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In a previous article covering the winter meeting of the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States (NCLGS), we focused on the summit's keynote speaker, AGA President Geoff Freeman. Later at the conference, interstate iGaming policy got its own …

The LSOP Millions is coming to the Majestic Casino in Panama this March, but thanks to a revolutionary new concept, players won't have to invest the time, money and energy into traveling to the tournament without being assured that they are already in …

It is hard to put into words how terrible Gus Hansen was on Full Tilt Poker in 2013. He lost a staggering sum of around $8.4 million. To start 2014, he has already dusted off $698,000, according to HighstakesDB. He started off the year on a tiny …

Big things are in store for Season 5 of the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT). The tour recently added two new members to their pro team – Matt Kirby and Matt Alexander—and this will mark the first season PokerNews will be live reporting each of the $1,100 …

The era of licensed online poker is now upon us, but this doesn't mean that we are now in the clear and can look forward to nothing but smooth sailing from here on out. It started in Europe and now Nevada, Delaware, and New Jersey have all launched …

A press release earlier this week claimed that The Star Hotel and Casino in Sydney Australia would host the Royal Poker Challenge, a $1 million buy-in winner-take-all poker tournament on March 30th this year. However, Card Player learned that the …

John McNulty Harvey Vandeven and Timothy Miles still top the Card Player Poker Tour Season II leaderboard but 25-year old Jacksonville, Florida poker pro John McNulty is at the door with a chance to take over now that the second stop of the season has …

Trapping is a fundamental part of poker. While it is mainly utilized on a hand-by-hand basis, sometimes it's best to set up the ploy hours in advance. That is what I did to win the biggest poker tournament of my life. As a senior news editor for …

Since online gambling hit the Silver State on April 30th, the figure included only about two months of online poker action. Card Player was told by the Nevada Gaming Control Board that online poker revenues were negligible with respect to the fiscal …

CardPlayer.com, which hosts the largest and most comprehensive database of poker players and poker results on the Internet, recently unveiled a collection of tens of thousands of leaderboards that display top lifetime, geographic, and casino data for …

The “Royal Poker Challenge” claimed it will take place on Mar. 30 at The Star Hotel and Casino in Sydney and award a record-setting top prize of $50 million. When Card Player contacted the casino's poker room on Thursday the staff said that there wasn …

Today, partypoker kicks off the “Pokerfest: Micro Turbo Edition,” an 18-day online poker series packed with 50 inexpensive, fast-paced, multi-table tournaments and $50,000 in total guaranteed prize pools. The tournament series is exclusively for those …

Since the poker lobby truly got going in 2006 in response to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, the momentum has slowly but surely been in favor of legalization. This culminated in 2013 with three states — New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware …

In his youth, he recalls in his 1979 introduction to Herbert O. Yardley's classic The Education of a Poker Player, he had gone through “the most high-minded academic mill: a monastic public school, Oxford, Princeton, Harvard. I had read a vast number …

With initial revenue numbers for regulated online gambling in New Jersey coming in a bit lower than anticipated, market watchers are wondering if the industry will be able to bulk up enough in January to move in line with expectations. Current online …

The Los Banos Touchdown Club will host its third annual Texas Hold'em Poker Tournament on Jan. 18 at Pierre's Deli Banquet Room, 933 6th Street. Doors open at 2 p.m. and the first hand will be dealt at 3 p.m. Buy-in is $75 (food is included). Re-buys …

The Card Player Poker Tour is excited to announce a partnership with the Paddy Power Poker Irish Open. With a colorful history spanning more than three decades, the Irish Open is sure to add additional buzz and excitement to the CPPT, which is already …

Online poker has struggled mightily in France over the past few years, and a recent financial report released by the France's gambling regulator ARJEL showed that revenues took another significant hit in 2013. This week's report by the ARJEL revealed …