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Illinois Riverboat Casinos Could Be 24 Hours

The Illinois Casino Gaming Association wants the state to allow 24-hour gambling at the state’s riverboat casinos, according to reports. The Illinois Gaming Board will talk about the idea at its meeting on Sept. 19. State gaming regulators considered the idea a handful of years ago, but rejected it. Right now, casinos in the state […]

U.S. Considers War; McCain Plays Poker

This might not be the kind of attention that poker fans were hoping for their beloved game from members of Congress. While the ruling class on Capitol Hill weighs its options on whether to oblige the military-industrial complex and commit to its next war in some country that most of the American public knows little […]

Macau Wins $3.88 Billion From Gamblers In August

In terms of money won from gambling customers, Macau is still booming, while the state of Nevada is still eking out a recovery after the Great Recession. On Monday, the Macau government reported that gaming revenues for the month of August were 30.7 billion patacas, or $3.88 billion. That figure marked a 17.6-percent increase compared […]

CPPT bestbet Jacksonville Results: Events 5-8

The first stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at bestbet Jacksonville Aug. 29 and will host a series of 14 tournaments through Sept. 9, culminating with a $1,500 no-limit hold’em $300,000 guarantee main event Sept. 6-9. Here is a look at the latest results: Event No. 5: Bounty No-Limit […]

Crazy Gambling Stories From Month Of August

The gambling world can sometimes produce really off-the-wall stories. Every month there are plenty of cases of individuals going to extreme lengths to pay back debts, or of simply bizarre behavior at casino properties around the globe. It can be entertaining and sometimes sad. August was no exception, as there was plenty that happened in […]

CPPT bestbet Jax Results: Events 1-4

The first stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at bestbet Jacksonville Aug. 29 and will host a series of 14 tournaments through Sept. 9, culminating with a $1,500 no-limit hold’em $300,000 guarantee main event Sept. 6-9. Here is a look at the results of the first four tournaments: Event […]

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 […]

Are Bitcoins The Next Big Online Gambling Frontier?

When a gambler walks into a casino, they must exchange their cash for chips. In addition to making it mentally easier to gamble, chips provide casino patrons with a unified currency to place bets. The same holds true for online gambling, whether it be on poker, sports or other casino games. Of course, converting various […]

Head Games: Learning How To Be Comfortable

The Pros: David Randall, Trevor Pope, Jeff Madsen, and Corwin Cole Craig Tapscott: What is a situation that you used to feel the least comfortable being in at the poker table and how did you overcome it? David Randall: I used to be very uncomfortable with dominant personalities that always demand to be the center […]

CPPT Local Heroes Jacksonville: Barbara Speal

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. […]

Ed Miller: How (Not) To Get Stacked

I watched a hand recently that was played about as badly as a no-limit hold’em hand can be played. Both players in the hand made, at one point or another, expensive mistakes. In all, I counted three separate plays that were mistakes. (The initial preflop raise — including its sizing — is arguably an additional […]

Mohegan Reaches Deal With Mass. Town

The Mohegan Sun Tribal Gaming Authority announced Thursday that it has reached a host community agreement with the town of Palmer, Massachusetts. The casino group would provide the town with more than $16 million in annual payments. The deal must be approved by the town council, the Management Board of the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority […]

Nevada Casinos Have Lackluster July

The Silver State’s casinos won less from gamblers this most recent July than they did during the same period in 2012. According to a report released Friday by the Nevada Gaming Control Board, nonrestricted gaming licensees reported a total gaming win of $925,729,767 for the month of July 2013. This amounted to a 7.97-percent decrease […]

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 […]

Blom Drops $1.4 Million Over Past Seven Days

There was a ton of action over the past week on Full Tilt Poker’s high-stakes tables. Despite winning some of the largest pots during the span at $400-$800 no-limit hold’em, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom managed to drop more than $1.4 million. The losses bring his yearly earnings back to $1.8 million, according to data from HighstakesDB. […]

24.4 Million Have Flown Into Vegas In 2013

Nevada could be on pace to break its visitor record which it set just last year. According to a Thursday report by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, 24.4 million people have so far arrived this year into the city via the sky, which is almost the exactly the same as the same seven-month span last year. […]

bestbet Jacksonville Kicks Off CPPT Season II

Cards were officially in the air at 12 pm Eastern Standard Time at bestbet Jacksonville, in Jacksonille, Florida, kicking off Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour. “The players get very excited here when we have a major event,” said Jesse Hollander, Associate Director of Poker Operations at bestbet Jacksonville. “It creates a lot […]

World Poker Tour Legends Of Poker Main Event Begins

For the 12th straight year the World Poker Tour has made it’s way to the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA as part of the casino’s 30-event Legends of Poker series. On Thursday, Aug. 29th the WPT Legends of Poker $3,700 no-limit hold’em main event kicks off with the first of three starting days at […]

Some Jobless Ride Casino Buses For A Living

Photographer Yeong-Ung Yang has been documenting a depressing phenomenon related to the state of the U.S. economy, widespread poverty, and to a lesser extent the availability of casino gambling in the north eastern part of the United States. In Korean, there is a term — “bus-kkun” — for a homeless and/or jobless person who rides […]

Caesars Inks Deal With Boston For New Casino

The race for casinos in Massachusetts got a little bit more intense this week. On Tuesday, 78-year-old Suffolk Downs Race Track and Nevada-based Caesars Entertainment Corporation announced that they have reached a host community agreement with the City of Boston to develop a $1 billion Las Vegas-style gaming facility adjacent to the existing race track. […]

Blair Hinkle Wins Seminole Hard Rock Main Event

The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in Hollywood, Florida drew an incredible turnout of 2, 384 entries in it’s $10 million guaranteed, $5,300 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, blowing away the guarantee to build a prizepool of $11,920,000. Just under a week after this massive event got underway, the huge field has been narrowed down […]

Maryland Live! Casino Opens Poker Room

On Wednesday afternoon, Maryland Live, the largest casino in the state of Maryland, opened its brand-new 52-table poker room. The move was a long time in the making, as state officials, as well as voters, had to authorize such a space. The referendum passed last fall. According to the Baltimore Sun, hundreds of people were […]

Sands Settles With U.S. Government For $47 Million

Las Vegas Sands Corp., one of the largest casino developers in the world, has agreed to pay the United States government a sum of more than $47 million to end a money-laundering investigation, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal. Sands will avoid criminal prosecution thanks to the settlement, but will not contest the […]

Delaware Real-Money I-Poker Coming In October

On Wednesday, the U.S. state of Delaware unveiled free online gaming, in a move that sets the stage for the jurisdiction to launch real-money action by the end of October. According to The News Journal, the state’s three casinos — Dover Downs, Delaware Park and Harrington Raceway & Casino – now have links to games […]

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 […]

Final Table Set In Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open

The final table is set in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $5,300 no-limit hold’em main event in Hollywood, Florida. A gigantic field of 2,384 entries blew away the event’s $10,000,000 guarantee, building a final prize pool of over $11.9 million. Now only six players remain to battle it out for the title and the […]

Mohegan Sun At Pocono Downs Gets Extension

The operator of Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs in Pennsylvania has received regulatory approval to continue with business for another three years. Last week, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board unanimously voted to renew the Category 1 casino operator’s license of Downs Racing, LP, a subsidiary of the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority. The state’s regulatory board […]

AGA To Use Poker Movie To Push Regulation

Reuters reported that the U.S. casino lobby is going to be using the release of the online poker flick Runner, Runner to advocate the need for regulation on real-money Internet gaming activity. According to an email obtained by Reuters, American Gaming Association President Geoff Freeman plans to argue that the movie displays the risks associated […]

Feds In Alabama Bust Gambling, Dog-Fighting Ring

On Friday, the Department of Justice busted an allegedly massive gambling and dog-fighting operation in the state of Alabama. A total of 10 individuals were charged. The operation allegedly had been running since 2009. Authorities seized 367 pit bull terriers that it said “appeared as if they had been fought multiple times,” as well as […]

Christie: NJ Will Be 'Victorious' For Sports Betting

In late June, the state of New Jersey made its final push toward offering full-fledged sports betting within its borders. In 2011, state voters approved a referendum allowing the activity, and the state legislature later enacted a sports betting law. These moves were opposed by the major sports leagues — the National Football League (NFL), […]