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888poker Revenue Up 16 Percent

888poker yesterday said its poker revenue had reversed a long decline jumping 16 percent in the final quarter of 2010. Ahead of next weeks publication of fourth quarter 2010 key performance indictors, Maytal Ginzburg, VP Poker at 888 Holdings said, “Over the past few years 888poker, previously known as pacific poker, had a bad name […]

Live Poker: February Preview

Following the pattern that the live poker scene set in January, the month of February will offer many different major events all across the globe, including new stops from the World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker Circuit and European Poker Tour, among others. The tournament trail will especially be busy in Europe. The 15th […]

Casinos Report $3 Billion Loss

Any indication of a rebound for the nation’s economic downturn isn’t being seen in Nevada. The foreclosure and unemployment rate remain high, but perhaps the most telling figure for the state’s current economic situation comes from the Nevada casinos themselves, which have just reported losses for the second consecutive fiscal year. A total of $3.4 […]

PokerStars NAPT Freerolls

PokerStars is giving its players a chance to qualify for the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Los Angeles festival for free. Players can win a seat by playing in any of the twice-daily freerolls currently running to the grand final freeroll on Feb. 20. The final event will award a $7,000 NAPT Los Angeles prize […]

Everest Poker’s ONE Has €1 Million Prize Pool

Everest Poker today announced it is to host a €5,000 + €500 buy in live poker event in Monte Carlo with a €1 million guaranteed prize pool. The event, known simply as ONE, will take place at Salle des Palmiers, Monaco from April 21 to 24, 2011 and will feature a variety of side events […]

All In Poker Series at Atlantis Reno

In mid-January, Red Deck Productions announced that it will begin filming a new poker television show called High Stakes Hold’em in late March at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, NV. The weekly one-hour show will air nationwide in June, according to Red Deck Productions’ website. The broadcast schedule and air times have yet […]

PKR Midlands Social Announced

Next-generation online poker room PKR.com has announced the third in its series of social events with a golf, poker and drinks reception at Staverton Park Golf Club, Daventry, Northhamptonshire, England. The PKR Midlands Social takes place on April 2 and 3 and costs €55 for which PKR’s poker players get one night’s bed and breakfast […]

Vienna Holds First Filipino Poker Tournament

The poker world has witnessed ladies-only events and seniors events – tournaments specifically based on gender and age respectively. According to news site ABS–CBN, over 100 poker players turned out for Vienna’s first Filipino Poker Challenge on Jan. 30 in the Concorde Card Casino. An Asian national with Filipino background, Fu Nguyen, topped the field […]

World Poker Tour Venice Starts Today

The World Poker Tour returns to European shores today with a €3,000 + €300 buy in main event getting underway at Casino Di Venezia, Venice, Italy. The five-day event, with two day ones, will be filmed for later TV broadcast and sees players hit the felt with a 30,000 starting stack and 75 minute blinds. […]

ANZPT Launches Into Season 3

Following the conclusion of another exciting Aussie Millions, the PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour has launched its third season with a visit to the Adelaide Casino in Australia. The AUD$2,400 buy-in main event will run February 2-6, putting the exclamation point on a series of tournaments that have been taking place at the Adelaide […]

Patrik Antonius on CardPlayer TV

Nosebleed cash game regular Patrik Antonius recently made a final table appearance in the 2011 Aussie Millions main event, continuing his streak of running well in Melbourne. CardPlayer TV caught up with the high-stakes legend to talk about the Aussie Millions, high-stakes online games, and his strong start in 2011 after a disappointing 2010. At […]

Isildur1 Wins $600K in the Past Week

Since beating Dan “jungleman12” Cates for about $50,000 in the third installment of the PokerStars Superstar Showdown, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom has been running red hot on the virtual felt. The majority of Blom’s profits over the past week have came from Phil “mrsweets28” Galfond at $25-$50 pot-limit Omaha. Blom is up more than 30 buy-ins […]

UB Sit-and-Go Weekly Races

The UB 45-Player Sit-and-Go Weekly Races promotion is currently running, giving players a chance to freeroll their way into one of the site’s flagship events. For four weeks, thousands of dollars worth of free tournament seats are up for grabs. A total of 120 seats for each of Wednesday’s Sniper $80,000 guaranteed ($200+$15 buy-in) and […]

Poker Players in Hot Water Over Murders

It’s been a black week for a handful of poker players dotted around the globe as the long arm of the law has crept up on them. In Thailand Ron “Mad Yank” Fanelli was formally declared sane by psychatirsts and move from hospital back to Phuket prison having confessed to the murder of a bar […]

Pocket Kings Grows Poker Jobs In Ireland

Pocket Kings Ltd., a service provider to Full Tilt Poker, has issued account for the full year to April 2009 which show gross profit falling five percent to €44.7 million from €47.1 million a year earlier according to the Irish Times today. Net profit at the company fell 26 percent to €5.9 million in the […]

Hacker Steals $12 Million In Poker Chips

According to Herald Express news site, This is South Devon, a 29-year-old Englishman has been remanded pending sentencing for stealing $12 million worth of virtual poker chips from American gaming company, Zynga. Ashley Mitchell, who is from a coastal town in Devon, England, hacked into Zynga Corporation’s system and took 400 billion chips, a third […]

Card Player Poker Training

The Card Player homepage recently launched a new Poker Training section designed to help our readers choose the proper training tools to suit a variety of skill levels and poker disciplines. With all of the books, web sites and software out there, it can be difficult to find the right tools to learn new techniques […]

Lucien Cohen Wins EPT Deauville

The three names that stood out on the final table of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Deauville were Alex Wice, Martin Jacobson, and Kenny Hallaert. Wice had clearly shown his skills throughout the event while Hallaert is a well-known name on the European circuit. Jacobson had come close to victory twice before on the Tour, […]

Euro Finals of Poker Get Underway in Paris

The 15th annual Euro Finals of Poker get underway today at the Aviation Club de France in Paris. The festival incorporates over two dozen events across many poker disciplins including H.O.R.S.E., Omaha, and hold’em, and runs until February 16. It will take in the marquee event the €5,000 buy in World Poker Tour National Diamond […]

European Deepstack Poker Championship Starts

The fourth European Deepstack Poker Championship gets underway this evening in Dublin with a €60 buy in super satellite to tomorrow’s main event. The three-day €550 buy in main event, with two day ones, has attracted over 800 registrants so far, has an estimated prize pool of €500,000, a 50,000 chip starting stack and a […]

Anthony 'BtCh I MiTe Be' Bruno Wins at Full Tilt

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: $1,798,800 Entrants: 8,994 1. Anthony “wwwBTHEREcom” Gregg — $195,000* 2. Ryan “Daut44” Daut — $208,668.16* 3. binhoeiji — $176,000* 4. Andrew “Drewfus81” St. Jean — $89,940 […]

Hand Analysis: David Peters

David Peters, 23, has been playing poker for about five years, and has been a force on both the online- and live-poker scenes. In 2010, he had close to $1 million in live-tournament cashes, with his best finishes being second in a $1,000 World Series of Poker event, first in the PokerStars North American Poker […]

Huy Nguyen Wins WSOPC Choctaw

The World Series of Poker Circuit’s first ever visit to a Native American Casino Resort recorded solid attendance during its 19 days of poker action. From Jan. 6-24, masses of eager players from across the Texas-Oklahoma region swarmed to Oklahoma’s Choctaw Casino to participate in the first ever WSOPC destination not affiliated with Harrah’s. There […]

Isildur1 Defeats Jungleman12

On Sunday, Team PokerStars Pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom defeated Dan “w00ki3z” Cates by a margin of $51,196 in the third installment of the PokerStars SuperStar Showdown. The match consisted of 2,500 hands played across four $50-$100 no-limit hold’em tables. The winner of the SuperStar Showdown promotion is the player who shows either a profit after […]

UBOC6 Concludes Monday Morning

Early Monday morning the sixth installment of the UB Online Championship concluded with the massive $1,000+$50 UBOC $1 million guaranteed monster stack no-limit hold’em. The event drew a field of 1,036 players, generating a prize pool of $1,036,000. Thiago “THEDECANO” Nishijima won the event for a score of $231,338.80. Here is a look at the […]

Paddy Power Poker Extends Irish Poker Open Qualifiers

PaddyPowerPoker.com has extended its popular Monday night €20 + €2 rebuy Irish Open satellites. Tonight Monday January 31 sees the fifth, and what was to be the final, installment of the satellites, which guarantee one ticket to Ireland’s premier poker event. However this qualification route will now be extended to every Monday between now and […]

PokerStars EPT Deauville: Day 5

The penultimate day of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Deauville saw 24 players take their seats at the Casino Barriere’s Salles des Ambassadeurs, elegantly poised along the coastline of Deauville in northern France. Although it took over an hour to lose the first player, that set things off and in less than four levels the […]

Peter McAdams Wins GUKPT Manchester

Peter McAdams has won the £1,070 buy in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Manchester main event beating 206 opponents to take down £58,100 at the G Casino in the city. The final table of the event featured last year’s winner Kuljinder Sindu as wells as World Series of Poker bracelet winner Lawrence Gosney. McAdams got heads […]

PartyGaming and bwin Get Merger Approval

PartyGaming and bwin shareholders cleared the way for the merger of the two companies Friday by voting through all resolutions approving the move. The companies will become one entity, known as bwin.party digital entertainment plc, on March 31, 2011. Jim Ryan and Norbert Teufelberger, the likely co-CEOs of the enlarged group, said,”Today’s shareholder meetings were […]

PokerStars EPT Deauville: Day 4

The PokerStars European Poker Tour Deauville main event needed to get down from 90 players to 24 on day 4, and it did, but not without any drama along the way. Many of the healthy stacks and chip leaders from other days, including chip leader at start of play, Raphael Kroll, hit the rail, creating […]