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Schulman Leads $100k PCA FT

Day 2 at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller tournament followed the example set by the previous day here in the Bahamas and action once again was faster than expected. The final 23 played down to a final table of seven at a brisk pace that surprised many as the chips flew […]

APT Asian Series Debuts in Cebu

The Asian Poker Tour has been a mainstay at Asia-Pacific hotspots for a few years now, and next week it’ll unveil its new APT Asian Series. The inaugural event will be held at the Waterfront Hotel and Casino in Lahug, Cebu City, Philippines from Jan. 10-17. The magic number for Asian Series Cebu is seven. […]

WSOP Circuit Makes Its Choctaw Debut

The first World Series of Poker Circuit action of 2011 is in progress at Choctaw Casino Resort, marking the first time that the tournament series has made its way to the Durant, Oklahoma venue. A total of 51 events are on the schedule from Jan. 6-24, with ten of them being WSOP Circuit ring events. […]

Negreanu Hand Analysis from PCA

You can catch all the action at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller event by following along with the live updates. Eugene Katchalov was the early chip leader on day 2 at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller event while players busted quickly all around him. He ran into a big confrontation hand […]

Southern Poker Championship Kicks Off

The Southern Poker Championship is currently underway at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. There will be 34 events played from Jan. 7-27, highlighted by the World Poker Tour’s first championship event of 2011. The $10,000 WPT main event starts at noon CST on Jan. 23 and concludes with the televised final […]

Dan 'jungleman12' Cates at PCA

Action has been relatively quiet in the high-stakes online world over the past week, which is likely due to the start of the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure on Thursday. The tournament series kicked off with the $100,000 Super High Roller event. Among the elite group of 38 of the world’s best players sits Dan ‘jungleman12’ […]

Photo Blog from PCA $100k Day 2

Action has played fast during the early going on day 2 at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 super high roller event. There were 23 players who returned and we are already down to the final 15 after a brisk run of eliminations heading past the first break. This photo blog will give you a […]

The Scoop: David Baker Part III

David Baker stops by for this week’s episode of The Scoop (sponsored by Full Tilt Poker) on Card Player TV. He continues his interview from part II last week. Check out his interview with Diego Cordovez and Adam Schoenfeld on Card Player TV, and you can hear him continue to talk about his deep run […]

Devilfish Gaming Directors Step Down

Devilfish Gaming Plc has announced the resignation of two directors, CEO Paul Barnes and operations director Karl Hutson after the recent sale of Devilfish Poker to The Weather Lottery. In a statement the company said the directors were stepping down “in order to rationalise director headcount and overheads of the company” before wishing them “success […]

Online Poker Grew 7.1 Percent In 2010

The global online poker market grew 7.1 percent in 2010 according to a H2 Gambling Capital report shown to Egrmagazine.com. The reports states that poker generated $5.06 billion in revenue in 2010 but without legislative developments in France and Italy which regulated those markets overall growth in online poker would have been negative. This highlights […]

Poker Domain Name Sells For $100,000

Online gambling site 888.com, one of the top offshore casinos, has bought web domain Poker.com.au for US$100,000 according to Smart Company and will use the address to direct people to “a seriously exciting new poker revolution” which is “coming soon”. The price however was lower than expected due to restrictive laws on advertising gambling in […]

Tobias Reinkemeier Leads PCA Super High Roller

The highly anticipated $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller event at the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure drew stacked field of 38 of the world’s best and on Saturday, one of those players will claim the $1.5 million first-place prize. With 250 big blinds and hour-long levels, many expected a slow grind and few early casualties. That […]

Prahlad Friedman Joins UB

On Thursday, UB announced that Prahlad “Spirit Rock” Friedman is now a Team UB Pro. Friedman’s signing comes less than a week after long-time representatives Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth parted ways with the online site. The 32-year-old’s career highlights include a win at the 2009 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker for $1,009,000, a […]

Rajkumar Takes Lead At PCA Super High Roller

You can catch all the action at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller event by following along with the live updates. Nick Schulman jumped out to an early lead at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller and held it for the better part of four levels before running into Vivek Rajkumar. Rajkumar had […]

A Level With Viktor Blom at PCA Super High Roller

You can catch all the action at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller event by following along with the live updates. Perhaps no other player has garnered more interest here at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure than Viktor Blom. The 20-year-old Swede is thought by many to be the online phenom Isildur1. Isildur1’s identity has […]

Full Tilt Aussie Millions Qualifier

On Saturday, Jan. 8 at 22:00 EST, Full Tilt Poker will run a qualifier to the 2011 Aussie Millions main event. The event this weekend is a no-limit hold’em super stack with a $600+$40 buy-in. Held at the Crown Casino in Melbourne starting Jan. 23, the Aussie Millions main event is one of the world’s […]

Changes in 2011 POY Scoring

Card Player will make two changes to the scoring criteria for the 2011 Player of the Year race. These changes will allow players to score points in two types of events that have become popular on the tournament trail. The first change states, “International events must have a buy-in of at least $500 USD, but […]

Nick Schulman Takes Early Lead at PCA Super High Roller

You can catch all the action at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller event by following along with the live updates. The Super High Roller event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is underway and leading the field is Nick Schulman, who was able to stack high stakes pro Koen “tuff_shark” Berendsen just 30 minutes […]

BigBetPoker.com Shuts Down

BigBetPoker.com, launched in early 2009, is shutting down and has requested players begin withdrawing any money they have at the site. Jay Parcells, head of poker at the site said, “Over the last two years, we gave poker our best shot but in the end determined that several factors made an early exit from the […]

Jungleman12 Leads Durrrr by $819,213

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Dan “jungleman12” Cates and Tom “durrrr” Dwan sat down on the virtual felt and recorded their longest session together in the nearly one-third completed Durrrr Challenge. The duo battled on Full Tilt Poker for more than six hours, engaging in almost 3,000 hands of intense $200-$400 no-limit hold’em […]

Full Tilt Sit-and-Go Madness

Full Tilt Poker will run its Super Sit-and-Go Madness promotion starting Friday, Jan. 7, at 16:00 EST. The online site will allow its players to win a share of more than $150,000 in cash and prizes, including entry to the $75,000 Super Madness Freeroll. Any interested player needs to play single-table sit-and-gos and super turbo […]

Hellmuth Discusses UB

Late last week, 11-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth confirmed month-old rumors that he was severing ties with UB. The news came just hours after the site reported that Annie Duke was also leaving the company. Many have speculated as to why Hellmuth decided to walk away from a nine-year relationship, but […]

Pilgrim Finishes Runner-Up in POY

Dwyte Pilgrim entered 2010 as one of the best poker players the casual fan had never heard of. A year earlier he had been a proven winner, but because much of his success came in lower buy-in preliminary tour events instead of the prestigious larger buy-in tournaments of the WSOP or the WPT, Pilgrim wasn’t […]

Mizzi Finishes Third in POY

Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi earned his way into the poker spotlight years ago as a regular winner of the major online tournaments. Though you can still find him going deep online, Mizzi has since brought his rare consistency into the live realm. The 24-year-old from Toronto spent 2010 going deep in tournament after tournament. In the […]

Analyst Suggests Ladbrokes/888 Deal Is Good Move

Michael Campbell, equity analyst at Daniel Stewart & Co has issued a note suggesting Ladbrokes discussion to buy 888.com “make sense”. It todays Morning Meeting Note from the company, Campbell said, “Firstly it gives LAD [brokes] a lot more scale in the online space, 2nd in Poker, 2nd in Casino, 2nd in Bingo but only […]

New Irish Poker Open €20 Rebuy Satellites Launched

As 2011 begins to unwind PaddyPowerPoker.com has launched a new route to this year’s Irish Open – the €20 + €2 rebuy with one ticket to the Irish Open guaranteed. The no-limit hold’em rebuy tournament takes place each Monday night at 8 p.m. GMT and all players who qualify via this route will be eligible […]

Live Tournaments -- January Preview

After an exciting year of poker in 2010, the New Year is underway and will waste little time breaking into some major tournament action. Numerous major tournaments will take place across the globe in January, but by far the two largest are the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and the Aussie Millions. Following what was a record-setting […]

UB Satellites to Canada Classic II

UB will be sending more than 20 players to the second annual Poker Pro Classic in Montreal later this month. The Poker Pro Canada Classic is Montreal’s biggest poker event — a $1,500+$150 buy-in no-limit hold‘em tournament at the Four Aces Poker Club on Jan. 27. Satellites will run at UB as follows: Sunday, Jan. […]

John Racener Finishes Fifth in POY Race

The 2010 Card Player Player of the Year race has come to a close, and following a couple of big finishes in November and December, 24-year-old John Racener earned 4,493 POY points to finish in fifth place in the rankings. Leading up to 2010, Racener had over $1.7 million tournament winnings and had established himself […]

Vanessa Selbst Finishes Fourth in POY Race

Despite spending a lot of time away from poker in 2009 to focus on her studies at Yale Law School, Vanessa Selbst showed little rust in 2010. The 26-year-old had the best poker year of her life, winning $2.8 million and 4,608 Card Player Player of the Year points, good enough for fourth place in […]