Poker News

Premier League Poker Returns

The World Poker Tour and Matchroom Sport have announced the return of Premier League Poker later this year. The event will be renamed World Poker Tour Premier League Presented by PartyPoker.com and will expand to include 16 players rather than the usual 12. It will also have $250,000 added to the prize pool and a […]

Irish Poker Open Live Stream Breaks Record

The live stream figures for the PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Open are in, and the results are pretty monumental. The Open, which attracted 615 players to the main event, never mind those who turned up for the side events and to just generally lap up the atmosphere, was also viewed in 158 countries across the globe. The […]

World Poker Tour Adds New Florida Stops

Fresh on the heels of the success of the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown, the WPT decided to get a jump on next season by announcing three new tournaments set to take place in Florida during Season X. The WPT will welcome Jacksonville Greyhound Racing & Poker as its newest partner and the […]

CarbonPoker's 'Super Money Tree' Promotion

Money apparently grows on trees at CarbonPoker. The online site, which welcomes U.S. players, is giving its players a chance to win extra cash by simply earning VIP points this month. How the promotion works: Play any real money ring games, tournaments or sit-and-gos and earn just 100 VIP points within any 24-hour period. At […]

Matt Matros On Black Friday

Not many poker professionals have the ability to share their opinions about the current online poker situation more effectively than Card Player columnist Matt Matros. Matros has recently appeared on WashingtonPost.com and CNN to comment about poker and its Black Friday. Card Player caught up with him to talk briefly about his appearances on the […]

Moving Forward: Lars Bonding

In this new series on Card Player, we present to you a top poker pro who has had his or her world turned upside down by the events on Black Friday. In this edition we bring you Lars Bonding, his wife, and their two kids. Veteran tournament grinder Lars “Dsavo” Bonding has been one of […]

Rupert Elder Wins EPT San Remo

It was the fourth time the European Poker Tour pulled into the quaint city of San Remo along the beautiful Italian Riviera. It just so happens that it was here season seven found its fourth British champion in the form of 24-year-old former economics student Rupert Elder. Elder follows in the footsteps of Toby Lewis, […]

Bodog Signs Poker TV Presenter Tatjana Pasalic

Bodog Europe has signed its first pro since Evelyn Ng, tieing up TV presenter and player Tatjana Pasalic for the World Series of Poker main event. Pasalic, originally from Bosnia Herzegovina via Croatia, Denmark and Scotland, said, “Bodog’s brand is the one that fits me best…from the photo-shoot onwards everybody at Bodog has had a […]

Pokerview's WebCam Poker

Beginning May 3, online poker players, including those based in the United States, will be able to see their opponents while playing real money cash games online. By introducing WebCam Poker, Pokerview is gearing up to forever remove the major drawback of classical online play. On Pokerview, a site fully licensed and regulated, players face […]

Buy In For Less, Win More

This 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 online poker, a “standard” buy-in for a no-limit hold’em game is considered to be 100 big blinds. That would be $200 in a $1-$2 game and $1,000 […]

FS+G Season One Qualifiers List

The Federated Poker League announced their list of 218 eligible players on Tuesday for the inaugural 2011-2012 season. Each of the eligible players were also given a tour card, which will allow individuals to continue competing for two, three or five years, based on past accomplishments. “We are committed to celebrating the world’s best live […]

Kriegenbergh Wins WPT Florida

One of the longest final tables in World Poker Tour history wrapped up on Tuesday morning at the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida. The champion of the inaugural Seminole Hard Rock Showdown was Taylor Von Kriegenbergh and he took home $1,122,340, a WPT bracelet, and a seat in the $25,000 WPT Championship for topping […]

Local Wins Paradise Poker Tour Madrid

After making it past 248 players, Pablo Baldur needed to beat just one more, Jose Maria Somolinos, in order to reach the first-place prize of the Paradise Poker Tour Madrid main event. The Gran Casino local cash game pro beat Solominos in heroic fashion when he called Solominos’ bluff all-in on the river of a […]

EPT: San Remo Final Table Set

Day 5 at the European Poker Tour San Remo no-limit hold’em main event welcomed back the final 24 players and by the end of the night the final table was set. The final eight will return tomorrow to fight for the the tournament title and the top prize of €930,000. Team PokerStars pro member Maxim […]

Ariel 'ArielBahia' Celestino Wins FTOPS Main Event

You can check out the final results for some of Sunday’s major events below: Full Tilt Poker — FTOPS XX Main Event Buy-In: $600+$40 Prize Pool: $2,799,600 Entrants: 4,666 1. Ariel “ArielBahia” Celestino – $346,696* 2. Towelfish – $366,793* 3. WHOPPWHOPP – $279,394* 4. paranoik33 – $288,774* 5. CupcakeThePig – $137,180 6. Anton “antesvante” Wigg […]

2011 WSOP Just a Month Away

Sometimes no news is news and that is certainly the case with the 2011 World Series of Poker. The 42nd annual version of the most popular poker tournament series in the world will be staged at the Rio in Las Vegas and the neither the schedule nor buy-ins will be affected by the events of […]

Taxi Driver Wins At Grosvenor UK Poker Tour

London taxi driver Alan Mansbridge has won the £1,000 buy in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Walsall main event beating 171 opponents to take home the top prize of £50,000. Mansbridge was the short stack the night before and hadn’t even booked a hotel for the next night such was his lack of confidence in progressing. […]

WPT: Florida Final Table Set

Day 5 at the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown no-limit hold’em main event saw the final 18 players return and by the end of play just the final television table of six remained. Here is a look at the chip counts for the start of play at 4 p.m. local time tomorrow, as […]

Yunis Leads San Remo After Day 4

Day 4 at the European Poker Tour San Remo no-limit hold’em main event welcomed back 60 players and by the end of the night just the final 24 remained. Those finalists will return tomorrow to play down to the final table of eight and among them are Team PokerStars pro members Maxim Lykov (1,722,000) and […]

WSOPC: Johnson Wins at Caesars

The World Series of Poker Circuit $1,500 no-limit hold’em main event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas has come to a close and the champion is Chris Johnson. He topped a large field of 496 players and took home $153,599. There were many notable professionals in the large field and some of them survived to […]

European Masters of Poker Bulgaria This Month

As the European Masters of Poker Bulgaria hoves into view the Entraction network is giving away 10 €2,000 packages for the main event this month. Players can freeroll their way to Sunny Beach using using VIP points to qualify for the Iron Man tournaments and if they win a package will receive the €1,100 buy […]

EPT: San Remo Day 3

Day 3 at the European Poker Tour San Remo no-limit hold’em main event saw the size of the field slice its way down to the final 60 players. The players will return tomorrow and play down to the final 24. Here is a look at the remaining prize pool that they will be fighting for […]

WPT: Blair Hinkle Leads in Florida

Day 4 at the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown no-limit hold’em main event saw the size of the field slice its way down to the final 18 players. The players are now down to the serious prize money and everyone remaining is guaranteed $35,333. Here is a look at the remaining prize pool: […]

Changes to SCOOP Schedule

After the indictments by the United States Department of Justice on April 15, PokerStars has tweaked its Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), which starts on May 8. In order to accommodate European players, all events have been moved up three hours. In addition, with the absence of the American market, the online site has […]

A Poker Life: Tim West

Sometimes you need to hit rock bottom before you can truly turn your life around. That was the case with Tim West, who sprinted out of the gates into his career as a tournament pro, only to see his game and even worse, his health, completely crumble around him. Determined to get back to the […]

Czech Govt. Wants Online Poker Shutdown

The Czech government wants foreign online poker rooms shutdown and has asked the police to intervene to no avail according to CeskaPozice.cz. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Finance told the site they have, “…already approached the Czech Police several times on this issue, but they have always declined to take action, saying that no […]

EPT: San Remo Day 2

As 460 players became 164 on day 2 of the European Poker Tour San Remo, the main event lost many of its big names including Sebastian Ruthenberg, Marcin Horecki, Pieter de Korver, Barry Greenstein, and Antoine Saout. The day ended just 20 off the bubble and saw some well-knowns putting up a fight to stay […]

WPT: Seminole Hard Rock Day 3

Day 3 at the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown no-limit hold’em main event saw the size of the field slice its way down to the final 51 players, just six spots shy of when the money bubble will burst. When registration closed the total prize pool was set at $4,156,800. The eventual champion […]

CP Columnist Matt Matros Talks About Black Friday

Late last week, poker professional, World Series of Poker bracelet winner, and Card Player columnist Matt Matros gave his take on the indictments against the major online poker sites in a WashingtonPost.com op-ed. Matros tied in Black Friday with topics such as capitalism and the American Dream, explaining how poker has allowed him to pursue […]

Poker VT Comes to Card Player

Poker VT, one of poker’s most advanced interactive virtual training systems, allows you to train one-on-one with Daniel Negreanu and other poker experts. The site features analysis and commentary by Negreanu on hundreds of different hand scenarios, including live game videos, which detail his effective small ball tournament strategy. Poker VT also features a collection […]