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European Masters Of Poker Gran Canaria Starts Today

Season III of the European Masters of Poker gets underway today in Casino Las Palmas, Gran Canaria on the Canary Islands with the £1,100 buy-in main event expected to attract several hundred runners. Last year the main event was won by Pole Maciej Lipney who beat 287 opponents and took down €66,240. Also taking place […]

Ivey Dominating 2-7 Triple Draw

The past week in the high-stakes online world featured action from some of the game’s heaviest hitters. Patrik Antonius and limit hold’em specialist Kagome Kagome (formerly IHateJuice) sat down at the virtual felt Wednesday morning for some $3,000-$6,000 action. The biggest pot of the session went to Antonius, helping him secure a small win for […]

Black Belt Poker Live Returns To London

Black Belt Poker Live makes a re-appearance on the London poker circuit from April 1 to 3 this year. Neil Channing and co. return to the Grosvenor Victoria casino with a £275 buy in main event with a 20,000 starting stack and 45 minute blinds. First prize for the 400-odd players expected to compete will […]

Ongame Grows Recreational Poker Players

The Austro-German online poker network, Ongame, yesterday claimed it has grown recreational players on the network by eight percent in the six months since it introduced its new rake model, Essence. It also said regular players’ net winnings had increased but did not quantify by how much. Fredrik Kjell, head of poker at Ongame, said, […]

Chad Brown No-Limit Hold'em Championship

On Friday Jan. 28 the Orange Park Kennel Club, in Orange Park, FL, will host the second annual Chad Brown No-Limit Hold’em Texas Hold’em Championship. The event comes as part of the week-long Chad Brown Poker Series beginning on Friday. The $5,000 buy-in event will be televised. All days start at 1 p.m. Both day […]

Annie Duke Heads New Pro Poker League

Federated Sports and Gaming has partnered with the Palms Casino Resort to introduce a new professional poker league in 2011. Annie Duke has been announced as the league’s commissioner and will oversee a schedule of four rake-free tournaments and an additional championship event in Las Vegas. Duke recently left UB to pursue other interests. “A […]

Aussie Millions Gets Underway

You can follow the main event live updates by visiting the Aussie Millions landing page. The prestigious Aussie Millions began last week at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, and Card Player has made its way down under to offer coverage of the upcoming high stakes action. The tournament schedule runs from January 13-31, with […]

Italy Beats England In World Cup Of Poker

Italy has won the PokerStars World Cup of Poker for the first time, after an exhausting 11-and-a-half hours of final play at the PCA. Team PokerStars pro player Luca Pagano led the team to victory and the first place prize of $100,000 ($25,000 per person), while the United Kingdom finished in second place for $70,000 […]

Miikka Anttonen Wins Helsinki Freezeout

Miikka “Interpol” Anttonen has won the €2,850 + €150 buy in Helsinki Freezeout poker tournament at the Grand Casino, Helsinki taking down €76,000 for his victory over 78 opponents including beating Jani Vilmunen heads up. “At the final table here were 3 to 5 better poker players than myself,” he told Card Player Finland. "The […]

Grosvenor UK Poker Tour 2011 Details Released

Although it seems the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) has scaled back for 2011, its plans for the year include a new schedule, Champion of Champions tournaments, and many more interesting features. Plus the GUKPT will be giving away £300,000 in total added value over the course of the year. The first of seven stops […]

Susan 'MommaGrinder' Mizrachi Laufer Wins at Full Tilt

The Mizrachi family had its first tournament win of 2011 on Monday — but it wasn’t from one of its most prominent players. It wasn’t 2010 World Series of Poker $50K Players Championship winner Michael, who has $11,240,264 in career tournament earnings, or the family’s other WSOP bracelet holder Robert, nor Eric or Donny who […]

Benji79 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: $1,735,400 Entrants: 8,677 1. Benji79 — $255,281.66 2. Loxagos — $186,555.50 3. Pendos90 — $130,155 4. Cejakas14 — $86,770 5. ALLEXarm — $69,416 6. Mammola — […]

UB Bad Beat Jackpot Hit for $113K

On Sunday, a $112,779.04 prize was claimed at the hands of the UB Bad Beat Jackpot. A player with the screen name “LEECHIN” raked in the massive prize for losing with quad eights or better. The current jackpot stands at more than $110,000, as of Monday morning. More than $60 million has been awarded since […]

LAPC Kicks Off Wednesday

The L.A. Poker Classic tournament series will get underway Wednesday with its first of 54 scheduled events over the next six weeks at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles. The first event is a five-day $335 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament with a $1 million guarantee. It will feature four starting days, with day 1A beginning […]

EuroSportPoker May Be Sold

Nonce Paolini, chief executive officer of Eurosportbet.com, has said he would consider an offer for the French-facing betting and poker businesses should one be tabled. According to AFP, Paolini said, “Eurosportbet results are not ridiculous, mostly regarding poker, but the business is not satisfactory enough. If a takeover bid comes up, we will study it.” […]

Central London Poker Club For Sale

A “large private members poker and gambling club” in London, England is up for sale with the asking price of £1.1 million. The 8,260 square foot central London club has a turnover of £1.8 million and net profit of £300,000 according to details posted on businessesforsale.com. The sales pitch states that, “The club offers cash […]

Marrakech Poker Open Begins Tomorrow

The Marrakech Poker Open kicks off tomorrow at the Casino de Marrakech with a €500 no-limit hold’em freezeout and a satellite to the €1,500 no-limit hold’em deepstack freezeout, which takes place the following day. The deepstack runs for three days and then on Jan. 22 the two-day €2,700 main event begins. Players will sit down […]

PCA: Andrew Chen Wins NAPT Bounty

The six finalists in the $5,000 North American Poker Tour bounty shootout event at the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure were all starting from scratch at the beginning of the final table so it came as no surprise that play lasted nearly 12 hours on the final day of play. Andrew Chen, Michael Binger, Shaun Deeb, […]

Will Molson Wins PCA $25k Event

The final day of play at the $25,000 high roller no-limit hold’em event at the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure welcomed back a dozen players from the record field of 151 players. They were all gunning for the handsome top prize worth $1,072,850 and Team PokerStars pro Jason Mercier was the chip leader when play began […]

Canadian Poker Domain Sold To Mystery Purchaser

Canadian domain, Poker.ca, became the most valuable .ca domain on the Internet when it sold for more than $400,000. Not only that, it is rumoured that Poker.ca was bought by a well-known poker player who already owns one of the largest poker affiliates. The man behind the purchase wishes to remain anonymous for now but […]

Mercier Leads PCA High Roller

While the main event played out in a sequestered room, the $25,000 High Roller event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure was front and center for all to see in the ballroom at Atlantis. A total of 90 players remained from the original 151 that bought in, but all had goals of making the money at […]

Galen Hall Wins PCA Main Event

With one major laydown, Galen Hall avoided disaster and overcame a monster chip disadvantage to win the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event and $2.3 million. Hall battled with Chris Oliver heads up for over three hours and at one point was down more than 5-1 in chips. The tournament looked over early on when […]

PCA amfAR Charity Poker Tournament

A large collection of poker professionals and celebrities attended the PokerStars/amfAR Celebrity Charity poker tournament at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas this past week. The invitation-only tournament attracted 58 players. The funds raised will support AIDS research. The founder of amfAR, fashion designer Kenneth Cole said, “We cannot overstate the value and important of […]

PCA Q&A: Jonathan Duhamel

Jonathan Duhamel won the biggest poker tournament of the year this past November when he was victorious at the World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event. He came into the final table as the chip leader and he held all of the chips by the end of play. He was awarded $8,944,138 in […]

PKR Announces Poker Socials

PKR.com has announced a new series of fun, community events to be held throughout the UK and further afield around Europe. The first PKR Social will kick off on Feb. 26 in Manchester and will see 100 players get together and experience a drinks reception followed by some mixed martial arts at the BAMMA 5 […]

Qualify For PokerStars European Poker Tour Deauville

There is still time to qualify for the next stop of the PokerStars European Poker Tour, which is taking place in Deauville, France from Jan. 25. Last season, the event attracted 768 players, creating a prize pool of €3,686,400, and Jake “neverbluff67” Cody returned to Britain with the title and the €847,000 top prize. This […]

PCA: $25,000 High Roller Day 1

The $25,000 High Roller no-limit hold’em event at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure smashed all expectations in terms of attendance and attracted a huge field of 151 players. That made for a $3,995,500 total prize pool and the champion of this event will walk away with $1,072,850 in prize money two days from now at […]

PCA: NAPT Bounty Shootout Day 2

Thirty-six players returned for the second day of play in the North American Poker Tour $5,000 bounty shootout event at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure on Friday. They were seated at six tables of six and only one player from each table would advance to the next round, which will be the final table for […]

Palmer's $350K Pot versus Antonius

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. Nosebleed regulars Scott “URnotINdanger2” Palmer and Patrik Antonius did battle […]

PCA $25k High Roller Photo Blog

The $25,000 high roller no-limit hold’em event began today at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and a field stacked with professional has flooded the Imperial Ballroom at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. There are 137 players in today’s tournament, here is a look at who is playing in today’s photo blog. Day 1 $25,000 […]