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World Poker Tour: Bellagio Cup Day 3Day 3 at the World Poker Tour Bellagio Cup VI $10,000 main event saw the field grow to a final number of 353 players when registration closed at 1:30 p.m. The field increased by 31.7 percent year-over-year, although the first-place prize fell below $1 million ($875,150) because the buy-in was reduced to $10,000 after costing […]
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WPT: Announces Changes for Season IX
The World Poker Tour revealed many new changes for season IX at a press conference earlier this week at Bellagio, where the first event of the new season, the Bellagio Cup VI is currently taking place. WPT CEO Steve Heller and WPT President Adam Pliska a series of new elements and innovations to the new […]
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WSOP Discount on CP Subscriptions Ends Soon!
Summer is a big time of year for poker with the World Series of Poker dominating headlines and crowning new poker stars. Card Player wants to give our fans yet another reason to get excited this summer with our Card Player magazine Series Subscription Special! New subscribers in the U.S. can take advantage of a […]
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WSOP Circuit: 2010-11 Schedule Released
The World Series of Poker Circuit schedule for 2010-2011 has been released and there are many big changes in store for the seventh season of the tour. The Circuit will feature at least 12 tour stops in the United States, with a handful of others expected to be announced in the coming months. Four of […]
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CPsocial Poker Blogs of the Week -- July 13, 2010
Our CPsocial community is growing every week here on CardPlayer.com, and we’re starting to see some promising bloggers pop up from among our members. Given that, it’s we decided that it’s high time we show these bloggers some love by highlighting our favorite blogs of the week. Here are our picks for this week’s best […]
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Full Tilt's FTOPS XVII Schedule Released
Full Tilt Poker today announced the schedule for its upcoming Full Tilt Online Poker Series XVII (FTOPS XVII). This edition of the FTOPS will see 34 events guaranteeing more than $19 million in prize money, including a $3 million-guaranteed, $500 buy-in main event. The FTOPS XVII is set to feature a bunch of unique formats […]
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WSOP: Day 4 Chip Leaders
There are some familiar faces and notable professionals sitting atop the leader board in the 2010 World Series of Poker main event, but a tournament of this magnitude is bound to have some complete unknowns, as well. For the remainder of the main event, Card Player will take a look at a few of those […]
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UB Gives German Poker Players Live Game Seats
UB.com today announced a new weekly online poker satellite for German players each Sunday at 20:00 with three tickets worth €365 to a live tournament in the Czech Republic for the winners. The Sunday King’s Casino Super Satellite has a $20 + $2 buy in and player can qualify for as little as $3.30 each […]
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Boylepoker Announces Mini World Series and Rake Break
There is lots going on this month at Boylepoker including Rake Break Thursdays and a Mini World Series to look forward to. Players who choose to participate in Boylepoker’s latest promotion, Rake Break, will pay no rake on Thursdays throughout the rest of July, starting this week on Jul. 15. Rake will instead be added […]
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Kenney Brothers Play Day 3 at Same Table
There are still about 1,200 hopeful players returning to the Rio for day 4 action on Tuesday, but both Bryn and Tyler Kenney are confident that a deep run is in their immediate future. The two brothers have, quite literally, been side by side for much of their World Series of Poker main-event runs. Early […]
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World Poker Tour: Bellagio Cup Day 2
Day 2 at the World Poker Tour Bellagio Cup VI $10,000 main event saw the field grow to 310 players while registration remained open during the entire day. Registration will not close until the conclusion of the first level tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. This year’s field has already shown growth from the 268 that entered […]
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Johnny Chan Near Top of Chip Counts
At the end of day three of the main event at the 2010 World Series of Poker, 10-time bracelet winner Johnny Chan has hopes of becoming a three-time champion of the event. Chan said he already has started thinking about winning the same tournament that put him on the poker map more than two decades […]
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Betfair Joins Ongame Poker Network
Betfair Poker yesterday announced it is joining the bwin-owned Ongame poker network and its player pool will transfer to the new site by the end of July 2010. In a joint statement the companies said that by joining the network Betfair Poker players will gain an “enhanced gaming environment, suitable for any poker wallet, with […]
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Online Poker: Ty Reiman Wins PokerStars Sunday Million
You can check out the final results for Sunday’s flagship events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, UB, Bodog and Cake below: PokerStars — Sunday Million Buy-In: $200+$15 Prize Pool: $1,500,000 Entrants: 6,375 Places Paid: 990 Final Table Results: 1. Ty “puffinmypurp” Reiman — $228,150 (pictured right) 2. SLIMOO1 — $168,750 3. mariocolci — $120,000 4. Russell […]
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WPT-- Season IX Begins at Bellagio Cup VI
Season IX of the Word Poker Tour kicked off on a high note at Bellagio in Las Vegas on Sunday, July 11. The first day of the Bellagio Cup VI attracted 243 players, which was just shy of the total field of 268 players that entered last year. Registration is open during all fives levels […]
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Three Days Left of Paddy Power Poker World Cup Giveaway
There are just three days left of the PaddyPowerPoker.com Win the Shirt of Paddy’s Back promo where soccer fans can win a football shirt. The daily $3 + $0.30c tournaments with $100 added to the prizepool and the winner of each tournament receiving a football shirt of their choice in the promotion. Paddy Power, communications […]
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New Zealand Rules Poker is Not Gambling
New Zealand District Court Judge David Harvey has ruled that live poker is not gambling and ads for it and online poker educational sites such as PokerStars.net do not contravene New Zealand law according to NZHerald.co.nz. The country’s Department of Internal Affairs took a case against TV3 and C4 tv stations claiming ads shown during […]
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WSOP: Getting To Know Your Day 3 Chip Leaders
There are some familiar faces and notable professionals sitting atop the leader board in the 2010 World Series of Poker main event, but a tournament of this magnitude is bound to have some complete unknowns as well. For the remainder of the main event, Card Player will take a look at a few of those […]
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Red Dead Redemption Offers Multi-Player Poker
Red Dead Redemption, one of the world’s most critically acclaimed and successful video games, will get its own multi-player poker game at the start of August. Rockstar Games, producer of the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 open world Western action adventure game, will releases a downloadable content pack called Liars and Cheats Pack costing $9.99 […]
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PKR Sponsors London’s First Licensed Poker Club
London’s first fully licensed poker club, the Fox Poker Club, will be sponsored by online poker site PKR.com. Named after the 18th century politician Charles Fox it will host daily tournaments and cash games with free afternoon tutorials available for novice players. PKR marketing director Simon Prodger said, “This is a great opportunity for PKR. […]
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Billirakis Determined to Make a Deep Run
It’s the calm before the storm. On Sunday, for the first day since May 27, there will be no bracelet event in action at the Rio. The Pavilion and Amazon Rooms will be mostly deserted, apart from a few cash games and the annual media freeroll tournament where reporters will play for bragging rights and […]
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Selbst Moves Up Day 2B Leaderboard
Day 2b of the 2010 World Series of Poker has come to an end and there are only six more days to go before the 2010 November Nine is set. The survivors of today will combine with the remaining players of day 2a and for the first time all tournament, everybody left will be playing […]
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Darvin’s Big Buys: Pickups, Properties
How would $5 million change your life? For Darvin Moon and his wife Wendy, it doesn’t appear to have changed it all that much. Both still work full-time at the same jobs, they still live in the same home, and they aren’t throwing around that money before putting in a great deal of thought about […]
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Full Tilt Rush Poker Week Starts Monday
Online poker players have an extra reason to play Rush Poker at FullTilt.com next week with Rush Poker Week offering up to $250 cash for accumulating Full Tilt Points. From Monday July 12 to Sunday July 18 players can play Rush Poker on three levels – Gold, Silver, and Bronze – and the accumulated points […]
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New Online Poker Routes To Irish Winter Festival Open
PaddyPowerPoker.com is offering 12 free seats to the Irish Winter Festival between now and September 19, 2010 with its exclusive Cash Races and Sit & Go Series promotions. Three seats are up for grabs in the Cash Races which begin this Monday, July 12 – one for each leaderboard. Players score points based on the […]
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My Poker Lab Offers New Training Experience
Online poker site PokerTime.eu has launched the world’s first fully integrated online poker training experience, MyPokerLab.com. With multimedia training programs designed to analyse and improve players’ games, it is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, and free product which looks set to revolutionise and improve the experience for thousands of poker players in the search for profitable play. […]
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WSOP: Chan Among Leaders After Day 2A
There were 2,412 survivors who made it to day 2a of the 2010 World Series of Poker main event. Of those, only 1,295 will move on to day 3 on Monday. Boulos Estafanous won’t become a household name by ending day 2A as the chip leader, but it’s certainly a good start. The Chicago-native ended […]
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This Week in Poker: July 2 – 9
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 2: Sorel Mizzi — 3,862 3: Jeffrey Papola — 3,420 4: […]
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The Scoop: Watch Part I with Vanessa Selbst this Week
Vanessa Selbst discusses her incredible rate of tournament success on this week’s episode of The Scoop (sponsored by Full Tilt Poker) on Card Player TV. Check out her interview with Diego Cordovez and Adam Schoenfeld on Card Player TV and you can hear about what it is like to balance attending law school at Yale […]
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WSOP Spotlight -- Jamie Gold
The winner of the 2010 main event will receive more than $8.9 million — a mammoth figure no doubt, but still just 75 percent of what Jamie Gold received when he won the 2006 main event, which remains the largest field the World Series has even seen. Because of that win, Gold remains the all-time […]
