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O'Dwyer Wins 2015 PCA $100k Super High Roller

The 2015 PokerStars Carribean Adventure $100,000 no-limit hold’em super high roller drew a record field of 66 entries, outperforming the prior high water mark of 59 entries in 2013. As a result the prize pool swelled to over $6.4 million dollars. In the end the lion’s share of that went to Steve O’Dwyer, who notched […]

Maryland Casinos Down Slightly In December

After a few months of positive gains, the gambling revenue for Maryland’s five licensed casinos saw a small dip in the month of December, dropping from $90.2 million to $85.6 million. The biggest winner was Maryland Live!, who took in $50.2 million, although that represented an overall decline of 6.6 percent from November and 4.4 […]

Ontario Launches Online Gambling Site

Ontario Lottery and Gaming has unveiled a new online gambling site, PlayOLG.ca, to its residents that includes casino games such as blackjack, baccarat, roulette, slots and video poker. The site also allows users to purchase lottery tickets online. The OLG says that Ontarians currently spend about $500,000 a year on off-shore gambling sites and is […]

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 […]

Mizzi Leads PCA $100k Super High Roller Final Table

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 super high roller has come to be the unofficial kickoff event of the professional poker tournament circuit in recent years. This year the tournament drew a record 66 entries, with 50 players and 16 total rebuys building a prize pool of $6,402,000. Now after two full days of play only […]

Las Vegas Sands To Build Paris-Themed Resort In Macau

Asia Sands China Ltd., a subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands, has received approval from the Macau government to build a $2.7 billion Paris-themed resort in the Portuguese colony. The Parisian Macao will have more than 3,000 rooms, 490,000 square feet of retail space and a 50 percent scale model replica of the Eiffel Tower. This […]

Selbst Most Consistent Player Over Last Five Years

To win the Card Player Player of the Year award one needs to show an incredible level of consistency on the live tournament circuit over a 12-month period. One year is often far from the whole picture, however, so we thought we’d take a look at the top 200 finishers in the POY race over […]

Boston Mayor Sues To Stop Everett Casino

Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh is joining cities Revere and Somerville in the fight against Wynn Resorts and their planned casino in Everett by suing the Massachusetts State Gambling Commission, accusing them of holding a bias against the city. Wynn Resorts is planning a $1.6 billion property on the Mystic River just 15 minutes north […]

CarbonPoker's Progressive Prize Pools

CarbonPoker has just announced their new progressive prize pools promotion, which allows the players to determine just how much they can win in the nightly $33 and marquee Sunday Big Ticket tournaments. The way it works is simple. Each time any of these tournaments meet their guarantee, CarbonPoker will increase that guarantee the next time […]

Revel Casino Bidder No Longer Wants Property

Does anybody really want to buy the now-closed Revel Casino in Atlantic City? In October, a federal bankruptcy court judge approved the sale of the property to Brookfield Asset Management, a company which owns the Hard Rock in Las Vegas and the Atlantic Casino in the Bahamas, for $110 million. After that company backed out […]

2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Begins Today

The 12th-annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure kicks off on Tuesday, January 6th at the Atlantis Resort & Casino on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, with 28 events taking place over the nine-day festival that runs through the 14th. Over the past eleven years the PCA has consistently been one of the biggest events on the tournament […]

A Poker Life: Billy Pappas

Have you ever heard of the man with a plan? Well, that’s the antithesis of Billy Pappas. The 30 year old who recently finished fifth in the 2014 World Series of Poker main event, prefers to keep things loose and with as many options as possible. Pappas, who was born William Pappaconstantinou, just banked $2,143,794 […]

CarbonPoker Offers $100K Guarantees For Mega Stack

CarbonPoker is bringing back the Mega Stack tournaments later this month and putting up over $100,000 in guarantees. On Sunday, Jan. 18, you can win your share of $103,000 with five simultaneous events, all beginning with 15,000 in starting chips. All tournaments begin at 16:00 server time and include buy-ins of $2.20, $11, $33, $60 […]

Explain Poker Like I'm Five: Pot Odds

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 […]

New Hampshire To Once Again Look At Casino Gambling

In 2014, the New Hampshire House of Representatives killed a bill that would bring two casinos to the state. The measure lost by just one vote. This year, Sen. Lou D’Allesandro is putting forward a similar bill and he and other supporters are optimistic about its chances, provided the House can agree on how to […]

New Mexico Man Told $500k Lotto Ticket Is Misprint

Roswell, New Mexico resident John Wines bought a scratch-off lottery ticket at a gas station in December and was ecstatic to find out that he had five winning numbers, indicating a prize of over $500,000. When Wines took the ticket back in to claim his prize, the clerk told him that he wasn’t a winner. […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: January 5 - 11

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 January 5th through the 11th. Head to our tournament […]

5 Reasons You Need Poker Strategy In Your Life

You might not know it, but PokerStrategy.com is probably the best thing you’re missing from your life. Bold claim perhaps, but as the many whom frequent the site can attest, it’s rather fantastic. It’ll revolutionize your online poker experience. There are plenty of guides and sites online that claim to teach budding poker players the […]

The 2014 Poker Year In Review

This year was a wild one for gambling in America. There were ups and downs, successes and disappointments, but the thing to take away from it all is that gambling is a resilient industry, and it’s never out, even after placing some bets that don’t pay off as planned. No Legislative Moves Paves Way For […]

Dan Cates Dominates Web Poker World In 2014

Between PokerStars and Full Tilt in 2014, Maryland native Dan “jungleman12” Cates topped the online poker world with $3.43 million in winnings, according to tracking from HighstakesDB. He is now up roughly $11.43 million lifetime playing online poker. Cates is the third most successful online poker player in history behind Phil “Polarizing” Ivey and Patrik […]

A Look At The 2014 Player of the Year Top 10

Daniel Colman may have put together a historic run on the tournament circuit in 2014 to secure this year’s Card Player Player of the Year award, sponsored by Carbon Poker, but he was far from the only player to have an incredible year. The top ten of this year’s POY featured a number of the […]

Oregon Man Hospitalized After 'Bull Poker'

On New Year’s Eve 2014, a man was, not surprisingly, injured playing “bull poker,” which involves a group of people seated at a poker table in the middle of a bull fighting ring, according to reporting from koin.com. The game is apparently won by the person who stays at the table the longest while a […]

Macau Gaming Revenue Falls To $44.1B

Macau ended the year 2014 with seven straight months of year-over-year gaming revenue decline, bringing 2014’s total win to $44.1 billion, a 2.6-percent drop compared to 2013’s record shattering year. Macau gaming officials released the official numbers on Friday. As a result of the recent downturn, casino operators there have seen $75 billion in their […]

Daniel Colman Wins 2014 Card Player POY

Daniel Colman cashed for $22,319,279 in live tournament earnings in 2014, blowing away the previous high water mark by more than $3 million to set the record for the most money earned in a single year in poker tournament history. It is only fitting that by accomplishing that historic achievement Colman also secured himself the […]

Crazy Gambling Stories From December

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

Nevada Sports Books To See Record Wagering

According to Eilers Research, Nevada sports books are set to see a record in the amount wagered. According to the estimate, when December’s figures are added in close to $4 billion will have been bet. (FYI: That’s not the sports books’ revenue.) In 2013, Nevada sports books won nearly $203 million off of roughly $3.6 […]

Massachusetts Relaxes ATM Rule For Casinos

Massachusetts lawmakers are ditching a rule that called for ATMs to be banned from casinos in the Bay State, reported boston.cbslocal.com. Last week, officials conceded that although ATMs shouldn’t be located on the casino floors, they should be nearby for patrons to get the cash they need to continue their visit. According to the report, […]

Nevada Gaming Revenue Flat In November

Silver State gaming regulators said Tuesday that Nevada gaming win in the month of November was $876.3 million, an increase of 0.4 percent compared to November 2013. Strip revenues fell to $508 million, a four-percent drop year-over-year. Online poker revenue in Nevada was $641,000 during the month of November. One of Nevada’s three sites—Ultimate Poker—closed […]

Five Situations Where You Fold Too Much

I generate much of my edge in live no-limit hold’em games by getting people to fold in situations they shouldn’t fold. Sure, a lot of it also comes in those uncommon pots where all the money goes in, I have a set, and my opponent turns over some head-scratcher, no-hope hand. But certainly the most […]

New York Gov. Wants Additional Casino

The state of New York legalized four commercial casinos, but gaming regulators picked just three winners for casinos in the Empire State. Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants regulators to go back to work and pick an additional one. Earlier this month, casinos were picked for Sullivan, Schenectady and Seneca counties According to the Associated Press, in […]