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Mike Sexton 'Calls Out' The World Series Of Poker

Mike Sexton, voice of the World Poker Tour, took to his blog last week to criticize the World Series of Poker for some of the things that he thinks poker’s richest and most popular annual tournament series does wrong. Sexton won his bracelet in 1989. Though Sexton said he still loves the WSOP and has […]

Aria Hosting $500k Super High Roller This Summer

The second largest buy-in poker tournament in history has recently been announced. Aria Resort & Casino is set to host a $500,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament as part of it’s 2015 Super High Roller Bowl, taking place from June 27th through July 4th. The event will take place as this summer’s World Series of Poker […]

CPPT Wynn Results: Events 7-10

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 9 - 15

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 9th through the 15th. Head to our tournament […]

CarbonPoker Extends The Nightly Nine Promotion

CarbonPoker is taking their Nightly Tournament Lineup to the next level. Starting Monday, Mar. 2, the site will begin offering the Nightly Nine tournament series, which guarantees over $500,000 in prize pools. Every night, the nightly tournaments will feature an increase in prize pool. It starts Monday with nine events and continues until Friday, Mar. […]

Anti-Online Poker Lawmaker: I've Never Used Email

A lawmaker who pushed an online poker ban last year and is expected to do so again at some point this year said he has never sent an email in his entire life. “I don’t email,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (Republican-South Carolina) told Meet the Press last week. “You can have every email I’ve ever sent. […]

Another Web Gambling Bill Comes Forward In PA

With California stuck in a huge hole with regards to online poker, Pennsylvania has been showing signs that it carries the best shot at legalizing online poker this year among all the states in the country considering the industry. The first Pennsylvania online gambling bill of 2015 was introduced by Rep. John Payne last month, […]

Poker Strategy: Attacking Bad Continuation Bets

By now, most online poker players know about continuation bets. You raise preflop, and you get a call or three. The flop comes, and because you are presumed to have the strongest set of hands as the preflop raiser, you go ahead and bet the flop whether you hit it or not. These days, even […]

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 […]

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 […]