Oct 24th — The best way to win a big pot with a flopped nut flush and deeper stacks is to fastplay. Action from inferior hands is more common early …

The Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) stop in Sydney came to a close in the wee hours of Monday morning and after a long, 14-hour day, it was Scotland’s Gordon Huntly who emerged victorious. Huntly bested a field of 461 players, making this year’s ANZPT Sydney the second largest of the four that have been run.

If you’re both a poker fan and a horse racing fan, it doesn’t get much better than entering free and winning a $710 Buy-In/VIP package to 2012 Celebrity Derby Poker …

Alec Torelli’s latest blog focuses on the public’s perception of poker players. Disclaimer: The only reason I’m qualified to speak on these issues is I’ve made every mistake listed here

Musician Jimmy Buffett was awarded a gaming license at Thursday’s Nevada Gaming Commission hearing, but he didn’t headline the show.

On Sunday, Illinois became the first state to offer intrastate real-money gambling on the Internet.

GigaMedia, a 40 percent shareholder in Everest Gaming, saw its business unit Everest Poker report revenue down 31.5 percent to $7.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2011 compared to …

Season 5 of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) kicked off last week with the LAPT Chile National Poker Championship , the third time the LAPT has made a stop in Chile. Held at the Vina del Mar Casino and Resort , the $1,000 + $100 Main Event wrapped up Sunday with Aliro Diaz winning the final hand.

Here’s a look at the headlines for this week in the gaming business world. Atlantic City’s Revel Casino Breaks All The Rules Atlantic City’s new Revel Casino isn’t the typical …

The PokerStars European Poker Tour has moved on to Campione, Italy, a tiny town actually in Switzerland on the edge of Lake Lugano.

After less than two months on the table, a bill aimed to preemptively ban online gaming in the state of Utah was signed into law on Monday by the governor. …

There are tons of pros filling up the room today at EPT Campione. Sarah has the details on the pros who are sitting down, and who made it through Day 1a.

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 …

We’re in a good stretch right now in the European Poker Tour (EPT) .

A common piece of advice is to make all of your preflop raises the same size. The theory is that by always raising the same amount you guard against leaking …

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In this Card Player feature we are looking to provide our readers with a guide to some of the biggest poker events taking place in their area for the upcoming …

The Bovada Black Diamond Poker Open Championship Series is wrapping up this weekend with a $250,000 guaranteed tournament on Sunday, April 1,, at 4 p.m.

Chad Elie , one of the 11 men indicted by the Department of Justice on Black Friday, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud and operating an illegal gambling business in the United States. Elie, 32, was due to go to trial on April 9 on nine charges, including bank fraud, conspiracy, and violation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA)

Chad Elie , one of the eleven men named in the April 15th, 2011 “Black Friday” online gambling indictments, has pleaded guilty to one of the nine crimes with which he was charged.