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Ongame Launches Android Poker App

bwin poker comes to Android mobile devices this week as Ongame launched a new app to join its iPhone poker platform which has been available since January. Berthold Kao, bwin.party’s product manager, said, “Android was always the next step for us after launching the world’s first real-money poker app for iPhone six months ago. The […]

PaddyPower.com Goes Best Price On Eoghan O'Dea For WSOP

Bookmaker PaddyPower.com has opened its World Series of Poker betting market and is going best price 5/1 about fellow Irishman Eoghan O’Dea. The company has made chip leader Martin Staszko 4/1 while O’Dea is joint second favourite with Ben Lamb who has made his fourth WSOP final table of the year. The market looks like […]

Miha Travnik Wins WPT Slovenia

The second main event of the World Poker Tour’s Season X schedule saw a local poker pro take down his first WPT title in Slovenia. Miha Travnik, a 20-year-old playing in his first major live tournament, relied on an aggressive poker style to overcome a series of chip deficits to win the main event and […]

AGA's 2011 Hall of Fame Class

Earlier this week the American Gaming Association (AGA) announced its Gaming Hall of Fame class for 2011. The list of three includes Sheldon G. Adelson, chairman of the board and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp.; Blue Man Group, one of Las Vegas’ best-recognized headliners; and Charlie Palmer, a world-renowned chef with restaurants in gaming […]

A Look At The November Nine

Put this on your website. Grab the code! The 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event now has it’s final nine competitors, but they’ll have to wait over 100 days before coming back to the Las Vegas to determine a champion. The November Nine will return to play out the final table between November 5-7 […]

Tax Targeting Of Italian Poker Players Continues

The Italian tax authorities have moved to the next stage of their ongoing Operation All In which is targeting the earnings of poker players in the country says Tax-News.com. The Italian Revenue Agency and Guardia de Finanza (financial police) are now homing in on the earnings of poker players on offshore media such as on […]

Miha Travnik Wins World Poker Tour Slovenia

Miha Travnik has won the World Poker Tour Slovenia. The local boy beat 140 opponents at Casino Portoroz to pick up $144,399 (€102,700) in the €3,300 buy in main event. Travnik entered the heads up dual 3:1 down in chips against Vincenzo Natale and the chip lead swung backwards and forwards over two hours until […]

Poker Revenue Up 58 Percent At 888.com

888.com has seen its business to consumer (B2C) poker revenue rebound strongly after several quarters of decline with revenue up 58 percent in the second quarter of 2011 to US$13 million from US$8 million a year earlier. The company said this was, “due to the success of the Poker 6 platform". The number of active […]

Normandie Casino August Event

The Normandie Casino, located in Gardena, California, will host a special $10,000 guarantee Player Appreciation Tournament on Sunday, Aug. 28. Players can qualify with only 25 hours scanned during the month of August. However, there is another option to grab a seat at the special event with buy-in costing only $160 on the day of […]

Wynn Accepting Main Event Bets

The Race and Sports Book at Wynn Las Vegas is now accepting wagers on the $10,000 World Series of Poker main event to be held November 5–7. Wagers can be placed on each of the final nine players to win the event or on the top two finishers (quinella). “This is a great event for […]

Cash Game Poker Launched in Italy

Online poker took another step forward in Italy this week with the long-awaited launch of legal and regulated cash games. Previously online poker operators could only offer tournament poker. The Ongame network was one of the first to launch with bwin and GDPoker (Gioco Digitale) brands along with Playtech and PokerStars. Paolo Di Feo, Southern […]

November Nine Poker Betting Market Launched

Irish bookmaker Boylesports.com has launched an “outright winner” betting market on the November Nine with chip leaders Eoghan O’Dea from Ireland and Martin Staszko from the Czech Republic joint favourites at 9/2. Elsewhere the chasing pack are headed by Phil Collins and Ben Lamb at 11/2 while Badi Bounahra of Belieze is the outsider at […]

Place Bets On Full Tilt Poker's Return

Irish-based bookmaker PaddyPower.com has opened a cheeky betting market on whether or not Full Tilt Poker will offer real money games on July 27 – the day after it’s hearing with the Alderney Gambling Control Commission. While its not great news for Full Tilt’s European players, the bookie believes it’s a 1/8 shot that there […]

WSOP Main Event: November Nine Set

After eight days of play and nearly 72 hours of cards, the 2011 World Series of Poker has officially reached the November Nine. Leading the way into the four-month hiatus is the Czech Republic’s Martin Staszko, who has a slight advantage over Ireland’s Eoghan O’Dea. The final table will be a truly international affair, with […]

Playtech Poker Revenue Down 32 Percent

Playtech, the Israeli online poker software developer and network operator, today reports poker revenues down 32 percent to $5 million in the three months to June 2011. This compares to €7.3 million in the same period last year. It’s also 12 percent lower than the first quarter of 2011 when revenue was €5.7 million. Over […]

A Poker Life: Allen Bari

Allen Bari has one of poker’s sharpest minds. The problem is that he knows it. Bari has been described by his peers as cocky, brash and even angry. He’s well aware of his reputation… he just doesn’t care. The recent World Series of Poker bracelet winner has nearly $3 million in tournament earnings, but he […]

Elio Fox Wins Bellagio Cup VII

The Bellagio Cup VII $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event came to a close last night at Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada. The tournament attracted a total of 224 players, which created a prize pool worth $2,272,800. The champion of the tournament is Elio Fox from New York City. He took home the top prize worth […]

WSOP Main Event Down to Unofficial Final Table

You can follow along with Card Player’s level-by-level live reporting throughout the day. We will bring you updates until the November Nine is set. There are now just 10 players remaining in the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event. After one more elimination, the field will be down to the official members of the […]

Calling With A Really Bad Hand

This strategy column, and many like it, are featured in every issue of Card Player magazine. Subscribe today to get 26 issues delivered to your home each year! In the late stages of a tournament, you may find yourself with a short stack. Usually, this happens when you have just lost a big pot to […]

Redbet Acquires HeyPoker

Redbet Gaming today announced it had acquired HeyPoker.com, a Scandinavian and Eastern European facing online poker, casino, and betting site with 37,000 customers. HeyPoker.com, part of the OnGame network, made SEK2.7 million (€290,000) profit in the first quarter of 2011. The deal was a part cash, part share deal and much of the current management […]

This Poker Life -- Dermot Blain Part II

In part II of this interview Blain speaks about life after Macau, the Chad Brown Poker Series, and where he sees himself down the line. Check out part I to find out about the Irishman’s beginnings in poker. Catch up on part I here. Rebecca McAdam: Did your life change much after Macau? DB: Yeah […]

WSOP Main Event: Day 7

Day 7 is in the books at the 2011 World Series of Poker main event and there are now just 22 players remaining to continue the fight to the final table and the top prize of $8.7 million. The chip leader going into the eighth day of action is Anton Makievskyi, who bagged and tagged […]

Lars Bonding Survives to Day 8

Veteran tournament grinder Lars “Dsavo” Bonding had been one of the best online players in the world over the course of his career, until April’s Black Friday shut down the major online poker sites. Vegas-based Bonding has had to put his computer on standby, and as a result, has already prepared for moving his family […]

A Conflict of Interest in Poker?

With just 41 players in the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event, David Sands sits next to his girlfriend of six years, Erika Moutinho at the featured ESPN table. This situation raises a few questions, especially considering the fact that Sands has a good chunk of Moutinho’s action moving forward. What happens if Sands […]

Earn Extra Income on DraftStreet

Attention fantasy sport and poker players! DraftStreet.com is letting its players win thousands of dollars in a way that has many parallels with online poker. Read below to see what the elite daily fantasy sports site has been up to: Poker Concepts in Daily Fantasy Sports The guys over at DraftStreet are really onto something […]

$5K Rebuy Event at Bellagio Today

Those looking to get in one last high-stakes tournament for the summer can look no further than the Bellagio, which is in the middle of their Bellagio Cup VII Main Event. To give players one more opportunity to win big, the tournament staff has decided to add a $5,000 no-limit hold’em rebuy event to it’s […]

Chris O'Donnell Wins UK & Ireland Poker Tour Brighton

Brighton, England hosted the lagest ever PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour main event at the weekend with 603 ponying up the £500 buy in (down from €1,000 last year) creating a prize pool of £292,455. The event was won by online cash game specialist Chris O’Donnell who scooped £71,100 for his victory. The final […]

Meet WSOP Leader: Ryan Lenaghan

Ryan Lenaghan holds a chip lead of 2,885,000 over his next closest competitor after day 6 in the 2011 World Series of Poker main event. His stack of 12,865,000 towers above the rest of the field and it gives him 214 big blinds going into day 7. Lenaghan has been playing poker seriously for four […]

2011-12 WSOP-C Schedule Released

The eighth season of the World Series of Poker Circuit has been announced and it will feature 16 tournament stops between September 2011 and May 2012. The first tournament will be in a new location for the tour at the Horseshoe Casino in Bossier City, Louisiana September 8-19. The tour will take players from California […]

WSOP: Main Event Day 6 Recap

Day 6 is in the books at the 2011 World Series of Poker main event and there are now just 57 players remaining in the hunt for the top prize of $8,711,956 and poker immortality. The day began with 142 players and during the course of the day the bustouts continued to march players out […]