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PokerStars Announces California Plan

After unsuccessful attempts to get back into the U.S. market via Nevada and New Jersey, PokerStars, the world’s most visited poker site, is looking at California as the gateway. The firm, which also owns Full Tilt Poker, was kicked out of the American market in April 2011. PokerStars settled its case with the federal government […]

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 […]

Borgata Puts Up Slight Overlay On WPT Championship

The World Poker Tour Championship attracted a field of 328 entries, just shy of what the Borgata needed to meet the $5 million guarantee. As a result, the Atlantic City property had to dip into the rake from the $15,000+$400 tournament to come up with the extra cash and give the players an overlay of […]

Caesars Applies For Casino License In New York

Caesars Entertainment Corp. is looking to expand to the state of New York, which authorized four Las Vegas-style commerical casinos last year. According to reports, Caesars is eyeing a $750 million project around 50 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. The application cost the firm $1 million. The project would be built in the town of […]

2014 POY: Kanit, Pahuja, Coren & Afriat Make Moves

It was an absolutely massive week in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. Here is a look at the numerous huge events that dramatically influenced the overall standings over the past seven days: 2014 EPT Sanremo Main Event Nearly eight years after taking down the 2006 EPT London, Vicky […]

California Will Hold Hearing On Online Poker Bills

California will be holding an “informational hearing” today—Wednesday, April 23—on online poker. The title of the robust 1 p.m. hearing is “The Future Public Policy and Fiscal Implications of Authorizing iPoker Gaming in California.” In other words, a lot will be discussed. A pair of online poker bills were introduced to the California legislature in […]

Win Your Way To Vegas With Card Player Poker

This summer, win your way to Las Vegas with Card Player Poker. Two lucky players will earn a prize package valued at $2,500 which includes a $1,000 buy-in to event no. 56 at the summer series, along with $1,500 in travel expenses. There are two ways to win. Satellite Series The first way to win […]

Report: George Clooney Calls Steve Wynn 'An Asshole'

Fighting with Steve Wynn in his own casino probably isn’t too great of an idea. The billionaire casino boss and actor George Clooney had dinner a couple of weeks ago to discuss some business, but the evening reportedly ended in a heated exchange. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the two men were talking about […]

Crown Resorts Interested In Las Vegas Casino

The Cosmopolitan on the Las Vegas Strip is on the market, and an Australian casino firm is reportedly among those who are interested in acquiring it for the price tag of $2 billion. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Crown Resorts, which is owned by billionaire James Packer, is looking at expanding to the United […]

Idaho Tribe Plans Poker Room Despite State Ban

A tribe located within Idaho is challenging the state’s anti-poker position. According to the Associated Press, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe plans to offer live poker after deciding Idaho’s constitutional ban on the game doesn’t apply to its casino. The facility already has slot machines and bingo. The tribe will open its poker room on May […]

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 […]