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Pittsburgh Poker Open Kicks Off Thursday

This Thursday, Rivers Casino will kick off the Pittsburgh Poker Open, a 46-event tournament series running 19 days and featuring a $75,000 guarantee main event. Tournament buy-ins will range from as little as $50 to the $1,000+$100 championship event, which begins Friday, Nov. 14 with the first of two starting days. Players can earn their […]

Macau's Minimum Bet Dwarfs Vegas' Figure

Macau, the world’s top gambling hub, has a huge average minimum bet for its non-VIP table games. VIP tables, which have much higher stakes, were not included in the data. In other words, your run-of-the-mill, non-high-roller customer in Macau spends a lot more than his/her counterpart in other gambling hubs around the world. According to […]

Federal Judge Blocks New Jersey Sports Betting

A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order to prevent New Jersey from offering sports betting, according to northjersey.com. Monmouth Park, located in Oceanport, was looking to take bets on NFL games this weekend, but the temporary restraining order on Friday prevented that. Gov. Chris Christie and other state officials are hoping sports betting […]

CPPT: Manukyan Wins Hollywood Park Main Event

Tigran Manukynan is a regular at Hollywood Park casino in the limit games, but he cemented himself a permanent spot in Card Player Poker Tour history by winning the inaugural stop at the Los Angeles-area casino. Manukyan bested a worthy opponent in Massoud Eskandari heads-up for the title, as he is also a regular in […]

CPPT: Young Oh Leads Hollywood Park Main Event

Young Oh will lead the final 36 players when the last day of the inaugural Card Player Poker Tour Hollywood Park Westside Poker Championship begins Oct. 26. Oh will return to a stack of 604,000, which he amassed on day 1b. Oh will be trailed by day 1c chipleader John Hulett with 588,000 and day […]

Poker Strategy: The Trouble With War

I came across the following quote: “The trouble with war is that it frequently consumes the things you are fighting for – justice, decency, humanity!” I’m not sure where I saw it or who said it, but I thought that, since poker is like a mini-war, it certainly had implications that poker players should be […]

CPPT: Young Oh Leads Day 1B Hollywood Park Casino

Pocket jacks skyrocketed Young Oh to the chiplead on day 1b of the Card Player Poker Tour Hollywood Park Westside Poker Championship. In what shaped up to be easily the largest hand of the tournament since it began Oct. 23, Oh won a four-way all-in half-million chip pot to take the lead. Peter Hengsakul raised […]

NV Poker Site Gets Approval To End Trial Period

One of Nevada’s poker sites got the OK this week to end its trial period. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, South Point’s online poker website, Real Gaming, which went live in February, is in the clear to begin full operations. According to PokerScout, Real Gaming’s online poker traffic has been almost non-existent lately. Maybe […]

The Next Poker Boom May Happen In China

Later this week, the World Poker Tour will be returning to the Hainan Province in China for the third rendition of WPT National China. The 19-event series features no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha tournaments, with buy-ins ranging from $250 to $5,000 and clearly illustrates just how far poker has come in the last few years […]

Icahn: Taj Mahal 'Will Almost Certainly Close'

Though it likely won’t close next month, the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City will “almost certainly” be closing this year, said billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who was flirting with the idea of injecting $100 million into the floundering property if certain stipulations were met. Icahn, who also owns the Tropicana, owns a huge amount […]

CPPT: Inaugural Stop at Hollywood Park Underway

The inaugural Card Player Poker Tour stop at Hollywood Park Casino took off in grand fashion in the form of the Westside Poker Championship Oct. 23, marking the casino’s first major tournament series in nearly two years. Numbers were even better than expected when digits were tallied at the end of day 1a registration with […]

CPPT Hollywood Park Casino Results: Event 6

The tenth stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Hollywood Park Casino in Southern California Oct. 17 and will host a series of tournaments through Oct. 26 culminating with a $340 no-limit hold’em $100,000 guarantee main event Oct. 23-26. Here is a look at the latest results: Event No. […]

Negreanu, McClelland To Be Inducted Into HoF

On Thursday, the World Series of Poker announced that Daniel Negreanu and Jack McClelland have been selected to become members of the Poker Hall of Fame next month. Negreanu, who reached the 40-year-old age requirement this year, is a first ballot inductee. The two become the 47th and 48th individuals to be inducted into the […]

Gambling Site: 2014 WSOP Main Event Betting Odds

The countdown to the final table of the 2014 World Series of Poker main event is nearing to a close, as the remaining nine competitors will resume play on Nov. 10. The event started with 6,683 runners. Six nations will be represented at the table. Players from the United States, Brazil, Sweden, Norway, Spain and […]

OFC Championship By Tonybet Coming To Prague

TonyBet Poker, the world’s biggest online OFC Poker site, is going to host the first live Open Face Chinese Poker World Championship this December, which will become a part of the Prague Poker Festival. The event with two pineapple tournaments, the €1,000 buy-in Main Event and the €10,000 buy-in High Roller, will take place this […]

Casino Heist Remains Unsolved 22 Years Later

Late last month was the 22nd anniversary of an infamous Las Vegas heist that to this day remains unsolved, 8newsnow.com reported. In 1992, Bill Brennan, an employee at the no-longer-existing Stardust Hotel and Casino allegedly walked out of the casino with half-a-million dollars in chips and cash. Brennan worked as a cashier at the casino’s […]

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 […]

2014 POY: Mike Leah Climbs To Second Place

It was an eventful week in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. Four players made moves inside the top twenty this week, and others came very close. Here is a look at the biggest results on the live poker tournament circuit over the past seven days: 2014 WSOP Asia […]

CPPT Hollywood Park Casino Results: Event 5

The tenth stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Hollywood Park Casino in Southern California Oct. 17 and will host a series of tournaments through Oct. 26 culminating with a $340 no-limit hold’em $100,000 guarantee main event Oct. 23-26. Here is a look at the latest results: Event No. […]

WSOP Wants Input For 2015 Schedule Of Events

The World Series of Poker, held annually in Las Vegas, hasn’t yet released a schedule for the 2015 running. On Tuesday, its tournament director, Jack Effel, asked for input from the poker community, which is fortunately never shy with giving feedback. Effel wanted players to suggest new events that the WSOP could add. What new […]

CPPT: Hollywood Park Casino Main Event

With six events in the books, the inaugural Card Player Poker Tour Hollywood Park Casino Westside Poker Championship main event is about to begin. The $340 no-limit hold’em $100,000 guarantee main event will begin Oct. 23 at 12pm and feature three day 1s as well as live reporting from the tournament floor throughout its entirety. […]

Caesars Would Need To Invest $1.5B In Manila Casino

Caesars has billions in debt, but it’s looking to build a casino in the Philippines. According to Retuers, the firm must invest at least $1.5 billion in a project there, which is up $500 million from a previous requirement. The government wants a substantial investment from firms looking to gain access to the gaming and […]

Norway To Relax Anti-Poker Laws

The country of Norway reportedly is going to relax its anti-gambling laws. According to The Nordic Page, the Norwegian government presented a bill to allow private home poker game as long as they “do not have an organized and professional purpose.” In other words, as long as there isn’t rake or other fees. Also, “poker […]

NJ Busts Mob-Run Sports Gambling Ring

Authorities in the state of New Jersey said they have busted a lucrative mob-run sports gambling ring. In total, 11 alleged members and associates of the Genovese crime family have been charged with “reaping millions in criminal profits” in New Jersey through loansharking, illegal check cashing, gambling and money laundering. The New Jersey attorney general’s […]

CPPT Hollywood Park Casino Results: Event 4

The tenth stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Hollywood Park Casino in Southern California Oct. 17 and will host a series of tournaments through Oct. 26 culminating with a $340 no-limit hold’em $100,000 guarantee main event Oct. 23-26. Here is a look at the latest results: Event No. […]

Ray Coburn Wins DraftKings Millionaire Maker

The Millionaire Maker contest on DraftKings keeps on rolling. This week, the tournament didn’t quite sell out, offering players the added value of a $76,963 overlay on the $2.2 million prize pool. Once again, a poker player took down the top prize of the week, scoring a $1 million payday from the $27 buy-in contest. […]

Card Player TV: November Nine's Adoni Larrabe

The youngest player at the final table of the 2014 World Series of Poker main event is 22-year-old Andoni Larrabe from Basque, Spain. Larrabe is the first Spaniard to make the final table since Carlos Mortensen won the main event in 2001. He has $391,000 in tournament earnings, with the majority coming from a preliminary […]

Hansen, Blom No Longer With Full Tilt Poker

Viktor Blom and Gus Hansen, two of the worst performing players in the history of online poker, are no longer sponsored by online gambling site Full Tilt. According to reports, their contracts were not renewed, which was speculated since a site redesign did not feature either of the poker pros, who were members of the […]

Trump Taj Mahal Refuses To Change Name

The Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City has a list of hefty demands that if not met will likely result it its closure next month. Infamous celebrity Donald Trump has sued the casino to try to get his name off of it because he thinks the casino has been such an embarrassment, but the casino […]

Madison Poker Room To Close Next Month

A controversial poker room in Madison, Wisconsin will close next month. According to isthmus.com, Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison indicated that it will close its eight-table electronic poker room on Nov. 15. The poker room has been open for four years. Electronic poker tables do not involve physical cards, chips or dealers. A touch-screen system is used […]