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Bruce Willis In New Gambling Movie

Rumors have been circulating online this week regarding the cast for the screen adaptation of the 2010 novel Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling, by Beth Raymer. According to the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) Rebecca Hall, Justin Timberlake, and Bruce Willis will appear in the film which will be titled Lay the Favorite, Take […]

EPT Copenhagen Begins Monday

Fresh off of its January stop in Deauville, France, the PokerStars European Poker Tour is now set to make its return to the felt of Casino Copenhagen. The EPT makes the trip to Denmark every season, and this year’s visit is expected to once again bring in hundreds of players from all over the Nordic […]

David Vamplew Talks Poker Success

Twenty-three-year-old Scot David Vamplew hit the poker headlines when he took down the European Poker Tour London main event in late 2010 for a massive payday of just over $1.4 million. The event was the largest poker tournament ever held in England (at the time), and Vamplew’s achievement rocketed him to the top of the […]

Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Hits Twice In 24 Hours

A mathematically significant occurrence hit the Microgaming Poker Network last weekend when the Bad Beat Jackpot was won twice in 24 hours. Firstly on Saturday Feb. 12 a NordicBet Poker player lost with quad 10s to a royal flush before collecting $195,404 while three other players also took a share of the pool. The loser, […]

L.A. Poker Classic Update

The 2011 L.A. Poker Classic has been running for many weeks now at the Commerce Casino in the Los Angeles area in Southern California. Over three dozen champions have been crowned during the course of this massive tournament series and the action will only intensify starting this weekend with the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational. […]

Bodog Billionth Hand of Blackjack

The countdown to Bodog’s billionth hand of blackjack has begun. The online poker and gambling site is giving its players a chance to win in the following ways: by receiving one ticket to a Billionaire’s Experience draw every time you hit a blackjack, wining a $1,000 cash prize when dealt one of the 21 Millionth […]

OPOY Spotlight: Jason Wheeler

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, Steve “gboro780” Gross and Taylor “ambiguosity” Paur. Here, we take a look at one of the current […]

Ladbrokes Poker Revenue Plunges 21 Percent

Ladbrokes Plc today announced its preliminary financial results for 2010 and for poker the reading was grim. Net revenue for poker fell 20.7 percent to £18.8 million from £23.7 million in 2009. The number of active poker customers also plummeted by 27.7 percent compared to 2009. Meanwhile customer yield growth was 9.8 percent as customer […]

Goa Gets Poker Room With Big Plans

Over the last four years, poker has been on the rise in Goa, South West India. Armed with a concept called Sol Poker, a group of young professionals with plenty of experience in the poker industry were waiting for the right time to strike. The time has come. Sol Poker is a professional poker room […]

London Awaits PKR Poker Social

PKR.com keeps its players poker social scene fresh with another social event. This time its a mix of tournaments, drinks, and prizes at the Fox Poker Club in London from Mar. 25-26. Action kicks off on the Friday evening with a Sit & Go Madness party which basically does what it says on the tin […]

WSOP-C Tunica: Sam Barnhart Wins

There were 480 players who entered the $1,600 no-limit hold’em main event at the World Series of Poker Circuit Tunica stop and on the final day of play just nine remained in the hunt for the top prize worth $148,612 and a WSOP Circuit gold ring. The tournament created a prize pool worth $698,400 and […]

Bodog's 'Another Day, Another Dollar' Promotion

Bodog is giving its players a chance at a free $100 bonus in its Another Day, Another Dollar promotion. Between Feb. 14 and Mar. 15 players need to earn 10 Bodog poker points on at least 10 days in order to earn a minimum bonus of $10. If a player earns 10 points on 30 […]

Gus Hansen Dominates $500-$1,000 Cap PLO

Gus Hansen has continued to roll at the nosebleed cap pot-limit Omaha stakes on Full Tilt Poker. On Monday, Hansen beat up Rui Cao for more than $300,000 in a short 100-hand session of heads-up $500-$1,000 cap pot-limit Omaha. The win brings Hansen’s lifetime earnings in the specific game to more than $3 million — […]

Unibet Poker Down 17 Percent In 2010

Unibet Plc, owner of Unibet Poker, today announced its financial results for 2010 with poker down 17.3 percent to £20.2 million from £24.4 million in 2009. Fourth quarter 2010 saw gross winning revenue for poker of £4.5 million compared to £6.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2009 – a drop of 33 percent. However […]

The Poker Play: Cos Paparestis Vs. Toby Lewis

Cos “GreekStein” Paparestis: 3 3 Toby Lewis: A 9 Board: J 10 4 5 8 Cos “GreekStein” Paparestis: 100,000 Toby Lewis: 160,000 Event: £1,000 + £90 buy-in Dusk Till Dawn Monte Carlo Deepstack Day: 2 Blinds: 800-1,600 Rebecca McAdam: Can you give me a background to the hand? Cos Paparestis: I was playing really well […]

Greece Gets First Major Poker Event

PokerStars.com is to sponsor Greece’s first major poker festival which will include the €1,000+€100 buy in Greece Poker Cup main event. The event will take place at Club Hotel Casino Loutraki outside Athens from March 24 to 27 and will feature up to 200 players Casino manager, Alexandros Doukas, said, “We are very happy with […]

Natalia Nikitina Wins WPT Paris

Natalia Nikitina is the champion of the €5,000 World Poker Tour National Series Paris Euro Finals Of Poker Diamond Championship main event, after topping a field of 188 at the Aviation Club de France. The 23-year-old Russian professional takes home the top prize of €243,830 from her first ever WPT event. Alexandre Brivot was her […]

PokerStars Announces Team Online Class of 2011

Last week PokerStars announced its 2011 class of online pros after receiving about 4,500 applications for this year’s open spots. Team PokerStars Online welcomed 15 new players, including longtime online grinders such as Shane “shaniac” Schleger, Mer “PeachyMer” Brit, and Card Player blogger Andrew “foucault82” Brokos. If you don’t have an account, but would like […]

Corey Burbick Wins Chad Brown Event

The second annual Chad Brown No-Limit Texas Hold’em Championship wrapped up on Feb. 1 with Chad Brown himself sitting at the final table of the $5,000 buy-in main event. When action reached heads-up play, Brown was still alive with the opportunity to win his own event. But it wasn’t to be, as Corey ‘Comandr_Cool’ Burbick […]

Katchalov: Final Table Takedown

This strategy column, and many like it, are featured in every issue of Card Player magazine. Subscribe today to get 26 issues delivered to your home each year! Eugene Katchalov was born in Kiev, Ukraine, but was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from New York University with a business degree, but has chosen […]

PKR.com Launches New Deepstack Monthly Event

Online poker room PKR.com today announces the launch of its new monthly deepstack, The Main Event. The $35 buy in tournament features a $25,000 and players will start with 10,000 in chips with 30 minute blind levels. The first event takes place on March 06, 2011 and will follow on each first Sunday thereafter but, […]

Finn Wins Betfair Poker Live! London

Artuu Pitkakangas has won the £250 buy in Betfair Poker Live! London main event held at the Fox Poker Club last weekend. The Finn beat 170 opponents to walk away with £7,630 and a £1,000 package to the next Betfair Poker Live! main event in Tallin, Estonia from April 15 to 17, 2011. He beat […]

Gareth Walker Wins UKIPT Nottingham

Gareth Walker has won the largest live poker tournament in the UK, the PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) Nottingham. The £500 buy-in main event attracted a massive 1,058 players from 39 countries who in turn created a total prize pool of £529,000. Walker took the £109,000 first prize after he rid the event […]

Charity Event Coming to Golden Nugget

Phil Hellmuth will be joined by a cast of Hollywood celebrities, NFL superstars and other poker pros this weekend for the special Raise Your Hand for Africa Texas Hold’em charity event benefiting the Starkey Hearing Foundation and PROS FOR AFRICA. Presented by World Poker Entertainment, this inaugural event will take place at the Golden Nugget […]

WSOP Circuit To Make Florida Debut

For the first time ever the World Series of Poker Circuit will set up shop in the Sunshine State, where it will award ten WSOP Circuit rings during its two-week stay at the Palm Beach Kennel Club in West Palm Beach, FL. The tournament series will open on Thursday, February 17, with day 1A of […]

DeucesCracked on Card Player

This week at DeucesCracked, coaches Chris “DeathDonkey” Vitch and “BigBadBabar” discuss shorthanded $5-$10 and $10-$20 limit hold’em on PokerStars in a 71-minute training video. The lesson, which is episode five in The Leap, explores the adjustments one must make in shorthanded play. DeucesCracked — which was founded in 2007 by Vitch, Rob Cole, Joe Tall, […]

Viktor Blom Defeats Eugene Katchalov in Showdown

On Sunday, Team PokerStars Pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom defeated Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov in the fourth installment of the SuperStar Showdown. The four-hour match, which consisted of 2,500 hands played across four $50-$100 no-limit hold’em tables, ended in a win of $111,750 for the 20-year-old Blom. The largest hand of the contest was a $62,500 cooler […]

Scott Clements Wins FTOPS $10K

On Sunday, Full Tilt Pro Scott Clements won FTOPS event no. 19 ($10,000 no-limit hold’em heads up) after remaining undefeated through an elite field of 128 players. Clements banked nearly $300,000 after a deal at the final match. Clements’ win, which was the largest online score of his career, brings his career earnings to more […]

keyzerrr 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: $1,739,000 Entrants: 8,695 1. keyzerrr — $255,807 2. pink_outs — $186,943 3. richiebro — $130,425 4. HCGrinder — $86,950 5. gtowneagles — $69,560 6. bubbahee — […]

Poker Player Management Companies Join Forces

Two leading poker player management companies have announced they are creating a joint venture which will “dominate the Iberian and South American market” according to a statement released last night. Poker Icons and Hastoplay new joint venture means the companies now manage a combined total of over 55 poker players including 34 sponsorship deals with […]