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Newhouse Guns For Main Event Final Table Return

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. Don’t look now, but 2013 November Niner Mark Newhouse is in great position to make his second consecutive World Series of Poker main event final table. The Chapel Hill, North Carolina native, who finished in ninth place last year for $733,224, is the overnight chip leader […]

CPPT Choctaw: Fast Figures

The last time the Card Player Poker Tour made a stop at Choctaw Casino Resort more than $2.7 million in prize money was awarded over the course of 45 tournaments, including a $220,626 payday for Mohammad Arani for his takedown of the main event. The CPPT will once again return to the Oklahoma casino, this […]

Gavin Griffin Tackles Daniel Colman Situation

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 […]

Rules Guy: Spotting Cards and Tournament Chops

Most players learn poker’s explicit rules pretty quickly: the “one-chip rule,” for example, or “verbal declarations are binding.” But not everyone seems to have digested the game’s vast book of unwritten rules, admonitions like “don’t berate other players (particularly bad ones)” or “say ‘nice hand’ even when you mean something entirely different.” Enter “The Rules […]

Money Bubble Bursts at WSOP Main Event

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. For the majority of the field remaining in the 2014 World Series of Poker main event, Friday was payday at the Rio, as 693 players guaranteed themselves at least $18,406. But for 53 unfortunate players, their hopes of making the money were dashed on the bubble. […]

Porter Looks To Improve Upon Last Year's 12th Place

Two-time bracelet winner Rep Porter did the improbable by finishing 12th in last year’s main event. On Friday at the Rio, Porter had a big stack of 918,000 on the dinner break and was looking for another incredible run. There were just 443 remaining in the 2014 WSOP main event. Porter is without a doubt […]

Main Event Comes To End For NBA's Pierce

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. Basketball star Paul Piece’s main event run has come to an end. During the last level of play on day 3 on Thursday night, Pierce busted in around 800th place. Pierce was close to finishing in the money, as the top 695 were paid. Andrew Feldman […]

Poker Strategy With Ed Miller: Live Reads

If you talk to any successful live no-limit pro for a while, eventually they’ll say something about having made a “live read.” This article is my attempt to explain what I think of as a live read. I think of a live read as any read that uses information available in live game settings that […]

Andrew Liporace Leads WSOP Main Event After Day 3

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. The plan on day 3 of the 2014 World Series of Poker main event was to play five whole levels, but the field busted so quickly that tournament officials paused the clock and had the players bag up early with 53 minutes remaining so that the […]

Women At The World Series: Maria Mayrinck

As far as the World Series is concerned, this isn’t Maria “Maridu” Mayrinck’s first rodeo. Since 2008, the Brazil native has cashed 11 times and earned $54,872 at the WSOP. Four of those cashes were made this summer, for a total of $16,536. By day three of the main event on Thursday, July 10, she […]

Binger Looking For Another Deep Run In Main Event

Poker pro Michael Binger, who finished third in the 2006 World Series of Poker main event, was one of the average stacks in the room on Thursday with roughly 1,000 people left in the 2014 $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em championship. More than 6,600 entered. The Las Vegas resident is widely regarded as one of the […]

2014 POY Update: Isaac Baron Climbs Into Top Ten

The World Series of Poker is now in it’s final stages. The 2014 WSOP main event is now the only bracelet event remaining. As expected the series has had a huge impact on the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker, much as expected. Here is a look at the events […]

Sean H. Yu Wins $1 Million Guaranteed WPT500 Event

The inaugural WPT500 event held at the ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas was a smashing success for the World Poker Tour. With a $1 million guaranteed prize pool the $500 buy-in tournament needed to draw over 2,000 entries to avoid an overlay. In the end 3,599 entries were made, blowing away the guarantee by […]

Nevada Gives OK To Online Poker Network

An online poker network could soon be coming to the Silver State. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a plan proposed Wednesday morning to the Gaming Control Board would see 888 Holdings “develop an inter-operator poker network that will include Caesars Interactive Entertainment’s WSOP.com and the planned online poker room from Treasure Island. A separate […]

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 […]

Phil Ivey Leads WSOP Main Event After Day 2C

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. He’s considered by many to be the world’s greatest living poker player and now, he’s the chip leader in the 2014 World Series of Poker main event. After two days of play, there are just 1,864 players remaining and ten-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey leads […]

Humberto Brenes Looking To Tie Cashes Record

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. Going into the main event, poker pro Humberto Brenes accumulated 10 cashes at the 2014 summer World Series of Poker. The record for a single summer is 11. On Wednesday, Brenes was grinding an average stack on day 2c of the main event. Should he make […]

Strategy: Move Up Where They Respect Your Raises?

It’s become sort of a joke on the Internet; “move up to where they respect your raises.” Meaning that since people at lower limits call with more hands, if you were to play higher, you wouldn’t get sucked out on as much because people understand that a raise is a good hand and would only […]

South Dakota Passes English-Only Rule At Poker Tables

In what could be a lawsuit waiting to happen, South Dakota state officials passed a new rule on Tuesday that prohibits speaking any language other than English at Deadwood casino poker tables to minimize potential cheating. The South Dakota Legislature’s rules review committee also banned texting and voice calls at card tables under the new […]

Anderson Divorces Salomon Just Days After 'One Drop'

Assuming it wasn’t coincidental, Pamela Anderson was kind enough to wait until after the $1 million buy-in One Drop tournament at the WSOP to file for divorce from Rick Salomon, who finished fourth in the high-stakes event for a score of $2.8 million. Salomon was one of the big stacks late in the tournament that […]

Tournament In Honor Of Brown To Run Sunday

This upcoming Sunday will see a Chad Brown memorial tournament at Binion’s Gambling Hall in Downtown, Las Vegas. The beloved Brown passed away earlier this month after a battle with cancer. Half of the $200+$25 buy-in goes to charity, while PokerStars, which Brown was sponsored by, will be putting up some additional prizes. PokerStars will […]

822 Players Survive WSOP Main Event Day 2AB

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. The 2014 World Series of Poker main event took another dramatic step forward Tuesday with day 2AB. The surviving players from day 1A and 1B were still segregated in different rooms at the Rio, but played an additional five levels leaving just 822 remaining. Those players […]

'Breaking Bad' Star Plays At The World Series

A handful of celebrities came to the Rio on main event day 1c, and one of the most surprising to show his face was “Breaking Bad” actor Aaron Paul, who played Jesse Pinkman on the hit show. Who knew he played poker? Paul was apparently sweating his friend in the $10,000 main event, while also […]

Ohio Casinos Win $409M So Far This Year

It takes more than a few snow storms and cold weather to keep Ohioans from gambling. During the first half of 2014 (Jan. 1 to June 30), Ohio’s four brick-and-mortar casinos brought in $409,841,639 in gaming revenue. That’s the amount they won from gamblers. According to the Ohio Casino Control Commission, the Horseshoe Cleveland brought […]

World Series Of Poker Draws Record Entries

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. The final numbers are in. The 2014 World Series of Poker, which had 65 summer bracelet events this year, drew 82,360 total entries. It’s a new record, beating last year’s mark by 3.6 percent. That figure includes the currently ongoing main event. The total prize money […]

Take Part In $25K Dollar Frenzy With PlayersOnly

Whoever says that a ‘dollar doesn’t buy you much these days’ hasn’t been to PlayersOnly Poker lately. On Sunday, July 27th PlayersOnly will be giving players the chance to turn that dollar into dollars with their $25,000 Dollar Frenzy promotion. Several thousand dollars to be exact! The $25,000 Dollar Frenzy is a no-limit hold’em tournament […]

2014 WSOP Main Event Draws 6,683 Entrants

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. The official numbers for the 2014 World Series of Poker main event are in! A total of 3,768 players turned out on day 1C, bringing the grand total to 6,683 entrants. That’s the fifth largest in the history of the event, up over 5 percent when […]

Dozens Gamble On $1K Flips For Main Event

Once in awhile, poker is 100 percent luck. Dozens of gamblers were desperately searching for a last-minute ticket into poker’s big dance on Monday at the Rio in Las Vegas. It was the third and final starting flight for the 2014 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in main event. More than 6,000 players had so […]

WSOP Main Event Day 1B Draws 2,144 Players

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. Day 1B of the 2014 World Series of Poker main event drew 2,144 players, nearly three times as many as the 771 that began on day 1A. The combined field of 2,915 is still short 3,437 players of matching last year’s field of 6,352, but WSOP […]

Igor Dubinskyy Wins WSOP Little One For One Drop

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. The $1,111 buy-in Little One For One Drop tournament at the 2014 World Series of Poker drew a monster field of 4,496 entries, creating a total prize pool of $4,046,400. The event raised $499,056 for the One Drop organization, a charity focused on bringing clean water […]