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Mike Sowers Wins and Finishes 9th in Full Tilt $1K MondayMike “SowersUNCC” Sowers took full advantage of Full Tilt Poker’s multi-entry tournament format on Monday. The poker pro outlasted a field of 2,404 entrants in the $1K Monday for an outright win of $490,000. Remarkably, Sowers finished in ninth place as well, to take an additional $28,000 from the $2 million guaranteed monster. Sowers was […]
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Card Player's The Best Poker PlayerWho is the best poker player? It’s a question that has prompted debate in nearly every casino and home game in the world. Now, thanks to TheBestPokerPlayer.com, all of the arguments stop with just a few clicks of your mouse. With Card Player’s world class tournament player database, TheBestPokerPlayer.com is able to sift through all […]
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APT Philippines Gets Under WayThe Asian Poker Tour (APT) Philippines event schedule is under way at Resorts World Manila. A total of 11 events are set to run from March 28-April 3. The first event (US$400 Heads Up Championship) began Monday and easily reached its max capacity of 64 entries. A diverse mix of game formats will be offered […]
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Experience World Series Of Poker With PKR
It’s getting to that time of year when everyone begins to turn their sights to Vegas and the World Series of Poker. PKR.com has now launched its 2011 World Series of Poker Experience satellites, meaning not only can players get to the ultimate poker festival for cheap, but PKR has also thrown in a few […]
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Greece Hosts First Major Poker TournamentThe first poker tournament ever held in Grecce has been won by native Grigoropoulos Georgios. The €1,100 PokerStars.net Greek Poker Cup was held at the Club Hotel Casino Loutraki outside Athens last weekend and although the number of players who attended is currently unreported it would appear the event got reasonably close to its 200 […]
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WSOP C: Western Regional Day 2The plan at the start of day 2 at the World Series of Poker Circuit $10,000 Western Regional Championship was to play down to the final 24 players, but things don’t always go according to plan at a poker tournament. By the end of the night the field had charged down to the final 18 […]
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Hold'em Manager on Card PlayerHold’em Manager is the poker tracking and analysis software that increases win-rates and gives online players the edge needed to beat the always-evolving games on the internet. The software provides the objective facts that players need to improve their fundamentals and exploit the weaknesses in opponents’ games. Hold’em Manager supports all the major poker sites […]
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Calvin 'Cal42688' Anderson Wins Full Tilt $1.5 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 — $1.5 Million Guarantee Buy-In: $200+$16 Prize Pool: $2,267,800 Entrants: 11,339 1. Calvin “Cal42688” Anderson — $303,951* 2. youngdrew28 — $285,677* 3. birs320 — $167,817 4. Godbey62 — $120,647 5. Boston3Party […]
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Grant Levy Wins ANZPT PerthSydney’s Grant Levy took down the PokerStars ANZPT Perth championship over the weekend. Along with the ANZPT trophy and the $131,500 top prize, Levy also became the second player in history with a résumé boasting both an APPT and ANZPT title. He won the APPT Grand Final in 2007. A field of 220 players entered […]
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Negreanu Beats Blom in RematchAt one point on Sunday, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom was in the midst of another killing of Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu in part II of their PokerStars SuperStar Showdown contest. Negreanu was down $119,600 in just 1,279 hands, just one week after losing his entire $150,000 in speedy fashion. Everything was looking disastrous for the Canadian once […]
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Friday $200 Freeroll For CP ReadersIf you’re a fantasy sports expert, then you’re going to love competing at DraftStreet.com. The site offers one-night fantasy sports leagues that use real stats from the NBA, MLB, NFL and NHL. The way it works is simple. Each player is given $100,000 to draft their fantasy team. The better the player is, the more […]
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Kiev Hosts Russian Poker Series Main Event Wednesday
The PokerStars Russian Poker Series Kiev main event kicks off this Wednesday, Mar. 30, at 1 p.m. (local time) at the Khreschatyk Club, Kiev, Ukraine. Players will sit down to starting stacks of 30,000 and 60-minute blinds with the blinds increasing to 75 minutes on Thursday from level 12. The buy-in is $2,750 + $250 […]
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Russian Poker Pro Joins Team PokerStarsTwenty-nine-year-old Russian poker player Eugene Katchalov has joined Team PokerStars Pro. Katchalov, who won the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Rollers event in January this year, said, “I feel very fortunate in having the opportunity to represent PokerStars. It is the largest and, in my opinion, the best-run poker site in the world, with a […]
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WSOP-C: Rincon Regional Day 1Day 1 at the World Series of Poker Circuit $10,000 Western Regional Championship welcomed 91 players into the mix at the Harrah’s Rincon near San Diego, CA. There were 59 players who survived the day on Sunday. Registration will remain open through the first level of play on Monday, so the overall total is still […]
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Tom Dwan to Give First Paid Poker LessonTeam Full Tilt Pro Tom “durrrr” Dwan will give his first ever paid poker lesson on April 19, according to his Twitter. Fellow member of Team Full Tilt Patrik Antonius will also provide coaching on April 18. The opportunity to receive instruction from arguably two of the top three cash game players in the world […]
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Euro Poker Tweets Of The Week
There was a lot of main event action taking place this week around the world, therefore the Twitter lines were buzzing. Card Player Europe kept an eye on what some of the big names of European poker were saying. There were two main interactions this week, but they could not have been more different. Early […]
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Win Irish Poker Open Package TonightThe countdown is on to the Irish Open 2011, which is taking place in Dublin’s Burlington Hotel next month. That means time is of the essence to get qualifying, and those who do via the many satellites and promotions at PaddyPowerPoker.com will be included in this year’s €100,000 Sole Survivor competition. Tonight, Sunday, Mar. 27 […]
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Finn Wins European Masters Of PokerThe European Masters of Poker Lisbon was taken down by Jukka Koskela after he beat Asger Boye heads up. The Finn received €72,615 for his victory over the 309-strong field, while Boye had to settle for €43,569. The final hand came when Koskela bet 200,000 and Boye made it 475,000 in total. Koskela moved all […]
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Vladimir Geshkenbein is EPT Snowfest ChampionVladimir Geshkenbein is this season’s PokerStars European Poker Tour Snowfest champion. He takes the title and €390,000 back to Russia from the Alpine Palace hotel in Hinterglemm, Austria after beating Belgian player Kevin Vandersmissen heads up. Before getting to the final two however, the table had to lose six others. But before that could begin, […]
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Poker Storm Hits TomorrowThe PokerStars Sunday 1/4 Million relaunches as the Sunday Storm tomorrow at 3.30 p.m. (ET) and the site is celebrating the new-look tournament with a one-off $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool, which features a guaranteed $200,000 first prize. The $11 buy-in event is expected to attract more than 100,000 players. There are freeroll satellites running every […]
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WSOPC Rincon Champ. UnderwayThe $1,600 no-limit hold’em main event at the World Series of Poker Circuit stop at Harrah’s Rincon near San Diego, California crowned a champion late on Saturday. Seneca Easley topped a field of 188 players and he walked away with the top prize worth $70,384, a gold ring, and a seat in the WSOP Circuit […]
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Wynn Partners With PokerStarsThe long debated issue of legalized and regulated internet poker has had some serious developments this week. On Friday, Wynn Resorts announced its entry into a “strategic relationship” with internet site PokerStars. The companies will first work to secure the passage of federal legislation, according to a press release. The statement goes on to say […]
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Tim West Bests Annette Obrestad for Wynn Classic TitleThe 2011 Wynn Classic Championship is in the books, with Tim West taking down the title after an exhausting heads-up battle with Annette Obrestad. Several different events ran from March 2-24 inside the Wynn in Las Vegas, concluding with the $5,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em championship. A total of 212 players entered the event, down from […]
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Extradition Hearing For Jailed Poker Dealer
A former poker dealer who made headlines around the world when he was convicted of extortion in a murder case may be extradited to the U.S. from an Irish prison according to RTE.ie. Essam Eid was convicted of extortion in 2008 and sentenced to six years in prison after he demanded €100,000 from the target […]
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EPT Snowfest Final Table SetThe field of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Snowfest was reduced even further, to that crucial final number of eight from 24, on day 4. The most well-known names remaining at start of play went home a day earlier than hoped, but they leave behind them a very interesting final table featuring, for the first […]
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Online Gambling Regulation Back On EU AgendaThe European Union yesterday published a Green Paper on online gambling. The document serves as a draft law and a basis for discussing the options for future regulation across EU markets. In recent times countries such as France, Sweden, Italy, Austria, have either begun to open their market to trusted online casinos and other forms […]
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Poker Players Get Social In London This Weekend
PKR Social comes to London for some poker action and fun this evening and all day tomorrow. Festivities kick off at 8 p.m. (GMT) tonight with a sit ‘n’ go party featuring various different games and formats including doubles team poker. Action is almost guaranteed as things are bound to get crazy at the Fox […]
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UB New Sponsor Of Heartland TourUB has announced that it will join up with the Heartland Poker Tour as a sponsor for season seven. The online site will also host qualifiers for the live tournaments. The HPT offers players a made-for-television tournament series, and UB will host a series of online tournaments that give players the opportunity to win attractive […]
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FTP Double Guarantees WeekOn Monday, Mar. 28, Full Tilt Poker will kick off another mammoth $30 Million Double Guarantees Week. From Monday, Mar. 28 to Sunday, April 3, Full Tilt is doubling the guaranteed prize money for every one of its weekly guarantee tournaments, which will all be multi-entry events for the week. The week will culminate with […]
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EPT Snowfest Heats UpThe PokerStars European Poker Tour Snowfest had to lose a total of 57 players on day 3 to get down to three tables, but the field only had to lose nine to reach the money. The slopes and chalets of Saalbach-Hinterglemm acted as a backdrop to a crucial day for many. Firstly, the hopes for […]
