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PokerStars And 888 Get German Poker Licenses

PokerStars and 888 are among the first tranche of online gaming operators to be awarded licenses by Schleswig-Holstein to offer online casino games including poker. A further 18 applications have applied to the Interior Ministry to receive permission to operate in the German state, the only one to allow online betting. The licenses will be […]

bwin Poker Leaves Ongame Network

bwin.com poker players are now part of the Party Poker player pool after the sites merged liquidity on the back of bwin.party’s sale of the Ongame Network. A blog at bwin.com, which now offers late registration, Fast Forward Poker, and custom avatars, said, “We’re back! and this time with a larger player pool, even bigger […]

Sam Razavi Takes Third in World Poker Tour China

The UK’s Sam Razavi has finished third in the €1,500 buy in World Poker Tour National China main event in Sanya. The event attracted 542 players including Phil Hellmuth, David Chiu and Johnny Chan. The Blackbelt Poker pro and Asian Poker Tour player of the year rounded off a phenomenal 12 months which saw him […]

Casino Company Lobbies Against Casino Plan

Casino owner Onex Corporation, which has gambling interests in the United States and Canada, does not want a casino to be approved for downtown Toronto. The Toronto Star reported that the firm has been lobbying to prevent the city from saying OK to the casino idea, which has garnered interest from the likes of MGM […]

More Casinos Doesn't Mean More Gamblers

A study conducted by the University of Iowa has determined that an increase in the number of casinos does not necessarily mean there will be an increase in the overall number of casino patrons. “It seems society reaches a saturation point beyond which additional gambling opportunities won’t capture more people,” said Donald Black, Psychiatry Professor […]

Former NV Regulator Argues For Fed iPoker

Mark Lipparelli, former chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, is out of the business of crafting regulations, but he’s still involved with the collective push to eventually legalize online poker on the federal level. On Tuesday, an opinion piece from Lipparelli was posted on Roll Call. While at the helm of one of the […]

A Poker Life: Former Weeds Producer Matt Salsberg

Four years ago, Matt Salsberg, executive producer and writer for the hit series Weeds on Showtime, wrote a seemingly innocent line of dialogue for guest star Albert Brooks, who played main character Nancy Botwin’s estranged and degenerate father in law, Lenny Botwin. “Where are you going,” asked Shane, Nancy’s youngest son. “Paris,” said Lenny. “If […]

Yann “yadio1111” Dion Wins FTOPS XXI Main Event

Yann “yadio1111” Dion from Canada has won the Full Tilt Online Poker Series XXI main event for $453,229. The $600 + $40 buy in tournament attracted 4,766 entries creating a prize pool of $2,859,600, far in excess of the $1.5 million guarantee. “yadio111” and runner up “CSWAMI” struck a deal ensuring the runner up would […]

People’s Poker Tour Prague Underway

The People’s Poker Tour Prague is underway at the King’s Casino in the Czech capital. Seventy-three players entered day 1A of the €1,500 + €150 buy in event on Monday December 17 including U.S. pro Faraz Jaka who seemed thrilled to have discovered the tournament: Playing most hilarious tournament right now in Prague, €1,500 people’s […]

Marvin Rettenmaier Nears Euro POY Title

Marvin Rettenmaier is almost certain to win the Card Player European Poker Player Of The Year title, securing his place at the top of the tree with an impressive victory at the European Poker Tour Prague High Roller event the Czech capital last weekend. With a current total of 4,130 points and lying third in […]

New Jersey Votes On Online Gambling Legislation

PokerStars potentially could be one step closer to an American return, thanks to some people in power within New Jersey pushing for a new law that they say could help the state’s beleaguered gambling industry and economically depressed Atlantic City. As one lawmaker predicted to Card Player, the New Jersey online gambling bill passed the […]

WSOP Europe Moves To Paris, France

The World Series of Poker — a part of Caesars Entertainment Corp. — announced Monday that its 2013 European tournaments will be held just outside of Paris, France. The 2013 rendition will be held Oct. 11-24 in the town of Enghien-les-Bains, less than 10 miles from Paris, at Casino Barrière Enghien-les-Bains. The 2012 WSOPE was […]

Smith Within 60 Points Of POY Leader Merson

Dan Smith continued his incredible year on the tournament circuit in 2012 by winning a €5,000 no-limit hold’em six-max turbo side event at the European Poker Tour Prague festival, topping a small but tough field of 42 players to earn $89,039 and 240 Card Player Player of the Year points and climb to within 60 […]

Sorting Out The Game's Unwritten Rules

Most 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 […]

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 Dec. 17th through the 23rd. Head to our tournament […]

Marcel Luske Wins Sunday Warm-Up

Dutch poker pro and Team PokerStars member Marcel Luske has won the Sunday Warm-Up though he initially walked away with the worst of a four-handed deal. Luske, who is primarily known as a live poker player, beat 3,667 opponents in the $215 buy-in game including Mickey “mement_mori” Petersen who finished sixth. The final four players […]

PokerStars Snowfest Austria Main Event Monday

After another successful jaunt to Prague PokerStars takes to the Alps in Austria for a €1,100 buy in Snowfest main event which gets underway today at the Concord Card Casino in Hinterglemm. The Snowfest main event, which has two day 1s and runs until Friday, sees players start with 25,000 in chips and a 45-minute […]

A Look At News From Around The Web

Here’s a look at the headlines for this week in the gaming business world. Holyoke Mayor Nixes Casino Plans For City Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse was elected in part because of his anti-casino platform, but the 23-year-old stunned his supporters last month when he announced that he was negotiating a deal to bring a casino […]

Strategy With Ed Miller: Stop Paying Them Off

When I talk to players who are struggling to win, I find one specific bad habit common to nearly everyone — paying off way too much on the river. If you have this habit and fix it, your winrate will improve considerably. A student recently brought me this hand. It was a $1-$2 hand played […]

Ramzi Jelassi Lifts European Poker Tour Prague Title

Ramzi Jelassi from Sweden has won the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague main event taking down €850,000 for topping the 856-strong field in the Czech capital. Jelassi started the final table as chip leader and took three hours to dispense with his heads up opponent Sotirios Koutoupas. After his victory in the €5,300 buy in […]

Marvin Rettenmaier Wins EPT Prague High Roller

German tournament phenom Marvin Rettenmaier has emerged victorious in the 2012 European Poker Tour Prague €10,300 no-limit single re-entry high roller, earning €365,300 and 600 Card Player Player of the Year points. This was Rettenmaier’s fourth title of 2012, and it saw him overtake Kyle Julius for the third-place spot in the POY standings with […]

Ausmus: 'Bit Harder To Go Back And Grind Cash'

Jeremy Ausmus is no stranger to the game of poker, nor is he a stranger to winning. But this year, Ausmus achieved something that most poker players only dream of: Final-tabling the World Series of Poker main event. Ausmus won $2,156,616 by taking fifth in the poker world’s center stage — a feat that also […]

Irish Poker Open Side Events Announced

The Irish Poker Open 2013 side event schedule has been released by sponsor Paddy Power Poker and sees the number of tournaments grow from seven to 10. New in the schedule are a €200 + €25 Irish Open Mini Main Event and a €500 + €60 sixhanded.pot-limit Omaha tournament. Spokesman for the company, Paddy Power, […]

Viktor Blom Wins Nearly $1 Million This Week

Despite getting crushed on Thursday at $300-$600 no-limit hold’em, Swedish poker player Viktor “Isildur1” Blom still managed to win about $950,000 over the past seven days on Full Tilt Poker, according to data from HighstakesDB. He’s reportedly still down close to $2 million lifetime on the software. During this upswing, Blom quickly beat Tom “durrr” […]

Federal Web Poker Plan Dead For 2012: Report

For those Christmas-spirited poker players who want online poker back, the holiday season will once again deliver a lump of coal. Online poker hopes for 2012 are over, and early 2013 isn’t looking good either, according to reporting out of Capitol Hill by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The American Gaming Association is still engaged in […]

Poland Heads December BetVictor Club Poker League

It’s almost half way through the December free play poker league at the BetVictor Club and the top 10 leaderboard has taken on a very different hue from last month. Then Romania and Bulgaria dominated, now there are eight countries challenging for the lead which is currently held by Polish player “kejsi180” who is joined […]

bwin.party To Offer Legal Poker In Belgium

bwin.party has announced a deal with Belgian casino operator Belcasinos which will see it offer online poker, sports betting and casino games in the country. Belcasinos is owned by France’s Partouche group. bwin.party, which had been blacklisted by the Belgian Gambling Commission and whose chief executive Norbert Teufelberger was questioned by Belgian authorities last month, […]

Poker Declines 18 Percent At Betfair

Betfair plc, the UK-based online betting exchange, saw poker revenue fall 18 percent between August and September 2012 to £4.5 million from £5.4 million a year earlier. Second quarter 2012/13 revenue was also down four percent on the first quarter. Overall in the first half of the company’s financial year poker revenue was down 11 […]

Buy CP Holiday Subscription and Get a Free Gift

Right now, if you order a gift subscription to Card Player magazine for the holidays, we’ll give you your choice of a free gift. Choose between Barry Shulman’s book 52 Tips For No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker or six free issues of Card Player Magazine. Subscriptions start at just $39.95 for one year (26 issues) or […]

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 […]