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WSOP Circuit To Make Florida DebutFor the first time ever the World Series of Poker Circuit will set up shop in the Sunshine State, where it will award ten WSOP Circuit rings during its two-week stay at the Palm Beach Kennel Club in West Palm Beach, FL. The tournament series will open on Thursday, February 17, with day 1A of […]
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DeucesCracked on Card Player
This week at DeucesCracked, coaches Chris “DeathDonkey” Vitch and “BigBadBabar” discuss shorthanded $5-$10 and $10-$20 limit hold’em on PokerStars in a 71-minute training video. The lesson, which is episode five in The Leap, explores the adjustments one must make in shorthanded play. DeucesCracked — which was founded in 2007 by Vitch, Rob Cole, Joe Tall, […]
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Viktor Blom Defeats Eugene Katchalov in Showdown
On Sunday, Team PokerStars Pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom defeated Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov in the fourth installment of the SuperStar Showdown. The four-hour match, which consisted of 2,500 hands played across four $50-$100 no-limit hold’em tables, ended in a win of $111,750 for the 20-year-old Blom. The largest hand of the contest was a $62,500 cooler […]
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Scott Clements Wins FTOPS $10K
On Sunday, Full Tilt Pro Scott Clements won FTOPS event no. 19 ($10,000 no-limit hold’em heads up) after remaining undefeated through an elite field of 128 players. Clements banked nearly $300,000 after a deal at the final match. Clements’ win, which was the largest online score of his career, brings his career earnings to more […]
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keyzerrr Wins PokerStars Sunday Million
You can check out the final results for Sunday’s flagship events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, UB, Absolute Poker, and Bodog below: PokerStars — Sunday Million Buy-In: $200+$15 Prize Pool: $1,739,000 Entrants: 8,695 1. keyzerrr — $255,807 2. pink_outs — $186,943 3. richiebro — $130,425 4. HCGrinder — $86,950 5. gtowneagles — $69,560 6. bubbahee — […]
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Poker Player Management Companies Join Forces
Two leading poker player management companies have announced they are creating a joint venture which will “dominate the Iberian and South American market” according to a statement released last night. Poker Icons and Hastoplay new joint venture means the companies now manage a combined total of over 55 poker players including 34 sponsorship deals with […]
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Something For Poker Lovers On Valentine's Day
For those of the single variety, or indeed those who just don’t buy into the day that’s in it, PKR.com are having an Anti-Valentines Special Premium Freeroll today at 8.45 p.m. (GMT). The buy-in is 1,000 PKR Points or a Premium Freeroll ticket and the prizes on offer include an Apple iPad, poker chip sets, […]
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55 Special At Victor Chandler Poker
Victor Chandler Poker has today announced its “55 Special” Share Scheme League, which will run every Tuesday for five weeks starting on Feb. 22 at 9 p.m. (CET). Players simply pay €10 and receive entry into five weekly €200 freerolls. A leader board will stretch across the five weeks with the top 55 players in […]
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UKIPT Nottingham Breaks UK Poker Record
The second stop of the second season of the PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour has broken the record for the largest number of players in a live tournament in the UK. The £500 buy-in event in Nottingham saw 478 players on day 1A and 580 on day 1B. A total of 1,058 created a […]
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UB Satellite to WPT LAPC
UB is sending at least three players to Los Angeles to be part of the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic later this month at the Commerce Casino. The online site will award the $12,000 prize packages in a $500+$30 satellite on Sunday, Feb. 13 at 5:05 p.m. EST. The annual L.A. Poker Classic is […]
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Bodog Blocks Data Mining
In an effort to appeal to the more casual online poker player, Bodog announced on Wednesday that they would be making an effort to block data mining software and sites that scrape information from their online poker room. The site is hoping that by restricting player tools, they’ll be able to somewhat level the playing […]
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A Poker Life: PCA Champ Galen Hall
Not many in the poker world could have predicted that Galen Hall, a part-time poker player and student, would win the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event, the largest tournament outside of the World Series of Poker. Hall himself was probably just as doubtful, considering the 24-year-old had only recorded one live tournament cash for $3,460 […]
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Latest Issue Of Card Player Europe Is Online
The February 2011 issue of Card Player Europe is now online and free and ready for your perusal. In this issue Card Player Europe takes a look at Victor Chandler Poker’s move to Entraction from iPoker, sits down for a chat with World Series of Poker Europe champ James Bord, grills Arnaud Mattern about a […]
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Tournament Trail Q&A: Tony Hachem
Tony Hachem has spent the last two years doing something that no other poker player in the world accomplished in that time. He won a Player of the Year award two years in a row. He took home the honors for PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Player of the Year for both the first […]
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Tournament Trail Q&A: Tony Bloom
Tony Bloom has made a lot of money doing a lot of different things in his lifetime. He is a renowned sports bettor in the United Kingdom and he is no slouch at the poker tables either. Bloom won the Aussie Millions main event in 2004, and he has finished as the runner-up twice in […]
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Online Poker Legislative Update
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Internet Poker Act of 2010 has been dead for nearly two months now, placing a hold on any chance of federal online poker regulation in the United States in the next year. Though there are reports that Rep. John Campbell has partnered with Barney frank to introduce a House bill […]
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This Past Week'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 week at Tournament Poker Edge, Charles “Hagbard Celine” Sizemore talks about tilt in a recent article on the training […]
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The Scoop: Justin Young
Justin “robert07” Young stops by for this week’s episode of The Scoop (sponsored by Full Tilt Poker) on Card Player TV. He continues his interview from part I last week. Check out his interview with Diego Cordovez and Adam Schoenfeld on Card Player TV, and you can hear him talk about his nearly $1 million […]
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Ladbrokes In Merger Talks With Playtech
British bookmaker Ladbrokes is reportedly in talks with Israli gaming operator Playtech, owner of the iPoker network. The merged entity would be worth £2.2 billion according to the Daily Telegraph which broke the story however Playtech’s current relationship with William Hill could prove a stumbling block analysts told the paper. Neiter company would comment on […]
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Betsson Poker Revenue Drops 19 Percent in 2010
Nordic gaming operator Betsson saw revenue from online poker fall 19 percent in 2010 to SEK106.7 million from SEK131.9 million in 2009 Poker accounts for 6.8 percent of Betsoon’s overall revenue, down from 10.1 percent in 2009, Casino accounts for 55.4 pecent and sportsbook 32.7 percent. Fourth quarter 2010 poker revenue amounted to SEK26.7 million […]
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Entraction Poker Revenue Down 27 Percent in 2010
Swedish gaming operator Entraction saw its online poker network revenue (gaming surplus) decline 27 percent in 2010 to SEK316.4 million (€35.8 million) from SEK435.7 million (€49.3 million) in 2009. Revenue dropped 24 percent to SEK81.7 million from SEK106.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. The company’s annual report stated that, “The growth of the […]
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UK & Ireland Poker Tour Nottingham Starts Today
The PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour has pulled into Nottingham today with the £500 + £60 buy-in main event beginning at noon. The event is taking place at the Dusk Till Dawn poker club, and is the second stop of the second season of the Tour with a guaranteed prize pool of £200,000. The […]
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Gus Hansen's Great Start to 2011
Gus Hansen has started 2011 just as he did 2010 — winning more than $2 million on the virtual felt. Despite last February also giving Hansen an upswing, his results went south from that point, and he finished the year in a massive hole. Hansen’s online career has been marked by vicious swings of this […]
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Peter Eastgate Returns To Poker
In this statement from 2008 World Series of Poker main event champion Peter Eastgate, he explains why he walked away from the game and why he is now choosing to return. He also addresses the sale of his WSOP bracelet to raise money for UNICEF. “Sometimes in life a person can feel lost and wake […]
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Alessio Isaia Wins World Poker Tour Venice
Anonymous took down the largest tournament ever to be held in Venice to become the first Italian to win a major WPT title, after topping a 523-strong field at the World Poker Tour Venice. They beat Hungaraian Szabolcs Mayer heads up for the first-place prize of €380,000 at the Casino di Venezia, which is reputed […]
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Full Tilt Poker Series España On Its Way
Players can begin qualifying for the Full Tilt Poker Series España from Feb. 14. The Series will feature a total prize pool of €1 million across four Spanish venues, with the opening event taking place at the Gran Casino in Madrid from Mar. 11-13. Full Tilt Poker will offer exclusive online qualifiers with packages worth […]
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Poker Tournament Organiser Cleared Of Assault
According to UK news site, News & Star, poker tournament organiser, Ken Johnston, has been cleared of assaulting one of the players at a charity event he hosted to help him raise money for his Mount Kilimanjaro charity climb. The player making the claim, Steven Nicholls, stated that he was punched seven times on the […]
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PokerStars Home Games Suspended In France
PokerStars has released a statement on its site giving details on why its French home games have been suspended. The statement said that the French regulatory authority of online games, ARJEL, has suspended the games for an unknown amount of time in order to ensure compliance with French law. The decision was made to ensure […]
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Card Player Welcomes CardRunners
CardPlayer.com is pleased to bring you CardRunners, one of the oldest and most respected training sites on the internet. CardRunners was founded in 2005 by Taylor “Green Plastic” Caby and Andrew “muddywaters” Wiggins while they were attending the University of Illinois. The pair of high-stakes cash game players have always had a desire to share […]
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Amateur Ben Hopkins Wins November Nine Reunion Event
The nine players who made the final table of the 2010 World Series of Poker main event reunited Tuesday for the first time ever to participate in a 30-player $15,000 freeroll event at Foxwoods Resort Casino. They were joined by a group of 18 randomly selected amateurs, Publisher Kasey Thompson, ESPN commentator Lon McEachern and […]
