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Pennsylvania I-Gaming Bill To Be Introduced Next Week

A bill in Pennsylvania that would legalize Internet poker will be introduced next week, a person in the office of the bill’s co-sponsor told Card Player on Wednesday. In January, Rep. Tina Davis, a Democrat, released a memo that stated she would soon be pushing an online gaming proposal. She specifically mentioned moves by New […]

DOJ Says Update On Full Tilt Money 'Soon'

The saga of Full Tilt Poker account balances increasingly feels like the major plot point in the 1993 hit film Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray. Every morning, many former American Internet poker players wake up to their funds still in purgatory. It’s approaching two years since Americans had access to their Full Tilt accounts. On […]

Ongame Launches Fast-Fold Poker

Ongame, the U.S.-owned poker network, has launched a fast-fold poker product making it one of the last major networks to get in on the speed poker act. Strobe Poker follows in the steps of the similarly named Rush, Zoom, Speed, Blaze and FastForward products already on the market. RedKings Poker was one of the first […]

Hawaii Internet Gaming Bill Not Likely Moving Forward

A bill in Hawaii aimed to legalize gambling on the Internet isn’t likely to move forward Although not officially dead, a person at the Hawaii Senate’s office told Card Player Tuesday: “At this moment, it doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere.” Hawaii is one of only two states in the nation without legalized gambling of […]

Forbes: Caesars Offered WSOP, Rio To PokerStars

According to Forbes, an executive of Caesars Entertainment offered to sell the World Series of Poker brand and the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas to PokerStars, which declined. “Caesars Entertainment approached PokerStars and offered to sell us certain assets, such as the Rio Casino in Las Vegas,” PokerStars spokesperson Eric Hollreiser told […]

Randy Ohel Wins CPPT Wynn Event No. 2

Event 2 – $550 Pot-Limit Omaha Eight-or-Better A total of 87 players posted the $550 buy-in pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better tournament, building a $42,195 prize pool for the second event of the inaugural Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Las Vegas. Plenty of notables turned out for this event including Erick Lindgren, Eric Baldwin, Mark Gregorich and […]

Poker Strategy For The Rest Of Us: Melanie Weisner

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 […]

AGA Trying To Block PokerStars Entry Into NJ

As American web poker players have to endure the wait for their pastime to return, the fight for online poker supremacy in the U.S. between gaming interests just got nasty. The American Gaming Association, the U.S. commercial casino industry’s top lobbying group in Washington D.C., filed a brief Monday with the state of New Jersey […]

888 Launches First Real Money Casino On Facebook

888 today launched the first real money casino on Facebook. Access to MAGIC888 is currently limited to players in the UK who are over 18 years old. It includes a wide range of slots and table games as well as a live casino. Last December 888 launched the first real money bingo games on Facebook. […]

UK & Ireland Poker Tour London Begins

The PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour London main event gets underway today at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in the English capital. The final event of UKIPT season three is a four day, £700 + £70 buy in no-limit hold’em tournament, capped at 1,200 players and featuring three day 1s. The tournament has a £250,000 […]

New Points Race At Switch Poker Starts Today

Mobile poker operator, Switch Poker, is running another of its popular Points Races from today, March 5 to March 18 with a €500 prize pool to be divided amongst the winners. The Points Race is open to both new and existing Switch Poker players. All they need to do rack up the Switch Poker Points […]

Lithuanian Wins Seventh Anniversary Sunday Million

The PokerStars Sunday Million seventh anniversary has been won by Lithuanian player “benislovas”. The $215 buy in no-limit hold’em tournament attracted 49,287 players making it the third largest in online poker history. The total prize pool of $9,857,400 was achieved, surpassing the $7 million guarantee comfortably with 6,309 players cashing over the 15 hour duration […]

New Jersey To Continue Fight For Sports Betting

New Jersey, home to struggling Atlantic City, wants to not only bring online gambling to the table, but also sports betting. Currently, wagering on athletic events is not permitted in the Garden State — thanks to a 1992 federal ban. The state legalized sports betting in 2012, but was then sued by the major sports […]

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 […]

Genting To Buy Boyd's Echelon On Las Vegas Strip

Nevada-based casino company Boyd Gaming has agreed to sell the site of Echelon, an unfinished Las Vegas-strip property to Genting Group, a Malaysian gambling company, for $350 million. Though Genting has not yet secured a Nevada Gaming License, the company plans to build a 3,500-room casino resort named Resort World Las Vegas. Approximately 175,000 square […]

Cincinnati Casino Set To Open Monday Night

The $400 million Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati opens Monday night at 8:30 p.m. local time and will be the fourth casino to open in the state of Ohio. The two-story property is a joint venture between Caesars Entertainment and Rock Gaming and is expected to create 1,700 permanent jobs. Approximately one quarter of the 400,000 square-foot […]

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 Mar. 4th through the 10th. Head to our tournament […]

Dan Sindelar Wins CPPT Wynn Las Vegas' First Event

Event No. 1 – $550 No-Limit Hold’em $250,000 Guarantee Event no. 1 of the inaugural Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Las Vegas surpassed all expectations, drawing 793 entries to build a prize pool of $384,605. The $550 buy-in no-limit hold’em event decimated it’s $250,000 guaranteed prize pool by more than $130,000. After the three starting […]

WATCH: CPPT Wynn Kickoff Event Draws Big Turnout

The kickoff event in the inaugural Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Las Vegas has drawn an incredible turnout: 793 entrants put up the $550 buy-in, blowing away the $250,000 guaranteed prize pool by more than $130,000. A total of 81 players will make the money, with the eventual champion will walk away with $73,074 and […]

In Wake Of Horrific Downswing, Viktor Blom Drops Down

Times apparently have changed for Viktor “Isildur1” Blom. On Monday, the poker pro, who at one point in January was incredibly up more than $5 million on 2013, was playing the short stack on a handful of tables, including $50-$100 pot-limit Omaha — a far cry from some of the stakes he had been grinding […]

Court Balks At Deciding Whether Poker Is Skill

The Virginia Supreme Court decided last week not to rule on whether poker was a game of skill or one of chance, according to the Associated Press. A poker game organizer had been threatened with prosecution for his charitable poker activity, which is considered illegal gambling, and the Virginia Supreme Court judge said that he […]

Philip Klasson Is Nordic Masters of Poker Champion

Philip Klasson has won the Nordic Masters of Poker main event at Casino Cosmopol, Stockholm, Sweden. The SEK25,000 + SEK1,000 (approx. €4,800) buy in event attracted 64 players creating a prize pool of SEK1,600,000 (€190,808). In an interview posted to the Casino Cosmopol website after the event Klasson said, “It feels really good! It’s my […]

Martin Bader Wins GUKPT London Main Event

A bigger than expected crowd of 397 players showed up at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London at the weekend for the first stop of the seventh season of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour. The €200,000 guarantee for the £1,000 + £70 main event was easily surpassed and given that numbers for the December 2012 Grand […]

Bad Beat Jackpot At BetVictor Passes €900,000

The Bad Beat Jackpot has passed the €900,000 mark at BetVictor Poker but there’s just three days left for it to hit before it’s suspended and some big and positive changes take place. Currently standing at €905,055 – the highest Bad Beat Jackpot in online poker history – the Jackpot will be stalled on Wednesday […]

David Peters: 'It's A Very Sick Game We Play'

With an impressive set of skills in both online and live settings, David Peters is definitely not the guy you want sitting at your table. The Toledo, Ohio native has a tournament record that boasts more than $3.5 million dollars in winnings, 12 titles, and 207 career cashes. We caught up with Peters this week, […]

Torbergsen: 'I've Treated Poker Like A Video Game'

Andreas “Skjervoy” Torbergsen, hailing from Norway, is one of online poker’s all-time greatest players. He has been grinding at the highest stakes in the world for years, turning out profits in the millions. He is still under the age of 30. The poker pro got his start playing low stakes and benefited from being stubbornly […]

ISPT Sees €1 Million Guaranteed To Winner

The International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT), taking place at Wembley on June 1, 2013, has entered into a deal with UK poker club Dusk Til Dawn which will see the club licence, operate, market and guarantee the event. Dusk Til Dawn will guarantee €1 million for the winner, taking a maximum of 20 percent out […]

Paddy Power Poker Student Masters Hits Dublin Today

The PaddyPowerPoker.com Student Masters 2013 gets underway today March 2 and continues tomorrow March 3 and will see the winner receive an entry into next year’s Irish Open. The student-only poker festival takes place at two venues in Dublin with day 1 in the Ballsbridge Hotel, and day 2 in the Jackpot Casino. Day 1 […]

Phil Ivey Loses $1.1 Million Online In February

Phil Ivey, widely regarded as poker’s best all-around player, lost $1.1 million last month, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. Ivey was once a Full Tilt Team Pro, but after returning to the software now owned by PokerStars he has been playing under the screen name “Polarizing”. Despite some upswings since coming back, Ivey has […]

Poker Revenue Down As William Hill Buys Out Playtech

William Hill saw its poker revenue fall 13 percent in 2012 or 11 percent if calculated over the 53 weeks to Jan. 1, 2013 (£20.4 million) compared to 52 weeks to Dec. 27, 2011 (£23 million). This compares with growth of seven percent in 2011. The company also announced today that it was exercising its […]