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Aguiar Upset By WSOP Verbal Declaration Policy

A Twitter tirade broke out on Saturday from Jonathan Aguiar (@JonAguiar) concerning a new World Series of Poker rule that requires players at all live-streamed featured and final tables to verbally declare all of their actions. Aguiar, who finished third in Friday’s $1,500 pot-limit hold’em finale, was livid after being told that he and his […]

Sam Trickett Tweets Poker Nightmare

Apart from poker players regularly tweeting World Series of Poker comments and well wishes, and the very many gushing over the WSOP party recently, poker pro Sam Trickett took to Twitter for other reasons this week. The UK poker pro wrote on May 31: “I had money stolen from me by a well known poker […]

2012 WSOP Overnight Leaders Report

Here’s an overnight report of the events still in progress at the 2012 World Series of Poker. Check back every morning for a full breakdown of prize pools, field sizes and chip leaders. Final Day Event No. 7 — $1,500 Seven Card Stud Entrants: 367 Total Prize pool: $495,450 Players Remaining: 9 Average Chip Count: […]

Nick Jivkov Wins $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em

Daniel Negreanu’s failure in capturing his fifth World Series of Poker bracelet made it possible for Nick Jivkov to capture his first. The 34-year-old finished off the 639-player field in Event No. 5 ($1,500 pot-limit hold’em) on Friday night. The final table was bloated with talent. Joining Negreanu were poker pros Bryan Pellegrino, Jonathan Aguiar, […]

Online Poker Licenses Hit NV Regulatory Agenda

Online poker in Nevada will be one step closer to reality this upcoming week. The Nevada Gaming Control Board has released an agenda for its June 6 and 7 meetings, and Bally Technologies, Inc. and International Game Technology will have their respective licensure applications for online gaming considered. If approved, they would go to the […]

A Look At News From Around The Web

Here’s a look at the headlines for this week in the gaming business world. New Ohio Casino Makes Debut, Takes Aim At Detroit The Hollywood Casino in Toledo, Ohio opened on Tuesday, giving the city of Detroit and its three casinos some increased competition. Toledo is the second city in Ohio to open a casino, […]

2012 WSOP Overnight Leaders Report

Here’s an overnight report of the events still in progress at the 2012 World Series of Poker. Check back every morning for a full breakdown of prize pools, field sizes and chip leaders. Final Day Event No. 5 — $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em Entrants: 639 Total Prize pool: $862,650 Players Remaining: 9 Average Chip Count: 319,500 […]

Antonino Venneri Wins Italian Poker Tour Campione

Antonino Venneri from Italy has ensured the latest PokerStars Italian Poker Tour title stayed on home soil after he beat a topped a field of 244 player in Campione. Venerri took down €130,000 for his victory in the €2,000 + €200 buy in main event. He beat fellow countryman Ivan Losi head up. The final […]

Sportingbet, 888, Bwin.party Get Spanish Licences

bwin.party has been awarded a licence to offer online poker in Spain. Sportingbet and 888 have also confirmed receipt of Spanish online gaming licences. Update PokerStars has also been granted a licence to offer online poker. The company said, “We are happy to confirm that PokerStars was today granted a license to operate in Spain […]

Cory Zeidman Wins WSOP 7 Stud 8/OB Bracelet

Cory Zeidman has won event no.4 at the 2012 World Series of Poker, the $1,500 buy in seven-card stud high-low eight or better, defeating two-time bracelet winner from Sweden, Chris Bjorin. The event attracted 622 players to the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, including last year’s runner up Mike Sexton who […]

Purple Lounge To File For Liquidation

Purple Lounge, the online poker room and casino, is to go into liquidation. The troubled site, owned by Media Corp plc, closed suddenly last month trapping many poker bankrolls with no warning. The company was cut adrift by its regulator, Malta’s Lotteries and Gaming Authority, and despite the subsequent agreement to buy Intabet for £1.53 […]

Follow Along With Event No. 5 Live Updates Now!

Read Event No. 5 Live Updates Now! Daniel Negreanu already has four World Series of Poker gold bracelets to his name, and will be looking to capture his fifth on Friday as he enters the final table of the WSOP $1,500 pot-limit hold’em event in sixth chip position. Negreanu won his first-ever gold bracelet in […]

Gavin Smith Finds New Backer for World Series

Event No. 6 ($5,000 no-limit mixed-max) had its first day of action on Thursday, and one of the chip leaders near the end of the night was Gavin Smith. He accumulated his stack in a cooler situation, where he had aces versus McLean Karr’s ace-king and Darren Elias’ kings. Smith busted Karr on the hand […]

Shannon Shorr Not Tweaking Game After Brutal 2011

Shannon Shorr is an elite poker player, but he had one of the worst runs of anyone at the 2011 World Series of Poker. He played 42 events last summer, and cashed in just two. This year, Shorr is back in action and feeling confident, despite the 2011 disappointment. To him, 42 events is not […]

Force Wins WSOP $3,000 Heads-Up NLH/PLO Event

Poker fans might recognize Leif Force as the dreadlock-wearing “Jungle Boy” who finished 11th in the 2006 World Series of Poker main event for more than $1.1 million. However, now he can be known as a WSOP gold bracelet winner. Force won nine consecutive heads-up matches to top the 317-player field in the first-ever WSOP […]

2012 WSOP Overnight Leaders Report

Here’s an overnight report of the events still in progress at the 2012 World Series of Poker. Check back every morning for a full breakdown of prize pools, field sizes and chip leaders. Final Day Event No. 3 — $3,000 Heads-Up HA Entrants: 317 Total Prize pool: $870,870 Players Remaining: 8 Average Chip Count: 576,000 […]

Legal Online Poker in Australia Edges Closer

Australian poker players moved one step closer to being able to play online legally yesterday when communications minister Stephen Conroy released an interim report into the outmoded Interactive Gambling Act. The report suggested that online poker tournaments should be made legal and online poker providers licenced. This is in direct opposition to the government’s previous […]

Sportingbet Poker Revenue Falls 53 Percent

Sportingbet Plc, owner of Paradise Poker, has reported third quarter financials 2011/2012 (the three months to the end of April 2012) with poker taking a hammering. Net gaming revenue from poker fell 53 percent to £1.5 million from £3.2 million in the third quarter of 2011. The company said it faced “challenging market conditions” and […]

Jungleman Joins Matchbook.com Pro Team for 2012 WSOP

Since the demise of Full Tilt Poker poker pro sponsorship has taken a nose dive but one team is bucking the trend at this year’s World Series of Poker. Online betting exchange Matchbook.com has announced details of its team of pros which will join Sam Trickett in Las Vegas this summer. Trickett tweeted a couple […]

Hanks Wins 2012 WSOP $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

After being down to about one big blind earlier this week, Brent Hanks has won the first open bracelet event of the 2012 World Series of Poker. Hanks defeated a star-studded final table to earn his first gold bracelet, a massive first-place prize of more than $400,000, after chopping, and 1,080 Card Player Player of […]

Jason Mercier Continues WSOP Staking Hot Streak

Jason Mercier doesn’t need to win to win. Despite his enormous success on the tournament circuit, he has a second job — backing really good players. Mercier staked Brent Hanks for Event No. 2 ($1,500 no-limit hold’em) at the 2012 World Series of Poker. Hanks, a former online pro, won more than $400,000 after finishing […]

Hanks Guns For World Series of Poker Gold

Click here for full live updates from event no. 2 The final table of event no. 2 ($1,500 – no-limit hold’em) is now underway, and Card Player will be posting level-by-level updates with all of the action, current chip counts, and prize distributions. With the elimination of Kennii Nguyen in 10th Place ($29,932), the official, […]

Hellmuth Excited About California Online Poker

Nevada may be out in front in the online poker race, but California stands as the Holy Grail for the industry. Phil Hellmuth, arguably poker’s biggest brand name, looks to be involved with future U.S. online poker. When asked if he’s looking forward to Nevada possibly going online by the end of the year, the […]

Bazeley Leads Event No. 2, Kelly and Selbst Loom

Were just a few days into the 2012 World Series of Poker and we have already found ourselves a star-studded final day of action in event no. 2, the $1,500 no-limit hold’em tournament. The field of 2,101 generated a massive $2,836,350 prize pool which was paid out to the top 216 players. After navigating their […]

POY Update: Rettenmaier, Kim & O'Dwyer Climb

The World Poker Tour Championship is now in the books, and has made some major changes to the landscape of the Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by Lock Poker. With the World Series of Poker now getting underway, the race is about to go into overdrive. Here is a look at the […]

bwin.party Launches Social Gaming Strategy

bwin.party, the online gaming operator which owns PartyPoker today announced details of its new social gaming strategy which will include the release of social sports betting, casino, poker and bingo applications. The company said it would adopt a “build and partner” strategy for its new business which will be called Win and said it would […]

GUKPT Goliath Aims For Record Field

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Goliath is set to return to Coventry, England from August 22 to 27 with organizers anticipating a 50 percent increase in numbers to 2,500. Last year the event set a record for the largest re-entry tournament in Europe with 1,765 players and was won by Lee Rawson. This year the […]

Genting Poker Series Hits Edinburgh

The third leg of the Genting Poker Series gets underway in today in Edinburgh, Scotland. Genting expects the £400 + £40 main event field to top the 580 players who took part in the London event in March after last weekend’s live satellite attracted 222 players for the £100,000 guaranteed event. Day 1a starts tomorrow […]

Boylepoker International Poker Open Returns

Boylepoker.com has announced the return of the International Poker Open, Europe’s largest poker tournament, from October 19 to 21, 2012. The three-day, €230 buy in event takes place at the Regency Hotel, Dublin, Ireland and the final table will be delayed until November 10 and streamed live on the web. Boylepoker is adding €20,000 to […]

Bathrooms at World Series of Poker Stir Debate

There are two bathrooms along the wall of the main hallway in the Rio Convention Center. In years past, there was one men’s room and one women’s room. In an effort to mitigate long lines, both have been reserved for men at the 2012 WSOP. Those two bathrooms are the closest and most convenient for […]