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Nevada Gaming Revenue Up Big In November

Slowly, but steadily, Nevada’s casino industry is rebounding after the Great Recession. On Monday, state gaming regulators released a report that showed that Nevada’s nonrestricted gaming licensees reported a total “gaming win” of $875,968,501 for the month of November 2013. This amounted to an 11.91-percent increase compared to November 2012, when licensees reported a gaming […]

Negreanu Wins 2013 Player of the Year Award

Just under a decade ago Daniel Negreanu put together a legendary year on the tournament circuit, with $4.4 million in live earnings, four titles won and an incredible 11 final tables made. That year he won both the 2004 Card Player Player of the Year title and the World Series of Poker POY title. In […]

De Niro Could Star In New Gambling Film

A new gambling movie based on the book “Gambling Man” is set to be made and Robert De Niro is reportedly being courted for potentially playing the lead role. Just before Christmas last week, Borsalino Films acquired the rights to Gambling Man, a memoir by a casino boss with the name Gary Green. The book […]

Cabbie Gets $10K Tip For Returning $300K

The Las Vegas cab driver who discovered $300,000 in a brown paper bag that was left behind by a poker pro and decided to return it was tipped $10,000 by the player on Friday, according to reporting from Fox 5 Las Vegas. The incident happened Monday morning. The $10,000-tip is a huge upgrade over the […]

Ben Yu: Stack Management For Limit Tournaments

In the first article I ever wrote, I introduced “L” — the amount of chips required to play a hand of limit poker from start to finish — and claimed it would be a pivotal tool in tournament stack management. Now we move on to the fun stuff — strategy in specific games, starting with […]

Bryan Devonshire: Work Smart, Not Hard

Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers, stated that it takes 10,000 hours of practice at something to attain mastery. I’ve played poker with plenty of people who have played poker themselves for ten thousand hours and are still awful. Poker is an exceptional activity where participants will not improve unless they are actively trying to […]

Join Jonathan Little For Poker Training Webinar This Sat.

A couple months ago, Jonathan Little played a $530 online tournament on Poker Stars taking third place and cashing for $38,848.50. Little will be reviewing THIS ENTIRE tournament from start to finish on a 4-hour LIVE webinar THIS Saturday, Dec. 28. Click here to watch a preview video If you enroll BEFORE midnight tonight, Little […]

'Poker Princess' Pleads Guilty In Gambling Case

Earlier this month, yet another defendant in the massive gambling bust that happened in April plead guilty in federal court. This time it was Molly Bloom. (Here’s a look at the indictment.) Bloom, dubbed the “poker princess” by her poker-playing clients, reportedly hosted private games in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami and New York for […]

A Poker Life: Amir Lehavot

At 38, Amir Lehavot was the oldest player seated at the 2013 World Series of Poker main event final table, but that doesn’t mean he was the most experienced. In fact, the Israel-born poker pro, who now lives in Weston, Florida, has only been playing poker for the past seven years. So how does a […]

Nick Cassavetes Suing Over Gambling Debt

TMZ has reported that Hollywood director Nick Cassavetes, who has appeared on GSN’s popular “High Stakes Poker”, is suing a L.A. businessman over a massive gambling debt. Cassavetes is going after Kevin Washington, after the latter gave the former a handwritten check for $72,600 and then allegedly contacted the bank to stop payment. According to […]

Golden Nugget AC Unveils New Poker Room

This week, the Golden Nugget Atlantic City opened its brand new poker room, according to NorthJersey.com. The casino had closed its poker room earlier this year. According to the report, the Golden Nugget’s new card room is located “in a luxurious setting in the Main Atrium.” The room has the standard hours of never closing. […]

Indiana Might Bolster Gambling In 2013

Thanks to increased gambling competition in the United States, especially, in this case, the Midwest, the state of Indiana might be taking a look in 2013 at bolstering its betting industry. According to Nwitimes.com, a lawmaker in the state said the following recently: “[We need to] have difficult discussions about how we allow gaming to […]

The 2013 Poker Year In Review: Part Three

The following is part three of a three-part series looking back at the 2013 year in poker. This excerpt will appear in the Jan. 8 issue of Card Player Magazine. The Not So Good News Of 2013 Not everything came up roses for the poker world in 2013. Despite modest growth and continued interest in […]

Former Pittsburgh Steeler Suing Casino

A former linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers is suing The Meadows Racetrack and Casino for alleged misconduct in how it treated him while he was an employee there. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Michael Merriweather claimed he worked at the property for nine months as the director of sports marketing and during that time he […]

Casino Fight Set Again In Kentucky For 2014

In 2014, some lawmakers in the state of Kentucky will once again try to bring Las Vegas-style casinos to their jurisdiction in order to increase tax revenue and generate more economic activity. Supporters have always faced an uphill battle. According to the Associated Press, the new efforts will be in the form of potential constitutional […]

The 2013 Poker Year In Review: Part Two

The following is part two of a three-part series looking back at the 2013 year in poker. This excerpt will appear in the Jan. 8 issue of Card Player Magazine. Big Names Make Their Presence Felt In Tournament Poker By the time December rolls around the top twenty in the Card Player Player of the […]

Vegas Cabbie Finds $300K Belonging To Poker Pro

A veteran cab driver in Las Vegas recently found a bag with $300,000 that was left in his cab and decided to return it, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. The mammoth sum was left — and forgotten — in a brown paper bag. Gerardo Gamboa originally thought that the contents of the bag were just […]

The 2013 Poker Year In Review: Part One

The following is part one of a three-part series looking back at the 2013 year in poker. This excerpt will appear in the Jan. 8 issue of Card Player Magazine. American Casinos Enjoy Huge Year As Regulated Online Poker Makes Its Debut The year 2013 was a monster year for the casino industry in the […]

Adelson Looking Elsewhere In Europe For Casino

Billionaire casino boss Sheldon Adelson apparently isn’t giving up on Europe just yet. Bloomberg reported that Adelson and his Las Vegas Sands Corp. are taking a look at other European cities after the firm abandoned tenative plans for a casino complex in Madrid. “I’m looking at a different model of doing Singapore-like or Japan-like or […]

Feds: Businessman Blew Investor Cash In Vegas

An Orange County man allegedly used millions that he obtained from investors for his dental equipment company in order to gamble in Las Vegas, The Los Angeles Times reported. And he apparently lost. A federal indictment was unsealed on Dec. 4 against William Knox. He has pleaded guilty and is free on $125,000 bond. He […]

David Beckham To Promote Casinos In Asia

Retired British soccer star David Beckham will be working to promote casinos in Asia for Las Vegas Sands Corp., the Associated Press reported. The arrangement will have him promoting properties in Macau — the world’s top gambling hub — and Singapore. Sands is owned by billionaire Sheldon Adelson. Macau saw gambling revenues of more than […]

Play Rake Free Sit-N-Gos Through December

From now until the end of December, players on WSOP.com can jump into any sit-n-go on the site and compete rake free. The sit-n-gos, which feature buy-ins from $1 to $55, will not collect any rake or fees for the rest of the month. Players can find these contests in the lobby under the beginner’s […]

How To Handle The Table Drunk

Most players learn poker’s explicit rules pretty quickly: the “one-chip rule,” for example, or “verbal declarations are binding.” But not everyone seems to have digested the game’s vast book of unwritten rules, admonitions like “don’t berate other players (particularly bad ones)” or “say ‘nice hand’ even when you mean something entirely different.” Enter “The Rules […]

New Jersey Casino To Close Next Month

Online gambling has come to New Jersey, but yet a casino has shut its doors. The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel will be no more by mid-January, the Associated Press reported on Friday. Tropicana Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment have purchased some of the casino’s assets. Caesars will own the property itself and its hotel rooms. There […]

Poker Hand Critic: Value-Betting Gone Wrong

The Poker Hand Critic is a brand new series by online pro “gutter23,” one of the top mid-stakes players in the game today. The Poker Hand Critic will break down a hand, street by street, offering up his analysis on all of the action. The following hand comes from a 10-handed, uncapped $5-$5 home game […]

Card Player Offering Holiday Special

Right now, you can get your subscription to Card Player Magazine for just $1 per issue with the new Holiday Subscription Special. That’s 26 issues (one every two weeks) for just $26. Additional shipping costs for international subscriptions. The magazine, as well as an archive of more than 500 issues, is available to be viewed […]

Bernard Lee Returns With Full House Charity Program

For the third holiday season in a row, poker pro Bernard Lee, along with co-sponsors Chili’s and Run Good Gear, provided over 50 children in the Lawrence, Massachusetts area with gift packages as part of the Full House Charity Program. Founded in 2011, the Full House Charity Program gives a minimum of $10,000 annually to […]

CPPT: Q&A With Brian Hastings

The Card Player Poker Tour Palm Beach Kennel Club stop recently wrapped up, crowning Florida’s John McNulty as the latest champion in the $1,100 no-limit hold’em $250,000 guarantee main event. The CPPT caught up with former high-stakes online cash game pro Brian Hastings, who finished seventh in the main event for a $9,947 payday to […]

Blom On Big Downswing As 2013 Winds Down

Poker pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom is ending a vicious year in a bad way — on a significant downswing. The Swede has lost more than $3 million since sometime in November. The year has truly been a perpetual roller coaster for him. He reached a high point of more than $5 million in earnings during […]

MGM Resorts Wins Bid For Maryland Casino

On Friday, MGM National Harbor, a subsidiary of MGM Resorts International, was awarded the sole license to operate the sixth casino in the state of Maryland. The Maryland Video Lottery Facility Location Commission said OK to a destination resort-casino in Prince George’s County at National Harbor. “This is a great day for Prince George’s County, […]