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 …

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“Casino” is a word that originally meant “house,” though it has long been associated with pleasure. Casino restaurant designs are carefully constructed around the expectations of casino visitors to maximize the potential for profits.

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We’re in a good stretch right now in the European Poker Tour (EPT). March and April are the only consecutive months during Season 8 that both feature two tour stops, so there is pretty action to be had this spring. A couple weeks ago, Frederik Jensen grabbed his first ever major title at EPT Madrid; this week it’s EPT Campione, held at the Casino di Campione. Monday saw 178 players belly up to the tables for Day 1A of the €5,000 + €300 Main Event, with 107 still holding chips and qualifying for Wednesday’s Day 2.

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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 …

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Now, since everything is like the real casinos the online casinos have lot to offer for the bettors as well. There are different bookmakers who offer fixed-odds gambling via internet. Thanks to this, the gamblers can bet on the results of the games. Bet exchange is a relatively newer concept in this field. Here an individual can bet with another person. However, the house takes a small percentage of the commission.

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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. EST. The buy-in for this …

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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.

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If you’ve always wanted to be a poker pro, where someone else pays your entry fees to play in casino poker tournaments, your day has come! HogWildPokerLeagues.com, the original online …

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After a greuling heads up battle and being down to two big blinds at one point, PokerStars Team Online Mickey Peterson secured a victory for his native homeland. Read the rest of this entry »

Las Vegas-based NetEffect Networks, Inc has applied to be a class 2 service provider in a future Nevada online gaming industry that would begin with poker, according to information Card …

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Desert Nights Casino is game created around an Arabian Nights type theme, with mysterious colors and a great vibe. The site is owned by Deckmedia NV and a sister site Sloto’Cash which was established in 2007. The site is powered by Rival Gaming software group and brings players plenty of entertainment in a safe and secure environment.

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Day 4 is in the books at the 2012 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic Main Event. The day started with 54 players, but now only 18 remain, with Noah Schwartz at the front of the pack with 1.77 million. Card Player TV caught up with Schwartz after play came to a close.

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The European Poker Tour (EPT) Copenhagen Main Event wrapped up over the weekend with the 22-year old Dane Mickey Petersen taking the crown to the tune of 2,515,000 kroner or $444,595. Petersen bested the 70+ year-old Pierre Neuville during the heads-up portion of the final table. Neuville, nicknamed “Serial EPT Qualifier,” as this was his 23rd straight EPT event for which he qualified online, received 1,600,000 kroner ($282,843) and jumped to 4th on the all-time EPT points leaderboard.

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We absolutely enjoyed ourselves this week in Copenhagen. There was poker, shopping and even a little fun. Check it out. Read the rest of this entry »

The Dutch supreme court has ordered international online gambling operators, including online poker sites, to install software which blocks access to citizens from Holland according to DutchNews.nl. The ruling, which …

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Phil Collins opens up about his run at the 2011 WSOP Main Event and about how it’s changed his life. Read the rest of this entry »

Billionaire businessman Calvin Ayre and the online gambling enterprise he once owned have come under fire from the federal government. On Tuesday, federal prosecutors in Maryland unsealed an indictment against …

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