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European Masters Of Poker Master Cruise Underway

The European Masters of Poker reaches its conclusion this week with the EMOP Master Cruise featuring the top 16 players from across season II of the Tour. All season long EMOP has deducted 4 percent of the prize pool from its main events to put into the freeroll pot for the lucky cruisers. They will […]

Luke Fields is GUKPT Champion Of Champions

Luke Fields has won the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Champion of Champions event at the G Casino, Coventry taking home £44,250 of his victory over 152 opponents. The £150,000 freeroll was open only to the winners of GUKPT or Summer Series main or side events, online 10% Series tournaments, Club Championships or the player had […]

Nick Abou Risk Wins Second UK & Ireland Poker Tour Title

Nick Abou Risk took down the PokerStars.com €1,000 buy-in UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) main event held at the Radisson Hotel, Galway, Ireland after beating 265 players to the top spot. Extreme weather conditions delayed the first event of season II by a day, but despite snow storms and airport closures, the event went […]

WPT: Five Diamond Day 3

After three days of play, the 2010 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic is now down to the final six tables. Day 3 began after a small delay because of the Las Vegas Marathon, but little did the players know that they were in for a marathon of their own once the action started. It […]

Harry Reid Pushes Online Poker Bill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev, has begun to circulate a bill that would legalize online poker. If passed, the Internet Poker Act of 2010 would regulate online poker and provide much needed revenue with federal and state taxes. As its currently written, the bill would only apply to existing casinos, horse tracks and slot-machine […]

Nick Abou Risk Leads His Second UKIPT Final Table

Season II of the PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour kicked off in Glaway on Friday – albeit one day late due to desperate weather conditions across much of Northern Europe. With the buy-in falling from €2,000 last year to €1,000 this year, the field increased from 258 last year to 266. The final table […]

WPT Five-Diamond Day 2

Day 2 has come to a close at the 2010 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic and there are 137 players named on the final chip counts for the night. The total prize pool is $4,248,600 thanks to the 438 players that entered this $10,000 event. The field represents 33 percent year-over-year growth […]

A Poker Life: Raj Vohra

Raj Vohra is a winner. He always has been. Growing up in India, Vohra was among the top tennis players in the country. After school, he turned pro and began competing on the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) Tour. Vohra was living his dream, competing with the best players in the world as the pride […]

Poker Quiz: Playing Top Pair

Card Player documents some of the most talked-about hands in the poker world with Poker Hand Matchups. Getting the analysis of a hand is great, but we’d like to see what you, the reader, would do if you got the chance to sit down with the pros. Each week, we’ll bring you a scenario straight […]

PKR.com Signs German Pro

PKR.com yesterday announced it has signed its first German pro poker player, Sascha “locodice” Walter. The 25 year-old hails from Stuttgart and has been playing at PKR.com since 1997. He is now the most successful German player at the site playing $2/$4 and $3/$6 no-limit hold’em and up to $2/$4 pot-limit Omaha. “It’s a great […]

Egypt's Red Sea Poker Cup Nears

After the success of the recent Mediterranean Poker Cup, the organisers move swiftly on to Egypt with the Red Sea Poker Cup 2010, at the Domina Coral Bay Hotel & Casino, Sharm El Sheikh, from December 11 to 18, 2010. The festival features a €1,100 buy in main event and €3,300 buy in VIP event. […]

WPT Doyle Brunson Classic: Day 1

Day 1 of the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic is in the books. By all accounts, it seems that lowering the buy-in from $15,000 to $10,000 has resulted in a substantial increase in field size. The 2009 tournament drew a total of 329 players, but even though registration is still open, the Bellagio has […]

Cadillac1944 Gives Some Back

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. Cadillac1944 was at one point up more than $1 million […]

The Scoop: Matt Affleck Part I

Matt Affleck 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 in depth about his heart-breaking elimination in the 2010 World Series of Poker main event. […]

Carbon Poker Goes Mac Friendly

Merge Gaming Network’s Carbon Poker has joined the list of poker sites that have become mac compatible. After a phase of beta-testing, a Mac-friendly version has now been made available. The site has upgraded many of its features also – Tournament lobbies will now open in a separate window, full-screen mode has been improved resulting […]

Regular Wins Massive Poker Bad Beat Jackpot in London

A bad beat jackpot of £222,000 has been won at the Casino at The Empire in London. Sixteen players, mostly regulars, finally struck gold for the first time since the jackpot was launched in February this year. The bad beat occurred on a £1-£2 table when Rupert Graham’s quad sixes were beaten by Halit Avoyli’s […]

UK & Ireland Poker Tour Galway Begins Today

The PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour Galway main event finally gets going today at The Radisson Blu Hotel, Galway, Ireland. After a day’s delay in order to give players a chance to attend despite difficult weather conditions, the €560 buy-in main event will begin at noon, kicking off season II of the tour. The […]

WPT: Five Diamond World Poker Classic Begins Friday

The World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic begins at noon PDT on Friday, December 3 at Bellagio in Las Vegas. Card Player will be live on the scene to bring you all of the action in live updates, chip counts, photos, and videos from CardPlayer TV. Last year this event featured one of […]

PokerStars Fish and Chips Showdown

PokerStars is giving its players a chance to win a trip to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January to compete in the Fish & Chips Showdown — an event that will combine fishing and poker in the Bahamas. Satellites are currently running to the two-day event. Prize packages include the buy-in, hotel accommodation at the […]

Eskimo Clark's Bracelet Auctions for $4,050

The auction for the 1999 World Series of Poker $1,500 Razz bracelet of Paul “Eskimo” Clark ended Wednesday on eBay, with a winning bid of $4,050. The piece of poker history goes to “n***x,” whose identity is protected by eBay privacy rules. A total of 15 bids were placed on the item. The bracelet was […]

Sebastian Homann Wins WPT Marrakech

The champion of the World Poker Tour Marrakech main event is 23-year-old Sebastian Homann. The German was chip leader for most of the event and kept the pace up at the final table which he overcame to take home €244,508, plus a $25,500 entry into the 2011 WPT World Championship. With 220 players on the […]

UK & Ireland Poker Tour Galway Delayed

The PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour Galway main event was due to get underway in the west of Ireland today kick-starting season II of the tour. However, adverse weather conditions across much of Europe, including heavy snowfall, has caused many airports to close, ensuring significant travel disruption. The €560 buy-in main event will now […]

Devilfish Gaming Sees Revenue And Losses Increase

Devilfish Gaming Plc, which announced the imminent sale of its Devilfish Poker subsidiary last month, today issued its financial results for the year ending June 30, 2010. Turnover at the company was up 13 percent to £783,353 compared to £695,072 a year earlier. Gross profit was £525,115 representing a margin of 67 percent before costs […]

Titan Launches French Online Poker Site

Titan Poker players in France can now play at the company’s newly launched French site Titan.fr. The Nation Traffic, which owns the site which formerly operated on the iPoker network, is the latest in a long line to move into the French market despite concerns about their ability to turn a profit due to the […]

UB and AP Introduce Security Token

UB and Absolute Poker, both apart of the Cereus Network, have launched the new Security Token. The token — a small one-button electronic device that once activated and tied to an account will require a player to use both a password and to have the physical device at hand — is now available for purchase […]

Vanessa Rousso Selling Lamborghini

Poker pro Vanessa Rousso has put her 2007 Lamborghini Gallardo on the auction site eBay. In a 2009 exclusive interview with Card Player, Rousso said that she would keep the sports car for only a year or so. The Team PokerStars Pro explained that she could eventually resell the car for about what she paid […]

Durrrr Loses Nearly $1 Million Tuesday

Even though Tom “durrrr” Dwan resumed his battle in the Durrrr Challenge with Dan “jungleman12” Cates late last week, the real fireworks over the past seven days for the 24-year-old were at $500-$1,000 pot-limit Omaha against cadillac1944. Dwan and cadillac1944 sat down at the virtual felt Tuesday on Full Tilt Poker for some action at […]

Rush Poker Pulled From Android Market

Rush Poker Mobile, an application that features real money gaming, has been pulled from the Android Market. The software was in the beta testing stage and had been currently unavailable due to maintenance. An e-mail from Full Tilt Poker technical support confirmed. “Rush Poker Mobile is currently unavailable due to maintenance. While we are delighted […]

UK and Ireland Poker Festivities at PokerStars

To get the blood pumping on these cold December nights, PokerStars has announced the launch of its UK & Ireland £20k Festive Giveaway. The Giveaway begins today and will run until Dec. 19 with two massive £20,000 freerolls on Dec. 12 and 19. Freeroll satellites will run daily at 8 p.m. giving 18 players a […]

Ukrainian Crowned Mediterranean Poker Cup Champion

The Mediterranean Poker Cup main event was won by Ukrainian Aleksandr Dovzhenko. He beat Russian Gutkin Maksim heads up for the €104,700 top prize. The main feature of the Mediterranean festival, the three-day $2,500 buy-in main event, kicked off on Nov. 26 and attracted 153 players to the five-star Hotel Merit Girne, Crystal Cove, Cyprus. […]