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Gus Hansen Now Down $10.4 Million Lifetime

Gus Hansen lost $114,498 (according to HighstakesDB) on Thursday, which brings his lifetime losses on Full Tilt Poker to an incredible $10.4 million. The Dane has lost about $3.4 million more than the next worst in the tracking history. Hansen is officially the biggest loser ever online, but Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté has […]

Full Tilt Victims To Receive Account Balances

On Thursday, the claims administrator for the Full Tilt Poker remission process released an update on its website, stating that players will be paid back what they had in their accounts when the site left American cyberspace on April 15, 2011 (Black Friday). The development is a big deal for the poker community, as it […]

Caesars Still Expecting I-Poker This Summer

The month of July has ended and the poker world is still waiting on the launch of a World Series of Poker-branded online poker site to hit the Internet in Nevada. Though there hasn’t been any new updates since Caesars Entertainment Corp. not long ago said that it planned to launch the games this summer, […]

CPPT Choctaw Main Event Begins Friday

The Card Player Poker Tour is in Durant, Oklahoma at the Choctaw Casino Resort for a 54-event series, the culmination of which is the main event starting Friday, August 2. The $1,620 no-limit hold’em main event will feature a $500,000 guarantee. There will be two starting days and players can re-enter if they are eliminated […]

Crazy Gambling Stories From Month Of July

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. July was no exception, as there was plenty that happened in […]

Macau Gambling Revenue Up 20 Percent In July

Macau’s gambling revenue jumped 20 percent in July, compared to July 2012. July was 29.5 billion patacas ($3.7 billion), according to the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, which released data this week. Macau, the only place in China where gambling is legal, is still trending up despite concerns of economic slowdown in the country. The […]

PPA Creates Survey For Full Tilt Poker Case

The Poker Players Alliance is asking those with Full Tilt Poker money still locked up, which is every former customer in the United States, to fill out a brief survey to help with efforts to put pressure on those with enough political clout to speed up the remission process. Card Player was told recently that […]

CPPT Choctaw Main Event Starts Friday

The next stop on the Card Player Poker Tour is in Durant, Oklahoma at the Choctaw Casino Resort. The 54-event series started on July 18th and ends on August 4th. The $1,620 no-limit hold’em main event is scheduled to begin on Friday and will feature a $500,000 guarantee. There will be two starting days and […]

Watch CPPT Venetian ME Final Table Show

The Card Player Poker Tour Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza III featured more than 200 events during the summer on the Las Vegas Strip. The series culminated with a $5,000 buy-in main event, which drew a tough field of 262 entrants, building a total prize pool of $1,224,850. After five days of intense action, it was […]

Fertitta Gets OK For New Louisiana Casino

A hugely successful casino owner reportedly has just received the go-ahead to build a brand new brick-and-mortar property in the state of Louisiana. Tilman Fertitta will build an iconic Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in Lake Charles, according to KHOU 11 News reporting from this week. The property will cost an estimated $600 million. The […]

37 Firms Apply For New Jersey Web Gambling

Online gambling, including poker, in the Garden State had a significant milestone this week, as it was announced that 37 firms have submitted applications to be involved with the new activity. New Jersey legalized online poker earlier this year after failed attempts in previous years. Online gambling will kick off in the state in late […]

Ultimate Poker To Host Live Series At Red Rock Casino

Ultimate Poker has announced a 19-event live tournament series that will take place this summer at the Red Rock Casino Resort in Las Vegas. The Ultimate Poker Challenge kicks off Aug. 30 and runs through Sep. 8, featuring buy-ins from $120 to $550, with a $1,100 main event starting Sep. 6. The main event, which […]

Gambling Business: Missouri OK's Pinnacle

There’s more good news for casino firm Pinnacle Entertainment. The Missouri Gaming Commission voted unanimously by a count of four to zero last week to let Pinnacle buy Ameristar Casinos Inc. for a price tag of $2.8 billion. The final checkpoint for the deal will come from the federal government, which expressed concerns about the […]

Max Steinberg Discusses Big Hero Call Gone Wrong

Poker pro Max Steinberg made a deep run in the 2013 World Series of Poker main event just a couple of weeks ago, finishing in 131st place out of more than 6,000 players. He was near the top of the chip counts after Day 3 and Day 4, but his fifth day of play didn’t […]

London-Based Web Gambling Firm Looks At NJ

The Press of Atlantic City reported that London-based 2UP Gaming PLC is making a push to get involved with brick-and-mortar casino gambling in New Jersey, all in an effort to find a way to be a player in the soon-to-launch online gambling market there. The firm, which offers online poker, blackjack and other casino style […]

MGM To Relocate Sept. 11th Memorial

MGM reportedly announced that it will be relocating its Sept. 11th memorial, which was created in the aftermath of the attacks. The memorial is currently near the Las Vegas Strip casino New York-New York, one of the casino firms many properties in the valley. “We are working with representatives of the First Responder community in […]

CPPT Choctaw: Steven Gordon Scores $55k Win

The Card Player Poker Tour has pulled into Durant, Oklahoma at the Choctaw Casino for a 54-event series that kicked off July 18. The series will conclude with a $1,500+$120 no-limit hold’em main event that begins on Aug. 1 and features a $500,000 guarantee. A number of preliminary events have already taken place, shattering their […]

The Rules Guy Tackles Tipping In Poker Tournaments

Most players learn poker’s explicit rules pretty quickly: the “one-chip rule,” for example, or “verbal declarations are binding.” But not everyone seems to have digested the game’s vast book of unwritten rules, admonitions like “don’t berate other players (particularly bad ones)” or “say ‘nice hand’ even when you mean something entirely different.” Enter “The Rules […]

Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Giving Away 100 Seats

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tampa is hosting satellite tournaments and special promotions giving players the chance to win a seat to the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open featuring a $10 million guaranteed payout – the largest guaranteed payout in the world. The casino will award over 100 seats to the groundbreaking main event, […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: July 29 - August 4

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 July 29th through August 4th. Head to our tournament […]

Poker Player Arrested For Malware Scam

High-stakes poker player Masaaki Kagawa reportedly has been arrested by police in Japan for allegedly, according to Symantec, “distributing spam that included emails with links to download ‘Android.Enesoluty’ — malware used to collect contact details stored on the owner’s device.” Kagawa was one of eight individuals to be busted. The operation reportedly ran from around […]

TV Producer Pleads Guilty In Gambling Case

Last week, a Hollywood producer became the first defendant to plead guilty in connection with the massive gambling bust that happened earlier this year in New York. Bryan Zuriff, a 44-year-old producer of the TV series Ray Donovan and movies The Details and The Messenger, admitted in Manhattan federal court to “accepting a financial instrument […]

Poker Strategy: Three Mistakes Live Players Make

Quick, in your head, think of the top three differences between online no-limit hold’em and live no-limit hold’em strategy. I’ll tell you mine. In a live game (compared to online), I: Play more hands Bet more flops and turns Overbet more frequently I do these three things because, in general, I can expect my live […]

Ben Yu: How Much Is A Chip And A Chair Worth?

One of the most overused cliches publicized by televised tournament poker is the phrase “a chip and a chair,” — used when someone bled down to their last chip wins an all-in to become a contender in the tournament again. When you blind down to one ante, how much is that actually worth? My answer […]

Zynga Real-Money Online Plans Into The Muck

Zynga, the leading free-play online poker platform on Facebook in terms of sheer volume of players, announced that it will scrap all plans to get involved with real-money web gambling in the United States. The company said in a statement Thursday: “Zynga believes its biggest opportunity is to focus on free to play social games. […]

Ultimate Poker Receives Final OK From Nevada

It’s official. On Thursday, Ultimate Gaming, a subsidiary of Station Casinos, received final approval from Silver State gaming regulators for running Ultimate Poker, the first truly legal and regulated online poker site in not only Nevada’s history, but also in the United States. Ultimate Poker debuted in late April and everything has gone smoothly since, […]

Mohegan Sun Close To Casino Deal In Mass.

The Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, which wants to win a bid to build a casino in the state of Massachussets, said that a “host agreement” with the town of Palmer should be done by the end of August, Masslive.com reported. It’s reportedly a matter of when, not if, but voters have the final say in […]

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 […]

Online Poker: The Winning Continues For Dan Cates

Dan “jungleman12” Cates has quietly put together another huge year on the virtual felt. Cates, who amassed nearly $7 million in profits before Full Tilt Poker shutdown in 2011, has returned to the software, after its reboot by PokerStars, by winning nearly $1 million. He is now up just under $8 million lifetime on Full […]

Tribal Casino Industry Sees Best Year Ever

Commercial casinos aren’t the only gambling businesses in the United States fully recovered from the worst of the Great Recession, which started around 2008. The National Indian Gaming Commission this week released data showing revenues — or total win from gamblers — generated by the Indian gaming industry in 2012 totaled a whopping $27.9 billion. […]