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Doyle Brunson Featured on Poker After Dark

Doyle Brunson is arguably the biggest living legend in the game, and this week he’ll have to once again prove he can hang with some of the best young players in the game. The 77-year-old is making his 13th appearance on NBC’s Poker After Dark and will be putting up $50,000 in a winner-take-all freezeout […]

Full Tilt Brings Back Take 2 Promo

From Friday, April 8th to Sunday, April 17th, Full Tilt Poker will bring back its Take 2 promotion, giving players with more modest bankrolls a chance to earn double Full Tilt Points (FTPs) and a $25 bonus. Playing at two or more ring-game tables at the same time or any single Rush Poker table during […]

Wigglesworth Is Black Belt Poker London Live II Champ

Peter Wigglesworth topped a 414-strong field at London’s Grosvenor Victoria Casino to become the Black Belt London Live II champion. Wigglesworth’s final opponent was Michael Yiannikkou and after a few run-ins the two decided to play for the trophy and split the money. However, before they could each take home $16,000, it had to be […]

Antonio Dieguez Wins Estrellas Poker Tour

Antonio Dieguez has won the PokerStars.com Estrellas Poker Tour Málaga having been runner up last month at another PokerStars event, the Eureka Poker Tour Prague. Dieguez topped the field of 375 players in the €1,000 buy in tournament at the Torrequebrada Casino, Málaga to take home €81,000 after beating Michael Carter heads up. After the […]

Italian Tax Services Investigate Poker Pros

Online poker professionals in Italy may have a few worries on their mind at the moment. According to Tax-News.com, the Italian Revenue Agency and the Guardia di Finanza have set the wheels in motion towards investigating the income earned and tax declared of players who have signed contracts with Italian and international poker rooms. A […]

Thirty Irish Poker Open Packages Guaranteed Tonight

With the Irish Open 2011 looming on the horizon, sponsor PaddyPowerPoker.com tonight hosts a massive mega satellite with 30 packages to the main event guaranteed. The 30 Guaranteed Packages satellite has €300 + €20 buy in and takes place tonight Sunday April 3, 2011 at 8 p.m.. Each package is worth €4,600 and comprises the […]

Play The Unibet Poker Open Online Tomorrow

The second stop on the Unibet Open tour takes place online tomorrow Sunday Apr. 3 at 7 p.m. (CET) at Unibet.com. The €300 + €20 buy-in event features a guaranteed prize pool of €25,000 and players begin with 10,000 in chips and a one-hour clock. Players who participate can earn points for the Unibet Open […]

PKR.com Announces Düsseldorf Poker Social

PKR.com has announced the latest in its run of poker social events, the PKR Social: Düsseldorf. The German event takes place over two days from Saturday May 7 and will consist of a paintball session, dinner, poker, and drinks. PKR is subsidizing half the cost of the event so players will only have to pony […]

India Poker Open Announced

Details of the first India Poker Open have been announced. The four-tournament festival will take place in Casino Carnival, Goa, India from May 12 to 15, 2011. The schedule centres around a US$2,300 (INR100,000) main event starting on Saturday May 14. Additionally the festival features a $115 no-limit holdem rebuy and $230 no-limit hold’em freezeout […]

Euro Poker Tweets Of The Week

This week saw Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier updating about what he does best, and that’s stacking those chips up. This time it was at the World Poker Tour Bratislava. On Mar. 31, we followed his run which went a bit like this, “56k at first break of WPT bratislava really good start at QQ twice in […]

Full Tilt Poker Triple Guarantee Sunday

On Sunday, April 3, Full Tilt Poker will conclude its $30 Million Double Guarantees Week with a massive Triple Guarantees Big Money Sunday. All of Full Tilt’s guarantee tournaments that start between 12 p.m. ET and 11:59 p.m. ET on Sunday will have their total guaranteed prize money tripled. This means that the normal $750,000 […]

Tournament Poker: April Preview

Although April is just beginning, a number of major live poker events are already under way across the globe. Tournaments from the World Series of Poker Circuit, World Poker Tour, Asian Poker Tour and Heartland Poker Tour started in late March and will conclude in the coming days. Some of the largest events in progress […]

Andrew Li: 2011's First PokerStars SuperNova Elite

These days, winning at online poker is harder than ever. The number of sharks have increased and the fish are few and far between, not to mention the fact that even bad players are just a few clicks of the mouse away from a top-rated poker education at any number of the training sites out […]

Friday $200 Freeroll For CP Readers

Attention fantasy sports players! This is your last chance to jump in on an exclusive, free-to-enter tournament at DraftStreet.com. This one-night fantasy NBA league will feature a $200 freeroll for tonight’s games. Competing for your share of the prize is cake. Simply sign up and draft your team. If the players you choose perform well, […]

Cake Poker Network Shrinks Further

The beleaguered Cake Poker Network has suffered another blow with the defection of the UK’s Gutshot Poker to the iPoker network. In a statement issued by Gutshot the company said, “Here’s the news you’ve all been waiting for: Gutshot Poker is moving to iPoker, the world’s largest poker network on Monday April 4th!" The Cake […]

bwin.party Digital Entertainment Starts Trading

The long-anticipated merger of two of Europe’s leading online gaming operators was completed today as bwin Interactive Holdings and Party Gaming plc became one entity, bwin.party digital entertainment plc. The news company started trading on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker ‘BPTY” and at 11.05 am were down 1.75 percent to 196.5 pence. The […]

Final Irish Poker Open Satellites Revealed

PaddyPowerPoker.com has announced its Last Chance Saloon satellite schedule for this year’s Irish Open. The schedule, which starts from Thursday, Apr. 7, features various ticket-only satellites with seats guaranteed for the upcoming festival. The satellites will run for 14 days and those who take part in six or more will be automatically entered into a […]

Dan Cates Leads by $1.2 Million in 'Durrrr Challenge'

Dan “jungleman12” Cates passed the $1 million mark this past week in his lead over Tom “durrrr” Dwan in Full Tilt Poker’s Durrrr Challenge. Cates, who was recently written about in the New York Times Magazine, picked up an additional $300,000 across two short sessions in the past seven days to bring his profits to […]

Full Tilt to Pair with Fertitta

Full Tilt Poker has entered into a partnership with Fertitta Interactive, an entity established and co-owned by Station Casinos’ founders. Contrary to previous unsubstantiated reports circulating the web, the deal is not with Station Casinos. Full Tilt Poker’s new relationship with a Nevada gaming entity comes less than one week after PokerStars partnered with Wynn […]

888 Poker Revenue Down 26 Percent

888.com today issued its full year results for its financial year 2010. Poker revenue at the company plummeted 25.6 percent to $38.4 million from $51.6 million in 2009. Chief executive officer, Gigi Levy said of the poor performance, “Trading in 2010 has been challenging. It was impacted in the first half by the deterioration of […]

PokerStars Invites EPT Champs To Ultimate Battle

PokerStars has announced its first ever European Poker Tour Champion of Champions event. The tournament, which sees every single main event champion from all seven seasons of the Tour take each other on in the ultimate showdown, will take place during this season’s grand final in Madrid. On May 13, all those holding EPT main […]

Poker's D-Day is Tomorrow

Hundreds of players across Ireland and England will sit down at the felt simultaneously tomorrow evening, Apr. 1, at 9 p.m. to an 8,000 starting stack and 20-minute blinds for D-Day 1 Live. With more than 75 venues confirmed for the big day, the event is anticipated to be one of Europe’s largest, if not […]

Qualify For Paradise Poker Tour Madrid

ParadisePoker.com has today released details of its upcoming poker festival in Madrid and how players can get there. The ParadisePoker Tour Madrid €550 main event will take place from Apr. 28 to May 1. Madrid’s Gran Casino will also play host to a variety of side events such as a pot-limit Omaha freezeout, a deep-stacked […]

Ali Eslami Wins WSOPC Rincon

The final table of the $10,000 World Series of Poker Circuit Western Regional Championship took place today at the Harrah’s Rincon near San Diego, California. The final nine had emerged from a field of 98 players and there were many big names who were still in the hunt. In the end though, only one big-name […]

Hawaii Bill Seeks Legalized Poker

The state of Hawaii doesn’t allow any form of gambling, but licensed and regulated online and live poker may be coming to the island thanks to a new bill titled SB755 recently introduced to the state legislature. The bill seeks to legalize Texas hold’em and Omaha games by redefining them as games of skill. The […]

PokerStars Reaches 60 Billion Hands

On Tuesday, PokerStars reached its 60 billion hand milestone, with Pogo650 winning $102,090 with the Q 3 at $5-$10 limit hold’em. Remarkably, one of the six players, at the table where the 60 billionth hand was to be dealt, folded preflop. The winner of the hand was set to receive a $60,000 bonus on top […]

Q&A: Econ Benefits of NV Online Bill

While Nevada’s online poker bill is still in the process of being questioned and debated in the state legislature, one thing is for certain: Assembly Bill 258 would offer a myriad of benefits for the Silver State. Last week, Nevada’s Assembly Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the bill, which featured testimony from economist and […]

Dmitry Gromov Wins WPT Vienna

The Montesino Casino played home to the World Poker Tour Vienna and its 555 players, but it was Russian Dmitry Gromov who made himself king of the castle when he took down the €3,200 + €300 buy-in main event for a €447,840 payday. Gromov started the final table as he meant to finish it – […]

Betfair Poker $500 Added Tonight - Password Inside

Card Player Europe and BetfairPoker.com have teamed up for an exclusive poker tournament, which takes place tonight Wednesday March 30 at 8.30 p.m. The buy-in is just $2.20 and the event has $500 added to its prize pool. The password for the event is CRDPLYRMAR2, so mark down as your evening’s entertainment now. Apologies to […]

WSOP-C Rincon Final Table Set

The final table is set at the $10,000 World Series of Poker Circuit $10,000 Western Regional Championship after nine players hit the rail on day 3. The final table includes WSOP Circuit double-gold-ring winner Dwyte Pilgrim, Tim West, Ali Eslami, and Full Tilt pro Steve Brecher. The final table will begin tomorrow at noon and […]