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Depositors Freeroll at Paddy Power Poker WednesdayThe third event in the $10,000 Depositors Freerolls takes place tonight, Wednesday September 19, 2012 at PaddyPowerPoker.com. Entry for players is just a deposit away and the password to take part in the tournament tonight is TWENTY20. The prize pool tonight is $2,500. The freerolls take place every Thursday at 7.30 p.m. in September. Next […]
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Betfair Poker To Launch In Spain With PlaytechBetfair has struck a deal with Playtech which will allow it to offer online poker in regulated markets which it does not currently have access to. The company currently hosts all its poker on the Ongame network which is for sale. It will offer poker via Playtech in the Spanish market, which was regulated earlier […]
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Birthplace of WSOP Applies For Web Poker LicenseThe company that owns Binion’s Gambling Hall & Hotel in Downtown Las Vegas has applied for a license to be involved with the state’s upcoming online poker industry, Card Player has learned from the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Binion’s is the birthplace of the World Series of Poker, which first started running in 1970. Despite […]
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Nevada Loses Regulator, Online Poker AdvocateMark Lipparelli, the chairman of Nevada’s three-member Gaming Control Board, will step down from his position at the end of the month, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Tuesday. Lipparelli has been at the helm of Nevada’s move toward the nation’s first intrastate online poker industry. Nevada officials adopted Internet poker regulations in December 2011, after […]
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Imperial Palace Renamed The Quad For Strip ProjectOn Monday, Caesars Entertainment announced that they had chosen a new name for the Las Vegas Strip property currently known as the Imperial Palace. The new property will begin its transformation to The Quad Resort & Casino as early as November, with renovations scheduled to wrap up in late 2013. The company is hoping to […]
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Venetian To Host Opening Of New Poker RoomOn September 28, the Venetian will unveil their brand new Sands Poker Room, featuring 14,000 square feet of remodeled floor space and 59 tables, making it the largest card room in Las Vegas. “The new Sands Poker Room at The Venetian is a player’s room in every way,” said Kathy Raymond, Venetian Executive Director of […]
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Russian Wins European Masters Of Poker BarcelonaThe European Masters of Poker had to go from 12 to 1 on its final day, but when all the chips were eventually in the middle, it was Sergei Petrushin who was still smiling. The Russian takes home €56,875 from stop four of season IV after topping a field of 455 in the €1,100 buy-in […]
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Olivier Busquet Wins WCOOP High Roller Heads UpNew Yorker Olivier Busquet has won the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker High Roller Heads Up no-limit hold’em event. The $10,300 buy in tournament attracted the full compliment of 64 players and included notable names such as Daniel Negreanu, Shaun Deeb, Viktor Blom, Tom Marchese, Ville Wahlbeck, Bertrand Grospellier and Eugene Katchalov. The latter […]
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English Poker Open Main Event StartsThe English Poker Open (EPO) £2,000 + £180 main event begins on today, Sept. 18 at 2 p.m. (local time) at the Fox Poker Club in the West End of London, and will run until Friday, Sept. 21 when the 2012 champion will be crowned. There will be two starting days and players will sit […]
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Exploring The Lives Of History's Greatest GamblersWelcome to Card Player’s new series, Men of Action, which will explore the lives of some of history’s greatest gamblers and sportsmen. It started with a desire to see his favorite horse, Seabiscuit, run and ended back home in Art Rooney’s living room in Pittsburgh telling his astounded wife, making her believe it with bank […]
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Esfandiari Cashing In On $18 Million WSOP WinPoker pro Antonio Esfandiari won the $1 million buy-in event this summer at the World Series of Poker and since then has been using it as a way to increase his marketability off the felt. On Tuesday morning, he will appear on the Howard Stern Show to talk poker. “I’m going to have a lot […]
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Meet Your New Poker Coach With Insta PokerAntonio Esfandiari has won more money in tournament poker than any other player in history, and thanks to Insta Poker, the new poker strategy game available in the App Store, Antonio, along with poker’s best and brightest players, Huck Seed, Dan O’Brien, Jonathan Little, Amir Lehavot, Matt Berkey and Konstantin Othmer can be your own […]
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A Look At The Week In Tournament PokerIn 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 September 17th through the 23rd. Head to our Tournament […]
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International Poker Open Seats Up For Grabs TodayThe International Poker Open (IPO) 2012 is making its way ever closer so now is the time to get qualifying. There are numerous ways to ensure a weekend of poker fun from Oct. 19-21 at Dublin’s Regency Hotel via daily Boylepoker.com satellites for the €230 buy-in main event. For instance tonight at 7 p.m. there […]
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Pratik Ghatge Lifts Unibet Open London TitleLondoner Pratik Ghatge won the Unibet Open London main event at the weekend taking down the £85,050 top prize for beating 316 opponents. The historian said after his victory in the £1,500 + £150 buy in event, “I ran pretty good today from the get-go. I got a lot of hands, and I picked up […]
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Rui Chen Crowned Macau Poker Cup ChampionRui Chen has won the 2012 Macau Poker Cup main event, topping a field of 270, battling the final table for 12 hours, and walking away from The Grand Waldo Entertainment Complex with HK$1,108,500 (€109,014 or US$142,995). The guarantee was exceeded in the HK$20,000 buy-in main event with a prize pool of HK$4,818,960 (€473,938) on […]
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Matthew Salsberg Wins WPT Grand Prix De ParisMatthew Salsberg has taken down the season XI Grand Prix de Paris €7,500 buy-in main event for a payday of $515,720, and in doing so prevented heads-up opponent Theo Jorgensen from becoming the first WPT winner to take down two events at the same venue, in this case, the Aviation Club de France. It was […]
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EMOP Hunts Down Poker Champ In BarcelonaThe European Masters of Poker Barcelona has not quite found its final table but today it will continue to hunt down its champion as 12 players return to the felt for the remainder of the €1,000 + €100 buy-in main event. The event could not compete with its main event attendance last year when 455 […]
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Grosvenor UK Poker Tour London Begins TodayThe 2012 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour moves on to leg 10 today at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London. The festival, which features a variety of side events, satellites, and indeed the £1,000 + £70 buy-in main event, will run until Sept. 24. Today, Sept. 16, at 7.30 p.m. (local time) there is a £30 […]
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Question and Answer: Poker Pro Darryll FishFlorida native Darryll Fish is making a name for himself as a versatile young poker player. His beginnings involved home games and low stakes at local dog tracks. He then hit the online grind and graduated to playing multi-table tournaments. Due to the recent lack of online poker availability, he has recently turned his talents […]
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A Look At News From Around The WebHere’s a look at the headlines for this week in the gaming business world. Hard Rock Scraps Atlantic City Casino Plan AC Gateway LLC has announced that it will not pursue their original plans to build a smaller, boutique casino on the Atlantic City boardwalk. The resort would have been run by Hard Rock International, […]
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Euro Poker Tweets Of The WeekSam Trickett has been making some big moves on and off the felt this past week. Just a few days ago it was announced that the British pro’s sponsorship deal with Matchbook.com had been “mutually concluded”. Trickett hit Twitter saying: Finished my Temporary Deal with Matchbook today.What a ride that was! #goodtimes — Sam Trickett […]
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2012 Borgata Poker Open Brings Big Tournament ActionMassive tournament action has returned to Atlantic City, New Jersey with the luxurious Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa once again playing host to the Borgata Poker Open tournament series. The 2012 running kicked off on September 5th with the first of 21 events, a $560 buy-in no-limit hold’em re-entry event that sported a $1,000,000 guaranteed […]
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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 […]
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iGame Poker Sites Set To Leave EntractionThe recent news that the Entraction network is set to close later this year has left almost 50 poker skins with the job of finding a new home. One of the early announcements of an imminent move comes from former Entraction stalwart iGame Malta which operates 24hPoker, PokeriHuone, iGame Poker. The company said, “In continuation […]
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World Poker Tour Reaches Malta TodayThe World Poker Tour (WPT) starts on its Maltese journey today as it pulls into The Casino at Portomaso for seven days of poker action. Leading up to the highlight of the festival, the WPT main event, are some satellites, and the first takes place this evening at 8 p.m. (local time) with a buy-in […]
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IGT To Close Entraction Poker NetworkInternational Game Technology is to shut down the Entraction poker network which it bought for around $115 million last year. The company, which has been retreating from ‘gray area’ markets such as Canada, Israel, and Russia, has seen liquidity at Entraction plummet and as a result it has made a business decision to shut the […]
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'Rock Band' Developer Applies For Web PokerVideo-game developer 3G Studios, based in Nevada, which helped build the popular “Rock Band” for the PlayStation 3, has applied for an online poker license in the Silver State, the company said Wednesday. 3G Studios could be the first company of its kind licensed for real-money poker in the U.S. The company added that its […]
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VIDEO: Casinos Try Humor In TV AdvertisementsOn Monday, the American Gaming Association, the U.S. casino industry’s main lobbying group on Capitol Hill, released its list of finalists for the 2012 Gaming Voice Awards. One of the categories is for “best” TV ad. The AGA said that judges evaluated 233 entries to find the 47 finalists across a range of categories. Winners […]
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Full Tilt Poker To Begin Verifying Player IdentitiesOn Thursday, more than a year after Full Tilt Poker slammed its doors shut with hundreds of millions of player money locked up in cyberspace, the company, now owned by former rival PokerStars, has begun the process of verifying player accounts. Card Player received a copy of the email sent out to some of the […]
