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Something For Poker Lovers On Valentine's Day

For those of the single variety, or indeed those who just don’t buy into the day that’s in it, PKR.com are having an Anti-Valentines Special Premium Freeroll today at 8.45 p.m. (GMT). The buy-in is 1,000 PKR Points or a Premium Freeroll ticket and the prizes on offer include an Apple iPad, poker chip sets, […]

55 Special At Victor Chandler Poker

Victor Chandler Poker has today announced its “55 Special” Share Scheme League, which will run every Tuesday for five weeks starting on Feb. 22 at 9 p.m. (CET). Players simply pay €10 and receive entry into five weekly €200 freerolls. A leader board will stretch across the five weeks with the top 55 players in […]

UKIPT Nottingham Breaks UK Poker Record

The second stop of the second season of the PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour has broken the record for the largest number of players in a live tournament in the UK. The £500 buy-in event in Nottingham saw 478 players on day 1A and 580 on day 1B. A total of 1,058 created a […]

UB Satellite to WPT LAPC

UB is sending at least three players to Los Angeles to be part of the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic later this month at the Commerce Casino. The online site will award the $12,000 prize packages in a $500+$30 satellite on Sunday, Feb. 13 at 5:05 p.m. EST. The annual L.A. Poker Classic is […]

Bodog Blocks Data Mining

In an effort to appeal to the more casual online poker player, Bodog announced on Wednesday that they would be making an effort to block data mining software and sites that scrape information from their online poker room. The site is hoping that by restricting player tools, they’ll be able to somewhat level the playing […]

A Poker Life: PCA Champ Galen Hall

Not many in the poker world could have predicted that Galen Hall, a part-time poker player and student, would win the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event, the largest tournament outside of the World Series of Poker. Hall himself was probably just as doubtful, considering the 24-year-old had only recorded one live tournament cash for $3,460 […]

Latest Issue Of Card Player Europe Is Online

The February 2011 issue of Card Player Europe is now online and free and ready for your perusal. In this issue Card Player Europe takes a look at Victor Chandler Poker’s move to Entraction from iPoker, sits down for a chat with World Series of Poker Europe champ James Bord, grills Arnaud Mattern about a […]

Tournament Trail Q&A: Tony Hachem

Tony Hachem has spent the last two years doing something that no other poker player in the world accomplished in that time. He won a Player of the Year award two years in a row. He took home the honors for PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Player of the Year for both the first […]

Tournament Trail Q&A: Tony Bloom

Tony Bloom has made a lot of money doing a lot of different things in his lifetime. He is a renowned sports bettor in the United Kingdom and he is no slouch at the poker tables either. Bloom won the Aussie Millions main event in 2004, and he has finished as the runner-up twice in […]

Online Poker Legislative Update

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Internet Poker Act of 2010 has been dead for nearly two months now, placing a hold on any chance of federal online poker regulation in the United States in the next year. Though there are reports that Rep. John Campbell has partnered with Barney frank to introduce a House bill […]

This Past Week's 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 Tournament Poker Edge, Charles “Hagbard Celine” Sizemore talks about tilt in a recent article on the training […]

The Scoop: Justin Young

Justin “robert07” Young 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 I last week. Check out his interview with Diego Cordovez and Adam Schoenfeld on Card Player TV, and you can hear him talk about his nearly $1 million […]

Ladbrokes In Merger Talks With Playtech

British bookmaker Ladbrokes is reportedly in talks with Israli gaming operator Playtech, owner of the iPoker network. The merged entity would be worth £2.2 billion according to the Daily Telegraph which broke the story however Playtech’s current relationship with William Hill could prove a stumbling block analysts told the paper. Neiter company would comment on […]

Betsson Poker Revenue Drops 19 Percent in 2010

Nordic gaming operator Betsson saw revenue from online poker fall 19 percent in 2010 to SEK106.7 million from SEK131.9 million in 2009 Poker accounts for 6.8 percent of Betsoon’s overall revenue, down from 10.1 percent in 2009, Casino accounts for 55.4 pecent and sportsbook 32.7 percent. Fourth quarter 2010 poker revenue amounted to SEK26.7 million […]

Entraction Poker Revenue Down 27 Percent in 2010

Swedish gaming operator Entraction saw its online poker network revenue (gaming surplus) decline 27 percent in 2010 to SEK316.4 million (€35.8 million) from SEK435.7 million (€49.3 million) in 2009. Revenue dropped 24 percent to SEK81.7 million from SEK106.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. The company’s annual report stated that, “The growth of the […]

UK & Ireland Poker Tour Nottingham Starts Today

The PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour has pulled into Nottingham today with the £500 + £60 buy-in main event beginning at noon. The event is taking place at the Dusk Till Dawn poker club, and is the second stop of the second season of the Tour with a guaranteed prize pool of £200,000. The […]

Gus Hansen's Great Start to 2011

Gus Hansen has started 2011 just as he did 2010 — winning more than $2 million on the virtual felt. Despite last February also giving Hansen an upswing, his results went south from that point, and he finished the year in a massive hole. Hansen’s online career has been marked by vicious swings of this […]

Peter Eastgate Returns To Poker

In this statement from 2008 World Series of Poker main event champion Peter Eastgate, he explains why he walked away from the game and why he is now choosing to return. He also addresses the sale of his WSOP bracelet to raise money for UNICEF. “Sometimes in life a person can feel lost and wake […]

Alessio Isaia Wins World Poker Tour Venice

Anonymous took down the largest tournament ever to be held in Venice to become the first Italian to win a major WPT title, after topping a 523-strong field at the World Poker Tour Venice. They beat Hungaraian Szabolcs Mayer heads up for the first-place prize of €380,000 at the Casino di Venezia, which is reputed […]

Full Tilt Poker Series España On Its Way

Players can begin qualifying for the Full Tilt Poker Series España from Feb. 14. The Series will feature a total prize pool of €1 million across four Spanish venues, with the opening event taking place at the Gran Casino in Madrid from Mar. 11-13. Full Tilt Poker will offer exclusive online qualifiers with packages worth […]

Poker Tournament Organiser Cleared Of Assault

According to UK news site, News & Star, poker tournament organiser, Ken Johnston, has been cleared of assaulting one of the players at a charity event he hosted to help him raise money for his Mount Kilimanjaro charity climb. The player making the claim, Steven Nicholls, stated that he was punched seven times on the […]

PokerStars Home Games Suspended In France

PokerStars has released a statement on its site giving details on why its French home games have been suspended. The statement said that the French regulatory authority of online games, ARJEL, has suspended the games for an unknown amount of time in order to ensure compliance with French law. The decision was made to ensure […]

Card Player Welcomes CardRunners

CardPlayer.com is pleased to bring you CardRunners, one of the oldest and most respected training sites on the internet. CardRunners was founded in 2005 by Taylor “Green Plastic” Caby and Andrew “muddywaters” Wiggins while they were attending the University of Illinois. The pair of high-stakes cash game players have always had a desire to share […]

Amateur Ben Hopkins Wins November Nine Reunion Event

The nine players who made the final table of the 2010 World Series of Poker main event reunited Tuesday for the first time ever to participate in a 30-player $15,000 freeroll event at Foxwoods Resort Casino. They were joined by a group of 18 randomly selected amateurs, Publisher Kasey Thompson, ESPN commentator Lon McEachern and […]

NBC Heads Up Returns

The seventh annual NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship will return to Caesars Palace on March 3-6 and this year, the field of 64 will be competing for their share of an even bigger prize pool. A total of $1.8 million will be up for grabs with the winner taking home $750,000. In 2010, Annie Duke […]

WSOP Europe Moves To France

According to French news site, La Tribune, the World Series of Poker Europe is said to be moving from its London home to Cannes in France. It has been reported that an agreement has been reached which has resulted in the most prestigious festival in Europe saying goodbye to its old haunt, the Casino At […]

Swede Wins Euro Deepstack Poker Championship

Magnus Nasslin of Sweden has won the European Deepstack Championship which took place at the D4 Hotel, Dublin, Ireland last weekend. The €550 buy in main event attracted 737 players creating a total prize pool of €360,760. A deal was done three-handed at the pan-national final table and the top nine players and payouts were: […]

Victor Chandler Poker Goes EMOP Mad

Victor Chandler Poker has gone European Masters of Poker (EMOP) crazy, giving every kind of player every chance possible to win a seat and much more. First of all, players can qualify for three weekly finals via cheap daily satellites from as little as €2 or 200 VIP Points. There are a total of 14 […]

Card Player $1,000 Freeroll Tonight On Betfair

Card Player Europe and BetfairPoker.com 
host an exclusive $1,000 freeroll tonight Wednesday February 9, 2011 at 21:00 CET (8 p.m. GMT) Existing Betfair players must have generated five player points (approx £1 in rake) between January 1 and 31 to participate while players who opened an account at Betfair through Cardplayer.com before January 31 can […]

Oklahoma Championship Gets Under Way

The 2011 Oklahoma State Championship of Poker tournament series is now under way at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa in Catoosa, Oklahoma. Action kicked off on Thursday and will continue through February 20 with a total of 22 different events spreading a variety of games, including no-limit and pot-limit hold’em, PLO, Omaha/8 and H.O.R.S.E. […]