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Man Carjacks Vehicle From Golden Nugget, Police Say

A 39-year-old Newark man carjacked a couple of vehicles from the Golden Nugget Atlantic City on Sunday, police said. According to Press of Atlantic City, Rahim Adams has been accused of carjacking twice within a five-hour time span, and the second time resulted in his arrest. Detectives reportedly were investigating the first carjacking when they […]

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 […]

Texas Station Closes North Las Vegas Poker Room

The eight-table poker room at Texas Station in North Las Vegas closed for good this week, according to a report from USPoker.com. Despite having online poker in Nevada, Station Casinos Inc. elected to close the room. The casino operator also closed Sunset Station’s eight-table room earlier this year. Station Casinos, which targets the locals market […]

Carbon Hosting $15,000 NFL Survivor Contest

CarbonPoker is hosting a $15,000 NFL Survivor Contest on CarbonSports beginning with week 1 on Thursday, Sep. 4. All you need to do is pick a straight up winner each week to advance and you can’t use the same team twice. Once your team loses, you are out of the contest. Your first entry will […]

Poker Strategy: How To Choose Your Bluffs

Most players don’t bluff often enough. Part of the problem is that bluffing consistently requires a certain leap of faith that can be hard to muster. It can be especially hard to muster if you’ve been enduring a bad run. But another part of the problem is that players don’t know which sort of hands […]

Titus Pushes To Repeal Fed Sports Betting Tax

A Capitol Hill lawmaker from Nevada has her sights set on repealing a 0.0025 percent federal tax on sports wagers in the Silver State. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Rep. Dina Titus asked the IRS what the $9 million Nevada sports books paid last year to the feds was spent on (at the request […]

Armored Car Company Agrees To Repay Casino

The armored car company that was responsible for losing a bag containing nearly $21,000 belonging to Revel casino in Atlantic City has agreed to reimburse the casino, according to a report from the Associated Press. The money fell off the roof of one of the trucks. According to The Press of Atlantic City, an internal […]

Allen Kessler Wins WSOP Circuit Foxwoods Main Event

A total of 526 entries were made in the 2014 World Series of Poker Circuit Foxwoods $1,675 no-limit hold’em main event, building a total prize pool of $790,841. From that sizable field only one player could emerge as the champion, and that turned out to be none other than Allen Kessler. For the win the […]

Casino Says Ex-Employee Stole High Roller List

A former VIP Host at Maryland Live! Casino has been sued by the property for allegedly using the contacts she acquired via her work at the Hanover casino for her new job at Horseshoe Casino Baltimore, which opens Tuesday night. According to the 14-page complaint, Helena Wong began working for Maryland Live! as a VIP […]

Horseshoe Casino Baltimore Opens Tonight

A fifth casino in the state of Maryland is set to open up at 9 p.m. Tuesday. Horseshoe Casino Baltimore, developed by CBAC Gaming, a group led by Caesars Entertainment Corp., will be the second largest casino in the state. The $442 million casino will feature a 122,000-square-foot gaming floor with video lottery terminals, table […]

Delaware Online Gambling Sites Win $173K In July

The state of Delaware’s three online gambling operators won $173,096.40 from gamblers during the calendar month of June, according to figures released by the Delaware Lottery. $31,397.57 of that figure came from online poker. The $173,000 was lower than June’s $187,000 in overall Internet gaming revenue. The figure of more than $31,000 for poker was […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: Aug. 25 - 31

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 August 25th through the 31st. Head to our tournament […]

Taiwanese Web Gambling Boss Murdered

Police say that a wealthy Taiwanese businessman who accumulated his fortune thanks to illegal Internet gambling operations has been murdered by kidnappers, one of whom was his chauffeur, according to AFP. The case reportedly has “rocked the country.” The victim, Shih Chia-chin, was picked up by his chauffeur at a local airport on Aug 18. […]

Japan Forms Group To Help With Casino Initiative

Many in Japan are looking to legalize Las Vegas-style casino resort complexes this fall to have them built and operational in time to capitalize on the tourism boom that will come from the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Forbes reported Monday that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government is creating a task force to jump start […]

Gambler Finally Hits Legendary Slot Machine

On Friday, a Las Vegas tourist hit a jackpot on a progressive slot machine at MGM that had not been hit in 15 years, according to media reports. MGM confirmed the news. The prize was $2.4 million. The man was 66-year-old Walter Misco, who said he only played the machine because his wife told him […]

Poker Strategy: Well, That Happens

You’re dealt pocket kings and get all raisy-crazy preflop — as you should — only to face the dreaded ace on the flop. Well, that happens. You flop middle set and get meatgrindered by set-over-set. Well, that happens. Your A-2 in Omaha eight-or-better holding goes down in counterfeit flames when the river comes deuce to […]

Poker Strategy With Gavin Griffin: Interesting Decisions

I write notes for these articles often while I’m playing and here’s one I wrote the other day: “Instead of focusing on interesting results, focus on interesting decisions.” This came up after everyone was talking about a hand from a few months ago where two people got all in preflop and decided to run it […]

Elderly Men Accused Of Swapping Cards At Poker Table

A group of men, each in their 70s, was accused of orchestrating a cheating plot at a Minnesota casino last summer. One of the men was finally caught Wednesday. According to the Star Tribune, the scheme netted the men a little over $200—so, just about $50 each—but they have been charged with felonies by the […]

SLS Las Vegas To Open Tonight At Midnight

SLS Las Vegas, formerly the Sahara, will open tonight at midnight. “Style, Luxury, Service,” is what SLS stands for, in case you were wondering. The site, once home to the iconic Sahara, which was open from 1952 to 2011, fell victim to the financial crisis of 2008. A handful of years later, there is new […]

Man Robs Casino, Tries To Hitchhike: Police

Police say that a New York man robbed Turning Stone casino on Tuesday and then attempted to flee the area by hitchhiking. Apparently he had no other getaway plan. No motorist picked up 30-year-old Jacob Walsh and he instead opted to hide out in the woods close to the casino, where he was caught about […]

Hansen Approaches $20 Million In Web Poker Losses

It’s unclear why Gus Hansen doesn’t just stick to live poker, the arena in which he is one of the most successful players in the history of recorded card playing. A horrible past seven days on Full Tilt Poker resulted in the Dane dropping nearly $1 million, which has brought his losses on 2014 to […]

91-Year-Old WWII Vet Robbed Of Casino Winnings

KSLA.com reported that a Louisiana man, who happened to be a 91-year-old WWII veteran, was beaten and robbed of his casino winnings early Thursday morning. The man is recovering from non-life threatening injuries at a local hospital, the report said. The two alleged attacker are in jail. John Perkins, 39, and Gary Smith, 60, both […]

'Invisible Ink' Poker Cheat Banned From Casinos

The state of Connecticut has decided to ban a known poker cheat who marked cards with invisible ink, according to multiple media reports. Bruce Koloshi, of New Jersey, pleaded guilty and was sentenced this week to time served. He had spent 10 months in prison since his arrest last September at Mohegan Sun. The invisible […]

Third Of Gaming Space To Close In Atlantic City

This fall, after a series of four casino closings in Atlantic City, New Jersey this year, a whopping 413,700 square feet of gaming floor space will no be longer hosting customers. That figure represents nearly a third of Atlantic City’s total, according to a report from The New York Times. Atlantic City will soon have […]

2014 POY Update: Daniel Colman Climbs To Ninth

Things are heating up again on the live tournament circuit after the standard August slowdown, and that means plenty of movement in the coming weeks in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. Here is a look at what went down this week: EPT Barcelona Super High Roller The 2014 […]

MGM Agrees To Settlement In New Jersey

MGM Resorts International, along with LA-based Tracinda Corp, have agreed to pay the state of New Jersey a combined $225,000 to settle long-standing issues, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. MGM is eying a formal return to the New Jersey market. The Review-Journal reported that “the settlement covers a nearly decade-old criminal case involving Los Angeles […]

$75K Fine For Poker Dealer Is Unconstitutional

The state of Pennsylvania goes to horrifying lengths to protect its casino industry, even at the expense of the people who do the work making it run every day. That’s more or less what the state’s Supreme Court acknowledged this week when it said that a $75,000 minimum fine levied against a poker dealer who […]

Poker Dead Last On 'Is It A Sport?' Poll

More people would call activities such as cheerleading, fishing, chess and competitive eating a “sport” than would give the label to the game of poker, according to a Deadspin report. Click on the graph in the Deadspin article to see an enlarged version. Deadspin stated that the results are thanks to Reddit user “e8odie,” who […]

Excel At Heads-Up NLH With D&B Books

D&B Books, a leading publisher of tournament and cash game poker books, recently published the second video pack from Will Tipton, completing the Expert Heads Up No Limit Hold’em series. You can pick up both ebooks and both video packs direct from the publisher – D&B Poker. EXPERT HEADS UP NO LIMIT HOLD’EM VOLUME 1 […]

Robert Tanita Wins Arizona State Poker Championship

The 10th annual Arizona State Poker Championship at Talking Stick Resort and Casino in Scottsdale, Arizona drew a whopping field of 1,460 players for their $1,000+$100 main event, creating a total prize pool of $1,460,000. A total of 150 players made the money, guaranteeing themselves a payday of at least $2,044, but the lion’s share […]