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At the start of October it came to light that anti-online poker supporter Chaffetz was seeking to replace the current incumbent, John Boehner. Having made his alliance with Adelson and his contempt for online poker clear at every attempt, news that …

Swedish poker pro Viktor Blom logged 17,000 hands over the past week and netted $1.3 million in winnings, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. Blom is now up nearly $4.4 million on the year on PokerStars, which has gotten him out of the red …

The GPL is an innovative league that will sort of turn poker into a sport. 12 teams, players to be chosen at a later date, will compete in a stadium setting over the course of 14 weeks. Players will earn salaries instead of money from each match, and …

Josh Parker led the nine players who advanced from Day 1B of the Card Player Poker Tour Hollywood Park National Championship of Poker $500 no-limit hold'em $150,000 guarantee main event. Day 1B drew a total of 88 players and Parker picked up a …

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 …