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Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw Casino Schedule

The Card Player Poker Tour will pull into the Choctaw Casino in Durant, Oklahoma from July 18 to August 5, 2013, for its penultimate stop this season. The festival will offer poker players a busy schedule of 54 events, daily guaranteed tournaments, and a total of $1.5 million in prize pool guarantees. Highlights of the […]

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 […]

Phil Ivey Has Shot At First WSOP Hold'em Bracelet

At around 4 p.m. local time in Las Vegas on Monday, Phil Ivey, who needs little introduction, was deep in a $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em event. The field started with 2,071. Ivey has nine World Series of Poker bracelets, but none of them are in hold’em. He was in the top 10 in chips with […]

At Least One Obstacle To Ohio Online Poker

Ohio just completed its first round of casino construction, and now there is already talk of bringing online gambling to the Buckeye State. According to the Plain Dealer, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert could be involved should the state ever authorize the activity. However, a constitution amendment that made it so that casino gambling could […]

Harry Reid Pessimistic About New Web Poker Bill

Harry Reid, a lawmaker from the state of Nevada, reportedly has said that he doesn’t think a new online poker bill drafted by a New York Congressman has much of a chance of passing. “I felt for several months now that I don’t see any movement on this,” Reid told the Las Vegas Sun. “I […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: June 10 - 16

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 June 10th through the 16th. Head to our tournament […]

WSOP: Mark Radoja Wins Second Career Bracelet

In 2012, five Canadians won bracelet at the World Series of Poker. So far this summer, five Canadians have won bracelets through just 16 events. Event no. 16, the $10,000 no-limit hold’em heads-up tournament, went to 27-year-old Mark Radoja. The Guelph, Ontario resident has been one of the more under the radar success stories of […]

WSOP: Tom Schneider Wins Third Gold Bracelet

In 2007, Tom Schneider was on top of the poker world, winning two bracelets and being named World Series of Poker Player of the Year. He followed that up with a few final table appearances over the next few year, but ultimately kept falling short of another victory. On Sunday, however, Schneider once again found […]

Online Star Ben Sulsky Played Rare Live Tournament

New Hampshire native Ben “Sauce1234” Sulsky was last year’s biggest winner on the virtual felt, capturing nearly $4 million. However 2013 has been terrible for him so far, as he has dropped about $1.6 million. In an effort to step away from the online game, Sulsky made a rare trip to a live tournament series, […]

WSOP: Jonathan Taylor Wins $1,500 NLHE Event

Event no. 14, the $1,500 no-limit hold’em tournament at the 2013 World Series of Poker, drew a massive field of 1,819 players, creating a total prize pool of $2,455,650. After three days of play, Jonathan Taylor, a former accountant turned poker pro, came out victorious to earn his first gold bracelet. The 31-year-old from Alabama […]

WSOP: TD Jack Effel Talks About Good Summer Start

Jack Effel is the Vice President of International Poker Operations for Caesars Interactive Entertainment and has been the Tournament Director for the World Series of Poker since 2007. In 2013 he was added to the Tournament Directors Association Board of Directors. Effel is widely credited as being one of the key parts of the growth […]

Ben Sulsky, Phil Galfond Square Off In Real Life

Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond and Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky are two of the greatest online poker players in history, putting in many hands together on the virtual felt over the years. However, on Saturday at the WSOP, the two faced each other face-to-face. Galfond and Sulsky advanced to play each other in the $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em […]

CPPT Venetian DSE III: Series Keeps On Rolling

The Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza III has kicked off its series of more than 200 events running all summer long on the Strip. The Card Player Poker Tour has partnered with the property to provide reports and live coverage of the $5,000 buy-in main event, which starts July 13th. Here is a look at the […]

WSOP: Lev Rofman Wins $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em

The World Series of Poker event no. 12 $1,500 pot-limit hold’em attracted a field of 535 players creating a prize pool of $722,250. From the throngs of players that began this event, it came down to a heads-up battle between recreational poker player Lev Rofman and five-time gold bracelet holder Allen Cunningham. After 25 levels […]

$10,000 WSOP Heads-Up Event Draws 162 Players

In some ways it was just another tournament of card playing at the summer poker festival at an off-the-Strip casino in the Mojave Desert featuring a buy-in large enough to pay most people’s rent for more than a year. But the $10,000 heads-up no-limit hold’em at the World Series of Poker was special in that […]

WSOP: Mike Matusow Wins Fourth Bracelet

“The Mouth” is back! It’s been an amazing year for Mike Matusow, who has seen his ups and downs in the poker world since Black Friday. The 45-year-old poker pro started off the year with a win in the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship for $750,000. On Friday, he followed that up by winning his […]

WATCH: Trailer Of Online Poker Movie 'Runner, Runner'

The trailer for a brand new poker movie has come out. Runner, Runner is set to hit theaters nationwide on September 27 of this year. The movie is from the writers of Rounders. The film stars Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake. The plot reportedly is the following: “Richie Furst (Timberlake), is a Princeton student who […]

Mike Matusow Says He's The Second Best Ever

As of around 2 p.m. local time on Friday at the 2013 World Series of Poker, longtime poker pro Mike Matusow was in the final 20 in the $5,000 buy-in seven-card stud eight-or-better event. The action would not stop until a winner was crowned. Right before the start of play, Matusow answered a few questions. […]

WSOP: Levi Berger Wins Six-Max NLHE Event

Levi Berger was the fourth Canadian to win a gold bracelet at this summer’s World Series of Poker (event no. 11 $2,500 six-handed no-limit hold’em). The 22-year-old professional poker player currently residing in Los Angeles also walked away with $473,019 in winnings, for what amounted to his second WSOP cash. The number of entrants started […]

2013 Wynn Summer Classic Begins Today

The 2013 Wynn Summer Classic will soon be underway. The first event of the series begins today (Friday) at noon local time in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is a $500+$50 no-limit hold’em event and will last four days. The event qualifies for our Player of the Year race. The series culminates with the $5,000+$180 buy-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 […]

Heinecker Wins GuangDong Asia Millions For $4.5 MM

The City of Dreams Entertainment Resort in Macau, China played host to the second largest in history outside of Las Vegas this week, the PokerStars GaungDong Limited Asia Millions. The HK $1,000,000 ($130,000 USD) buy in event attracted 71 entrants, 54 of whom exercised their option to rebuy, creating a massive HK $119 million prize […]

New Federal Online Poker Bill Introduced

A new online poker bill has hit the halls of Washington, D.C. According to the Associated Press, Republican New York Congressman Peter King has introduced a proposal to regulate the industry nationwide. The bill would allow states to opt into a online poker system overseen by the federal government. “A common federal standard will ensure […]

CPPT Venetian DSE III: Andrew Moreno Wins Big

The Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza III has kicked off its series of more than 200 events running all summer long on the Strip. The Card Player Poker Tour has partnered with the property to provide reports and live coverage of the $5,000 buy-in main event, which starts July 13th. Here is a look at the […]

WSOP: Brent Wheeler Wins Event No. 10

Event no. 10 attracted 645 entrants creating a total prize pool of $870,750. Brent Wheeler, a 27-year-old professional poker player from Las Vegas, won the first-place prize banking $191,605 and receiving his first gold bracelet. Last summer Wheeler finished fourth and seventh in a World Series of Poker limit and mixed-hold’em event, so this marks […]

Cliff 'JohnnyBax' Josephy Wins NLH Shootout

Event no. 9, the $3,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em shootout event at the 2013 World Series of Poker, featured another stacked final table. When it was all over, veteran poker player Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy sat with all the chips. He earned his second gold bracelet at his fourth final-table appearance. Reading thru my timeline I realize […]

Steve Gee Trying To Recover From Main Event Disaster

Steven Gee is still haunted by the main event final table in October of last year. Entering the final nine fifth in chips, Gee failed horribly at building his stack, and after a huge bluff gone wrong versus Russell Thomas, Gee was out in ninth. He was devastated. Fast forward to June 2013, and the […]

Macau Tournament To Award $4.5M First-Place Prize

The World Series of Poker isn’t the only tournament attracting poker players and fan’s attention this summer. Across the world in The City of Dreams Entertainment Resort in Macau, China, the PokerStars GaungDong Limited Asia Millions event has become one of the biggest poker tournaments in history. The main event brought in 71 entrants each […]

WSOP: Michael Malm Wins Event No. 8

Michael Malm, a 29-year-old salesman from Coquilam, British Columbia banked $225,104 and earned his first gold bracelet in event no. 8, a $2,500 Eight-Game Mix tournament at the World Series of Poker Tuesday night. Malm, was the third Canadian bracelet-winner at this summer’s festival, topping a field of 388 runners and outlasting fellow Canadian bracelet […]

WSOP: Matt Waxman Wins $1K NLHE Bracelet

Event no. 7, the $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em event at the 2013 World Series of Poker, featured one of the more stacked final tables you’ll see during the summer. In the end, after a 187-hand heads-up battle, 28-year-old Floridian poker pro Matt Waxman emerged victorious, earning his first career gold bracelet at his fourth final-table […]