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I-Poker's Biggest Winners And Losers From 2013

Niklas “ragen70” Heinecker went on an absurd heater during the fourth quarter of 2013 on Full Tilt Poker to end the calender year up around $6.3 million, which was tops in the online poker world, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. By the way, he also won another $4.5 million from tournaments. It’s safe to […]

Mercier Looking For Action In Sober Bet

Poker pro Jason Mercier took to Twitter recently to see if anyone in the gambling community was up for a prop bet that involved abstaining from drinking for an entire year. Anyone want to do a no alcohol bet for 2014? Minimum 100k please — Jason Mercier (@JasonMercier) December 29, 2013 Some of his peers […]

Tribe Clears Hurdle For Mass. Casino

The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe cleared a crucial hurdle this week in its quest to build one of the three new casinos set to come to the state of Massachusetts. According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Indian Affairs decided not block the new tax agreement the tribe had brokered with the […]

PokerStars To Continue U.S. Pursuit In 2014

PokerStars, the world’s top online poker site, has so far failed to secure entry into both Nevada and New Jersey online gambling markets, but it will not give up on figuring out a way to re-enter the U.S. in 2014, according to a company blog post released Tuesday. PokerStars was kicked out of U.S. cyberspace […]

Card Table Causing Finger Amputations Recalled

Be careful poker players. A card table sold at Wal-Mart is being recalled after reports of the item causing finger tip amputations and one full finger amputation. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission released a posting to its website on Thursday that said the Mainstay five-piece card table set contains chairs which “can collapse unexpectedly, […]

PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Begins Today

The 11th-annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure kicks off on Sunday, January 5th at the Atlantis Resort & Casino on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, with 39 events taking place over the nine-day festival that runs from January 5th through the 14th. Over the past decade the PCA has consistently been one of the biggest events on […]

Expert: California Online Poker In 2015

The state of California, which has a population greater than that of Canada, has been regarded, aside from a federal bill, as the top prize in the United States for the online gambling industry at large. Efforts have taken place in the Golden State for years now with regards to authorizing online poker, but 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 […]

First Taiwan Casino To Open By 2019

The local government of Taiwan has said that its first casino will open its doors by the year 2019, Forbes reported on Wednesday. “Given that the act could be successfully passed in the beginning of year 2014, we optimistically expect that the earliest time the casino could open to public in Matsu is around 2019,” […]

Macau Win $45.2B From Gamblers In 2013

Macau just broke its own record. After a big December, the former Portuguese colony and the only place in China were casinos are legal, took in 360.7 billion patacas ($45.2 billion) from gamblers in 2013. That mark was a 19-percent increase compared to calendar year 2012, which was then a record. These figures are according […]

Crazy Gambling Stories From December

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

NJ Sees More Than 125K I-Gambling Accounts

Online gambling — including the game of poker — has progressed steadily in New Jersey over the past month, with the number of accounts growing from a modest five-figure sum to well over six-figures, according to state regulatory reports. Gambling on the web began in the state on Nov. 26. The most recent figure the […]

CPPT: Palm Beach Kennel Club a Success

Success for players and card rooms alike on the Card Player Poker Tour continues as Season II plays out across the United States. After beginning at bestbet Jacksonville in Florida in late August, the tour once again returned to Florida for a stop at Palm Beach Kennel Club in West Palm Beach Florida. The series […]

Wynn Found Suitable For Casino Near Boston

The state of Massachusetts has found Wynn Resorts suitable for building a $1.2 billion casino complex near Boston. The decision was issued on Friday. The commission said in a statement: “As a result of the comprehensive background investigation, a lengthy adjudicatory proceeding and an intensive deliberation conducted by the five-member gaming commission, the Commission finds […]

Nevada Gaming Revenue Up Big In November

Slowly, but steadily, Nevada’s casino industry is rebounding after the Great Recession. On Monday, state gaming regulators released a report that showed that Nevada’s nonrestricted gaming licensees reported a total “gaming win” of $875,968,501 for the month of November 2013. This amounted to an 11.91-percent increase compared to November 2012, when licensees reported a gaming […]

Negreanu Wins 2013 Player of the Year Award

Just under a decade ago Daniel Negreanu put together a legendary year on the tournament circuit, with $4.4 million in live earnings, four titles won and an incredible 11 final tables made. That year he won both the 2004 Card Player Player of the Year title and the World Series of Poker POY title. In […]

De Niro Could Star In New Gambling Film

A new gambling movie based on the book “Gambling Man” is set to be made and Robert De Niro is reportedly being courted for potentially playing the lead role. Just before Christmas last week, Borsalino Films acquired the rights to Gambling Man, a memoir by a casino boss with the name Gary Green. The book […]

Cabbie Gets $10K Tip For Returning $300K

The Las Vegas cab driver who discovered $300,000 in a brown paper bag that was left behind by a poker pro and decided to return it was tipped $10,000 by the player on Friday, according to reporting from Fox 5 Las Vegas. The incident happened Monday morning. The $10,000-tip is a huge upgrade over the […]

Ben Yu: Stack Management For Limit Tournaments

In the first article I ever wrote, I introduced “L” — the amount of chips required to play a hand of limit poker from start to finish — and claimed it would be a pivotal tool in tournament stack management. Now we move on to the fun stuff — strategy in specific games, starting with […]

Bryan Devonshire: Work Smart, Not Hard

Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers, stated that it takes 10,000 hours of practice at something to attain mastery. I’ve played poker with plenty of people who have played poker themselves for ten thousand hours and are still awful. Poker is an exceptional activity where participants will not improve unless they are actively trying to […]

Join Jonathan Little For Poker Training Webinar This Sat.

A couple months ago, Jonathan Little played a $530 online tournament on Poker Stars taking third place and cashing for $38,848.50. Little will be reviewing THIS ENTIRE tournament from start to finish on a 4-hour LIVE webinar THIS Saturday, Dec. 28. Click here to watch a preview video If you enroll BEFORE midnight tonight, Little […]

'Poker Princess' Pleads Guilty In Gambling Case

Earlier this month, yet another defendant in the massive gambling bust that happened in April plead guilty in federal court. This time it was Molly Bloom. (Here’s a look at the indictment.) Bloom, dubbed the “poker princess” by her poker-playing clients, reportedly hosted private games in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami and New York for […]

A Poker Life: Amir Lehavot

At 38, Amir Lehavot was the oldest player seated at the 2013 World Series of Poker main event final table, but that doesn’t mean he was the most experienced. In fact, the Israel-born poker pro, who now lives in Weston, Florida, has only been playing poker for the past seven years. So how does a […]

Nick Cassavetes Suing Over Gambling Debt

TMZ has reported that Hollywood director Nick Cassavetes, who has appeared on GSN’s popular “High Stakes Poker”, is suing a L.A. businessman over a massive gambling debt. Cassavetes is going after Kevin Washington, after the latter gave the former a handwritten check for $72,600 and then allegedly contacted the bank to stop payment. According to […]

Golden Nugget AC Unveils New Poker Room

This week, the Golden Nugget Atlantic City opened its brand new poker room, according to NorthJersey.com. The casino had closed its poker room earlier this year. According to the report, the Golden Nugget’s new card room is located “in a luxurious setting in the Main Atrium.” The room has the standard hours of never closing. […]

Indiana Might Bolster Gambling In 2013

Thanks to increased gambling competition in the United States, especially, in this case, the Midwest, the state of Indiana might be taking a look in 2013 at bolstering its betting industry. According to Nwitimes.com, a lawmaker in the state said the following recently: “[We need to] have difficult discussions about how we allow gaming to […]

The 2013 Poker Year In Review: Part Three

The following is part three of a three-part series looking back at the 2013 year in poker. This excerpt will appear in the Jan. 8 issue of Card Player Magazine. The Not So Good News Of 2013 Not everything came up roses for the poker world in 2013. Despite modest growth and continued interest in […]

Former Pittsburgh Steeler Suing Casino

A former linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers is suing The Meadows Racetrack and Casino for alleged misconduct in how it treated him while he was an employee there. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Michael Merriweather claimed he worked at the property for nine months as the director of sports marketing and during that time he […]

Casino Fight Set Again In Kentucky For 2014

In 2014, some lawmakers in the state of Kentucky will once again try to bring Las Vegas-style casinos to their jurisdiction in order to increase tax revenue and generate more economic activity. Supporters have always faced an uphill battle. According to the Associated Press, the new efforts will be in the form of potential constitutional […]