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Switzerland Looking Favorable To Online Gaming

According to reports, the country of Switzerland is looking at regulating online gambling. Existing brick-and-mortar casinos in the country will be given the opportunity to run the games, as operators based in foreign countries apparently will not be allowed in the mix. There is still some work to be done to figure out how regulation […]

Q &A: Rising Tournament Star Pratyush Buddiga

In the early 2000’s it seemed that every week there was another “young gun” making a name for himself on the live tournament circuit. In the wake of Black Friday, there have been fewer and fewer players who make their way from online tournament grinder to high-stakes live sensation. One player who has successfully made […]

CPPT bestbet Jacksonville Results: Events 1-4

The sixth stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at bestbet Jacksonville May 1 and will host a series of 12 tournaments through May 12 culminating with a $1,500 no-limit hold’em $300,000 guarantee main event May 9-12. Here is a look at the latest results: Event No. 1: No-Limit Hold’em […]

Poker For Hope Coming To Caesars Palace This May

On Saturday, May 17 in the Caesars Palace poker room in Las Vegas, the first annual Poker For Hope charity tournament will take place, benefiting cancer charities Tia’s Hope, The Life Raft Group and Phase One. The $500 buy-in event, which kicks off at 12:30 p.m. and will be hosted be former WSOP champion Jamie […]

George Clooney Responds To Casino Owner

Back in April, Steve Wynn and George Clooney were having dinner, and a heated exchange ensued. The spat became public and the center of celebrity gossip. The two have slightly different accounts of what exactly went down. Wynn claimed that Clooney got drunk and basically got overly pro-Obama. Weeks later, Clooney has refuted Wynn’s account […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: May 5 - 11

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 May 5th through the 11th. Head to our tournament […]

Macau Casinos Win $3.92 Billion In April

Macau gaming revenue increased 10.6 percent year-over-over to $3.92 billion in April, according the region’s government. Macau, the only place in China were gambling is legal, is on pace to surpass last year’s $45 billion in gambling revenue. In March, Macau’s casinos won $4.4 billion. February saw a record of $4.8 billion More than 30 […]

Sands: Not Selling Pennsylvania Casino

Contrary to reports and industry speculation, Las Vegas Sands Corp. will not be selling its casino in Pennsylvania—at least that’s what the firm is maintaining. According to reporting from WFMZ.com, Sands will be appointing former Atlantic City casino executive Mark Juliano as the new president of Sands Bethlehem. In April, the Morning Call reported that […]

'Poker Princess' Gets Probation In Gambling Case

Molly Bloom, who is known as the “poker princess,” has been sentenced to probation for her role in hosting card games that were under the control of a gambling operation with links to the Russian mob. The enterprise laundered tens of millions of dollars, the feds said. Bloom was accussed of hosting underground private games […]

Poker Strategy: Mastering Scare Cards

Have you ever been in this spot? You call a preflop raise with a medium pair like 7 7 out of position. The flop is 9 3 2, and you think “that’s not so bad.” You check to your opponent and call his continuation bet (c-bet). The turn is the K and your heart sinks. […]

CPPT Spotlight: Rem Remington

Jacksonville local Rem Remington is finding his way back to the poker tables after taking a little time off to re-adjust to life with a new baby. After working at his own low-voltage wiring company, Remington played professionally for seven years before taking a break with his wife and baby and starting a real estate […]

Crazy Gambling Stories From April

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

Ben Affleck Caught Card Counting In Vegas Casino

While on a Las Vegas vacation with his wife, actress Jennifer Garner, Hollywood actor Ben Affleck was caught counting cards at a blackjack table at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and asked to leave the property. The 41-year-old part-time poker player, who won the 2004 California State Poker Championship for $356,400, was caught using […]

Golden Nugget Casino In Mississippi Reopens

On Friday, the Golden Nugget Casino Biloxi in Biloxi, Miss. reopened. The property, which was purchased by casino developer Tilman Fertitta in 2012 and re-branded as the Golden Nugget, just experienced $100 million worth of rennovations. Golden Nugget properties exist in New Jersey and Nevada, as well. The casino was previously the Isle Casino Biloxi, […]

Buonanno Wins 2014 EPT Grand Final Main Event

After ten hours of heads-up play, the longest one-on-one battle in European Poker Tour history, Italy’s Antonio Buonanno finally defeated Britain’s Jack Salter to win the 2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final main event. At around 7:00 AM in Monaco, roughly 18 hours after the eight-handed final table began, the 47-year-old finally lifted […]

Massachusetts To Award Casino License In June

The state of Massachusetts could award its first Las Vegas-style casino license by mid-June, according to a report from CBS Springfield. The Gaming Commission said at a meeting on Friday morning that the plan is to award the license June 13, as long as there aren’t any setbacks. MGM is the only casino firm left […]

Gruissem Wins EPT Grand Final €25,000 High Roller

The 2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €25,000 no-limit hold’em high roller drew a record field of 214 entries, building a prizepool of €5,243,000 ($7,271,855 USD). The top 31 finishers made the money, but after three days of high stakes action only one player would away victorious. In the end German high roller […]

High-Stakes Online Poker: Pros Win Big This Week

The past seven days at the high-stakes tables on Full Tilt Poker were a bit slow, but that doesn’t mean that some of the game’s best took the week off from moving money around. A number of top pros had solid weeks. Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius ($284,000), Ronny “ronnyr37617” Kaiser ($260,000), Viktor “Isildur1” Blom ($212,000) Phil […]

Vadim Trincher Gets Five Years In Federal Prison

According to a press release from the FBI, World Poker Tour champion Vadim Trincher was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison “for participating in a racketeering conspiracy” in connection with a “Russian-American organized crime enterprise.” A co-defendant, Anatoly Golubchik, was also sentenced to five years for his involvement. Trincher pleaded guilty late last […]

Majority Of Card Transactions For NJ iPoker Fail

Just how severe are payment processing challenges for gambling websites in New Jersey? A firm involved with the process of facilitating transactions told the Associated Press that credit cards used by customers are being accepted less than half of the time. CAMS LLC said that the acceptance rate is between 42 and 46 percent—a terrible […]

Salter Leads Final Table Of EPT Grand Final

The 2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €10,600 main event attracted 650 entrants, building a prize pool of €6.5 million ($9,015,500 USD). The centerpiece of the European Poker Tour’s final series began with a sea of tables, but now after five full days of play only eight remain to battle it out for […]

MGM Resorts Has Best Quarter Since 2008: Report

The first quarter of this year, which ended on Mar. 31, produced the best quarterly operating performance for MGM Resorts International that it has seen since 2008, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. MGM said in a press release that its net income for the quarter was $108.2 million, up from just $6.5 million during […]

Missouri Gambling Marker Bill Passes House

Legislation that would allow casinos in the state of Missouri to extend credit to gamblers has reached the governor’s desk. The state of Missouri has been looking to give its riverboat gambling industry a boost by reversing part of a law that put a ban on extending credit to gamblers. Earlier this month, the Senate […]

New Hampshire House Votes Down Casino Bill

Lawmakers in New Hampshire’s House have voted down a two-casino bill by a vote of 173-172, according to the Union Leader. It was the third time in two years that a casino proposal has fallen by the wayside in the state. There’s still hope for the measure, though, as it will soon be “reconsidered,” the […]

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 […]

Nevada Casinos Win $982 Million In March

Silver State casinos had a successful March. According to a state report released Tuesday, Nevada’s nonrestricted gaming licensees reported a total “gaming win” of $982,168,390 for the month of March 2014. That amounted to a 7.60-percent increase compared to March 2013, when licensees reported a gaming win of $912,784,688. For the fiscal year (July 1, […]

Sri Lanka Government Says No To Casinos

Sri Lanka has put a thorn into the side of proposed resort complexes, according to The Australian. Three firms were planning massive developments on the island, which were to include casino gambling, but the government recently said “no” to the gambling component. “We will not allow casinos. That we say very clearly,” an official told […]

CPPT: bestbet Jacksonville Kicks Off May 1

The sixth stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour will see a return to bestbet Jacksonville May 1-12 for a second stop at the North Florida card room as the countdown to yet another champion begins. The 12-tournament series will being with a $350 no-limit hold’em $100,000 guarantee and conclude with a […]

One-Year Anniversary Of Nevada Online Poker

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the first hand of real-money online poker in Nevada. On the morning of April 30, Ultimate Poker, an offshoot of Station Casinos, launched real-money online poker in the Silver State. Its first hand was the first ever in a U.S. jurisdiction that licenses and regulates the Internet gambling industry. […]

Commerce Casino Ends Ads With L.A. Clippers

The Commerce Casino, the world’s largest poker room with 160 tables, has suspended its advertising relationship with the Los Angeles Clippers NBA franchise in the wake of racist comments made by team owner Donald Sterling. “The Commerce Hotel and Casino has enjoyed being a sponsor of the L.A. Clippers for the past 18 years,” said […]