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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 […]

New Hampshire To Bring Back Casino Bill

New Hampshire’s casino bill died in May, but officials are already brainstorming for a new way to bring the proposal back up for consideration in the near future. According to the Concord Monitor, the state’s Gaming Regulatory Oversight Authority will meet Aug. 15 in Concord in order to produce draft legislation and regulations by the […]

This Week In Tournament Poker: August 5

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 5th through the 11th. Head to our tournament […]

CPPT Choctaw Main Event Final Table Set

The final table live stream from the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw Main Event is now streaming live from Oklahoma. Be sure to watch all the action from the first hand to the last as we crown the next CPPT champion. Day 2 of the CPPT Choctaw $1,500 Main Event wrapped up with the final […]

Head Games: Going Deep In Big Field Events

The Pros: Kevin Saul, Kyle Julius, Ben Wilinofsky, Bryan Paris, and Mike McDonald Craig Tapscott: How do you approach these big field events like the WSOP events strategy wise? Are you aggressive early to build a stack, patient till the antes kick in, etcetera? Kevin Saul: The structure in these events is amazing. It might […]

CPPT Choctaw Prize Pool Tops $1.1 Million

After two day-one flights at the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw $1,500 main event in Durant, Oklahoma the total field size is 735 players. That made for a total prize pool of $1,103,091, which doubled the $500,000 guarantee. There were 66 players that made it through Day 1B and they will join the 30 survivors […]

CPPT Choctaw: More Prelim Results

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 concludes with a $1,500+$120 no-limit hold’em main event that begins on Aug. 1 and features a $500,000 guarantee. Most of the preliminary events have already taken place, shattering their respective […]

Andrew Brokos: Just A Cooler

As I, and I think most poker players use the term, a cooler is a situation where you believe that both players were correct to play a big pot with the hands they had. Of course only one of them won, but in your opinion, the loser of the pot didn’t make a mistake. He […]

WSOPE To Have 'Ladies Event' This Year

The World Series of Poker has announced its schedule for the 2013 series in Europe, which will be held near Paris, France. The WSOPE kicks off Friday, Oct. 11 with a brand new special event. The series will commence with a €1,000+€100 buy-in “Ladies” no-limit hold’em tournament. The WSOPE has never held such a tournament […]

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 […]