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CPPT Foxwoods Adds Guarantees To Series

Foxwoods Resort Casino has added guarantees to each of the 11-tournaments on the upcoming Card Player Poker Tour stop. The series will kick off Feb. 8 with a $600 no-limit hold’em $100,000 guarantee and will conclude Feb. 17 with a $300 no-limit hold’em $20,000 guarantee. Guarantees range from $10,000 for the $250 Omaha hi-lo 8 […]

Caesars Has $761.4 Million Net Loss In Third Quarter

Caesars Entertainment, owner of the esteemed World Series of Poker brand, saw a net loss of $761.4 million in the third quarter, according to reports this week. Revenue was $2.18 billion. Those figures were worse than expected. The casino firm said that competition for gamblers was a big reason for the performance. Recently, Caesars ceased […]

Foxwoods, MGM Resorts End Licensing Deal

According to reports, MGM Resorts International will no longer have its name on a hotel tower in the Foxwoods Connecticut casino complex in a move to improve its chances of winning a bid to build a brand new casino in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Oct. 25 press release stated: “Today the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and […]

Pittsburgh Poker Open Set For Nov. 21 at Rivers Casino

On Nov. 21, Rivers Casino will kick off the Pittsburgh Poker Open, a $150,000 guaranteed series with 28 events featuring buy-ins ranging from just $65 to $1,100. The highlight of the series is the $1,000+$100 buy-in championship event which boasts a $75,000 guarantee, 60-minute blind levels and a 30,000 chip starting stack. Players can win […]

Gus Hansen, Full Tilt's $12 Million Lifetime Loser

It keeps getting worse. The last 30 days have seen the Gus Hansen screen name on Full Tilt Poker drop around $1.5 million, according to HighstakesDB. With those losses, the Dane is now down more than $12 million lifetime on the Full Tilt software, the lowest mark of his career and by far the worst […]

World's First Bitcoin ATM Debuts

Bitcoins, which have uses ranging from poker to murdering people, are now available for ATM withdrawal. On Tuesday, a coffee shop in Vancouver was the first in the world to unveil such a machine. The machine converts bitcoins into Canadian dollars and vice versa, according to CBC News. The machine is operated by Vancouver-based Bitcoiniacs […]

Ed Miller: Gearing Up After A Layoff

One of my Facebook friends recently returned to playing poker after a many month layoff. “Hope I remember how to play,” she said. “Don’t worry,” came the replies, “you’ll be fine. Playing poker is like riding a bike.” In my opinion, these helpful supporters are totally wrong. Returning to poker after a layoff is nothing […]

Pair Of Tech Firms Get New Jersey Web Poker OK

A handful of casinos in New Jersey have been approved for online gambling, and now a couple of technology providers have also been given crucial permits. XYverify Corp., which does geolocation, and Optimal Payments Plc, the parent company of payment processor Neteller, have been approved by regulators, according to reports. The Garden State is expected […]

Big Action At WSOP.com This Week

The World Series of Poker is currently in the middle of inaugural WSOP.com Online Championships with big action still scheduled for the rest of the week. The nine-event series kicked off Oct. 25 with a massive $100,000 freeroll, but wraps up this Sunday Nov. 2 with the $200+$15 buy-in main event featuring $75,000 in added […]

Blom, Polk Play Huge $490,000 Cooler

Doug “WCGRider” Polk had just come off crushing Ben “Sauce1234” Sulsky for a massive six-figure sum in their heads-up challenge when he played the biggest pot of his life. The hand happened on Saturday at $400-$800 against Viktor “Isildur1” Blom. Polk had the button and raised to $2,400. Blom three-bet to $8,800. Polk four-bet to […]

Dorrance Wins Largest WSOPC Main Event Ever

The Horseshoe Hammond Casino in Hammond, Indiana (a short drive from Chicago) has been one of the most popular stops on the World Series of Poker Circuit in recent years, consistently drawing huge fields. The $1,675 WSOP Circuit main event this time around featured a $2 million guaranteed prize pool, which stoked the fire even […]

Poker Pro Frank Kassela To Run For Congress

Two-time World Series of Poker winner Frank Kassela is running for a seat in the United States House of Representatives from the state of Nevada. According to the Las Vegas Sun, Kassela filed the paperwork last week. The Tennessee native has cashed for $2,406,818 lifetime in poker tournaments. Kassela reportedly will run as a Democrat […]

Pennsylvania Waiting On Online Poker

The state of Pennsylvania will likely one day offer online betting, but it won’t be anytime soon. According to Philly.com, William Ryan, chairman of the state Gaming Control Board said last week at a conference that he doesn’t “see any real groundswell right now for Internet gaming.” Neighboring Delaware and New Jersey, which have both […]

Albania To Ban Offshore Poker Sites

Albania, a country in Southeastern Europe with a population of about 2.8 million, will be banning online gambling sites, the Associated Press reported. The country is reportedly one of the poorest in Europe and officials are hoping to prevent any of what has historically been spent on online betting there from leaving the country going […]

Full Episode Of 'Poker Night On Wall Street'

Last week, a filming of a handful of Wall Street heavyweights playing a charity sit-and-go poker tournament aired. The buy-in was $50,000 and was winner-take-all. The players included David Einhorn, Bill Perkins, Jim Chanos and Mario Gabelli. Both Einhorn and Perkins have had big success in high buy-in events at the WSOP. The event was […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: Oct. 28 - Nov. 3

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 October 28th through November 3rd. Head to our tournament […]

New York Times Against More Casinos In State

The Nov. 5 statewide referendum on Las Vegas-style commercial casinos coming to New York is fast approaching, and The New York Times has penned an editorial expressing its opposition to the gambling expansion plans in the Empire State. In August, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a piece of legislation that would allow four such […]

Free Bluffing Tips Video and PDF From Jon Little

Card Player recently partnered with two-time World Poker Tour champion Jonathan Little to teach a series of live poker training webinars. As part of this partnership, Little is giving Card Player readers a free video and PDF with some of his best bluffing tips, but they will be available this week only. Click here to […]

Nevada To Stick With Web Poker For Now

Nevada is one of only three states in the country with legalized web gambling, but it plans on sticking with just poker for now. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Silver State regulators conveyed that message at a recent regulatory hearing. The law on the books allows for other games, but the state is just […]

The Poker Hand Critic: Considering The Intangibles

The Poker Hand Critic is a brand new series by online pro “gutter23,” one of the top mid-stakes players in the game today, who is featured in an upcoming issue of Card Player Magazine. The Poker Hand Critic will break down a hand, street by street, offering up his analysis on all of the action. […]

Three Upcoming Schedules Released

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: Poker Rate Hotel Discounts Available for Palm Beach Kennel Club Players attending the 9-tournamnet CPPT Palm Beach Kennel Club Dec. 5-16 can […]

Adrian Mateos Wins The 2013 WSOP Europe Main Event

The 2013 World Series of Poker Europe is now in the books, with Adrian Mateos emerging victorious as the €10,450 no-limit hold’em main event champion. For his first WSOP cash the 19-year-old Spaniard topped a field of 375 players to win his first WSOP gold bracelet and the €1,000,000 ($1,379,300 USD) first-place prize. In addition […]

WATCH: Massive WSOP Chip Leader Meltdown

The most recent World Series of Poker television episode featured the epic collapse of one-time main event chip leader Anton Morgenstern. The German held around an amazing 30 million in chips with just 24 left in the event, but played far too aggressive hand after hand to give away his big stack. After he took […]

Viktor Blom Captures $2 Million This Week Online

Viktor Blom was recently nearing the red on the year, but he has recovered in a huge way over the past few weeks to put his earnings on the year back to around $4 million. Over the past seven days, the Swede scored $2 million, according to HighstakesDB. He most intense action during the recent […]

Daniel Negreanu Wins WSOP Europe €25k High Roller

Daniel Negreanu’s 2004 is a legendary year on the tournament circuit, with $4.4 million in live earnings, four titles won and eleven final tables made. That year he won both the Card Player Player of the Year title and the World Series of Poker POY title. Negreanu is having another unbelievable year, the most recent […]

Gambling: Mexico Makes Slot Machines Illegal

The Associated Press reported Thursday that the country of Mexico has cracked down heavily on the gambling industry operating within it. The state has issued a decree that outlaws slot machines. In addition it will be “limiting the ability of casino permit holders to rent out or cede their permits to other operators.” Also under […]

Illinois Rejects Proposal For 24-Hour Casinos

There was some bad news on Thursday for the gaming industry in Illinois. Gaming regulators there have rejected a proposal by the state’s riverboat casinos requesting that they be allowed to stay open 24 hours, the Chicago Tribune reported. The 10 casinos in Illinois will have to continue operating at most 22 hours a day. […]

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 […]

Gruissem Leads WSOP Europe €25k Going Into Final Day

A total of 80 players posted the €25,600 buy-in in the 2013 World Series of Poker Europe no-limit high roller event, building a prize pool of €1,920,000 ($2,645,568 USD). After two long days of high stakes action in the Casino Barriere Enghien les Bains in Paris, France, there are now only 13 players remaining to […]

WSOP.com Online Championships Kick Off Friday

The World Series of Poker is celebrating the launch of their real money site by hosting the WSOP Online Championships this October, with $500,000 in added prize money. The nine-event series kicks off Oct. 25 with a $100,000 freeroll and wraps up Nov. 2 with the $200+$15 buy-in main event. The tournament schedule also features […]