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CarbonPoker Introduces Supersonic Sit-N-Gos

Forget turbos. Forget hypers. CarbonPoker is making poker even faster with the brand new supersonic sit-n-go. Supersonic sit-n-gos are the fastest on the web with two formats to choose from. Players can compete in the four-max, where the blinds increase every 2 minutes and players begin with a 300 chip starting stack, or the heads-up, […]

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 […]

Newsweek Cover Attacks Online Poker

A new cover from Newsweek features a photo of a child holding a tablet with some sort of online poker game running on the device. Despite holding a royal flush, the child kind of has a look of melancholy on his face. In big black letters on the bottom reads, “Poker Face.” Since when did […]

Pittsburgh Poker Open Kicks Off Soon At Rivers Casino

On Aug. 21, the Pittsburgh Poker Open will kick off at Rivers Casino. The 24-event series has guaranteed $100,000, including $50,000 for the main event. Players can compete in a number of no-limit hold’em tournaments with buy-ins ranging from just $40+$10 all the way up to the $1,000+$100 main event. Tournament variations include turbo, bounty, […]

Junket Operator To Build $3B Casino Resort In Saipan

A Macau junket operator investor is planning to construct a $3 billion casino resort on the island of Saipan, a commonwealth of the U.S. and the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands located in the western Pacific Ocean. Located just five hours by plane from Shanghai, China, the island of Saipan was targeted by Imperial […]

PokerStars Could Launch In New Jersey In October

PokerStars, the largest online poker site in the world, might be making its New Jersey debut as soon as Oct. 1, according to unidentified sources who spoke to NJPokerOnline. PokerStars was sold to Amaya Gaming Group this summer, a move which has helped the former’s chances to re-enter the U.S. market via the Garden State. […]

A Poker Life: Jennifer Tilly

The 1989 film Let It Ride, starring Richard Dreyfuss, is about a cab driver who wins big on a horse racing bet, but can’t stop himself from gambling afterward. If you look closer, however, you’ll see that one of the co-stars is none other than Jennifer Tilly, who plays sexy, gold-digger Vicki, and at one […]

Ohio Casinos To Provide Slots In Smoking Areas

Ohio is set to see some of its casinos offer smokers gambling options. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati is going to be putting in slots in a smoking area. Two more casinos in the state will likely follow. “This fall, pending regulatory approval, we will introduce a new concept to the market […]

Widow Of Gambling Addict Sues Casino, Slot Maker

The widow of a former business executive who lost everything due to a slot machine addiction and then committed suicide is suing the casino and the slot manufacturer over practices that she thinks go to the very heart of the casino industry. Stacy Stevens, whose husband Scott committed suicide on Aug. 13, 2012 after embezzling […]

2014 POY: Tristan Wade Wins As Fall Stretch Begins

In the wake of the WSOP the tournament poker world has spent much of the last few weeks taking a break. Things are just starting to hear up again in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. Here is a look at what went down over the past seven days […]

CPPT: Win Free Seat To Bike Main Event

One of the final stops of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour is swiftly approaching and players now have even more chances to take a shot at the money and CPPT glory. The CPPT will make a stop at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California September 21 through October 15 in what […]

Caesars Reports Second-Quarter Loss Of $466.4 Million

Caesars, which hasn’t posted a profit since 2009, reported a second-quarter loss of $466.4 million, compared with a prior-year loss of $212.2 million, The Wall Street Journal reported. Caesars has an industry-high of more than $20 billion in debt. According to the report: For the quarter, overall revenue for the company rose three percent to […]

Majortiy Of Northeast Lives Within 25 Miles Of Casino

According to an infographic from The New York Times, gaming revenue in the Northeast part of the United States has grown to more than $13 billion annually, up from around $5 billion in 1990 and up significantly since right before the Great Recession sank gaming win. The boost in gaming revenue is due to more […]

Steady Growth Over Another Poker Boom, Says Exec

Back in June, Ultimate Gaming, one of Nevada’s three operational online poker sites, announced that Todd Kobrin had been hired as the company’s Chief Marketing Officer. Kobrin, who before that served as Vice President at 888 for its U.S. and Asia Pacific regions, has plans to build “brand awareness” for Ultimate Gaming and its Ultimate […]

Atlantic City's Most Expensive Casino To Close

On Monday, Revel Casino Hotel in Atlantic City was posting photos of sushi and drinks on the beach to its Facebook page with captions like “Starting the week out right!” On Tuesday, the casino announced that it would close its doors next month. Revel, the most expensive casino ever built in Atlantic City, failed to […]

New Jersey Governor Vetoes Sports Betting Bill

A bill that would have brought sports betting to New Jersey casinos and race tracks while simultaneously circumventing a federal law that prohibits it has been vetoed by Gov. Chris Christie. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Raymond Lesniak, among others, offered some hope to the struggling Atlantic City gambling market because it allowed the state […]

Ivey's Alleged Accomplice In Suit Against Foxwoods

Cheng Yin Sun, who was accused of helping poker pro Phil Ivey “edge-sort” at Atlantic City’s Borgata casino in 2012, is now involved with another legal case, this time against Foxwoods Casino Resort in Connecticut. Sun, along with two other gamblers, Long Mei Fan and Zong Yang Li, are suing Foxwoods for millions. They say […]

Lotto Directors Oppose Web Gambling Ban

State lotteries want web poker to exist in the United States. In a recent piece by Jeff Anderson, Director of the Idaho Lottery, Stephen Martino, Director of Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency, and Charles McIntyre, Executive Director of the New Hampshire Lottery, the state lotto directors addressed a proposed federal web gaming ban by […]

Card Rooms, PokerStars Respond To iPoker Delay

The coalition representing the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, California’s three largest card clubs—the Commerce Club, the Hawaiian Gardens Casino and the Bicycle Casino—and PokerStars responded to the news that California online poker legislation has been shelved for this year. The bills were introduced this past winter, but never gained any steam. “We have been […]

VIDEO: Jason Somerville On Floating In NLH

Jason Somerville is not shy about sharing his experience and insight into the game of poker. In fact the 27-year-old poker pro hosts an online poker show called “Run It UP!” in which he gives away free in depth analysis of his play as he attempts to turn $50 into $10,000 playing online poker. Somerville […]

Poker Pro Talks Losing Aces V. Aces In $1M Buy-In

Poker pro Connor Drinan grabbed lots of mainstream media attention late last month after video coverage of his elimination hand in the $1 million buy-in at the 2014 WSOP hit airwaves. Drinan held pocket aces and ran into the pocket aces of Cary Katz. Unfortunately for the 25-year-old Drinan, Katz made a flush on the […]

New Jersey Could Have Sports Betting Next Month

In order to get around a federal ban on sports betting, the state of New Jersey is prepared to pass a law that would work around the ban by basically enacting a hands-off approach to the activity—neither endorsing it nor prohibiting it. This comes from Press of Atlantic City reporting on Thursday. Sports betting is […]

Alex Luneau Up $1.2 Million So Far In August

Frenchman Alex “Alexonmoon” Luneau has returned to the online poker tables in a huge way. So far in August, he is up roughly $1.2 million, according to tracking site HighstakesDB. Luneau, who has opted out of having his long-term online results tracked, is coming off a 2014 World Series of Poker in which he recorded […]

Hard Rock Casino-Hotel Opens In Downtown Sioux City

A brand new casino opened its doors in Sioux City, Iowa just a handful of days ago. The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City has 30,000 square feet of gaming floor space, which includes 839 slot machines and 25 table games, featuring blackjack, roulette and craps, the Associated Press reported. Staind frontman Aaron Lewis […]

Several Accused Of Money Laundering Through Slots

Several people in the state of Kansas have been accused of laundering $200,000 in profits from selling marijuana through slot machines at a local casino. The accused in the federal case that resulted in a grand jury are Gregory Rapp, 30, Denise Hurla, 50, Christopher Anderson, 30, Kenneth Stewart, 33, and Jeffrey Selectman, 29. Documents […]

California Online Poker Bill Shelved For 2014

Online poker efforts in California this year took a hit yesterday. According to the L.A. Times, state Sen. Lou Correa said that he is shelving his online poker bill for 2014. The other bill in the legislature, sponsored by Assemblyman Reginald Jones-Sawyer, has not had any traction and appears to be drawing slim. There just […]

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 Update: Chris Hunichen Joins Top 20

Despite being a relatively slow week, there were still hundreds of thousands of dollars won and plenty of points awarded over the past seven days of the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. Here is a look at what went down in the past week. 2014 Latin American Poker Tour […]

CPPT Choctaw Results: Events 74, 75, 78, 80 & 81

The seventh stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma July 17 and hosted a series of 81 tournaments through August 4. The series culminated with a $1,500 no-limit hold’em $500,000 guarantee main event August 1-4. Here is a look at the last results: […]

Horseshoe Casino Baltimore Moves Toward Opening

Everything appears to be on schedule for the Horseshoe Casino Baltimore to open on the night of Aug. 26. It will be the fifth casino in the state of Maryland. “It’s exciting. It’s exciting for our team, but this construction team has put in a lot of time and effort as well, and for them […]