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Final Table Set in WPT Championship

Chip leader Galen Hall almost didn’t even come to the $25,000 World Poker Tour Championship. The 2011 PokerStars Carribean Adventure champion was in Madrid late last week, busy final tabling the EPT high roller event and finishing second in the tournament of champions, before flying back to his San Fransisco apartment on Saturday night. When […]

Coral Poker In Rumoured iPoker Move

Coral Poker is rumoured to be moving from the Ongame network to iPoker according to an analysts report published today. Daniel Stewart & Co said in its morning note that, “We believe a software agreement between Gala Coral and PTEC [Playtech] is imminent but is yet to be publicly announced. Coral’s online business has been […]

Spaniard Takes Down Eureka Poker Tour Title

Recent Estrelles Poker Tour winner Antonio Dieguez Rodriguez has done it again, this time triumphing at the PokerStars.com Eureka Poker Tour in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. The Spainiard topped a field of 211 players in the €800 buy in event which created a prize pool of €149,410. He entered the final table as the second shortest […]

Juha Helppi Signs With Finland’s RAY Poker

Juha Helppi, Finland’s most successful tournament poker pro, has signed a deal to represent state-run poker operator RAY. The 34-year-old will also help develop RAY Poker as part of his deal and Jussi Hietaranta, head of poker at RAY said, ”Juha Helppi is a good choice as our co-operation partner. He’s a long-standing Finnish professional, […]

Galen Hall Leads at WPT $25K

There are still three scheduled days of play remaining at the 2011 World Poker Tour Championship, but only 15 players remain, making it likely that the final six will get a day of rest before battling it out at the televised final table on Friday. Leading the way is 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event […]

Bubble Bursts At WPT Championship

One of the biggest bubbles of the tournament year occurs each season at the WPT Championship at Bellagio. This year is no different with at least $37,167 set aside for those fortunate enough to make their way to the final 27 players. Card Player caught up with a few players during the break before the […]

ANZPT: Gold Coast Main Event Begins

The Australia New Zealand Poker Tour is heading to the East Coast of the island continent for the fourth stop on season three of the tour. There will be three day-one flights for players to choose from in the $2,500 AUD no-limit hold’em main event and day 1A has attracted 64 players. Players began with […]

Preparing For A Poker Session

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? […]

Paradise Poker Tour Barcelona Freezeout Tonight

Online poker players get a cheap chance to qualify for the ParadisePoker Tour Barcelona main event at ParadisePoker.com tonight. Tuesday’s are €55 no-limit hold’em freezeout nights with one package guaranteed in the online tournament which starts at 18:30 GMT (19:30 BST). Players can also play the freezeout on Thursday and Saturday while Monday, Wednesday, Friday, […]

International Association Establishes Poker Rules

Well known Dutch poker pro Marcel Luske has been busy behind the scenes establishing a set of poker rules which he hopes will be adopted around the world. His Federation Internationale de Poker Association launched its new website yesterday, Fidpa.com, and along with it the International Poker Rules (IP rules) which are designed to serve […]

WPT Championship Leaders: Kelly and Sternberg

(5:30 p.m. PST) — Level 14 just started here at the Bellagio in the $25,000 World Poker Tour Championship and the two biggest stacks in the room are Alan Sternberg (875,000) and Steven Kelly (860,000). Despite being at two different tables, the pair of poker pros have some serious history together. Back in March, Kelly […]

Sam El Sayed Leads at WPT

Day 3 of the 2011 World Poker Tour Championship has ended, with just 52 pieces of debris remaining after the dust settled — about a quarter of the 220 that ponied up $25,000 for a plastic chair in the Fontana Lounge at the Bellagio. The chip leader going into day 4 is cigar aficionado Sam […]

PartyPoker Comes to Card Player

PartyPoker, part of Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment which was formed in March by the merger of PartyGaming (founded in 1997) and Bwin, has partnered with Card Player to offer our European readers a deposit welcome bonus of up to $500. The poker site is part of the world’s largest publicly traded online gambling firm, with PartyPoker […]

Jason Mercier Wins COC Event

The Gran Casino in Madrid was pure heaven for poker fans on May 13 as 50 European Poker Tour main event winners turned out for the first ever PokerStars Champion of Champions event. Every single EPT champion had been invited to take part in the €100,000 freeroll, from the Tour’s debut winner Alex Stevic to […]

William Hill And Playtech Call Truce

Online gaming partners William Hill and Playtech have announced an “amicable resolution” to their recent dispute over joint venture William Hill Online. In February this year William Hill took out an injunction against iPoker owner Playtech preventing it from making “significant amendments” to their deal at a time when news reports suggested Playtech was in […]

Final European Masters Of Poker Freerolls This Week

This week sees the final two European Masters of Poker Bulgaria freerolls on the Entraction network. Two packages worth €2,000 being given away tomorrow Tuesday May 17 and Thursday May 19 Players an freeroll their way into the Iron Man tournaments using VIP points and the winners will take down a package consisting of a […]

WPT Champion Will Earn $1.6 Million at Bellagio

The second day of the 2011 World Poker Tour Championship attracted 37 additional players before registration closed, bringing the total field size to 220 and guaranteeing the eventual winner $1,618,344. The $25,000 buy in tournament saw a 25-player increase over 2010’s field and generated a total prize pool of $5,309,500, which will be paid out […]

Phil Galfond Post Black Friday

As play in the $25,000 World Poker Tour Championship was nearing level 10 on day 2, ex-online poker pro Phil “OMGClayAIken” Galfond was one of the chip leaders with 300,000 in chips. Galfond is working towards the $1.6 million first place prize, a figure reminiscent of a good week in the online high stakes cash […]

Moving Forward: Sam Stein and Scotty Nguyen

In this new series on Card Player, we bring you lives affected by the events of poker’s Black Friday. In this edition we feature Scotty Nguyen and Sam Stein. The pair have racked up nearly $15 million in combined career earnings and recently competed heads up for a Bellagio $1,000 event. In the exciting battle, […]

Play Unibet Open Online Poker Tournament Tonight

Season five of the Unibet Open is well underway and the second Unibet Open Online takes place tonight Sunday May 15 at 7 p.m. CET. The €300 + €20 buy in event has a guaranteed prize pool of €25,000. The first Unibet Open Online event toook place in early April and was won by Roger […]

WPT Championship Interview: Ali Tekintamgac

Update: At the start of day 2, Daniel Negreanu walked over to Ali Tekintamgac’s table, with the WPT camera crew by his side, and said “This is the cheater from Partouche!” One of the faces in the crowd here at the Bellagio in the $25,000 World Poker Tour Championship is accused Partouche Poker Tour cheater […]

WPT Championship Unaffected By Black Friday

Day 1 of the 2011 World Poker Tour Championship, the largest buy-in poker tournament on US soil since the events of Black Friday, saw 188 players turn out on Saturday, setting the pace to surpass last year’s total of 195, as players can still register up until about 3:30 p.m. on Sunday. The host of […]

Doyle Brunson: No Comment on DR

After Gambling911.com reported on Friday that 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Doyle Brunson will be leaving his online poker site, DoylesRoom, the 77-year-old poker pro showed up at the Bellagio on Saturday for the $25,000 World Poker Tour Championship sporting a site t-shirt. When asked for comment on the situation with the online […]

Betsson Expands Poker With Betsafe Buy

Malta-based online bookmaker room Betsson has acquired its competitor Betsafe in a deal worth at least €32.5 million and up to €60 million. Betsson, whose online poker room lost 40 percent of its revenue in the first quarter of 2011, will acquire Betsafe’s online poker room as part of the deal. Both rooms are on […]

Poker Tell Tales: Soren Blanner

Card Player catches up with young Danish player Soren Blanner to see what he has been up to (we last spoke to him in 2008) and what it was like to take down an Aussie Millions side event when faced with some dangerous competition. Rebecca McAdam: What have you been doing poker-wise over the past […]

AGA Pushing for Online Poker

The American Gaming Association (AGA) is currently working towards an online poker bill, which will likely be drafted and introduced to Congress in the next month or so, as lawmakers and casino executives have been in discussions since the events of April 15, according to Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., President and CEO of the AGA. […]

WPT Championship Begins Saturday

The crown jewel of Season IX on the World Poker Tour begins on Saturday at Bellagio in Las Vegas. The WPT World Poker Championship $25,000 no-limit hold’em main event will begin at noon on Saturday, May 14 and it will crown a champion on Friday, May 20. Card Player and Card Player TV will be […]

A Poker Life: Ali Eslami

Ali Eslami first started experimenting with poker after he played Magic the Gathering in his teens and early 20s as a semi-professional. These days he can call himself a full-fledged poker professional who has racked up $699,751 in career tournament earnings and much more in various cash games. Eslami is well-respected in the poker community […]

European Poker Tour Award Winners Announced

Fernando Brito from Portugal is the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Player of the Year after picking up the gong last night at Pacha nightclub, Madrid during the EPT Grand Final final table. The 52-year-old businessman topped the POY table after scoring: 6th – EPT London main event 1st – four €1,000 NL Turbo Random Bounty […]

PRK Live VI Final Online Poker Satellites

PKR.com sees the return next week of PKR Live which takes place at the Fox Poker Club, London from May 19 to 22. The PKR live VI centerpiece event is a £750 buy in main event, up from £500 last time, which is expected to generate a prize pool of around £300,000 and will take […]