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Cantor, Bally Technologies Ink Web Gambling Deal

Bally Technologies and Cantor Gaming have reached a deal for online gambling. The two firms announced Wednesday that Cantor Gaming will integrate its online sports wagering and mobile casino gaming content into Bally’s online gaming platform. The two firms are both licensed by the state of Nevada. “We are delighted to sign this agreement with […]

Report: Ohio Closes Last Charity Poker Room

A charity poker room east of downtown Cleveland has closed after a warning from the Ohio Attorney General’s office, The Plain Dealer reported. The games in Willoughby Hills were electronic, so there were no live dealers. According to the state, these “Buckeye Charity Poker” games constitute illegal electronic equipment. The room was just a year […]

WSOP Site Launches Early For Certain Customers

For those in Nevada who pre-registered for the World Series of Poker’s real-money online poker at the Rio this summer, online action was available Tuesday — which was about two full days prior to the site’s statewide launch (for everyone) on Thursday morning. Such players received an email with a special download link. The site […]

WPT $25K Championship Moved To Borgata

For the first time since it’s inception in 2002 the World Poker Tour’s season-ending $25,000 championship event will not be played at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. The event will now be held at the Borgata in Atlantic City, New Jersey in May, 2014 with PartyPoker as the official sponsor. The move was announced during […]

Study: Arms Give Off Greater Tells Than Faces

A new academic poker study that has come out might have shed some interesting light on the significance of arm movements at the poker table in comparison to the clichéd notion of a “poker face.” According to reporting from The Independent, researchers from Tufts University in the United States have essentially figured out that players […]

Spain Could Lose Adelson's 'Eurovegas' Project

There reportedly is some serious concern about whether the massive “Eurovegas” development project that U.S. casino boss Sheldon Adelson wants to bring to Spain will still happen. Adelson wants there to be smoking at the strip of casinos — rumored to cost as much as $22 billion — but Spain has a strict anti-smoking law […]

New Davenport Casino Closer To Reality

A casino developer in the state of Iowa has received approval from the Riverboat Development Authority to build a $110-million gambling complex in Davenport. According to WQAD, the developer, Dan Kehl, reportedly still has to get approval by the state’s Racing and Gaming Commission to purchase the existing Rhythm City Casino. The new casino would […]

Martin Zentner Wins WSOP Circuit At IP Biloxi

27-year-old New Orleans resident Martin Zentner topped a field of 302 entrants to emerge victorious in the 2013 World Series of Poker Circuit IP Biloxi $1,675 no-limit hold’em main event. For the win he earned $106,455 and 480 Card Player Player of the Year points. “It feels wonderful,” said Zentner. “This is by far the […]

Mohegan Sun Finally Stops Slots Plunge

Since December 2011, slot revenues at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun casino had fallen when compared to the same month of the previous year. However, last month saw slot revenues finally increase, according to the reporting from The Courant. It was a tiny 0.03-percent uptick, but it still was a positive development for the property. It reported […]

Some In Mass. Still Fighting Casino Law

Competition for licenses to build brand new casino-resorts in the state of Massachusetts is heating up, but some in the state reportedly are still trying to repeal the 2011 law that called for the gambling expansion. According to WWLP.com, some church leaders, including the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts, are continuing the […]

Russ Fox: Tax Implications Of FTP Distributions

On September 16, the Garden City Group is set to start the claims process for American players who have money stuck on Full Tilt Poker. Some players have even begun to receive emails detailing the payout process. As the date rapidly approaches, players are starting to wonder what impact claiming that money will have on […]

WSOP Nevada Web Poker To Launch Thursday

The World Series of Poker will debut its real-money online poker site on Thursday morning. The poker site will be available only for those within Nevada’s borders. “It is a gratifying and exciting day to see the WSOP online launch,” WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart said in a conference call Monday morning. “From Fremont to […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: Sept. 16 - 22

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 September 16th through the 22nd. Head to our tournament […]

'Invisible Ink' Helped Man Cheat At Poker

The old invisible ink cheat. According to reporting from The Day, a New Jersey gambler was busted early Sunday for allegedly cheating at the Mohegan Sun. His method according to the police: marking the cards with a ink-like substance that could only be seen with special contact lenses. Fifty-nine-year-old Bruce Koloshi, who hails from Summit, […]

Phil Ivey Admits To Reading Cards At Crockfords

Professional gambler Phil Ivey has admitted to playing with an unusual advantage in a game of punto banco at a London casino last year. Ivey took the property for $12.1 million, but it refused to pay after suspecting something shady had happened. The Daily Mail reported Saturday that court documents show Ivey has said he […]

Ed Miller: One Flop, Ten Hands

Perhaps the best exercise you can do with your poker study time is to construct ranges. You choose one point in a hand, and you decide how you should play every possible hand you could have to that point. So here we go. We’re going to look at a hand range on a single flop. […]

Online Poker: Viktor Blom Drops $1.89 Million

Another week and more vicious swings for Viktor Blom. Over the past seven days on Full Tilt Poker, the Swede dropped around $1.89 million, according to data from HighstakesDB. The plunge has him up just $1.2 million on the year. His high point was around $5.2 million, after the best upswing of his life occurred […]

Maryland Gaming Chief: State Will Monitor New Jersey

Just like in a game of poker, the state of Maryland has been reacting to the aggressive betting moves of others at its table. Maryland is in a region full of various gaming expansion initiatives. Earlier this year, its first casino debuted live dealer table games. The move is expected to significantly strengthen the industry […]

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 […]

NV Inching Toward Larger Player Pools For I-Poker

It has been speculated that Nevada and New Jersey could share their respective populations for online gambling starting sometime next year, and on Wednesday Nevada regulators discussed some of the changes that would need to occur to the rules currently on the books in order to make something like that possible. The Internet gaming regulations […]

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 […]

Golden Gaming, 888 Deal Approved In Nevada

The Nevada Gaming Control Board gave preliminary approval to a deal between Nevada-based Golden Gaming and Gibraltar-based online poker site 888 Holdings. The arrangement would allow customers at Golden Gaming’s taverns across the Silver State to sign for online poker accounts for a site run by 888 and Treasure Island — an on-the-Strip casino that […]

Talking Stick To Host Ladies Championship

Lady luck won’t be the only woman visiting Talking Stick Resort on Sep. 14-16, thanks to the 8th Annual Arizona State Ladies Poker Championship. Women of every skill level are welcome to sign up for the $355+$45 buy-in tournament in the ARENA Poker Room at Talking Stick Resort. Registration for the event is currently underway. […]

Former MLB Star To Host Charity Poker Event

Former baseball slugger Jeff Conine will soon host his third annual charity poker tournament in South Florida to benefit his Conine Clubhouse at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital. The event is at Calder Casino & Race Course. The event asks for a $300 donation, and with it one will be able to play poker with Conine, […]

California Gives Card Room Key Exemption

There reportedly are some ruffled feathers over a bill in California – which was just passed on Wednesday — that will allow the owners of Southern California’s Hollywood Park Casino to continue offering card play, after shutting down its racetrack, despite its stake in a Las Vegas brick-and-mortar casino business. The law on the book […]

Nevada Gives OK To Scientific Games, WMS

Scientific Games is seeking to buy slot machine maker WMS Industries for $1.5 billion, and the Nevada Gaming Control Board approved the move on Wednesday. Later this month, the five-member Gaming Commission will issue a final stamp of approval. The merger was announced in late January of this year. Scientific Games is a leader in […]

Gambling Firm Releases JFK Assassination Ad

French online gambling firm PMU just released an advertisement that somehow tied in its betting business with a reenactment of the J.F.K assassination. The short ad beings with one cop betting another that he could spin his gun “like a cowboy.” During this, the gun discharges and the bullet ricochets off some stuff before eventually […]

MGM Prepares For Likely Maryland Casino

MGM Resorts International looks like a significant favorite to win the right to build a massive casino-resort in Prince George’s County, Maryland. In anticipation of this, the casino firm’s subsidiary, MGM National Harbor, will begin to help local businesses prepare. MGM will host two information sessions on Friday, Sept. 27 for Prince George’s County businesses […]

Vegas Casinos, Google To Work On Interior Mapping

Despite a likely citywide ban on Google Glass inside Las Vegas brick-and-mortar casinos, the gaming industry will reportedly work with the search engine giant to provide views from the inside of casinos for Google’s indoor mapping of locations. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, on Tuesday at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board […]

Men Of Action: Wyatt Earp

Gambler. Saloon-keeper. Faro banker. Boxing referee. Policeman. Pimp. Sheriff. The man-legend Hollywood crafted in reams of movies and TV shows reinvented himself over and over as he moved from one dusty boomtown to the next. Aspen. Bodie. Denver. Dodge City. Goldfield. Gunnison. Prescott. San Francisco. Tombstone. As these cities grew, so did the number of […]