Poker News

CPPT Wynn Begins Wednesday

The next stop of the Card Player Poker Tour will take place amid the luxury and comfort of the best poker room in Las Vegas. Beginning Feb. 25, the Wynn will host the CPPT for a 14-tournament series featuring a $2,100 no-limit hold’em $300,000 guarantee main event. The series will conclude Mar. 18. Both exceptional […]

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 […]

Online Poker: Phil 'Polarizing' Ivey Loses $600,000

Poker legend Phil Ivey has continued his extended online downswing by dropping $614,000 over the past seven days. Ivey played roughly 3,200 hands across 16 distinct sessions to lose the sum. So far in 2015, Ivey has lost $782,000. Last year he lost $2.3 million, which was among the most in the high-stakes online poker […]

Third, Fourth California Web Poker Bills Come Forward

California already has two online poker bills on the table, and it will soon have four, as a pair of lawmakers are planning on introducing their own (identical) proposals for the industry. Senate Bill 278 and Assembly Bill 431 are going to be pushed by Senator Isadore Hall and Assemblymember Adam Gray, respectively. Both lawmakers […]

Riviera Hotel & Casino Could Be Demolished

A 60-year-old Las Vegas casino could be torn down to make way for more convention space, according to a report from CNN Money. The Riviera Hotel & Casino, which opened in 1955, is being considered by the board of directors for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority as the site for a $2.3 billion […]

CarbonPoker Rewarding Players With Big Freeroll

On Saturday, Feb. 21, CarbonPoker is raising the stakes by $10,750 with an amazing Carbon Online Poker Series tournament, awarding 50 players a seat worth $215 into the $250,000 main event. The best thing about this promotion is that the tournament is absolutely FREE, open to any players who earn at least 100 player points […]

Horseshoe Cincinnati Cancels WSOP Circuit Stop

The Horseshoe Cincinnati announced today that the upcoming World Series of Poker Circuit series, scheduled to run from March 19 – 30, has been cancelled. Shannon Mortland, Caesars’ Director of Public Relations for the Ohio Region, said in a press release that, “While the casino had tremendous success with its inaugural involvement in the WSOPC […]

Las Vegas Poker Icon Celebrates 100th Birthday

On Wednesday in Las Vegas, cash game regular Todd Derlachter celebrated his 100th birthday with friends and family in the Bellagio poker room. Derlachter has been playing poker for 75 years, longer than the likes of Doyle Brunson. Derlachter began playing poker in Las Vegas in the late 1940s. Though he has never played for […]

Christie Still Being Blamed For PokerStars Delay

Atlantic City’s online gaming industry has been stagnating for quite some time, and many see PokerStars coming into the market as a way to jump start the industry. However, for months the firm’s application for a license has not been approved. Many are still insisting that Republican Gov. Chris Christie is exerting political influence to […]

Atlantic City Casino Makes Play Into Online Gaming

Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City will be kicking off its online gaming product this month, according to a Wednesday press release from its technology partner. The casino operator will be running the games via a partnership with Sportech NYX Gaming LLC. It will be the fifth casino operator in the city to venture into […]

CPPT: Win Your Way to St. Maarten in April

For the first time ever the Card Player Poker Tour will make a stop at Casino Royale in Maho Bay, St. Maarten in conjunction with Card Player Cruises for a 22-tournament series set amid the backdrop of the breathtaking Caribbean. “As the tournament director for Card Player Cruises, I am excited to be teaming up […]

Arena Winter Poker Classic Coming To Talking Stick

The fourth annual Arena Winter Poker Classic Championship returns to Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona on Saturday, Feb. 21. For just a $400 tournament buy-in, players can compete for an estimated $68,000 prize pool (based on 200 players). Each player will receive 12,000 in tournament chips and can re-enter as many times as they’d […]

Jury Hears Disturbing Evidence In Poker Player Murder Trial

The alleged killers of Mehmet Hassan, a poker player from the United Kingdom, are currently standing trial, and this week the court heard prosecutors say that the defendants made a video of themselves throwing around the victim’s money while he lay dead in his flat. According to the BBC, the jury heard that Hassan was […]

Rugby Player Fined For Vicious Poker Game Attack

A former professional rugby player in Ireland has avoided going to jail for attacking a fellow poker player during a 2012 poker game by agreeing to pay the victim €10,000. Last year, a judge ordered Neilus Keogh, 27, to undergo anger management counseling while the case continued to play out. Keogh cowardly attacked a man […]

POY Update: Zinno and Altman Join Top 10

Two World Poker Tour stops and a WSOP Circuit main event have shaken up the leaderboard in the 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker, during the last week. Here is a look at the aforementioned events that made such a big impact over the past seven days: World Poker Tour […]

Judge Sides With NJ Casino Over Gamblers

It’s the saga that seemingly never ends. Court rulings over the years have gone back and forth between siding with the Golden Nugget Atlantic City or a group of gamblers who in 2012 won $1.5 million at mini-baccarat after noticing that the cards weren’t shuffled. The latest court decision, which happened last week, went in […]

Gavin Griffin: Revisiting An Old Article

People in the poker community often come up to me and ask about whatever is on their mind. Some of these questions are good questions, and some are bad beat stories in disguise. I’ve been through quite a few things in my poker career and I like to help whenever possible, and in this new […]

Fish Wins WSOPC Palm Beach Kennel Club Main Event

A total of 537 entries were made in the 2015 World Series of Poker Circuit Palm Beach Kennel Club $1,675 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, building a $805,500 prize pool. In the end the lion’s share of that money was awarded to Florida native Darryll Fish. For the win Fish earned his very first WSOP […]

Nevada Signs Off On Olympics Gambling

The Nevada Gaming Control Board has signed off on the plan to let Nevada sports books take action on the Olympics. The idea moves over to the state Gaming Commission, which is expected to give the final OK on Feb. 26. Nevada regulators have the power to prevent betting on certain events, namely those scored […]

PokerStars, Caesars To Lobby Together For Web Poker

They still are rivals in the space, but Caesars Entertainment Corp. and PokerStars have reportedly come to some sort of mutual understanding and are going to push together for legalized online gaming in the United States, rather than be at odds with each other. In other words, their respective lobbying dollars will be used for […]

Anthony Zinno Wins 2015 WPT Fallsview Poker Classic

Anthony Zinno came out on top of a 419-entry field in the 2015 World Poker Tour Fallsview Poker Classic $5,000 CAD buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, becoming only the 21st player in the history of the WPT to win two or more title. For the win the 33-year-old poker pro from Cranston, Rhode Island earned […]

Poker Strategy: Over Thinking It

I was recently playing in a game that was pretty crazy. It was often four or more ways to the flop for a raise and sometimes it was that many for a reraise as well. Pots were big and the players weren’t really trying that hard to win them. Instead, they were relying mostly on […]

Poker Player Arrested At Final Table, Finishes 3rd

Canadian poker player Harnam Matharn, 21, was arrested at the final table of the Fallsview Poker Classic at the Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls, Ontario last week for allegedly robbing a fellow poker player in Kahnawake, Quebec in November. Police were tipped off to his whereabouts by players at the Fallsview Poker Classic. Matharn was […]

Taj Poker Room To Reopen In July, Casino Says

Atlantic City’s bankrupt Trump Taj Mahal casino closed its iconic poker room on Sunday, but the CEO of the casino’s parent company said that it will reopen in July, the Associated Press reported. With 48 tables, the Taj’s poker room was the second largest in Atlantic City behind the Borgata and its more than 80 […]

$1B Takeover Pitch For 888Poker Falls Through

Discussions about a possible William Hill takeover of online gambling firm 888 Holdings are over, 888 said Monday. The Gibraltar-based web gambling business, which is offering online gaming in New Jersey thanks to a partnership with Caesars, confirmed the negotiations last week. William Hill, one of the largest sports book operators in the world, was […]

Poker Pro Xuan Liu And 888Poker Part Ways

Canadian poker pro Xuan Liu and Gibraltar-based online poker site 888 are no longer working together, Liu said on Twitter last week. The news comes not long after another top female poker pro, former PokerStars Team Pro Vanessa Rousso, also saw her sponsorship deal end. Very grateful to have been given the opportunity for a […]

New Jersey Web Gaming Win Jumps To $11.5M

New Jersey’s licensed online gambling operators took in $11,567,337 during the month of January, according to figures released by state gaming regulators. Of that total, $2,299,426 came from poker. In January 2014, total web gaming revenue was $9,461,057, of which $3,442,271 came from online poker. That’s a 22.3-percent increase for overall I-gaming revenue, but a […]

Explain Poker Like I'm Five: Isolation

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 […]

VIDEO: Mike McDonald Discusses Preflop Checklist

When Mike “Timex” McDonald offers you advice about playing poker, you should probably listen. Not only does his own playing resume stand as a ringing endorsement, with over $11.3 million in live tournament earnings and nine career tournament titles to his name, but he also has an impressive track record as a poker coach. He […]

NJ Casino To Offer Gambling On Free-Throw Tourney

Internet betting has not panned out as the savior for Atlantic City, and the state has so far been blocked from letting its casinos open sports books, but Garden State gaming regulators did just give one casino the OK to host what is likely the first ever casino-run free-throw tournament. According to the Associated Press, […]