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WSOP Owner To File For Bankruptcy This Week

Caesars Entertainment (CZR), owner of the World Series of Poker brand and more than 50 hotels and casinos throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, could file for chapter 11 bankrupcty protection as early as Thursay, according to the Wall Street Journal. A majority of the company was purchased in 2006, the height of […]

Deadline Approaching For Forth Massachusetts License

Massachusetts has already licensed three companies for gambling facilities, and a deadline of Jan. 30 is fast approaching for firms interested in building the fourth facility authorized under the 2011 law. According to the Boston Herald, Mass Gaming & Entertainment, Seafan Trust Corp., Somerset on the Move and KG Urban Enterprises are all interested in […]

Detroit Casinos Suffer Third Straight Losing Year

The gambling industry in the city of Detroit, Michigan didn’t have a successful 2014. Gaming revenue fell for a third straight year. State regulators said this week that gaming revenue at Detroit’s three casinos totaled $1.33 billion. Greektown, MGM Grand and MotorCity casinos saw their combined revenue drop 1.2 percent compared with 2013. MotorCity was […]

Mississippi Could Jail Online Poker Players

In order to get the freedom to play poker on an online gaming site licensed by the state of Mississippi you’d actually have to give some freedom away in exchange. Under a current proposal that was just recently introduced into the state legislature, poker players who are caught having accessed offshore poker sites instead of, […]

Kornuth Leads 2015 PCA Main Event Final Table

The 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $10,300 main event drew a total field of 816 players to build a prize pool of $7,915,200. After five full days of play there are now only six players remaining to battle it out for the title and the $1,491,580 first-place prize. The chip leader heading into the final day […]

Benny Binion's Life To Be Made Into Movie

A book about infamous, but also legendary, Las Vegas gambler and casino boss Benny Binion will be made into a movie, deadline.com reported Monday. Relativity Media has acquired screen rights to Blood Aces: The Wild Ride Of Benny Binion. According to the report, Cliff Dorfman, screen writer for the hit show Entourage and numerous films, […]

Mississippi Online Poker Bill Introduced

The state of Mississippi will once again have an online poker bill on the table. Longtime online gaming supporter Rep. Bobby Moak, a Democrat, has introduced the “Mississippi Lawful Internet Gaming Act of 2015.” Unfortunately, previous efforts from Moak have never gained any traction in the state legislature. “Without regulation of online gambling, the public’s […]

Henson Wins Largest WSOP Circuit Event In History

Ray Henson defeated Poker Hall of Famer T.J. Cloutier heads-up to emerge victorious in the record-setting 2015 World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw $365 no-limit hold’em re-entry event. For the win Henson earned $197,588 and his fourth WSOP Circuit gold ring. The event had a $500,000 guarantee, which it blew out of the water when […]

PokerStars Brings On Japanese, Indian Pros

PokerStars announced last week that it has signed its first ever player from India to be a member of its “Team PokerStars” roster. The site also is bringing on a player from Japan, the company’s second sponsored player from that country. From India (but now living in the United States), PokerStars has acquired the services […]

Preview Of The 2015 Aussie Millions Festival

The poker world will converge on the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia this week for the 2015 Aussie Millions Poker Championship, the 18th annual running of this storied festival. The 21-event series will run from Jan. 14 – Feb. 2 and is part of the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour for the second year in […]

Florida Could Shake Up Its Gambling Industry

Outside of New York City, South Florida is arguably the most coveted market for firms looking to build multibillion-dollar Las Vegas-style casino-resorts, dubbed “destination resorts.” There could be some good news in store this year for such companies, most notably Genting and Las Vegas Sands, powerhouses in the global casino industry, but who are often […]

Soccer Legend Ronaldo Finishes 26th In 2015 PCA

38-year-old Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima is famous that he is known around the world as simply “Ronaldo.” With three FIFA World Player of the Year awards, two Ballon d’Or awards and many more accolades in his former profession, he is a man who has a taste for winning. Ronaldo brought that […]

WSOP, 888 To Share Liquidity For New Jersey I-Poker

Two of New Jersey’s poker sites—WSOP.com and 888poker.com—announced that they will also be working together on the front-end by combining player pools to some extent. The two firms have an existing partnership in the Garden State’s web gaming industry. According to a press release, micro and low-limit cash games and select tournaments will be part […]

CarbonPoker Sponsors 2015 Player of the Year Race

Card Player has partnered with CarbonPoker to continue to bring you coverage of the most historic and prestigious Player of the Year race in poker for 2015. Since its inception in 1997 the Card Player Player of the Year award has been a symbol of excellence and consistency in tournament poker. Some of the greatest […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: January 12 - 18

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 January 12th through the 18th. Head to our tournament […]

Nevada Casinos See Sixth-Straight FY Net Loss

Nevada’s top grossing gaming establishments saw fiscal year 2014 trump fiscal year 2013, but it was the sixth-straight fiscal year containing a net loss for the Silver State casino industry. The most recent fiscal year ended June 30. According to an abstract from state gaming regulators, the 270 casinos in Nevada that grossed $1 million […]

Court Says Paul Phua Can't Play Poker

High-stakes poker player Paul Phua saw his request to be able to continue playing poker at casinos denied by a federal court. Phua is awaiting trial for his alleged role in an illegal gambling operation run out of a villa at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. He was arrested this past summer. Phua wanted the […]

Washington State Eyes Legalizing Online Poker

Even though the state of Washington has passed legislation that made playing online poker a crime punishable by jail (the only U.S. state to do so), in 2015 lawmakers there are going to look at getting rid of the draconian rules and actually legalizing the activity. It would be a historic reversal of such an […]

Ronaldo Gunning For Seven-Figure Poker Score

The 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $10,300 main event drew a total field of 801 players to build a prize pool of $7,915,200. The top 119 players made the money, but after three full days of action now only 56 players remain to battle it out for the first major main event title of 2015 and […]

Poker Strategy With Gavin Griffin: Range Building

I have a few students that I coach on a one on one basis and, during a recent session, one of them asked me an interesting question that I hadn’t thought about in a while because, truthfully, it’s become such a part of my thought process that I don’t have to think about it anymore. […]

Poker Strategy: Handling A Wild Player

Recently, a number of members of Red Chip Poker have posted a series of hands on the forum that share some similarities. In each example, the player posting the hand was up against a relatively short-stacked player who was playing wildly and erratically. And, in each example, the player posting the hand made the unfortunate […]

Indiana Rep. Introduces Sports Betting Bills

Indiana Rep. Alan Morrison has taken notice of America’s growing obsession with daily fantasy sport, and sports betting in general, and wants his state to get in on the action. Morrison has introduced two bills, both aimed at getting Indiana in the game. The first, House Bill 1073, would allow sports betting at state casinos, […]

Revel Buyer Wants To Turn Casino Into Water Park

So much for a tower of white geniuses. Florida developer Glenn Straub has been issued a final ruling by a federal bankruptcy judge to purchase the now-closed Revel Casino in Atlantic City for $95.4 million, and although he is still considering a court order to get the property for a cheaper price, he has hinted […]

O'Dwyer Wins 2015 PCA $100k Super High Roller

The 2015 PokerStars Carribean Adventure $100,000 no-limit hold’em super high roller drew a record field of 66 entries, outperforming the prior high water mark of 59 entries in 2013. As a result the prize pool swelled to over $6.4 million dollars. In the end the lion’s share of that went to Steve O’Dwyer, who notched […]

Maryland Casinos Down Slightly In December

After a few months of positive gains, the gambling revenue for Maryland’s five licensed casinos saw a small dip in the month of December, dropping from $90.2 million to $85.6 million. The biggest winner was Maryland Live!, who took in $50.2 million, although that represented an overall decline of 6.6 percent from November and 4.4 […]

Ontario Launches Online Gambling Site

Ontario Lottery and Gaming has unveiled a new online gambling site, PlayOLG.ca, to its residents that includes casino games such as blackjack, baccarat, roulette, slots and video poker. The site also allows users to purchase lottery tickets online. The OLG says that Ontarians currently spend about $500,000 a year on off-shore gambling sites and is […]

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 […]

Mizzi Leads PCA $100k Super High Roller Final Table

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 super high roller has come to be the unofficial kickoff event of the professional poker tournament circuit in recent years. This year the tournament drew a record 66 entries, with 50 players and 16 total rebuys building a prize pool of $6,402,000. Now after two full days of play only […]

Las Vegas Sands To Build Paris-Themed Resort In Macau

Asia Sands China Ltd., a subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands, has received approval from the Macau government to build a $2.7 billion Paris-themed resort in the Portuguese colony. The Parisian Macao will have more than 3,000 rooms, 490,000 square feet of retail space and a 50 percent scale model replica of the Eiffel Tower. This […]

Selbst Most Consistent Player Over Last Five Years

To win the Card Player Player of the Year award one needs to show an incredible level of consistency on the live tournament circuit over a 12-month period. One year is often far from the whole picture, however, so we thought we’d take a look at the top 200 finishers in the POY race over […]