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Massachusetts Casino Hearings Postponed

A winter storm was moving through the Northeast during the middle of the week, prompting the state of Massachusetts to postpone the important Wednesday morning discussions on the casino proposals from MGM Resorts International, Wynn Resorts and Mohegan Sun. Each is vying to build a casino in the state. MGM will now present its plan […]

Nevada To Help Olympics Combat Cheating

Nevada gaming regulators and the International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday that they have reached an agreement to help combat cheating in sports. The arrangement calls for both parties to share information and “work towards maintaining the integrity of sports by preventing the manipulation of sports competitions with the intention of achieving unfair winnings.” The two […]

Poker Player Gets Prison In Gambling Case

Poker player Edwin Ting (more than $80,000 in career tournament earnings) was sentenced in New York on Tuesday to five months in prison for his role in the high-stakes gambling ring that was busted by the feds in April of last year. He was among nearly three dozen individuals charged in the case. In addition […]

U.S. Online Poker Market Could Be $2 Billion

Legalized online poker is slowly, but surely, coming to the United States. Right now, three states — Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware — have online poker up and running in their respective borders. More are expected in the near future (maybe none in 2014, though). While the poker boom, which started around a decade ago, […]

2014 POY Update: PCA Shapes Top 20

Things are just getting started in the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race. Here is a look at the events that made the biggest impact on the overall standings this week as the race gets underway. PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $10 Million Guaranteed Main Event A total of 1,031 players turned out for the […]

Morris Wins WSOP Circuit Choctaw Main Event

Tyler Morris topped a gigantic field of 1,428 entries in the $1,675 World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw no-limit hold’em main event, earning his first major title, the $369,503 first-place prize and 960 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win. As a result he moved into ninth place in the overall POY […]

Bitcoin To Make Las Vegas Debut

Bitcoin will make its Las Vegas debut tomorrow. Forbes reported that on Wednesday the first Las Vegas casino will start allowing guests to use the digital currency in lieu of cash. The casinos are The D Las Vegas Casino Hotel and the Golden Gate Hotel & Casino. They both have the same owners and are […]

-$16 Million Now For Gus Hansen On FTP

This is his lowest point ever on the software. We reported Friday that Gus Hansen started off the year on a nearly $700,000 downswing, and since then he has dropped yet another $300,000, which brings his deficit on the year already to seven-figures and his lifetime hole on the software to an astounding $16 million. […]

Airport Looks To Offer Lotto Tickets On iPads

The Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport is currently taking a look at a plan to offer gambling on around 2,500 already installed iPads that passengers have been using to order drinks and other items, in addition to checking flight times and browsing the web. The Associated Press reported that the plan could be voted on next month […]

European Online Gambling Regulators Meet

Last week, the fourth informal meeting of online gambling regulators took place in Rome, Italy, and a lot was covered. According to a press release from the Autonomous Administration of the State Monopolies (AAMS), which is Italy’s regulator, representatives from the authorities of France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom converged to talk […]

This Week In The Tournament Poker World

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 January 20 through the 26th. Head to our tournament […]

NJ Expanded I-Gambling Bill Reintroduced

New Jersey online gambling is still in its infancy, but one lawmaker is already eyeing increasing the scope of those games. New Jersey Senator Ray Lesniak, who spearheaded the state’s online gambling efforts, has, according to reports, re-introduced a bill into the legislature that would potentially give New Jersey licensed online gambling operators the ability […]

Poker Strategy With Jonathan Little: Running Hot

I have had some high highs and low lows in my poker career, but currently, I feel as if I am at the absolute top of my game. Since the 2013 WSOP, which was the best of my life, I have cashed in 11 out of the 31 live tournaments I have played, including two […]

Poker Strategy With Andrew Brokos: Grow Up

I recently played in a $1,000 multi-table tournament at my local casino. It was a three-day event featuring a televised final table as well as one of the largest buy-ins and the largest prize pool of any tournament this casino had ever hosted. This attracted some professionals from the surrounding region, but it also enticed […]

Borgata Cancels Tournament Over Fake Chips

The Associated Press reported early Saturday that the state of New Jersey has decided to cancel the first event of the Borgata Winter Poker Open with 27 people remaining due to an investigation into the counterfeit chips being used. The state has said that at least one person used a “substantial amount” of phony tournament […]

Pennsylvania Casinos Win $3.1 Billion In 2013

The state of Pennsylvania, which first opened up casinos in 2006, saw its casinos collect just over $3.1 billion in gaming revenue during calendar year 2013, according to a state report released late this week. That’s the money won from gamblers. It was the third year in a row that casinos in the state brought […]

Don Johnson Featured In Bloomberg Special

Don Johnson, the CEO of Heritage Development who in a four-month spree a few years ago won $6 million at the Tropicana, $5 million at the Borgata and $4 million at Caesars and has been written about as “The Man Who Broke Atlantic City”, is now being profiled by Bloomberg TV in a special called […]

A Poker Life: Jeremy Ausmus

One of the downsides of being a successful cash-game player is that your wins are rarely, if ever reported. This was the case with Colorado-native Jeremy Ausmus, who toiled in relative anonymity, recognized only by other Las Vegas grinders who had the misfortune of battling it out against him. In fact, until the 2012 World […]

Hansen Starts Off 2014 By Dropping $700,000

It is hard to put into words how terrible Gus Hansen was on Full Tilt Poker in 2013. He lost a staggering sum of around $8.4 million. To start 2014, he has already dusted off $698,000, according to HighstakesDB. He started off the year on a tiny upswing, winning around $200,000, but with most miniature […]

CardPlayer.com Adds 'Poker Leaderboards'

CardPlayer.com, which hosts the largest and most comprehensive database of poker players and poker results on the Internet, recently unveiled a collection of tens of thousands of leaderboards that display top lifetime, geographic, and casino data for poker tournament wins. In addition to a comprehensive list of poker’s all-time winners, all in one place, users […]

NV Wins $152.7M From Poker In FY 2013

Statewide, Nevada’s top casinos reported $152,746,688 in revenue from live and online poker in fiscal year 2013, according to a state report issued last week. The revenue is another word for the rake. Since online gambling hit the Silver State on April 30th, the figure included only about two months of online poker action. Card […]

CPPT Leaderboard Shaken Up After PBKC

Harvey Vandeven and Timothy Miles still top the Card Player Poker Tour Season II leaderboard but 25-year old Jacksonville, Florida poker pro John McNulty is at the door with a chance to take over now that the second stop of the season has been completed. Vandeven and Miles chopped for even money for $76,598 a […]

888 Offers NFL Player $88,800 To Change His Name

Online poker site 888 started running online poker games in New Jersey in late November (thanks to a partnership with Caesars Interactive) and already it is pulling out the cheap gimmicks to get some publicity. It, of course, worked like a charm. The gambling firm has offered New York Giants player Hakeem Nicks $88,800 to […]

Kentucky Begins Pondering Casino Proposal

On Wednesday, lawmakers in the state of Kentucky reviewed two separate proposals for casino gambling, the Associated Press reported. No action was taken. The pair of bills would legalize the casinos and set up how to regulate them. Bringing commercial casinos to the state has been under consideration for 15 straight legislative sessions, but nothing […]

Capture The Flag: Mark Newhouse

Mark Newhouse isn’t even 30 years old yet, but already he considers himself “one of the old guys” in the poker world. This summer at the World Series of Poker, the veteran made the final table of the main event. At the end of the road in November, Newhouse went on to finish in ninth […]

$50 Million Poker Tournament Appears Fake

Just a few days ago, a press release came out for a $1 million buy-in winner-take-all tournament in Australia. However, the casino where it will supposedly be held hasn’t heard of it. It appears that the tournament is a fake. The “Royal Poker Challenge” claimed it will take place on Mar. 30 at The Star […]

Card Player Poker Tour Adds Irish Open to Schedule

The Card Player Poker Tour is excited to announce a partnership with the Paddy Power Poker Irish Open. With a colorful history spanning more than three decades, the Irish Open is sure to add additional buzz and excitement to the CPPT, which is already in the midst of a successful second season. The longest running […]

Fantasy Sports TV Network Set To Launch

A 24/7 television network just for fantasy sports is close to coming to fruition. On Mar. 4, the network, created by Anthem Media Group, Inc., will become available in North America. The group said that fantasy sports has become a $5 billion-a-year industry. For comparison, the NFL brings in about $9 billion in revenue each […]

Man Arrested For Gambling Scheme At Tennis Event

Police at the ongoing Australian Open tennis tournament have busted a man for allegedly using a sophisticated scheme to gamble on the matches with a huge edge over bookmakers. The 22-year-old was arrested Tuesday while court-side during a match. According to the Herald Sun, police claim that he was using a special electronic device sewn […]

NJ Casinos Win $8.4M From Online Gambling

There was some good news and some bad news out of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement on Tuesday. Regulators reported that for calendar year 2013 Atlantic City casinos won $2.9 billion from gamblers, which is a 6.2-percent decrease from 2012. That figure has been slumping heavily since 2006, when the amount won from […]