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Absolute Poker's Brent Beckley Gets 14 Months In Prison

Brent Beckley, of defunct offshore poker site Absolute Poker, was handed a 14-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to charges in December, Reuters reported Monday. Last month, John Campos received three months in prison after striking a plea deal. Earlier this month, Full Tilt Poker CEO Ray Bitar was arrested and pleaded not guilty to […]

Maine Casino May Close After Permit Is Vacated

In November of 2010, Maine voters approved the Oxford Casino, which was then granted a development permit by the Department of Environmental Protection. The casino opened on June 5th of this year, but may soon be forced to close after the Androscoggin River Alliance pointed out that the permit was only for the first phase […]

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 July 23rd through the 30th. Head to our Tournament […]

Ben Jones Wins Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Bolton

Ben Jones is the champion of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Bolton main event. The online player took down the leg 8 title, £17,390, and a seat in the GUKPT Champion of Champions £100,000 tournament. The £500 six-max event drew a field of 114, creating a prize pool of £57,000. Jones reached the heads-up […]

Dusk Till Dawn Poker Record Attempt Underway

Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn poker club is hoping to attract 2,000 players to the July Grand Prix to meet its €200,000 guarantee and break its current record for Europe’s largest poker tournament. In April, 1,625 players passed through the club’s doors for the UK & Ireland Poker Tour, which was won by Robert Baguley. The […]

Irish Betting Bill Ignores Poker

Standalone online poker companies will not be covered in new gambling legislation to be introduced in Ireland. Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has published the Betting (Amendment) Bill which explicitly covers offshore online bookmakers and betting exchanges. The bill makes no mention of online poker which means standalone online poker operators such as PokerStars will […]

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 […]

World Series of Poker Main Event Betting - Best Prices

Last Monday the World Series of Poker main event reached its final table and the nine players will return in October to play down to a champion who will collect $8.5 million. Four European bookmakers have opened outright betting market on the final table – bwin, BlueSq, Ladbrokes and 888Sport. Many more markets will appear […]

Nevada Gaming Committee To Discuss Web Poker

Nevada’s 11-member Gaming Policy Committee, headed by Gov. Brian Sandoval, will meet Wednesday in Las Vegas to discuss recommendations for the 2013 legislative session on the issue of real-money online poker. The main suggestion will likely come in the form of removing some language from Assembly Bill 258, the legislation that forced the adoption of […]

A Poker Life: WPT Champion Shawn Cunix

Shawn Cunix has seven figures worth of poker tournament earnings, but his story is not that of your typical poker professional. He owns 82 Verizon Wireless stores and three car lots, but he is not your average businessman either. The 38-year old has been married for 19 years and has three children, and it is […]

A Look At News From Around The Web

Here’s a look at the headlines for this week in the gaming business world. New Jersey Eyes Casino In Meadowlands New Jersey lawmakers are now formally considering casino gambling expansion to other parts of the state other than Atlantic City. The proposed casino at the Meadowlands could boast slot machines, table games or some combination […]

PartyPoker Kills High-Stakes Games

High stakes action has taken a hit at PartyPoker.com as the online poker site has decided to remove much of its high stakes cash game offering. Many of its cash games are no longer available, much to players’ chagrin, and according to the site the reason for doing so boils down to poker ecology. The […]

World Poker Tour National Venice Starts Saturday

The World Poker Tour National Series continues this weekend with a €1,500 + €150 buy in main event at Casino Di Venezia in the Italian city of Venice. The four-day event has two day ones and runs until Tuesday. Players can re-enter the tournament if they are knocked out. Players will start with 20,000 in […]

'The Guy They Always Forget' Makes WSOP Run

With a short stack all tournament, Perry Green said he had a switch blade while his opponents were using machine guns. But he still enjoyed himself this summer in the World Series of Poker main event — more than three decades after he finished runner-up to the late Stu Ungar. Green, 76, has been coming […]

Latest Issue Of CP Magazine Now Online

The latest edition of Card Player Magazine is now available online and features Marvin Rettenmaier, winner of the 2012 WPT Championship. Rettenmaier is among a number of German pros who have made a name for themselves in recent years. “The German poker community is pretty close knit,” said Rettenmaier. “There are definitely a lot of […]

World Poker Tour Kicks Off Season XI In Cyprus

Season XI of the World Poker Tour (WPT) gets underway from Aug. 4 when the WPT Merit Cyprus Classic $4,000 + $400 buy-in main event kicks off at the Merit Crystal Cove Casino and Resort. The $1 million guaranteed main event will run for six days with the final table streamed live on Aug. 9 […]

EMOP Barcelona Freeroll At BetVictor Poker Tonight

This evening (Thursday) at 8.15 p.m. (CET) BetVictor Poker players will have the opportunity to win a package for the European Masters Of Poker Barcelona main event. The fourth Iron Man EMOP Barcelona freeroll requires 250 VIP points to take part and the winner will receive an EMOP Barcelona package worth €2,000. This includes the […]

PokerStars Moves German Players To .eu Client

PokerStars today migrates its entire German player base to its the Pokerstars.eu client. The .eu client was introduced in February this year and is licenced and regulated by the Maltese Lotteries and Gaming Commission. Swedish and Finnish players were the first to be moved to the new client when it was introduced. Nothing tangible will […]

5050 Poker To Delist From Swedish Stock Exchange

5050 Poker has failed to find a buyer and will delist from the Swedish NASDAQ OMX stock exchange on Friday July 20. In a short statement yesterday the company said, “After the application to be delisted by 5050 Poker Holding AB (publ), NASDAQ OMX has decided that trading in the 5050 Poker Holding shares on […]

$4 Million Won In PokerStars MicroMillions So Far

The PokerStars MicroMillions is a little over the half-way mark with $4 million in prize pools already won. The online poker festival is running for the second time only and with the average buy-in less than $5, guarantees are being smashed at every turn with players of all kinds flocking to the virtual felt. One […]

Win Irish Winter Poker Festival Seat for €2 Tonight

As the summer poker season draws to an end with the World Series of Poker main event final being reached all eyes now turn to the autumn schedule and one of the jewel’s in the crown is the PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Winter Festival taking place at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, from October 26 to 29. Players […]

New Aspers Casino to Host Unibet Open London

With the Olympics descending on east London over the coming weeks poker fans won’t have long to wait before they get to test their own skills in the area with the news that Aspers new casino at Westfield Stratford in the Olympic Park will host the third live leg of the Unibet Open from September […]

Poker.co.uk Sold To Amateur Poker Association & Tour

Online poker room Poker.co.uk has been sold to the UK-based Amateur Poker Association & Tour. The Tour has acquired the software, player database, and customer support contracts and will rebrand the room later this year. Founder of Poker.co.uk, Matt Dale, said, “With a membership of over 50,000 players and a reputation for being very community […]

World Series Of Poker Main Event Reaches Final

Despite a first-place prize of $8.5 million looming in October, it didn’t take a long day 7 for the final 27 players to become just nine. Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, the final table was set in the World Series of Poker main event — a tournament that is as prestigious as it is dramatic. […]

Danny Wong Falls Short Of 'Beautiful Money' In WSOP

Long-time pro Danny Wong hasn’t been around tournament poker for quite some time, taking a break to peruse cash games around the world, but he made a splash in his return to the circuit by notching a deep run in the WSOP Main Event. Wong had more experience than any of the remaining 14 players […]

Merson: A Chip And A Chair Success Story

Greg Merson shouldn’t even be here. The 25-year-old professional poker player was left with just a couple of blinds with 150 players remaining on day 5 after doubling up Fabrizio Gonzalez. Merson got it all in with second pair and the nut flush draw, only to lose to Gonzalez and his set. After the stacks […]

Andrew Brokos: Defending Your Button

If you’re an experienced tournament player, then you’re probably accustomed to the dynamics of attacking and defending blinds. Late in a tournament, the big blind usually represents a large percentage of anyone’s stack. If you can spot a player who folds his big blind liberally, then you’ve got a golden opportunity to accumulate chips with […]

PaddyPowerPoker.com Launches Poker Triathlon

Players at PaddyPowerPoker.com have up until midnight on Aug. 9 to opt in for its new Poker Triathlon and get saving points for prizes. The promotion began on Jul. 11 and features three poker challenges to choose from – the Marathon, Sprint, and Long Distance. The more points collected, the better the award received (bronze, […]

Just 27 Remain In World Series of Poker Main Event

The sixth day of play of the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event wrapped up early Monday morning, leaving 27 out of the 6,598 who entered to battle it out Monday for a spot at the nine-handed final table. More than $8.5 million will go to first. Leading the way is Marc Ladouceur. He […]

Roger Hairabédian Wins WPT National Mazagan

Roger Hairabedian has won the €1,650 buy in World Poker Tour National Mazagan main event in El Jadida, Morocco. The former European Poker Tour grand finalist took 13 hours to triumph at the final table, eventually beating Hicham Zaakour heads up when his K7 trumped Zaakour’s 87 on a board of J625Q. Hairabédian won €64,106 […]