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Steinberg: 99 Percent Of The Time Stay In School

Max Steinberg wasn’t even old enough to gamble when he started playing. He was a kid with only a few dollars in his online poker account to share with his brother. His online game has since been sharpened into a weapon to be reckoned with, and his live tournament numbers aren’t too shabby either. Steinberg […]

Genting Poker Series Online Leg Wraps Up With Main Event

The fifth stop of the Genting Poker Series (GPS) which has been playing out online sees its main event begin today at 5 p.m.. The one-day, £400 + £30 buy-in no-limit hold’em event is the last event of seven and guarantees £100,000. Player sit down to a 25,000 starting stack with blinds increasing every 15 […]

BetVictor Poker Gives Away Final MacBook Tonight

A fifth and final Apple MacBook Air laptop will be given away this evening at BetVictor Poker at 7:25 p.m. (CET). The €25 buy-in no-limit holdem event is part of the site’s 10K Tournamania promotion which guarantees a €10,000 prize pool but also offers pretty cool prizes for the top three finishers. The winner gets […]

Former Casino Of 'Ice Pick Willie' Wants History

A Las Vegas casino wants the United States government to consider it a “historic place,” among more than 80,000 other locations scattered throughout the country. The El Cortez, located on Fremont Street off the Strip, is pushing to get the distinction that is awarded by the National Park Service, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported this […]

Da Costa Santos Earns Portugal's First WSOP Bracelet

In the 43-year history of the World Series of Poker, no player from Portugal had ever won a gold bracelet. That changed on Saturday, when Francisco Da Costa Santos took down event no. 6 at the WSOP Europe, the €1,650 six-handed pot-limit Omaha event. The 36-year-old Da Costa Santos defeated a field of 206 to […]

A Look At News From Around The Web

Here’s a look at the headlines for this week in the gaming business world. Urbandale Casino Bid Is Withdrawn A casino company in Iowa has withdrawn their plan for a $150 million casino resort just a few days after details of the project were announced. Fair Grounds LLC.’s project was immediately met with resistance by […]

Ben Wilinofsky On PokerStars' Full Tilt Takeover

Poker players from all over the globe were asked their opinions on the PokerStars takeover of Full Tilt and what they expected from the acquisition. They were asked questions like how they felt about it, what it could mean, is it good for poker, what will it be like when both are up and running, […]

Qualify For Irish Winter Poker Festival This Weekend

There are many ways to qualify for this year’s Irish Winter Festival (IWF) €1,125 buy-in main event at PaddyPowerPoker.com. So here’s a little summary of how players can get going on winning a seat this weekend. On Sunday there is one of three weekly super satellites with three €1,800 packages guaranteed. The €130 + €10 […]

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 […]

Euro Poker Tweets Of The Week

This week’s Euro Tweets Of The Week hones in largely on players from all corners of the world who are taking part in the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe in Cannes. In the past few days Twitter has seen a mix of celebrations, commiserations, and aggravations. First up, New Yorker Dan O’Brien was at […]

French Live Poker Haunt Closes Doors Forever

Cercle Gaillon, a poker room located near the Champs-Elysées in Paris, France has shut its doors for good. Citing both the state of the economy and regulations for such clubs in France, the club had one last attempt at survival in recent times to no avail. A (translated) message on the site reads: “The facility […]

Studio Hoping For Future Video Game Gambling

Nevada-based gaming company 3G Studios wants to bring real-money betting to the U.S. video game market. The firm is a developer of the popular PlayStation 3 version of “Rock Band” and wants web gambling on it, as well as first-person shooters like “Call of Duty”, in the future, the company’s CEO and founder James Kosta […]

Giovanni Rosadoni Wins WSOP Europe Event No. 4

A total of 141 players entered the €3,250 no-limit hold’em shootout at the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe, but in the end Giovanni Rosadoni was the last man standing. The Frenchman overcame a tough final table full of notable pros to capture his first WSOP gold bracelet and €107,614. Twenty players made the money […]

Zynga Poker Facebook Page Slims Down

Facebook has been busy ridding the social media site of the abundance of fake user accounts and “likes” by such accounts, created to bump up numbers. In August, the International Business Times (UK) reported that Facebook had about 83 million fake or duplicate accounts. Now it is doing something about it as various pages have […]

Genting Poker Series Online Leg Begins Today

The sixth stop of the Genting Poker Series (GPS) moves to the virtual realm for its online leg and kicks off today, Sept. 27, with the first of seven events. This evening at 7 p.m. there is a £50 + £5 buy-in pot-limit Omaha rebuy event with £5,000 guaranteed. Players begin with 4,000 in chips […]

Husband Of Murder Victim Indicted For Poker Games

On Monday, an indictment was unsealed in Oklahoma alleging that a handful of individuals engaged in a multimillion-dollar gambling operation that included running underground poker games with a rake. One of the persons is Teddy Mitchell, husband to Julie Mitchell, who was found beaten to death in the couple’s Oklahoma City home about two years […]

Greg Mueller On Limit Hold'em Hand Selection

Greg Mueller is a two-time World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner, with both titles coming in limit hold’em events. The man known as “FBT” has compiled lifetime tournament earnings of more than $2.2 million, with his most recent score being a fifth-place finish in the 2012 WPT Legends of Poker. In addition to years […]

Roger Hairabedian Wins WSOP Europe Event No. 3

Roger Hairabedian outlasted a tough field of 97 to win the third event of the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe, the €5,300 buy-in pot-limit Omaha tournament. For the win the Frenchman was awarded his first WSOP gold bracelet and the €142,590 first-place prize. This was his ninth career title, bringing his lifetime tournament earnings […]

Web Poker Opponent Sees 'Net Worth' Drop

Casino owner, hyper-aggressive Republican campaign donor and web poker adversary Sheldon Adelson has fallen to 12th on Forbes’ list of America’s richest people, with a “net worth” of $20.5 billion. Adelson was listed as having $24.9 billion in a March ranking. Despite losing some of his value for the moment, the 79-year-old has set a […]

POY Update: Esfandiari Into Top Twenty

A number of major moves were made around the world this week in the 2012 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by Lock Poker. Here’s a look at the players who made the biggest moves this week. WSOP Europe Antonio Esfandiari has won event no. 2 of the 2012 World Series of Poker […]

European Shorthanded Poker Championship Kicks Off

The Winamax European Shorthanded Poker Championship kicks off today, Sept. 26, at the Regency Airport Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. At 8 p.m. (local time) this evening there is a €60 main event super satellite with one rebuy and one add-on or two rebuys. Day 1B of the main event is now closed for registration so […]

Norwegian Wins WCOOP Poker Player Of Series

Norwegian player “mikal12345” won the World Championship Of Online Poker Player of the Series after cashing in 15 events, two of which he won. He topped a field of 555 in event no. 12, the first hi/lo event of the series. The buy-in was $200 + $15 and there was one rebuy and one add-on. […]

Phantom Touchdown Causes $300M Vegas Shift

Not only did Monday’s phantom touchdown call on the last play of the game cost an NFL team a victory, but it also managed to swing an estimated $300 million in sports bets in another direction, according to the Associated Press. Monday Night Football’s game between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks was […]

2012 WSOP Europe: Esfandiari Wins Third Bracelet

Antonio Esfandiari is having one of the best years in poker tournament history. Only months after winning the $1 million buy-in for a record $18.3 million, Esfandiari continued his streak by taking down the 2012 WSOP Europe €1,100 no-limit hold’em event. Esfandiari won €126,207 and his third career gold bracelet after topping the 626-player field. […]

TV Show 'Vegas' To Debut On CBS Tuesday

This Tuesday night, CBS will debut their new show Vegas, a drama set in 1960s Las Vegas that focuses on a rodeo cowboy-turned lawman’s struggle with the incoming mafia. Real-life Ralph Lamb, who served as Clark County’s Sheriff from 1961-1979, is played by actor Dennis Quaid, who will battle it out each week with fictional […]

‘Maratik’ Turns $0 Into $1M In WCOOP Tournament

The 2012 World Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars came to a close Monday when Russian low-stakes grinder “Maratik” topped the 1,825-player field in the $5,200 no-limit hold’em main event to secure the title and the $1,000,907 first-place prize. While that in itself is impressive enough, what is truly remarkable is that he earned entry […]

New Features Announced For International Poker Open

Boylepoker.com has announced a few features for its upcoming International Poker Open. First of all, the event’s live updates will be powered by innovative poker tournament information system Evcount. This new system collects and combines all chip counts, bustouts, Tweets, blinds, big hands, news and so on. It also feeds streaming commentary which leads to […]

Andrey Bidnyuk Wins Betfair Poker LIVE! Yalta

Andrey Bidnyuk has won the Betfair Poker LIVE! Yalta main event beating 92 opponents in the $1,650 buy in no-limit hold’em tournament in South Crimea. Bidnyuk and three others made a deal when fourhanded which saw him take take down €33,500 rather than the $47,815 the prize pool originally offered. His three opponents had around […]

Hercules Transfers Full Tilt Poker Hardware

PokerStars is busy making preparations for FullTilt Poker’s launch which is set to take place by Nov. 6. The site committed to paying back $184 million in total to non-U.S. players within 90 days; the deadline falling on Nov. 6. Since this announcement, the company has experienced a flurry of activity with the organising of […]

Strategy: Samer Khuri Talks Sit-N-Go ICM Implications

Many high profile poker players started out their career by playing single table tournaments, more commonly known as sit-n-go’s. Samer Khuri, more commonly known in the online sit-n-go world as “Braminc,” moved up the ranks in the online sit-n-go world and was one of the best players in the high-stakes six and nine-man sit-n-go’s on […]