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Poker Champs Confirmed For Irish Open

Those looking forward to the PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Open 2011 should be even more excited to hear the latest names confirmed for the €3,200 + €300 buy-in main event. World Series of Poker bracelet holders Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, Alan Smurfit, and Dan Harrington are now on the list, as are European Poker Tour champions Julian Thew […]

Mustapha Kanit Wins Italian Poker Tour Nova Gorica

Twenty-year-old Mustapha Kanit has won the PokerStars.com Italian Poker Tour Nova Gorica taking down €200,000 for his victory over the 395-strong field. The €2,000 buy in event created a prize pool of €768,240 and in the final hand Kanit had to come from behind holding Q 9 against Marco Mancini’s K Q and did so […]

CP Freeroll on Saturday

PokerStars recently announced that its Sunday 1/4 Million will be renamed as the Sunday Storm. To mark the occasion, the online site is hosting a special one-time $1 million guaranteed prize pool for the tournament on Mar. 27. The $11 event will award at least $200,000 to the winner, and Card Player readers have a […]

Full Tilt Poker 'Aid for Japan' Tournaments

Full Tilt Poker is offering its support for Japan, and the millions affected by the recent earthquake and tsunami, in the form of special Aid for Japan tournaments and Donation tournaments In the Aid for Japan events, the tournament fee from each player will be donated to the fund. The Donation tournaments are not real […]

Gus Hansen Wins Another $1 Million on Full Tilt Poker

Gus Hansen has been on a tear over the past seven days, winning $1 million across a slew of pot-limit Omaha and limit deuce-to-seven triple draw sessions on Full Tilt Poker. Hansen’s profits over the past week have brought his 2011 earnings to a massive $4 million. However, the Danish poker pro is no stranger […]

WPT Makes First Trip to Vienna

The World Poker Tour has returned to Europe, but for the first time ever the destination is Vienna, Austria. WPT Vienna will host five events inside the Montesino Casino between today and March 30. This inaugural visit will feature a €3,500 buy-in main event, beginning on Friday, March 25. The televised event will have two […]

Poker Revenue Up 17 Percent At bwin

Publicly-quoted German betting giant bwin today reported gross gaming revenue in its online poker business up 17.4 percent in 2010 to €139.5 million compared to €118.8 million in 2009. The company said the increase was “largely attributable to the contribution made by Gioco Digitale [in Italy] and the successful market launch in France" The company […]

EPT Snowfest Nears Bubble

Day 2 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Snowfest saw the survivors of day 1A and 1B unite, only to be quickly torn down from 268 to 81 across six 75-minute levels. Within the first level, 52 players were knocked out, setting the tone for the day. Austria’s Alpine Palace Hotel, set amid the beautiful, […]

Sunday Storm Poker Satellites For UK And Ireland

The PokerStars Sunday 1/4 Million will be relaunched this coming Sunday, Mar. 27, as the Sunday Storm, 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 will take place on Sunday at 3.30 p.m. (ET) and is expected […]

European Masters Of Poker Lisbon Starts Today

The second stop on the European Masters of Poker tour season III gets underway today in Lisbon, Portugal. The €1,000 + €100 buy-in main event runs from Mar. 23 to 26 at the Casino Estoril with two day ones for the main event and a variety of side events including: March 23, 9 p.m. — […]

PokerStars Road to 100 Billion Hands

PokerStars is on the Road to 100 Billion hands, and the online site is celebrating every 10 billion with a milestone hands promotion. The first stop is 60 billion, which will be dealt before March is over, according to PokerStars. In order to participate players must compete on cash game tables. Every millionth hand from […]

Zynga Poker Hacker Gets Two Years

British hacker Ashley Mitchell has been sentenced to serve two years in prison after being convicted of computer misuse and four counts of money laundering. The 29-year-old pleaded guilty in February of hacking into the online gaming website Zynga and stealing 400 billion virtual chips. He later sold some of those chips on Facebook, picking […]

Lee Jones Returns to PokerStars

On Tuesday, PokerStars announced that Lee Jones will be returning to the site to lead the new Home Games venture. Jones was Poker Room Manager at PokerStars from 2003-07. After leaving the company nearly four years ago, Jones has been a part of the European Poker Tour and CardRunners, and worked as the Card Room […]

Randy Couture To Lead Poker Run

UFC Hall-of-Famer Randy “The Natural” Couture founded the non-profit Xtreme Couture GI Foundation to help meet the urgent financial needs of wounded soldiers and their families. Exactly one week after his UFC 129 fight against Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida on April 30, Couture is set to lead the GI Foundation’s next charity effort — a […]

World Poker Tour Spain Returns

The World Poker Tour returns to Spain in a couple of months with the renewal of the Spanish Championship at Gran Casino, Barcelona. The €3,200 buy in event takes place from May 25 to 29, 2011. Last year the event was won by Ali Tekintamgac who took down €315,000 for besting 325 opponents. His victory […]

PKR.com Extends Live VI Qualifying Options

PKR.com has launched two separate routes to qualify for the upcoming PKR Live VI in London in May. . Players can choose the seat only route and aim for a $1,220 package or up their sights and aim for a seat plus expenses package worth $1,660. Players can qualify for the $750 buy in main […]

Russian Rules EPT Snowfest

Austria’s Alpine Palace Hotel in Saalbach-Hinterglemm witnessed a whole new batch of wannabe title holders on day 1B of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Snowfest. The second starting day of the €3,750 main event saw 302 players whittled down to 166. For many it was a nightmare of a day with the presence of 14 […]

Jamie Flynn Crowned Student Poker Champ

Jamie Flynn became the PaddyPowerPoker.com Student Masters champion at the weekend after topping a 127-strong field in Dublin’s Jackpot Card Club. The 18-year-old, University of Limerick student took home €3,000 from a €12,000 prize pool. He also received a seat in the upcoming Irish Open. The seat, worth €3,500, was added to the prize pool […]

The Everest Poker ONE Satellite Tonight

Qualification for the Everest Poker ONE tournament being held in Monte Carlo from April 21 to 24, 2011 is ramping up and tonight Tuesday March 22 sees a $336 + $24 satellite at the site. One package worth $9,000 for the €1 million guaranteed tournament will be up for grabs for every 27 players who […]

Card Player Pro (Powered by Poker Savvy Plus)

Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus) focuses on multitable tournaments, sit-and-gos, and no-limit hold’em cash game instruction from some of the best poker players online. The site boats more than 800 professional poker training videos (with new DRM-free content added daily), access to an exclusive members-only forum where you can interact with the instructors, […]

KOMIJENDO Wins MiniFTOPS Main Event

The Mini Full Tilt Online Poker Series XIX (MiniFTOPS) finished early Monday morning with KOMIJENDO topping a field of 45,232 in the $75 buy-in main event to take home a mammoth first place prize of $396,578 after a heads-up deal. Demon1531 finished second and walked away with $360,944 as consolation. The multi-entry tournament crushed the […]

Macau Poker Cup Returns in May

PokerStars Macau has announced that the next Macau Poker Cup is scheduled to return to downtown Macau from May 28-June 5 inside Casino Grand Lisboa. The upcoming tournament series will feature eight official events over nine days, with the Red Dragon main event once again highlighting the action. The HKD $11,000 buy-in tournament will run […]

Blom Decimates Negreanu for $150K

On Sunday, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom crushed Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu in part I of their PokerStars SuperStar Showdown contest. The $50-$100 no-limit hold’em battle was scheduled to be 2,500 hands played across four tables, but Negreanu was the victim of numerous coolers and unfortunate river cards en route to losing his entire $150,000 challenge bankroll after […]

kalmuka Wins PokerStars Sunday Million

You can check out the final results for Sunday’s flagship events on PokerStars, Full Tilt, UB, Absolute Poker, and Bodog below: PokerStars — Sunday Million Buy-In: $200+$15 Prize Pool: $1,918,800 Entrants: 9,594 1. kalmuka — $234,574* 2. BlackMojos — $99,256* 3. SeraphimV — $146,067* 4. IkBenEenBaas — $108,438* 5. dickkemp — $109,076* 6. upstrick77 — […]

Brit Wins Eureka Poker Tour Prague

The PokerStars.com Eureka Poker Tour Prague has been won by Brit Keith Johnson who took down €58,400 for topping the 319-strong field at the Casino Card Club in the Czech capital. The €800 buy in event created a prize pool of €231,290 and the final hand of the three-day contest saw Johnson’s K-J hold over […]

Brit Leads EPT Snowfest

The Austrian Alps played host to day 1A of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Snowfest with 180 players turning out for a day filled with peaks and troughs, both on and off the slopes. While there are familiar faces among the 102 survivors from the first of two starting days, there are many now also […]

Dutch To Legalise Online Poker

The Dutch Government confirmed at the weekend it is to open up and regulate the online gaming market including poker. Last year a government commission recommended such regulation. All forms of gambling in the country have technically been under control of state organs such as Holland Casinos until now, even though it is estimated that […]

Praz Bansi Wins Second GUKPT Title

Praz Bansi has proved himself on live felt once again after taking down his second Grosvenor UK Poker Tour title at the GUKPT London £1,500 main event. Bansi, who topped a tough field of 245 to take home £101,020 from a total prize pool of £367,500, was also the recipient of the Tour’s first ever […]

A Poker Life: Olivier 'livb112' Busquet

Widely regarded by his peers to be the best heads-up sit-n-go player in the world, Olivier Busquet has since made the transition to live tournament poker and has already earned over $2.3 million. The man known as “livb112” and “Adonis112” has already notched a World Poker Tour title and finished runner up in a European […]

The Poker Play: Finneran Fillets A Frenchman

Event: European Poker Tour Deauville Field: 891 Players Remaining: 40 Finneran: 600,000 Villain: 2.2 million Thomas Finneran: It was folded to me in mid-position and I opened K 9 and got called by the chip leader at the table, who was probably the chip leader of the tournament as well. He was a very aggressive, […]