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Irish Winter Poker Festival Gets Unique Doubles Event

PaddyPowerPoker.com today announced an added highlight to its 2012 Irish Winter Festival (IWF), which will run from Oct. 26-29 in Dublin’s Burlington Hotel. Players will be pairing up into teams for a unique, €50 + €5 buy-in (per person) doubles no-limit hold’em event on Sunday, Oct. 28 at 6.30 p.m. (local time) and some duos […]

Howard Lederer Back Playing High-Stakes Poker

Former Full Tilt Poker owner Howard Lederer is back playing some of the highest stakes in the poker world. On Tuesday night, he was playing $400-$800 mixed games at Aria in Las Vegas. The United States Department of Justice is looking to take more than $40 million from the 48-year-old in a pending civil complaint. […]

WSOPE Champ Phil Hellmuth Into Top Five

The European swing continues to make a huge impact on the 2012 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by Lock Poker. Here’s a look at that event and others that made an impression in the last week: WSOP Europe €10,450 Main Event Last week saw many changes made to the POY race as […]

Dan Heimiller Wins WSOP Circuit Southern Indiana

Dan Heimiller has emerged victorious in the 2012 World Series of Poker Circuit Southern Indiana main event, capturing his first WSOP Circuit gold ring and $117,300. This was Heimiller’s 27th career title, increasing his lifetime tournament earnings to just under $4 million. He was also awarded 480 Card Player Player of the Year points for […]

Official Cleared Of Fantasy Football Accusations

A former county prosecutor in the state of New Hampshire won’t face charges from an investigation into whether or not he engaged in illegal gambling last year by running a fantasy football league, the Union Leader reported Tuesday. After the probe began, Ross McLeod allegedly then asked members of the league not to talk with […]

Poker Strategy For The Rest Of Us: Gareth Chantler

It’s great to see pros like Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth battling it out on poker’s biggest stages for millions of dollars, but the truth is that most of us will never get the same opportunity, nor will we really learn anything from their play that directly applies to our own games. The truth is […]

PokerStars Invests In London Live Poker Venue

PokerStars has invested in London’s Hippodrome Casino and plans to offer live poker to its 50 million registered players in 2013. The company said it will also provide poker for a future Hippodrome online casino site. Guy Templer, group strategy director for PokerStars, said, “The Hippodrome has dramatically raised the quality bar for the UK […]

Full Tilt Poker Snags Isle Of Man License

Full Tilt Poker emailed its non-US database yesterday to outline the site’s relaunch and what it will mean for those, outside of the states, who previously had an account with the online poker room. The email stated that players will have complete access, with no restriction, to their accounts including their full balance come Nov. […]

Zynga Poker Loses Its General Manager

Zynga Poker, the online play money poker giant closely associated with social media platform Facebook, has lost its general manager, Laurence Toney. Toney confirmed his move to AllThingsD.com saying it was less about Zynga and more about other opportunities. “I have been approached by several organizations that I find exciting and compelling. It is the […]

Pro Poker Championship Schedule, Venue

Pro Poker Championship, Inc. is pleased to announce that it is partnering with Dover Downs Hotel & Casino in Dover, Delaware to host the inaugural televised poker series Pro Poker Championship™. The series will feature several events from Friday, October 26, 2012 – Monday, November 19, 2012 including five nationally televised events. The Pro Poker […]

Las Vegas Cabbie Returns $221K, Gets Less Than 1 Percent

A handful of weeks ago, a Las Vegas cabdriver found a laptop case containing $221,510 in cash, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Monday. He returned it. When a gambler, who said he won it at the Wynn, was reunited with the hefty sum, the cabbie, Adam Woldemarim, received a verbal “thank you” and a tip […]

'Loneliest Neighborhood' Opens Casino

Columbus, Ohio’s West Side, sometimes known as “America’s Loneliest Neighborhood” thanks to a 2009 Associated Press article, now has a brand new Las Vegas-style casino in an effort to rejuvenate some economic activity in the area, NPR News reported. Some of Columbus’ most recognizable natives came out to the Monday opening of Penn National Gaming’s […]

WPT Champ Trincher Seeks $6M For Alleged Mold Damages

Vadim Trincher, winner of a 2009 World Poker Tour event, has filed suit in New York City because of an alleged mold problem in his Trump Tower condo that he says ruined some of his personal property and made his wife sick, according to the New York Daily News. The problem reportedly originated from a […]

Student Poker Masters Hits Dublin Next March

PaddyPowerPoker.com has today announced details of its Student Masters 2013 which is coming up next March 2 and 3 – the winner of which will receive an entry into next year’s Irish Open. The student-only poker festival will take place in two venues in Dublin; day 1 in the Ballsbridge Hotel, and day 2 in […]

Valtteri Merikallio Has Eureka Poker Moment In Latvia

Valtteri Merikallio is the very first Eureka Poker Tour Latvia champion. The 34-year-old Finn was the last player standing from an original field of 278 in the €1,000 buy-in main event. Merikallio, who is an office worker, took home €68,800 from a total prize pool of €278,000. That is when he eventually got to take […]

Dutchman Overcomes All-Belgian Final In Hold'em Challenge

Mark Roovers is the champion of the PokerStars.be Hold’em Challenge Autumn Edition after topping a field of 352 for a payday of €27,000. The poker blogger/player from the Netherlands qualified online several times over for the €550 buy-in six-max event held at Casino de Namur in Belgium. A deal was made fourhanded and then the […]

A Look At The Week In Tournament Poker

In this Card Player weekly feature we look to provide our readers with a guide to some of the biggest poker events taking place in their area for the upcoming week. Check out all the tournament action set to go down in your own backyard from Oct. 8th through the 14th. Head to our tournament […]

Joe Serock: 'I'm Not Sure What My [Playing] Style Is'

It’s still a little surprising that Joe Serock, considering his more than $2.5 million in career winnings, started out playing online poker freerolls. After just a year of grinding these free tournaments, Serock’s poker career started to take shape. Years later he is still have tons of success on the poker scene. His 2012 has […]

David Vamplew On PokerStars' Full Tilt Takeover

In asking poker players their feelings on the PokerStars/Full Tilt takeover, most were itching to give their stance on what was going on. Players from across the world had a lot of interesting things to say in regards to questions such as whether or not they think the takeover is good for poker, what it […]

U.K. Casino Refuses To Pay Ivey £7.3M

Professional poker player Phil Ivey has so far been stiffed of millions in gambling winnings from a casino in the United Kingdom, according to the Daily Mail. The tabloid paper reports that Ivey was playing a high-stakes form of baccarat in August, taking the joint for £7.3 million, but only his initial buy-in has been […]

A Look At News From Around The Web

Here’s a look at the headlines for this week in the gaming business world. Ohio Still Struggling Despite New Casino Tax Revenue Ohio will open its third casino on Monday in Columbus, but a new report has found that even when all four casinos in the state are open, the increase in tax revenue will […]

Tom Dwan Blames Himself For Tanking Problem

On Saturday morning, a Tweet from poker professional Daniel Negreanu rejuvenated the game’s complex and often muddled “shot clock” debate, which has been discussed numerous times over the years. Some live events have experimented with such an instrument, but there has never been any real uniformity in poker on the issue of players taking too […]

Gaming Issues On The November Ballots

Later this year, residents from a few key states will be deciding on more than just the Presidency. There are a total of four different states who have added gambling-related issues to the ballots, putting millions of dollars in the hands of the voters. Here is a breakdown of each regulatory issue and the measures […]

Winamax Targets America With Play-Money Poker Offering

French online poker site Winamax is setting itself up to offer real-money games in America in the future. The site recently announced a play-money version of its cash games and tournaments for those living in the States, and is attempting to create the experience of real-money gaming in its free poker offer. A statement on […]

Danny Ryan On PokerStars' Full Tilt Takeover

Danny Ryan is next up to voice his opinion on the PokerStars acquisition of Full Tilt. He, alongside many other pros across the poker world, was asked various questions on the topic, such as how he felt about the takeover, what it could mean, is it good for poker, what will it be like when […]

Toilet Tech Increases Casino Win, Company Says

A Florida-based company that designs electronic seat covers for toilets believes that its product can help casinos take in more gambling revenue. BRiLL Hygienic Products, Inc. was displaying its design, which can replace a used plastic seat cover by the wave in front of a censor, at this week’s Global Gaming Expo (G2E) held in […]

Controversial Lottery Winner Found Dead

The latest anecdote of the lottery throwing someone’s life into muck is that of Amanda Clayton, a controversial $1 million jackpot winner who fell into hot water after continuing to collect governmental assistance despite grabbing the huge payday. The 25-year-old died from an apparent drug overdose about a week ago. A lawyer for Clayton told […]

Poker Hand Of The Week: What's Your Play?

Give us your opinion in the comments section below for your chance at winning a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription. Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they’ll come up with dozens of different opinions. That’s just the nature of the game. Each week, Card Player will select a […]

Full Year Outlook Takes A Beating At Zynga

Social game service provider giant Zynga has announced preliminary financial results for its third quarter ending Sept. 30, 2012 and in doing so has lowered its outlook for the full year. It is expected that the company which is best known for its games such as Zynga Poker, Words With Friends, and Farmville, will report […]

Unibet To Pay Spanish Tax Authorities €3.2 million

Unibet is set to pay the Spanish tax authorities €3.2 million. The company is following in the footsteps of many others as it finalizes with the authorities. This is a one-off payment related to activities which targeted the Spanish market between January 2009 and May 2011. Unibet did not apply for a B2C gaming licence […]