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Poker Host $10,000 Superbowl Free Tournament

Poker Host has decided to make a $10,000 Superbowl freeroll for Card Player readers. Here are the details of the Feb. 3 event: 1. New players, in order to get access, need to have rake of $10 in the month of January. 2. Players one-year-old must have had raked $300 (calendar month) from 2011. If […]

PCA 2012 Main Event Field Tops 1,000 Players

A total of 1,072 players put up the $10,300 buy-in to enter the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event, with 418 entrants on Day 1a and 654 players turning up for Day 1b. This solid turn out built a total prize pool of $10,398,400. In all, 160 players will make the money, with this year’s […]

When I Was A Donk: Ed Miller

Ed Miller is a cash game professional and specializes in educating small-stakes players, writing extensively for the $1-$2 and $2-$5 crowd. With degrees in physics and electrical engineering from MIT, Miller has developed the analytical skills needed to approach the intricacies of the game. However, he wasn’t always a winning player. The 32-year-old experienced the […]

Sky Poker Action Tables Launched

Sky Poker has launched its new Action Tables which see small blind and big blind post the same amount in cash games to increase the action and juice up blind-on-blind battles. Elsewhere it is offering a minimum of three Happy Hour periods each day, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., […]

Dave Shallow Wins World Poker Tour Ireland

British player Dave Shallow has taken down the inaugural World Poker Tour Ireland for a payday of €222,280. Shallow topped a field of 338 in the €2,500 main event held at the Citwest Hotel in Dublin from Jan. 5-8. Having always been after a WPT title, the hop across the pond proved to be enough […]

Genting Poker Series Qualifiers This Week

The inaugural Genting Series of Poker gets underway at Star City Casino, Birmingham, England from February 1 to 5 and online qualification is well underway at the site. Each week sees three seats guaranteed to the £400 + 30 buy in main event on Wednesday at 20:00 GMT in a £50 + £5 buy in […]

Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom Wins PCA Super High Roller

Apparently, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom isn’t just good at cash games. It was last year at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure that the Swedish high-stakes phenom revealed one of poker’s worst kept secrets and this year, he returned to the Bahamas to prove that he could hang with some of poker’s best tournament minds. Blom defeated a […]

Freeroll Ascot Tickets At Victor Chandler Poker Today

Victor Chandler Poker is giving its players (from the UK & Ireland) the chance to win Premier Admission badges for Victor Chandler Day at Ascot. With 25 years of the Victor Chandler Chase to celebrate, the site is giving away 200 of these badges for the big race day out at Ascot on Jan 21, […]

Seven Side Events For Irish Open Poker Festival

PaddyPowerPoker.com has announced the full schedule for the 2012 Irish Open taking place at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, Ireland from April 5 to 9, 2012. In addition to the €3,500 buy in main event are seven side events including a new sixhanded freezeout and turbo “win the button” freezeout: Thursday April 5: 19:00: Irish Open […]

Nevada Casinos Lose $4B in 2011 Fiscal Year

Nevada casinos are still feeling the effects of the Great Recession. According to an abstract released by Silver State gaming regulators this week, brick-and-mortars had expenses trump income by nearly $4 billion. One average, the 256 casinos statewide that were factored into the data had net losses of about $15.6 million each. The red on […]

John Duthie Confirms Departure From PokerStars

As rumours broke that John Duthie was no longer part of Team PokerStars Pro, all kinds of reasons flew back and forth on forums and across social media. With no press release from PokerStars, it appeared that the well-respected player and founder of the European Poker Tour had silently disappeared from the site’s roster, but […]

Hunt Down $30,000 In Prizes At Paddy Power Poker

PaddyPowerPoker.com has today announced its new promotion, 4 Skins, which ensures plenty of poker action in the weeks ahead with $30,000 in prizes to be won. Between Jan. 9 and Feb. 5, there will be one points race per week where players need to earn 200 Paddy Points in order to pick up the chosen […]

New Year Brings New Poker Rooms In Europe

PokerRoom.com, one of the original online poker operators, is back. The brand, synonymous with the early days of the game on the internet, has been relaunched by the Ongame Network. The company said, “PokerRoom is proud to announce its return to the world of online poker. We have opened our doors again to real money […]

Chris Klodnicki Breaks Down Hand In Epic Win

Chris Klodnicki is one of poker’s most consistent players on the tournament circuit, having cashed for nearly $4.5 million in his six-year career. Though he excelled as an online player under the name SLOPPYKLOD, the Voorhees, New Jersey native has really proven himself over the past three years in the live arena. In 2008, Klodnicki […]

Jason 'jdpc27' Wheeler Wins 2011 OPOY Honors

The 2011 Card Player Online Player of the Year race experienced its fair share of drama, but none of that drama really played out on the virtual felt. The biggest story of the year wasn’t about the players themselves. Instead it was about the adjustments that needed to be made following Black Friday. On April […]

World Poker Tour Ireland Heats Up

The World Poker Tour has made its way to Ireland’s capital city for the first time and main-event action kicks off at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin today. The €2,500 (10% withheld) main event will run until Jan. 8 when it will crown the stop’s first champion. Players sit down today to 30,000 in chips […]

New Year Poker Talk With Kara Scott

It’s back to work and back to the felt for most and kick-starting the new poker year is the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and World Poker Tour Ireland. Along with the WPT come many well-known professionals including poker player and presenter Kara Scott. Scott is next to take to the stand to tell us all about […]

The Poker Year In Review - December

Facebook was reportedly in talks with several online gambling operators with a view to “open[ing] its platform to real-money gambling in the UK,” The social media company was thought to be speaking with PokerStars and 888.com. bwin.party teamed up with software developer Hettema & Bergsten to offer a new webcam-based online poker experience. The face-to-face […]

New Jersey Governor Now Behind Web Poker

New Jersey lawmakers could soon end drawn-out legislative seesawing on whether to legalize online gaming in the state — all with the hopes of getting the local casino industry off the ropes. After the Department of Justice clarification of a decades-old law, which had previously made intrastate Internet gaming questionable, ignited reactions from a handful […]

What You Need To Know About Parking On The Strip

Planning a trip to Vegas to play some poker? Or perhaps you’re a local looking for a regular game? Don’t forget about parking! You’ve probably heard that it costs a lot to park on the Strip these days, but that’s only true at some of the casinos. So where can you park? At the moment, […]

Macau Casinos Continue to Crush Las Vegas Strip

High-end gamblers are continuing to lose massive amounts of money at Macau’s casinos, as the region’s gaming authority released data that showed $33.5 billion in revenue for 2011 — about five times what the slowly recovering Las Vegas Strip captures from its visitors. VIP Baccarat accumulated about $18 billion — in just the first three […]

CP Announces Changes For 2012 POY Criteria

The Card Player Player of the Year award was started in 1997 and has since turned into one of poker’s highest honors. Past notable winners include T.J. Cloutier, Men Nguyen, Daniel Negreanu, Michael Mizrachi, David Pham, Eric Baldwin, Tom Marchese, Tony Ma, John Phan and most recently, Ben Lamb. That being said, Card Player recognizes […]

2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Preview

The first major poker tournament series of the new year is about to get underway at The Atlantis Resort and Casino in The Bahamas with the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure taking place from January 5-14th. The PCA has grown into one of the largest and most popular tournament stops of the year, and with forty-one […]

New Year Poker Talk With Jesse McKenzie

From Sweden to Australia, Card Player’s New Year chats continue with Jesse McKenzie. The Australian took down a Sunday Million in 2011 for $179,679 so it is for certain that while reminiscing on the year just gone his memories should be quite positive. He has come a long way from the US$27 he originally deposited […]

The Poker Year In Review - November

It was time for the big one! In front of a packed Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio in Las Vegas, Nevada, 22 year-old poker professional Pius Heinz took home $8.7 million and the most coveted title of the tournament year, after a back-and-forth duel with runner-up Martin Staszko. Heinz, from Cologne, Germany, outlasted […]

Poker Pro Jonathan Duhamel Robbed, Attacked in Home

UPDATE: Four individuals were arrested, including Duhamel’s ex-girl friend, according to CBC.ca. Note: Story was originally posted Dec. 21. The Canadian Press is reporting that poker pro Jonathan Duhamel is recovering from minor injuries sustained from an attack in his Montreal home. Two unknown assailants were reportedly trying to rob the 2010 World Series of […]

Latest Card Player Magazine Now Available Online

The latest edition of Card Player Magazine is now available online and features 2011 World Series of Poker main event champion Pius Heinz. In front of a packed Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, the 22-year-old pro took home the main event’s $8.7 million grand prize after a […]

AGA to Continue Battle for Federal Web Poker

In the wake of an action-packed couple of weeks for the commercial casino industry, the American Gaming Association announced that it will continue to stay in the trenches for a federal online poker bill. On Tuesday, the AGA’s President and CEO Frank Fahrenkopf wrote an op-ed for Global Gaming Business, detailing the 2012 plans for […]

New Year Poker Talk With Anton Wigg

It’s that time of year when people make lists of all the things they kept meaning to get around to in years gone by. Social media is full of chatter about best memories from 2011, mistakes made, lessons learned, and great expectations for the year that lies ahead. Over the festive season and into the […]

Regulated Online Poker Goes Live In Denmark

Regulated online poker was officially launced in Denmark today as bwin.party partnered with the state-run casino operator Danske Spil. Jim Ryan and Norbert Teufelberger, co-chief executive officers of bwin.party said, “Building on our recent announcement regarding deals with both MGM and Boyd in the US market, this is another important milestone in the execution of […]