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Chiab Saechao Wins First Bracelet of 2012 WSOP

The first World Series of Poker tournament of the 2012 summer series came to an end on Monday with Chiab Saechao, a casino employee from Visalia, California, coming out on top for his first gold bracelet and the $70,859 first-place prize. The $500 buy-in tournament, which was open to all casino employees, attracted a field […]

Four Nigerian Poker Players Shot Dead in Kano

Four poker players were murdered over the weekend in Kano, Nigeria. It was the second such attack in as many weeks after three other were killed the week prior by gunmen on motorcycles according to AllAfrica.com. Three of the players died at the scene, a poker room known as Majalisar Hamisu Gurgu at Gaidam near […]

BetVictor Poker in Euro 2012 Giveaway

With the much anticipated Euro 2012 football compatition just around the corner BetVictor Poker has launched a great free giveaway for poker players – Euro Winners – that could see them win an iPad, €55 in free bets and get their money back on ‘outright winner’ bets if favourites Spain win the competition. To take […]

Innovation Allows Four Poker Tables on One iPad Screen

SwitchPoker.com, the world’s first mobile poker operator, continues to extend its innovative approach to poker on the move with another first – players can now view four tables on one iPad screen at the same time. SwitchPoker already allows Android app users to view four tables at the same time and the iPad app makes […]

Hellmuth Likely To Play Million Dollar Buy-In

Eleven-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth will likely play in the $1 million buy-in event this summer, he told Card Player on Monday. If he does enter, the 1989 main event champion will have sold the majority of his action. “I guess I’m lucky,” Hellmuth said. “People have been texting me saying […]

Phil Ivey Enters First WSOP Event Since 2010

Phil Ivey, widely considered poker’s best all-around player, has made his debut at the 2012 World Series of Poker. The eight-time bracelet winner hasn’t played in a Series event since 2010, after deciding to sit out last year in the wake of Black Friday. Ivey took a seat Monday, around 1:30 p.m. local time in […]

Ed Miller: Turning Bad Games Into Good Games

Live no-limit hold’em games are getting tougher. There’s no doubt about it. Year by year, the regulars are getting a little bit sharper. The guys that used to come in and dump four buy-ins in two hours are fewer and farther between. And after Black Friday, there have been more online players in the games. […]

Matchbook.com Launches One Drop Betting Markets

Online betting exchange Matchbook.com has posted the first of this summer’s serious World Series of Poker betting markets opening five last longest match books for the $1 million buy in Big One for One Drop charity tournament. The markets for the July 1 tournament currently look like this: Daniel Negreanu to last longest: +102 Erik […]

888 Confirms €8.7 Million Spanish Tax Settlement

Online gaming operator 888 today confirmed it would make a one-off payment to Spanish authorities to settle its back taxes from January 2099 to May 2011. The payment – €7.4 million with surcharges and interest of up to €1.3 million – will come from 888’s €26 million in cash resources and should set the company […]

European Masters of Poker Bulgaria Begins

The European Masters of Poker makes its third stop of season four at Crystal Crown Casino, Sunny Beach, Bulgaria, from today May 28 to June 3. The main event, which starts with day 1A on Wednesday, sees the buy in dropped 30 percent to €700+€70 while the starting stack has increased 30 percent to 26,000 […]

WSOP Kicks Off With Casino Employees Event

With the announcement of “shuffle up and deal,” the first event of the 2012 World Series Of Poker officially kicked off on Sunday, marking the start of the 43rd annual summer series. Tournament Director Jack Effel, along with longtime poker dealer Richard Turnbull were on hand to deliver the famous words that traditionally kick off […]

Marvin Rettenmaier Wins 2012 $25,000 WPT Championship

Marvin Rettenmaier has won the 2012 World Poker Tour Championship $25,000 main event, after enduring a roller coaster heads-up battle. He captured the prestigious title, the $1,196,858 first place prize and 1,008 Card Player Player of the Year points. As result of this massive win, Rettenmaier has flown up the rankings to 12th place in […]

Preview of the 2012 World Series of Poker

The annual World Series of Poker looks to be a memorable one for some percentage of the poker community. Sixty one bracelets will be awarded at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, making May 27 to the middle of July the most densely packed time of the tournament year. The biggest headlines […]

Irish Winter Poker Festival Satellite Tonight

paddypowerpoker.com hosts its weekly Irish Winter Festival satellite tonight Sunday, May 27 at 8 p.m. Players can buy in directly to the €130 + 10 event or qualify through a variety of feeder satellites for just a few euro. The Irish Winter Festival main event is a €1,000 + €125 buy-in main event played between […]

More WSOP Fantasy League on Facebook

Hot on the heels of PKR’s World Series of Poker Fantasy League comes a Boylepoker Facebook app competition for this year’s marathon poker event in Las Vegas. Players can pick five poker pros from a list of 180 competing in this year’s Series which starts in earnest tomorrow Monday May 28 with a $1,500 buy […]

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 […]

PokerStars Wins Best Workplace Award

PokerStars, the world’s largest poker company, has been chosen as one of the best work places in the UK. The Isle of Man-based company employs 1,200 people and according to The Great Place to Work Institute it was the company’s robust employee benefits and rewards, strong professional development opportunities and a diverse workforce that helped […]

Poker Book Positively Fifth Street Gets French Edition

One of poker’s most enduring and lively books is to receive its first outing in the French language in June. Positively Fifth Street, or La Cinquième Carte, as it is known En Francais, by poker player and writer James McManus has been translated by Oliver Rohe and will be published by MA Editions. The company […]

Tom Marchese Wins $100,000 WPT Super High Roller

Tom Marchese has won the 2012 $100,000 buy-in WPT Super High Roller, topping Andrew Robl heads up to earn the $1,308,405 first-place prize and 600 Card Player Player of the Year points in addition to the prestigious title. This was Marchese’s first final table of the year, and it increased the 2010 Player of the […]

Illinois Drafts Major Changes to Online Gaming Plan

Plans for Illinois to oversee a state-run online gaming industry underwent major revisions Friday, as a third amendment to House Bill 4148 puts the business of running games in the hands of affiliates. An online poker platform would be developed within the state’s lottery and then could be licensed out to 16 casinos and racetracks […]

PokerStars Mum on Rumors of Nadal Signing

On Friday, rumors began circulating on social media that online giant PokerStars had inked a deal with Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal. The site’s head of corporate communications, Eric Hollreiser, declined to address the rumors and told Card Player that PokerStars has “nothing of the sort to announce.” There has been no announcement from Nadal’s […]

A Look At News From Around The Web

Here’s a look at the headlines for this week in the gaming business world. New Jersey Governor To Advance Sports Betting Proposal In an effort to turn around Atlantic City from its current five-year slump, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has announced that he will move forward with regulations to add sports betting to casinos […]

888 To Settle With Spanish Tax Authorities

888 will pay the Spanish tax man under $10 million in back taxes according to a Reuters report quoting a source close to the company. The move follows similar payments from bwin.party, Sportingbet and Betfair all of whom expect to receive a gaming licence in the country on June 1. The report suggests 888 has […]

World Series of Poker Fantasy League Launched

PKR has launched a World Series of Poker Fantasy Poker League on Facebook where fans can spend a notional $100 million. Participants can choose a team of eight players from over 180 of the world’s best and will earn points based on this summer’s 59 bracelet events in Las Vegas. Players can also create private […]

Robl Leads WPT $100K Super High Roller Final Table

Six players will show up to Friday’s 2012 World Poker Tour $100,000 Super High Roller final table, but only five will make the money. One player will have made the televised table of this six-figure buy-in event and walk away empty handed. The other five players lucky enough to survive the bubble are all guaranteed […]

Rettenmaier Has Monster Stack For WPT Final Table

Marvin Rettenmaier was one of the top tournament players in the world last year thanks to grinding out small scores. He could achieve the same status this year, but through a much different route. On Thursday, he positioned himself as the favorite to win one of the biggest events of the year. With 6.72 million […]

World Poker Tour $100K Buy-In Snags 34 Entries

Bellagio has long played host to some of poker’s biggest action, and this week’s $100,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Super High Roller has continued in that tradition. The event attracted 27 players, who bought in a combined 34 times. Those who ponied up the six-figure entry included Justin Bonomo, Andrew Robl, Dan Smith, Phil Galfond, […]

8th Annual Arizona State Poker Championship

This August, battle it out for the big title and a share of $1 million in the 8th Arizona State Poker Championships held in The Arena Poker Room at Talking Stick Resort. Registration is currently open. The tournament buy-in of $1,000+$70 provides 15,000 worth of tournament chips. There are unlimited entries. The prize pool of […]

'Poker After Dark' to Televise Unaired Cash Game

Poker After Dark will air a previously recorded but never-before-seen cash game starting on June 4, a source close to the show told Card Player. The $200,000 minimum buy-in includes Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius, David Oppenheim, Eli Elezra and David Peat. The cash game was previously slated to air during winter 2011, before […]

John Vorhaus: Stupid Suited Connectors

There’s a saying where I come from (the land, that is, of sayings I make up): “If you’re not slowly getting better, you’re slowly getting worse.” I was thinking about that saying the other day when I stumbled across a poker column I wrote almost exactly ten years ago. Here’s what I had to say […]