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$14 Million In Full Tilt Losses For Hansen

Gus Hansen lost more than $200,000 on Thursday, which brings his lifetime losses on the Full Tilt Poker software to $13,998,140, according to HighstakesDB. Hansen dropped $2 million over the past seven days to send his career deficit on the software to a new all-time low. Hansen has about double the losses of the second-worst […]

Another NJ Casino Files For Bankruptcy Protection

New Jersey’s Atlantic Club Casino Hotel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, marking the second casino there this year to do so. The other was Revel. In fact, as the Associated Press reported, half of the 12 casinos in Atlantic City have filed for bankruptcy protection over the past six years. The Atlantic […]

2013 Punta Cana Poker Classic Kicks Off Next Week

The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Punta Cana, on the Eastern coast of the Dominican Republic is set to host a 10-event series of poker tournaments from Nov. 11th – 17th. The highlight of the entire series is the $500,000 guaranteed $1,500 + $150 no-limit hold’em main event which begins with the first of […]

Schwartz: Farber Should Get 'AA' Or 'Lucksac' Tattoo

Las Vegas nightclub promoter Jay Farber obviously played really well to navigate through a huge field and finish second in the World Series of Poker main event this week, but at least one poker professional wanted to needle him about how well he ran to get there. During the November Nine final table, Noah Schwartz […]

South Korea: 'StarCraft' Like Gambling, Drugs

Some state officials in South Korea think play on computer games such as “StarCraft” — now in its second edition — has gotten so widespread and out of control that being obsessed with it should be classified as an illness, along with gambling and drug addictions. Global Voices Online reported: “Earlier this month, South Korean […]

Dan Gilbert Gets Nevada Gambling Approval

Dan Gilbert, owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA franchise, was given preliminary approval this week for becoming an investor in an offshoot of Caesars Entertainment, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. The Nevada Gaming Control Board approved Gilbert owning 5.45 percent of Caesars Interactive — which owns the World Series of Poker brand and its online […]

WSOP Crowns First 'Online Nine' Poker Champ

This week, in addition to crowning a main event champion, the WSOP named its first ever “Online Nine” champion. It was the Nevada poker site’s first official championship. Matt Wilson, hailing from North Richmond Hills, Texas, won the $50,000 top prize after a live heads-up match at the Penn and Teller Theater in the Rio […]

Concerns About Massachusetts Casino Industry

The state of Massachusetts, which authorized a few Las Vegas-style casinos in 2011, is still in the midst of the process of picking the companies who can build. Massachusetts has been a coveted prize for some of the biggest casino firms in the world, those which operate out of the U.S. gambling hub Las Vegas. […]

New York Voters Approve Las Vegas-Style Casinos

New York state voters on Tuesday passed a proposal by the governor to allow up to seven Las Vegas-style casinos to be built in the state. They approved the plan by an unofficial 57-43 percent margin. “The passage of Proposal One is a big win for local governments, school districts, and taxpayers across New York […]

WSOP: Riess The Beast Wins Main Event Title

A total of 6,352 players put up the $10,000 buy-in for the 2013 World Series of Poker main event, but it was a 23-year-old poker pro from East Lansing, Michigan who topped them all to earn the lion’s share of a $59,708,800 prize pool. Ryan Riess, a player with just $317,000 in career tournament earnings […]

Man Stabbed To Death Over $3 Card Game Dispute

A 24-year-old man was stabbed to death Sunday by his friend after the two fought over a pot in a card game worth Rs. 180, or $2.90 in U.S. dollars, according to the Hindustan Times. The game took place in north Delhi. “The victim and his friends were drinking and playing cards last evening when […]

Nevada Supreme Court Says Tip Sharing OK

The Nevada Supreme Court issued a decision last week that tip sharing between employees such as table games dealers and those who supervise them is OK under the law, according to reporting from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The debate stems from Steve Wynn implementing such a tip-sharing policy on his property. In 2011, a lower […]

New York Voters To Make Call On Casinos

To help shore up the budget, the state of New York is looking to add some brick-and-mortar commercial casinos to its existing gambling landscape. Lawmakers have approved the plan, but the issue was up to voters on Tuesday, Nov. 5. According to the New York Post, the referendum is expected to be successful for casino […]

Study Sheds Light On Gambling Addicts' Decision Making

Some new gambling addiction research has come out linking some similarities between the aforementioned disease and cocaine addiction. Researchers from the University of Granada have been studying how those addictions affect decision making abilities, formed in the prefrontal cortex. The results were interesting, but perhaps expected. The authors wrote, “these bad decisions affect the individuals’ […]

Casino Wants Refund From Lindsay Lohan

Pop culture star Lindsay Lohan reportedly has made a casino in Connecticut pretty unhappy. Officials at Foxwoods casino paid her $50,000 to judge a costume contest on Halloween, along with boxing star Floyd Mayweather. She was supposed to be there at 10 p.m. EST to start work for the evening, but she didn’t show up […]

WSOP: Farber and Riess Set For Heads-Up Battle

For a live look at the action, visit the live updates page. And then there were two. After 171 hands of final table action at the 2013 World Series of Poker main event, it will be club promoter Jay Farber and poker pro Ryan Riess who will battle it out for the title, the bracelet […]

WSOP: Amir Lehavot Eliminated In Third

Here is a look at the latest from the 2013 World Series of Poker. For more updates, visit the live updates page. For a while, it looked like Jay Farber would steam roll his way to the main event title. Instead, Ryan Riess made it a contest by claiming his fourth bounty at the final […]

WSOP: Sylvain Loosli Eliminated In Fourth

Here is a look at the latest from the 2013 World Series of Poker. For more updates, visit the live updates page. After hours of six-handed play, it took less than a dozen hands to get down to the final three players. Sylvain Loosli, a 26-year-old poker pro from Toulon, France, was a short-stacked ninja […]

WSOP: J.C. Tran Eliminated In Fifth

Here is a look at the latest from the 2013 World Series of Poker. For more updates, visit the live updates page. At 11-5 odds, long-time tournament pro and chip leader J.C. Tran was the favorite coming into the main event final table according to Caesars Entertainment. Unfortunately for the 36-year-old Sacramento, California native, he […]

WSOP: Marc-Etienne McLaughlin Eliminated In Sixth

Here is a look at the latest from the 2013 World Series of Poker. For more updates, visit the live updates page. After 157 hands, it took a cooler before the eventual sixth-place finisher hit the rail. Marc-Etienne McLaughlin fought his way back from the short stack to third place, only to find himself in […]

WSOP: Michiel Brummelhuis Eliminated In Seventh

Here is a look at the latest from the 2013 World Series of Poker. For more updates, visit the live updates page. The first time Michiel Brummelhuis shoved his pocket nines all in preflop, they survived a flip against Ryan Riess and his A-Q. The second time Brummelhuis shoved his pocket nines all in preflop, […]

WSOP: David Benefield Eliminated In Eighth

Here is a look at the latest from the 2013 World Series of Poker. For more updates, visit the live updates page. On hand no. 38, just two hands after the elimination of Mark Newhouse, David Benefield found himself all in for 17 big blinds holding K2. Jay Farber made the call with a dominating […]

WSOP: Mark Newhouse Eliminated In Ninth

Here is a look at the latest from the 2013 World Series of Poker. For more updates, visit the live updates page. It took 36 hands for the first casualty of the final table to make his presence known. Mark Newhouse survived for quite a while on the short stack, even doubling up when his […]

Online Poker Pro To Take On Politician

High-stakes poker pro Ola “Odd Oddsen” Amundsgaard is unhappy about how poker is viewed, and taxed, in his home country of Norway, so he is trying to change things on his own. He made a public challenge to any Norwegian politician. He offered 10,000 hands of heads-up pot-limit Omaha with $170,000 of his own money […]

Hustler Casino Makes It Rain With $830,000 Prize Pool

The Hustler Casino in Gardena, California has just wrapped up it’s highly successful 2013 Liz Flynt Fall Poker Classic tournament series. The highlight of the entire six-event series was undeniably event 3, a $160 buy-in + $100 add-on tournament that sported a gigantic $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. Over the 13 starting flights a grand total […]

California Set To Open Largest Casino Tuesday

Tomorrow, the state of California will see its largest tribal casino open its doors. The Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria, which boasts 1,300 members, will open the Graton Resort & Casino, according to The Sacramento Bee. The project came at a cost of $800 million. It is located in the Sonoma County wine country. […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: Nov. 4 - 10

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 4th through the 10th. Head to our tournament […]

Gavin Griffin: Poker Questions Asked And Answered

People 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 […]

WSOP Main Event Final Table Kicks Off Monday

The 2013 World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event kicks off on Monday, Nov. 4th at 4:45 p.m. PT, with live streaming coverage on ESPN2 and online on Watch ESPN, featuring hold cards shown on a 15-minute delay. Play will pause once only the final three or two remain, depending on time, and […]

Gus Hansen In Free Fall, Now Down $13.5M

Gus Hansen is drifting deeper and deeper into the Mariana Trench of the online poker world. The past few days have seen Hansen drop around $600,000 on Full Tilt, which brings his losses on the week to around $1.9 million, his deficit for the past 30 days to around $2.8 million, and his lifetime hole […]