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Tribal Casino Closed Suddenly Amid Infighting

This is a confusing story, but we’ll try to tell you what information is available right now. According to abc7news.com, about 20 “gunmen” came into the Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino, located near Fresno, California, on Thursday evening and held casino security guards at gunpoint. That’s the casino’s story, but it’s apparently just one account […]

CPPT: Bicycle Casino Main Event Begins Saturday

After nearly three weeks of tournament action, the Card Player Poker Tour Bicycle Casino main event is set to begin. Likely to award one of the largest first place prize payouts of the Season, the $1,100 no-limit hold’em Quantum Reload main event will begin Oct. 11 and wrap up Oct. 15 with the crowning of […]

Rory Young Wins 2014 WSOP APAC Dealer's Choice

A total of 89 entries turned out for the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific $1,650 buy-in eight-Gamed dealer’s choice event, but in the end only one walked away with the title and the first-place prize of $42,720: Rory Young. For the win the Australian earned his first WSOP gold bracelet, the aforementioned prize […]

Phil Hellmuth Guns For WSOP Bracelet No. 14

Poker Hall of Famer Phil Hellmuth is only five players away from winning his 14th World Series of Poker bracelet and extending his lead as the all-time leader in WSOP titles. Hellmuth is currently fifth in chips of six players remaining in the 2014 WSOP Asia Pacific $2,200 AUD six-max no-limit hold’em event at the […]

Phil Ivey's Rough Week Continues

This week has been bad for Phil Ivey. He lost a court case against a London casino in which Ivey was seeking more than $12 million in winnings that the property refused to pay him. Over on the Internet, Ivey dropped $140,000 this week, according to HighstakesDB. Ivey was playing the likes of Viktor Blom, […]

Caesars Has Lead In 'Social' Casino Market

Caesars Interactive, the online gaming branch of Caesars Entertainment Corp., had the market lead in the social casino gaming realm during the third quarter of this year, according to Eilers Research. Caesars had roughly 21 percent of the market, followed by IGT’s DoubleDown Casino (11 percent) and Zynga (nine percent). Zynga still has the most […]

CPPT Bicycle Casino Results: Events 4-5

The ninth stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California Sept. 21 and will host a series of tournaments through Oct. 15 culminating with a $1,100 no-limit hold’em $500,000 estimated guarantee main event Oct. 11-15. Here is a look at the latest results: […]

Casino CEO Suspended After Letting Minors Into Casino

The CEO of Pennsylvania’s Valley Forge Casino Resort has been hit with a 15-day suspension for allowing a couple of underage women onto the casino floor in 2013. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Michael Bowman “helped two women who were hotel guests and banquet attendees gain access to the casino floor, waving them through [even] […]

Sam Higgs Wins 2014 WSOP APAC $5,000 PLO Event

A total of 80 players turned out for the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific $5,000 AUD pot-limit Omaha event, building a prize pool of $376,000 AUD. From a final table that included the likes of 2010 WSOP main event champ Jonathan Duhamel and World Poker Tour title holder Mike Watson, Australian Sam Higgs […]

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 […]

Iowa Riverboat Casino Makes Trip To Shipyard

One of Iowa’s riverboat casinos has started its long journey to an Illinois shipyard to either be sold or dismantled and salvaged, the Des Moines Register reported. Mike’s Inc., an Illinois marine business, bought the structure. The previous owner of the riverboat casino was Penn National Gaming. Belle of Sioux City LP—a subsidiary of Penn […]

POY Update: Colman Extends Lead With Fourth Win

After several slower weeks things finally heated up in a big way this week in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. Three players made moves inside the top twenty this week. Here is a look at the biggest results on the live poker tournament circuit over the past seven […]

Betfair Gets Approval For Caesars Partnership

London-based online gaming site Betfair has been approved by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement to do business with Caesars Entertainment. Betfair had a deal with Trump Plaza, but that beleaguered casino closed last month after a lot of financial difficulty related to its brick-and-mortar operations. According to a New Jersey DGE document, the […]

Judge: Poker Pro Phil Ivey Cheated At London Casino

The cards did not fall Phil Ivey’s way this week. A judge presiding over his lawsuit against a London casino for withholding his $12.4 million in winnings he accumulated playing a high-stakes table game in 2012 said that the 10-time WSOP bracelet winner did in fact cheat the casino. Ivey admitted to edge sorting, which […]

Scott Calcagno Wins Event 4 At 2014 WSOP APAC

A total of 250 entries were made in the $1,650 AUD no-limit hold’em terminator event at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific, building a total prize pool of $375,000 AUD. The lion’s share of that cash ended up in the hands of 29-year-old Australian native Scott Calcagno after he emerged victorious from the […]

Ohio Casinos Performing Poorly: Report

Ohio’s four casinos are stuck in a big downswing this year. According to wosu.org, through the end of September the casinos have won 25 percent less than they did in the first nine months of 2013. That’s a big drop. So far this year, gaming win is roughly $612 million, down from $821 million last […]

Revel Casino Sale Approved By Bankruptcy Judge

Revel, the most miserable failure in the history of the Atlantic City casino industry and the state’s desperate attempts to help the seaside town, was sold on Tuesday for $110 million. It cost $2.4 billion to build and even received state assistance. According to the Associated Press, a federal bankruptcy court judge approved the sale […]

Colman Wins WPT Alpha8 London High Roller

Dan Colman’s 2014 will go down in history as one of the greatest years any poker player has ever had on the tournament circuit. Most recently Colman emerged victorious in the 2014 World Poker Tour Alpha8 £60,000 no-limit hold’em high roller, topping a field of 23 entrants to win £600,000 ($964,539 USD) and his fourth […]

Aaron Massey Wins Second HPT Title In Two Months

Just seven weeks after winning the Heartland Poker Tour main event at the Ameristar Casino Hotel East Chicago poker pro Aaron Massey emerged victorious in the HPT Club One main event in Fresno, California. Massey topped a field of 200 players to win his second title of the year, earning $78,569 for the win. In […]

Poker Pro Matt Smith Wins DraftKings Millionaire Maker

This weekend, DraftKings hosted a $27 buy-in Millionaire Maker contest, drawing a sold out field of 92,400 entries and creating a total prize pool of $2.2 million. After the final whistle was blown on Monday Night Football, it was none other than poker pro Matt “SamENole” Smith who came out on top, earning a $1 […]

Two Men Get Prison For Running Poker Room

Two men have received prison sentences for operating what authorities claim was an illegal poker room in the back of a women’s health club that was used as a cover for the operation. The club was located in Runnemede, New Jersey. According to the Courier-Post, a judge gave a 364-day jail term to Ryan Dion, […]

Jeffrey Lisandro Wins Sixth WSOP Bracelet In Australia

Australian poker pro Jeffrey Lisandro topped a field of 123 players in the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific $1,650 AUD pot-limit Omaha event to win his sixth WSOP gold bracelet. For the win Lisandro also earned $51,660 AUD ($44,805 USD) and the distinction of joining Daniel Negreanu as the only two players to […]

WATCH: Man Cracks Opponent's Aces, Rubs It In

Curtis Rystadt has been creating a stir online for his behavior at the feature table deep in the 2014 World Series of Poker main event, which recently began airing on ESPN. In the hand above, Rystadt and Kyle Keranen get tangled up in a pot in which the latter holds aces and the former holds […]

Horseshoe Baltimore Has Lackluster Start

Though it has been open for little more than a month, the $442 million Horseshoe Casino Baltimore is already disappointing those who were anticipating better revenues. During the month of September the casino won 34 percent less than what Baltimore’s mayor had predicted the casino would, according to BaltimoreBrew.com. The casino took $22.4 million off […]

Former PokerStars Boss Wins PokerStars Event

Isai Scheinberg, the founder of industry heavyweight PokerStars, won the £2000+£200 buy-in high roller event at the UKIPT Isle of Man this weekend, according to F5 poker. Scheinberg outlasted a small field of 15 players to take £13,850 ($22,253). It’s chump change to him. Just this summer, PokerStars was sold to Amaya Gaming Group for […]

2014 PHamous Poker Series VI Kicks Off This Week

The Planet Hollywood Las Vegas is set to kick off the 2014 PHamous Poker Series VI starting on October 9th and running through the 12th. The three-event series features guaranteed prize pools for every tournament, with the centerpiece of the whole affair being the $500,000 guaranteed $565 buy-in no-limit hold’em event that begins with the […]

Poker Strategy With Ed Miller: Outplaying Slowplayers

There’s one type of opponent that seems to drive many players totally nuts. The guy who slow plays everything. When he gets aces preflop, he limps. When he flops a set, he checks it twice. When he flops top-two, he calls once, checks it back once, and then min-raises the river. These opponents drive people […]

Junzhong Loo Wins 2014 WSOP APAC Event 2

A total of 215 players turned out for event no. 2 at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific, a $2,200 AUD buy-in no-limit hold’em event. With $430,000 AUD in the prize pool and a WSOP gold bracelet on the line there was everything to play for. Ten players returned for the third and […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: Oct. 6 - 12

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 October 6th through the 12th. Head to our tournament […]

U.S. Government Files Complaint Against Shak

Well-known poker player Dan Shak has fallen into some hot water with the federal government over allegations of misconduct related to his work has a trader. According to a press release dated Sept. 30, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement complaint—in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia—against Shak […]