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Rio Running Massive PLO Cash

The Rio Hotel and Casino has been spreading the biggest cash games in its poker room’s history, according to the floor supervisors in the Pavilion Room. The games have been as large as $1,000-$2,000-$4,000 pot-limit Omaha, and several pots have been been in excess of half-a-million dollars. Ashton Griffin has been running “extremely hot,” winning […]

Euro Poker Tweets Of The Week

This week was another debate-inducing week in the world of poker, this time largely surrounding Full Tilt and the World Series. As the world’s most anticipated festival kicked-off, it seemed so too did a few players. With all eyes on who would turn out for the WSOP given that there are many concerns about owed […]

Irish Winter Poker Festival Returns

The Burlington Hotel in Dublin will play host to the PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Winter Festival this year from Oct. 28 to 31. A schedule of side events is yet to be released but for now players can look forward to a main event with a slightly decreased buy-in of €1,000 + €100 and featuring a €20,000 […]

Poker Strategy: Set Mining Part 1

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 contains excerpts from the upcoming book The Math of Hold’em, by Collin Moshman and Douglas Zare. This is Part I of a three-part series that […]

Cheech Barbaro Wins Event No. 3

A total of 925 entrants turned up for the biggest Omaha Hi-Lo tournament in World Series of Poker history. After three long days of play, Chicago’s own Francesco “Cheech” Barbaro claimed the title, along with $262,283 and his first bracelet. The 37-year-old entered the final day as the chip leader and though he stumbled a […]

Cody Wins WSOP $25K Heads Up

Jake Cody has won the first open event of the summer — the $25,000 no-limit hold’em heads-up championship — claiming $851,192 and his first bracelet. With the victory, Cody also joins the short list of players who have won poker’s triple crown — which consists of a WSOP bracelet, as well as World Poker Tour […]

PKR.com Invite Poker Players To Music Festivals

PKR.com has launched its Summer of Music which will see poker players attend music festivals across Europe over the next four months. PKR players can attend Hard Rock Calling in London’s Hyde Park, Main Square Festival in Arras, France, Popaganda in Stockholm, Sweden and The Berlin Festival in Germany for just €24 or £21. There […]

WSOP: Sean Drake Wins Event 1

The first gold bracelet of the 42nd annual World Series of Poker was awarded to Sean Drake on Thursday for his victory in event No. 1 ($500 casino employees no-limit hold’em). The win was no easy task for Drake considering that attendance was up 18 percent over last year in the event, with 850 players […]

Chan/Moneymaker Win in Rematches

The World Series of Poker “Grudge Matches” created high drama on Thursday at the Rio, pitting former main event champions against their historic runner-up finishers. The made-for-television rematches were scheduled to be those listed below, however, the third match (Seidel vs. Chan) was postponed indefinitely because Seidel was busy playing in another event. Match One: […]

Final Four Set in WSOP $25K Heads Up Championship

Gus Hansen waited nearly an eternity for his first World Series of Poker bracelet. Now after winning his first this past September, the Danish poker pro is just two opponents away from his second — in another high buy-in heads-up event no less — as the final four is set in the $25,000 heads-up event […]

$1M Buy-In Event in 2012 WSOP

At a 5 p.m. press conference on Thursday, Caesars and Guy Laliberte of the One Drop charity foundation announced that there will be a $1 million buy-in at the 2012 World Series of Poker. $111,111 of each seven-figure entry fee will go to helping provide safe water to people around the world. The bracelet-awarding event […]

Grrrinders.com Running Freeroll Championships

The $75,000 World Series of Freeroll Championships have started online by subscription poker site Grrrinders.com. Players compete online in a daily freeroll, with a daily prize pool ranging from $250-$5,000. The top 100 cash winners will be invited to a special Labor Day finale in which the winner will receive an additional $5,000 plus a […]

888 Launches New UK Poker Tour

888poker.com today announced the final schedule for its new Super Stack live poker tour in the UK. There are just two cities on the tour, London and Birmingham, but a total of six events between the end of July and mid-December. The buy in for each event is £165 and players start with a 20,000 […]

Hansen Among WSOP Elite Eight

A total of 32 players returned for day 2 of event no. 2, the World Series of Poker Heads Up Championship, looking for a ticket to the Elite Eight. It took over nine hours of play, but the field was finally set after Gus Hansen dispatched Tom Dwan at midnight. Hansen is now guaranteed at […]

Tiltware Issues Statement on Ivey

Less than 24 hours after eight-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Ivey publicly criticized Full Tilt Poker and filed a lawsuit claiming $150 million in damages, Tiltware, the company that provides software and marketing for the online poker site, issued the following statement: Contrary to his sanctimonious public statements, Phil Ivey’s meritless lawsuit […]

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Win Free WSOP Seats at CP School

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German Poker Pro Wins Sunday Million

After a break for the Spring Championship of Online Poker, the Sunday Million returned with 4,833 entrants. The player to top them all was Tobias “PokerNoob999” Reinkemeier. The German who has a SCOOP title in his arsenal (from 2009) now adds a Sunday Million title to his collection plus $135,053.32. He now has more than […]

WSOP: $25k HU Champ. Day 1

The 42nd annual World Series of Poker started with a marquee event on Tuesday, May 31 at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and that event was the inaugural $25,000 heads-up no-limit hold’em championship. The tournament exceeded expectations and attracted a solid field of 128 players. That created a total prize pool of […]

Dragonfish Free To Enter Italian Poker Market

888.com’s business-to-business online gaming wing Dragonfish has received certification from the Italian regulator Amministrazione Autonoma Dei Monopoli Di Stato (AAMS). Itai Frieberger, chief operation officer for 888, said “This successful certification of our products by AAMS further reaffirms our focus and commitment to the growing Italian iGaming market.” Online cash games were launched in Italy […]

Phil Gordon Talks B.B.O.C. Charity

This summer, poker players from around the globe will gather at the Rio in Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker. Each will hope to avoid bad beats from the competition, but Phil Gordon is hoping that the players will help him put a bad beat on cancer. Since 2003, the Bad Beat on […]

Ivey Files Lawsuit Against TiltWare

Update: Clark County District Court records show that Phil Ivey filed a lawsuit against Tiltware, a company that provided software to Full Tilt Poker, on Wednesday in Las Vegas. Case No. A-11-642387-C is listed as Phillip Ivey, Jr., Plaintiff vs. Tiltware LLC, Defendant. According to the Associated Press, the company has denied Ivey’s request to […]

TD Jack Effel Kicks Off WSOP

It got started a bit late, but at 12:35 p.m., World Series of Poker tournament director Jack Effel took the stage in the Pavilion Room at the Rio to officially kick off this summer’s festivities. Play began a bit later than scheduled due to a logistical problem, where multiple players were given identical seating assignments. […]

French Poker Liquidity May Receive Boost

The French government has received a report recommending it changes many of the rules relating to online gaming in the country including reducing tax and sharing liquidity in the poker sector. In total 15 proposals have been put forward by two MPs, Jean-Francois Lamour and Aurelie Filippetti, who argue that existing legislation is impacting the […]

International Poker Open Returns Revamped

The Boylepoker International Poker Open returns to the Regency Hotel Dublin later this year, from Oct. 21-23, with a few new twists and turns to spruce it up. The €200 + €25 buy-in event will play, as usual, across two days (including a choice of two starting days) but this time players will sit down […]

CP Teams With TPE For WSOP

Card Player is pleased to announce that we have teamed up with the brilliant poker minds over at Tournament Poker Edge to bring our readers top-notch hand analysis from this summer’s World Series of Poker. Tournament Poker Edge has quickly become the destination training site for poker players looking to improve their tournament game. With […]

Youngest WPT Champ Crowned

Lukas Berglund topped a total field of 216 at the World Poker Tour Spanish Championship in Barcelona to become the youngest ever WPT champion. The 18-year-old Swede impacted the final table like a whirlwind, sucking up all the chips, and personally sending each of his opponents to the rail. Straight out of school, the young […]

EPT And TK Poker Events Part Ways

When you think of the European Poker Tour, you think of different locations, the players, the media, and the professional team that works alongside the Kremsers to make sure everything goes smoothly. That’s why it was surprising to hear recently that Thomas and Marina Kremser’s company TK Poker Events had broken ties with the Tour. […]

Hungarian Poker Club Shut Down

The Miami Poker Club in Budapest, Hungary has been raided for the second time in six months. The National Tax and Customs Office (NAV) raided the shopping mall-based club on Friday and found 40 tables in action. The seized the tables, chips and other evidence according to caboodle.hu. Last November the club, which is the […]

Barnhart Wins WSOPC Champ.

After three days of play, we have our first World Series of Poker bracelet winner of 2011, Sam Barnhart. The 50-year-old software analyst from Arkansas took down the inaugural WSOP Circuit National Championship at Caesars Palace, defeating a field of 100 qualifiers and earning the $300,000 first-place prize. Barnhart won a $180 satellite into the […]