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European Poker Tour: Season 8 Starts in Estonia

Season 8 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour will begin on Tuesday, August 2 in Tallinn, Estonia. The €4,000 no-limit hold’em main event will run from Tuesday until a champion is crowned on Sunday, August 7. You can check back after the tournament concludes for a recap of the final table. Here is a look […]

HerculesPoker's Opportunity to Win $428 Freeroll Jackpot

New online card room, HerculesPoker, is offering an attractive promotion, giving players the opportunity to win a jackpot of $428.31 with no deposit. There will be two freeroll tournaments (Freeroll Jackpot A and Freeroll Jackpot B), both offered twice a day at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. ET. Each tournament will have a $12 direct […]

Talk With Bob Soderstrom, COO of Phil Hellmuth Enterprises

Interview by Cass Burt CB: How does someone actually become business partners with one of the all-time poker greats? BS: I first met Phil in Wisconsin in 1988, when he was a tall skinny kid who could not stop talking about poker. This was 1988. He was way ahead of his time. When I went […]

APPT: Boxell Wins Melbourne Event

Leo Boxell won the inaugural PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Melbourne main event title on Sunday July 31, earning AUD $330,000 in prize money. “Thank you Crown, thank you PokerStars, and thank you for all the people who hung around to support me. I really appreciate it,” said the 69-year-old Boxell in a brief post-tournament […]

David Diaz: A Poker Life

There’s no doubt that it took a little luck for David Diaz to come out on top of event no. 12, the $1,500 no-limit hold’em tournament at the World Series of Poker, but any help he received from the poker gods pales in comparison to the proverbial one outer he got as a child after […]

Macau Gambling Revenue Soars

Gambling revenue in Macau rose roughly 48 percent in July over the numbers reported one year earlier and government statistics have pointed to mainland China visitors, not tourists, as the reason for the recent surge. According to Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, revenue increased from 16.31 billion patacas in July of 2010 to 24.21 […]

More Support for FairPlayUSA

FairPlayUSA, a non-profit campaign based in Washington D.C., joined the fight for online poker last week, and on Monday received support from a member of Congress. “I applaud the efforts of FairPlayUSA for launching its coalition to combat illegal gambling," Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) said in a press release. “As a former FBI agent, I […]

Rivers Casino's 1-Year Celebration

One year ago, Rivers Casino introduced live table games to much fanfare and player anticipation—and the excitement just keeps coming. To celebrate the first anniversary of table games in Pittsburgh, Rivers and The Mario Lemieux Foundation announced a partnership to host the first-ever Lemieux charity poker tournament. The tournament’s main event is scheduled for Sept. […]

Late 2011 Tourney Poker Preview

With the World Series of Poker now in the books until November, attention now turns to the rest of the major tours to provide tournament poker action for players and fans through the rest of 2011, with the exception of the November Nine. The WSOP main event final table will bring the focus back to […]

Dane Is European Masters Of Poker Dublin Champ

Dane Søren T. Larsen is the fourth European Masters of Poker champion this season. Larsen beat 302 other players to take home the top prize of €71,210 from the €1,100 buy-in event at Dublin’s Clontarf Castle Hotel. The final table lasted 137 hands including 12 heads-up with Irishman Dara O’Kearney. O’Kearney began the heads up […]

Frenchman Wins Belgian Poker Championship

Out of the 513 players who turned out for the Belgian Poker Championship it was Carlos Lopes who was left standing when the dust settled. The cap was 500 but the popular event managed to squeeze in 13 alternates as players hit the rail in early levels. Lopes received €35,000 for beating fellow Frenchman Maxime […]

Hand History: Joe Hachem

In this new series, “Hand History Time Capsule,” Card Player digs up memorable hands to help you relive, or perhaps discover for the first time, pivotal situations from some of poker’s most exciting moments. The World Series of Poker continued to grow in 2005 and it marked the last time that at least some if […]

Paradise Poker Tour Barcelona Final Table Set

The Paradise Poker Tour Barcelona attracted 311 players to the Gran Casino this weekend and a final table has now been reached in the €500 buy in main event. The final table players and their chip counts are: Seat 1: Dimitar Dimitrov — 127,500 Seat 2: Piotr Gajdecki — 619,000 Seat 3: Jose Maria Felices […]

European Masters of Poker Dublin Final Day

The €1,000 + €100 buy in European Masters of Poker Dublin has reached its final day with two tables of players left from a starting field of 300. Among those returning to the felt to fight for the €72,000 top prize are well known Irish players Mick McCloskey, Michael Muldoon, and Dara O’Kearney. The 17 […]

Capture the Flag: Matt Giannetti

Cash-game pro Matt Giannetti had to rely on a tournament this summer to end a downswing. Fortunately for the 26-year-old New York native, that tournament was the 2011 World Series of Poker main event, where he will compete in November for the $8.7 million first-place prize. “I was putting in my hours this summer, working […]

Guaranteed Seats To Irish Winter Festival This Sunday

This Sunday July 31 PaddyPowerPoker.com is guaranteeing three to the Irish Winter Festival in October. The €150 + €12 buy in super satellite takes place at 8 p.m. each Sunday and players eager to win a seat to the event get another chance each Monday at 8 p.m. with a €20 + €2 no-limit hold’em […]

Online Poker Freeroll Overlay At Victor Chandler

Victor Chandler Poker hosts its second €10,000 Guaranteed new player freeroll with up to €20,000 in prizes up for grabs this Monday August 1. This sign up promo offers great value as just over 100 players are registered so far. Players who sign up for a new account at Victor Chandler Poker also get a […]

APPT Melbourne Starts Season 5

Season 5 of the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour has officially opened its doors for business, debuting with a brand-new stop, the luxurious Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. The largest casino in the Southern Hemisphere has now partnered with the richest poker tour in Asia for the kickoff to the new season, which currently has […]

Phil Collins on the Scoop

Phil “USCphildo” Collins stops by for this week’s episode of The Scoop on Card Player TV. Check out his interview with Diego Cordovez and you can hear him talk about his deep run in the 2010 World Series of Poker main event, which resulted in making the esteemed November Nine. Collins has had steady success […]

More Regulated Live Poker Wanted In New Zealand

New Zealand’s Waikato Times recently highlighted the need for more regular, regulated, live, cash-prize poker tournaments, with calls for entertainment epicentre SkyCity Hamilton to provide the games. According to the report, in Waikato, players can play poker tournaments in pubs but the prizes on offer are meal vouchers and promotional merchandise. If players want to […]

Shuffle Master And Cantor Gaming Join Forces

Cantor Gaming and Shuffle Master, Inc. have entered into a joint licensing agreement which will see Cantor Gaming license a selection of popular game titles from Shuffle Master for its mobile gaming platform, and Shuffle Master license Cantor Gaming’s technology for odds wagering calculation. The games being licensed to Cantor Gaming include Three Card Poker®, […]

Finn Wins Record Poker Bad Beat

Finnish online player OmgoMgomGo didn’t mind losing with quad kings to quad aces as he hit the $1,831,426 (€1,265,583) Bad Beat Jackpot on the International Poker Network, earning a whopping $640,696 in doing so. The winner of the hand, 7Adelaida7, won $320,391, while the other seven players in the hand received $45,766 each. With the […]

APT: Tolentino Wins ASOP Event

The Asian Poker Tour crowned Richard Tolentino as the winner of the recently concluded All-In Anniversary Series of Poker PHP 1 million guaranteed main event held from June 22-27 at the Waterfront Hotel and Casino in Lahug Cebu, Philippines. “We’ve had a great partnership with the All-In Poker Sports Club previously with the launch of […]

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 […]

Epic Poker League Coming To CBS

The Epic Poker League has announced a new TV deal that will bring 20 hours of televised coverage to CBS and the new Velocity Network. “Epic Poker is proud to partner with CBS Television and Discovery Communications in our inaugural season,” said Jeffrey Pollack, Chairman of Federated Sports and Gaming. “Both companies share our commitment […]

The Launch Of FairPlayUSA

FairPlayUSA, a non-profit campaign based in Washington D.C., has joined the push for licensed and regulated online poker in the United States. The organization, funded by casino giants Caesars and MGM, launched on Tuesday. The group’s website states that its goal “is to educate policymakers and the public on the broad public policy interests raised […]

GUKPT Goliath Announces Team Poker Addition

The £100 + £20 buy-in five-day GUKPT Goliath main event is coming up next month at the Ricoh Arena, the home of Coventry City Football Club. The £100,000 guaranteed event will take place from Aug. 24 to 28, and to spice things up a bit, players can now enter a team and compete for extra […]

European Masters Of Poker Hits Dublin Today

Season three of the European Masters of Poker (EMOP) reaches its fourth stop today in Clontarf Castle, Dublin, Ireland. Day 1A of the €1,000 + €100 buy-in main event kicks off at 2 p.m. and players will sit down to 20,000 in chips. Day 1B will follow at the same time tomorrow, and the final […]

Las Vegas Summer Series Report

Much of the attention this summer was rightly focused on the World Series of Poker, which broke attendance records as players looked for live poker tournament options after Black Friday. The Rio attracted a total of 68,807 players from 98 countries and awarded $127,468,010 in prize money. The WSOP wasn’t the only game in town […]

Meet the Nov. 9: Eoghan O'Dea

Eoghan O’Dea will enter the final table as one of the favorites thanks to his tournament experience, his second-place chip stack and his father’s legacy as one of Ireland’s best players. Eoghan’s father Donnacha O’Dea previously made the WSOP Main Event final table twice, finishing ninth in 1991 and sixth in 1983. They are now […]