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WATCH: Congressional Hearing On Online Poker

In case you missed yesterday’s online poker hearing that was held in Congress, here it is in full. The hearing was brisk, lasting less than two hours. Now, nothing actually happened during the hearing. It was just all rhetoric, most of which has been repeated ad nauseam for months and months and months. However, there […]

Florida To Take Look At 'Destination Casinos'

Las Vegas-style commercial casino-resorts, or “destination casinos” as they have been dubiously referred to in Florida, don’t appear to be coming to Florida anytime soon, but that hasn’t stopped some from continuing their perpetually painful and expensive campaign to bring them to the Sunshine State. The state’s Senate Gaming Committee is expected to discuss reform […]

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 […]

Atlantic City Casinos See Revenue Gains

Some good news for Atlantic City? Yeah, probably not, but it’s worth a try. The brick-and-mortar casino business in Atlantic City apparently has experienced some revenue gains, even if you don’t take into account the online games which launched in late November. (It’s unclear how much revenue those games will generate, but the governor has […]

California Tribe Gets Compact For Casino

A new tribal casino is on its way in the state of California, according to www.siskiyoudaily.com. California’s governor reportedly has signed an agreement with the Karuk Tribe to allow for a casino in Yreka — located near California-Oregon border. The compact allows the tribe to operate 1,500 slot machines. The Golden State has dozens of […]

Online Poker Has Congressional Hearing

On Tuesday, the U.S. Congress held a hearing entitled “The State of Online Gaming.” The meeting sounded largely favorable for the issue, bot no official action was taken. “Prohibition of online gaming has not and will not work,” Geoff Freeman of the American Gaming Association testified. According to him, Americans spent $3 billion on “illegal” […]

MGM Receives Preliminary Suitability

MGM has received a preliminary finding of suitability by Massachusetts gaming regulators. The decision, which game after a hearing this week, puts the firm one step closer to building a massive casino complex in the western part of the state. Massachusetts legalized such casinos in 2011 and it has been a slow process of finding […]

Poker Strategy For The Rest Of Us: Kristen Bicknell

In an effort to provide valuable tools and tips that are relevant to even the smallest games, Card Player is pleased to bring you Poker Strategy For The Rest Of Us, which will focus on everyday situations that occur against the poker world’s most casual players. Pro: Kristen Bicknell Concept: Playing Big Hands with Significant […]

LSOP Millions Coming To Panama In March

The LSOP Millions is coming to the Majestic Casino in Panama this March, but thanks to a revolutionary new concept, players won’t have to invest the time, money and energy into traveling to the tournament without being assured that they are already in the money. In addition to Panama, the $850 buy-in tournament will kick […]

Norway Politician Throws In Towel In Poker Battle

The heads-up battle between poker pro Ola “Odd Oddsen” Amundsgaard and Norwegian politician Erlend Wiborg started and ended on Saturday. Originally scheduled to play out over the next several months, Wiborg threw in the towel after losing around 26 buy-ins in a little more than 1,000 hands. The two were playing stakes of $0.50-$1 pot-limit […]

CPPT Palm Beach Kennel Club Results: Events 1-3

The second stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at Palm Beach Kennel Club in West Palm Beach, Florida Dec. 5 and will host a series of nine tournaments through Dec. 16, culminating with a $1,100 no-limit hold’em $250,000 guarantee main event Dec 13-16. Here is a look at the […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: Dec. 9 - 15

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 December 9th through the 15th. Head to our tournament […]

Witnesses Picked For Web Poker Hearing

On Tuesday, online poker will receive a long overdue — though probably completely irrelevant and useless — hearing on Capitol Hill. It is widely considered that the efforts to make a federal online poker bill into law are drawing stone cold dead. Who knows if it ever had a chance, but the window is closed […]

CPPT Local Heroes: Georgia Felger

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. […]

NJ Lawmaker: State Can Be 'Mecca Of I-Gaming'

New Jersey has only been in the Internet gambling business for a couple of weeks now, but things have been going well enough that one lawmaker is already dreaming bigger. Garden State Senator Ray Lesniak, who spearheaded the bill that authorized online gambling, once said that he wanted to make New Jersey the “Silicon Valley […]

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 […]