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WSOP Begins This Tuesday

The biggest poker tournament series of the year starts on Tuesday, May 31 when cards get into the air at the 42nd annual World Series of Poker at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The tournament series will run from Tuesday until July 19 and there will be 58 gold bracelet events […]

Paradise Poker Tour Barcelona Rebuy Tonight

Tonight, Sunday May 29, sees online poker players get a chance to pick up a seat to the ParadisePoker Tour Barcelona main event at ParadisePoker.com. Sunday is €22 rebuy night at 19:30 BST (as is Monday, Wednesday, and Friday). One package to Barcelona is guaranteed. Tuesdays (Thursdays and Saturdays) are €55 no-limit hold’em freezeout nights […]

WSOPC National Champ. Day 2

After just two days of play, the final table is set in the World Series of Poker Circuit National Championship $1 million freeroll. The field began with 100 qualifiers, and after all of the poker house hold names hit the rail the remaining nine players will battle it out for a $300,000 first place prize […]

Euro Poker Tweets Of The Week

This week was one of Twitter’s calmer weeks in the poker world; not because players weren’t tweet-happy but because much of the talk was prompted by one thing ⎯ the World Series of Poker. Most were concerned about their fantasy leagues, drafts, side bets, and basically all the on-the-side action that adds to the world’s […]

La Sengphet Leads at WSOPC Champ

One of the perks of playing in a freeroll is that you know exactly what you are playing for before you sit down at the table. The 100 players who qualified for the WSOP Circuit National Championship gathered at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and before the first cards were pitched, everyone in the tournament […]

Moving Forward: Vinny Pahuja

Vinny Pahuja has played as a live poker pro most of his career, grinding in cash games in his hometown of New York City and in the Northeast. Starting in 2007 he started a successful foray into the live tournament poker circuit, where he racked up more than 50 cashes and four tournament wins while […]

Poker Strategy: Target Practice

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! In today’s capped buy-in no-limit hold’em games, the name of the game is taking your opponent’s whole stack. Tiny pots come and go… they don’t matter so […]

Greek Wins Poker Game Of His Life

Greek player Konstantinos “brave-83” Gennaios has won the poker game of his life by taking down the ultimate VIP sports package at the Game of Your Life Grand Final. Gennaios topped a massive field of 20,126 last Sunday in the Grand Final of one of PokerStars’ largest freeroll promotions and now can use the $100,000 […]

Poker Revenue Down 29 Percent At Sportingbet

Sportingbet plc has issued its interim financial report for the third quarter of its financial year to the end of April 2011. Poker net revenue was down 29 percet (§6 percent like-for-like) to £3.2 million compared to £4.5 million in the same period last year. The company said this was. “… due to the continued […]

Poker Player Buys Share of NY Mets

The New York Mets have agreed to sell a minority share of the franchise to David Einhorn — the 18th place finisher in the 2006 World Series of Poker main event. Einhorn, a hedge fund manager who donated all of his main event winnings to charity, will pay $200 million to the cash-poor franchise. According […]

WSOPC Champ. Preview

The World Series of Poker Circuit National Championship will begin at noon on Friday, May 27 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. There are 100 players who have qualified for the invitation-only event during the course of the 2010-11 WSOP Circuit season, in which 20,000 players participated. You can check out the list of those […]

Caesars Offering $1M Poker Jackpot

Beginning this month, exclusively at Caesars Entertainment Corporation’s Las Vegas resorts, players can win $1 million in just one hand playing Three Card Poker, already one of the most popular specialty table games on the casino floor. The 6 Card Bonus side bet on Three Card Poker gives players the chance to win $1 million […]

Freerolls Running on Herculespoker

Brand new Herculespoker has come to Card Player, and our readers are eligible for a deposit bonus of 200 percent up to $1,000. Just use the promotional code cardplayer. If you don’t want to deposit just yet, the site is offering players numerous freerolls with good structures, allowing you to win money for free. Some […]

Gus Hansen On CP Mag Cover

The latest edition of Card Player Magazine is now available online and features high-stakes pro Gus Hansen, who is 2011’s biggest online cash game winner with $3.5 million in earnings. The cover story focuses on Hansen’s early career as a backgammon professional and his eventual transition into poker. Hansen eventually made his way to the […]

Antonius Enduring Wild Swings

At one point last week Patrik Antonius had passed Gus Hansen on the 2011 leader board for cash-game winnings. However, Antonius imploded, degenerating all of his profits back in the following days. Antonius started off the run by destroying Rui Cao for about $800,000 at $500-$1,000 pot-limit Omaha last Thursday. By capturing multiple six-figures pots, […]

Win Big Every Day In June At PartyPoker

June will be a whopper month at PartyPoker.com with the launch of the site’s The Big Draw. Every day of the month there will be a draw with more than $500,000 worth of prizes like iPads, iPhones, iPod Touch, and widescreen televisions to be won. There will also be plenty of branded merchandise on offer, […]

Unibet Open Barcelona Online Poker Satellites

The Unibet Open Barcelona is just around the corner and Unibet.com has qualifiers are also currently running for the main event which takes place from June 9 to 12, 2011. There are daily freerolls and €2 feeders running for this event with €2,500 packages up for grabs. These packages include four nights accommodation, daily breakfast […]

Poker Freeroll For Signed Messi Shirt Tomorrow

Football fans no longer have to wait until Saturday for intense action as PaddyPowerPoker.com is giving away a signed Lionel Messi Barcelona football shirt for free tomorrow (Friday, May 27). The freeroll, which is also awarding Champions League sports bets worth €10/£10 to the top 20 places, will begin at 8 p.m.. Players must deposit […]

WSOP Q&A: Allen Kessler

If one were to glance at the results for Allen Kessler at the 2010 World Series of Poker they might think that he was running down a checklist to attempt to cash in every form of poker. His impressive run last summer included eight cashes overall and he spread them out among seven different forms […]

Golden Nugget Buys Trump Marina

Landry’s Inc., owner of the Golden Nugget casinos in Las Vegas and Laughlin, Nevada, has been approved by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission for an interim license in order to buy the Trump Marina Hotel Casino in Atlantic City for $38 million. In total, Landry’s will spend nearly $100 million in acquiring and renovating […]

Nevada Online Poker Bill Passes Senate Judiciary Committee

The Nevada Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved a bill for interactive gaming — a measure which would include online poker. The bill is aiming to put the Silver State first in line to adopt regulations for internet poker once federal legislation is passed or the U.S. Department of Justice determines that operating interactive gaming […]

Casino Gran Madrid To Offer Online Poker

Casino Gran Madrid is often in the spotlight for hosting major poker events, and this week it is once again, but for another reason. According to eGaming Review, the casino has become the first to be certified by the government of Madrid and is now officially licensed to offer poker, blackjack, slots, and roulette on […]

Shouman Rami Wins Mediterranean Poker Cup

The Mediterranean Poker Cup 2011 took place at the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino in Cyprus from Apr. 29 to May 9 and featured a wide range of events. The most important of them all, the €2,500 main event, was won by Shouman Rami. The Lebanese champ beat Bahadir Kara heads up to take […]

Tournament Directors on Black Friday

A handful of live tournament poker series have taken place since the major online poker rooms were indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday, April 15. The major tournaments since Black Friday have shown mixed results, but there has not been any major fluctuations in tournament attendance so far. Two tournament directors who […]

New Online Poker Bill in Works

The Hill reported on Tuesday that Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) is planning to soon introduce online poker legislation, in an effort to pass such a bill this legislative session. At a press conference outside the Capitol, Barton reportedly said that he has spoken to the leadership of the House Energy and Commerce Committee about online […]

Sami 'Lrslzk' Kelopuro Wins SCOOP Main Event

Despite not being able to offer games to the American market, PokerStars finished a successful 2011 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) on Tuesday. The series-ending $10,300 main event was won by Finland’s Sami “Lrslzk” Kelopuro, who has won and lost millions in the high-stakes online cash games. He outlasted a field of 380 players […]

All Good For Angood At PKR Live VI

The recent PKR Live VI was taken down by Victoria Casino regular Rob Angood. Angood beat 242 players including his final opponent Kevin Ayow to the first-place prize of £36,638 (post-deal) from a total prize pool of £170,100. The £750 buy-in event was held at the Fox Poker Club and saw some of the best […]

More Online Operators Charged

On Monday, a federal grand jury in Baltimore, Maryland returned indictments charging two companies and three defendants with conducting an illegal gambling business and money laundering. As a result of an undercover sting by Homeland Security Investigations in Maryland, the two-count indictments include Darren Wright and David Parchomchuk of ThrillX, a software solutions provider registered […]

WPT Spanish Championship Begins

The countdown to the World Poker Tour Spanish Championship is over with side events and satellites starting today at Casino Barcelona on the shores of the Mediterranean. Day 1A of the €3,200 + €300 main event gets underway at 15.00 CET on Wednesday, May 25 and Day 1B will follow at the same time on […]

ANZPT: Matusik Wins at Gold Coast

The Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Gold Coast $2,500 AUD no-limit hold’em main event has crowned a champion on Australia’s East Coast. That champion is Peter Matusik and he will take home the top prize worth $145,100 for topping a field of 245 players. Matusik is a resident of Raby Bay, Queensland and he kept […]