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CPPT bestbet Jax Offers Freeroll For SHRPO Players

Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour will begins Aug. 29 at bestbet Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Florida and there will be plenty of promotions for players to take part during the 13-event tournament series. Coming off the $10 million guarantee Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open being held at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino […]

Poker Legend Bobby Hoff Dead At 73

Poker legend Bobby Hoff passed away Sunday at the age of 73, according to Internet reports. Hoff, nicknamed “The Wizard”, was a fixture in high-stakes cash games in Las Vegas and California for decades. His poker career dates back to the 1960s, and he was a regular competitor with the likes of Doyle Brunson and […]

Feds Bust Alleged Gambling Ring In Philadelphia

Philadelphia will soon be home to a brand new Las Vegas-style casino, and in the meantime authorities are cracking down on alleged illicit gambling operations. A federal indictment was unsealed Friday charging nine people in a loan sharking and illegal gambling ring allegedly run out of several Philadelphia businesses. There were a handful of charges […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: Aug. 26 - Sept. 1

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 August 26th through September 1st. Head to our tournament […]

Tribe Gets Federal Approval For New Wisconsin Casino

The United States Department of the Interior, Indian Affairs last week issued a favorable ruling for a tribe looking to open an off-reservation casino in Wisconsin. The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin has received federal approval for a gaming facility on a 228-acre piece of land in the city of Kenosha. “After an extensive review […]

WSOP Main Event Chip Leader J.C. Tran Inks Endorsement

888 Poker announced that it has signed 2013 World Series of Poker main event final table chip leader J.C. Tran. Tran is the favorite to win the bracelet come November. Tran, hailing from Sacramento, has 38 million in chips. The second-best stack (Amir Lehavot) has 29.7 million. Inbal Lavi, Vice President of 888poker, said in […]

Atlantic City Casino Revenue Continues Tumble

Atlantic City casinos just had a rough second quarter and look to be en route to another disappointing year. According to financial reports filed with the Division of Gaming Enforcement, the area’s 12 casinos reported total revenue of $1.9 billion for the first half of 2013. That figure marked a 9.9-percent decline when compared to […]

Men of Action: Walter Clyde "Puggy" Pearson

A cloud of smoke that could choke the Tennessee Valley hovered over one of the handful of men everyone seemed to know in Las Vegas in the early 1970s. His cigar tip glowed red and he had to decide what to do — either toss the jack that hung at the end of his lowball […]

SHR Poker Open Main Event Beats $10 MM Guarantee

The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida set it’s sights incredibly high when it announced that the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $5,300 no-limit hold’em main event would have feature a guaranteed prize pool of $10,000,000. In order to make the guarantee the event would have to attract 2,000 entries. When registration […]

A Poker Life: Trevor Pope

Trevor Pope spent a couple of his early adult years moving from city to city, hoping to make it as an online poker pro. To his parents, it looked like he was wandering aimlessly, hoping for a big gamble to pay off. Now living in Las Vegas, 26-year-old Pope is finally settling down into a […]

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 […]

Poker Pros To Plead Guilty In Gambling Case

A pair of high-stakes poker players have accepted plea deals in connection with an underground poker and spots betting ring that was busted earlier this year. Justin Smith, 25, and Edwin Ting, 41, will plead guilty to reduced charges, according to the New York Daily News. Smith with admit to taking a payment for Internet […]

Web Poker: Heinecker Up $2 Million In Seven Days

Niklas “ragen70” Heinecker just had one of the best weeks in the history of online poker. The German won $2 million in the span of just seven days, playing $400-$800 no-limit hold’em, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. Those games have been huge lately thanks to just one mark, who isn’t necessarily a poor player, […]

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 […]

Tribe Wants To Build New South Dakota Casino

The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe wants to build a $34 million casino near Oacoma, South Dakota. A meeting was held this week to talk about the possibility, the Rapid City Journal reported on Thursday. The Oacoma City Council has voted to oppose the project, however. Some city officials are worried about what impact such a […]

MGM Grand Detroit Casino Gets Renovation

One of the biggest casino firms in the world is getting serious about sustainability. MGM Grand Detroit announced that it has completed the LED lamp retrofit of its 61-acre parking garage. It contains 3,117 LED lamps and will reduce the garage’s annual energy use by 80 percent at the destination resort. “As a property fully […]

Satellites for CPPT bestbet Jax Main Event Underway

Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour will begin Aug. 29 at bestbet Jacksonville in Florida and satellites are up running for entry into the $1,500 buy in $300,000 guarantee main event Sep. 6. $185 satellites will run at 12:30 pm and 7 pm EST Aug. 24 and at 7 pm Aug. 29 through […]

Carbon Poker Offers 100 Percent Reload Bonus

Starting Aug. 27, existing Carbon Poker players are eligible for a 100 percent reload bonus of up to $2,000. The rest of August is filled with exciting promotions, as well, including week 8 of the Race for Riches which begins on Friday, Aug. 23 and the Poker Maximus Freeroll giveaway, where players who earn 100 […]

Some Online Gambling Firms Leaving Greece

The online gambling situation in Greece is becoming increasingly interesting. Late last month, Greece released a list of 401 blacklisted online gaming sites. The names on the list included PartyPoker.com and 888Poker.com. The country is not trying to ban the activity, but instead trying to control where its citizens place their wagers. The situation stems […]

Wynn Looking At New Jersey Web Gambling

Steve Wynn reportedly is getting serious about online gambling in New Jersey. The Garden State legalized online betting this year and plans to have some state-sanctioned games debut this fall. Press of Atlantic City reported that Wynn’s Wynn Interactive LLC is one of the 37 firms that the state said applied by an early deadline […]

Table Game Revenue Strong For Pennsylvania

Despite a tiny decrease in overall gaming revenue for the month of July 2013 compared to July 2012, table games in Pennsylvania are bringing in strong revenue. According to a report released Monday by the state’s gaming regulatory authority, revenue from table games play at the 12 Pennsylvania casinos was $59.9 million in July 2013. […]

California Online Poker Bill Amended

It still faces an incredibly low chance of passing, but one of the online gaming bills floating in California’s legislature was amended on Monday. It is now classified as an “urgency” measure. The 2013 legislative session ends next month. The new language in Senate Bill 678 states: “This act is an urgency statute necessary for […]

Full Tilt Poker Victims To Receive Emails Soon

The Garden City Group, the claims administrator for the Full Tilt Poker money, released an update Friday on its website, FullTiltPokerClaims.com. The firm stated: Starting on September 16, 2013, GCG will email a Notice with instructions on how to submit a Petition for Remission online to all potentially eligible claimants identified by GCG utilizing data […]

Feds Seize Chinatown Building In Gambling Case

Last week, the federal government of the United States claimed a six-story New York City Chinatown building valued at about $17 million in a case related to illegal gambling. The building’s owner — Won & Har Realty Corporation — had to forfeit the property after it was determined that it was aware of the illegal […]

Todd Brunson Montana Challenge Begins On Aug. 28th

The seventh annual Todd Brunson Montana Poker Challenge is set to get underway way on August 28th at the Marina Cay Resort, just off Flathead Lake in Big Fork, MT. The schedule of events kicks off with WPT Bootcamps and $45 buy-in/ $40 re-buys super satellites starting at 5:30 PM on both Aug. 28th and […]

North Carolina Considering New Tribal Casino

Some in North Carolina are considering letting a tribe within the borders of South Carolina make plans to open up a brand new casino in their state. The potential agreement is being considered by the administration of North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, according to the Associated Press. The tribe is the Catawba Indian Nation. If […]

Jason Strasser WSOP Circuit Foxwoods

The 2013-14 World Series of Poker Circuit season kicked off at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, CT this month. Over the weekend the series’ marquee tournament, the $1,675 WSOP Circuit no-limit hold’em main event, drew 591 entries to build a prizepool of $888,568. After three full days of play, Jason Strasser emerged victorious, taking home […]

Pinnacle To Sell Missouri Casino For $260M

Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. has reached a deal to Lumiere Place Casino and Hotels to Tropicana Entertainment Inc. for a price of $260 million, the company said. The deal is expected to close by the end of the first quarter in 2014. The deal is subject to approval for the Missouri Gaming Commission, as well as […]

Capture The Flag: Poker Pro Martin Bradstreet

Martin Bradstreet is a high-stakes online poker pro from Australia. He plays under the screen name “alexeimartov” on PokerStars and “MagicNinja” on Full Tilt Poker. During his Internet card playing career, he has gone from the micro-stakes to the nosebleeds, winning hundreds of thousands of dollars along the way and establishing himself as one of […]

Normandie Casino Celebrates Labor Day With $10K Tourney

Normandie Casino will celebrate Labor Day with a $10,000 guarantee poker tournament. The Labor Day poker tournament begins at 1pm on Monday September 02. For a $60 buy-in and a $15 entry fee, players will receive $10,000 worth of starting chips. In addition to our Labor Day Tournament, Normandie Casino is offering $1 Hot Dogs […]