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Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Goliath Gets Underway

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Goliath event gets underway at midday local time today in the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, England. The £100+£20 buy in no-limit hold’em tournament is hoping to outstrip last year’s 1,765 players by 50 percent by attracting 2,500 entries across its three day 1s. The tournament has a £100,000 guarantee and player […]

Freeroll To EMOP Barcelona At BetVictor Poker Tonight

The third European Masters of Poker (EMOP) Barcelona freeroll in BetVictor Poker’s series of four takes place this evening, Aug. 22, at 8.15 p.m. (CET). Players must have earned 400 VIP points since Aug. 1 to take part as this is the 400m Sprint Challenge, which is part of the site’s €40,000 Poker Olympics. The […]

POY Update: Dan Smith Takes The Lead

Major moves were made this is the past weeks in the 2012 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by Lock Poker, including a brand new leader in the overall standings in Dan Smith! Here is a look at the events that made the biggest impact on the race in the past weeks: EPT […]

Talks Of CA iPoker Bill To Persist Postmortem

The tribes couldn’t come close to a consensus. Thus, the votes weren’t there for the bill to move forward. That’s the story of California’s online poker efforts this year. The state has been called the “sleeping giant” of web poker by one of its gambling regulators. While the bill is unofficially dead for 2012 (the […]

Atlantic City Casino Sues Players, Gaming Company

Atlantic City’s gambling industry has taken another hit, but perhaps this time to its reputation. The Golden Nugget, one of the city’s 12 properties, is declining to honor $1.5 million worth of winnings at a table game that it said was improperly set up by a third-party vendor, the Associated Press reported. More than a […]

Cartwright Wins Record-Tying 5th WSOP Circuit Ring

Kyle Cartwright had won four WSOP Circuit rings in just sixteen months before entering the World Series of Poker Circuit $1,665 no-limit hold’em main event at the IP Casino Resort and Spa in Biloxi, Mississippi. On Monday afternoon the 29-year-old pro from Bartlett, Tennessee topped the 299-player field to capture his record-tying fifth WSOP Circuit […]

Casino Merger Threatened By Competition Commission

Rank Plc, owner of Grosevenor Casino, the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, and Blue Square, suffered a blow yesterday as the UK’s Office of Fair Trading referred its proposed acquisition of Gala Casinos to the Competition Commission for further investigation. The OFT says it is concerned the merger “will substantially reduce competition in the casino sector.” […]

New Study Suggests Poker Is Game Of Skill

Three academics from the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Holland have published the first draft of a paper entitled Beyond Chance? The Persistence of Performance in Online Poker. PhD candidates Rogier J.D. Potter van Loon and Dennie van Dolder and Associate Professor of Finance Martijn J. van den Assem have analysed 415.9 million […]

No Sign Of Life At Dracula Poker

Dracula Poker has closed its doors and its users are now invited to join TitanPoker.com. A small poker room, also on the iPoker network to which it moved in 2009, Dracula Poker (formerly Dracula Hold’em) offered Texas hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, five-card stud, and seven-card stud. It had been translated into Hungarian and Romanian and […]

Card Player International Subscription Rates Lowered

Card Player has lowered its international subscription rates (excluding Canada) for a limited period of time making it even cheaper for readers to indulge in the latest poker news, interviews, strategy articles, industry updates, and blogs. A one year international subscription (26 issues) was previously $89.95 and is now $75.95, while two years has been […]

Delaware Park To Set World Record For Tournament

This Saturday, Aug. 25, Delaware Park in Wilmington will attempt to establish a Guinness World Record for the longest continuous poker tournament when they kick off the Iron Man Poker Challenge. The $600 buy-in tournament features a $100,000 guarantee and tournament organizers are expecting a field just shy of 400 with a first-place prize in […]

What's New At Titan Poker?

What’s New at Titan Poker? There’s always something happening at Titan Poker. New promotions and tournaments are constantly being added to the schedule and there are regular upgrades to the user-friendly software. Titan poker bonus code: TPCODE4U The Titan Rewards loyalty program was recently improved in order to ensure that benefits are distributed to all […]

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 August 20th through the 27th. Head to our Tournament […]

Zynga Poker Gets Nokia Filip

Zynga and Nokia have announced a partnership which will see Zynga Poker come to Nokia Asha Touch devices later this year. The online gaming giant has seen its share price languish in recent weeks and is looking towards real money gambling to help boost its revenue. Zynga Poker will be free to download from Nokia’s […]

Italian Wins Estrellas Poker Tour Barcelona

The PokerStars.com Estrellas Poker Tour Barcelona main event has become Spain’s largest ever poker tournament after it attracted 1,036 players to Gran Casino, Barcelona. The prize pool grew to €1,004,940 and €200,000 was awarded to eventual winner Lorenzo Sabato from Italy who knocked out the final two players to take his victory. He said, “I’m […]

Dan Smith Wins EPT Barcelona Super High Roller

Dan Smith has won the 2012 European Poker Tour Barcelona €50,000 super high roller event, topping a tough field of 64 to take home the $1,186,420 first-place prize and 612 Card Player Player of the Year points. Incredibly, this was Smith’s fifth title of the year, propelling him into the outright lead in the POY […]

European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event Begins

The PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona €5,000 + €300 main event begins today, Aug. 19, and will crown a champion on Aug. 25, the ultimate day of the entire festival. Players sit down to a starting stack of 30,000 in chips with blinds increasing every 75 minutes from level 1 to level 14 and then […]

Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Hits Coventry Today

For the very first time, the upcoming Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Goliath will run alongside leg 9 of the Tour at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena, with side event action playing out at the G Casino. Festivities commence today, Aug. 19, and GUKPT Coventry will run until Aug. 27 featuring a wide array of events. The […]

Asia Pacific Poker Tour Melbourne Begins Monday

Season 6 of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) gets going again as it pulls into the Crown Casino in Melbourne tomorrow for a festival of poker running from Aug. 20 to Sept. 3. The highlight of the second stop of the season is the AUD$4,700 + $300 buy-in main event. Players will sit down […]

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 […]

International Poker Open Need For Speed Returns

The Need For Speed promotion is returning to Boylepoker.com on Monday and will give away four International Poker Open seats worth €230 each and 10 IPO Super Satellite tokens worth €22 each. The IPO seats and tokens will be earned by the players who play the most raked hands in a single session for a […]

Zynga Throws Money At Stagnant Web Poker Efforts

Zynga Inc. has started to lobby for real-money Internet gambling. It is doing so in Washington, D.C. and California, according to the Wall Street Journal. However, bills in both places are huge long shots at the present time. Some industry insiders say a national online poker measure is perpetually drawing dead. California is set to […]

A Look At News From Around The Web

Here’s a look at the headlines for this week in the gaming business world. Mississippi Approves Rotate Black Casino For Gulport The Mississippi Gaming Commission has approved construction of a Rotate Black Casino in Gulfport with a vote of 3-0. The $112 million project was previously deemed to be too small, but has been expanded […]

Poker Destinations Continue Popping Up Across U.S.

Despite a sluggish economy, casinos continue to open in the United States at a torrid pace. State budget shortfalls have led to new and expanded casino development to fill in the gaps with tax revenue. As a result, states that had previously been absent of card rooms are becoming some of the biggest poker destinations […]

bwin Signs Partnership Deal With Manchester United

Online betting and gaming operator bwin has signed a three-year deal to become Manchester United’s online betting and gaming partner. The deal will see bwin integrated onto the soccer giant’s website, the development of co-branded social gaming products, sideline advertising and access to players for marketing. Poker players can expect to see Manchester United-related poker […]

Poker Revenue Down 27 Percent At Rank

Poker revenue has fallen by over one quarter at Rank Plc, owner of Grosvenor Casinos and online bookmaker Blue Square. In the 18 months to the end of June 2012 (Rank changed its accounting dates to bring it in line with major shareholder Guoco Group) poker revenue fell 26.7 percent to £1.1 million from £1.5 […]

20 Firms Could Bid On Full Tilt Poker

The United States Department of Justice recently announced that it’s seeking outside help with the Full Tilt Poker case. A claims administration firm will be hired to help compensate up to 1.3 million players owed a total of about $159 million. Players will file claims to the third-party firm, a Department of Justice spokeswoman said […]

Tony Gregg Wins WPT Parx Open Poker Classic

Anthony Gregg has won the inaugural WPT Parx Open Poker Classic main event. The young pro, known as “wwwBTHEREcom” online, captured $416,127 and 1,260 POY points for topping the 500 player field at the first ever WPT main event held in Pennsylvania, held at Parx Casino in Bensalem, just outside of Philadelphia. This was Gregg’s […]

Unibet Poker Revenue Grows 17 Percent

Unibet Plc yesterday reported a 17 percent rise in its gross winning revenue for poker in the second quarter of 2012 to £3.50 million from £2.99 million a year earlier. In the first six months of 2012 revenue was up 10.3 percent to £7.77 million from £6.97 million in the first half of 2011. The […]

Viktor Blom Loses PokerStars Sponsorship

Swedish cash game player Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom is no longer listed as a sponsored pro for PokerStars, the largest online poker site in the world. Earlier this year, Blom won back-to-back titles in one of the site’s marque tournament series. In January, he won $1.25 million in a high-roller event. Blom, 21, made his debut […]