NJ Online Players Enjoying Liquidity From 888poker

888poker.com and WSOP.com have announced that they have begun sharing player liquidity across their online poker rooms in New Jersey, meaning players will immediately begin to benefit from increased prize guarantees on their daily tournaments and more cash game action. To start, each site will share their players at the micro and low-stakes, as well […]

Nevada Rakes In $119.9 Million From Poker

Statewide poker revenue in Nevada for calendar year 2014 was $119,904,000, according to figures just released by Silver State gaming regulators. The total was a drop off from the $123,891,000 in poker revenue in 2013—a decline of about three percent. The poker revenue in 2013 was the first increase year-over-year since 2006 to 2007, so […]

Sri Lanka Says No Gambling In Colombo

Crown Resorts Ltd. has announced that it won’t any longer be pursuing a $400 million casino project in Sri Lanka after the government there said it won’t approve any casinos in the city of Colombo. Crown, which is led by billionaire Australian businessman James Packer, was planning a casino-resort in the center of the city. […]

Explain Poker Like I'm Five: Range Polarization

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 […]

Stavropoulos Wins 2015 Aussie Millions Main Event

Melbourne local Manny Stavropoulos has emerged victorious in the 2015 APPT Aussie Millions $10,600 AUD no-limit hold’em main event, topping a field of 648 entries to win the biggest poker tournament title in the Southern Hemisphere right in his own back yard. For the win the Australian earned his first major title and the $1,385,500 […]

Crazy Gambling Stories From January

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

Yong Wins 2015 Aussie Millions $100k Challenge

The 2015 Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge super high roller no-limit hold’em event drew a huge field of 70 entries, but in the end there could be only one champion: Richard Yong. The Malaysian businessman, with interests in mining and technology, has been a fixture in some of the highest stakes cash games in the world […]

Mermelstein Wins WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open

A total of 989 entries turned out for the 2015 World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open $3,000,000 guaranteed $3,500 no-limit hold’em main event, surpassing the guarantee by more than a quarter of a million dollars. From that massive field of players only one could walk away the champion, and in the end it was […]

Nevada Adds 33rd Person To 'Black Book'

Silver State gaming regulators decided this week to approve the addition of another person to Nevada’s infamous Black Book, a list of people excluded from casinos in the state, usually due to being caught cheating multiple times. It is a crime for anyone on the list to enter a Nevada casino. The 33rd person on […]

Online Poker: 'Trueteller' Wins $800K

It took only six sessions and 1,200 hands for unknown online grinder “Trueteller” to win $800,000 at the nosebleed deuce-to-seven triple draw tables on Full Tilt Poker over the past seven days. According to HighstakesDB, his winnings came thanks to beating up on German Cort “thecortster” Kibler-Melby (pictured right). Trueteller had the huge profits despite […]

Upswing Over: NV Gaming Revenue Falls In 2014

Nevada’s casino industry won just over $11 billion last year from gamblers, but it was a decline compared to 2013 and the end of four straight years of year-over-year gains, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The state released the information on Friday. In 2013, Nevada casinos took in $11.14 billion from gambling. This past […]

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 […]

Thieves Steal Casino ATM Containing No Money

Talk about a bad beat. Thieves who entered Casino Calgary on Wednesday morning and took an ATM reportedly were in store for an unpleasant surprise as the machine they took had no money in it, police said, according to a report from the National Post. The casino’s security cameras captured video of them loading the […]

Caesars Scores Win In Bankruptcy Process

Caesars Entertainment Corp. can have the bankruptcy process for one of its units happen in the city of Chicago, a federal judge in Delaware decided Wednesday, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. The ruling was seen as a victory for the company, which has billions in debt. Caesars Entertainment Operating Co. has $18.4 billion in debt, […]