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Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Blackpool Final Table

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Blackpool at the G Casino Sandcastle has reached its final table. Around 250 players ponied up the £1,000 + £70 buy in event sees a number of well know names among the final nine including chip leader Ben Jackson, Jack Ellwood and former GUKPT winner Rupinder Bedi. The final nine […]

Illinois House Rejects Casino Expansion Bill

The Illinois House rejected a revised casino expansion bill by a 58-53 margin on Wednesday. It needed 60 votes to pass. Gov. Pat Quinn was not behind the measure and said he was pleased it didn’t pass, according to NBC Chicago. In October, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that he would seek to propose his own […]

Cake Poker Now Allows Heads Up Displays

Cake Poker has dropped its long-time resistance to heads up display programs such as Poker Tracker and Hold’em Manager which are now allowed across the network. Intertops Poker confirmed the move, which went live on November 9, saying, "… we are in the process of making some further changes to allow players to use 3rd […]

Two Irish Poker Open Packages Guaranteed Sunday

We’re into the second week of Irish Open 2012 online satellites which takes place tomorrow Sunday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. on PaddyPowerPoker.com The €200 + €15 no-limit hold’em freezeout satellite has two €4,600 packages for the event guaranteed. Players who win the packages, which include the tournament buy in, five nights accommodation and travel/spending […]

Phil D’Auteuil Crushing Cash Games on PokerStars

Phil “takechip” D’Auteuil has been crushing lately on PokerStars. The Canadian is now up more than $1 million in the past month. He is in the black about $1.3 million in 2011 — making him one of the biggest winners on the site in this time span. Most of his profits have come at $200-$400 […]

Leeann Tweeden Poses For Playboy

Poker enthusiasts will find a familiar face on the cover of December’s issue of Playboy magazine. Leeann Tweeden, former hostess of NBC’s Poker After Dark and the National Heads Up Poker Championship will be featured on the cover wearing nothing but a red Christmas bow. Tweeden spent seven seasons on Fox Sports Net’s Best Damn […]

PartyPoker Mixed Game Line Up Announced

PartyPoker has announced the line up for this Sunday’s $25,000 buy in Premier League Poker Mixed Game Championship. The dozen players have been drawn into two groups of six. These are: Group A Tony G Max Pescatori Luke Schwartz Matt Giannetti Jennifer Tilly James Dempsey Group B Mike Sexton Ben Carpenter Andrew Feldman Sorel Mizzi […]

Partouche Poker Tour Final This Weekend

The Partouche Poker Tour main event returns to find its winner this weekend, Nov. 12 and 13. The Casino Palm Beach in Cannes, France witnessed 570 players register for the €8,500 buy-in main event in September and when play got down to the final nine, action was paused. Each finalist is guaranteed at least €100,000 […]

Asian Poker Tour Goa Main Event Starts Today

India is currently witnessing its first international poker tour with the Asian Poker Tour’s visit to India’s largest casino vessel, the Casino Royale. The Tour hit Goa, India for the first time ever on Nov. 8 and action now heightens as the INR 50,000 (Eur 731) buy-in main event kicks off today with all play […]

EuroPoker Gets French Gaming Licence

The French poker market continues to expand with new site, EuroPoker.fr, granted a licence to launch by regulator ARJEL to launch on January 1. Sacha Kéchichian, chief executive of the company said, “We are happy and honoured to be one of the site being granted a gaming licence on the French market. “We are very […]

House, Senate to Look at iPoker

Next week on Capitol Hill, Congress will hold two hearings to discus the topic of Internet gaming. On Nov. 17, the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will hold a hearing to address the question: “What’s at Stake for Tribes?” The very next day, a House subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade will hold […]

Betfair to Bring on Paddy Power's Chief Operating Officer

Online gaming company Betfair has announced the acquisition of Paddy Power’s chief operating officer Breon Corcoran to serve as its chief executive officer, Reuters reported on Thursday. Corcoran will join the British-based Betfair in August. Current Betfair CEO David Yu said a few months ago that he will not renew his contract. Corcoran, a former […]

2011 WSOP Main Event: Final Table Stats

Note: Scroll down for a quick look at the statistics. With names like Collins, Lamb, O’Dea and Heinz, you’d expect an aggressive final table, and that’s exactly what viewers got when they tuned into the unprecedented hand-for-hand coverage of the World Series of Poker main event final table. Here, we take a closer look how […]

Tower Gaming Moves To Cake Network

Tower Gaming’s online poker site has moved to the Cake network. The long-time Ongame network poker partner, with the Austro-German network since 2006, will not accept players from the U.S. and can now offer 33 percent rakeback. One of the primary drivers of the move seems to be Ongame’s much touted Essence method of calculating […]

Microgaming Poker Player Values Up 15 Percent

The new Microgaming Network Management Board met for the first time last week in London and the success of the project is “already tangible” according to the network with player values up 15 percent so far in 2011. The NMB comprises representatives from Microgaming and the main operators on the network. They share votes on […]

Ben Lamb Takes Over POY Lead

On Tuesday, Nov. 8, poker professional Ben Lamb finished third out of a field of 6,865 in the 2011 World Series of Poker main event. To go along with $4 million as consolation, Lamb now sits in first place in Card Player’s Player of the Year race. He leads with 6,036 points, after accumulating 2,400 […]

Playtech Poker Revenue Down Two Percent

Israeli-based online poker operator, Playtech has announced poker revenue down two percent in the third quarter of 2011 to €5.6 million from €5.7 million a year earlier. Playtech’s poker platform, iPoker hosts online poker sites such as Titan, William Hill and Paddy Power. The €5.6 million third quarter revenue was up 13 percent on the […]

Details Announced Of Student Poker Masters 2012

The PaddyPowerPoker.com Student Masters is set to return in 2012 with a couple of changes. As the €100 + €10 buy-in, student-only event sold out last year, next year will see it held at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin to accommodate all hopefuls. Action kicks off on Mar. 10, 2012, but once there are just […]

Pius Heinz Wins WSOP Main Event

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. The online poker pro from Cologne, Germany, outlasted more than 6,800 players […]

WSOP Main Event: Ben Lamb Out In Third Place

It only took one hand for the action to begin. Ben Lamb opened for a raise only to get three-bet by Martin Staszko. Lamb responded with a shove and Staszko only deliberated for a few seconds before calling off his stack with pocket sevens. Lamb had two overcards with K-J, but failed to hit the […]

Greenstein, Johnson in Poker Hall of Fame

On Tuesday evening, shortly before the start of the 2011 World Series of Poker final table, Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson were inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. Fellow member Doyle Brunson gave a brief introduction to Greenstein, who spent some of his speaking time talking about the future of the game. He said […]

Thoughts From WSOP Final Three

Pius Heinz, Ben Lamb and Martin Staszko, the remaining three players in the 2011 World Series of Poker main event, will take their seats Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. local time at the Rio Hotel and Casino. Card Player was able to snag an interview with each of the final three, catching a glimpse of some […]

NACPT Coming in December

The inaugural season of the Card Player Native American Casino Poker Tour is set to begin this December. Card Player caught up with Ken Lambert, Poker Room Manager for the Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma, to learn more about the 20-event series. Julio Rodriguez: Can you tell me a little bit about the upcoming […]

Lost In Las Vegas Book Review

In his loft office overlooking the recently renovated sales floor of the Gamblers Book Club in Las Vegas, owner-publisher-author Avery Cardoza is on a conference call with Kevin Pollak in Beverly Hills discussing major studio proposals for taking Avery’s (he’s always on a first-name basis) new novel, Lost in Las Vegas, to the big screen. […]

Brit Does Sunday Million Poker Double

Englishman Kevin “kevsteele” Steele had a bout of deja vu as he successfully took down his second Sunday Million on Nov. 6. This was an even bigger payday than that of Jul. 17 when he topped a field of 6,182 for a top prize of $128,792.58, decided upon after a five-way deal. Steele’s latest win […]

bwin.party Poker Revenue Remains Stable

bwin.party digital entertainment plc today announced third quarter poker revenue of €52.3 million, up three percent on the second quarter of 2011 and down only marginally against the £52.5 million recorded in the third quarter of 2010. This is a welcome rebound from August when the company announced first half poker revenue in 2011 fell […]

European Masters of Poker Riga Freeroll Tonight

Victor Chandler Poker tonight hosts the fourth in its series of five European Masters of Poker Riga freerolls. The Iron Man freeroll offers one guaranteed €2,600 package consisting of the €1,650 buy-in for the season III Grand Final main event, four nights’ accommodation at the Radisson Blu Hotel and Resort, and €400 towards flights. All […]

Carbon November Promotions

CarbonPoker has come up with even more ways to reward its players this month — starting with the huge Chip King freeroll series. Starting Saturday, Nov. 6 there will be a freeroll every weekend all month just for players who opt-in to the Chip King promotion and have earned 50 VIP Points or more by […]

Black Friday Bank Closed

SunFirst Bank, a Utah financial institution associated with poker’s Black Friday, was shutdown late last week by state regulators. SunFirst Vice Chairman John Campos was named in April’s indictment that also included members of PokerStars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker. Campos allegedly processed the illegal Internet gambling transactions at the request of Las Vegas businessman […]

Odds For WSOP Final Three

With just three of the November nine remaining and awaiting their fates, online betting exchange, Matchbook.com has re-opened its final table betting market for the World Series of Poker main event. Germany’s Pius Heinz leads Martin Staszko and Ben Lamb on their return to the Penn & Teller Theatre at the Rio Hotel in Vegas […]