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Man Tries To Cash Stolen Casino Chips Four Hours Later

According to law enforcement authorities, a 41-year-old gambler stole $55,000 worth of casino chips from a blackjack dealer’s tray, left the property, and then returned just four hours later in an attempt to cash them, The Morning Call reported Wednesday. The alleged crime took place at Pennsylvania’s Parx Casino, located not far from Philadelphia. He […]

Ohio Casino Makes Rule Blunder, Gamblers Exploit It

The tables were turned recently at one casino in Ohio. The Hollywood Casino Columbus reportedly ran a faulty game of “Crazy 4 Poker” at one of its tables, which put the odds in the favor of gamblers for once. According to The Columbus Dispatch, the game is supposed to be played with a mandatory “super […]

Revel Bankrupt Less Than A Year After Opening

Already? Revel, Atlantic City’s most expensive casino ever, said it will soon file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to reports. It opened less than a year ago. The property ran into financial issues before even getting built. It took six years to complete and required an additional $1.1 billion investment in 2011, along with […]

Partouche Poker Investigated By French Regulator

Partouche, the French poker and casino operator, is under investigation by ARJEL, the French regulator, for alleged irregularities at its poker site including breaking a 2010 law which prohibits employees from playing at the site and receiving undue rewards. French media operator Mediapart.fr has reportedly seen confidential documentation supporting the allegations which focus on 40 […]

PokerRoom.com Closes Its Doors Again

One of internet poker’s pioneers has been mothballed again. PokerRoom.com closed its doors yesterday for the second time further compounding the woes of the beleaguered Ongame network. PokerRoom, founded in 1999 and originally closed in 2009 by owner bwin, was re-opened in 2012 but a statement at the site yesterday seemed to confirm its demise […]

British Poker Pro Pleads Guilty To Murder In U.S.

Marcus Bebb-Jones, the UK poker player who was extradited to the U.S. in 2011 to face a charge of murdering his wife, has changed his plea to guilty. Last year he pled not guilty to killing his wife in 1997 but the BBC reported that the district attorney in Garfield County, Sheri Caloia, said he […]

Chris Ferguson Agrees To Deal With DOJ

Former Full Tilt Poker owner Chris Ferguson has reached a settlement in his civil case stemming from Black Friday with the federal government, his attorney Tweeted Tuesday. He had been in hot water for about the past 18 months. Chris Ferguson reaches #iPoker civil forfeiture settlement with #SDNY and anticipates court approval soon. fb.me/A9yuKh4c — […]

NH Governor Wants Casino To Alleviate 'Mental Health Crisis'

It seems that more casinos set the stage for more casinos, at least these days. As neighboring Massachusetts prepares for the eventual construction of three full-scale, resort-style gambling joints, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan wants one for herself. In a state budget address, Hassan said that she is looking for the state to license one […]

Card Player Adds Ten More State Regional Pages

It’s been two weeks since our last update, but Card Player is now pleased to announce the addition of 10 more regional poker pages to our website, bringing the total to 20. We’ve since added Colorado, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire and West Virginia. If you don’t see your state, don’t […]

David Tuthill Wins WSOPC Caesars Palace Main Event

A total of 744 players bought into the 2013 World Series of Poker Circuit Caesars Palace $1,676 no-limit hold’em re-entry main event, building a total prize pool of $1,116,000. After three days of heated competition, the last player standing was 24-year-old David Tuthill from St. Petersburg, Florida. For the win, Tuthill earned $223,197 and 912 […]

MA Gaming Comission Eager To Get Started

Massachusetts apparently is moving faster than expected on its casino expansion plan. Around a year from now, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission reportedly will have awarded two licenses for Las Vegas-style casinos in the state, after regulators previously planned on issuing just one in early 2014, according to The Republican. Approval will go for Western Massachusetts […]

Poker Strategy For Us: Mike 'Timex' McDonald

It’s great to see pros like Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth battling it out on poker’s biggest stages for millions of dollars, but the truth is that most of us will never get the same opportunity, nor will we really learn anything from their play that directly applies to our own games. The truth is […]

Nevada Lawmaker Booted From Casino

The Las Vegas Sun reported Monday that a beleaguered Nevada lawmaker was 86’ed from a Reno casino on Friday after a “disagreement with restaurant staff.” However, Assemblyman Steven Brooks, D-North Las Vegas, reportedly claimed he was booted because the casino didn’t like the “bad press” he has been getting lately. According to the Las Vegas […]

Rank and Coral Casino Deal Gets OK

Rank plc got the go ahead today from the UK’s Competition Commission to purchase 19 Gala Coral casinos and three non-operating licenses. Rank, which owns Grosvenor Casinos and the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, originally wanted to buy all 23 Gala Coral UK casinos but four must be retained, for now at least, by Gala Coral. […]

Premier League Line Up Takes Shape

PartyPoker has announced the names of the first eight players who have secured a spot in the sixth edition of its popular Premier League event. The $125,000 buy in made-for-TV poker event runs from March 17 to March 23 and will feature Phil Hellmuth, Scott Seiver, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Laak, Antonio Esfandiari, Tony G, Dan […]

Thomas Finneran Wins UK & Ireland Poker Tour Cork

The PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour Cork main event has been won by Thomas Finneran who took down €55,440 in the €700 + €70 buy in event on Ireland’s south coast. The event attracted 347 entrants, well down on the 601 players who last took part in the Cork main event in May 2011. […]

A Look At The Week In Tournament Poker

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 February 18th through the 24th. Head to our tournament […]

NBA Owner, Poker Player Jerry Buss Dies

Jerry Buss, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and a familiar face in the poker community, reportedly died Monday at the age of 80. He had been battling cancer. During his time away from basketball, Buss played in some of the priciest poker games around, which included appearances on GSN’s High Stakes Poker and at […]

Ex-Mayor Won And Lost $1B At Video Poker

It turns out that one of the biggest and most consistent high rollers in Las Vegas over much of the past decade was a former public official from California who loved video poker. A former San Diego mayor who has admitted to misappropriating charitable funds in order to feed her nearly decade-long gambling addiction had […]

Chiming In On Poker's Unwritten Code Of Conduct

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 […]

$75K Lotto Winners Blow Up House While Celebrating

Two brothers won the lottery for $75,000 and in their drug-fueled celebration managed to accidentally blow up their house, The Wichita Eagle reported. One of the men went to the hospital with second-degree burns while the other went to jail. According to The Wichita Eagle: One of the brothers went to the kitchen to refuel […]

Bad Beat Jackpot Record Soars At BetVictor

The Bad Beat Jackpot at BetVictor Poker is moving in on the €800,000 milestone, its highest level ever and from next month onwards there’ll be even more chances to win as new rules will give more people more chances to get involved. Standing today at €795,000, the current Jackpot will be suspended on March 6 […]

Dusk Till Dawn Moves To iPoker Network

UK poker club, Dusk Till Dawn, is moving its online poker offering from the International Poker Network to Playtech’s iPoker network next week. The compamy said in a statement today, “Dusk Till Dawn would like to notify our customers that we are moving all our satellites and promotions to a new Dusk Till Dawn branded […]

Thirty Packages Guaranteed For Irish Poker Open

Qualification for the paddypowerpoker.com Irish Open is in full swing and poker players will be treated to a Mega Satellite on March 10 at 8 p.m. with 30 packages guaranteed at the site. The €235 + €15 buy in no-limit hold’em freezeout will give away €96,000 in guaranteed packages, each one with a €2,250 seat […]

Capture The Flag: Robert Salaburu

Rob Salaburu is a young poker professional from Texas who just had the best year of his life on the felt. The former $5-$10 grinder made the final table of the World Series of Poker main event, finishing in eighth for nearly $1 million. Salaburu was one of the more colorful personalities at the tables […]

PKR Releases iPhone Poker App

Hot on the heels of its recent iPad poker launch, 3D online poker room PKR has released an iPhone version. The free app, available for download from the Apple App Store, feeds into PKR’s regular cash game and sit ‘n’ go tournaments and supports all generations of the iPhone. PKR has seen 300,000 downloads of […]

Strategy: Matt Matros: Don't Be Afraid To Bet Big

Fellow Card Player columnist Ed Miller preaches making big bets with big hands. This great piece of advice is nowhere more relevant than on the river. A mediocre no-limit hold’em player often falls into the trap of thinking, “all the cards have come, therefore I don’t have to protect my hand anymore, therefore I don’t […]

AC Casino Looking To Restructure $1.2B Debt

One of the latest moves out of Atlantic City, which will soon have legal online gaming, is a plan to restructure debt by Revel Casino, The Wall Street Journal reported. The gambling operation opened last spring and has been underwhelming ever since. It took six years to complete and required an additional $1.1 billion investment […]

Billion-Dollar Casino To Soon Open In Philippines

Officials in the Philippines are reportedly trying to keep pace with other top gaming markets around the world such as Las Vegas, Macau and Singapore. According to Agence France Presse, a new massive resort-style casino will open up in Manila’s bayside Entertainment City in mid-March. This one casino will be part of a $4 billion […]

Tom Dwan Wins $2 Million Since Last Friday

Tom Dwan, who is rumored to be a frequent combatant in the high-stakes cash games in Macau, up until recently hadn’t done much on Full Tilt Poker since it returned this past fall. However, the past seven days have been huge for the New Jersey native, as he’s currently up more than $2 million on […]