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Pennsylvania Revokes License For Foxwoods Casino

Plans for the development of another Philadelphia casino will have to wait, as the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board voted Dec. 16 to revoke the $50 million gaming license of the proposed Foxwoods Casino project in South Philadelphia. The state voted 6-1 to revoke the license after casino plans were repeatedly changed and delayed since it […]

OPOY Spotlight: Jon Van Fleet

The Card Player Online Player of the Year (OPOY) award honors the best tournament player across the major online sites in a given calendar year. Previous winners have included greats such as Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron, Alexander “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis and Steve “gboro780” Gross. Here, we take a look at one of the current top contenders. Jon […]

Party Gaming and bwin Announce More Merger Details

Party Gaming Plc and bwin Interactive Gaming have announced further details of their proposed merger in the first quarter of 2011. The key information for poker players is that both Party Poker and bwin will retain their own brands post-consolidtion and the new company, to be named bwin.party Digital Entertainment, will be headquartered in Gibraltar. […]

Euro Poker Year Review -- July 2010

Player of the Month: Not one but nine players in July. The November Nine of course. Quote of the Month: Former world champion Peter Eastgate quits poker . “In the 20 months following my WSOP win, I feel that I have lost my motivation for playing high-level poker along the way, and I have decided […]

Marchese Wins 2010 POY Award

All major live tournament poker action in 2010 has come to a close and Thomas Marchese sits atop the Card Player Player of the Year standings with 6,738 points. He wins the POY award for the first time after defeating a number of talented challengers in Dwyte Pilgrim, Sorel Mizzi, and Vanessa Selbst, who all […]

Andrew 'luckychewy' Lichtenberger Wins Six-Figure Pot

Tune into Card Player every Monday and Friday evening for a recap of one of the most intriguing cash-game hands that recently took place in the online poker world. Also, be sure to check out extensive weekly recaps at around 3 p.m. EST on Wednesdays. On Saturday, Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger celebrated to the tune of […]

Page 'pageh656' Harris Wins PokerStars Sunday Million

You can check out the final results for Sunday’s flagship events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, UB, Absolute Poker, and Bodog below: PokerStars — Sunday Million Buy-In: $200+$15 Prize Pool: $1,789,400 Entrants: 8,947 1. Page “pageh656” Harris — $249,054.88* 2. jpous — $165,518.36* 3. Dick_Fosbury — $162,065.77* 4. Anita seku — $89,470.00 5. F P C […]

Free Poker Odds App For iPhone

Over 20,000 people have already downloaded the Card Player Poker Odds Calculator iPhone app! Now you can calculate the winning odds of poker hands no matter where you are. This application is based on the most authoritative odds calculator on the Internet, the CardPlayer.com Poker Odds Calculator. What’s more, it’s completely free! (At least, it […]

Full Tilt WPT Qualifiers

Full Tilt Poker is currently running qualifiers to the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star main event in March. From now through Sunday, Feb. 27, players can win a $12,000 prize package in Direct Qualifier tournaments. The events run three times per week, and each guarantees at least one prize package. The qualifiers are […]

Christmas Cracker Keeps Giving at PKR

The Christmas Cracker continues at PKR.com with more fun, daily events such as four, six, and tenhanded hold’em tournaments, deep stacks, terminators, and lots more, including Santa’s Grotto freeroll. This special freeroll takes place on Sunday, Jan. 9, so to be in with a chance of winning 40” LCD TV’s, Nintendos Wii, iPads, and so […]

Christmas Poker Q and A -- Fatima Moreira de Melo

As the new year approaches, Card Player caught up with some of the big names on the international poker circuit to find out how their 2010 went and what they hope for in 2011. Fatima Moreira de Melo is a relatively new member of Team PokerStars SportStars after turning her attention from the top rungs […]

Euro Poker Year Review -- June 2010

Player of the Month: James “Flushy” Dempsey won event no. 9 at the World Series of Poker and followed it up with a second place finish to Sammy Farha in the world championship Omaha eight or better event. Quote of the Month: Sammy Farha after his bracelet victory – “I am not competing for bracelets,” […]

Taylor Paur Leads OPOY Race

There’s only a week’s worth of results left to enter for the 2010 Card Player Online Player of the Year race, but the overall winner is far from determined. Taylor “ambiguosity” Paur currently holds a 840-lead over the rest of the competition, but a deep finish in any of the Sunday majors would allow anyone […]

Euro Poker Year Review -- May 2010

Player of the Month: Ahead of her first trip to play the World Series of Poker (after turning 21) Annette Obrestad won most of her expenses, $87,000, online after taking down the PokerStars Sunday 500 . Quote of the Month: Roy Brindley on flawed hindsight in poker decision making . “According to a recent paper […]

Christmas Special Poker Q and A -- Jason Mercier

As the new year approaches, Card Player caught up with some of the big names on the international poker circuit to find out how their 2010 went and what they hope for in 2011. Team PokerStars Pro member Jason Mercier extended his results list even further this year with some very juicy 2010 scores including […]

Super Turbo Christmas At Paddy Power Poker Today

PaddyPowerPoker.com is offering a set of Super Duper Turbo Tournaments today Sunday December 26 and every day over the holidays until January 2, 2011. The freewheeling Irish bookmaker is also throwing in a free €10 bet in its sportsbook to the winner of each tournament.

 There are seven tournaments each day from 16:30 GMT to […]

Euro Poker Year Review -- April 2010

Player of the Month: Soren Eriksen from Denmark won his second New Zealand Poker Championship on the trot. Quote of the Month: Author James McManus on the most interesting story his research turned up for his book Cowboys Full – The Story of Poker. “The extent to which poker logic was deployed by the leaders […]

Boylepoker Charity Freeroll Tonight

Boylepoker.com hosts a charity freeroll tonight December 26 at 16:00 GMT. The winner will take down $5,000 in cash, as well as an additional $5,000 which they can donate to a charity from a list including: 1: Huruma Children’s Home and School 2: International Children’s Fund 3: Doctors without Borders 4: The Nature Conservancy 5: […]

The Scoop: David Baker Part I

David Baker stops by for this week’s episode of The Scoop (sponsored by Full Tilt Poker) on Card Player TV. Check out his interview with Diego Cordovez and Adam Schoenfeld on Card Player TV, and you can hear him talk about his win in the World Series of Poker deuce-to-seven no-limit lowball event. Baker discusses […]

WSOP Announces 2011 Dates

The 42nd Annual World Series of Poker has announced the dates that it will run in 2011. Beginning on Tuesday, May 31, the WSOP returns to the familiar Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino for 50 days of poker, concluding on Tuesday, July 19. One change in 2011 will be the inclusion of hard stop […]

Young Russian Wins Red Sea Poker Cup

Young Russian Aleksandr Yasnogorodsky won the €1,100 buy-in Red Sea Poker Cup main event last weekend, beating 86 other players to the €26,400 top prize. Yasnogorodsky’s final opponent was also from Russia, as were all the final-table players, apart from the fifth-place finisher, Potemkin from Belarus. In the ultimate hand, Roman Shugrin’s pocket deuces were […]

Euro Poker Year Review -- March 2010

Player of the Month: Card Player Netherlands editor Anton Pieter Wink takes down the Unibet Open Budapest. Quote of the Month: Padraig Parkinson on the European Poker Awards — “John Lennon once described the Eurovision Song Contest as a night out for middle-aged pop fans. If he’d lived and got into poker, I’d love to […]

Plans to Ban Online Poker Delayed in Cyprus

Cyprus will have to wait until March 2011 to find out the feedback from its proposed legislation to ban online poker, slot machines, and casino games, which legislators have estimated to have a turnover of 2.5 billion euro per year. According to Reuters, the draft legislation, which excludes online sports betting, calls for a licensing […]

PokerStars Macau 2011 Calendar

PokerStars Macau at the Casino Grand Lisboa has announced its schedule for the upcoming year, and it looks like there will be plenty of poker on the 2011 calendar for contiental Asia’s largest poker room. From February 21-27, PokerStars Macau will host the Macau Poker Cup Series. Its Red Dragon main event has seen more […]

Borgata Winter Open Schedule

The sixth annual Borgata Winter Poker Open will kick off in Atlantic City on January 19 and run through February 4. A total of 26 events are scheduled with buy-ins as low as $170. But all eyes will be on the $3,300 buy-in no limit hold’em championship event running January 30-February 4. The event features […]

Festive Freeroll at Victor Chandler Poker Tonight

As part of Victor Chandler Poker’s ongoing celebrations surrounding its move to the Entraction network, there is a €1,000 Festive Freeroll at the site this evening at 9 p.m. (CET). The entrance fee is just 1 VIP point, and this sole point must have been earned in the 48 hours before the start of the […]

Euro Poker Year Review -- February 2010

Player of the Month: David Benyamine for his victory in the PartyPoker.com Premier League. Quote of the Month: Padraig Parkinson refutes any suggestion that Devilfish could be a criminal mastermind — “Firstly, between playing poker and partying, the man barely has time to sleep, let alone look after a criminal empire. Secondly, if you’ve ever […]

Chris Bell Wins at WSOP Circuit

The 2010 World Series of Poker Circuit Northeast Regional Champion is none other than poker veteran Chris Bell from Raleigh, North Carolina. Bell outlasted a top-notch final table that included Micah Raskin, Todd Terry, Nick Mitchell, Andy Frankenberger and his eventual heads-up opponent, Chris Klodnicki. It was a long and grueling final table with seven […]

Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies Returns To Action

After a few weeks off from the nosebleed stakes in the online world, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies is back playing six-figure pots. In late November the Finnish pro said he was taking a short break from the game. On Tuesday, the high-stakes regular put in a two-hour session of $300-$600 pot-limit Omaha on Full Tilt Poker. […]

Brad Daugherty's WSOP Main Event Bracelet on eBay

The bidding for the 1991 World Series of Poker main event bracelet of Brad Daugherty ended this past Sunday on the auction site eBay. The closing bid was $30,100, however the undisclosed reserved price was not met, and the item was not sold. Daugherty’s 14-karat gold piece of jewelry, which has his first name engraved […]