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Nadal To Play First Live Poker Tournament

Tennis star Rafael Nadal reportedly will enter his first live poker tournament next month. According to Agence France-Presse, Nadal will play in a charity tournament in Prague on Dec. 12. The event is part of the European Poker Tour stop there. “Rafa will play against some of the biggest names on the international professional poker […]

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 […]

Caesars Wins New Jersey Online Gambling Approval

Nevada-based Caesars Entertainment Corporation has had a pretty good week. First, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that bankruptcy protection is not in the cards for the mammoth company, at least according to its chief executive officer. “The conditions the company faces today are better and not worse than they have been before,” Gary Loveman reportedly […]

Bellagio Hosting $10K Event This Friday

On Friday, Nov. 22, the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada will host a $10,000+$300 buy-in High Roller event featuring a guaranteed $100,000 first-place prize. The event kicks off at noon PT. Players will start with 30,000 in tournament chips and play one-hour levels. Registration will be open until the start of level […]

Some L.A. Welfare Money Ends Up In Vegas

CBS reported that $1.5 million of welfare money that L.A. County gave out to people barely hanging on in life from January 2012 through July 2013 ended up in Las Vegas. Around $6,000 of that money reportedly was accessed via ATMs in Clark County casinos. The route from Los Angeles to Las Vegas is just […]

Milford Voters Say ‘No’ To $1 Billion Casino

Voters in the town of Milford, which is in the Greater Boston area, on Tuesday voted down a plan backed by Foxwoods for a new $1 billion casino. The vote was 6,361 to 3,480 against the plan, as around 57 percent of registered voters turned out to the polls to weigh in on the crucial […]

New Jersey Bill Would Allow Players From Outside U.S.

The state of New Jersey hasn’t even started its intrastate online gambling industry yet, but at least one politician is gearing up for making moves to increase liquidity by allowing gamblers from outside of the U.S. to participate in the New Jersey-based games. According to a report from eGaming Review, New Jersey lawmaker Ray Lesniak, […]

Jared Jaffee Wins WPT bestbet Jacksonville

A total of 358 entries were made in the 2013 World Poker Tour bestbet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble $3,500 main even, more than doubling the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool with a total of $1,145,600 on the line. Five days after the first hand was dealt only one player remained: Jared Jaffee. For the win the […]

Gambling Ads In U.K. Have Risen 600 Percent

The Guardian reported Tuesday that since the gambling industry in the United Kingdom was deregulated in 2007, TV ads have increased by a whopping 600 percent. In 2007 there were around 234,000. Nowadays there are about 1.4 million annually. The research is according to Media regulator Ofcom. The 2007 law change “opened the door to […]

Casino Lobby Responds To Sheldon Adelson

Las Vegas Sands owner Sheldon Adelson will soon be launching an organization to combat the spread of legalized web gambling in the United States. Not long after the news broke, the American Gaming Association, the commercial casino industry’s top lobbying group, came out with a response. Ironically, Las Vegas Sands is a member of the […]

Richard Lyndaker Wins HPT Event At Stratosphere

Richard “nutsinho” Lyndaker has been a regular competitor in high stakes online cash games for years, becoming one of the most well respected no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha players on the internet. With most of his professional focus on cash games, Lyndaker has still had managed to earn more than $1 million in live tournaments […]

Win With Mystery Month On Bovada Poker

During November, celebrate Mystery Month with with Bovada and earn weekly cash bonuses or tournament tickets. Simply play your favorite Bovada games and earn poker points to earn a mystery prize. Players who earn 75 poker points in a week will get a mystery prize from Tier 1. Players who earn 150 poker points in […]

Men Of Action: Johnny Moss

“A sucker don’t ever catch on. A smart man don’t ever sleep. He’s got to keep ducking the traps.” – Johnny Moss On May 14, 1907, Johnny Moss was born in Marshall, Texas, a tiny town about 40 miles inside the state’s Eastern border with Louisiana. Town councils usually aren’t that keen on providing historical […]

Bitcoin Skyrockets To $900, Then Falls To $650

On Monday, there was a hearing on Capitol Hill to talk about the benefits and risks associated with virtual currencies, most notably bitcoin, and reports of the meeting sent bitcoin’s value on a huge upswing. In the hours after the hearing had ended, bitcoin had reached an all-time high of $900 on Mt. Gox exchange. […]

Pennsylvania Closer To Allowing Bar Gambling

Lawmakers in the state of Pennsylvania briefly flirted with the idea of Internet gambling, but they decided instead to focus on an initiative that had far more interest and perhaps was more lucrative — at least immediately. Internet poker, for example, needs liquidity, and a site catering to residents of only one state wouldn’t generate […]

Guillermo Olvero Wins Punta Cana Poker Classic

A total of 490 entires were made in the 2013 Punta Cana Poker Classic $1,500 no-limit hold’em main event, building a prize pool of $712,312. For the first time in the event’s four year history the champion is from Latin America, with Mexico’s Guillermo Olvero emerging victorious. For the win Olvero earned $171,100 and 720 […]

First Virtual Currency Hearing Held In U.S.

Congressmen from the United States met publicly for the country’s first ever hearing on virtual currencies, most notably the skyrocketing bitcoin. The hearing was entitled “Beyond Silk Road: Potential Risks, Threats, and Promises of Virtual Currencies” and lasted around three hours. Silk Road was an online marketplace where users could buy illicit goods using bitcoins. […]

Some Full Tilt Poker Cash Outs By April

The Full Tilt remission process could come to a close for some during the first quarter of next year, according to the firm in charge of compensating former American players. The deadline for most victims to file a claim was this past Saturday, and on Friday Garden City Group released an important update on its […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: Nov. 18 - 24

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 November 18th through the 24th. Head to our tournament […]

Vadim Trincher Pleads Guilty In Gambling Case

World Poker Tour champion Vadim Trincher has admitted to being involved with an illegal sports betting operation that catered to wealthy bettors in the U.S. and Europe. According to the New York Daily News, Trincher’s business typically dealt with soccer matches. He was on the hook for decades in prison, but thanks to the plea […]

Adelson To Launch Anti-Online Poker Group

Sheldon Adelson is ready to spend lavishly on fighting online gambling in the U.S. According to The Washington Post, the billionaire owner of Las Vegas Sands Corp. will be launching a public campaign to fight legalization of Internet betting. It’s unclear how much he will spend, but his bank account is nearly limitless and he […]

Philipp Gruissem Wins $100,000 St. Kitts High Roller

German high stakes poker pro Philipp Gruissem has topped a field of 28 entries to emerge victorious in the 2013 World Poker Tour Alpha8 St. Kitts $100,000 super high roller less than a month after winning the £100,000 WPT Alpha8 London. This was Gruissem’s third title of 2013, each coming in an event with a […]

A Poker Life: Mark Radoja

Last summer, Canadian Mark Radoja won the $10,000 World Series of Poker heads-up no-limit hold’em event, capping off a four-year run at the annual summer series that included 12 cashes, four final tables and two bracelet wins. All told, the 28-year-old Guelph, Ontario resident has banked more than $1.6 million on the live tournament circuit […]

VIDEO: High Stakes Cash Game Talks Poker Strategy

Phil Galfond is one of the most successful high stakes cash game players of the modern poker era, particularly excelling in online nosebleed-stakes cash games. Galfond has won more than $8.5 million online according to tracking sites, with another $1.8 million in live tournament wins and a World Series of Poker gold brace also under […]

Some Banks Still Restricting Web Poker Deposits

Online poker is legal in three U.S. states, but some banks and payment processors are still rejecting deposits into online poker sites in those jurisdictions. The ban is a remnant of the antiquated 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which made it illegal to process payments for web gambling. The onus was put on credit-card […]

Bitcoins Might Become Regulated: Report

Bitcoins, the online virtual currency that has generated some interest from the online poker world, might soon be under regulatory scope in New York. According to The New York Times, the state’s top financial regulator is looking at issuing a “BitLicense” for firms conducting transactions in currencies like bitcoin. A public hearing will soon be […]

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 […]

Switch Poker Giving Away Android Tablets

Between Nov. 15 and Dec. 18, new and existing Switch Poker users who make a minimum deposit of just €25 will be eligible to win an Android Tablet. New players simply need to enter the code FREETAB in the cashier page. Existing players just have to make the deposit and email support@switchpoker.com to enter. After […]

Online Poker: Niklas Heinecker Up $4.2 Million

Niklas “ragen70” Heinecker won $400,000 over the past seven days on Full Tilt Poker, which brings his winnings on the year on the site to $4.19 million, according to HighstakesDB. The German is now the biggest winner on the year in the online poker world. His performance has been incredible, since he didn’t start playing […]

Dan Shak To Host Charity Poker Event Thursday

Hedge fund manager and professional poker player Dan Shak will host the annual charity poker event he co-founded on Thursday night in New York City. Phil Hellmuth was scheduled to emcee the event. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. with registration, a poker tutorial session and buffet dinner and cocktails. The tournament officially starts at […]