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Hellmuth: 'Having Trouble Sleeping' After Loss

Phil Hellmuth says he can’t sleep. Hellmuth has been on fire for awhile now. He won two WSOP bracelets in 2012, bringing his total to 13 — and that was a year after three second-place finishes. The rush has brought his lifetime tournament earnings to more than $17.3 million. This past weekend, Hellmuth made it […]

Men Of Action: Jimmy 'The Greek' Snyder

Jimmy ‘the Greek” Snyder was born to immigrant grocers as Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1918. By the time he was 28, he was known as man who could pick winners after nailing the 1948 Presidential election. Steubenville was a river mill town that had so many gambling houses that Snyder jokingly said […]

Three Turbo’s This Tuesday At Sky Poker

Sky Poker is getting fast and furious this evening Tuesday, January 29 with Turbo Tuesday featuring three guaranteed turbo events. At 8 p.m. is the £6,000 guaranteed Turbo Open main event featuring a £33 buy in. This tournament will televised live on Sky Poker TV (Sky Channel 861) and online. The second event, at 8.15 […]

France Poker Series Grand Final Gets Underway

PokerStars undertakes two weeks of poker at Casino Barrière, Deauville, France starting today, Tuesday January 29. First up is the grand final of season two of France Poker Series with a €1,000 + €100 buy in main event starting tomorrow, Wednesday, January 30 with two day 1s with the final table taking place on Sunday, […]

Card Player Poker Tour Welcomes Wynn Classic

The Card Player Poker Tour today announces that the five-star Wynn Las Vegas will host the next stop in the series starting February 28, 2013. The 12-event Wynn Classic festival has $450,000 in guaranteed prize pools with buys ins from €270 + $30 right up to the centerpiece of the series, the $5,000 + $180 […]

Sign Up For One Free Week At SharpSide.com

SharpSide.com Professional Handicapping’s mission statement is, “Make clients happy through consistent winning and great service.” While SharpSide.com is a relatively new, their handicappers are not. The guys behind SharpSide.com have been beating all the major sports for years. With bookies and sports books shutting them off over and over again, these guys have decided to […]

Report: 15 Percent Of U.K. Gambles Online

A recent article by the The Independent entitled “Addiction soars as online gambling hits £2bn mark” notes that out of 62 million people in Britain, about nine million will gamble on the Internet — presumably at least once — in 2013. That’s nearly 15 percent of the population, which creates a $3.14-billion industry. The figure […]

Casino M8trix: San Jose's Newest Casino Destination

The talk of Silicon Valley is the brand new Casino M8trix, San Jose’s ultimate high-tech, high-touch, world-class gaming and entertainment destination. The property, which opened on Aug. 8th, boasts a packed casino floor featuring 52 table games and a state-of-the-art poker section. Aside from poker, it also offers a selection of the most popular Las […]

Sands Gets OK For More Tables In Macau

The Macau casinos of Las Vegas Sands Corp. have gained governmental approval to collectively add 200 table games to their gambling arsenals, The Wall Street Journal reported. The permission reportedly comes just weeks before the start of a popular and lucrative holiday, which could mean that the new tables are worth millions right away. According […]

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 […]

Pocket Kings Appoints Liquidator

Pocket Kings, the former Full Tilt company which operated the site out of Cherrywood Science and Technology Park, Dublin, Ireland has appointed a liquidator. Declan McDonald of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dublin was appointed liquidator on January 9, 2013. A meeting of creditors took place on January 10, 2013. The company website, which is still live, describes Pocket […]

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 January 28th through February 3rd. Head to our tournament […]

Iowa Retrieves Online Poker Effort From Muck

Iowa, which has looked at web poker the past few years, has another crack at the idea currently sitting in its legislature. A bill was brought back into play last Wednesday. Senate Study Bill 1068 could eventually allow existing licensees to potentially offer web poker. Iowa study bills are used to “determine reception of an […]

Finn Wins Diamond Championship In Paris

Markus Ristola from Finland has won the Diamond Championship at the Euro Finals of Poker in the Aviation Club de France in Paris. The €5,000 no-limit hold;em freezeout attracted just 42 runners, well down on the 109 who took part last year when the event was won by rap star Bruno “Kool Shen” Lopes. Just […]

Adrián Mateos Díaz Wins Estrellas Poker Tour Madrid

Adrián Mateos Díaz has won the main event on the first stop of season four PokerStars Estrellas Poker Tour in Madrid, Spain for €103,000. The €1,000 + €100 buy in main event attracted 632 players from 28 countries to Gran Casino in the Spanish capital creating a prize pool of €606,720. The three-way deal saw […]

Nevada Casinos Fail To Collect $128M From Gamblers

The Nevada Gaming Control Board recently released its annual Gaming Abstract for fiscal year 2012, and in it contained some interesting figures from the Silver State’s casinos. The state’s top-earning casinos (ones with revenues of more than $1 million) reported $128.1 million in gaming “bad debt expense”. In other words, the amount gamblers didn’t repay […]

Yearlong $100,000 Poker Challenge At Paddy Power

With 2013 underway there’s no better time for poker players to adopt new resolutions, set aside bad habits and face into new challenges in the quest to increase their bankrolls and beat the game. Enter Paddy Power Poker which has launched a yearlong $100,000 challenge – Paddy’s Tournament Challenge. Players at the site will be […]

Matusow Wins NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship

Mike Matusow thrust his hands and the air with a flying leap after the Q hit the river, completing his flush to win the 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Jumping up and down, the man known as “The Mouth” screamed, “You gotta go for it, baby!” For the win Matusow earned the $750,000 first-place […]

Regulated Online Poker Declines In Italy

Online poker continues its decline in Italy. New statistics for 2012 from regulator AAMS show tournament poker spend fell 37.6 percent to €151.2 million from €256.4 million in 2011. Cash games, which have only been offered in Italy since July 2012, suffered an even more grisly fate falling every month apart from the first. Overall […]

PokerStars Launches Zoom Poker In France

PokerStars has finally rolled out its fast-fold poker product, Zoom Poker, in France. Current available real-money games are microstakes no-limit hold’em € 0.01/€ 0.02, € 0.0/€ 0.05 and € 0.05/€ 0.10. Zoom Poker was first launched by PokerStars in March 2012. The format is available for mobile devices as well as PCs. PoekrStars is a […]

Final Eight Set In NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship

After two action-packed days and three rounds of matches, the final eight is set in the 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. All remaining players are guaranteed at least $50,000 in prize money, although each of the elite eight are sure to have their eyes on the $750,000 first-place prize. Take a look below at […]

Chances Slim For Mississippi Online Gaming Bill

Despite a bill on the table, the chances are slim for Mississippi to legalize web poker in 2013 Rep. Bobby Moak, the legislation’s author, told Card Player Friday that there’s “not a lot of hope” for it this year. Though, the proposal “keeps the conversation alive,” he said. Mississippi, home to a strong commercial brick-and-mortar […]

Venetian Macau Sues Two High Rollers For $4.5M

The Venetian Macau, owned by Las Vegas Sands Corp., has sued two wealthy Chinese gamblers for allegedly failing to pay their gambling debts. The total sum reportedly is about $4.5 million. According to the Associated Press, the high-roller gamblers borrowed directly from the casino, rather than go through junket operators, which are common in the […]

Hansen Down $3.7 Million Since November

Despite some upswings here and there, online poker pro Gus Hansen has continued to fall deeper into the hole since Full Tilt Poker relaunched in November. Since the site came back, the Dane has dropped $3.7 million, according to HighstakesDB. The amount is more than double the next biggest loser during the time frame. With […]

Greek Gambling Monopoly Breaks EU Law

The Greek gambing monopoly enjoyed by OPAP is unjustified according to a ruling yesterday by the European Court of Justice. The legislation backing the monopoly, “does not genuinely meet the concern to reduce opportunities for gambling and to limit activities,” according to the court. The ruling noted that, “The fact that OPAP is a listed […]

German State Repeals Online Gambling Law

Schleswig-Holestein, the black sheep of the German family in online gambling legislation, has rejoined the fold and voted to adopt the restrictive stance of the other 15 federal states that make up the nation. The northern state, which had gone its own way and issued 23 sports betting licenses and 13 casino and poker licenses, […]

Betfair Poker LIVE! Hits London Friday

Betfair Poker hosts the latest renewal of LIVE! in Aspers Westfield Stratford Casino, London with the centrepiece main event offering a £100,000 guaranteed for a £400 buy in. The event is Betfair’s favoured “Terminator” format where a percentage of each buy in is used as a bounty which goes to the player who knocks each […]

Ladbrokes To Buy Betdaq For €30 Million

The largest bookmaker in the UK, Ladbrokes, has agreed to buy Global Betting Exchange Alderney (GBEA) for €30 million. GBEA owns the world’s second biggest betting exchange, Irish-based Betdaq. The bookie will also take a 10 percent stake in TBH Guernsey, which provides technology to GBEA, for €4 million with an option to buy it […]

NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship Day 1 Results

The NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship has returned for it’s eighth running this year. Once again, 64 of poker’s best players and brightest stars have turned out for this no-limit hold’em heads-up shootout invitational event. After a long day of play, the first round is complete and only 32 players remain. Here is a look […]

Card Player Adds More Regional Poker Pages

Last month we announced the addition of regional poker pages to our website. Since then, we recently launched pages for Oklahoma, Mississippi, Connecticut, Ohio and Arizona — and more locations are still on the way! Each page features news, daily tournament listings and casino Twitter updates specifically pertaining to a poker hotspot in the United […]