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Stores Buy Lotto Tickets Back From Indebted Gamblers

An audit in Michigan has revealed that some stores selling lottery tickets in the state are buying back winning tickets—likely at a discount—from players who have some kind of debt, according to reporting from livingstondaily.com. Winners who don’t want to alert the government that they won are seeking cash from stores, and some are catering […]

Poker Strategy: Don't Rush It

There’s a strategic error that many, if not most, fairly strong amateur no-limit players make. They make this error predictably and routinely. It’s a pretty big one too. I call it the what-the-heck? shove. It happens on the flop and turn. The player has a hand that has equity or apparent showdown value. Maybe it’s […]

CPPT: Season III Begins in January 2015

When the final hand was dealt to mark the end of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour, nine players had cashed out for six-figure paydays. Ireland’s Patrick Clarke came out on top of the leader board with $276,380 won on the season for taking down the 2014 Paddy Power Irish Open in April […]

Philly Picks Winner For Another Casino

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania gaming regulators picked a winner for the license to build the second casino within Philadelphia’s city limits. It will be the fifth in close proximity to the city. According to the AP, the winning project is a joint venture between Cordish Cos. of Baltimore and Greenwood Gaming & Entertainment, which is based […]

Phil Hellmuth Wins Pittsburgh Poker Open Main Event

The 2014 Pittsburgh Poker Open $1,100 main event at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, PA has been won by one of the living legends of Poker, Phil Hellmuth. The 13-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and 1989 World Champion earned $54,000 for winning the 45th tournament title of his career. The “Poker Brat” defeated […]

Cops Arrest 90-Year-Old Over Home Poker Game

Running a poker game from her house has landed a 90-year-old Georgia woman in jail on gambling charges, according to reporting from wbtv.com. The woman, Mary Morgan, set the record for the oldest person to ever be put into the Dougherty County jail. Police held a press conference after the raid and expressed pride in […]

Detroit Casino Hit With $350K Fine For Slew Of Violations

MGM Grand Detroit, the largest in terms of revenue of the three casinos in the city, has agreed to pay $350,000 in fines for misconduct ranging from serving alcohol to gambling minors to “allowing an employee to embezzle close to $700,000,” as the Detroit Free Press put it. Nearly 43 percent of the fine was […]

Ron Paul Writes Op-Ed On Online Poker

Former U.S. Congressman Ron Paul recently penned a piece for the Coalition for Consumer and Online Protection in support of online gaming in the country. C4COP is a group (backed by the likes of MGM Resorts International) that is opposing prohibition efforts by Las Vegas casino owner Sheldon Adelson, who is hoping that his political […]

Poker Strategy: When Not To Bluff

Bluffing is the part of poker that attracts the most attention and interest from those who are not really poker players themselves, but know what a bluff is. For poker aficionados, bluffing, of course, is also of great interest. Running a successful bluff may well be the difference between a mediocre session and a profitable […]

Vee Quiva Casino Giving Players Free SB Tickets

The brand new Vee Quiva Hotel & Casino, located just outside Phoenix, Arizona, is rewarding their poker players with the Super 49 Ticket Giveaway, a promotion that will send a lucky pair of players to Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona. In order to qualify, poker players simply need to keep playing poker between now […]

Dylan Wilkerson Wins WPT Emperors Palace Main Event

After finishing runner-up in two prior World Poker Tour main events in 2014, American poker pro Dylan Wilkerson finally broke through this week when he emerged victorious in the 2014 WPT Emperors Palace Poker Classic $3,500 no-limit hold’em main event. Wilkerson topped a field of 166 entrants to capture the title and the $147,509 first-place […]

New Jersey Online Poker Has Worst Month To Date

Internet gaming revenue in New Jersey for October was $9.48 million, according to figures released by state gaming regulators last week. Of that total, $1,967,904 came from online poker. That’s the smallest figure since the Garden State saw the launch of online gambling late last year. As of Oct. 31, 2014, 479,073 Internet gaming accounts […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: Nov. 17 - 23

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 November 17th through the 23rd. Head to our tournament […]

Jose Canseco's Finger Falls Off During Poker Game

He must have been holding a weak hand. During a poker tournament on Thursday (presumably Las Vegas because that’s where he lives) Jose Canseco said that his damaged finger fell off onto the felt. Last month, the former MLB slugger accidentally shot himself in the finger while trying to clean a gun. It’s unclear if […]

A Poker Life: Darren Elias

The most dangerous opponent at the table is the one you underestimate. With a calm, stoic demeanor, it would be easy to underestimate poker pro Darren Elias. The 27-year-old phenom is almost robotic at the poker table, taking great care with each decision he makes until he inevitably winds up with all of the chips. […]

Poker Pro Phil Ivey Swinging Hard Online

Poker pro Phil Ivey has been having an up-and-down month playing the nosebleeds on Full Tilt. The 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner won $368,000 yesterday, according to data from HighstakesDB. Over the last 30 days, Ivey is up $483,000 over 10,600 hands. Here’s a look at his HighstakesDB graph for the past month. […]

Ultimate Gaming Closes Nevada Poker Site

One of Nevada’s three online poker sites will soon be no more. Ultimate Gaming announced Friday that its poker site, Ultimate Poker, will be shutting its virtual doors in Nevada. The firm already exited the New Jersey market in September. According to PokerScout, Ultimate Poker had been hovering around a 50-60 player average for its […]

Casino Worker Fired, Lost License Over Energy Drink

A former casino worker in Cleveland, Ohio is seeking help from the court system after he was fired and lost his dealer’s license for taking a Red Bull valued at $1.84 from the casino’s break room and not paying for it. When confronted, he said he thought he paid for it but that the transaction […]

The Actual Odds Of What Newhouse Just Did

Even though he’s unfathomably disappointed, poker pro Mark Newhouse made poker history—and it’s because of the math. Early this week, the 29-year-old finished ninth in the 2014 World Series of Poker main event just a year after finishing in the same spot at the 2013 November Nine final table. It was a feat that required […]

Sorkin To Write Film Adaptation Of 'Molly's Game'

Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has been tapped to pen the film adaptation of Molly Bloom’s book about her underground poker games that catered to celebrities. Celebs who played in Bloom-run games in L.A. or New York include Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Her book, “Molly’s Game: High Stakes, Hollywood’s Elite, Hotshot Bankers, My […]

Win Apple Products Playing On Card Player Poker

Looking for exciting poker action, but not ready to put up a deposit? Check out Card Player Poker. It offers free, legal poker play, welcomes U.S. players, and just announced the iBink tournament series, where players can qualify to win Apple gift cards, an Apple TV, iPads and even a 13" Macbook Air. The way […]

Americas Cardroom Debuts The Cage

Let’s face it, there’s been little to get excited about being an online poker player from the US over the last four years. Big stakes poker and massive tournament prize pools seemed to have gone by the wayside and be a thing of the past. The latest promotion from Americas Cardroom (ACR) dubbed ‘The Cage’ […]

2014 POY: World Champ Jacobson Climbs To 5th

With the World Series of Poker main event and a number of other big tournaments wrapping this week it’s hardly surprising that there was a ton of movement 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: […]

A Statistical Look at the WSOP Main Event Final Table

In the end, all that matters is how you finished and what you cashed for, but it’s still interesting to analyze the stats behind how each player performed at the WSOP main event final table. There were 328 total hands played over about 18 hours. It was a long, slow grind for those who fought […]

Archie Karas Receives Probation For Marking Cards

Archie Karas, the man who ran up a multi-million-dollar bankroll playing poker in the early 1990s, received probation this week for cheating at blackjack to the tune of $6,860, according to a report from utsandiego.com. Just three years after amassing $40 million, Karas was sitting broke in 1995. His tale is considered to be the […]

College To Purchase Shuttered Atlantic City Casino

Maybe it will offer a class on how to play poker. The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, informally known as Stockton College, said Wednesday that it plans on buying the closed Showboat Casino in Atlantic City from Caesars Entertainment. Neither party has yet disclosed what the purchase price would be. Stockton College plans to […]

Christie Blamed For PokerStars Delay In New Jersey

New Jersey’s Republican Gov. Chris Christie is eyeing a potential run for the White House in 2016 and that could be the main reason why PokerStars isn’t yet available in the Garden State despite numerous attempts by the company to enter that market. PokerStars is now under the ownership of Amaya Gaming Group, an acquisition […]

Mark Newhouse Bounces Back, Says He'll Be OK

Poker pro Mark Newhouse just finished ninth in the World Series of Poker main event in back-to-back years. It was the first time that someone made two WSOP main event final tables in a row since the main event field sizes exploded nearly a decade ago. Ironically, Newhouse took to Twitter in July when he […]

Jacobson Wins WSOP Main Event and $10 Million

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. The 2014 World Series of Poker main event champion is 27-year-old Swedish poker pro Martin Jacobson, who earned his first career bracelet and the $10 million first-place prize. When asked how the money would affect his life, Jacobson stated that the title was more important. “I […]

WSOP: Jorryt Van Hoof Eliminated In Third Place

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. Jorryt Van Hoof came into the final table of the 2014 World Series of Poker main event as the chip leader and held onto the lead in dominating fashion into three-handed play. Unfortunately for the 31-year-old Dutch poker pro, he couldn’t hold onto his chips against […]