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OPOY Spotlight: Lars Bonding

The Card Player Online Player of the Year (OPOY) award honors the best tournament player across the major online sites in a given calendar year. Previous winners have included greats such as Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron, Alexander “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis, Steve “gboro780” Gross, and Taylor “ambiguosity” Paur. Here, we take a look at one of the current […]

Aussie Millions: Main Event Day 1C

After three starting flights at the 2011 Aussie Millions $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event we now have a fully developed photo of the tournament field here at Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. The field size stands at 721 players and the first-place prize is $2 million. The top 72 players will walk away with at […]

RedKings Poker Signs UK Pro

UK poker pro James Keys has joined Team RedKings as a sponsored pro. Keys, currently at the Aussie Millions in Australia, was a World Series of Poker Europe main event finalist in 2007 and has career earnings of over $400,000. “I’m very excited to be signing with RedKings,” he said while RedKings chief executive Michael […]

iPoker Revenue Down 19 Percent in 2010

iPoker, the online poker network of Israeli plc Playtech, saw revenue drop 19 percent in 2010. Revenue fell to €27.4 million at December 31, 2010 from €33.8 million in 2009. In the final quarter of 2010 poker revenue was down 30 percent to €5.9 million compared to the final quarter of 2009 when it was […]

2011 WSOP Schedule Released

The 2011 World Series of Poker schedule was announced at around 2 p.m. PST on Monday, after some significant changes were made for the 42nd running of poker’s richest annual tournament series. This year’s WSOP, which will run from May 31 to July 19, will consist of 58 bracelet events. In 2010, 57 bracelet events […]

Phil Ivey Losing in Limit Hold'em

On Saturday, Kagome Kagome won $145,000 from Phil Ivey in about 100 hands of $3,000-$6,000 limit hold’em on Full Tilt Poker. Ivey left the session with a stack of $36,000, while his German opponent, whom Ivey has said is superior at limit hold’em, sat with about $383,000 when the duel was over. The loss brings […]

Paul 'paulgees81' Volpe 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: $1,726,000 Entrants: 8,630 1. Paul “paulgees81” Volpe — $253,895 2. ser svensson — $185,545 3. grayzee1 — $129,450 4. BleedBlue33 — $86,300 5. Ninemil — $69,040 […]

EPT Deauville To Start Tuesday

The PokerStars European Poker Tour is set to start its annual €5,000 main event in Deauville, France on Tuesday. Following what was a record-setting field of 768 players creating a prize pool of €3,686,400 in 2010, this year’s EPT Deauville visit will take place January 25-31 at a larger venue, inside the Casino Barriere (annexe […]

WPT Southern Poker Championship Gets Under Way

The World Poker Tour has made its annual trip back to Biloxi, Mississippi. This year’s $10,000 buy-in WPT Southern Poker Championship event drew in a few more players than it did a year ago, with 214 players (compared to 208 in 2010) taking a seat at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino on Sunday. Together […]

'High Stakes Hold’em' to Air in 2011

This past Tuesday, 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 the middle of 2011. The broadcast schedule and air times have yet to be […]

Aussie Millions: Main Event Day 1B

Day 1B at the 2011 Aussie Millions $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event attracted 209 players who decided to take their chances on the second of three starting days in the tournament hosted at Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. Many of the pros down under appear to have preferred day 1A yesterday, but there were many […]

Hansen Is First Poker Champ Of EMOP III

The first event of season III of the European Masters of Poker has been won by young, Norwegian Stefan Hansen. Hansen’s victory came after beating 212 opponents for a payday of €34,160 at the Casino Las Palmas in Gran Canaria. The final hand of the €1,100 buy-in event came when Hansen moved all in with […]

€20 Irish Poker Open Satellite Tonight

Tonight Monday January 24 sees the fourth installment of the PaddyPowerPoker.com €20 + €2 rebuy Irish Open satellites, which are guaranteeing one ticket to Ireland’s premier poker event. The €20 + €2 rebuy satellite takes place every Monday in January at 8 p.m. (GMT), and those who qualify via these satellites also get to participate […]

Online Gambling Businesses To Get U.S. Boost

A gambling sector note published today by analysts Daniel Stewart & Co. says Euro-facing gaming operators Playtech, PartyGaming, and 888 will be the most likely winners should the U.S. market liberalise. The report predicts licenses for online gambling will be issued in the second half of 2011 or early 2012. “Our view is that online […]

Aussie Millions: Main Event Day 1A

Day 1A at the 2011 Aussie Millions $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event featured as much pomp and circumstance as the first day of a similarly-titled event that takes place in Las Vegas each summer. The opening ceremonies included videos, live music, a few words from defending champion Tyron Krost, a declaration by the Crown Casino […]

Sam Trickett Wins $100K Challenge

The variance that exists in poker makes an all-encompassing dominant performance in a tournament highly unlikely. Add 37 of the best players in the world who have put up $100,000 to buy in to the tournament and that task comes close to impossible. But that is nearly what Sam Trickett accomplished to win the $100,000 […]

European Masters of Poker Final Table Set

The first €1,100 buy in main event of season III European Masters of Poker has reached its final table at Casino De Palmas, Gran Canaria with nine players returning today from an original field of 213. The winner of the event will take home €54,310. The nine finalists are: Johan Berg — 1,254,000 Yehas Avidavi […]

Qualify For Irish Open On Paddy Power Poker Tonight

There are various ways to qualify for the PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Open 2011, and this evening, Sunday, January 23 at 8 p.m. there is a €200 + €20 buy-in satellite with an Irish Open package worth €4,600 up for grabs. The winner of this tournament qualifies for the €100,000 Sole Survivor competition also. Online players can […]

Aussie Millions: $100k Challenge Day 1

The 2011 Aussie Million $100,000 Challenge continued the trend of strong tournament attendance at high roller events to start this New Year. There were 38 players who ponied up the six figures to enter this event and the year-over-year growth was impressive at 58 percent. Attendance was so strong in fact that it prompted the […]

Phil Ivey Favourite For Aussie Millions Title

British bookies 888sport and Bluesq have priced up the betting market for the Aussie Millions main event which gets underway at the Crown Casino, Melbourne tomorrow January 23. So in tune with each other are they that both have priced the markets absolutely identically making Phil Ivey favourite at 33/1, former winner Gus Hansen second […]

David Oppenheim Wins $25,000 Shootout Invitational

David Oppenheim is used to playing with the best poker players in the world and winning against them in cash games in Las Vegas. He took that model of success down under and won the Aussie Millions Full Tilt Poker $25,000 Invitational Shootout on Friday at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. He defeated a […]

FT Double Guarantees Week

On Monday, Full Tilt Poker will kick off its $30 Million Double Guarantees Week. For one week only (Jan. 24-30) the online site is doubling the guaranteed prize money for all weekly guarantees. The week will culminate with the Sunday evening $200+$16 buy-in $750,000 guarantee becoming a $1.5 million guarantee. If you don’t have an […]

Jungleman12 Takes On Isildur1

Viktor “Isildur1” Blom continued his downswing early Friday morning after taking on Dan “jungleman12” Cates at $50-$100 no-limit hold’em on PokerStars. The duo began the day playing tables of $25-$50, but eventually moved up to stakes of $50-$100. Cates, who was down money from the $25-$50 tables, secured a net profit of about $40,000 for […]

The Scoop: David Sands Part II

David “Doc Sands” Sands 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 “organically grown” […]

Borgata Winter Open Kicks Off

The sixth annual Borgata Winter Open got underway Wednesday at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City with a $500 deep stack no-limit hold’em event featuring a guaranteed prize pool of $300,000. The opening tournament was the first of 26 events that are on the schedule from January 19-February 4. Scheduled events include […]

WPT Southern Poker Championship Starts Sunday

The World Poker Tour is set to make its first appearance of 2011 with its $10,000 main event at the Southern Poker Championship inside the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. Beginning at noon CST this Sunday, January 23, the 5-day championship event will finish up with a televised final table playing out […]

Chinese Take To Texas Hold'em Poker Online

A Chinese language Texas hold’em poker game is the fastest growing brand on Facebook gaining almost 1.3 million fans this week on the social networking site. The game beat out the ever popular Farmville game as well as Rihanna, Real Madrid FC, Harry Potter, and Eminem according to Famecount.com which measures the amounts of “likes,” […]

European Deepstack Poker Championship Nears

The European Deepstack Poker Championship returns to Dublin from Feb. 1 to 6 with the centerpiece event expected to attract over 1,000 players. The three-day €550 buy in main event has attracted over 800 registrants so far, has an estimated prize pool of €500,000, a 50,000 chip starting stack and a one hour clock changing […]

Richard “Chufty” Ashby Wins Aussie Millions Event

Recent World Series of Poker bracelet winner Richard “Chufty” Ashby from the UK has won an Aussie Millions ring for his victory in the eight-game mixed event in Melbourne. The game attracted 68 participants and Ashby was trailing the final table of seven with just 59,000 in chips before grinding his way to heads up […]

UB Online Championship 6 Continues

The UB Online Poker Championship is underway So far 10 of the 29 events have been completed. Tonight’s event is a $150+$12 no-limit hold’em deep stack hosted by Team UB Pro Maria Ho. The event kicks off at 8:05 p.m. EST. A $15+$1.50 Mini-UBOC no-limit hold’em deep stack will also begin at the same time. […]