by Card Player News Team | Published: Dec 20, '24

Gamblers at Holland Casino, home of the Master Classics of Poker, will be seeing double next year, as the state-owned operator adds an extra zero to its roulette tables. The Holland Casino group is struggling financially in the face of worsening market conditions, caused by reduced footfall, increased costs, the legacy of COVID, and a […]

by Joe Mattia | Published: Mar 24, '22

A couple from the state of Mississippi has been accused of cheating at roulette at a Pittsburgh casino. According to a report from Trib Live, Shaun Benward, 33, and Denielle Derohan, 42, are both charged with theft, conspiracy, and five counts of perpetrating fraudulent schemes while gaming at Rivers Casino. They had not been arrested […]

by Steve Schult | Published: Aug 12, '20

Massachusetts gaming regulators will hear arguments Thursday morning about whether to bring back roulette, craps and poker to the two casinos that offer the games. According to a MassLive report, Encore Boston Harbor and MGM Springfield have asked the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to restart the games. When the state’s three casinos were allowed to reopen […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Feb 26, '18

It was his largest tournament score in more than three years, but that didn’t stop poker pro Jake Cody from putting it on all black. On Sunday at the partypoker UK Poker Championships, Cody outlasted all of his competitors to win the £2,200 “high roller” event for £42,670 ($60,000). Cody captured the trophy and a […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: Apr 20, '17

Is roulette making a comeback? Revenue from the casino game in Nevada was $38.6 million in February, up nearly 60 percent year-over-year, according to figures from state gaming regulators. And that’s even with one less day because 2016 was a leap year. Over the past 12 months ending Feb. 28, roulette revenue of $361.8 million […]

by Paul Oresteen | Published: Dec 10, '25

Scott Seiver’s career as a professional poker player was seeded early in life, learning gin and bridge from his grandparents before he even attended kindergarten. His grandfather taught him to bid his own bridge hands at five, and he played quarter-ante poker at his parents’ kitchen table weekly through middle school. The New York native […]

by Art Parmann and Justin Young | Published: Jul 09, '25

The poker world really took notice of Ben Lamb in 2011 when he finished third in the World Series of Poker main event for more than $4 million. It was the perfect way to cap off a summer where he also won the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha championship for $814,436, and finished runner-up in a $3,000 […]

by Sean Chaffin | Published: Jun 25, '25

Brock Wilson found his calling early. It was 2008, and the poker boom had somehow reached his middle school in New York. There was a brief phase where he was fascinated by basketball, followed by guitar lessons, skateboarding, hockey games, and the baseball team, but nothing stuck like poker. “I kind of never shifted away […]

by Lucy Rokach | Published: Nov 02, '06

Who knows what Russian roulette is? Is it that game (almost exclusively applicable to the male of the species) in which, for a wager, a fruitcake puts one live bullet in a gun, spins the barrel, points it at what's left of his brains, and pulls the trigger? Most definitely not! In poker, Russian roulette […]

by Blaise Bourgeois | Published: Apr 25, '25

Sleazy. Grim. Desperate. Card rooms can sometimes have a foul energy about them that gets painstakingly exhausting, even to the seasoned pro. But on this particular Friday night, the poker room at the Grosvenor Birmingham Hill Street Casino was a place of magic. The stakes were small, just £40. But this game wasn’t about winning […]