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Head Games: Awkward Stack Sizes And Crucial Spots

Craig Tapscott: What’s the most awkward stack size to play and when during tournaments? Elio Fox: I have found the most awkward stack size to be between 10-15 big blinds pre-ante. In order to effectively accumulate chips with this stack size, it is important to not make the mistake of open shoving all of your […]

Academic Pens Anti-Online Gaming Op-Ed For Roll Call

John Warren Kindt, an academic and a senior editor and contributing author to the United States International Gaming Report, recently penned a piece for Roll Call, entitled “Internet Gambling Will Cripple World’s Economic, Financial Systems”. In the op-ed, he makes arguments which go against the recent piece by former Nevada Gaming Control Board Chairman Mark […]

Iowa Gov. Wants Smoking Ban In Casinos

Radio Iowa reported that Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is hoping that state lawmakers eventually send him a proposal to ban smoking in state’s casinos. Currently, smoking indoors is prohibited at all other establishments in the state. “I just think in terms of fairness, we have a law that’s designed to protect people’s health having clean […]

Man Gets 30 Years After Casino-Winnings Robbery

An Illinois man with a criminal history, who robbed a then-college student of some of his casino money in a parking garage this past spring, was sentenced to 30 years in jail, according to The News-Gazette. He was convicted in December. The amount involved in the crime was $2,500, though the gambler had $23,000 in […]

Utrecht Series of Poker Gets Underway

The Utrecht Series of Poker gets underway today, Monday January 21, at Holland Casino in the central Dutch city of Utrecht. The week-long festival, formerly know as Dom Classics, is set to attract players from all over northern Europe and includes a €2,100 buy in main event, a €1,080 no-limit hold’em freezeout and a €220 […]

PartyPoker Premier League Is Back

Hot on the heels of last week’s announcement that the Big Game was returning to TV screens this year PartyPoker has upped the ante with the news that the Premier League will return for its sixth renewal this spring. The $125,000 buy in event is set to run from March 17 to 23 at London’s […]

Estrellas Poker Tour Madrid Starts Monday

Season four of the PokerStars Estrellas Poker Tour gets underway today Monday Janaury 21 at Casino Gran Madrid, Madrid, Spain. The week-long festival features a €1,000 + €100 buy in main event with two day 1s starting Wednesday and running until the final table on Sunday. The main event sees players start with 20,000 in […]

Poker Question And Answer: Daniel Buzgon

Daniel Buzgon played some solid poker in 2012, with more than $275,000 in live tournament winnings, and a consistent pattern of cashes. Five career titles, 154 career cashes, and more than $2 million in winnings are no small feats in the poker world. Buzgon is hoping to continue the productive play, whether it be in […]

Three Irish Poker Open Packages Guaranteed Tonight

Paddy Power Poker is guaranteeing three Irish Open packages worth €3,200 in its weekly €160 + €16 buy in satellite tonight Sunday, January 20 at 8 p.m.. Each package consists of a €2,250 seat into the Irish Open main event, €395 for five nights accommodation at the Burlington Hotel where the event is being held […]

A Poker Life: Bracelet Winner Brent Hanks

For a few years, it looked like Brent Hanks would follow his father and sister into the education field. The upstate New York native spent his first three years out of college teaching grade school, loving every second of it, but ultimately, something was lacking. Hanks had a passion for poker, a passion that had […]

Euro Poker Tweets of the Week

The last week saw some the usual array of big winners and big losers in poker while an unusual poker tour was announced and some big names were invited. The day before Dimitar Danchev won the PokerStars Carribean Adventure he tweeted prescient and slightly unnerving instruction to his opponents: Keep calm and pass me the […]

New Jersey Still Waiting On Internet Gaming Decision

Another week went by and poker players, as well as Atlantic City, still await a decision from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on an Internet gaming bill that currently sits on his desk. Late last month, state lawmakers rushed a bill through the legislature. Gov. Christie has had a bill that would legalize online poker […]

List Released For NBC Heads-Up Invitational

The list of poker players for the 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship was released Friday. Some of poker’s biggest names will be at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Jan. 24 to compete in a single-elimination bracket. The bracket for the 64 entrants will be determined, at random, the evening of Jan. 23. Here’s […]

Patrik Antonius Returns To Full Tilt Poker

Patrik Antonius, one of the most profitable players ever on Full Tilt Poker, has returned to the software for some high-stakes online poker action. According to HighstakesDB, Antonius is up more than $11.5 million lifetime on Full Tilt. Only Phil Ivey, with more than $19 million, has fared better on the site. However, since returning […]

Sky Poker Doubles Freeroll Guarantees This Weekend

Sky Poker is doubling its freeroll payouts this weekend to help snowed in poker players chill out through the cold snap. From today Friday January 18 until Sunday January 20 five poker freeolls each day will have their guarantee doubled and Sky Poker will add two new £100 guaranteed freerolls. The full schedule of events […]

Casinos Austria Poker Tour Seefeld Starts Today

The Casinos Austria Poker Tour 2013 gets underway today with the first of the Big Four festivals in Seefeld. For the next 10 days poker players from Austria and beyond will battle on the felt over 13 events, the centerpiece of which will be the €2,000 buy in no-limit hold’em main event taking place from […]

New Boss At PokerStars And Full Tilt Poker

The Rational Group, owner of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, has appointed Ravi Askenazi as chief operating officer. The Israeli, who comes with an impressive track record at Playtech where he was also COO and a board member, will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Rational Group brands. Rational Group chief executive officer, […]

Louisiana Casinos Win $2.4 Billion In 2012

The Associated Press has reported that commercial casinos in Louisiana scored about $2.4 billion in gaming revenue in 2012. Last year’s figure was about $2.37 billion. The rough breakdown reportedly was Harrah’s New Orleans with about $338.9 million, the riverboats with more than $1.6 billion and race track casinos with about $405 million. For comparison, […]

Latest Issue Of CP Magazine Now Online

The latest edition of Card Player Magazine is now available online and features Joseph Cheong. Cheong, a former member of the WSOP November Nine, has continued to dominate the competition in live poker tournaments all over the world. The 26-year-old could have done anything with his college degree, but decided to pursue a career as […]

Rhode Island Could Raise Its Legal Gambling Age

Rhode Island could raise the legal age to gamble from 18 to 21. A bill introduced into the state legislature last week would increase the age for “any facility where there is a pari-mutuel system, casinos or slot parlors.” House Bill No. 5032 would also provide penalties, including fines and loss of a driver’s license, […]

Gilbert To Snag Majority Stake In Detroit Casino

Dan Gilbert, Cleveland Cavaliers owner, Quicken Loans founder and casino developer, has reportedly agreed to acquire a majority interest in Detroit’s Greektown Casino-Hotel. Gilbert’s Ohio-based Rock Gaming has also been involved with Nevada-based Caesars Interactive Entertainment for a possible future of online gaming. Deadline Detroit has more on the story. Gilbert is reportedly interested in […]

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 […]

Pennsylvania Has Better Year Than New Jersey

For the first time ever, Pennsylvania has reported greater casino revenue numbers for an entire year than neighboring New Jersey, home to Atlantic City. Pennsylvania gaming officials announced Wednesday that casinos statewide took in $3.16 billion from gamblers. New Jersey reported $3.05 billion a week ago. Pennsylvania’s figure is a 4.4-percent gain from 2011. Atlantic […]

PartyPoker Big Game Set For Return

The PartyPoker Big Game is set to return to TV screens later this year. The 7th edition of the popular cash game TV show will be filmed in Vienna on March 22. However the format will see a significant change from a continuous 48-hour cash game to just 12 hours. The game will start with […]

French Online Poker Declined In 2012

French online gaming regulator ARJEL is learning the hard way that you cannot squeeze poker players and operators too much or you will kill the goose that laid the golden egg. In 2012 the poker market contracted despite poker tournament activity rising 21 percent. Cash game ‘bets’ fell five percent resulting in an overall decline. […]

UK Poker Player Convicted of £740 Million Fraud

Achilleas Kallakis, a Greek businessman based in the UK who was well known on the high-stakes poker circuit, has been convicted of defrauding banks of £740 million and sentenced to seven years in prison. The 44-year-old used the money, obtained with forged guarantees from a Hong Kong company, to get loans which exceeded the price […]

Woman Pleads Guilty To Defrauding West Virginia Casino

A woman now faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to defrauding the Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races. 29-year-old Rebecca Hill of Queens, New York used a counterfeit credit card to obtain cash advances from the casino in 2010. The plea agreement between Hill and prosecutors requires her to pay $31,000 […]

Poker Strategy With Ed Miller: Losing With Style

Here’s something that’s true for darn near every regular small stakes no-limit hold’em player. They don’t lose enough. “What?” You say. “Ed, you’re nuts! I lose all the time. I’m trying to lose less, not more.” Trying to lose less, unfortunately, doesn’t work. If that’s your goal, you’re doing it all wrong. Instead of trying […]

Poker Enthusiast Convicted Of $1.2 Billion Fraud

Greek poker enthusiast and businessman Achilleas Kallakis has been convicted of defrauding lenders out of $1.18 billion, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. He reportedly spent extravagantly on high-end items. He has about $350,000 in career poker tournament earnings. According to Bloomberg, the 44-year-old was known as “The Don” on the poker circuit. Kallakis and a co-conspirator are […]

Arizona Tribe Secretly Planned Casino In Violation Of Pact

The Tohono O’odham Nation is in hot water with the state of Arizona and other Native American tribes over a secret plan to acquire land for a casino near Glendale in the early 2000s, a time when tribal leaders agreed to limit the number of casinos in the area. Voters approved Proposition 202 in 2002, […]