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Betsson to Buy Nordic Gaming Group for €65 million

Betsson Plc has announced its plans to purchase the Nordic Gaming Group which owns the Nordic Bet, Tobet and Trobet brands all of which offer online poker. The company will pay €65 million for the businesses of which €5 million will be in Betsson shares. Magnus Silfverberg, chief executive officer and president of Betsson, said, […]

Player of the Year: Collins, Baguley, Christensen Win

With a number of massive events looming on the horizon on both the World Poker Tour and the European Poker Tour, and the World Series of Poker just over a month away, things are about to get shaken up in the Card Player Player of the Year race sponsored by Lock Poker. The past week’s […]

Atlantic City Loses Over Casino Tax Assessment

Good news for Atlantic City’s casinos is bad news for the city itself. All 12 casinos, including the two-week old Revel Resort, have appealed their tax assessments from the past three years, claiming their properties aren’t worth nearly as much as the city believes. The assessments began in 2008, two years after the economic downturn, […]

EU Association Publishes Online Gaming Report

The European Gaming and Betting Association has published its manifesto for sustainable online gambling in the EU. The move comes as part of the EGBA’s contribution to the debate arising from the November 2011 European Parliament Report on Online Gambling in the Internal Market. The organization, which represents companies such as bwin.party, Betclic, Unibet, Interwetten, […]

Gutshot Leaves iPoker Network

Gutshot.com, the online poker room born out of London’s ill-fated Gutshot Poker Club in the late noughties, has left the iPoker network and joined two new networks – Merge and the little known Enet. The move comes ahead of the rumoured liquidity split in the iPoker network. Gutshot will not accept U.S. players although the […]

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown Starts Wednesday

The World Poker Tour returns for the second year to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. The WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown $10,000 main event will begin Wednesday, April 18th, and will continue until a champion is crowned on the 23rd. The event made quite a splash when it premiered on […]

MGM Hosting Grand Challenge Tournament Series

MGM Grand Poker Room is hosting its Grand Challenge Tournament Series from April 19 to May 6. The series will be run by tournament director Matt Savage. MGM Grand Poker Room offers 24 hours of non-stop poker action on 22 smoke-free tables. The room offers live poker games, daily and nightly tournaments, as well as […]

Gavin Griffin: Bluffing In Limit Hold'em

I made my first televised tournament final table in 2004. I was 22 years old and playing with some of the biggest names in poker. I got the chip lead late on day one in a huge pot with one of my idols at the time, T.J. Cloutier. I busted Johnny Chan and Phil Hellmuth. […]

Playtech To Enter Social Poker Market

Playtech, owner of the iPoker network, today announced it was planning to buy a business-to-business social gaming platform for €95 million from its leading shareholder Teddy Sagi. A non-binding memorandum of association has been signed pending a shareholder vote which is needed because of Sagi’s association with the deal. Playtech’s share price fell 15.25p to […]

Purple Lounge Owner Plans Poker Channel Takeover

Media Corporation Plc, owner of online poker and casino site PurpleLounge.com, today confirmed it was in “advanced discussions” to take over its parent company Gaming Media Group (GMG). GMG owns PokerHeaven.com and The Poker Channel. Its shares on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) were suspended this morning when the news was confirmed. AIM would deem […]

Robert Baguley Wins UKIPT Nottingham Main Event

Robert Baguley has won the PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour Nottingham main event taking down £210,400 for fininsing first of 1,625 players. The 60-year-old, normally a £20 buy in player, is a local at Dusk Till Dawn where the £700+£70 buy in event was held. It was the largest ever turn out for a […]

Rounders Creators Have New Film With Affleck, Timberlake

A new gambling story penned by the men who wrote Rounders is set to be filmed, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Screenwriters Brian Koppelman and David Levien will reportedly tackle the world of online gambling. The industry grabbed real-life headlines about a year ago when the three largest poker sites were shut down by the […]

Matt Glantz Q&A: Mixed Game Strategies

If you’d like your question answered by Matt Glantz, be sure to send your questions to matt.glantz@www.cardplayer.com. Question: Card Player columnist Michael Cappelletti once said that it’s okay to play non-nut draws in Omaha eight-or-better, as long as you are drawing for the entire pot. Is this more of a recommendation for when you can […]

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 April 16th through the 23rd. Head to our Tournament […]

Morten Christensen Wins WPT Vienna

Morten Christensen topped a field of 396 to take down the €3,500 ($4,560) World Poker Tour Vienna main event for a nice payday of $410,519 after qualifying online in a €300 satellite. The 27-year-old, who has been playing online for nine years and turned pro two years ago, beat Konstantin Tolokno heads up for the […]

Allan Peers Wins Smallest Ever GUKPT Main Event

Allan Peers has won the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Stockton but won only £11,000 after just 73 players turned up to play the £500+£50 buy in main event. It was Peers first live tournament. He decided to attend after he gave up tickets to see the FA Cup Semi-Final involving Liverpool. The total prize pool […]

2012 European Poker Tour Berlin Preview

The PokerStars European Poker Tour will hold its third ever main event in Berlin from Monday, Apr. 16 to Saturday, Apr. 21. As one of the most popular destinations on the EPT schedule, the Grand Hyatt in Berlin will be buzzing with some of the best international names as the €5,000 + €300 buy-in main […]

Alija Filipovic Wins Eureka Poker Tour Croatia

Alija Filipovic of Croatia has won the PokerStars Eureka Poker Tour Croatia taking down €42,700 after a two-way deal with runner up Mate Mecs from Hungary. Filipovic topped the 171-strong field in the €1,000 + €100 buy in event at the Golden Sun Casino in Zagreb and held a 3:1 chip lead over Mecs going […]

World Series of Poker Freeroll This Sunday

BetVictor Poker gets its World Series of Poker qualification action underway this weekend with the first in a series of four WSOP side event package VIP freerolls. There will be one WSOP side event 56 package worth $3,500 on the line at 8.30 p.m. (CET) tomorrow Sunday Apr. 15 and each Sunday for for the […]

Euro Poker Tweets of the Week

It’s been one of the busiest weeks in European poker so far this year and things got off to a rather hungover start with the Irish Open coming to a close on Easter Monday. The event saw some of poker’s biggest names make the trip to the Emerald Isle for the first time and it […]

The Indictments: Six Men Have Pleaded Guilty

U.S. Attorney Preet Bahara shocked the poker community by indicting 11 men associated with three major offshore poker sites. A year later, six of them have pled guilty in front of a federal judge, while five are still awaiting their day in court. Only about a month after Black Friday, payment processor Bradley Franzen pleaded […]

Black Friday: The Day That Changed Online Poker

A year ago, hundreds of thousands of online poker players in the United States woke up on what was later dubbed Black Friday to the Department of Justice cracking down on the alleged crimes of the major offshore operators. While the case (U.S. v. Scheinberg et al) is still playing out in federal court, many […]

Black Friday To Now: A Timeline Of Events

Black Friday caused a dramatic shift in the poker world. In addition to the drama of court cases, legislation for the industry became a more pressing issue both on Capitol Hill and in state governments. Some of the most well-known gaming companies around made noise in the wake of the Department of Justice crackdown on […]

Americas Cardroom to Host its Biggest Tourney

Americas Cardroom is gearing up to host the Liberty Quarter Million, a $250,000 guaranteed poker tournament this weekend on April 15 at 7:00 p.m. ET. The $200+15 buy-in tournament is the focal event in the “Liberty Weekends” tournament series which guaranteed $500,000 throughout the month of April. A spokesman for Americas Cardroom credited an aggressive […]

How Black Friday Affected Live Tournament Poker

The consequences of poker’s Black Friday rippled throughout the poker world in the subsequent year, changing the landscape dramatically even in areas of the game that weren’t as obviously connected to the fate of the online poker sites. One such area that has been changed in a number of ways was the live tournament scene. […]

Bet24 Poker To Leave Ongame in Rebranding Move

Bet24, the online gaming operator sold to Unibet earlier this week for €13.5 million has said that it will be rebranded as part of the move. This means Bet24 Poker, which had been building up a strong team of online poker pros in recent months, will be subsumed into Unibet Poker, moving from the Ongame […]

Online Players Struggle With Money In Limbo

Black Friday left a number of victims in its wake, most notably, the millions of U.S. players who could no longer play online poker from the convenience of their homes. The three online poker sites named in the indictment represented more than 70 percent of the U.S.-facing online poker market, and collectively averaged more than […]

Utah Gov. Pens Letter Against Federal iPoker Bill

The governor of Utah has sent a letter to two of the most powerful members of Congress to insist that online gaming not be legalized nationwide. Card Player received a copy of the letter dated April 4, 2012. Dear Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Reid: I am writing to ask you to oppose current proposals […]

30 Players Confirmed For $1 Million WSOP Event

On Thursday, Cirque du Soleil founder, high-stakes poker player and founder of the One Drop charity Guy Laliberté announced that 30 players have now committed to participate in the $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop at the 2012 World Series of Poker. The event is set to take place from July 1st – 3rd […]

Andrew Brokos: Falling In Love With Big Pairs

In the financial world, an often-repeated bit of advice is “don’t fall in love with a stock.” In other words, investors need to take in new information and constantly reconsider the way they value their holdings. No matter how good of a buy you expected a particular stock to be when you bought it, new […]