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Full Tilt Poker Adds Private Tournament FeatureFull Tilt Poker has announced that it will allow its players to create their own tournaments via the brand new Private Tournament feature Along with giving players a choice of many different game types, such as shootouts, cashouts, rebuys, or Rush Poker, Full Tilt is providing the following options for tournament modification: Select from a […]
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Poker Pros to Visit American Troops in Middle EastThis spring, professional poker players Howard Lederer, Annie Duke, Tom Dwan, Phil Hellmuth, and Huck Seed will travel to the Middle East to spend time with America’s troops as part of the first-ever USO and Armed Forces Entertainment poker tour. Designed to bring some entertainment and fun to the soldiers, the five pros will spend […]
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Head Games: The Importance of PositionThis 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? […]
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Full Tilt Poker España Qualifiers UnderwayQualification for the second leg of the Full Tilt Poker España series is underway now at FullTilt.com. Players can qualify for the Gran Casino, Barcelona €1,500+€150 buy in main event in three separate ways including the main weekly final this Sunday: Tuesdays at 21:45 CET: $200+$16 buy-in, three prize packages guaranteed Thursdays at 21:45 CET: […]
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European Poker Tour: Berlin Day 2Day 2 of the EPT Berlin main event has ended with the bubble bursting, leaving only 119 of the 353 players who started the day. Fabrice Soulier, of France, has catapulted himself into the chip lead with a stack of 1,079,400, which makes him the only player with more than a million in chips. Andrey […]
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Bodog WSOP Main Event QualifiersBodog is giving its players a plethora of opportunities to qualify for this summer’s World Series of Poker main event. The online site is running qualifiers starting as low as $1.10 for the $10,000 buy-in world championship of poker. The 2011 WSOP main event prize package includes the buy-in, $2,000 for travel, access to a […]
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Profile on José 'Girah' MacedoPortuguese poker pro José “Girah” Macedo is still a high school student, but he is already trying to compete in poker’s most expensive contest — Full Tilt Poker’s Durrrr Challenge. In late March, Macedo Tweeted to Tom “durrrr” Dwan: Are you taking any more Durrrr Challenges after [Dan] Jungleman [Cates] and Patrik [Antonius]? Dwan responded […]
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bwin.party's Shares Slump Due To German Tax Proposal
It’s only been a few days since bwin Interactive Holdings and Party Gaming plc officially came together and started trading on the London stock exchange, but pulses have already been set racing at the newly merged bwin.party due to a proposed new betting tax regime in Germany. According to the Financial Times, it has been […]
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Swedish Supreme Court Rules On PokerThe Swedish Supreme Court has ruled that poker is both a game of skill and a game of chance, it just depends what the format is according to TheLocal.se. Judge Göran Lamberth explained the long-awaited ruling to the media saying, “We have found that the main tournament and its side tournaments were not random chance […]
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Irish Poker Open Last Chance Saloon Gets Underway
PaddyPowerPoker.com launches its Last Chance Saloon satellite schedule for this year’s Irish Open tonight Thursday, Apr. 7. The Saloon features various ticket-only satellites with seats guaranteed for the upcoming festival running for the next 14 days and those who take part in six or more will be automatically entered into a Very Last Chance invite-only […]
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EPT: Day 1B at BerlinDay 1B of the PokerStars EPT Berlin no-limit hold’em main event was more crowded than the previous day of action. After 315 players entered on day 1A, an additional 458 entrants took a seat to play on day 1B. Play came to a close for the second starting day field with only 202 players still […]
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UB to Give Season Pass to HPTUB.net recently announced that they were teaming up with the Heartland Poker Tour as a presenting sponsor and now they want to send one of their players to the popular series for free. Beginning April 11th, UB.net will host four daily freerolls during the week. Anyone who finishes in the top 50 in any of […]
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PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker ReturnsThe PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) will return on May 8, offering 38 different events and a guaranteed prize pool of $45 million. Each tournament has a low, medium, and high buy-in level, making the 2011 SCOOP available to all bankroll sizes. The 114 total number of tournaments, which generated more than $63 […]
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Karr Wins WPT Vienna High RollerThe WPT’s first trip to Vienna saw a familiar face take down the €10,000 buy-in high roller event. American pro McLean Karr picked up where he left off from a successful 2010 in which he claimed well over $1 million in live tournament winnings by winning major events such as the WPT Bay 101 Shooting […]
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Galfond Crushing on Full Tilt PokerOne of the largest downswings of Phil “OMGClayAIken” Galfond’s career is finally over. Galfond was in the midst of a $2 million slide in late February, but since March he has completely turned things around, winning about $2.5 million on the virtual felt. Even though Galfond has been on fire, the biggest winner over the […]
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Betfair Offers World Series of Poker Packages
BetfairPoker.com has launched its 2011 World Series of Poker qualifiers with $425,000 worth of packages up for grabs. Players can qualify for one of a dozen WSOP freerolls by generating just 50 player points and win a $5,700 package which covers travel, accomodation and two WSOP events. Alternatively players can take part in six, six-shooter […]
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Unibet Poker Open In Full SwingThere is so much going on at Unibet.com at the moment as its Open really starts to heat up. Firstly, the second Unibet Open Online event of season three is coming in May, and qualifiers are already running for the fourth stop of the tour, which takes place on live felt in Barcelona. Those hoping […]
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Paradise Poker Tour Madrid Qualifier Tonight
The ParadisePoker Tour returns to Madrid at the end of this month and online poker players can qualify for the main event tonight at ParadisePoker.com. Online qualification for the €550 main event takes place tonight, Wednesday April 6 at 6:30 GMT (7:30 GMT) and is a €22 no-limit hold’em rebuy. The ParadisePoker Tour Madrid €550 […]
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European Poker Tour: Berlin Day 1ADay 1A at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin no-limit hold’em main event attracted a field of 315 players and by the end of the night just 151 remain. The overnight chip leader is Cristian Dragomir with 205,500. McLean Karr is also near the top of the chip counts with 145,800. Karr is having a […]
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Jason Wheeler Leads OPOY RaceIt’s been three months since Taylor “ambiguosity” Paur was crowned Card Player Online Player of the Year and it is time to see who makes up the new batch of contenders for the 2011 title. Thanks to increased guarantees and the introduction of multi-entry events, more tournaments are qualifying for OPOY than ever. Remember, players […]
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WPT Unveils Super High Roller Event at BellagioThe World Poker Tour has officially announced that it will hold the debut of a Super High Roller Event during the upcoming WPT World Championship series at Bellagio. This exclusive tournament will run from May 18-19 and feature a $100,000 buy-in — the largest amount in the history of the WPT. Card Player will be […]
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Qualify For European Masters Of Poker Bulgaria
The European Masters of Poker next rolls into Bulgaria with the €1,100 buy in EMOP main event taking place from June 1 to June 5, 2011 at Crystal Crown, Sunny Beach. Online poker players on the Entraction network can qualify all through April in a series of Iron Man freerolls which simply require accumulated VIP […]
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Roberto Romanello Wins WPT BratislavaJust a couple of months after taking down the European Poker Tour Prague for €640,000, Roberto Romanello has done it again, this time in Slovakia at the World Poker Tour Bratislava. The Welshman adds €140,685 to his tournament winnings, plus a $25,500 WPT World Championship seat, and a Tiffany bracelet. After beating 210 players to […]
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Dutch Banks May Block Online Poker PaymentsAhead of the proposed regulation on online gambling in Holland, Dutch banks will be asked to block payments to all gambling sites operating there according to DutchNews.nl. Online gambling is deemed illegal in the country and the junior justice minister Fred Teeven told Dutch News that the government hopes banks will begin blocking credit card […]
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Play The Everest Poker ONE Satellite Tonight
Easter is on its way and with it the €1 million guaranteed Everest Poker ONE tournament. Tonight Tuesday April 5, 2011 sees the penultimate $336 + $24 satellite at the site with one package worth $9,000 for every 27 players who register for the event.. The Everest Poker ONE is taking place from Apr. 21 […]
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EPT Berlin Begins TuesdayThe PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin stop begins on Tuesday, April 5 at noon local time in the capital city of Germany. This is the second year for this tournament stop and the first edition was wildly popular with 945 players in attendance and a total prize pool worth $6,436,080. Last season Kevin MacPhee topped […]
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happymon32 Wins Full Tilt Poker $2.25 Million
You can check out the final results for Sunday’s flagship events on PokerStars, Full Tilt, UB, Absolute Poker, and Bodog below: Full Tilt Poker — $2.25 Million Guarantee Buy-In: $200+$16 Prize Pool: $2,806,000 Entrants: 14,030 1. happymon32 — $353,770* 2. Alex_Striker — $247,513* 3. Mario “Pokerccini” Puccini — $239,966* 4. thed3ntist — $224,021* 5. P1NkUn1C0rN […]
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Iowa Internet Poker Bill in TroubleA bill in the state of Iowa that would legalize and regulate internet poker has failed to gain any traction after a Senate committee approved the proposal in early March, according to the Associated Press. According to the article published this past Friday, lawmakers couldn’t agree on Senate File 458 in its current form. It […]
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A Poker Life: Bruce BufferPoker is just a part of life for modern Renaissance man Bruce Buffer, but that in no way reflects a lack of passion for the game. Buffer simply has many interests competing for his time. He is President and CEO of the “The Buffer Partnership” with his half-brother and boxing ring announcer Michael Buffer. Both […]
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Scott Palmer Edges Viktor Blom by $5K
After a wild PokerStars SuperStar Showdown with Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu in March, on Sunday Viktor “Isildur1” Blom experienced the first virtual stalemate in the brief history of the showdowns. Scott “urnotindangr” Palmer managed to edge his Swedish opponent by just $5,425, which is less than a buy-in at the $50-$100 no-limit hold’em stakes they were […]
