Poker News

PokerView Moves To Merge Gaming Network

Online poker site, PokerView.com, has announced its move from the Everleaf Gaming Network to Merge Gaming. A statement on the site looks ahead to increased action with more players, all new software, high boost connection, and over $4 million in guaranteed tournaments including a new Sunday $100,000 guaranteed event. A note on the site reads, […]

Side Bet Feature Launched At Poker770

Poker770.com has launched an extremely innovative feature which looks set to be a big hit. It is well known that most poker players are prone to quite a bit of side betting action to spice things up while at the felt. Now players can do so online for the first time with Poker770’s BackBet. This […]

Partouche Poker Tour Underway

The Partouche Poker Tour is underway at Casino Palm Beach, Cannes, France and 579 players have anted up the €7,500 + €750 buy-in to more than meet the €4 million guaranteed prize pool. The main event saw entrants down significantly on last years event which attracted 764 players and was won by Vanessa Selbst who […]

South Point to Offer Free Online Poker Through Zen Gaming

South Point Casino owner Michael Gaughan said his business will soon be launching a free Internet poker site through Las Vegas-based operator Zen Gaming, according to reports by GamingToday. “This is an experiment for me,” Gaughan said. “I’m just getting my feet wet but I expect that down the line I am going to be […]

POY Update: Seidel and Waxman Climb

Here is a look at the Card Player Player of the Year movement from September 7th-14th. Be sure to check back each Wednesday for another update from the world of tournament poker. Epic Poker League Series II Main Event The second Epic Poker League main event, a $20,000 buy-in eight-handed no-limit tournament, attracted 97 players. […]

Atlantic City Revenue Drops After Hurricane Irene

In late August we reported the “lost weekend” in Atlantic City, where 11 casinos were forced to close due to the mandatory evacuation caused by hurricane Irene. Now the numbers are officially in and the lost business over the three-day shutdown accounted for an estimated $45 million loss. The decline amounted to a nearly 20 […]

Full Tilt Woes Continue With New Canadian Lawsuit

The Montreal Gazette has reported that Jeff Orenstein, an attorney for the Consumer Law Group, has filed a class-action lawsuit against Full Tilt Poker in the Superior Court of Quebec on behalf of Canadian online poker players who currently have funds tied up on the site. According to a statement on the CLG wesbite, “the […]

Massachusetts Considering Online Poker

Less than two years after lawmakers in the state of Massachusetts were considering criminalizing online poker, the state is now looking into expressly legalizing it as part of proposals to build the state’s first land-based casinos and expand gambling. In April of 2010 the state had, under mounting criticism from poker players and the concern […]

Dutchman Wins Second UK & Ireland Poker Tour Title

After a four-day battle in the heart of Dublin city, Joeri Zandvliet ended the blood bath by taking down his second UK & Ireland Poker Tour title. He topped a 718-strong field including a final table which featured former Dublin champ Max Silver. The smiling Dutchman received €83,500 for his win, which can be added […]

Paradise Poker Tour Austria Guaranteed Packages Tonight

The next stop on the Paradise Poker Tour is the Concord Card Club, Vienna, Austria, and with just three weeks to go, ParadisePoker.com offers two guaranteed seats tonight Tuesday September 13. Each week seven €1,100 packages are given away; three on Sunday, two on Thursday, and two on Tuesday, all at the same time with […]

Head Games: Polarization 101

This strategy column, and many like it, are featured in every issue of Card Player magazine. Subscribe today to get 26 issues delivered to your home each year! Sometimes it’s hard to get a straight answer from a professional poker player. Ask three players a question and you’re liable to get three different answers. Why? […]

Ilari Sahamies Wins Record Pot on PokerStars

Ilari “Ilari FIN” Sahamies turned in yet another immensely profitable week, winning more than $800,000 over the past seven days and scooping the largest pot ever tracked on PokerStars. At a massive $200-$400 deep-stacked pot-limit Omaha table, the record-setting confrontation started when the Finnish pro raised to $1,400, Andreas “Skjervøy” Torbergsen called, and unknown bernard-bb […]

Wynn Resorts Approved For Another Macau Property

On Sunday, Wynn Resorts’s Macau enterprise announced it had reached a deal with the government of the world’s most profitable gaming market to build its second brick-and-mortar casino. According to the Associated Press, Wynn Macau will pay more than $193 million in land premiums, split into a down payment and eight semiannual payments, to the […]

Final Table Takedown: Matt Matros

Matt Matros is a Brooklyn, New York based poker player, a staff writer for Card Player magazine, and a poker coach. He graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in mathematics. In addition, Matros has an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. In 2004, he finished third in the $25,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Championship event […]

Team Event Returns To World Series of Poker Europe

The World Series of Poker Europe is re-instating the Caesars Cup, a team poker event last held in 2009. The made-for-TV event sees Team Europe take on Team U.S. at Casino Barrière de Cannes Croisette, Cannes, France on October 19. Each team will field five players – the U.S captained by Phil Hellmuth, Europe captained […]

Brits Dominate World Championship Of Online Poker

The World Championship of Online Poker kicked off on Sept. 4 and the results have been flowing in ever since with some very familiar names topping lists and cashing deep alongside those who had not before seen the upper end of the WCOOP payout list. The Brits have been doing very well so far with […]

Meet the November Nine: Phil Collins

Phil Collins is entering the 2011 World Series of Poker main event final table fourth in chips with 23,875,000. Collins has an impressive online poker record playing under the name “USCphildo,” a name he chose while attending the University of South Carolina. He has nearly $1.7 million in prior tournament earnings, but what really makes […]

Matthew Waxman Wins World Poker Tour Paris

Matthew Waxman has won the World Poker Tour Paris main event topping a 312-strong field to take down the $729,886 (€500,000) first prize. The American defeated Frenchman Hugo Lemaire after two hands heads up in the €7,500 buy in event at the Aviation Club de France On a flop of Q 5 3 Waxman check-raised […]

Euro Poker Tweets Of The Week

This week’s Poker Tweets Of The Week focuses on the passing of rising poker star Thuy Doan. Doan was diagnosed with cancer in 2009 and did not stop fighting until the end. She inspired many with her positive attitude and love for life and this was reflected on Twitter this week. Here is a collection […]

Mike McDonald Wins Epic Poker League Main Event

Mike “Timex” McDonald is the latest Epic Poker League $20,000 main event champion. McDonald finished off an elite 97-player field at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas early Saturday morning to take home $782,410 in prize money. The Canadian, who happens to be the youngest member of the Epic Poker League, outlasted a final table […]

Sit "N" Go Chances to Win November Nine Poker Trip

PaddyPowerPoker.com extends its November 9er promotion from Monday with three Sit “N” Go leader boards which will see one online poker player join Irish World Series of Poker finalist Eoghan O’Dea in Las Vegas in November. The new Sit “N” Go To Vegas route sees the buy-in equivalent in points awarded for every sit “n” […]

Weekly Poker News In Brief

Not everyone has the time to stay on top of all of the news that breaks daily in the poker world, but that doesn’t mean you have to be out of the loop entirely. Every week, Card Player will bring you everything you need to know to stay informed about your favorite events, players and […]

Ukrainian WSOP Winner Lifts Italian Poker Tour Title

Oleksii Kovalchuk of Ukraine won the PokerStars Italian Poker Tour Nova Gorica (Slovenia) main event earlier this week lifting €150,000 when he beat 283 opponents in the €2,500 buy in tournament. Kovalchuk adds the Italian title to the World Series of Poker bracelet he won during the summer in Las Vegas for the $2,500 no-limit […]

Svenska Spel Signs Anton Wigg and Michael Tureniec

Swedish poker pros Michael Tureniec and Anton Wigg have signed sponsorship deals with Svenska Spel, the Swedish online gaming operator. They will join William Thorsson who joined the online poker room last year. Martin Bengtsson, brand manager for Svenska Spel’s online poker, said, “It is our task to create a positive image of Swedish poker […]

Eurobet Poker To Shut Down

Publicly quoted UK gaming operator Gala Coral has announced it is shutting Eurobet.com, including Eurobet Poker, on Sept. 30. The company cited “recently enacted changes in European legislation” in an email to customers but did not offer further comment on what those changes were. Gala Coral, which recently sponsored Late Night Poker and signed a […]

The Ten: Televised Poker Bluffs

When compiling a list of the best bluffs ever recorded on TV it quickly becomes a Tom “durrrr” Dwan infomercial on how to become a millionaire. The high-stakes pro is notorious for some of the most shocking, yet massively successful bluffs in the history of the game. Thanks to some suggestions from our Facebook fans, […]

32Red Poker Revenue Up 36 Percent

Publicly quoted gaming operator 32Red saw poker revenue rise 36 percent to £0.6 million in the first half of 2011 from £0.4 million a year earlier. The company said in its interim statement, “Recent moves by the US authorities to curtail illegal US facing operators are welcomed by the industry, but the overall poker market […]

French Poker Network Removes Tournament Fees

The French Poker Network, powered by Microgaming and owned joingly by 888 and Prima Networks, has announced the abolition of poker tournament fees for September and October. The money will still be collected but will be added to tournament prize pools so a 100 runner €10 + €1 tournament which would normally have had a […]

Card Player POY Update

Here is a look at the Card Player Player of the Year movement from August 31-September 7th. Be sure to check back each Wednesday for another update from the world of tournament poker. WPT Legends of Poker Will Failla, known as “The Thrill” at the tables for his talkative and energetic presence, had built up […]

EPL Main Event Draws Small Field

The second $20,000 main event of the inaugural Epic Poker League season was not quite as successful as the first, only attracting 97 entrants, a total drop off of 40 players. Though there were a number of factors that led to a poor turnout, the primary culprit seemed to be the ongoing PokerStars World Championship […]