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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 […]

Partouche Poker Tour Reinstates €5 Million Guarantee

Players at the Partouche Poker Tour can feel vindicated today after a grassroots campaign, quickly adopted by the poker media, resulted in its parent company reinstating the original main event prize pool guarantee of €5 million. Yesterday the chairman of the group, Patrick Partouche, denied the event ever had a guaranteed prize pool of €5 […]

Everest Poker To Join iPoker Network

EverestPoker.com and EverestPoker.fr are to abandon their proprietary software platforms and join the iPoker network, home to prominent online poker networks such as Paddy Power, Titan Poker and William Hill. In a statement today the BetClic Everest Group, which recently completed its acquisition of the remaining shares of Everest Gaming from GigaMedia, said the move […]

Freerolls, Money Added And More At Boyle Poker Tonight

Poker players can get their weekend off to a flying, and hopefully profitable start, with Boylepoker.com and its comprehensive Friday evening tournament schedule. For just over $30 including registration fees players get $2,000 added, a freeroll, a no lose tournament where their buy in is refunded when they are knocked out and a no risk […]

Antonius, Lieu Join International Stadiums Poker Tour

Patrik Antonius and Liz Lieu are the latest big name poker stars to sign on as ambassadors for next year’s International Stadiums Poker Tour in London. Antonius has this week been playing the controversial Partouche Poker Tour main event in France with a ISPT patch. According to the ISPT website Antonius is, “Always looking for […]

Betfair Poker LIVE! Yalta Underway

Betfair Poker LIVE! returned for its first main event of the new season yesterday with a $1,650 buy in main event in Yalta in South Crimea by the Black Sea. The event has a $150,000 guarantee and two day 1s. Players start with $30,000 in chips and a 60 minute clock. Unfortunately Betfair is not […]

Casino: Wants Any 'Dumb Decisions Very Cheaply'

For ACEP Interactive — the latest Nevada casino business to receive its first round of regulatory approval to operate online poker in the state — starting with a free-play model in the coming months is about being able to “make dumb decisions very cheaply,” the company’s director of gaming development told Nevada regulators Thursday. At […]

Slot Machine Maker Gets Nevada Web Poker OK

On Thursday, Nevada’s three-member Gaming Control Board said okay to WMS Gaming Inc. being involved with the state’s upcoming intrastate online poker industry. The company will be a service provider and manufacturer, meaning that it will do business-to-business activity in the Silver State. Executives at WMS gave a brief public presentation on the company’s profile […]

CEO Cancels Partouche Poker Tour After Guarantee Fail

The Partouche Poker Tour guaranteed an ambitious €5 million prize pool for its annual main event in Cannes, France, but after only drawing a field of 580, tournament organizers found themselves on the hook for an additional €700,000. Instead of providing the players with an overlay, it appears that tournament officials have backpedaled, claiming they […]

Action Gets Juiced Up At Paddy Power Poker

PaddyPowerPoker.com is celebrating the it top tier iPoker status by hosting a whole month of giveaways this September. The recreationally-focused player pool will see more fun to be had for the average player seated at $1-2 and lower cash game tables, and $10 and lower sit ‘n’ go tournaments. Paddy Power, spokesman for the site, […]

More Poker Sites Blacklisted In Belgium

Belgium has expanded its blacklist of sites offering online poker adding Englsih bookmaker Betfred.com and a second William Hill domain. Also added to the list of sites which will be blocked by Belgian Internet service providers are Rivapoker.com and StarGames.com. Belgium is regulating its online gaming sector and offering licences to companies – including PokerStars […]

Sean Randall Lifts Dusk Till Dawn Deepstack Title

Sean Randall won last weekend’s Dusk Till Dawn £500 Deepstack event to take down the £110,000 top prize. The Nottingham card room guaranteed a £500,000 prize pool and 910 people took the plunge over three starting days leaving an overlay of £45,000. Randall got heads up with Gary Jones holding a 2:1 chip lead and […]

Steve Wynn: Never Sent Email In Entire Life

A legal battle — stemming from an alleged $2 million gambling debt and alleged execution threats — between “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis and international casino owner Steve Wynn is underway in a California court, ABC News reported. Francis and Wynn have been battling for a few years now, with the latest round tackling […]

Poker Strategy: Jonathan Little On Three-Betting

Jonathan Little has cashed for more than $5 million in poker tournaments over the past six years, with eight titles to his name including two World Poker Tour championships. Little was a student at the University of West Florida studying psychology when he picked up the game, at first playing with his friends and then […]

Player of the Year Update: Ivey and Steinberg Climb Rankings

The 2012 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by Lock Poker, is truly an international competition, with major poker tournament events naming champions in Macau, Los Angeles and Oklahoma this past week. Here is a look at the events that had the biggest impact on the POY race: WPT Legends of Poker Josh […]

Democrats Omit Mention Of Web Gambling

One week after the Republican platform called for a prohibition of online gambling, the Democratic platform simply made no mention at all of the issue. Tuesday marked the opening session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, where party members supported the recently released platform titled Moving America Forward. The 70-page document is […]

32Red Poker Down Five Percent In First Half 2012

Online poker revenue was down five percent at 32Red plc in the first half or 2012 compared to the first half of 2011. The company said “Revenues from 32Red Poker remain flat at £0.6m for the first half of the year (H1 2011: £0.6m).” Total revenue at the company was up 50 percent to £16.5 […]

GTECH G2 Offers Poker System As Tournament Prize

GTECH G2, the iGaming solutions provider, is offering a unique prize in an upcoming live freeroll for participants in an industry soiree – a complete play-for-fun online poker system. The unusual prize will be awarded to the organization with which the winner of the Great GTECH G2 Poker Tournament works. The event is open to […]

World Poker Tour Grand Prix De Paris Underway

The World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris festival is underway at the Aviation Club de France and players are anticipating the first televised European event of the season, the €7,500 buy-in main event. The no-limit hold’em freezeout main event kicks off on Sept. 10 and runs until Sept. 15. Players will sit down to […]

IGT To Give 1 Million In Play Chips

Registering for free poker via the website of Las Vegas’ Hard Rock Hotel and Casino will net you 1 million in play-money chips. The hope for the brick-and-mortar and International Game Technology, which will provide the platform, is that it will soon entice you to get out into the real world and gamble for real […]

Macau Gaming Revenue Rebounds In August

After a sluggish July that saw revenue in the world’s largest gambling destination grow by just 1.5 percent, the smallest since 2009, Macau’s casinos rebounded strong in August, bringing in $3.3 billion. The August numbers were the second highest ever recorded and represented a 5.5 percent increase. So far this year, Macau gaming revenue has […]

Phelps Denies Report Of $100K Poker Win

Michael Phelps, coming off six medals at the 2012 London Olympics, hasn’t taken a break from his competitive nature. According to a report from celebrity gossip outlet TMZ, Phelps was spotted playing poker in Las Vegas, Nevada this past weekend. Phelps reportedly won $100,000 in the game, an amount that the swimmer denied on social […]

William Hill Poker Offers 200% New Player Bonus

New players at William Hill Poker are now eligible for a deposit bonus of 200 percent, up to £1,250. In addition, new players will also earn an automatic entry into the weekly $1,000 new depositors freeroll. William Hill Poker delivers online poker at a superior level in the gaming industry, offering the best VIP Program […]

Casino Closes After 13,000 Gallon Aquarium Bursts

Early Sunday morning, a 13,000 gallon salt-water aquarium at Gulfstream Racing & Casino Park burst, flooding the second floor of the casino and forcing the property to close for repairs. The tank, which houses more than 100 tropical fish, including nurse sharks, is located in the center of the room. Water from the second floor […]

Gavin Griffin: Use Math For Good, Not Evil

The advent and proliferation of online poker in the United States before Black Friday made for more knowledgeable poker players overall. Games have gotten tougher, players more sophisticated. Almost everyone now, even the stodgiest of old timers, seem to understand that a math based approach to the game is vital. As with every bit of […]

UK & Ireland Poker Tour Newcastle Starts Wednesday

The fourth stop of season 3 of the PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) pulls into Newcastle on Wednesday, Sept. 5. The leg will be held in the Aspers Newcastle Casino, and action will get underway tomorrow at 6 p.m. (local time) with a £100 + £10 buy-in, no-limit hold’em sixhanded event. There will […]

Johannes Korsàr Wins Malmö Open Main Event

Johannes Korsàr has won the Malmö Open main event at Casino Cosmopol in the southern Swedish city of Malmö. The SEK15,000 + SEK700 (approximately €1,880) buy in main event attracted 103 players and 12 got paid including Ramzi Jelassi and Johan Storåkers. The payouts for this event were: 1: Johannes Korsàr (Swe) — 472,770 SEK […]

Casino Throws In Towel For $1.5 Million

On Friday of last week, a judge ruled that the Golden Nugget, one of Atlantic City’s 12 properties, will have to pay out a group of gamblers who beat the joint for $1.5 million during a faulty game of mini-baccarat, the Associated Press reported. Instead of appealing the decision, the casino’s owner, Tilman Fertitta, decided […]

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 September 3rd through the 9th. Head to our Tournament […]

Englishman Sam Razavi Wins APPT Melbourne

Englishman Sam Razavi has won the $5,000 buy in PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Melbourne main event. Razavi, who last year won the UK & Ireland Poker Tour Cork main event, took down AUS$326,125 (€267,539) for topping the 257-strong field. He got heads up with a 3:1 chip lead against Keith Walker and was crowned […]