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Griffin To Be Given Freedom After FTP DealHigh-stakes cash game professional Ashton Griffin won more freedom with PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker reaching a settlement agreement with the U.S. government — a deal which will provide victims of Full Tilt’s fraud with money back. More than $300 million was siphoned off from players, of which several hundreds of thousands belong to Griffin. […]
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International Poker Open Satellite This ThursdayThe Boylepoker.com International Poker Open qualification is well underway and tonight, Thursday August 2 sees another chance for players to pick up a seat for free. There’s a freeroll satellite tonight (and every night) at 7 p.m. which awards a feeder satellite token worth €5.50 which is good for the twice daily feeder satellites at […]
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Supernova Elite Wins Italian Poker Tour San RemoItalian Alessandro Meoni has won the PokerStars Italian Poker Tour San Remo main event at Casino San Remo. The Supernova Elite finished top of the 375-strong field in the €2,000 + €200 buy in no-limit hold’em event. He faced freeroll qualifier Raffaele Bertolucci heads up but in the final hand his A-K hit top pair […]
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Ladbrokes Poker Revenue Down 24 PercentLadbrokes Plc, the owner of Ladbrokes Poker, today said online poker net revenue dropped 24.3 percent to £5.6 million in the first half of 2012 compared to £7.4 million in the same period last year. The company, which sacked Product Director Richard Ames earlier this week over the disappointing performance of its digital strategy, said […]
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Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw: Day 7 ResultsDay 7 of the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw is in the books with three new winners determined and $52,729 in prize money awarded for the day. Four players also made their second final table of the CPPT Choctaw series. Here is a look at Wednesday’s results: Event 12 – $200 No-Limit Hold’em ($15,000 Guarantee) […]
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Player Of The Year Update: Tommy Vedes Into Top 20The action keeps on coming in the 2012 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by Lock Poker. Here’s a look at the events that made the biggest impact in the past week: 2012 Florida State Poker Championship The Isle Casino in Pompano Beach, Florida played host to its 16-event Florida State Poker Championship […]
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Nevada Lawmaker: PokerStars Has 'Credibility Issue'Thanks to its $731 million settlement with the United States Department of Justice, Isle of Man-based PokerStars has DOJ permission to re-enter the American market only if it can obtain a license under a state or federal regulatory framework. For years the company continued to operate in the country in the face of the Unlawful […]
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Dan Cates Ready To Recover Full Tilt MoneyWith the death of Full Tilt Poker last year, so went one of the greatest upswings in the history of the game. Daniel Cates, known by his former Full Tilt screen name Jungleman12, was up about $7 million on the site between fall 2009 and Black Friday on April 15, 2011. Cates said Wednesday that […]
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Wednesday Irish Winter Poker Festival Packages For €2Tonight Wednesday August 1 sees the latest installment of the PaddyPowerPoker.com Cheap Seats tournament series where players can win a €1,125 seat for the Irish Winter Festival main event – tonight at 8:30 p.m. BST – for just €2. Players cannot buy in directly direct to Cheap Seats satellites and must qualify via the feeder […]
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Carlos Chang Takes Asian Poker Tour Macau TitleCarlos Chang of Taiwan has won the HKD25,000 (€3,222) buy in Asian Poker Tour Macau main event after beating 267 opponents to win the HKD1,913,100 (€200,835) top prize. Chang knocked out the start-of-day chip leader Richard Zhu in third place to give himself a commanding 7:1 advantage over his heads up opponent Winfred Yu who […]
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Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw: Day 6 ResultsDay 6 of the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw saw the conclusion of three events, including the first pot-limit Omaha tournament of the series. Here is a look at Tuesday’s results: Event 10 – $200 No-Limit Hold’em ($15,000 Guarantee) Keeping the unbroken streak of guarantee breaking alive, event 10 easily surpassed its $15,000 promise when […]
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CarbonPoker Offers Free $25 Cash For AugustCarbonPoker is now offering new players a $25 cash bonus this August. Any player who makes a minimum deposit of $10 is eligible for the free $25 bonus, which is awarded immediately into their account. In order to cash out their bonus, a player must simply log 1,000 VIP points. If you don’t have a […]
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Poker Pro Ryan Young Killed In Car AccidentPoker pro Ryan Young was killed in a car accident on Monday. The Torrance, California native was just 28 years old. Young made a name for himself on the tournament circuit with success in 2007 and 2008, winning a World Series of Poker bracelet, a Legends of Poker side event and finishing runner up in […]
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Blair Hinkle Looking To Reclaim $1 MillionPoker pro Blair Hinkle had been suffering through rumor after rumor for more than a year, but on Tuesday morning he woke to the best news of his life — that Full Tilt Poker, a site that holds $1 million of his money, was absorbed by PokerStars and will refund its former customers. Since he […]
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Ray Bitar Says Goodbye To Full Tilt PokerRay Bitar is finally saying goodbye to the company he founded in 2004 and built to prominence with the help of a number of poker’s biggest names. Over the years, the company grew to one of the most popular online poker sites in history. However, its finances began to unravel at around the end of […]
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Massachusetts Governor Signs Tribal Gaming CompactMassachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a compact with the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe to build a $500 million casino resort in Taunton. The agreement calls for the tribal casino to pay 21.5 percent of its gambling revenue to the state. “This is a good deal for everyone,” said Patrick in a statement. “If this compact […]
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PokerStars Buys Full Tilt Poker Via DOJAfter more than a year of waiting, former players of Full Tilt Poker, which has been described as a Ponzi scheme by the U.S. Department of Justice, are set to get repaid. The defunct company has been bought by PokerStars, which announced Tuesday that it has reached a settlement with the DOJ. According to PokerStars, […]
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BetClic Buys GigaMedia’s Share of Everest PokerFrench gaming group Betclic has bought out its former partner, Gigamedia’s, stake in Everest Gaming. GigaMedia wrote off its stake in Everest earlier this year after some horrific finalcial performances and the 33 percent it owned has now been taken over by Betclic according to Le Figaro. Details of the deal were not published. Beclic […]
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Genting Poker Tour Stoke Starts WednesdayThe Genting Poker Tour pitches up in Stoke, England tomorrow, Wednesday, August 1, for the fourth leg of season one. Over 200 players have already qualified for the £400 + £30 buy in main event, already surpassing the £100,000 guarantee. Day 1A starts on Thursday. Poker manager at Genting, Gary Oakes, said, “The Genting Poker […]
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BetVictor Launches Poker OlympicsThe €40,000 Poker Olympics gets underway at BetVictor Poker tomorrow August 1. Over the next month poker players will have the opportunity to take part in five events including Sprint Challenges, Marathon, High Jump, Long Jump, and 400 Metre Hurdles. Prizes up for grabs include a MacBook Air and four European Masters of Poker Barcelona […]
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Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw: Day 5 ResultsDay 5 of the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw saw three new winners determined, with a total of $52,904 in prize money awarded in the day’s events. Here is a look at Monday’s results: Event 8 – $235 No-Limit Hold’em ($20,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool) Marietta, Oklahoma’s William Austin emerged victorious in event 8, the $235 […]
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James Bond To Sell Nevada Online Poker?Pierce Brosnan, who played James Bond in four films, is one of the latest celebrities to get behind an online gaming site. This summer, Brosnan appeared in a commercial for Rome, Italy-based Lottomatica Group, which through a subsidiary has applied for a license to run real-money online poker in Nevada. The Silver State’s industry is […]
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WSOP Final-Table Money Gaining Interest DollarsThe World Series of Poker main event final-table money is now gaining some extra value. On Friday, $20,454,658 was placed into a Fidelity Investments Money Market account, and it will sit there as the final nine wait to resume play in October. Boston-based Fidelity, a private company, is one of the largest financial services groups […]
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Latest Issue Of CP Magazine Now OnlineThe latest edition of Card Player Magazine is now available online and features Matt Matros, winner of back-to-back-to-back bracelets at the last three years of the World Series of Poker. Matros has been one of the most successful tournament players around for the last few years, but flies under the radar a bit because he […]
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David Allan Lifts ANZPT Queenstown TitleAustralian online poker specialist David Allen has won the PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour main event in Queenstown, New Zealand. A total of 149 players paid NZD$2,700 + NZD$300 (approximately €1,969) to enter the main event which created a total prize pool of NZD$402,300 (€263,820). Allan beat Ken Demlakian heads up. The latter started […]
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Ladbrokes Sacks Director Over Strategy ErrorsLadbrokes Plc, one-time poker market innovator and leader, has sacked its product director Richard Ames. The move comes ahead of Thursday’s half-year financial results which, according to Telegraph.co.uk, are expected to show profits from the bookmaker’s online businesses halved from the £31 million achieved in the same period last year. In 2011 Ladbrokes Poker revenue […]
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Brazilian Poker Pro André Akkari Gets New DealBrazilian World Series of Poker bracelet winner Andre Akkari has won a new deal, signing with football legend Ronaldo’s communication agency 9ine. 9ine will manage Akkari’s affairs in public relations and communications. He will be the first poker player managed by the company. He joins athletes Neymar, Falcão, Leandro Damião, Lucas, and the country singer […]
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Spaniard Wins €66,800 at Estrellas Poker TourBorja Gonzalez Urteaga has won the €1,000 + €100 buy in PokerStars Estrellas Poker Tour San Sebastian main event, topping the 269 field for a payday of €66,800. Eleven players started the final day at Casino Kursall in the Basque city and five hours later Urteaga beat former Estrellas Poker Tour Alicante winner Alejandro Nelson […]
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Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw: Day 4 ResultsDay 4 of the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw was the day of the chop, as all four events that ended today came to a close with a deal. Just because deals were made does not mean that there wasn’t big money on the line, however, as a total of $316,679 in prize money was […]
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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 July 30th through August 6th. Head to our Tournament […]
