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Final Table Set For CPPT PBKC Main Event

A title and $68,191 is on the line for the final nine players in the Card Player Poker Tour Palm Beach Kennel Club $1,100 no-limit hold’em $250,000 guarantee main event. Evan Teitelbaum will lead the pack with a stack of 1,200,000 trailed closely by Sean Winter with 1,093,000 and Luke Brereton with 1,039,000. Online pro […]

A Poker Life: Tom McEvoy

Most of you are reading this story in your local casino. Head on out to the nearest row of slot machines or the pit and you’ll find yourself engulfed in a wall of smoke. But in the poker room, your lungs are free to breathe clean, fresh air. This wasn’t always the case. In fact, […]

Luke Brereton Leads CPPT PBKC After Day 1B

Day 1B of Card Player Poker Tour Palm Beach Kennel Club is in the books and a new chipleader has emerged in Luke Brereton, who will return as the overall chipleader on Day 2 with a massive stack of 447,900. The second day one of the $1,100 no-limit hold’em $250,000 guarantee main event drew 126 […]

Sharking: The Targeting Of High-Stakes Poker Players

In September, high-stakes poker pro Jens Kyllonen told a disturbing story concerning the security of his laptop while staying at the Hotel Arts and playing in the EPT Barcelona main event. According to the Finnish pro, he went back to his hotel room after being eliminated from the tournament to discover his laptop missing. After […]

Chino Rheem Leads CPPT PBKC After Day 1A

It was a day of big names, local heroes and fast paced action at Palm Beach Kennel Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Day 1A of the Card Player Poker Tour $1,100 no-limit hold’em $250,000 guaranteed main event kicked off at 12pm EST at the South Florida card room and race track. Cards were quickly […]

South Korea Says StarCraft Like Gambling

Controversy has emerged in South Korea over a bill designed to combat addiction to computer games like StarCraft, the Associated Press reported. The bill, which is backed by 14 ruling party members, includes provisions to limit advertising. A separate bill would take 1 percent of the gaming industry’s revenue to create a fund to curb […]

Las Vegas Sands Abandons Casino Project In Spain

U.S.-based casino giant Las Vegas Sands has abandoned its casino project in Madrid after Spain’s government failed to meet some of the company’s tax demands. LVS wanted assurances of compensation should future legislation make profitability difficult for the company and exemption from a nation-wide smoking ban. “New condition were put forward concerning taxes and legal […]

CPPT Palm Beach Kennel Club Main Event Starts Friday

The latest edition to the Card Player Poker Tour hall of champions will soon be named when the Card Player Poker Tour Palm Beach Kennel Club $1,100 no-limit $250,000 guarantee main event begins Friday, Dec. 13 at 12 pm EST. Going by the success of first six tournaments, Poker Room Director Noah Carbone said the […]

Matt Matros: The Poker Paradox

It’s hard to win at poker. Brutally hard. It’s so hard, in fact, that approximately 75 percent of poker players lose (some studies say it’s even higher). Last year, the federal government argued in court that because so few players win, skill cannot possibly predominate over luck in our game. Thankfully, Judge Weinstein rejected this […]

CPPT Palm Beach Kennel Club Results: Events 4-6

The second stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Palm Beach Kennel Club in West Palm Beach, Florida Dec. 5 and will host a series of nine tournaments through Dec. 16, culminating with a $1,100 no-limit hold’em $250,000 guarantee main event Dec 13-16. Here is a look at the […]

Caesars Sues Massachusetts Gaming Chairman

In late October, Caesars Entertainment announced that it was no longer pursuing their partnership with Suffolk Downs Racetrack to bring a casino to the Boston area after the Massachusetts Gaming Commission expressed concerns about one of Caesars’ subsidiaries. Caesars, which denied any wrongdoing, has now filed a lawsuit against MGC Chairman Stephen Crosby, whom they […]

Dan Smith Wins WPT Five Diamond Main Event

2012 POY runner-up Dan Smith topped a field of 449 entries in the 2013 World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic $10,300 no-limit hold’em main event to capture his first WPT title and the $1,161,135 first-place prize. This was the third seven-figure score of the 24-year-old’s career and it brought his lifetime […]

Brian Rast Wins Five Diamond $100,000 High Roller

A total of 22 entries were made in the 2013 Five Diamond World Poker Classic $100,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em super high roller, building a prize pool of $2,167,000. Only three players made the money, with Jean-Noel Thorel being eliminated on the $433,400 money-bubble. In the end, Brian Rast overcame Erik Seidel heads-up for the title, […]

CPPT Local Heroes: Richard Dunn

The Card Player Poker Tour will be focusing on the familiar faces at card rooms and casinos during Season II stops in a new web series. CPPT Local Heroes will highlight the regular, everyday average Joe, who may not be known world wide but is certainly known to anyone who frequents their local poker room. […]

PokerStars' Review Suspended In New Jersey

There was very bad news Wednesday for poker players in New Jersey. Industry-leading PokerStars, which did not kick off games on Nov. 26 like its competitors did, has had its review process suspended in the Garden State, Forbes reported. “The Division of Gaming Enforcement has determined that the application of [PokerStars] casino service industry licensure […]

WATCH: Congressional Hearing On Online Poker

In case you missed yesterday’s online poker hearing that was held in Congress, here it is in full. The hearing was brisk, lasting less than two hours. Now, nothing actually happened during the hearing. It was just all rhetoric, most of which has been repeated ad nauseam for months and months and months. However, there […]

Florida To Take Look At 'Destination Casinos'

Las Vegas-style commercial casino-resorts, or “destination casinos” as they have been dubiously referred to in Florida, don’t appear to be coming to Florida anytime soon, but that hasn’t stopped some from continuing their perpetually painful and expensive campaign to bring them to the Sunshine State. The state’s Senate Gaming Committee is expected to discuss reform […]

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 […]

Atlantic City Casinos See Revenue Gains

Some good news for Atlantic City? Yeah, probably not, but it’s worth a try. The brick-and-mortar casino business in Atlantic City apparently has experienced some revenue gains, even if you don’t take into account the online games which launched in late November. (It’s unclear how much revenue those games will generate, but the governor has […]

California Tribe Gets Compact For Casino

A new tribal casino is on its way in the state of California, according to www.siskiyoudaily.com. California’s governor reportedly has signed an agreement with the Karuk Tribe to allow for a casino in Yreka — located near California-Oregon border. The compact allows the tribe to operate 1,500 slot machines. The Golden State has dozens of […]

Online Poker Has Congressional Hearing

On Tuesday, the U.S. Congress held a hearing entitled “The State of Online Gaming.” The meeting sounded largely favorable for the issue, bot no official action was taken. “Prohibition of online gaming has not and will not work,” Geoff Freeman of the American Gaming Association testified. According to him, Americans spent $3 billion on “illegal” […]

MGM Receives Preliminary Suitability

MGM has received a preliminary finding of suitability by Massachusetts gaming regulators. The decision, which game after a hearing this week, puts the firm one step closer to building a massive casino complex in the western part of the state. Massachusetts legalized such casinos in 2011 and it has been a slow process of finding […]

Poker Strategy For The Rest Of Us: Kristen Bicknell

In an effort to provide valuable tools and tips that are relevant to even the smallest games, Card Player is pleased to bring you Poker Strategy For The Rest Of Us, which will focus on everyday situations that occur against the poker world’s most casual players. Pro: Kristen Bicknell Concept: Playing Big Hands with Significant […]

LSOP Millions Coming To Panama In March

The LSOP Millions is coming to the Majestic Casino in Panama this March, but thanks to a revolutionary new concept, players won’t have to invest the time, money and energy into traveling to the tournament without being assured that they are already in the money. In addition to Panama, the $850 buy-in tournament will kick […]

Norway Politician Throws In Towel In Poker Battle

The heads-up battle between poker pro Ola “Odd Oddsen” Amundsgaard and Norwegian politician Erlend Wiborg started and ended on Saturday. Originally scheduled to play out over the next several months, Wiborg threw in the towel after losing around 26 buy-ins in a little more than 1,000 hands. The two were playing stakes of $0.50-$1 pot-limit […]

CPPT Palm Beach Kennel Club Results: Events 1-3

The second stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Palm Beach Kennel Club in West Palm Beach, Florida Dec. 5 and will host a series of nine tournaments through Dec. 16, culminating with a $1,100 no-limit hold’em $250,000 guarantee main event Dec 13-16. Here is a look at the […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: Dec. 9 - 15

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 December 9th through the 15th. Head to our tournament […]

Witnesses Picked For Web Poker Hearing

On Tuesday, online poker will receive a long overdue — though probably completely irrelevant and useless — hearing on Capitol Hill. It is widely considered that the efforts to make a federal online poker bill into law are drawing stone cold dead. Who knows if it ever had a chance, but the window is closed […]

CPPT Local Heroes: Georgia Felger

The Card Player Poker Tour will be focusing on the familiar faces at card rooms and casinos during Season II stops in a new web series. CPPT Local Heroes will highlight the regular, everyday average Joe, who may not be known world wide but is certainly known to anyone who frequents their local poker room. […]

NJ Lawmaker: State Can Be 'Mecca Of I-Gaming'

New Jersey has only been in the Internet gambling business for a couple of weeks now, but things have been going well enough that one lawmaker is already dreaming bigger. Garden State Senator Ray Lesniak, who spearheaded the bill that authorized online gambling, once said that he wanted to make New Jersey the “Silicon Valley […]