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Wynn Resorts Plans To Use 250K Live Oysters

A former Monsanto Chemical site near Boston that Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn wants to build a $1.6 billion casino on needs to be cleaned up, and part of the plan would involve using more than 250,000 live oysters. Wynn would be working with the nonprofit Massachusetts Oyster Project. “The Everett waterfront has been locked […]

Caesars In Atlantic City Robbed Of $181,000

Not every casino robbery can be as clever and calculated as the heists depicted in the movies. Early Monday morning, two suspects entered Caesars Casino in Atlantic City, pulled out a couple of guns and then took two boxes containing over $181,000 in cash. While it’s certainly not as artistic as the capers pulled off […]

Switch Poker Launches Biggest Stack Challenge

Switch Poker, the poker room designed for Android, iPhone and iPad players has launched a new competition: the €250 Biggest Stack Challenge! How does it work? Starting July 23rd and running until Aug. 6th, play at heads-up tables with the player JustBadLuck and get paid €250 for amassing the biggest stack against him. All Switch […]

CPPT Choctaw Results: Events 7 & 20-22

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

Philly Casino Breaks Ground On Major Expansion

SugarHouse casino, located near the Delaware River in Philadelphia, has broken ground on a $164 million expansion, Philly.com reported on Tuesday. “There is currently too much gaming capacity in the Northeast, but we made a promise to Philadelphia that one day we would expand and make SugarHouse Casino bigger and much better,” Greg Carlin, chief […]

Delaware Online Gambling Sites Win $188K In June

The state of Delaware’s three online gambling operators took in $187,944.25 during the calendar month of June, according to figures released by the Delaware Lottery. $25,600 of that figure came from online poker. April saw an all-time high of $240,000 in overall Internet win, which was followed up by $175,000 in online gambling revenue in […]

Margaritaville Casino In Mississippi To Close

Mississippi’s Margaritaville Casino and Restaurant will close on or before Sept. 19, the Associated Press reported. Margaritaville will pay its more than 350 employees up to Sept. 19. A lack of a hotel and a lackluster location for the property are reportedly the reasons for the casino closing its doors. Also, an over-saturated gaming market […]

2014 POY Update: Jake Schindler Into Fifth Place

The WSOP is vanishing in the poker world’s rear view mirror as the tournament circuit just continues to charge forward. This week a number of big changes took place in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. Here is a look at the event’s that made the biggest impact over […]

Nomination Process Begins For Poker Hall Of Fame

Poker fans now have the opportunity to play a role in the selection for the newest inductee(s) into the Poker Hall of Fame. To nominate a player click here. Currently, 46 people are in the PHoF. There are 21 living members of the elite group. They are (in order of induction): Tom McEvoy, Scotty Nguyen, […]

CPPT Choctaw Results: Events 15-18

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

STRATEGY: Negreanu On Balance Vs. Adaptability

If there is any player in the game of poker that doesn’t need an introduction its Daniel Negreanu. But in case you didn’t know, the 39-year-old Canadian poker pro is a six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, a two-time World Poker Tour champion, a two-time Card Player Player of the Year award winner and […]

CarbonPoker Offering WSOP Final Table Odds

Right now, you can place your bets on who will take down the World Series of Poker main event on CarbonPoker’s sports platform, Carbon Sports. Dutch poker pro Jorryt van Hoof is currently the favorite as he enters the final table with the chip lead. A successful $100 bet on van Hoof would earn $250. […]

Jerry Yang's WSOP Main Event Watch On eBay

The watch Jerry Yang won at the 2007 World Series of Poker main event has found its way to the online auction portal eBay. In 2013, the Internal Revenue Service seized Yang’s bracelet, along with other jewelry. Yang outlasted 6,358 players in the main event to take home $8.25 million. The current bid for Yang’s […]

New Jersey Gambling Sites Win $9.5M In June

Online gambling in the Garden State dropped to its lowest mark since January. Internet gaming win was $9.5 million in June, consisting of $2 million in online poker win and $7.5 million in the other authorized games. The revenue figures could have been affected by the World Series of Poker in Nevada, which draws thousands […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: July 21 - 27

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 July 21st through the 27th. Head to our tournament […]

Poker Strategy: Dominating Deep Cash Games

Many no-limit players like to keep the preflop betting small, see a flop, and go from there. They’ll limp into pots with hands like A-K offsuit, 8-7 suited, 6-6, and so on. I take nearly the opposite strategy, especially in cash games with relatively deep stacks. I raise every single pot I play (except from […]

Reid Young: Game Theory vs. Pot Odds

What if I told you that sometimes pot odds don’t matter? You might say that it flies in the face of fundamental poker knowledge. Right. Well fortunately for my side of the argument, there is an area of mathematics that is specially dedicated to explaining this wizardry. It’s called game theory. Game theory can get […]

CPPT Choctaw Results: Events 9-10 & 13-14

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

CPPT Choctaw Results: Events 2, 4 & 5

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

A Poker Life: Jeff Madsen

At just 21 years and five weeks old, Jeff Madsen won his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet in 2006. Less than a week later he won his second, defeating Erick Lindgren heads-up in the $5,000 six-max no-limit hold’em, one of the most prestigious titles of the summer. Madsen bookended those wins with two […]

Viktor Blom Wins $500,000 Online During WSOP

Despite not coming to the 2014 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Swedish poker pro Viktor Blom won roughly $500,000 during the span of the summer Series. Blom was the second largest winner over the period, trailing only punting-peddler, who had more than $550,000 in profits. The games were quieter than normal, thanks to […]

CPPT: Choctaw Series Begins July 17

More than $1 million is waiting to be won during the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw 81-tournament series beginning July 17. The seventh stop of Season II will take place at the famed Durant, Oklahoma property and will run through August 4. Thirty-nine of the 81 events will offer guaranteed prizepools ranging from $5,000 to […]

One Of Vegas' Oldest Casinos Finds Web Poker

The El Cortez, an old-fashioned casino located in Downtown Las Vegas, has inked a deal with Ultimate Gaming for Internet poker in the Silver State. Ultimate Gaming is the owner of Ultimate Poker, one of three online poker sites currently operating in Nevada. Ultimate Gaming also has operations in New Jersey, the second of three […]

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 […]

IGT Acquired By GTECH For $6.4 Billion

IGT announced on Tuesday that it has “entered into a definitive merger agreement with GTECH for the acquisition of IGT by GTECH for $6.4 billion.” The deal is comprised of $4.7 billion in cash and stock and the assumption of $1.7 billion in net debt. IGT is a leading business-to-business provider in the Silver State. […]

2014 POY: WSOP Champion To Earn 3,300 Points

The World Series of Poker has come to an end, but as we prepare to enter the next phase in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker let’s take a look at how the largest tournament of the year, the WSOP main event, could effect the POY racing heading into […]

German Poker Cheat Gets Three Years In Prison

According to media reports, poker player Ali Tekintamgac has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison over in Germany for running a poker cheating ring. Augsburger-allgemeine.de reported (via a translation) that he “has admitted that he has cheated on international poker tournaments and illegal rounds in the back rooms of pubs [in] […]

November Nine Set For WSOP Main Event Final Table

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. After more than a week of grueling tournament action, the 2014 World Series of Poker main event is down to the final table, otherwise known as the November Nine. They will return to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino on Nov. 10 to battle it out […]

Tribe To Offer Online Poker Without California Bill

California hasn’t legalized online poker, but that isn’t stopping one tribal group from venturing into the Internet realm thanks to “its sovereign right under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.” According to a press release, the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel has established Santa Ysabel Interactive and launched the poker website Private Table at www.privatetable.com. The […]

Foosball Champ Eyeing Poker's Main Event Title

Card Player’s 2014 WSOP coverage is sponsored by CarbonPoker. On Monday at the 2014 WSOP main event, foosball legend William Pappaconstantinou, better known as Billy Pappas, was one of the final 18. After finding the game as a young kid, Pappas went on to become foosball world champion—a distinction he has snagged a handful of […]