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CPPT Hits South Florida This December

Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour is underway with one stop complete and a second stop coming up. Take a look at the weekly happenings and the latest news about the CPPT: Tour Will Stop in West Palm Beach, Florida The CPPT will next head to Palm Beach Kennel Club in West Palm […]

Archie Karas Arrested For Casino Cheating

Legendary Las Vegas gambler Archie Karas has been arrested for allegedly cheating at blackjack in a Southern California Indian casino, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The arrested happened Tuesday in Nevada, and Karas was being held without bail while waiting for an extradition hearing set for Monday. Karas’ trouble with gaming authorities isn’t anything […]

Regulators Looking At Philly Casino Proposals

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania gaming regulators held a public hearing to talk about the six individual proposals for a second casino in Philadelphia. Officials reportedly didn’t endorse any of the potential projects, but did go into the advantages and disadvantages of each plan. However, the Associated Press reported that there might be a preference for 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 […]

Phil Ivey Won $900,000 This Past Week Online

It’s very hard to keep Phil Ivey down for long. The nosebleed gambler had been getting mostly crushed on Full Tilt Poker recently, but over the past week put together around $900,000 in profits, according to HighstakesDB. The 37-year-old Ivey is still down a seven-figure sum this year. Before changing his screen name to “Polarizing” […]

CPPT Heads To Palm Beach Kennel Club

The Card Player Poker Tour will return to Florida for stop no. 2 on Season II, this time hitting Palm Beach Kennel Club in West Palm Beach, Florida for a tournament series set to take place Dec. 5-16. The 9-tournament series will be highlighted by the $1,100 no-limit hold’em main event to be held Dec. […]

MGM Reveals Renderings Of Maryland Proposal

MGM Resorts International is bidding to have the right to build a massive casino-resort in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The proposed gambling complex at National Harbor is in competition with a proposal by rival Penn National Gaming, which wants to transform its existing Rosecroft Raceway into its own version of a Las Vegas-style casino. State […]

CP Poker School Students Get Free VIP Membership

If you haven’t enrolled in the Card Player Poker School, you’re missing out on the web’s best poker education. The top-notch poker curriculum teaches students everything from the basic rules to more advanced cash game and tournament strategies. For a limited time, new Card Player Poker School students will receive a bonus offer that includes […]

Baltimore Casino Construction Going Well

Construction recently began on what will be a brand new $440 million casino-resort in Baltimore, and so far so good on the massive development, according to CBS. The Caesars Entertainment Corp. property is part of the gambling expansion that has been taking place statewide in Maryland. “I think people can see the reality. With all […]

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 […]

Finalists Picked For 2013 Poker Hall Of Fame

The preliminary selection process is over and 10 finalists have been unveiled for possible induction into the Poker Hall of Fame this year. Likely just two players will enter as the finalists are subject to a voting process consisting of the 19 living Hall of Fame members and an 18-person media panel. Voting ends Oct. […]

Americans Spent $2.6B On I-Gambling In 2012

Despite online poker’s Black Friday in 2011, the American online betting market was $2.6 billion in 2012, the American Gaming Association said Tuesday. The research was conducted by British-based research firm H2 Gambling Capital. Globally, around $33 billion was spent by online gambling customers in 2012. There have been estimates of the American market being […]

Leominster Approves Slot Gambling Plan

The town of Leominster approved a company’s proposal to build a brand new, state-of-the-art slots parlor there. Only one such facility is allowed to be built in Massachusetts after a 2011 bill was passed and signed into law by the governor. Three towns are competing for such a development. The vote in Leominster was 5,235 […]

Wynn To Run Online Poker From Caesars Property

One may think of the giant casino firms in the United States as competitors, and that’s true on some level, but in reality they are all in the gambling expansion fight together. This week, it was announced that Wynn Resorts and Caesars Entertainment will work together in New Jersey for online gambling. According to Bloomberg, […]

Vancouver Casino Project Has New Life

A casino-hotel project has new life in Vancouver, British Columbia after it was first proposed in 2010 and later rejected by the city in 2011, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Tuesday. In order to appease city officials, the proposal had to be scaled back. There will be fewer slot machines, table games and hotel rooms […]

Tom Dwan Has 'Biggest Loss Ever' On Monday

Tom Dwan has long been considered one of the most aggressive and fearless poker players in the world, and his mind-boggling swings are proof. The poker pro took to Twitter on Tuesday to say that he had just experienced his “biggest loss ever.” That’s a scary thought. Now, assuming that his comment referred to a […]

Phil Ivey Gives Rare On-Camera Interview

It’s very rare for Phil Ivey to do an interview, especially on-camera. However, the “Ivey Poker” brand has just launched a mobile app, and that had the high-stakes gambler talking. Though he looked tense and a bit uncomfortable, Ivey was able to pitch the product. Ivey Poker already had a Facebook app with around 10,000 […]

Mike Matusow Gets Slowrolled By Shaun Deeb

One of poker’s unwritten rules is never slowroll your opponent. It’s just bad etiquette and detrimental to the health of the game. However, that doesn’t mean it isn’t sometimes hilarious. In a recent $25-$50 no-limit hold’em cash game as part of Poker Night in America, poker pros Mike Matusow and Shaun Deeb were tangled up […]

New Jersey On Track For Online Poker By December

All signs point to the state of New Jersey being fully prepared by the end of November to see at least one of its licensees debut online gambling, the Associated Press reported Monday. The Garden State legalized online gambling — which includes poker — earlier this year, after a hard-fought battle in the legislature and […]

Men Of Action: Titanic Thompson

As far as a pure American character, it’s hard to beat Titanic Thompson, who won and lost more than $10 million during his long life as a top-notch gambler, confidence man and hustler. While our grandfathers used wrenches, welding torches and hammers in their jobs, Thompson’s tools were much different: Both right and left handed […]

Card Player Poker School: Questions And Answers

At the Card Player Poker School we answer your questions about the game. If you have anything kicking around in your head, please don’t hesitate to ask by sending them in to support@cardplayerpokerschool.com. Here’s a look at a few of the recent ones. Q: How much money do I need to start with and how […]

Bernard Lee: The Luck of the (Table) Draw

Is poker based on luck or skill? For many poker aficionados, including myself, there is little doubt that skill plays a larger part in poker than luck. In August 2012, Judge Jack Weinstein of the United States District Court in Brooklyn, NY concluded that poker was predominantly a game of skill. In his ruling, he […]

Wynn Partners With 888 For Nevada Web Poker

Wynn Resorts, the giant casino firm run by billionaire Las Vegas legend Steve Wynn, will be getting on board with 888 Holdings for online gambling, according to a Monday announcement. 888 and Avenue Capital Group teamed up to create the “All American Poker Network” and that is what Wynn Resorts will be utilizing for its […]

European Court: Italy Cannot Block Online Poker

A European court has issued a preliminary ruling that Italy cannot legally block some gambling sites from accessing its 61 million person population. Critics for Italy’s practice reportedly think that the country was simply trying to protect its “€2 billion gambling monopoly, belonging to the Italian state and a few authorized private partners,” according to […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: Sept. 23 -29

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 September 23rd through the 29th. Head to our tournament […]

WSOP Site Hits 152-Player High On Sunday

Sundays, historically, have been the busiest days in the online poker world, and the newly-launched World Series of Poker-branded site in the state of Nevada hit a peak of 152 cash game players on Sunday — its highest total since debuting statewide on Thursday. That data is according to tracking from PokerScout.com. For comparison, Ultimate […]

Cleveland Casino Wasn't 'Positioned As A Savior'

Ohio’s commercial brick-and-mortar casino industry is still in its infancy, as operators are still figuring out how much gaming revenue the market will provide, in addition to what steps can be taken to strengthen or expand their respective gambling businesses. The Horseshoe Casino Cleveland, owned by Caesars Entertainment Corp. and Rock Gaming, opened in May […]

Free Training From Card Player & Jonathan Little

Card Player is pleased to announce that we have partnered with 2-time World Poker Tour champion Jonathan Little to teach a series of live poker training webinars. To kick off our partnership, Jonathan has agreed to give away one of his recent training webinars. It’s called “5 Concepts You Must Master to Win at Poker […]

Diana Cox Joins Card Player Media as CPPT Director

Diana Cox has joined Card Player Media as the Director of the Card Player Poker Tour, a nationwide tour entering its second season. Cox joins Card Player with just over five years of experience in the poker industry which began at the 2008 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. A former freelance journalist and […]

Anthony Zinno Wins WPT Borgata Poker Open

A total of 1,189 entries were made in the 2013 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open $3,500 no-limit hold’em main event, building a $3,805,989 prize pool that blew away the event’s $3 million guarantee. Six days after the gigantic event got underway only one player remains: 31-year-old Anthony Zinno, from Cranston, Rhode Island. For the […]