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New Hampshire To Take Another Casino Look

State officials in New Hampshire are prepping a bill that would expand gambling in the state. The plan was defeated earlier this year, but some officials have been working to rework the proposal and resubmit it to lawmakers before the end of the year. “It is disappointing to see the House of Representatives break from […]

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 To Hold $250K Freeroll In New Jersey

The World Series of Poker, owned by Caesars Entertainment Corp., already has an online poker product running in Nevada, and just last week began a trial run for brand new online games in New Jersey, based out of struggling Atlantic City. The games are only for those physically within the state’s borders. The firm has […]

Bally Partners With Uruguay Casino For I-Poker

Nevada gaming firms with online gambling products have found buyers globally. Business-to-business casino technology provider Bally Technologies announced last week that it has reached a deal to provide an Internet gambling platform solution to to Conrad Punta del Este Resort and Casino in Uruguay, owned by the Chilean group Enjoy. Bally is also a licensed […]

Hand Critic: Turning Showdown Value Into Bluff

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 nine-handed, $1-$2 no-limit $200 max […]

Tony Dunst Wins WPT Caribbean Main Event

It’s been over three years since poker pro Tony “bond18” Dunst was hired by the World Poker Tour to provide commentary on poker hands for the show’s “Raw Deal” segments as well as the final table live streams. In the 2013 WPT Caribbean $3,500 no-limit hold’em main event Dunst proved that he could back up […]

CPPT News Briefs: Christmas Comes Early

Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour is underway with one stop complete and multiple stops coming up. Take a look at the weekly happenings and the latest news about the CPPT: 23 Days of Christmas at Palm Beach Kennel Club The Card Player Poker Tour will stop at Palm Beach Kennel Club in […]

Ed Miller: Don't Throw Your Tournaments Away

When I first began my poker career, someone asked me an important question. The answer, once I understood it, started me along my path to success. Say you’re playing in an eight-handed $20-$40 stud game with a $5 ante. Except in this game, you’re allowed to buy in for any amount of money, and between […]

Adelson: 'Willing To Spend Whatever It Takes'

Billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson has just told Forbes that he is up for spending an ungodly amount of cash in order to crush online gambling developments in the U.S. Adelson’s comments to Forbes were his first public remarks on the topic since The Washington Post reported that he will be kicking off the “Coalition […]

Heinecker Now Up More Than $9 Million In 2013

Between live and online play, Niklas “ragen70” Heinecker has won more than $9 million on the year, which is the most in the poker world in 2013. Another solid week at the online poker tables resulted in profits of around $460,000 for the German. He is now up a whopping $4.65 million on Full Tilt […]

Aussie Millions Partners With The APPT

The Crown Melbourne announced this week that the $10,000 AUD no-limit hold’em main event of the 2014 Aussie Millions Poker Championship will now be part of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour. The Aussie Millions Championship will run from Jan. 23rd through Feb. 10th, 2014 with twenty events on offer. The main event will kick off […]

U.K. Casino Gives Trickett His Own Poker Room

British poker pro Sam Trickett, who has won $19,855,960 in live poker tournaments lifetime, now has a private poker room in his honor at the Dusk Till Dawn gambling den. The 45-table card room is located in Nottingham Trickett is Britain’s all-time most successful tournament player. The highlight of his career, up until this point, […]

New Jersey Sees First Real-Money Online Bet

At 6 p.m. local time on Thursday, some gaming companies in Atlantic City offered the first ever state-sanctioned online bets in the history of New Jersey. The five-day trial was to show that the technology was sound. Online gambling in New Jersey is limited to those 21 and older who are physically present within the […]

NJ Sports Betting Going To Supreme Court

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has exhausted his options in a federal appeals court and thus will take the state’s sports betting case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The appeals court said on Friday that it wouldn’t rehear the case, the Washington Post reported. Christie wants his state’s 12 casinos to be […]

Nadal To Play First Live Poker Tournament

Tennis star Rafael Nadal reportedly will enter his first live poker tournament next month. According to Agence France-Presse, Nadal will play in a charity tournament in Prague on Dec. 12. The event is part of the European Poker Tour stop there. “Rafa will play against some of the biggest names on the international professional poker […]

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 […]

Caesars Wins New Jersey Online Gambling Approval

Nevada-based Caesars Entertainment Corporation has had a pretty good week. First, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that bankruptcy protection is not in the cards for the mammoth company, at least according to its chief executive officer. “The conditions the company faces today are better and not worse than they have been before,” Gary Loveman reportedly […]

Bellagio Hosting $10K Event This Friday

On Friday, Nov. 22, the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada will host a $10,000+$300 buy-in High Roller event featuring a guaranteed $100,000 first-place prize. The event kicks off at noon PT. Players will start with 30,000 in tournament chips and play one-hour levels. Registration will be open until the start of level […]

Some L.A. Welfare Money Ends Up In Vegas

CBS reported that $1.5 million of welfare money that L.A. County gave out to people barely hanging on in life from January 2012 through July 2013 ended up in Las Vegas. Around $6,000 of that money reportedly was accessed via ATMs in Clark County casinos. The route from Los Angeles to Las Vegas is just […]

Milford Voters Say ‘No’ To $1 Billion Casino

Voters in the town of Milford, which is in the Greater Boston area, on Tuesday voted down a plan backed by Foxwoods for a new $1 billion casino. The vote was 6,361 to 3,480 against the plan, as around 57 percent of registered voters turned out to the polls to weigh in on the crucial […]

New Jersey Bill Would Allow Players From Outside U.S.

The state of New Jersey hasn’t even started its intrastate online gambling industry yet, but at least one politician is gearing up for making moves to increase liquidity by allowing gamblers from outside of the U.S. to participate in the New Jersey-based games. According to a report from eGaming Review, New Jersey lawmaker Ray Lesniak, […]

Jared Jaffee Wins WPT bestbet Jacksonville

A total of 358 entries were made in the 2013 World Poker Tour bestbet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble $3,500 main even, more than doubling the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool with a total of $1,145,600 on the line. Five days after the first hand was dealt only one player remained: Jared Jaffee. For the win the […]

Gambling Ads In U.K. Have Risen 600 Percent

The Guardian reported Tuesday that since the gambling industry in the United Kingdom was deregulated in 2007, TV ads have increased by a whopping 600 percent. In 2007 there were around 234,000. Nowadays there are about 1.4 million annually. The research is according to Media regulator Ofcom. The 2007 law change “opened the door to […]

Casino Lobby Responds To Sheldon Adelson

Las Vegas Sands owner Sheldon Adelson will soon be launching an organization to combat the spread of legalized web gambling in the United States. Not long after the news broke, the American Gaming Association, the commercial casino industry’s top lobbying group, came out with a response. Ironically, Las Vegas Sands is a member of the […]

Richard Lyndaker Wins HPT Event At Stratosphere

Richard “nutsinho” Lyndaker has been a regular competitor in high stakes online cash games for years, becoming one of the most well respected no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha players on the internet. With most of his professional focus on cash games, Lyndaker has still had managed to earn more than $1 million in live tournaments […]

Win With Mystery Month On Bovada Poker

During November, celebrate Mystery Month with with Bovada and earn weekly cash bonuses or tournament tickets. Simply play your favorite Bovada games and earn poker points to earn a mystery prize. Players who earn 75 poker points in a week will get a mystery prize from Tier 1. Players who earn 150 poker points in […]

Men Of Action: Johnny Moss

“A sucker don’t ever catch on. A smart man don’t ever sleep. He’s got to keep ducking the traps.” – Johnny Moss On May 14, 1907, Johnny Moss was born in Marshall, Texas, a tiny town about 40 miles inside the state’s Eastern border with Louisiana. Town councils usually aren’t that keen on providing historical […]

Bitcoin Skyrockets To $900, Then Falls To $650

On Monday, there was a hearing on Capitol Hill to talk about the benefits and risks associated with virtual currencies, most notably bitcoin, and reports of the meeting sent bitcoin’s value on a huge upswing. In the hours after the hearing had ended, bitcoin had reached an all-time high of $900 on Mt. Gox exchange. […]

Pennsylvania Closer To Allowing Bar Gambling

Lawmakers in the state of Pennsylvania briefly flirted with the idea of Internet gambling, but they decided instead to focus on an initiative that had far more interest and perhaps was more lucrative — at least immediately. Internet poker, for example, needs liquidity, and a site catering to residents of only one state wouldn’t generate […]

Guillermo Olvero Wins Punta Cana Poker Classic

A total of 490 entires were made in the 2013 Punta Cana Poker Classic $1,500 no-limit hold’em main event, building a prize pool of $712,312. For the first time in the event’s four year history the champion is from Latin America, with Mexico’s Guillermo Olvero emerging victorious. For the win Olvero earned $171,100 and 720 […]