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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 […]

Macau Casino Win Falls For Fourth Straight Month

Macau’s casino industry took another hit in September as revenues continued to disappoint. Money won off of gamblers in Macau’s 35 casinos fell to 25.6 billion patacas ($3.21 billion) in September, compared to 29 billion patacas in September 2013, according to data released by the Macau government—a special administrative region of China—on Monday. The fall […]

Phil Ivey's 'Edge Sorting' Trial In London Begins

Ten-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey’s lawsuit against a famous London casino for not paying him more than $12 million in gambling winnings began last week. Ivey was playing a high-stakes form of baccarat in August 2012 when he won the money. The casino ended up refusing to give him the money because it claimed […]

Luke Brabin Wins 2014 WSOP APAC Kickoff Event

The final table of the first event of the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific was an all-Australian affair. The $1,100 AUD buy-in no-limit hold’em accumulator drew a field of 661 entries with players turning out from around the world. In the end Luke Brabin emerged victorious, taking home $131,365 AUD ($115,491 USD) and […]

VIDEO: Meet 2014 November Niner William Tonking

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. The final table of the 2014 World Series of Poker main event was set in the early morning hours of July 15th. A field of 6,683 players was narrowed down to just one table: The November Nine. Card Player TV was on sight to catch up […]

Sportsbook Poker Offering Daily $500 Freerolls

This October strap in for a Freeroll Fury at Sportsbook Poker where they’re giving away over $15,000 in freeroll prize pools. From Oct. 1 to 31 they’re offering up a daily $500 freeroll. To qualify for each daily freeroll you’ll need to play a few hands of real money poker. The tournament will take place […]

Online Poker: Patrik Antonius Gives Back $500K

Finnish poker pro Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius, online poker’s biggest winner in history, had a rough past seven days on the Full Tilt Poker software. According to HighstakesDB, Antonius dropped nearly $500,000 over the course of the week, which might sound like a ton of money, but it’s really just a bump in the road for […]

Phelps Was Gambling Right Before DUI

It’s no secret that Olympic champion swimmer Michael Phelps is into poker and enjoys spending time in casinos. He is friends with some poker pros, including Antonio Esfandiari. According to TMZ, Phelps, who was hit with his second lifetime DUI on Tuesday morning, was playing cards at Horseshoe Casino Baltimore shortly before getting pulled over. […]

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 Police Steal $100K From Poker Players

A couple of poker players are wrapped up in a federal lawsuit against Iowa for what they claim was unlawful seizure of their poker money. Professional poker players William “Bart” Davis and John Newmer­zhycky were driving through Iowa in April 2013 after a World Series of Poker circuit stop in Illinois and were pulled over. […]

Wynn Worried That Web Poker Could Hurt Casinos

Billionaire casino boss and Las Vegas legend Steve Wynn shares Sheldon Adelson’s unwavering opposition to online gaming, and at the G2E gaming conference this week in Las Vegas said that casino games on the web could hurt his land-based casinos. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Wynn told an audience that Internet gaming wasn’t a […]

Crazy Gambling Stories From September

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

CarbonPoker Kicks Off Freeroll Fury This October

This October, CarbonPoker kicks off Freeroll Fury, a $500 freeroll for every day of the month. In order to qualify, players simply need to earn a minimum of 15 player points each day in cash games, sit-and-gos or tournaments before the freeroll begins. The Freeroll Fury begins each day at 20:00 EST and can be […]

Phil Ivey Gives Interview To 60 Minutes

Poker legend Phil Ivey is currently wrapped up in a couple of legal battles thanks to his “edge sorting” technique at high-stakes table games. Atlantic City’s Borgata and London’s Crockfords Casino both say Ivey cheated. Ivey maintains that he didn’t cheat and that his winnings were the result of pure skill. Millions of dollars in […]

2014 POY Update: Rast Climbs, Nguyen Wins

With the late summer push in the books and the true fall season just around the corner it was a bit of a slower week in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. There were still plenty of POY points and big payouts to be awarded over the past seven […]

Revel Bought For $110M, Could Re-Open As Casino

Toronto-based Brookfield US Holdings LLC has unofficially won the bid for Revel, the infamous bankrupt Atlantic City casino. The firm won a bankruptcy court auction that ended last week with a $110 million bid, according to the Associated Press. A bankruptcy court hearing to approve the sale is scheduled for Oct. 7, though Florida-based real […]

AGA: U.S. Casino Industry Has $240 Billion Impact

The U.S. casino industry is as juicy as it ever has been, according to a study from the American Gaming Association and Oxford Economics. Overall, casinos in the United States, which include tribal and commercial properties, win roughly $67 billion from gamblers in a year. That is an all-time high. Total revenues, which include food, […]

Delaware Online Gambling Yields $172,854 In August

The state of Delaware’s three online gambling operators won $172,854.50 from gamblers during the month of August, according to figures released by the Delaware Lottery. A total of $38,654.69 of that figure came from online poker (rake). The $172,854.50 was slightly higher than July’s $172,496.41 in overall Internet gaming revenue. The figure of $38,654.69 for […]

Casino Giant Sues Portis Over Gambling Debt

Former NFL running back Clinton Portis is facing a lawsuit from Nevada casino giant MGM over a $10,000 gambling debt, thelegalblitz.com reported. MGM wants the $10,000, plus another $1,000 in damages and attorney fees. The casino operator had more than $9.8 billion in revenue in 2013. Courthouse News Service reported that MGM is claiming Portis […]

Fedor Holz Wins $1.3M WCOOP Main Event

A total of 2,142 players turned out for the $5,200 no-limit hold’em main event of the 2014 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker. The event featured a $10 million prize pool, which was easily surpassed. In the end the large turnout built a $10,710,000 prize pool, the largest the event has seen since poker’s ‘Black […]

Court Sides With Gambler In Wynn Debt Case

A gambler who apparently lost way more than what he claims he agreed to borrowing in the form of a marker recently had a federal appeals court make a decision in his favor. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a federal appeals court reinstated Konstantis Zoggolis’ lawsuit against Wynn Las Vegas over a disputed $1.3 […]

Leagues Try To Prevent New Jersey Sports Betting

The major sports leagues and the NCAA have filed a motion challenging the state of New Jersey’s latest attempt to see sports betting within its borders this fall. Basically, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie issued a directive earlier this month that he hopes will allow his state to circumvent a federal law that only permits […]

Atlantic City Mayor Rejects Trump Tax Deal

The mayor of Atlantic City has rejected a tax-break plan pitched by the owners of Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, the Associated Press reported on Monday. The rejection of the plan makes it more unlikely that the struggling casino will be bailed out by an $100 million investment from billionaire businessman Carl Icahn. “Given the […]

Golden Nugget Partners With KGM For Online Gaming

KGM Gaming and the Golden Nugget Atlantic City have reached an agreement that calls for the former’s online gaming content to be available on the latter’s licensed online gambling site (goldennuggetcasino.com) that takes bets from those in New Jersey. KGM said on its website that it offers a “broad range of game content, available in […]

CPPT Bicycle Casino Results: Events 1 & 2

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: […]