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Mercier Wins WPT Alpha8 St. Kitts $100k High Roller

Jason Mercier topped a field of 15 total entries to emerge victorious in the 2014 World Poker Tour Alpha8 St. Kitts $100,000 super high roller no-limit hold’em main event. For the win Mercier earned $727,500 and his 19th career tournament title. With this latest score he increased his lifetime live tournament earnings to $13,456,326 and […]

Juicy Stakes Offering 200% Deposit Bonus

Right now, Card Player readers can get in on an exclusive promotion from Juicy Stakes which is offering a 200 percent deposit bonus of up to $1,000 when new players use the code: cardp. That’s twice what most other sites are offering new players. Deposit $100 and Juicy Stakes will award you with $200. Deposit […]

PokerStars, Card Clubs Oppose CA Poker Bill

Earlier this week, a new bill was introduced into the California legislature that aims to authorize online poker within the Golden State sometime next year. There are a lot of competing businesses that want involvement in a California online poker industry. On Thursday, a coalition consisting of two of California’s tribal gaming groups, as well […]

Phil Ivey Continues Online Poker Upswing

Poker pro Phil “Polarizing” Ivey continued his upswing over the past week on Full Tilt Poker, winning roughly $137,000, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. Ivey took most of the week off, but logged on Wednesday and put a nice dent into his 2014 losses. Ivey played 270 hands over the past seven days, dropping […]

Yahoo! To Shut Down Its Poker Platform

Yahoo! announced that as of Dec. 31 its free-play poker platform will be no more. “As of Dec. 31, 2014, Yahoo Games will no longer offer the Yahoo Classic Games including Yahoo Poker, Yahoo Pool and Yahoo Bingo on web or mobile devices,” the firm wrote on its website. It was a perplexing announcement because, […]

CPPT: Foxwoods Schedule Features 13 Tournaments

For the second time, the Card Player Poker Tour will set foot at one of the most popular poker destinations in the Northeast beginning Jan. 31 to launch the start of Season III. Foxwoods Resort Casino, located on the Pequot Indian Reservation in Mashantucket, Connecticut, will host a 13-tournament series lasting through Feb. 9 and […]

Card Player Poker Launches New Tournament Series

Card Player Poker, which offers deposit free poker with real cash prizes, just announced a new 150,000 guaranteed token prize pool tournament series. Tokens on Card Player Poker allow players to directly buy-in to live tournament online qualifier events and weekly online cash games that award real money. Card Player readers can find the promo […]

WPT Five Diamond Tournament Series Begins Friday

The Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada has long been the home to some of the biggest cash games and tournament action in the world. In fact, Bellagio has awarded more than $449,000,000 in poker tournament payouts in it’s history, the second most of any casino in the world. Bellagio is set to […]

Bolek Wins SHR Rock'n'Roll Poker Open Main Event

The 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Rock’n’Roll Poker Open $2 million guaranteed $3,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event attracted 601 entries to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood in South Florida over the weekend. From that sizable field Chris Bolek emerged victorious, defeating Sean Winter heads-up to capture the title and the first-place prize […]

Poker Business: Sky Bet Sold For $1.25 Billion

British satellite-television operator Sky announced Thursday that is has agreed to sell a majority stake in its online gambling business, Sky Betting and Gaming, to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners, according to reporting from The New York Times. The deal is for roughly $1.25 billion. “The sale crystallises value for Sky that has been […]

Florida Could Take Lotto To The Internet

The state of Florida could become the eighth state in the country to legalize online lottery says, a form of web gambling that has seen more traction than online poker. According to the Sun Sentinel, a bill was recently filed by state Sen. Gwen Margolis, D-Coconut Grove. Florida has been home to some intense debates […]

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 […]

Man Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter In Poker Tournament

A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after “sucker punching” a person who he mistakenly thought had insulted his girlfriend. According to a report from telegram.com, James Walsh, 41, admitted to striking 45-year-old Daniel McDonald on the night of Mar. 16, 2012. It was during a poker event at the Veterans of Foreign Wars […]

Betfair Closes Its New Jersey Poker Site

This week, Betfair ended its online poker offerings on its Internet gambling platform in New Jersey, according to USPoker.com. Betfair will continue offering other casino games thanks to a partnership with the Golden Nugget Atlantic City. Betfair, which previously had a partnership with the now-closed Trump Plaza and then briefly Caesars, generated just $50 in […]

2014 POY Update: Mukul Pahuja Climbs To 8th Place

Less than a month remains in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. Here is a look at everything that went down over the past seven days as the 2014 race moves into the final stretch: World Poker Tour Montreal Jonathan Jaffe topped a field of 732 entries to take […]

Victoria Coren Terminates PokerStars Deal

Late last month, poker pro and two-time European Poker Tour champion Victoria Coren announced that she was walking away from her sponsorship deal with PokerStars. Coren wrote in her blog that she couldn’t participate in the direction the company was going after it made public plans to go with other casino games in addition to […]

New California Online Poker Bill Introduced

The bill aiming to legalize online poker in California in 2015 is officially on the table. The legislation was introduced on Monday in Sacramento. The bill would give licenses to tribes and card rooms located in the Golden State, as well as their technology partners and affiliates that may or may not be based in […]

Forbes Pens Feature On PokerStars Purchase

This month’s issue of Forbes has a lengthy profile of David Baazov, who spearheaded Amaya Gaming Group’s acquisition of PokerStars and Full Tilt this summer for $4.9 billion. Thanks to persistence and creativity, he got financial backing for his firm, which was doing around $150 million in annual sales. Rational Group, the parent of PokerStars […]

Edward Norton: 'Possibility Of Rounders 2'

Movie star Edward Norton appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman” last month to promote his new film “Birdman,” but he actually got started with the interview talking about the poker cult classic “Rounders,” which could one day, hopefully, have a sequel. Norton told Letterman: “I think there is a possibility of it. Yeah, […]

Footballer Skips Game For Poker Tournament

Late last month star football player Albert Riera reportedly had his contract voided after he skipped a game to play a poker tournament, according to a report from the Mirror. Riera, a Spaniard, was a remember of the Italian club Udinese. His contract was for £8m. The 32-year-old was supposed to play in a game […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: Dec. 1 - 7

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 December 1st through the 7th. Head to our tournament […]

Australian Poker Player Wins Defamation Case

A professional poker player from Australia was the victor of a massive six-figure sum after a court decided that he should be awarded damages because his friends said on Facebook that he stole $2,000 from them during a Las Vegas trip and also tried to steal during a poker game at a casino in Sydney. […]

Nevada Online Poker Revenue Falls To $665K

According to figures just released by state gaming regulators, Nevada’s online poker industry yielded $665,000 in revenue in October, the lowest figure since the state began releasing revenue data for its web poker sites in February. Thanks to the World Series of Poker live tournaments this summer, June saw combined revenue of more than $1 […]

Macau Casino Win Falls Again In November

As anticipated, Macau had its sixth-straight month of declining casino win. The nearly three dozen casinos in the former Portuguese colony had 24.3 billion patacas ($3.04 billion) worth of gambling revenue in November, according to figures released by government officials on Monday. That was a 19.6-percent drop compared to gaming win in November 2013. It […]

Crazy Gambling Stories From November

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

Poker Strategy: Ignorance and Apathy

Read this column to the end and it will reveal a common behavior that can have a major impact on your results. In New York City in the 70’s, the best high-low declare player was probably Norman Berliner. In this variation, you must declare whether you are going for high, low or both. Players declared […]

Gus Hansen Returns To Online Poker, Drops $132K

Gus Hansen reemerged on the Full Tilt software after being inactive on the site since September and lost $132,000 over the last four days, according to data from HighstakesDB. Hansen, and others, were involved in some big action at deuce-to-seven triple draw and the eight-game mix. The most consistent action these days is in the […]

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 […]

Jonathan Jaffe Wins 2014 WPT Montreal Main Event

A sizable field of 732 players turned out for the 2014 World Poker Tour Montreal $3,500 CAD no-limit hold’em main event. From that sea of players emerged a stacked final table that included the likes of Samuel Chartier, Kevin MacPhee, Mukul Pahuja and Jonathan Jaffe. In the end Jaffe emerged victorious, defeating Ratharam Sivagnanam heads-up […]

Jospeh McKeehen Climbs To 15th Place In POY Race

Time is quickly running out in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. Here is a look at everything that went down over the past seven days as the 2014 race nears the final stretch: Borgata Fall Poker Open Heads-Up NLH A 64-player, capped-field, $560 buy-in no-limit hold’em event at […]