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Phil Ivey Owns Nosebleed Online Cash GameThe biggest cash games online have been relegated to the cap games on Full Tilt for the past few weeks. Many players, including Phil Galfond and Patrik Antonius, have complained that the cap pot-limit Omaha games are not ideal, but unfortunately, that’s where all of the action has been. “I really dislike cap PLO,” Galfond […]
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Tamas Lendvai Wins PokerStars Italian Poker Tour Venice
Tamas Lendvai from Hungary has won the PokerStars.com Italian Poker Tour Venice topping the 505-strong field to take down €235,000 prize money. Lendvai was the short stack going into the final table, having previously been as low as seven big blinds on day 3. He beat Davide Cerrato from Italy heads up after moving all […]
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888 Poker Income Falls 36 Percent in Second Quarter
888.com, the publicly-quoted online gaming operator based in Israel and London, today announced total operating income in its business-to-consumer (B2C) poker unit fell 36 percent to US$8 million in the second quarter of 2010 from US$13 million in the same period of 2009. The company said this was “in line with general online poker trends” […]
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November Nine Profile -- Matthew Jarvis
As Matthew Jarvis was starting the main event, his father was starting chemotherapy and radiation. Just before the 25-year-old Canadian came out to Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker, he learned that his dad had been diagnosed with cancer on the throat and tonsils. “It was a real shocker. It came out of […]
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PokerStars Launches Women’s League
Ladies events have become regular fixtures at some of the biggest and most prestigious live poker series in the world. Now, PokerStars is trying to grant that same kind of atmosphere online. The site recently announced the creation of the PokerStars Women’s Poker League, which will allow females to compete against each other over the […]
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CPsocial Poker Blogs of the Week -- Aug. 2, 2010
With CPsocial — CardPlayer.com’s free community — members can track their poker stats, comment on our stories and videos, make member profiles — and blog! What’s more, we recently updated CPsocial to allow members to follow other members, so if you like a particular blogger or want to follow someone’s comments around the site, just […]
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Online Poker: Jordan 'Jymaster11' Young Has Huge Sunday
Jordan “Jymaster11” Young had a monster Sunday, winning not only the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 guarantee for $132,788, but also the Sunday Brawl for another $104,951. Young earned 2,400 OPOY points for his efforts, vaulting him into 21st place overall in the standings. Another strong performer was former Online Player of the Year winner Alex […]
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Card Player Expands Poker Media in South America
Argentina and Uruguay join the ever-growing list of countries with their own Card Player magazine in October this year as the company announces a licensing partnership with Galt S.A. in the region. The magazine will feature content from around the poker world including locally produced and focused news, features, columns, interviews and tournament reports and […]
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European Masters of Poker Bulgaria Final Table Set
The €1,000 + €100 buy-in European Masters of Poker Bulgaria main event final table plays out today at the Crystal Crown Casino in Sunny Beach. A total of 260 players turned out for the event creating a prize pool of €260,000, with 36 players paid. Just how much the remaining 10 players get will soon […]
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Catch Poker's Paddy Power with Pants Down this August
Paddy’s Pantsdown $30K Giveaway begins today at PaddyPowerPoker.com and will run for the next four weeks. This series of money-added tournaments is open to all PaddyPowerPoker players and will see $30,000 given away over the period. Communications Manager for the site, Paddy Power, said, “We have gone absolutely ‘tournamental’ here in Paddy Towers; we’ve finally […]
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November Nine Profile -- John Racener
The biggest storyline of the 2010 November Nine is clearly Michael Mizrachi, who has a chance to become poker’s all-time greatest tournament winner. But when the Grinder is asked about the significance of having a major pro at the final table, he makes sure to correct the record — there are two, not one, major […]
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Poker Book Review – Lost Vegas by Paul McGuire
Anyone familiar with the writing of Paul “Dr. Pauly” McGuire will know that his scabrously honest and often hilarious take on poker – the business and the characters that populate it ⎯ is required reading for everyone who wants the truth. Or at least as close to the truth as one man can sail in […]
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November Nine Profile -- Joseph Cheong
As a student at the University of California San Diego, Joseph Cheong used to fund his modest poker bankroll by way of his $12-an-hour job in the college’s literature department. “I was just printing surveys. I’m not even sure what it was for,” Cheong remembers. “It paid for my buy-ins.” That part-time gig was the […]
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This Week in Poker: July 24-30
Check out CardPlayer.com every Friday for a weekly wrap-up of the news from the live poker tournament trail. Card Player Player of the Year Update The Card Player Player of the Year Race is brought to you by Bodog 1: Thomas Marchese — 4,442 (pictured right) 2: Sorel Mizzi — 3,862 3: Jeffrey Papola — […]
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August Poker Tournament Trail Preview
August is a month that always starts slow with a post-World Series of Poker haze that is devoid of major tournament action, but 2010 picks up steam more quickly than years past. The first major tour event is the €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event that will take place in the beautiful medieval town of Tallinn […]
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The Scoop -- Watch Part II with Ted Forrest This Week
Ted Forrest talks about how prop bets are paid on the honor system on this week’s episode of The Scoop (sponsored by Full Tilt Poker) on Card Player TV. Check out his interview with Diego Cordovez and Adam Schoenfeld on Card Player TV and you can get an inside look at one of the prop […]
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Cyprus Planning Online Poker Ban
Cyprus is planning to ban online poker according to Cyprus-Mail.com. Draft legislation, which includes a ban on online poker and casinos, has received unanimous approval in the Cypriot parliament and will now be submitted for approval to EU Commission. The government has decided not to go down the route of France and Italy and licence […]
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Tony Bloom Makes Poker Million IX Final
Tony Bloom is the third player through to the FullTiltPoker.com Poker Million IX final table in December, joining Howard Lederer and Barny Boatman. Bloom came from behind against eight-time World Series bracelet winner Erik Seidel to make his third Poker Million final table having appeared in the first two at the beginning of the noughties. […]
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Poker Bill Passes Out of Committee
On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee passed Rep. Barney Frank’s poker-related legislation out of committee by a 41-22 vote. The result was hailed by poker advocates as a historic vote in the battle to explicitly legalize and completely open up the markets for internet gaming. The last time an internet gaming bill went to […]
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European Poker Giants Agree to Merger
PartyGaming, owner of PartyPoker, and bwin, the Austro-German betting giant, today agreed terms on their long-mooted merger. Pending shareholder approval, bwin will own 51.64 percent of the enlarged group while PartyGaming will own 48.36 percent. The companies said the merger would lead to “the world’s largest online gaming business [with] market leading positions in all […]
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European Masters of Poker Bulgaria Kicks Off Today
The €1,000 + €100 buy-in European Masters of Poker main event kicks off today at the Crystal Crown Casino in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria. There will be two starting days and the final table will play out on August 1. Here are the remaining side events on this stop of the EMOP: July 31: €500+50 no-limit […]
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Paddy Power Poker Releases Irish Winter Festival Schedule
PaddyPowerPoker.com has announced the full schedule for its Irish Winter Festival taking place in Dublin’s Burlington Hotel over the October Bank Holiday weekend (Oct. 22-25). The three-day €1,500 + €150 buy-in Irish Masters main event kicks off on Oct. 23, but is not the only tournament to look forward to. There is also a new […]
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ANZPT -- Julian Cohen Wins Queenstown Main Event
The PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour pulled into Queenstown, New Zealand last week and the tournament came to a conclusion on Sunday. The $2,500 NZD no-limit hold’em main event attracted a field of 119 players and the total prize pool stood at $267,750. The top 15 players all walked away with prize money and […]
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World Series of Poker Q&A: Nolan Dalla
No one spends more time at the Rio each summer during the World Series of Poker than media director Nolan Dalla. He stays with each and every final table until the end, and he has had the job with Harrah’s since 2002. Before that he was P.R. director at Binion’s Horseshoe starting in 2001. “I […]
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Second Quarter Poker Revenue Falls 13 Percent at iPoker
Poker revenues at iPoker, the online poker network owned by Playtech, fell 13 percent in the second quarter of 2010 to €7.3 million from €8.4 million a year earlier. This was “owing to the impact of the Football World Cup and seasonality effect” according to the company’s latest interim statement. The second quarter decline in […]
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Barny Boatman Qualifies for Poker Million IX Final
Barny Boatman joins yesterday’s winner Howard Lederer at the final table of the FullTiltPoker.com Poker Million IX in December after he beat fellow Hendon Mobster Ram Vaswani head’s up in the second heat. Boatman reached his first Poker Million final in 10 years by overcoming a 2-1 chip deficit heads up against Vaswani, eventually taking […]
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Online Poker: Full Tilt Poker Signs James 'Flushy' Dempsey
One of this summer’s top performers has been rewarded with a new sponsorship deal at Full Tilt Poker. James “Flushy” Dempsey tore up the 2010 World Series of Poker, cashing four times for just over $511,000. In the process, Dempsey picked up his first career bracelet by winning event no. 9 ($1,500 pot-limit hold’em) and […]
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Jungleman12 Accepts Durrrr Challenge
The 2010 World Series of Poker is over, at least until November, so it is time for the poker world to get things back to normal. Though he didn’t cash in on his bracelet prop bets, Tom “durrrr” Dwan can at least be comforted by the fact that he no longer has to sprint across […]
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ESPN Begins 2010 WSOP Broadcast
The new season of the World Series of Poker begins tonight at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN. The first two-hour episode will feature the $50,000 Players Championship. The event attracted a very talented field of 116 players, with a prize pool of $5.6 million up for grabs, and $1.5 million going to first place. The […]
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Jonathan Duhamel Analyzes Key Hand
At 22 years old, Jonathan Duhamel is the youngest member of the 2010 World Series of Poker main event November Nine. With nearly 66 million in chips, Duhamel is the far-and-away chip leader and the odds-on favorite to take down the title. The Montreal, Canada, native secured most of those chips with a monster pot […]
