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DOJ Nabs Fourth Black Friday Arrest

The Department of Justice has now racked up its fourth arrest following the indictment of 11 owners and representatives of the major online poker sites. Ira Rubin, a man who allegedly acted as a payment processor and is accused of illegal gambling, money laundering and wire fraud, was arrested on Monday. According to the DOJ’s […]

EPT Grand Final Live on Euro TV

PokerStars.com will broadcast the upcoming European Poker Tour Grand Final live, with holecards, on TV across Europe claiming it is likely to be “the most watched live live poker show of all time”. Terrerestrial and satellite channels in Spain, Holland, Romania, Slovenia and Germany have been confirmed and the event will also be available online […]

Visser Takes Control Of EPT

Day 1B of the PokerStars European Poker Tour San Remo attracted 549 players, creating a total field, over both starting days, of 987 from 57 countries. This in turn created a prize pool of €4,786,950 with €930,000 for the winner, plus a Shamballa Jewels bracelet worth more than €16,000, a seat in the EPT Grand […]

PKR World Series Of Poker Parties Announced

PKR.com has announced details of its parties for the upcoming World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. The welcome party takes place on Friday July 1 at the Caramel Bar in Bellagio with the 1,600 square feet space reserved exclusively for PKR qualifiers and featuring DJs. The official PKR party take place on Tuesday July […]

Todd Terry Leads After Day 2 of WPT Hard Rock

Day 2 at the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown no-limit hold’em main event saw the size of the field grow to 433 players and by the end of the night just 145 remained. When registration closed the total prize pool was set at $4,156,800. The eventual champion will take home $1,122,340 in prize […]

Betsson Poker Revenue Falls 40 Percent

Scandinavian-facing online gaming operator Betsson today published its interim financial report for the first quarter of 2011 and it made for grim reading for the company’s poker vertical. Revenue was down 40 percent to SEK18.3 million (€2 million) from SEK30.3 million (€3.4 million) a year earlier. Compared to the final quarter of 2010 poker revenue […]

Russian Leads EPT San Remo

The penultimate stop of the PokerStars European Poker Tour is currently taking place in San Remo, Italy. The Italian Riviera plays home away from home to hundreds of players who flock to the Casino San Remo each year since the stop’s beginning in season 4. This season, a total amount of 438 players made their […]

Playtech Poker Revenue Down 33 Percent

Playtech, the publicly-quoted online gaming software provider which owns the iPoker network, today reported poker revenue down 33 percent in the first quarter of 2011 to €5.7 million compared to €8.5 million a year earlier. Excluding France, whose market was regulated during 2010, poker revenue was down 25 percent. The company did not give any […]

Paradise Poker Tour Pulls Into Madrid

ParadisePoker.com’s festival of events kicks off in Madrid’s Gran Casino today with season two, leg five of the ParadisePoker Tour. This evening at the Gran Casino, there is a €50 + €10 no-limit hold’em rebuy super satellite at 9 p.m. with 15 seats to the main event up for grabs. Tomorrow at 8 p.m., the […]

WPT: Seminole Hard Rock Day 1

Day 1 at the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown no-limit hold’em main event attracted a field of 406 players and by the end of the night just 290 remained. The overnight chip leader is Randy Dorfman with 160,000. Registration will remain open until the start of play tomorrow so the field size could […]

WSOPC: Pennsylvania Stop Begins

Cards got into the air today at the World Series of Poker Circuit tournament series at the Harrah’s in Chester, Pennsylvania. This is the first time that the WSOP Circuit has visited Pennsylvania. The tournament series will feature 38 tournaments that will run from today until May 10. The featured event at the tournament series […]

Top Sites For U.S. Players

While a number of online sites have bailed out of the United States market, pending legal issues, some of the other top online sites in the world are still around and accepting Americans. Check out the internet poker operators below and take advantage of generous deposit bonuses, available exclusively through CardPlayer.com. 1. PokerView PokerView, which […]

Nevada Poker Bill Amended

In a way Nevada’s online poker bill is dead, as Assembly Bill 258 now contains zero mentions of poker after amendments were adopted on April 25 — just 10 days after the United States Department of Justice indicted the major online poker sites, effectively shutting down their U.S. real-money play. However, the future of online […]

High Stakes Action Still Thriving Online

Despite U.S. players missing from the high stakes online scene, there has been some intense action at the nosebleed pot-limit Omaha tables on Full Tilt Poker recently, thanks to the always aggressive Scandinavian players. The two biggest winners since April 15 have been Patrik Antonius and Jens “Ingenious89” Kyllönen, winner of the 2009 EPT Copenhegan. […]

Unibet Open Poker Events Approach -- Qualify Now

Unibet.com tonight continues its qualification schedule for the upcoming Unibet Open Online with a €55 + €5 satellite. Those who want to play the €300 + €20 buy-in Unibet Open Online, kicking off on May 15 at 7 p.m. (CET), can qualify for for the nightly finals through daily freerolls and €2 feeder satellites. Those […]

Caesars Entertainment CEO Pushes For Federal Legislation

On Tuesday, Caesars Entertainment President and CEO Gary Loveman expressed his thoughts in an op/ed piece for the online edition of Fortune Magazine, stating that the Department of Justice and their recent federal indictment of the major online poker sites has created an opportunity to create jobs and generate revenue for U.S. citizens. Loveman went […]

Ben Sulsky Discusses Hero Call Gone Wrong

Ben “Sauce1234” Sulsky is a nosebleed cash game professional and one of the deepest thinkers in the game. Card Player caught up him to discuss a fascinating hand he played a few months ago with Scott “URnotINdanger2” Palmer. The Scenario: Game/Blinds No-Limit Hold’em $100-$200 Player Ben Sulsky Scott Palmer Stack Size $32,423 $56,526 Hand 10 […]

PokerStars Begins Payouts

On Tuesday afternoon at around 4 p.m. EST, PokerStars sent out an email to its United States players, explaining that cash outs are now available. The move comes 11 days after the site was shutdown in American cyberspace, and less than a week since PokerStars regained its dot-com domain to facilitate returns. A copy of […]

WPT: Florida Event Begins Wednesday

The World Poker Tour is pulling into Florida for a major televised tournament for the first time in the nine-season history of the tour this week. The $10,000 no-limit hold’em WPT main event at the Seminole Hard Rock Showdown begins on Wednesday, April 27 and it will crown a champion on Monday, May 2 in […]

Niall Smyth Wins Irish Poker Open

The end was not swift nor clean and emerging bloodied but unbowed from the epic battle was young Irish player Niall Smyth who defeated veteran rounder Surinder Sunar to take down the 2011 paddypowerpoker.com Irish Open in Dublin in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Smyth collected €550,000 for his victory over the 615-strong field […]

Live Poker Club Gets 3D Makeover

The Fox Poker Club, London has received 3D makeover within next-generation online poker room, PKR.com. It is the first live environment, all 6,500 square feet and 20 tables, to be replicated for an online environment. Chris North, managing director of the club, said, “I’m absolutely thrilled with how the 3D poker room looks and just […]

The Poker Play: Alex Wice Vs. Aaron Wilt

Event: Live at the Bike Format: Cash Game Blinds: $10-$25 Villain: Aaron “WiltOnTilt” Wilt Alex Wice: This is a hand I played recently on “Live at the Bike”. It was a cash game with hole cards streaming online, and everyone was more or less at least 300 big blinds deep. It was folded to me […]

EPT San Remo Begins Wednesday

The PokerStars European Poker Tour San Remo stop begins on Wednesday, April 27 at noon local time in the Italian Riviera. This is the fourth year for this hugely successful tournament stop as evidenced by last year when 1,240 players attended the event and created a total prize pool worth $8,050,724. Last season Team PokerStars […]

Capture The Flag: Anton Wigg

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! Swedish poker pro Anton Wigg has been successful in online cash games and multitable tournaments for more than three years, and in that time span he has developed […]

CarbonPoker Partners with DragTheBar

CarbonPoker, which is still accepting U.S. players, recently announced that it has partnered with DragTheBar to provide free poker training for its customers. The rules are simple: players receive their first 30 days free by raking $1, and to continue to earn their free full-access membership on an ongoing basis they must earn $500 rake […]

Andriy 'imperior' Pavlyuk Wins FTOPS Event

You can check out the final results for some of Sunday’s major events below: Full Tilt Poker — FTOPS XX Event No. 24 Buy-In: $300+$22 Prize Pool: $1,250,000 Entrants: 3,942 1. Andriy “imperior” Pavlyuk — $205,500* 2. Michael “tokyo09” Le — $172,250* 3. syyyke_mann — $111,000 4. Ami “UhhMee” Barer — $82,500 5. cassiopak — […]

Julian Kabitzke Wins Everest Poker ONE

Julian Kabitzke has won the Everest Poker ONE main event at Salles des Palmiers in Monte Carlo topping the 221-strong field to take home the €300,000 first prize. The German, who qualified on Expekt Poker and beat his fellow countryman Alexander Debus heads up, said after his victory, “Everest Poker organized a very nice tournament. […]

Brandon Adams On Live Tournaments

Full Tilt pro, poker author, and Harvard economics professor Brandon Adams is probably as well versed as anyone to talk about the current situation regarding online poker in the United States. Adams has recently been Tweeting about the developments, saying, for example, that state governments care about tax revenue, while the U.S. government wouldn’t necessarily […]

Irish Poker Open Final Table Set

Day 3 of Europe’s longest running tournament, the PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Open saw plenty of action as 55 players became 9. With so many big names and pros in the field at start of play, the final table looked likely to be a cracker. As hopes were dashed and players such as title holders Noel Furlong […]

Lars Kollind All In With Poker Icons

Long before the poker boom, childhood friends Lars Kollind, Anders Bengtsson, and Måns Ullerstam took a keen interest in poker and started a club for their friends. Tournaments would take place at weekends in friends’ apartments until the game spread like wildfire across the world, and this small group began expanding rapidly. With grander things […]