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This Week In Tournament Poker: Sept. 22 - 28

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 September 22nd through the 28th. Head to our tournament […]

Macau To Grow By Just 1 Percent This Year: Bank

Horrible news for Macau, currently the world’s top gambling hub. A major European bank now predicts that the former Portuguese colony will see gaming revenue growth of just one percent this year. Deutsche Bank scaled down its estimate from 10 percent. From a MacauBusiness.com report: Deutsche Bank has reduced its forecast of growth this year […]

Web Poker Next Year In CA: Morgan Stanley

The growing consensus is that 2015 will finally be the year when California legalizes intrastate online poker. A recent Morgan Stanley study of the online gaming industry further cemented the predictions. According to the group, California will be the only state to authorize web gambling in 2015. In 2016, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania will […]

Former Gambling Lobby Chief Joins Harvard

The former head of the American Gaming Association, the commercial casino industry’s top lobbying group on Capitol Hill, will be joining the Harvard Institute of Politics, The Boston Globe reported. Frank Fahrenkopf reportedly will be lecturing on bipartisanship in modern politics. Fahrenkopf, also a former chair of the Republican National Committee, served as the president […]

Poker Strategy: How To Analyze Hands

If you want to get better at poker, the most important thing you can do is write down hands from your play and analyze them. But just writing hands down and going over them isn’t enough. You have to ask the right questions. There are a few ways to analyze hands in a constructive way. […]

CPPT: Bicycle Casino Series Begins Sunday

Beginning Sept. 21, the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California will host one of the final stops of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour. Sure to be one of the largest tournament series of the season, the focal point will be the $1,100 no-limit hold’em main event featuring the Bike’s own Quantum Reload […]

Web Poker: Isaac Haxton Scoops $736K In A Week

Over the past week, Isaac Haxton won roughly $346 per hand that he played on the Internet. The American high-stakes star scooped $712,954 after just 2,063 hands played during the stretch, according to data from HighstakesDB. In 2014, Haxton is up nearly $1.3 million over roughly 15,000 hands. The second largest winning account over the […]

Darren Elias Wins 2014 WPT Borgata Poker Open

The 2014 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open $3,500 no-limit hold’em main event featured a $3 million guaranteed prize pool this year, but when a total of 1,226 entries were made the total prize pool ballooned to $3,924,426. The sizable turn out mean that this year’s champion would win the fourth largest WPT event in […]

Ultimate Gaming Withdraws From New Jersey Market

In the wake of Trump Taj Mahal Associates decision to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy, Ultimate Gaming has announced that the company has terminated its contract and will be withdrawing from the New Jersey online gaming market. Trump Taj Mahal Associates closed the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino earlier this week, becoming the fourth casino […]

One Third Of Voters Support Repealing MA Casino Law

According to a poll conducted by SocialSphere Inc., roughly 36 percent of likely voters surveyed support repealing a 2011 law in Massachusetts that authorized three brick-and-mortar casinos and one slots-only parlor. The margin of error was approximately plus/minus 4.9 percent. Fifty-five percent said keep the law in place, while nine percent said they didn’t know. […]

Revel Bidder Has Strange Plans For Casino

Bankrupt Revel, the most expensive casino in the history of free-falling Atlantic City, could re-open and be home to a bizarre university, reported Press of Atlantic City. The Florida real estate developer who has put in a $90 million bid for the property that originally came at a price tag of $2.4 billion said he […]

CPPT: The Bike to Use Quantum Reload Structure

The Card Player Poker Tour will soon crown a new champion when it stops at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California Sept. 21 through Oct. 15. The winner of the $1,100 no-limit hold’em main event is likely to take home one of the largest first-place payouts of the year with a $500,000 estimated guaranteed […]

Cambodia Considering Letting Locals Gamble

Cambodia is looking at allowing locals to gamble in the country’s casinos. It may sound strange to those within the United States, where it feels like casinos are public grounds in the sense that everyone of legal age is welcome (as long as you aren’t a cheat), but if you are a resident of Cambodia […]

WSOP Announces It Has Signed Greg Merson

Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the WSOP-branded online poker site launching in the state of Nevada. To mark the occasion, the WSOP, owned by Caesars, announced that it has signed Maryland-native Greg Merson to be its first site-sponsored pro. Merson won the 2012 main event. There were reports in July that a deal with […]

Ben Affleck Says He's Not A Degenerate Gambler

Ben Affleck said just because he made headlines for counting cards at blackjack doesn’t mean he’s a gambling addict like the tabloids assumed. The movie star is promoting a new film he’s in and talked with Details magazine about some stuff, including his notorious blackjack play earlier this year in Las Vegas. Affleck was eventually […]

India's Supreme Court Mulling Online Poker

India, a country with more than 1.25 billion people, is currently taking a look at the legality of online poker for real money. According to financialexpress.com, on Wednesday, the Indian Supreme Court continued to hear arguments about whether the games should be authorized or not. If they are, it could be a huge win for […]

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 […]

Gambler Loses 15-Team Parlay On Last Game

This is pretty cruel. A gambler in Delaware ran scorching hot in a NFL parlay this past weekend until losing the last game. He fell just short of turning $5 into $100,000, ESPN reported. The gambler, whose name wasn’t revealed, picked 14 straight games (against the spread) correctly and just needed the Colts to beat […]

Hockey Star Signs With New Jersey Poker Site

Three-time Stanley Cup champion Ken Daneyko, who played his entire career for the New Jersey Devils, is now involved with the Garden State’s online poker industry. Last week, PartyPoker NJ announced that Daneyko will join the site’s “first line,” which means he will be participating in online tournaments, contributing content to the site’s blog and […]

Waitress: Mayweather Tipped $0 On $25K Tab

A server at Rehab at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas took to social media to say that boxing star Floyd Mayweather, who won $32 million this past weekend thanks to a boxing match, left no tip on a $25,000 bill that the casino comped for him. The waitress, Nik Nguyen, told TMZ that Mayweather […]

Paris' Most Famous Gambling Club Raided By Police

A more than 100-year-old gambling club in Paris was raided by police Tuesday morning over misconduct, including alleged money laundering, according to lepoint.fr. A translation of the report said: “The circle is suspected of clandestine work, breach of trust and money laundering by organized gangs.” A dozen people were arrested and are in custody. The […]

U.S. I-Gambling Market Could Be $5.2B By 2020

According to research from Morgan Stanley, the online gambling industry in the United States could hit $5.2 billion in 2020, if there are at least 20 states to have legalized the activity by then. Right now, just Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware have legal online gambling. New Jersey’s industry yields more than $10 million a […]

POY: McKeehen & Kuether Make Moves In Top 20

Last week there were some seismic shifts at the top of the leaderboard in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. The past seven days didn’t alter things quite as radically, but two players did make some moves inside the top 20. Here is a look at what went down […]

Trump: 'AC Lost Its Magic After I Left'

Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday after one of the casinos bearing his name closed its doors permanently. Another could close in mid-November. Last month, the real estate mogul filed a lawsuit demanding that his name be removed from the two Atlantic City casinos. He still has a small stake in the properties. Trump […]

Wynn Wins License To Build Boston Area Casino

The company of billionaire Las Vegas casino developer Steve Wynn on Tuesday won the sole license to build a casino in the Boston area, one of three casino licenses that a 2011 law authorized. The Boston selection process had been going on since last year. Wynn said he will build a $1.6 billion casino on […]

Poker Strategy: Looking Like An Idiot

I have never really been one that worries too much about how people perceive me, I mean, I had pink hair for a year, how much can I care? I’ve lost all sense of that now that I’m a father. You can often catch me at the grocery store or the mall doing a silly […]

Online Sports Book To Launch Bitcoin Poker

A leading Bitcoin online sports book will this week launch a poker client that will use the digital currency. Nitrogen Sports, which is based in Costa Rica, is joining the likes of Seals with Clubs, Silk Poker, Betcoin Poker, Switch Poker, WinPoker, among others, in allowing poker players to use Bitcoins to fund their accounts. […]

Mortician Convicted Of Running Illegal Poker Game

A Staten Island mortician was convicted last week of running an illegal underground poker game, according to the New York Daily News. Authorities said that the game collected a rake from every hand, just like a casino. The lawyer for 42-year-old Joseph Fumando said that his client was just a regular player there and did […]

Trump Plaza Casino Closes In Atlantic City

Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino closed its doors on Tuesday morning, marking the fourth casino in beleaguered Atlantic City to cry “uncle” this year. Atlantic City, once the mecca for gambling in the region, now has just eight brick-and-mortar casinos. The boardwalk casino opened in 1984. The casino’s last moments ended in very unspectacular fashion, […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: Sept. 15 - 21

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 September 15th through the 21st. Head to our tournament […]