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Exchange Rate Affects Poker At PartyGaming

Today’s trading update from PartyGaming Plc indicates daily gross poker revenue is up but gains have been offset somewhat by the Euro’s strength against the dollar over the period. Jim Ryan, chief executive officer of PartyGaming said, “Revenues in the fourth quarter have enjoyed their usual seasonal upturn. Casino has performed particularly strongly with double-digit […]

East Circuit Regional Sunday

The second $10,000 Regional Championship on the World Series of Poker Circuit schedule will begin on Sunday, December 19 at the Harrah’s in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Card Player will be there to bring you all of the action from the tournament in live updates, chip counts, and photos from this marquee event on the […]

Harry Reid's Online Bill Dead

According to Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Executive Director John Pappas, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Internet Poker Act of 2010 is dead after it failed to be added to a tax relief act during the lame-duck session of Congress. Reid’s bill sought to legalize and regulate online poker in order to provide much needed […]

PokerStars EPT: Prague Day 3

The PokerStars European Poker Tour Praque €5,300 main event is now down to 23 players, with 2010 EPT Berlin winner Kevin ‘ImaLuckSac’ MacPhee holding the chip lead. The American won the EPT Berlin main event in March of 2010 for €1 million, and he’s in position to add another EPT trophy to his collection and […]

Dan 'jungleman12' Cates Plays With Cristiano Ronaldo

Earlier this month Dan “jungleman12” Cates sat down at the virtual felt with perhaps the wealthiest opponent he has ever faced. However, the 21-year-old Maryland native wasn’t playing his usual nosebleed stakes. Cates put in a $1-$2 pot-limit Omaha session with Cristiano “CR7sete” Ronaldo — one of the best soccer players in the world and […]

High-Stakes Action With Isildur1

PokerStars will run its SuperStar Showdown this Sunday — a high-stakes match between Isildur1 and Isaac “philivey2694” Haxton. The SuperStar Showdown is a heads-up match consisting of a single session of 2,500 hands. The match is played across four tables of no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha, at stakes no lower than $50-$100. The winner is […]

Victor Chandler Poker Celebrates Move with Festive Giveaways

Celebrating its move to the Entraction network, Victor Chandler Poker has a whole host of festive events and treats lined up for its players. Kicking things off this evening at 9 p.m. (CET), and on Dec. 21, 26, and 20 at the same time, there is a €500 Festive Freeroll. In between these free-to-enter events, […]

Unibet Launches Italian Poker Site

Unibet today announced the launch of its own online poker site in Italy, Unibet.it. The company has partnered with Ongame’s P5 Poker Engine to offer sit ‘n’ go and multi-table tournaments ahead of the expected arrival of cash games in the first half of 2011. Unibet chief executive Henrik Tjärnström said, “Re-launching our operations, using […]

2011 Aussie Millions Preview

One of the most exciting tournament series of the year will take place at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia from January 13-31, 2011. January will be jam packed with action down under both on and off the felt due to a loaded schedule of events at the popular tournament series. Highlights will include the […]

PokerStars EPT: Prague Day 2

Dirk Richter started Day 2 of the the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague main event as chip leader, and when the day came to an end he was still in the pole position. The German is one of 93 players to make it through the day, down from the 254 who started it. Richter ended […]

Tom Dwan Claws Back in Challenge

Early Wednesday morning Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Dan “jungleman12” Cates put in another session in the Durrrr Challenge. The two nosebleed regulars sat down at the virtual on Full Tilt Poker for some action at $200-$400 no-limit hold’em and ended up playing slightly more than 1,400 hands. Dwan finished the session up about $18,000, which […]

Matt Waxman Wins WSOP Circuit Main Event

Matthew ‘Poligraph’ Waxman has won the WSOP Circuit main event championship at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City. The 25-year-old Florida poker pro has found plenty of success online, including winning the FTOPS XIII Main Event in 2009 for $453,663, but Tuesday’s WSOP Circuit finish marked his first win in a major live tournament. The $117,797 first-place […]

UB Christmas Giveaway With Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho

UB is currently offering freerolls this holiday season in their Green Christmas Giveaway promotion, which is running now through Dec. 29. The online poker site is awarding seats to two of its most popular $200+$15 buy-in tournaments –- the $80,000 guaranteed Sniper on Wednesdays and the $200,000 guaranteed on Sunday. On every designated promotional day, […]

Alexey Zharko is PokerStars Russian Player Of The Year

PokerStars.com recently hosted its Russian Poker Awards 2010 in Kiev with Ukrainian player Alexey Zharko winning two awards — Best Russian Player of the Year and Breakthrough of the Year. Also picking up gongs for the fan voted awards were Konstantin Puchkov for Player of the Year and Dmitriy Stelmak for Internet Player of the […]

Aussie Millions Freerolls

Online players can win their seats to the 2011 Aussie Millions main event for free at Full Tilt Poker. A prize package can we won via a series of freeroll qualifiers, and round 1 of these freerolls is now running daily until Jan. 6. The prize package includes a seat in the main event, 11 […]

Red Sea Poker Cup Main Event Begins Today

The Red Sea Poker Cup 2010 €1,100 buy-in main event begins today at the Domina Coral Bay Hotel & Casino, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Players will sit down to 20,000 in chips and 60 minute levels at 4 p.m. (local time). The festival kicked off on Dec. 12 and will run until Dec. 18. The […]

PokerStars EPT: Prague Day 1B

Day 1B of the final PokerStars European Poker Tour main event of 2010 took place today in the capital city of the Czech Republic. The €5,300 no-limit hold’em EPT Prague main event attracted 372 players for the second day-one flight. One hundred and sixty-nine have made it through to day 2, and they will be […]

UB Freerolls to L.A. Poker Classic

UB is currently running freeroll qualifiers to the 2011 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic main event in February. From now until Feb. 19, UB is hosting six daily round-one freerolls Monday to Saturday. The top 100 finishers will qualify for the round-two freeroll each Sunday from Dec. 19 to Feb. 20. Any player who […]

WPT's Melanie Iglesias Named Maxim Hometown Hottie

The World Poker Tour’s own Melanie Iglesias has been named the 2010 winner of Maxim Magazine’s “Hometown Hotties” national model search. Iglesias is a member of the WPT’s Royal Flush Girls, a group of models who serve as the tour’s event ambassadors. Iglesias beat out thousands of contestants for the title and will appear in […]

Paddy Power Poker Releases Full Irish Open 2011 Schedule

PaddyPowerPoker.com has announced the full schedule for the Irish Open 2011 including a wide range of side events for all types of players. The festival kicks off on Apr. 21 and runs until Apr. 25 at the Burlington Hotel. The schedule features events such as a €750 + €75 pot-limit Omaha Championship, a €1,000 + […]

Betfair Poker Revenue Declines Since Ongame Move

Betfair Plc today announced its financial results for the six months from May to October 2011 and commented that poker revenue had decreased since the recent move to the Ongame network. While the company did not break down the figures to indicate the size of the fall it said, “Games growth has strengthened but poker […]

PokerStars EPT: Prague Day 1A

The final PokerStars European Poker Tour main event of 2010 began today in the capital city of the Czech Republic. The €5,300 no-limit hold’em EPT Prague main event attracted 191 players for the first day-one flight. Eighty-five have made it through to day 2, which will take place on Wednesday, December 15. This tournament attracted […]

Tom Dwan Fights Back in Durrrr Challenge

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. The second installment of the Durrrr Challenge has been all […]

Karamalikis Wins APPT Grand Final

On Sunday, Jonathan “MONSTER_DONG” Karamalikis won the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Sydney Grand Final for $459,510 AUD. The online poker pro’s victory marks the fourth consecutive year an Aussie has won the APPT season finale. Karamalikis outlasted a field of 289 players and a final table that included Roland de Wolfe, Edward Sabat, and […]

Troopaloop10 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: $1,655,600 Entrants: 8,278 1. Troopaloop10 — $243,544 2. MILIANOS68 — $177,977 3. waynecoal — $124,170 4. Sirocko — $82,780 5. mapletrees — $66,224 6. ricestud — […]

Irishman Wins EMOP Poker Cruise

The top 16 players from this season’s European Masters of Poker (EMOP) went to battle on the Mexican Riviera between Dec. 5 and 12 for its final event of the year, the EMOP Master Cruise. It was Irishman John O’Shea who was crowned poker king of the seas, taking home the first prize of €12,500 […]

UK & Ireland Championship of Online Poker Main Event Today

Today is the last day of the PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Championship of Online Poker and it’s ending with a bang with a two-day $530 main event. The main event features a $150,000 guarantee, and will pause after level 24 to continue tomorrow. Eleven events of all kinds (including the main event) took place between […]

Mark Herm: 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! Mark Herm made online poker history on July 13, 2008 when he won two Sunday major tournaments on the same day. Shortly after taking down the Bodog […]

A Poker Life: Randal Flowers

When 18-year-old Randal Flowers started skipping class his senior year to hurry home and play the $100 rebuy on PokerStars, he realized that his priorities were changing. Like most high school seniors, Flowers was starting to think about his future. The difference was that his career was already taking off. Midway through his senior year […]

Gus Hansen Wins Full Tilt Million

Gus Hansen has won the FullTilt.com Poker Million IX in a year that has seen the pro also win his first World Series of Poker bracelet. Hansen beat Tony Bloom in a short heads up after the strongest final table in the tournament’s history which played out in London and was aired live on SKY […]