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CPPT Local Heroes: Gary Bodley

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. […]

Jack McClelland Retiring After WPT Five Diamond

Jack McClelland has been one of the most influential poker tournament directors in the game ever since he first earned that title at the 1984 World Series of Poker. After that, he ran the Grand Prix of Poker at the Golden Nugget Casino. He was the first tournament director to host events at Commerce Casino […]

Derrick Rosenbarger Wins 2013 WPT Montreal Main Event

30-year-old Derrick Rosenbarger has emerged victorious in the 2013 World Poker Tour partypoker.net Montreal $3,850 no-limit hold’em main event, topping a field of 862 entries to win his first major title, the $500,824 CAD ($517,049 USD) first-place prize and 1,368 Card Player Player of the Year points. Rosenbarger has been a pilot in the Air […]

Police Bust Poker Game At Oklahoma Bar

Oklahoma police resorted to using an undercover officer to bust a poker game with a pot of around $500, according to NewsOn6.com. The game, which was held at a Tulsa bar, reportedly was shut down and its two organizers were arrested Wednesday. Pete Manzanares and Julie Jones were both booked into Tulsa County jail. Both […]

WPT Five Diamond Main Event Underway At Bellagio

The 2013 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic $10,300 no-limit hold’em main event gets underway at noon on Friday, December 6th at the luxurious Bellagio Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. The unlimited re-entry event will span six days, with registration remaining open until the end of the eighth level at approximately 4:30 PM […]

Cash Game Strategy With Live At The Bike

Card Player is excited to announce a partnership with the Bicycle Casino and Live at the Bike, the industry’s leading live cash game webcast. CardPlayer.com will host the live cash game streams for all Live at the Bike webcasts (every Tuesday and Friday, 7:30-10:30 p.m. PST) and also partner with Live at the Bike for […]

Heinecker Up $6 Million As 2013 Winds Down

There are just a few weeks left remaining in 2013, and Niklas “ragen70” Heinecker keeps padding his profits in an effort to further distance himself from his colleagues. The German poker pro is up around $6 million on Full Tilt Poker this year. When you add that to his $4.5 million in live tournament winnings […]

CPPT Palm Beach Kennel Club Underway

Cards are in the air at one of the most anticipated stops on Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour. At 12 pm EST Dec. 5, players began the first of nine tournaments, a $345 no-limit hold’em $100,000 guarantee, for the final stop of the CPPT for 2013 at Palm Beach Kennel Club in […]

Firm Wants Online Gambling In Macau

Macau is already the top gambling hub in the world — taking in more than $40 billion in gaming revenue this year — but at least one firm wants Internet gambling there. According to MacauBusinessDaily.com, Japanese pachinko hall operator Dynam Japan Holdings will look into developing games for the web in Macau, assuming that it […]

Norwegian Pro To Play Politician Saturday

A match that could decide the fate of online poker in Norway begins Saturday. High-stakes poker pro Ola “Odd Oddsen” Amundsgaard, who is up millions this year online, is very irritated by the fact that the game exists in essentially a legal grey area within his country. He wanted to take matters into his own […]

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 […]

Americas Cardroom Debuts Sit & Crush Promotion

Right now, players at Americas Cardroom can win their share of six-figure monthly prize pools with the brand new Sit & Crush promotion. Players simply buy into their favorite sit-n-gos and are awarded points that count towards a monthly points race. The more you play, the more you win. “For months now, our cash game […]

Nadal, Ronaldo Set To Play EPT Prague Charity Event

Rafael Nadal is the number-one ranked professional tennis player in the world and Cristiano Ronaldo is a living legend in international football (soccer to out American fans), but both will be on an even playing field when they take their seats in charity poker event as part of the 2013 European Poker Tour Prague poker […]

Little Reviews Hands From WSOP Main Event

Join two-time World Poker Tour Champion Jonathan Little for a LIVE coaching webinar on Saturday, Dec. 7 as he reviews all of the biggest hands from the 2013 World Series of Poker main event final table, won by Michigan-native Ryan Riess for $8,361,570. The two-day final table played a total of 261 hands, with 91 […]

Switch Poker Readies For Two-Week SPP Race

Switch Poker, the mobile poker room available worldwide to iPhone, iPad and Android users is launching its usual monthly €500 SPPs Race on Dec. 5th. The race will last for 14 days and the 5 players that play the most will share the €500 prize pool! Race winners will be awarded as follows. 1. €250 […]

Casino Bill Submitted By Japan Lawmakers

The odds of Japan getting Las Vegas-style casino-resorts look pretty good. Some lawmakers in the country submitted a bill yesterday to authorize such businesses, according to Bloomberg. The bill would require the government to draft official legislation. According to The Wall Street Journal, the measure is likely to pass parliament next year sometime. Those who […]

Online Poker To Get Federal Hearing Tuesday

It has been awhile since online poker has been discussed in a hearing on Capitol Hill, but that is just what will happen on Tuesday. The House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade will hold a hearing on Tuesday, December 10, 2013, at 12:30 p.m. entitled “The State of Online Gaming.” According to the Subcommittee’s […]

Online Poker Likely Years Away For Massachusetts

Don’t expect online poker to be coming to Massachusetts anytime soon. The state’s first Las Vegas-style commercial casino could be a few years away, according to the Milford Daily News, and regulators likely wouldn’t take up the online gambling issue until the new casino properties are up and running and fully stabilized. The state’s top […]

More Than 50,000 I-Gambling Accounts For NJ

New Jersey online gambling is little over a week old and already around 55,000 accounts have been created on state-licensed sites, according to reports. The figure doesn’t represent the number of unique players, as many are presumed to have registered for accounts on multiple sites. New Jersey began online gambling on Nov. 26, around seven […]

Christie: New Jersey I-Gambling To Net $1 Billion

Online gambling is still in its infancy in New Jersey, but Gov. Chris Christie, who legalized the activity earlier this year, believes that the web games will generate $1 billion in revenue for Atlantic City’s casinos by July 1. The Star-Ledger reported on Christie’s comments that he made on Monday. The $1 billion figure was […]

Pennsylvania To Study Web Poker Business

Lawmakers in the Pennsylvania Senate yesterday passed a resolution that calls for studying the possibility of an online gambling industry in the state. There was an Internet gambling bill in the legislature earlier this year, but the measure didn’t advance. Many preferred to focus on bar gambling this year. The resolution stipulates that lawmakers “analyze […]

Ed Miller: Bluffing In Multiway Pots

A lot of people don’t bluff in multiway pots. I do it all the time. And it works. Here’s a hand I played recently. It’s a daytime $2-$5 game in Las Vegas. I’m playing a relatively shallow $420 stack. The game was playing very typically for this time of day — most players were too […]

Men Of Action: Bob Stupak

Jutting out of the earth more than a thousand feet into the air, the Stratosphere in Las Vegas will be one of the first things aliens fly by if they ever happen to get here. It’s easy to think that Bob Stupak had this at least in the back of his mind when he started […]

Bilzerian Says He Won $10.8 Million Playing Cards

Businessman, poker player, actor and self-proclaimed “asshole” Dan Blizerian recently took to Twitter to claim that he was playing heads-up, presumably no-limit hold’em, at stakes of $5,000-$10,000. He said he won $10.8 million in the game. Presently, there are no other facts to backup his story, and he didn’t mention who he was playing against […]

WSOP Circuit Announces Venue Swap For March 2014 Event

The World Series of Poker Circuit is set to return to St. Louis next with a brand-new, 12-gold-ring stop at Lumière Place from March 20th through March 31st, 2014. This time slot was originally slated for a tournament series at the Horseshoe Casino Cleveland, but the WSOP felt that the space they had originally planned […]

WSOP.com Launches Real Money App In NJ

New Jersey online poker players can now compete on their iPhone and iPad with the new WSOP.com real-money gaming app. The app is free to download from the app store. All new players who sign up for a WSOP.com account at Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City will receive a $10 deposit bonus, as well as […]

Adelson Pens Another Anti-Web Poker Op-Ed

Las Vegas Sands owner Sheldon Adelson had an opinion piece posted on the Las Vegas Review-Journal website just a couple of days ago. In it, he further elaborates on his anti-Internet poker stance. The whole situation is a mess and very difficult to untangle, as some think Adelson is being hypocritical while he has accused […]

Singapore Might Ban Online Poker Websites

Singapore is one of the world’s top brick-and-mortar casino markets — around $6 billion annually in gaming revenue — but it might not be opening itself up to Internet poker. The state is looking at placing a ban on all forms of remote gambling, which would of course include Internet-based games, according to reporting from […]

CPPT Palm Beach Kennel Club Begins Dec. 5

One of the most exciting stops on the Card Player Poker Tour will begin this week at the Palm Beach Kennel Club. Just beyond the beaches the of West Palm Beach, Florida lies the only licensed card room in the city, home to 64 poker tables and non-stop action. The final CPPT stop of 2013 […]

Supermodel Dating Australian Casino Boss

In the mood for some celebrity casino gossip on your Tuesday morning? Supermodel Miranda Kerr reportedly is now dating billionaire Australian casino boss James Packer. Kerr recently separated from actor Orlando Bloom. What makes the situation sort of funny is that Kerr reportedly met Packer through Bloom. The news was reported from Woman’s Day magazine. […]