Poker News

November Nine Money To Get Low Return

With a volatile U.S. market and low interest rates, the final nine players in the 2011 World Series of Poker main event likely will not accrue significant interest dollars on their $21.1 million remaining prize pool in the weeks leading up to November’s finale. Although it won’t be known exactly how much interest will be […]

Zynga Poker Comes Under Attack

Agincourt Gaming has accused Zynga of infringing its patents and has called for an injunction which could see Zynga’s Facebook games such as Zynga Poker, Farmville, and Mafia Wars shut down. The company claimed that Zynga infringed two of its patents dating back to 1996 that relate to redeeming virtual prizes in games, and is […]

Buy In Online For All Irish Winter Poker Festival Events

Players can now buy in directly to all events at this year’s Irish Winter Festival via PaddyPowerPoker’s online registration and payment facility. Individual and multiple registrations can be made with credit cards, bank transfers, or cheques for the €100 + €10 IWF Super Satellite to the highlight of the festival, the main event, and all […]

Full Tilt Poker Faces Second Class Action Lawsuit

EGaming Review Magazine has reported that online site Full Tilt Poker is facing yet another class action lawsuit over frozen player funds, this time from two former Canadian customers. Zayn Jetha and Donald Whelan are filing a suit against Howard Lederer, Ray Bitar, and Nelson Burtnick, as well as Full Tilt Poker Ltd and associated […]

Epic Poker League Puts Chino Rheem on Probation

The Epic Poker League has put its inaugural $20,000 main event champion, Chino Rheem, on probation for violating the league’s Code of Conduct, after allegedly failing to pay back debts owed to other poker players. According to a press release, the EPL acknowledges that Rheem’s “financial obligations incurred prior to the League’s formation,” but claims […]

Bet365 Shuts Its Australian Online Poker Site

London-based online bookmaker and poker operator Bet365 this week shut down its poker site to Australian players ahead of attempts to procure an online sports book license in the country according to The Australian. In an email to customers it said, “We’re in the process of applying for a sports betting licence in Australia. As […]

European Masters Of Poker Freeroll At Victor Chandler

Victor Chandler Poker tonight hosts a VIP Iron Man freeroll for the upcoming European Masters of Poker main event in Barcelona. This is the third in a series of six VIP freerolls for EMOP Barcelona at VictorChandler.com in August and one package worth €2,000 is up for grabs this Friday August 19 at 8:15 CEt […]

Edgar Stuchly Becomes European Poker Tour President

Global Poker Tours Limited announced Thursday that Edgar Stuchly has been appointed the new European Poker Tour President. Stuchly will act as an official spokesperson for the EPT, which is now in its eighth season. Stuchly comes to the EPT from Casinos Austria, where he was Head of Poker for four years. In his time […]

Lesniak to Re-Introduce NJ Bill

Amidst the closing of Perretti Farms, New Jersey’s largest standardbred horse farm, and serious concerns about the 13,000-job, $1 billion horse racing industry in the state, New Jersey Senator Raymond Lesniak (D-Union) announced in a Thursday press release that he will re-introduce his intrastate online gaming legislation on Aug. 25. Lesniak plans to tweak the […]

Germany Delays Gaming Law Reform

Germany yesterday missed the deadline to respond to European Commission over its restrictive gambling reforms. Poker and gambling companies currently operating there now face a likely delay until spring 2012 before the proposed Interstate treaty is passed and the new licensing regime is introduced. Elsewhere, Schleswig Holstein, the state which wants to introduce more a […]

Meet The November Nine: Anton Makiievskyi

Anton Makiievskyi is a 21 year old pro from Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, who is hoping to overcome his eighth-place chip position in order to overtake Joe Cada as the youngest player to ever win the Main Event. In addition to playing for the record of youngest champion, Makiievskyi also has the honor of being the first […]

Parx Casino to Host 2012 World Poker Tour Event

In a press release late last week, Philadelphia-area Parx Casino announced that it will annually, beginning in 2012, host one televised World Poker Tour main event and three WPT Regional events, as part of a three-year deal. “We have put an emphasis on finding the right partners for expansion. Parx was an immediate target for […]

Ali Eslami and David Oppenheim on ESPN's 'Sport Science'

High-stakes cash game pros Ali Eslami and David Oppenheim appeared on ESPN’s Sport Science this week. The two were the subjects in a brief analysis of physical tells at the poker table. Using heart monitors, a polygraph and other equipment, Sport Science’s John Brenkus and company measured the fluctuations in breathing rate, pulse, heart rate […]

Poker Strategy: Ventures With J-10 Suited

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! After the evening sessions of bridge at the Palmetto Florida Regional Tournament (near Sarasota), dozens of bridge players visited the Hard Rock Casino near Tampa. I discovered […]

POY Update: Seidel and Mercier Crack Top Ten

Here is a look at the Card Player Player of the Year movement from August 7-17. Be sure to check back each Wednesday for another update from the world of tournament poker. Epic Poker League Main Event The inaugural Epic Poker League $20,000 main event was guaranteed to have a notable final table filled with […]

New Season Betfair Poker LIVE!

Betfair Poker has announced the new season of its LIVE! Tournament series with four stops between September 2011 and April 2012. The first festival takes place at the Fitzwilliam Card Club in Dublin, Ireland from September 22 to 25 and will feature a $600+$50 buy in and a maximum of 160 players. The schedule details […]

Victor Chandler Pub Poker Champion Crowned

Craig Thompson was crowned the VictorChandler.com Poker in the Pub season V champion in Las Vegas in July after overcoming a 3:1 chip deficit to lift the title. The 24-year-old York, England player beat Frazier Bolt from Plymouth at the fabled ESPN feature table in the Rio Hotel during a day off from regular play […]

Binion's Looks to Renovate and Reopen its Hotel Tower

Binion’s Horseshoe, founded after Benny Binion bought the Eldorado Club and Apache Hotel in 1951, is celebrating 60 years of business in 2011, as the casino takes steps towards remodeling and reopening its tower of hotel rooms. For about two years, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the casino, under different ownership, has been planning […]

Poker Strategy: Proper Set-Mining Part II

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! This column includes excerpts from the book The Math of Hold’em, by Collin Moshman and Douglas Zare. In my last column, we looked at set-mining and what […]

WIWAD: Andy Frankenberger

In this new series, Card Player asks top pros to rewind back to their humble beginnings and provide insights regarding the mistakes, leaks, and deficiencies that they had to overcome in order to improve their games. In just a year and a half on the tournament circuit, New York’s Andrew Frankenberger has taken the poker […]

Card Player Europe September Issue Online Now

The latest issue of Card Player Europe, September 2011, is available for free now at CardPlayer.com featuring a number of high profile players including Phil Hellmuth on his amazing run of second place finishes at the World Series of Poker, specifically in the $50,000 Players Championship. The WSOP main event November Nine – with Eoghan […]

Everest Poker Revenue Down 19 Percent

Gigamedia, which part owns Everest Poker with Mangas Gaming, has reported poker revenue down 19 percent to $8.5 million in the second quarter of 2011 from $10.4 million in the first quarter of 2011. The second quarter of 2011 saw approximately 110,000 active depositing players and 25,000 new depositing players. This compares to approximately 126,000 […]

Poker Strategy: Four Live Tips For Online Pros

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! Until recently, you were an online player. You’ve put in a zillion hands of 5¢-10¢ no-limit hold’em over the past few years, and played in a gagillion […]

ElkY In Latest Card Player Mag

The latest edition of Card Player Magazine is now available online and features Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, who just this summer became poker’s newest career Triple Crown winner. The 32-year-old Team PokerStars pro won a bracelet in this summer’s World Series of Poker $10,000 seven-card stud championship. He previously won the 2008 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main […]

More Support for Barton's Bill

Late last week Rep. Joe Barton’s (R-Texas) Internet Gambling Prohibition, Poker Consumer Protection, and Strengthening UIGEA Act of 2011 (H.R.2366) gained five additional co-sponsors, increasing the legislation’s total to 25. The new supporters are Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), Rep. John Larson (D-CT), Rep. James Himes (D-CT), Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT), and Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-PA). […]

Daniel Negreanu Blogs About Epic Poker League

In a recent blog on CardPlayer.com, poker pro Daniel Negreanu voiced his opinions on the new Epic Poker League, and why he believes that the organization will have a hard time maintaining steam in the current state of poker in the United States. Negreanu chose not to play because “I don’t believe this product will […]

A Poker Life: Matt Matros

Matt Matros is a man who wears many different hats within the poker world. Sure, the 34-year-old plays for a living and has racked up nearly $2 million in tournament cashes, but that hardly sums up his contributions to the game over the better part of the last decade. When he’s not winning titles at […]

One Seat Guaranteed To IWF Poker Main Event Tonight

PaddyPowerPoker.com tonight hosts its weekly Monday night €20 + €2 rebuy/add on satellite to the Irish Winter Festival in October. At least one seat is guaranteed to the upcoing IWF in this Monday night qualifier. Players can qualify for tonight’s satellites via daily feeder tournaments for just a couple of euro. The €1,000 + €100 […]

Fintan Gavin Wins UK & Ireland Poker Tour Edinburgh

Fintan Gavin has won the PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) Edinburgh by beating 518 players over three days at the Corn Exchange. Gavin’s final opponent was Englishman Andrew Hawksby but the Irishman, who took second place at EPT Barcelona in 2008, wasn’t about to go home early this time, he stormed onwards towards […]

Dan 'jungleman12' Cates Admits To Multi-Accounting

Online poker has suffered a serious hit to its reputation this week, as Dan “jungleman12” Cates, online poker’s biggest winner from 2010, has admitted to multi-accounting (playing under a multitude of screen names) in a scandal that also involves Jose “Girah” Macedo and Haseeb Qureshi. After an inquisition from the poker community led to an […]