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Open Face Chinese: Common Problems, Simple Rules

Open-Face Chinese (OFC) has nearly as many combinations of possible board run-outs as a game of chess,and, similarly to chess, there are also many extremely similar problems that seem to come up again and again. Let’s take a look at a couple of simpler problem spots that seem to occur pretty often, and can be […]

Nevada Removes Gambler From Casino 'Black Book'

Roderick William Dee II, who was added to Nevada’s infamous “Black Book” last year, was removed last week by gaming regulars. He died on Dec. 30. Dee was known for cheating at slot machines. According to the Las Vegas Sun, Dee had four felony convictions for slot machine incidents, three in Nevada and one in […]

TonyBet Launches Online Open Face Chinese Series

At the end of last year the notorious Tony G did what he does best – he gambled. In December 2013 the Lithuanian-Australian poker pro started an Open Face Chinese online poker site, a venture that not even online poker giants dared to take. In just five months Tony claims he has already succeeded and […]

Iowa Casino Fined For Allowing Self-Banned Gambler To Play

A casino in Iowa has agreed to pay a small $3,000 fine for allowing a man who banned himself form the casino to gamble and get a player’s card. According to Radio Iowa, the Mystique Casino in Dubuque allowed the man to gamble this year after he had signed a self-ban from gambling at Prairie […]

Atlantic City Casinos Fined More Than $100,000

A pair of casinos in Atlantic City have been fined by state regulators. According to NBC10 Philadelphia, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has fined Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City $70,000 for improper security staffing levels. Four fines totaling $37,500 against Revel Casino Hotel were also issued. The casino was cited for allowing self-excluded gamblers […]

Hinkle Wins WSOPC Council Bluffs For Third Time

Blair Hinkle has written his name in the poker history books as the first player to ever win the same World Series of Poker Circuit main event three times. It started when Blair took down the 2010 WSOP-C Horseshoe Councl Bluffs main event. In 2013 he found his way through the field again, and now […]

Bingo Carries On As Paramedics Try To Save Player

A bingo game in the United Kingdom continued despite one of the players collapsing from a heart attack, according to the Burton Mail. Two nurses who were also playing rushed to the man’s side to help. Paramedics eventually arrived and were trying to save his life. Still, numbers were being called. One of players in […]

CPPT: Clarke Wins Paddy Power Poker Irish Open

Patrick Clarke was not just the Sole Survivor of the Card Player Poker Tour 2014 Paddy Power Poker Irish Open – he was the lone survivor. “It means the world to win this event. It’s a dream to win this event. I can’t believe it. It hasn’t sunk in yet,” Clarke said. Clarke bested a […]

Casino Gambling In Crimea Takes Another Step

Despite political tensions still persisting, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has submitted a draft law to create a gambling zone in Crimea, RT reported. If completed, Crimea would be the fifth gambling zone in the Russian Federation. According to the report: "Under current Russia law, casinos are only allowed in four regions of Russia—Krasnodar, Kaliningrad, Altay, […]

Drugmakers Posed As Poker Players To Flee Australia

Three men from Canada posed as poker players in a tournament at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia as part of a botched effort to set up a “local drug laboratory for a sophisticated international syndicate,” the Herald Sun reported. The men have pleaded guilty to the crime of conspiring to manufacture a commercial quantity […]

Gavin Griffin: Teaching Your Wife To Play Poker

People in the poker community often come up to me and ask about whatever is on their mind. Some of these questions are good questions, and some are bad beat stories in disguise. I’ve been through quite a few things in my poker career and I like to help whenever possible, and in this new […]

WPT Holds Championship With Big Changes

For the first time since it’s inception in 2002, the World Poker Tour’s season-ending championship event is not being played at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. The event, which kicked off Day 1A on Monday, is now held at the Borgata in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The move fits in with the WPT’s parent company’s […]

CPPT: Dave Pollock Leads Irish Open Final Nine

After three days of poker at the 2014 Card Player Poker Tour Paddy Power Irish Open, the unofficial final table is set and Dave Pollock is the chip leader heading into the final day of play (Note: A final table of nine is customary in the U.S., but most official final tables in Europe are […]

Vicky Coren Mitchell First Ever Two-Time EPT Winner

It took 98 tournaments for the European Poker Tour to find it’s first two-time main event champion, but it finally has. Nearly eight years after taking down the 2006 EPT London, Vicky Coren Mitchell topped a field of 556 entries in the 2014 EPT Sanremo main event to write her name in the history books, […]

Ole Schemion Wins WPT Sanremo High Roller

German pro Ole Schemion has won the European Poker Tour Sanremo €10,300 no-limit hold’em high roller, topping a field of 105 entries to win €265,000 and his tenth career title. The 21-year-old has amassed more than $4.6 million in tournament earnings in recent years playing on the European circuit. “I’m obviously very happy to win […]

CPPT Day 2: Ville Sissonen Leads Irish Open

Ville Sissonen bagged the chiplead with 522,000 on day 2 of the Card Player Poker Tour Paddy Power Poker Irish Open. It was a fitting end after nine levels of play as Sissonen had emerged as the chipleader early on and kept a steady presence near the top of the field throughout day 2. Right […]

CPPT: Irish Open Amasses €822,000 Prize Pool

In just a few short days one lucky player will leave the Double Tree Hotel in Dublin, Ireland €200,000 richer. The 2014 Card Player Poker Tour Paddy Power Poker Irish Open kicked of April 18 and 411 hopefuls showed up with the intent of adding their names to the storied tournament’s list of winners. With […]

Atari To Dabble With Real-Money Online Gambling

Atari announced this week that it will make a play with real-money online gambling thanks to a partnership with Isle of Man-based gambling firm Pariplay. According to a press release, the two firms have formed “a strategic partnership to launch Atari’s video game brands across real money gambling formats, including iLottery, social, online and mobile…Pariplay […]

Online Poker: Nikolaus Jedlicka Wins $916,000

Poker pro Nikolaus Jedlicka, who plays under “Niki Jedlicka”, didn’t start playing on Full Tilt Poker this year until this month, but over the past couple of weeks or so he is up a staggering $1.6 million, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. The past seven days for Jedlicka netted him $916,000. On PokerStars, the […]

CPPT: Paddy Power Irish Open Underway!

One of the most exciting spots of the Card Player Poker Tour – the Paddy Power Irish Open – will begin April 18 with a race to crown the latest champion. Complete live coverage of the four-day €2,250 no-limit hold’em main event will be provided on CardPlayer.com so fans across the world can follow the […]

Pennsylvania Table Games Break Record

Table games at Pennsylvania’s 12 casinos brought in a record amount in March. According to the state’s Gaming Control Board, revenue from the play of table games (which includes poker) at Pennsylvania’s casinos rose one percent during March, producing the highest level of revenue, $67.9 million, since the introduction of the games in July 2010. […]

Tiger Woods To Host Charity Poker Event

On May 16, Tiger Woods will host his third annual charity poker tournament. The event will be held at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Poker legend Phil Hellmuth, winner of 13 World Series of Poker bracelets, will emcee “Tiger’s Poker Night” presented by the World Poker Tour. All proceeds from this […]

Eric Afriat Wins WPT Hard Rock Showdown

The final table of the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown featured some of the best up-and-coming players in the game, but when the dust settled, it was 44-year-old Montreal, Quebec resident Eric Afriat who came out on top, earning his first WPT title and the $1,081,184 first-place prize. The $3,500 buy-in tournament […]

Deutsche Bank Looking To Sell Las Vegas Casino

Deutsche Bank is in talks with potential buyers of the Cosmopolitan on the Las Vegas Strip, Bloomberg reported this week. The bank has owned the property for a handful of years. Germany’s largest bank could be looking for more than $2 billion for the casino, hotel and resort, and has attracted at least four possible […]

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 […]

Delaware Online Gambling Yields $206,833 In March

The state of Delaware saw its three gambling facilities generate $206,833 in online gaming revenue during the month of March, according to figures from the Delaware Lottery. Poker accounted for $84,391 of that figure. Delaware Park, Dover Downs and Harrington Raceway were given the green light late last year to begin offering online betting to […]

Pittsburgh Poker Open Main Event This Weekend

The Pittsburgh Poker Open at Rivers Poker Room is already in full swing, but the $1,000+$100 main event still looms. The $100,000 guarantee main event kicks off Friday, April 18 and will have an additional starting day on Saturday, April 19. Players will receive 30,000 in starting chips and will be treated to one-hour blind […]

More Details On Phil Ivey's Alleged Cheating

Poker pro Phil Ivey is facing a lawsuit from an Atlantic City casino for allegedly cheating the house out of $9.6 million during a series of trips in 2012. Ivey has been accused of spotting manufacturing defects in the cards while playing baccarat at The Borgata Hotel Casino. The suit also named the manufacturer of […]

IGT To Link Slots Between Nevada, New Jersey

Late last week, IGT announced that its “Powerbucks,” a multistate wide-area progressive jackpot link, will be deployed at Caesars Entertainment properties in approved jurisdictions, starting with the states of New Jersey and Nevada. In other words, the games will be linked between the Silver State and the Garden State, leading to potentially bigger prizes. Recent […]

Man Sentenced In New York Gambling Case

The accused ringleader of an illegal web gambling business who laundered millions in proceeds was sentenced Tuesday to three years of supervised release, the Associated Press reported. Philip Gurian received credit for time served and was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine for “conspiracy to launder money.” The sentence was handed down in the state […]