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Shaun Deeb Leads PCA $25,000 High Roller Final Table

The final table is set in the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em high roller. This event drew a record turnout of 204 entries, building a prize pool of $4,998,000. After two long days of play, a stacked final table of eight players remains to battle it out for the title and the […]

Michigan Governor Rejects Racetrack Gambling Machines Bill

On Thursday, Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder declined to sign a bill that would have allowed racetracks to install Instant Racing gambling machines. The pocket veto essentially killed the bill, which expired the next morning. Snyder stated that the reason he opted not to sign the piece of legislation is because of a constitutional amendment […]

Canada Leads BetVictor Club January Poker League

The first BetVictor Free Play Poker League of 2013 is well underway and at the one-third of the month behind us Canada’s “Cyan-Vestage” holds a slim lead over the Netherlands “kwibijoy”. The Canuck scored three top 20 finishes in the last couple of days to retake the lead. Ukraine is again showing its mettel with […]

Jerry Wong Leads PCA Main Event Final Table

The final table is set in the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event. A total of 987 players turned out for the 10th-anniversary running of this massive event at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in The Bahamas, building a prize pool of $9,573,900. Now only eight remain to battle for the title and the first-place […]

Tournament Players Need A 'Lack Of Fear'

Carter Phillips took down an impressive total of $751,468 in 2012, with a steady diet of WSOP and WSOP Circuit events. After six years in poker, he says he may not have the drive to play full-time poker, but it certainly isn’t because of lack of results. Phillips boasts over $3.6 million in career winnings, […]

GUKPT £100,000 Champion of Champions Freeroll Saturday

The final event of the 2012 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour season gets underway today Saturday January 12 at G Casino, Luton where just over 100 GUKPT main and side event winners return to play in the £100,000 Champion of Champions freeroll. The amount of starting chips players receive in the two-day no-limit hold’em tournament depends […]

PPA To Focus On State-Level Efforts In 2013

After the feds failed to act on the issue of online gaming in 2012, many in the industry will now focus on state-level efforts for online poker sites. One of those groups is the Poker Players Alliance, who released a statement this week on the shift for 2013. John Pappas, executive director of the grassroots […]

Ben Sulsky Down More Than $1M In 2013

After winning the most in the online poker world in 2012, Ben “Sauce1234” Sulsky is down more than $1.2 million to start this year, according to data from HighstakesDB. A lot of his losses have come to Viktor Blom. The Swede took Sulsky for a ton earlier in the week, and then Sulsky got some […]

Sign Up For £10,000 New Player Freeroll At Sky Poker

Sky Poker is offering every new player at the site entry into a £10,000 New Player Freeroll on February 8. To qualify for this monthly event players need simply play poker at the site any time January. The £10,000 freeroll appears in the freeroll section of the tournament lobby from the 1st of the following […]

Sam Trickett Seeks New Poker Sponsorship Deal

British poker pro Sam Trickett is back in the market for a sponsorship deal. Europe’s top all-time earning tournament player, who last summer won $10 million as runner up in the Big One for One Drop tournament at the World Series of Poker, has signed a management and marketing deal with Poker Royalty. The deal, […]

Helsinki Freezeout 2013 Poker Festival Underway

In a week when Barry Greenstein said Finnish poker players were the best poker players per capital in the world it may be advisable for mere mortal players to avoid Helsinki as the Freezeout 2013 festival swings into gear for the 18th time. With one €200+20 no-limit hold’em rebuy event already done and dusted there […]

New York Governor Backs Three-Casino Plan

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday during his State of the State address that he’d like to see three commercial casinos upstate, a local NBC affiliate reported. No gambling operation would be constructed in New York City under the proposed plan. WGRZ wrote: “Cuomo’s announcement is a change from what he and the Legislature […]

Atlantic City Casino Revenues Fall To $3.05 Billion

Since 2006, Atlantic City’s casino industry has been on the steep decline — and it just had another poor year from its brick-and-mortar gambling operations. In 2012, the area’s 12 properties won $3,050,695,869 from gamblers, which marks an eight-percent decline when compared to $3,315,939,476 from 2011. For comparison, Macau brought in $3.54 billion in the […]

Nevada Could Turn To Partnerships For Web Poker

Nevada is looking to legislatively authorize its governor to perhaps one day enter into partnerships with other states in order to create liquidity for online poker sites. The efforts during the upcoming legislative session, which begins Feb. 4, will be at the request of gaming regulators, as well as Assemblyman William Horne, who was behind […]

Viktor Bloms Gives $500K Back At Poker Tables

Viktor Blom was on a mammoth upswing to start 2013, winning more than $4 million in just over a week. However, over the past 24 hours he gave back $500,000 of those profits. The plunge on Full Tilt Poker came in a rematch against Ben Sulsky, who recouped some of this losses to Blom from […]

Las Vegas Strip Gaming Revenues Plunge 12.8 Percent

Nevada’s casinos, statewide, experienced a 11.08-percent fall in gaming revenue in November when compared to the same period in 2011. The state’s Gaming Control Board released a monthly win report Thursday morning. Total win for Nov. 2012 was $782,626,620. Licensees reported $880,127,660 in Nov. 2011. Clark County, home to Las Vegas, dropped 12.99 percent. Strip […]

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 […]

Blue Square Poker May Be Closed

Blue Square, the Rank Plc-owned online sports betting and poker brand which once sponsored the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, may be closed. It’s parent company said in a statement today that Blue Square remained loss-making and it was shifting its focus to its casino brands including Grosvenor and Mecca. “The (Blue Square Bet) business operates […]

New Version Of PartyPoker Coming Soon

bwin.party today issued a pre-close trading update where it outlined its plans for PartyPoker over the coming months. The company said it was adjusting its acquisition model, following the end of a major affiliate deal recently, and planning a new version of PartyPoker following the migration of bwin players to the site at the end […]

Two Firms Receive Online Gaming Approval In Nevada

Lottomatica Group, which plans to be on the technology side of things for Nevada online gaming, received the OK by the Silver State Gaming Control Board on Thursday. The company now goes to the Gaming Commission later this month to receive a license. Lottomatica has two units involved in the commercial gaming industry — GTECH […]

Florida Committee To Look At Sweepstakes Cafe Regulation

While card rooms in Florida continue to flourish and the debate continues for the addition of destination casino resorts, the state turns their attention to the issue of storefront internet cafes, which have began offering computerized games of chance for patrons to gamble on. The games, which are very similar to slot machines, operate in […]

Mississippi Casino Begins $100 Million Renovations

The Isle of Capri Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi has begun their $100 million transformation into the Golden Nugget Casino. The dilapidated casino, purchased by Landry’s in late November, has begun renovations to its 720 guest rooms and suites. Additionally, the Faraday’s restaurant will become a Morton’s Steakhouse and a Party Pit, Rush Lounge, Lillie’s Asian […]

2013 PCA Main Event Draws 987 Entrants

In 2013, the 10th annual running of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $10,300 no-limit hold’em main event has continued it’s tradition of being one of the largest and most well-attended $10,000 buy-in outside of the World Series of Poker main event. This year 987 entries built a total prize pool of $9,573,900. A total of 144 […]

Viktor Blom Winning Big This Year On FTP

Over the past eight days, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom has gone on an upswing reminiscent of his rise to fame in the fall of 2009. As of Wednesday morning in the United States, he was up just over $4 million this year on Full Tilt Poker, according to data from HighstakesDB. i am on the sickest […]

Martyn Frey Wins Dusk Till Dawn Deepstack

The €300 buy in Dusk Till Dawn New Year Deepstack no-limit hold’em tournament attracted a large turnout last weekend to the Nottingham club with 264 entries on day 1A and 463 on day 1B. This secured the guarantee of £150,000 and sailed well beyond creating a prize pool of £218,000 – around the level of […]

Brit Jake Cody Joins Team PokerStars Pro

Triple crown winner Jake Cody has joined Team PokerStars Pro. The former PKR pro from the UK was announced as the latest signing in the Bahamas where he’s playing the PCA. Cody, who has a World Series of Poker Europe Heads Up bracelet, a European Poker Tour Deauville main event title and World Poker Tour […]

Russian Law: Gambling Addicts Ruled Incompetent

Legislators in Russia have adopted amendments for a new law that will rule those suffering from gambling addiction as incompetent, allowing the government to restrict an individual’s rights. If a gambler is found to be incompetent, relatives may seek guardianship and subsequently, control over personal finances. Guardians are then given the responsibility of managing income, […]

Peter Jetten Wins PCA Open Face Chinese Poker Event

Open-face chinese poker is spreading like wildfire around the poker tournament circuit, quickly becoming the diversion of choice for those not in events. For the uninitiated, poker author Jennifer Shahade wrote an introduction to the game for Card Player that details the basics of the game and how it swept through the poker community. At […]

Strategy: Hand Ranges With Mohsin Charania

Mohsin Charania started his poker career just like most every other poker player his age. After seeing Chris Moneymaker win the World Series of Poker main event in 2003, he started playing in some small-stakes home games in college. Early success in those home games at the University of Illinois snowballed into success in local […]

Maryland Casinos Take In $378 Million In 2012

Maryland had a strong year in terms of revenue from its existing casinos, but all eyes are on the state’s upcoming expansions in gambling. Maryland’s three casinos brought in $378 million during 2012, the Examiner reported. State voters legalized table games and approved additional casinos in a November referendum. MGM is a likely suitor for […]