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Boston Mayor Sues To Stop Everett Casino

Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh is joining cities Revere and Somerville in the fight against Wynn Resorts and their planned casino in Everett by suing the Massachusetts State Gambling Commission, accusing them of holding a bias against the city. Wynn Resorts is planning a $1.6 billion property on the Mystic River just 15 minutes north […]

CarbonPoker's Progressive Prize Pools

CarbonPoker has just announced their new progressive prize pools promotion, which allows the players to determine just how much they can win in the nightly $33 and marquee Sunday Big Ticket tournaments. The way it works is simple. Each time any of these tournaments meet their guarantee, CarbonPoker will increase that guarantee the next time […]

Revel Casino Bidder No Longer Wants Property

Does anybody really want to buy the now-closed Revel Casino in Atlantic City? In October, a federal bankruptcy court judge approved the sale of the property to Brookfield Asset Management, a company which owns the Hard Rock in Las Vegas and the Atlantic Casino in the Bahamas, for $110 million. After that company backed out […]

2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Begins Today

The 12th-annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure kicks off on Tuesday, January 6th at the Atlantis Resort & Casino on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, with 28 events taking place over the nine-day festival that runs through the 14th. Over the past eleven years the PCA has consistently been one of the biggest events on the tournament […]

A Poker Life: Billy Pappas

Have you ever heard of the man with a plan? Well, that’s the antithesis of Billy Pappas. The 30 year old who recently finished fifth in the 2014 World Series of Poker main event, prefers to keep things loose and with as many options as possible. Pappas, who was born William Pappaconstantinou, just banked $2,143,794 […]

CarbonPoker Offers $100K Guarantees For Mega Stack

CarbonPoker is bringing back the Mega Stack tournaments later this month and putting up over $100,000 in guarantees. On Sunday, Jan. 18, you can win your share of $103,000 with five simultaneous events, all beginning with 15,000 in starting chips. All tournaments begin at 16:00 server time and include buy-ins of $2.20, $11, $33, $60 […]

Explain Poker Like I'm Five: Pot Odds

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 […]

New Hampshire To Once Again Look At Casino Gambling

In 2014, the New Hampshire House of Representatives killed a bill that would bring two casinos to the state. The measure lost by just one vote. This year, Sen. Lou D’Allesandro is putting forward a similar bill and he and other supporters are optimistic about its chances, provided the House can agree on how to […]

New Mexico Man Told $500k Lotto Ticket Is Misprint

Roswell, New Mexico resident John Wines bought a scratch-off lottery ticket at a gas station in December and was ecstatic to find out that he had five winning numbers, indicating a prize of over $500,000. When Wines took the ticket back in to claim his prize, the clerk told him that he wasn’t a winner. […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: January 5 - 11

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 5th through the 11th. Head to our tournament […]

5 Reasons You Need Poker Strategy In Your Life

You might not know it, but PokerStrategy.com is probably the best thing you’re missing from your life. Bold claim perhaps, but as the many whom frequent the site can attest, it’s rather fantastic. It’ll revolutionize your online poker experience. There are plenty of guides and sites online that claim to teach budding poker players the […]

The 2014 Poker Year In Review

This year was a wild one for gambling in America. There were ups and downs, successes and disappointments, but the thing to take away from it all is that gambling is a resilient industry, and it’s never out, even after placing some bets that don’t pay off as planned. No Legislative Moves Paves Way For […]

Dan Cates Dominates Web Poker World In 2014

Between PokerStars and Full Tilt in 2014, Maryland native Dan “jungleman12” Cates topped the online poker world with $3.43 million in winnings, according to tracking from HighstakesDB. He is now up roughly $11.43 million lifetime playing online poker. Cates is the third most successful online poker player in history behind Phil “Polarizing” Ivey and Patrik […]

A Look At The 2014 Player of the Year Top 10

Daniel Colman may have put together a historic run on the tournament circuit in 2014 to secure this year’s Card Player Player of the Year award, sponsored by Carbon Poker, but he was far from the only player to have an incredible year. The top ten of this year’s POY featured a number of the […]

Oregon Man Hospitalized After 'Bull Poker'

On New Year’s Eve 2014, a man was, not surprisingly, injured playing “bull poker,” which involves a group of people seated at a poker table in the middle of a bull fighting ring, according to reporting from koin.com. The game is apparently won by the person who stays at the table the longest while a […]

Macau Gaming Revenue Falls To $44.1B

Macau ended the year 2014 with seven straight months of year-over-year gaming revenue decline, bringing 2014’s total win to $44.1 billion, a 2.6-percent drop compared to 2013’s record shattering year. Macau gaming officials released the official numbers on Friday. As a result of the recent downturn, casino operators there have seen $75 billion in their […]

Daniel Colman Wins 2014 Card Player POY

Daniel Colman cashed for $22,319,279 in live tournament earnings in 2014, blowing away the previous high water mark by more than $3 million to set the record for the most money earned in a single year in poker tournament history. It is only fitting that by accomplishing that historic achievement Colman also secured himself the […]

Crazy Gambling Stories From December

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

Nevada Sports Books To See Record Wagering

According to Eilers Research, Nevada sports books are set to see a record in the amount wagered. According to the estimate, when December’s figures are added in close to $4 billion will have been bet. (FYI: That’s not the sports books’ revenue.) In 2013, Nevada sports books won nearly $203 million off of roughly $3.6 […]

Massachusetts Relaxes ATM Rule For Casinos

Massachusetts lawmakers are ditching a rule that called for ATMs to be banned from casinos in the Bay State, reported boston.cbslocal.com. Last week, officials conceded that although ATMs shouldn’t be located on the casino floors, they should be nearby for patrons to get the cash they need to continue their visit. According to the report, […]

Nevada Gaming Revenue Flat In November

Silver State gaming regulators said Tuesday that Nevada gaming win in the month of November was $876.3 million, an increase of 0.4 percent compared to November 2013. Strip revenues fell to $508 million, a four-percent drop year-over-year. Online poker revenue in Nevada was $641,000 during the month of November. One of Nevada’s three sites—Ultimate Poker—closed […]

Five Situations Where You Fold Too Much

I generate much of my edge in live no-limit hold’em games by getting people to fold in situations they shouldn’t fold. Sure, a lot of it also comes in those uncommon pots where all the money goes in, I have a set, and my opponent turns over some head-scratcher, no-hope hand. But certainly the most […]

New York Gov. Wants Additional Casino

The state of New York legalized four commercial casinos, but gaming regulators picked just three winners for casinos in the Empire State. Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants regulators to go back to work and pick an additional one. Earlier this month, casinos were picked for Sullivan, Schenectady and Seneca counties According to the Associated Press, in […]

Gray: 'I Just Lose My Mind' Playing Poker

American R&B artist and Grammy winner Macy Gray apparently is an avid card player, recently telling The Telegraph about her trips to Sin City. When asked if she likes gambling, the 45-year-old Gray replied: “I love gambling and that’s another bad financial decision I’ve made; to play cards for money.” She continued candidly: “The most […]

Negreanu: Main Event Shouldn't Have $10M Top Prize

Next year will mark the second year in a row that the World Series of Poker is guaranteeing a $10 million payday for the person who wins the $10,000 buy-in main event that begins in early July. In November, Swedish poker pro Martin Jacobson outlasted nearly 6,700 players to take the lion’s share of the […]

Explain Poker Like I'm Five: Independent Chip Model

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 […]

NBA Commish Wants Congress To OK Sports Betting

NBA commisioner Adam Silver wants to join Chris Christie in the latter’s crusade for U.S. sports betting expansion—well, sort of. Christie has been fighting hard for quite a long time to see Atlantic City casinos offer sports betting like the ones in Las Vegas do. Silver, who has slowly been warming up to the idea […]

Kara Scott And PartyPoker Part Ways

Poker pro Kara Scott announced this week that she will no longer be serving as a brand ambassador for PartyPoker, one of the largest poker sites in the world. PartyPoker has an online poker product in the state of New Jersey, in addition to offerings in many foreign countries. The site now only has World […]

One State Carries Online Poker's Hopes In 2015

The only real chance for more online poker in America next year is California. According to research earlier this year from financial services firm Morgan Stanley, the Golden State will be the only U.S. state to authorize the activity next year. However, that is actually no sure bet. In early December, a new online poker […]

WSOP Eying Largest Tournament Ever

On Tuesday, the World Series of Poker issued a “save the dates” announcement that provided some insight into what the 2015 summer festival will look like. The full schedule is expected to be released sometime next month, the WSOP said. The WSOP said that events will begin on May 27 and will conclude when the […]