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Dutchman Wins Unibet Open Poker Festival

Dutchman Mateusz Moolhuizen took down the Unibet Open Malta main event after beating 292 players to the top prize of €117,000. Moolhuizen’s final opponent in the €1,650 buy-in event was fellow countryman Tobias Peters. Moolhuizen held the chip lead going into the heads up, however that was to change many times within the three hours […]

WPT Bay 101 Day 1B Photo Blog

Here is a look at the big names in today’s field at the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event. Stay tuned tonight for a recap of the day’s events: Andrew Lichtenberger Bertrand Grospellier Chau Giang Chris McCormack David Baker Eric Baldwin Jennifer Tilly Jonathan Little Scotty Nguyen Taylor Paur […]

WPT Bay 101 Q&A: Victor Ramdin

Victor Ramdin won The Big Event at the Bike last week to earn $500,000 and his first major title since 2006 when he won the World Poker Tour Foxwoods Poker Classic. He defeated fellow Team PokerStars pro Joe Hachem in the heads-up final and continued the hot streak he is on to start 2011. The […]

PokerStars Sunday Storm

PokerStars has announced that its Sunday 1/4 Million will be renamed as the Sunday Storm. To mark the occassion, the online site is hosting a special one-time $1 million guaranteed prize pool for the tournament on Mar. 27. The tournament, which costs just $11 to buy in directly, will have freeroll qualifiers running every hour. […]

Michael McDerra Wins UK & Ireland Poker Tour Final

Michael McDerra from Plymouth, England, is the latest PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour champion having taken down £76,000 at UKIPT Manchester yesterday. The 27-year-old topped a 615-strong field at the G Casino in the north of England city. The prize pool for the £500 buy in main event hit £307,500 and 81 players got […]

Day 1A at the WPT Bay 101

Day 1A of the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event welcomed 142 runners into the fold in San Jose, California on Monday. There were 19 Shooting Stars among them and nine survived the day. The group of those star survivors includes a few players who are at the top […]

WPT Bay 101 Day 1A Photo Blog

Here is a look at the players who are in action on Day 1A at the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event. There are 142 players today and there are 19 Shooting Stars among them. They include some of poker’s biggest names like Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Stay […]

WPT Bay 101 Q&A: Matt Savage

It is Day 1A at the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event in San Jose, California and Card Player will bring you unique news stories from the tournament floor. We caught up with WPT Executive Tour Director Matt Savage this afternoon and he discussed the unique aspects of this […]

Deepstacks U. on Card Player

At Deepstacks University, players can take advantage of the site’s reactive poker training technology, the Poker Matrix, and learn a plethora of live and online skills. According to Deepstacks University, the “interactive scenario based poker training environment delivers educational modules at a virtual poker table. Our poker training modules are created to teach you poker […]

CP Facebook Page Gets 50k Fans

The Card Player facebook page recently eclipsed 50,000 fans mark, making it by far the most visited poker news facebook page. Readers can head over to facebook to get involved in an active poker discussion, learn more about the poker community and even get feedback on their own play. Card Player would like to thank […]

Card Player Seeks WSOP Summer Interns

Card Player magazine is seeking interns for this summer’s annual World Series of Poker. This is your chance to gain valuable hands-on experience in the field of journalism assisting with editorial content and live tournament coverage while working as part of a dynamic, fast-paced media team. A qualified applicant should have or be on their […]

klorinho1 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: $2,070,400 Entrants: 10,352 1. klorinho1 — $172,401* 2. Graftekkel — $201,941* 3. Cardinal2003 — $164,631* 4. timmybwee — $145,402* 5. davianvalek — $141,927* 6. PompYouUp — […]

Sahara Casino Will Close In May

Citing financial hardship, the Sahara casino in Las Vegas recently announced that it will close its doors on May 16, 2011. The 49-year-old property has 1,720 hotel rooms and 85,000 square feet of casino floor space. The casino has two main restaurants in the House of Lords Steakhouse and NASCAR Cafe, a place famous for […]

Full Tilt Launches High Roller Series

On Monday, Full Tilt unveiled plans for a new series of live high-roller tournaments called the Onyx Cup. The six-tournament series will feature buy-ins ranging from $100,000 to $300,000 and take place in exotic locations in the United States, Europe and Asia. Tournament organizers are estimating an overall prize pool of $30 million for the […]

World’s Most Expensive Poker Chip Set Launched

The world’s most expensive poker chip set has been launched by Geoffrey Parker in London. The bespoke game and gift maker has created a custom made poker chip set in an alligator skin case with 18 carat white gold locks and frame, four platinum-plated decks and 384 poker chips made of 18 carat white gold […]

UK & Ireland Poker Tour Final Set

The PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour Manchester has found its final table of eight from an original field of 615. They will return to the felt at the G Casino at 1 p.m. (local time) today to thrash it out for the £74,000 first-place prize. The player out in front is Polish PokerStars qualifier […]

Pat Walsh Wins Bounty Shootout

Daylight Savings Time certainly didn’t help the final table of the $10,000 Big Event Bounty Shootout feel any shorter. The nine-handed tournament lasted 15 hours on the final day and didn’t wrap up until nearly 7:00 a.m. In the end, it was Pat Walsh who emerged as the winner, taking home $241,700. That money was […]

Watch Unibet Open Poker Final Table Live

With 93 of an original 293-strong field remaining at the Unibet Open Malta main event, a final table of nine had to be found. The ultimate day of play continues shortly and you can follow all the action live at the blog or check out the online live stream from 4 p.m.. Michiel Brummelhuis made […]

The Big Event: Bounty Shootout Day 1B

The second flight of the first round at the $10,000 Bounty Shootout at the Big Event at The Bicycle Casino is now in the books. On day 1a, Jonathan Duhamel, Alex Keating, Pat Walsh and Shane Schleger emerged from the 36 hopefuls to lock up a seat at the final table. Joining them on Friday […]

Full House Poker Goes Mobile Next Week

Microsoft is bringing Full House Poker to Windows Phone 7 this coming Wednesday, Mar. 16. The game will be the mobile alternative, and indeed companion, to the Xbox 360 version. Instead of using a random character, players can sit down at the felt on their mobile phones as their Xbox Live avatars, and build their […]

Unibet Open Malta Poker Festival Peaks

The €1,500 + €150 buy-in Unibet Open Malta main event saw a total field of 293 players and going into day 2 just 93 remain. The overall chip leader is Matas Dilpsas with 155,900, but by the end of the day the event will have found its final table at the Casino at Portomaso. Among […]

Weekly News in Poker Training

This week at CardPlayer.com we bring your awareness to some of the brand new tools, lessons, articles, and more, available at the leading online training sites. Check out this week’s happenings on the following sites: This week at Bluefire Poker, instructor Jason Senti discusses the action at four tables of $200 max pot-limit Omaha on […]

Negreanu in Stars Showdown

PokerStars has announced that Viktor “Isildur1” Blom will face off against Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu on Mar. 20 and 27 at 3 p.m. ET in the sixth installment of the SuperStar Showdown. The game will be 2,500 hands played across four $50-$100 no-limit hold’em tables on each Sunday, and the winner of the SuperStar Showdown is […]

The Everest Poker ONE Schedule Announced

Everest Poker has announced the full tournament schedule for The Everest Poker ONE taking place in the beautiful Salle des Palmiers, Monaco from April 21 to 24, 2011. Besides the €5,000 + €300 main event with its €1 million guaranteed prize pool, players can look forward to a variety of exciting side events such as […]

The Big Event: Bounty Day 1

The first flight of play took place in the $10,000 Bounty Shootout tournament at The Big Event at the Bicycle Casino on Thursday in Los Angeles, California. There were 36 players who entered the day but only four advanced to the final table that will take place on Saturday at this made-for-television ESPN event. Those […]

Victor Ramdin Wins The Big Event at The Bike

The final day of The Big Event at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California saw a dream scenario play out when the two most notable players at the final table survived to the heads-up final. Team PokerStars pro members Joe Hachem and Victor Ramdin dueled for the $500,000 first-place prize in the tournament and […]

Full Tilt Poker Series Spain This Weekend

The Full Tilt Poker Series Spain gets underway today at Casino Gran Madrid, Spain with the €1,500 main event offering a €150,000 guaranteed prize pool. The event is attracting a number of Full Tilt pros such as the Hendon Mob, recent World Poker Tour finalist Carlos Mortensen, and Welsh whizz Roberto Romanello. Players start with […]

Deal Between Caesars and 888

On Wednesday, the Nevada Gaming Control Board said OK to a relationship between Caesars Entertainment, owner of the World Series of Poker brand, with subsidiaries of 888 Holdings LLC, an Israel-based internet gaming provider operating in Gibraltar, according to Richard N. Velotta of the Las Vegas Sun. The deal between Caesars Entertainment and 888, which […]

Nevada to Consider Internet Poker

Nevada state lawmakers are about to consider an internet gaming bill that would allow residents and non-residents to play online poker, according to the Las Vegas Sun. The bill is being introduced by Assembly Majority Whip William Horne, D-Las Vegas, per the request of former Speaker Richard Perkins. PokerStars hired Perkins to lobby for the […]

CardRunners Free Strategy Series with PokerListings

Online poker coaching site CardRunners and online poker guide PokerListings.com have announced an exclusive 10-part strategy series launched this week. Ten elite Cardrunners coaches will be tackling 10 unique poker strategy topics as suggested by readers of PokerListings.com. By letting the coaches pick which topic they want to write about, the project seeks to blend […]