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Odegard wins 2014 POY title
Arnold WarnerJan 10, 2015
By Arnold Warner It seemed like it couldn’t be done, but in the final month of The Cardroom’s 2014 NorCal Poker Tournament Player of the Year contest San Jose’s...
Shooting Star & Rolling Thunder return in March
Raymond T. AkersJan 10, 2015
By Raymond T. Akers To Northern California poker players, March is World Poker Tour month. The WPT returns for the 19th annual Shooting Star tournament at the Bay 101...
Crowning a new POY
By Randall Rapp December is never much of a month for traveling, but one fun trip I can always count on is a visit to the “home” casino of our latest Player of the...
Heart vs. head
By Kenny Smith I hear poker players make a common excuse for a hand that they lose and why they lost. They call a big river bet, knowing that they are behind in a hand...
The Cardroom “occupies” Oakland
By Paul Giambroni There’s a particular street in a neighborhood known more for protesters than poker players that has always intrigued me. That street would be...
Pai Gow Poker
Pai Gow Poker (also called Double Hand Poker) is an Americanized version of Pai Gow (in that it is played with playing cards bearing poker hand values, instead of Pai...
5th Annual Atlantis All-In Poker Series coming in March
Atlantis Casino Resort Spa will host the fifth annual Atlantis All In Poker Series from March 19 to 29, a 31-event tournament series featuring $300,000 total in...
Capitol adds new tourneys for 2015
Starting in January Capitol Casino is adding new weekend poker tournaments to their schedule to supplement their first and second Saturday tournaments. The first...
Casinos remain closed
Barbara EnglerJan 10, 2015
By Barbara Engler In the last issue of The Cardroom we reported that Casino Royale in Sacramento and Chukchansi Gold Casino in Coarsegold had both been closed by...
Thunder Valley schedules major events
WPT California Swing Kickoff The Poker Room at Thunder Valley Casino Resort will ring in 2015 with a schedule that includes two major tournaments in the month of...