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CPPT Atlantis Casino Resort Spa Begins FridayThe Card Player Poker Tour pulls into Reno, NV this week for the 18-event series at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa. Players can enter to win a poker getaway at atlantiscasino.com/cpcontest with a $120 Satellite Seat in the Atlantis All-In Poker Series (choice of March 19 or March 21) and complimentary two nights Luxury Tower […]
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David Pecaski Wins CPPT Wynn Event No. 9Event 9 – $440 No-Limit Hold’em $100,000 Guarantee All three guaranteed events at the inaugural Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Las Vegas have surpassed their guarantees, but event no. 9 was the first to more than double it. The $440 no-limit hold’em event featured a $100,000 guarantee, but after it attracted 521 entrants it built […]
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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 […]
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Florida Charitable Gambling Group Accused Of ScamA non-profit gambling organization designed to raise money for veterans has been busted for allegedly operating a criminal enterprise to make its owners filthy rich. Florida’s lieutenant governor resigned amidst the scandal, but wasn’t accused of any wrongdoing. Allied Veterans of the World, founded in 1979, ran slot machine-style parlors around Florida. Lt. Gov. Jennifer […]
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Asia Pacific Poker Tour Hits Seoul
The PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour has rolled into the South Korean capital, Seoul with the KRW3,000,000 (€2,100) buy in, two day 1 main event getting underway today March 14 at the Walkerhill Casino. It’s the first stop on season seven of the tour which also takes in Cebu, Queenstown, and Melbourne later in the […]
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Marrakech Poker Open Starts TodayThe Marrakech Poker Open returns to Casino De Marrakech in the famed Moroccan city today. The three day, €1,350 (DH16,350) buy in re-entry event has a DH2,000,000 (€179,000) guaranteed prize pool sees players start with 50,000 in chips and a 45 minute clock. Players who don’t make the final table can avail of the DH20,000 […]
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New Bankroll Booster Game At Switch PokerMobile poker innovator Switch Poker launches a new game today, the Bankroll Booster. Access to the game is visible from all poker tables at the site and to play the game players need simply decide what they want to bet by moving the “Bet” bar and how lucky they feel by moving the “Luck Factor”. […]
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DOJ Hires Group To Help Compensate Victims Of FTPWhile it wasn’t white smoke, the Department of Justice gave former American Full Tilt players good news on Wednesday for the first time in months. The U.S. government announced that it has appointed a claims administrator to oversee the process of compensating eligible victims of Full Tilt Poker. According to a press release, Garden City […]
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Event 9 Doubles $100k Guarantee At CPPT WynnEvent 9 – $440 No-Limit Hold’em $100,000 Guarantee Event no. 9 of the inaugural Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Las Vegas featured a guaranteed prize pool of $100,000. But with 521 total entrants, that target was more than doubled, with a final prize pool of $202,148. The top 54 players are set to make the […]
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'Simpsons' Co-Creator, Poker Player Has Terminal CancerThe poker community might soon lose another one of its familiar and warm personalities. The Simpsons co-creator and poker player Sam Simon has cancer that has spread around his body and could just have months left, he told Howard 100 reporter Jon Leiberman this week. “I’ve had the greatest life in the world,” Simon said. […]
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IRS Seizes Jerry Yang's 2007 Main Event BraceletThe Internal Revenue Service has seized the 2007 main event bracelet of champion Jerry Yang, along with other jewelry. The items will be auctioned off to the public. The property is as follows: "Corum bracelet and Corum watch won at the 2007 World Series of Poker main event; Corum ladies watch; Wittnauer watches; Movado watches; […]
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Genting Joins International Stadiums Poker Tour TeamGenting Casinos has become the latest partner of the International Stadiums Poker Tour. The Group, with 44 casinos in the UK, reached an agreement with Dusk Til Dawn which recently announced it would now be running the tournament under license. Dusk Til Dawn owner, Rob Yong, said, “Just had some really good news – I […]
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Sweden Wins Unibet Open CopenhagenSeason six of the Unibet Open got underway in Copenhagen last weekend and the €1,500 + €150 buy in main event was won by Kassem Yassine of Sweden who took down DKK800,608 (€107,351) for topping the 366-strong field. The total prize pool reached DKK3,604,608 (€483,329) and 36 players got paid a minimum of DKK24,000 (€3,218). […]
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888 Poker Grows As It Eyes Up U.S. Market888 today confirmed its 2012 poker revenue was up 44 percent to $87.5 million from $60.6 million. The company gave an overview of its current poker landscape in its annual financial report noting the positive changes that had occurred in Spain, the USA and, potentially, Australia. “Our Poker business continues to grow, with record breaking […]
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Win Your Way Into CPPT Wynn Main EventHead down to the Wynn Las Vegas poker room, where you can enter one of the super satellites they are hosting for the Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Las Vegas $2,100 no-limit hold’em event and the $5,180 Championship event. There will be two $220+$30 no-limit hold’em super satellites on Wednesday, Mar. 13th for the $2,100 […]
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New York Senate Says It Supports Internet PokerIt appears that online poker is on its way to the debate table in the Empire State. As part of ongoing budget talks, the New York Senate wrote in a resolution released Monday that it “supports authorizing and regulating Internet gaming for games of skill, including poker, to reflect recent changes in the classification of […]
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Intrade Shuts Down After 'Financial Irregularities'The New York Times reported that online wagering site Intrade, which allows customers to place bets on events such as political elections, suspended its operations and froze accounts because of “significant financial irregularities in the internal accounts.” The company said that “during the upcoming weeks, we will investigate these circumstances further and determine the necessary […]
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Card Player Bovada Freeroll This SundayBovada’s Black Diamond Poker Open (BDPO) has been running for a month and has awarded thousands to poker players. The BDPO, which runs from February 4 to March 24 and offers $850,000 in guaranteed prizes spread over 86 events, has proven extremely popular and has awarded some big payouts. Offering a number of different poker […]
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Cash Game Strategy With Live At The BikeCard 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 […]
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CPPT Wynn: Kevin Hong Wins Event No. 8Event 8 – $550 No-Limit Hold’em The eighth event of the Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Las Vegas drew 115 entries, building a prize pool of $55,775. The top thirteen players made the money, and eventual champion Kevin Hong walked away with $15,618. The Las Vegas, NV resident was also awarded 120 Card Player Player […]
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Dan Cates Calls Out Tom Dwan Publicly 'Durrrr Challenge'Monday on Twitter, Dan “jungleman12” Cates asked Tom “durrrr” Dwan about their currently defunct “Durrrr Challenge,” which pitted Cates against Dwan online for 50,000 hands. Before Black Friday in April 2011, Cates was up $1,251,059 through about 20,000 hands. @tomdwan, would you like to continue our challenge instead of playing everybody else at every game […]
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Bill Boyd: First Modern Poker Room ManagerBill Boyd could handle the other teens swaying back and forth to the motion of the boxcar. It was the hobos and the desperate drunk WWI vets who made everyone sleep with one eye open. Boyd was a watchdog during those years, eyes on eyes, eyes on hands. Riding the rails was romantic for about […]
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888 To Launch All American Poker Network888 plc, the Israeli online gaming operator, has formed a new company called All American Poker Network after entering into a deal with Avenue Capital Group in the U.S.. The company will act as the vehicle for 888’s brands in the U.S. as the online gaming market there opens up in the coming months and […]
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Atlantic City Gaming Revenues Plunge 13 PercentThe first two months of this year yielded $417,529,100 in casino win for Atlantic City’s 12 casinos — a 13-percent decrease compared to the same period last year. The drop was despite the addition of Revel, the city’s most expensive casino ever. Just last month the property said it will be seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy […]
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PokerStars: 'AGA's Sole Interest Is Economic Warfare'The mudslinging continues in the battle for access to the extremely lucrative American real-money online gaming market. Less than a week after the American Gaming Association came out publicly to ferociously oppose PokerStars entering the Atlantic City casino market through the purchase of the struggling Atlantic Club Hotel Casino, lawyers for the web poker giant […]
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Nevada Gaming Revenue Drops 12.4 Percent In Jan.Nevada casinos only took in $909.2 million during the month of January, representing a 12.4 percent decline from a year ago when the state reported gaming revenue of $1.038 billion. Though numbers were down everywhere but the Boulder Strip, the biggest culprit for the drop was the Las Vegas Strip, which reported revenue of only […]
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A Look At The Week In Tournament PokerIn 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 Mar. 11th through the 17th. Head to our tournament […]
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Card Player Poker Tour Partners With Atlantis CasinoThe Card Player Poker Tour has entered into a partnership with Reno’s Atlantis Casino Resort Spa to host the third annual Atlantis All In Poker Series™ from March 15-25, 2013. Players are sure to enjoy action-packed gaming in a luxurious AAA Four Diamond resort, during the heart of March Madness and only steps away from […]
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Pierce McKellar Wins CPPT Wynn Event No. 7Event 7 – $1,070 No-Limit Hold’em A total of 165 entries were made in event no.7 of the 2013 Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Las Vegas, each posting the $1,070 buy-in to build a prize pool of $160,050. After two full days of play, it came to an end when Pierce McKellar made a deal […]
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Rules Guy: Minor Rule Breaking To Induce TiltMost 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 […]
