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Iron Man III Paddy Power Poker Challenge Underway

Paddy’s Iron Man III is underway at PaddyPowerPoker.com and players at the site will be rewarded quality prizes and even an Irish Open package simply for playing at the site and accumulating Paddy Points between now and Mar. 11. Aside from giving away an Irish Open package worth €4,600, this promotion will also offer bonuses […]

Swedes and Finns Get Tax Free Online Poker

PokerStars has launched a new online poker domain at PokerStars.eu which is licensed by the Malta Lotteries and Gaming Commission. The company, which has established an office in European Union state Malta, says the move will allow Swedish and Finnish players to operate in a tax-free environment now that they have and regulated presence within […]

Spain Brings Forward Online Gaming Regulation

Spain is expected to be fully open for online gaming including poker in March or April this year after it brought forward the deadline for awarding licences to March 31. It has received approximately 60 applications including from notable market leaders such as Betfair, Ladbrokes, bwin.party, Paddy Power, 888, and Bet365 but analyst Daniel Stewart […]

CarbonPoker Fat Stack & Slim Stack Tourneys

CarbonPoker is excited to announce two new unique tournaments that will change the way you think about bankroll management. Get into CarbonPoker’s new schedule of $2, $5 and $10 Fat Stack tournaments with $1,000,000 starting stacks, and blinds starting at 25K/50K. Or keep it small and get involved in $2, $5 or $10 Slim Stack […]

WSOP Circuit Palm Beach Kennel Club Preview

The World Series of Poker Circuit returns to the Palm Beach Kennel Club, in West Palm Beach, Florida for it’s second year in the Sunshine State. This 2012 series will play host to a total of twelve gold-ring events, up from ten in 2011. The series kicks off on February 16th with a $555 buy-in, […]

Minnesota Residents Want Casino To Pay For Stadium

A new poll conducted by SurveyUSA showed that Minnesota residents are in favor of expanding legalized gambling in the state in order to finance a new or renovated stadium for the Minnesota Vikings football team. The Vikings currently play in the Metrodome, which was built in 1982 and is the ninth oldest stadium in the […]

Probability Applies for Nevada iGaming License

Probability plc, a U.K.-based mobile gaming company, has applied for a license to participate in a looming Nevada intrastate online gaming industry that would begin with poker, according to a Saturday press release. However, the company is concerned about being successful in obtaining a license. According to the release: Chief executive “[Charles Cohen] said the […]

A Poker Life: WSOP Finalist Dennis Phillips

Dennis Phillips is set for life. The 2008 World Series of Poker main event third-place finisher has used his $5.1 million in career tournament earnings wisely, investing in various businesses and company partnerships to ensure that he’ll never have to worry about money again. More importantly, the 57-year-old is now in the enviable position that […]

European Masters of Poker Freeroll Tonight

Tonight Bet Victor Poker hosts another in its series of European Masters of Poker Iron Man freerolls. The fourth of eight freerolls is taking place at Bet Victor Poker this evening at 8.15 p.m. (CET). In order to take part, players must have earned 90 VIP points between Feb. 1 and the start of the […]

Belgian Crowned European Deepstack Poker Champ

The European Deepstack Poker Championship V attracted a total field of 590 to Dublin’s Ballsbridge Inn, creating a prize pool of €288,215. It was the first time the Deepstack took on a re-entry format, and of the 70 people who chose to take a second shot was the eventual winner Christian Vanzieleghem. The Belgian was […]

Rinat Bogdanov Wins World Poker Tour Venice

Rinat Bogdanov of Russia has won the World Poker Tour Venice Grand Prix main event. The €4,950 buy in main event attracted 155 players and ended on Saturday when Bogdanov got heads up with Alessandro Longobardi of Italy who had eliminated back-to-back WPT finalist Andreas Dato threehanded. Heads up lasted just two hands and saw […]

The Upcoming Week In Tournament Poker

In this new Card Player feature we are looking 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 February 13th through the 19th. Head to our […]

Three Packages For Irish Poker Open On Offer Tonight

The 2012 Irish Open is moving ever closer. Taking place at Dublin’s Burlington Hotel from Apr. 6 to 9, there’s no time like the present to get qualifying. Tonight at 8 p.m. at PaddyPowerPoker.com there are three Irish Open packages worth €4,600 each up for grabs in a €200 + €15 no-limit hold’em freezeout. The […]

Euro Poker Tweets Of The Week

There was more sad news this week when it spread across various social networks that 47-year-old Russian pro Nikolay Evdakov had passed away. His wife Nataliya Evdakov posted the news on a Russian poker forum stunning the poker world. In 2008 Evdakov set the record for the most cashes in one World Series of Poker […]

Nevada Gaming Revenue Increases in 2011

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Thursday that Nevada casinos recorded their second consecutive year where gaming revenue increased. Brick-and-mortars took in $10.7 billion in 2011 — marking a 2.8 percent increase over 2010 and the highest annual jump since 2007. Strip casinos saw their gaming revenues increase by 5.1 percent over 2010 — taking in […]

A Look At News From Around The Web

Here’s a look at the headlines for this week in the gaming business world. Las Vegas Strip Casino Gambling Revenue Rises 5.1 Percent In 2011 For the second year in a row, gambling revenue in Las Vegas strip casinos rose, aiding in the recovery of one of the most economically depressed major cities in the […]

Golden Nugget To Launch Free-Play Poker Site

Golden Nugget has announced it is launcing a free play online poker site in partnership with French operator Chiligaming. The site will be live by summer and will utilize Chiligaming’s iGaming platform which allows connection to any poker platform. Golden Nugget chairman and owner, Tilman J. Fertitta, said, "We started an intensive process approximately nine […]

New Stops Added To UK & Ireland Poker Tour

PokerStars has added four stops to season 3 of the UK & Ireland Poker Tour. As well as Galway, Nottingham, Dublin, and Newcastle, the schedule will now also include Swansea, Edinburgh, Cork, and London. The Tour will be making its Welsh debut at the Aspers Casino, Swansea and will run from Nov. 22-26 featuring a […]

World Poker Tour Marbella Announced

The World Poker Tour will squeeze in an additional European stop in Puerto Banus on the Costa Del Sol, Spain before the end of season X. The WPT National Marbella Poker Festival will take place from April 19 to 27 at Casino de Marbella. The €1,500 + €150 main event, from April 20 to 24, […]

$1M Guaranteed Event at The Palm Beach Kennel Club

The Palm Beach Kennel Club is hosting a World Series of Poker Circuit stop from Feb. 16-27 — featuring a $1 million guaranteed event. There is also a WSOP kick-off ceremony Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 at 11 a.m. Call 561-683-2222, xt. 125 to RSVP. The Palm Beach Kennel Club is located on Belvedere Rd., one […]

Caesars Palace Winter Poker Classic Begins

The 2nd annual Caesars Winter Poker Classic kicks off this Friday, Feb. 10, in Las Vegas. The series will run from February 10th through March 1st, and feature a total of 42 events. The centerpiece of the whole series is the $560 buy-in no-limit hold’em Championship Event, which runs for three days beginning on Feb. […]

Tribes Ponder Internet Gaming in Wake of DOJ Opinion

A convergence of gaming industry minds on Capitol Hill Thursday afternoon featured discussion on how tribes would be affected by a looming Internet gaming industry — one that was given a serious boost from a Department of Justice legal opinion released in late 2011. Robert Odawi Porter, President of New York’s Seneca Nation of Indians, […]

Betfair Poker Hosts Thor Hansen Charity Event Tonight

The poker community was devastated by the recent news that Nordic poker king Thor Hansen is battling with terminal cancer. The news provoked the creation of the Thor Hansen Fund which has been established to help Hansen with his medical bills. Betfair Poker is playing its part by hosting a charity tournament tonight, Feb. 9, […]

Blue Square Poker Revenue Down 28 Percent

Rank Plc, owner of brands such as Blue Square Poker and Grosvenor Casinos, said its 2011 online poker revenue was down 27.8 percent in 2011 to £1.3 million from £1.8 million in 2010. The second half of 2011 saw poker revenue down 25 percent to £600,000 from £800,000 a year earlier. Rank also owns the […]

Belgium Blacklists Online Poker Companies

Belgium yesterday published its first official online poker operator blacklist. Chilipoker.com, 888.com, Titanpoker.be, and Everestpoker.be are among the online poker operators who have been excluded from operating in the country. A number of online casino operators were also placed on the list. The government is now expected to ask Internet Service Providers to block access […]

Bovada's Black Diamond Poker Open

Want to win your share of $750,000 for just $1? Bovada is offering up a new tournament series that is bigger and better than anything the online poker site has run so far: the Black Diamond Poker Open. Starting on February 6th and running through April 1st, players have the opportunity to play in two […]

Group Seeking to Raise Tax on Gaming Win

The Associated Press reported Tuesday that a group in Nevada is looking to push an initiative to raise the state’s 6.75 percent tax on gaming revenue. The group is seeking to raise the rate to 9 percent for casinos that take in more than $250,000 per month. The casino industry has already fired back. “This […]

Kevin Calenzo Analyzes Key Hand In WSOP Circuit Win

Kevin Calenzo scored the largest payday of his career in late January when he took down the World Series of Poker Circuit main event at Caesars Palace for $197,451. The 28-year-old pro from New Hartford, New York now has over $740,000 in career earnings and has results dating all the way back to 2003. Here, […]

Caesars IPO Debuts With 80 Percent Stock Gain

Caesars Entertainment (CZR) opened on the Nasdaq Wednesday morning at $9.06 a share and has since seen wild swings that have resulted in a 80-percent climb. The stock, which accounts for just over 1.8 million shares, or 1.4 percent of its shares outstanding, is now trading at $16.18, down from a high of $17.90, as […]

Judge Sends John Campos, Chad Elie to Trial

John Campos and Chad Elie — two men charged as part of April’s sweeping indictments of a handful of offshore poker sites — will face trial in New York after a federal judge refused to dismiss the charges, according to a legal briefing obtained by Card Player. Attorneys for the defendants levied a number of […]