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Ten Days To Qualify For Irish Poker OpenThe PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Open 2011 is now less than two weeks away, and although the countdown is on, there is still time to qualify. On top of that, all those who qualify via the site will be included in this year’s €100,000 Sole Survivor competition. First off, tonight, Sunday, Apr. 10 at 8 p.m. there […]
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WPT: Hollywood Poker Open Day 1
Day 1 at the World Poker Tour Hollywood Poker Open no-limit hold’em main event attracted a field of 92 players and by the end of the night just 57 remained. The overnight chip leader is red-hot Ali Eslami with 147,000. Just last week Eslami won the World Series of Poker Circuit Western Regional Championship and […]
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NAPT: Mohegan Sun Day 1
Day 1 at the PokerStars North American Poker Tour Mohegan Sun no-limit hold’em main event attracted a field of 387 players and by the end of the night just 230 remained. The total prize pool for the tournament is $1,764,330 and the eventual champion will take home $450,00 at the final table, which will take […]
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EPT: Final Table is set in Berlin
The final table is set at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin no-limit hold’em main event. Day 4 welcomed back a field of 24 players who were in the money and by the end of the night just eight final-table contenders remained. Here is a look at the chip counts for tomorrow’s final table: Ben […]
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Q & A with UB Pro Scott Ian
Team UB Pro Scott Ian has a successful music career as a member of the heavy metal band Anthrax, but he also finds time for his poker interests. In only a few years of playing the game seriously, Ian has found the time to cash in a World Series of Poker main event and take […]
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Euro Poker Tweets Of The Week
This week Twitter featured a combination of comments streaming from the European Poker Tour Berlin, some breaking news, and a few funny conversations back and forth between stars of the poker world. To set things off, let’s jump from Europe to Brazil for an important announcement. On Apr. 3, Maria “Maridu” Mayrinck tweeted, “After 5 […]
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Croatian Lottery Now Offers Complete Poker Solution
PokerTek Inc., a gaming company that develops and distributes electronic table game solutions, has announced that its PokerPro tables have been selected as the Croatian Lottery’s preferred electronic poker solution. These automated poker tables now allow the Croatian Lottery to offer a complete poker solution in its five casinos throughout the country. PokerTek’s President, James […]
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European Poker Tour: Berlin Day 3
Day 3 at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin no-limit hold’em main event welcomed back a field of 119 players who were in the money and by the end of the night just 24 remained. The overnight chip leader is Daniel Pidun from Germany with 2,429,000. Other notables still in the hunt include Team PokerStars […]
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Card Player's News in Poker Training
This week at CardPlayer.com we bring your awareness to some of the brand new tools, lessons, articles, and more, available at the leading online training sites. Check out this week’s happenings on the following sites: This past week at Bluefire Poker, lead instructor Phil Galfond discusses the action at four $5-$10 pot-limit Omaha tables on […]
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Mini-UBOC Kicks Off Sunday
UB will run an all-new Mini-UB Online Championship starting this Sunday, April 10. The week-long series will deliver 27 low-stakes buy-in events that will provide $650,000 in guaranteed cash and prizes. Kicking off the stand-alone Mini-UBOC lineup is a $50+$5 buy-in $50,000 guaranteed no-limit hold’em event on Sunday at 2:05 p.m. ET. The highlight of […]
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Live Poker: Busy Weekend Preview
Even with the EPT Berlin championship coming to a close, there will be no shortage of big buy-in main events to keep an eye on this weekend, as three other main events are set to kick off, representing the WPT, NAPT and WSOP Circuit. WPT Hollywood Poker Open The $10,000 WPT Hollywood Poker Open main […]
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Full Tilt Poker Adds Private Tournament Feature
Full Tilt Poker has announced that it will allow its players to create their own tournaments via the brand new Private Tournament feature Along with giving players a choice of many different game types, such as shootouts, cashouts, rebuys, or Rush Poker, Full Tilt is providing the following options for tournament modification: Select from a […]
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Poker Pros to Visit American Troops in Middle East
This spring, professional poker players Howard Lederer, Annie Duke, Tom Dwan, Phil Hellmuth, and Huck Seed will travel to the Middle East to spend time with America’s troops as part of the first-ever USO and Armed Forces Entertainment poker tour. Designed to bring some entertainment and fun to the soldiers, the five pros will spend […]
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Head Games: The Importance of Position
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! Sometimes it’s hard to get a straight answer from a professional poker player. Ask three players a question, and you’re liable to get three different answers. Why? […]
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Full Tilt Poker España Qualifiers Underway
Qualification for the second leg of the Full Tilt Poker España series is underway now at FullTilt.com. Players can qualify for the Gran Casino, Barcelona €1,500+€150 buy in main event in three separate ways including the main weekly final this Sunday: Tuesdays at 21:45 CET: $200+$16 buy-in, three prize packages guaranteed Thursdays at 21:45 CET: […]
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European Poker Tour: Berlin Day 2
Day 2 of the EPT Berlin main event has ended with the bubble bursting, leaving only 119 of the 353 players who started the day. Fabrice Soulier, of France, has catapulted himself into the chip lead with a stack of 1,079,400, which makes him the only player with more than a million in chips. Andrey […]
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Bodog WSOP Main Event Qualifiers
Bodog is giving its players a plethora of opportunities to qualify for this summer’s World Series of Poker main event. The online site is running qualifiers starting as low as $1.10 for the $10,000 buy-in world championship of poker. The 2011 WSOP main event prize package includes the buy-in, $2,000 for travel, access to a […]
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Profile on José 'Girah' Macedo
Portuguese poker pro José “Girah” Macedo is still a high school student, but he is already trying to compete in poker’s most expensive contest — Full Tilt Poker’s Durrrr Challenge. In late March, Macedo Tweeted to Tom “durrrr” Dwan: Are you taking any more Durrrr Challenges after [Dan] Jungleman [Cates] and Patrik [Antonius]? Dwan responded […]
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bwin.party's Shares Slump Due To German Tax Proposal
It’s only been a few days since bwin Interactive Holdings and Party Gaming plc officially came together and started trading on the London stock exchange, but pulses have already been set racing at the newly merged bwin.party due to a proposed new betting tax regime in Germany. According to the Financial Times, it has been […]
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Swedish Supreme Court Rules On Poker
The Swedish Supreme Court has ruled that poker is both a game of skill and a game of chance, it just depends what the format is according to TheLocal.se. Judge Göran Lamberth explained the long-awaited ruling to the media saying, “We have found that the main tournament and its side tournaments were not random chance […]
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Irish Poker Open Last Chance Saloon Gets Underway
PaddyPowerPoker.com launches its Last Chance Saloon satellite schedule for this year’s Irish Open tonight Thursday, Apr. 7. The Saloon features various ticket-only satellites with seats guaranteed for the upcoming festival running for the next 14 days and those who take part in six or more will be automatically entered into a Very Last Chance invite-only […]
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EPT: Day 1B at Berlin
Day 1B of the PokerStars EPT Berlin no-limit hold’em main event was more crowded than the previous day of action. After 315 players entered on day 1A, an additional 458 entrants took a seat to play on day 1B. Play came to a close for the second starting day field with only 202 players still […]
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UB to Give Season Pass to HPT
UB.net recently announced that they were teaming up with the Heartland Poker Tour as a presenting sponsor and now they want to send one of their players to the popular series for free. Beginning April 11th, UB.net will host four daily freerolls during the week. Anyone who finishes in the top 50 in any of […]
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PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker Returns
The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) will return on May 8, offering 38 different events and a guaranteed prize pool of $45 million. Each tournament has a low, medium, and high buy-in level, making the 2011 SCOOP available to all bankroll sizes. The 114 total number of tournaments, which generated more than $63 […]
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Karr Wins WPT Vienna High Roller
The WPT’s first trip to Vienna saw a familiar face take down the €10,000 buy-in high roller event. American pro McLean Karr picked up where he left off from a successful 2010 in which he claimed well over $1 million in live tournament winnings by winning major events such as the WPT Bay 101 Shooting […]
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Galfond Crushing on Full Tilt Poker
One of the largest downswings of Phil “OMGClayAIken” Galfond’s career is finally over. Galfond was in the midst of a $2 million slide in late February, but since March he has completely turned things around, winning about $2.5 million on the virtual felt. Even though Galfond has been on fire, the biggest winner over the […]
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Betfair Offers World Series of Poker Packages
BetfairPoker.com has launched its 2011 World Series of Poker qualifiers with $425,000 worth of packages up for grabs. Players can qualify for one of a dozen WSOP freerolls by generating just 50 player points and win a $5,700 package which covers travel, accomodation and two WSOP events. Alternatively players can take part in six, six-shooter […]
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Unibet Poker Open In Full Swing
There is so much going on at Unibet.com at the moment as its Open really starts to heat up. Firstly, the second Unibet Open Online event of season three is coming in May, and qualifiers are already running for the fourth stop of the tour, which takes place on live felt in Barcelona. Those hoping […]
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Paradise Poker Tour Madrid Qualifier Tonight
The ParadisePoker Tour returns to Madrid at the end of this month and online poker players can qualify for the main event tonight at ParadisePoker.com. Online qualification for the €550 main event takes place tonight, Wednesday April 6 at 6:30 GMT (7:30 GMT) and is a €22 no-limit hold’em rebuy. The ParadisePoker Tour Madrid €550 […]
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European Poker Tour: Berlin Day 1A
Day 1A at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin no-limit hold’em main event attracted a field of 315 players and by the end of the night just 151 remain. The overnight chip leader is Cristian Dragomir with 205,500. McLean Karr is also near the top of the chip counts with 145,800. Karr is having a […]
