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A man who flushed $2.7 million worth of fake chips down a New Jersey casino toilet during a poker tournament has been sentenced to five years in prison, prosecutors said. Christian Lusardi, 43, of North Carolina, had pleaded guilty in August to …

The Eureka Poker Tour ant the European Poker Tour will literally invade the Atrium Prague Poker at the Hilton from December 5-16, while open-face Chinese (OFC) poker lovers will get the opportunity to play their favorite game in the second-ever OFC …

For his current scandal, Lusardi admitted to using counterfeit chips in a poker tournament at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City in 2014. After discovering the police were onto him, he flushed additional counterfeit chips down the toilet in …

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 …

The 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event final table — a $10,000 buy-in event — is set for Nov. 9 at the Rio in Las Vegas. For fans of Texas Hold 'Em, it's the Super Bowl of poker. On Sunday at the Albany Jewish Community Center, a charity event …

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A poker player is going to prison for bringing millions of dollars in counterfeit chips to a tournament and then breaking the plumbing when he flushed them down a toilet to hide the evidence. Not exactly a royal flush. A judge on …

The Card Player Poker Tour Hollywood Park National Championship of Poker $500 no-limit hold'em $150,000 guarantee main event kicked off with a bang Oct. 22, bringing in a Day 1A field of 101 players. Adam Volen bagged a massive chip lead over the …

But before his house was raided, Lusardi, it seems, wanted to make a name for himself in the exciting world of professional poker. He headed up to Atlantic City for the 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open. And as an illegal craftsman would, he brought more …

The 33-year-old from Gaithersburg, Maryland came up in the poker world and racked up more than $600,000 in online poker tournaments, along with another $70,000 in live tournaments, but DFS has been much less of a grind for Fisher in the past year with …

This thought experiment might help you to get your head around a proposed legal action by law firm Maurice Blackburn that plans to use Australian consumer law to argue that poker machine operators are engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct to …

Josh Beckley and Thomas Cannuli are rising young stars in the professional poker world. They are also South Jersey natives who knew from an early age that playing poker was what they wanted to do for a living. Ironically, both are among the nine …

Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that a North Carolina man was sentenced to state prison today for bringing hotel_200x200 millions of dollars in counterfeit poker chips to Atlantic City to use in a poker tournament at the Borgata Casino.

MUNCIE — A suspected methamphetamine dealer allegedly confessed after he was busted that he did it for poker money. Delaware County police say they made an undercover purchase of $700 worth of crystal meth from Spelmon "Chico" Allen III on …

Hosting its second Card Player Poker Tour event in two years, the Hollywood Park Casino series $500 no-limit hold'em $150,000 guarantee main event begins Oct. 22 and lasts until Oct. 25. The main event will consist of three starting days with 30-minute …

What would normally have been an excruciating defeat resulted in a record payout for some lucky poker players last week at Dakota Dunes Casino. The Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority's Dakota Dunes Casino, located just 20 kilometers south of …

A local poker tournament last weekend raised over 1400 dollars for cancer care in the community. It was the second year for the event held in honor of longtime resident Annabelle Baker, who passed away in 2012.

In other words, online poker won't be legalized via a stand-alone measure. According to Payne, the DFS industry doesn't want to be shut out of Pennsylvania like it was just recently in Nevada, so there are ongoing talks on how to make that possible …

When the Division of Gaming Enforcement cleared the path for PokerStars to return to the United States in late September, the long-term prospects of the New Jersey online poker market immediately took a turn toward the positive. As for the industry's …