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$70M License Fee For Casino In New YorkThe Empire State will eventually be home to a handful of additional casinos, as voters last year authorized four commercial facilities in different parts of the state. In order to get a license to build and operate, firms must be approved and pay the state a fee, which will cost between $20 million and $70 […]
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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 […]
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Missouri Looks To Cater To High Roller GamblersThe state of Missouri is looking to give its riverboat gambling industry a boost by reversing part of a law that put a ban on extending credit to gamblers. This week, the Senate approved a proposal — SB 741 — by a vote of 24-9. The ban was part of the early 1990s law that […]
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Capture The Flag: Alex MillarBritish online poker pro Alex “IReadYrSoul” Millar is up around $4.5 million lifetime playing the nosebleed stakes on Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, which makes him one of the biggest winners in history. The 28-year-old started off playing $0.25-$0.50 no-limit hold’em while in school and quickly found that he had a knack for the game. […]
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Tropicana Completes Casino Purchase From PinnacleTropicana Entertainment announced Tuesday that it has completed its acquisition of Lumière Place Casino, HoteLumière, and the Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis from industry competitor Pinnacle Entertainment. The deal was $260 million. With the acquisition, Lumière becomes the ninth casino property in Tropicana’s portfolio. It has casinos in Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey and […]
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Schedule For Bellagio Cup X, Summer High Rollers AnnouncedThe Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada has awarded more than $ 432 million in tournament payouts in it’s history, the second most of any casino in the world. This week the iconic room announced the schedule for it’s Summer poker tournament offerings. The $10,300 buy-in Bellagio Cup X no-limit hold’em main event […]
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Man Getting Subway Sandwich Buys $425M Lotto TicketOn April Fool’s Day, a California man wearing a Star Wars t-shirt claimed a $425 million Powerball win. He had waited nearly six weeks before claiming it, according to reports. B. Raymond Buxton reportedly hired an attorney and a public relations firm to help him with his new-found wealth, before even grabbing the top prize. […]
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March Gives Macau $4.4B In Gambling RevenueMacau just recorded back-to-back $4 billion months. On Tuesday, the area’s government said that casinos there took in $4.4 billion from gamblers. That figure comes after February’s $4.8 billion, which is the record. For comparison, the entire state of Nevada took in a little more than $11 billion from gamblers in all of 2013. The […]
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Maine Panel Gives OK To New Casino StudyAfter a gambling expansion proposal was shot down last week, this week some Maine lawmakers said OK to a slightly different idea for more betting. According to the Associated Press, the Veteran and Legal Affairs Committee voted unanimously on Tuesday to study whether building more casinos in the state would work. Currently two casinos exist […]
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More Full Tilt Poker Money Released To VictimsAnother round of remission for victims of the old Full Tilt Poker went out on Tuesday, the group hired to help facilitate the massive process said. Garden City Group announced on its website that an additional $5 million of missing funds entered the hands of 2,200 players, collectively. Both figures are approximate. To date, around […]
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2014 Player of the Year: Dominik Panka Retakes LeadThe end of March proved just as eventful as the rest of the month in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker. Here is a look at the events that most influenced the overall standings over the past week: EPT Vienna Side Events The European Poker Tour Vienna festival, held […]
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Card Player Digital Subscription SaleRight now, you can get a Card Player Magazine digital subscription for a low price of just $1.99 per month! Sign up for a six-month subscription and it will cost you just $9.99. If you opt for the yearly subscription, pay just $14.99. Sign up today and get a free 7-day trial. Every two weeks, […]
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New York Web Poker Bill Not To Be PushedAn online poker bill was introduced into the New York legislature last week, but don’t expect it to pass this year. The bill’s sponsor reportedly said his intention is not to pursue it seriously in 2014. According to the Associated Press, Sen. John Bonacic, chair of the Senate Committee on Racing, Wagering and Gaming, said: […]
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MGM Could Break Ground On MD Casino This MonthMGM could break ground on its casino project in Maryland this month, Washington Business Journal reported on Monday. In December, the casino firm won approval to build a $925 million property at National Harbor in Prince George’s County. “We are preparing to break ground as quickly as possible at National Harbor,” Lorenzo Creighton, MGM National […]
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WSOP Circuit National Championship Details FinalizedThe tenth season of the World Series of Poker Circuit will finish with a bang at the WSOP National Championship, a gold bracelet event with a seven-figure prize pool that is now officially set to take place from May 22-24, 2014 at Bally’s Atlantic City in New Jersey. There are still five circuit stops remaining […]
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Man Avoids Conviction For Poker Game Via FacebookA man in Tasmania — an island state, part of the Commonwealth of Australia — has avoided a conviction for organizing a home poker game with no rake, according to a report. He was let off with basically a warning. He used Facebook to organize it. David Desmond Bowen invited 25 people to a poker […]
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James Carroll Discusses His $1.3 Million Mad MarchJames Carroll has been a fixture on the live tournament scene for years, with a background in online MTT’s, cashing for seven figures under the screen name of “croll103” before Black Friday shut down the international online poker sites in America. He has found some success in the live arena as well, but he truly […]
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Gavin Griffin: Home Games vs. Casino GamesPeople 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 […]
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Poker Site Partners With New York RangersLast week, the New York Rangers, a team in the National Hockey League, and Caesars Interactive Entertainment, a top online gaming operator in the United States, announced a new marketing partnership. It makes WSOP.com, which offers online poker in New Jersey, the exclusive online gaming partner of the Rangers. The idea behind it is to […]
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PokerStars Responds To CA Tribal CoalitionPokerStars wants to get re-involved with online poker in the United States, after leaving American cyberspace in April 2011. After high-stakes efforts didn’t pan out in Nevada or New Jersey, the state of California is the firm’s next target. The site has reportedly entered into negotiations for potentially partnering with the Morongo Band of Mission […]
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Online Poker: Dan Cates Big Winner In MarchThe month of March featured a lot of action at the high-stakes online poker tables on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. Some of the game’s best tangled in big-bet games, as well as in nosebleed limit variants, like the popular deuce-to-seven triple draw. A pair of Maryland natives led the way in both the win […]
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Nevada Poker Sites Bring In $824K During FebruaryAlthough it fell under the radar for the most part, Nevada’s gaming industry had an important milestone last week. February marked the first time ever that a Silver State gaming revenue report included online poker figures. The state was keeping the numbers under wraps until a third casino firm, South Point, started offering games. Station […]
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CarbonPoker Launches $10K Chip King For AprilThroughout April, Carbon Poker is rewarding players with the $10,000 Chip King, a freeroll every Sunday during the month. Player simply need to opt in to the promotion and earn at least 100 VIP points during the week to qualify for the freeroll. Each week the prize pool for the Chip King freeroll will grow. […]
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Crazy Gambling Stories From MarchThe 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. March was no exception, as there was plenty that happened in […]
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CPPT: Erkut Yilmaz Wins Atlantis Main EventIt might have been K5 that won the Card Player Poker Tour Atlantis main event for Erkut Yilmaz, but it was AJ that gave him the chips to begin slowly propelling his way to the win. After a three-hour heads-up battle with Vincent Remmel, who at one time held a nearly 6-to-1 chiplead, Yilmaz became […]
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Online Poker Bill Introduced In New YorkThe state of New York is again taking a hard look at online poker within its borders. A proposed law was introduced into the Senate on Friday, which calls for the authorization of online poker, a game referenced as one in which requires skill, and for the awarding of 10 licenses. Each license would be […]
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CPPT Atlantis Results: Event 21The fourth stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Atlantis Casino Resort Spa March 21 and will host a series of 31 tournaments through March 30 culminating with a $1,100 no-limit hold’em $125,000 guarantee main event March 28-30. Here is a look at the latest results: Event No. 21: […]
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Pease Leads CPPT Atlantis Heading Into Final DayDay 1B of the $1,100 no-limit hold’em Card Player Poker Tour Atlantis main event saw almost double the amount of players of Day 1A come out to take their crack at a guaranteed $125,000 prizepool. 117 players made their way to the Atlantis Resort and Casino on Saturday afternoon the second of the two starting […]
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Khoroshenin Wins EPT Vienna Main EventThe 2014 PokerStars European Poker Tour Vienna €5,300 no-limit hold’em main event attracted a record field of 910 players, building a €4,413,500 ($6,087,982 USD) prize pool, by far the largest in the event’s history. In the end it was 27-year-old Ukrainian Oleksii Khoroshenin who emerged victorious after making a deal three handed with runner-up Anthony […]
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Damon Shulenberger Leads CPPT Atlantis After Day 1AThe $1,100 Card Player Poker Tour Atlantis $125,000 guaranteed main event got underway on Friday afternoon with 65 players showing up to play Day 1A. Cards got in the air at noon local time and after 10 hour long levels, only 12 remain. Damon Shulenberger bagged the most chips at the day’s end, bagging and […]
