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Poker Veteran Thor Hansen Reveals Autobiography

Thor Hansen, the two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner from Norway has published a revealing autobiography in his homeland. Despite living in the U.S. for many years, poker legend Hansen has yet to see his book translated into English, but the clamour for a tale which includes smuggling, robbery, murder, gambling addiction, and sex […]

Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final Festival Underway

The final stop of this season’s Grosvenor UK Poker Tour is underway at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London with eight side events and the grand final main event remaining from today. All events are no-limit hold’em except today’s pot-limit Omaha double chance tournament while the grand final, won last year by Tony Cascarino, sees an […]

UB Partners with the Global Poker League

Last week UB signed on as official sponsor of GPLnow.com, home of the Global Poker League and the World Cup of Poker. The GPL partnership gives UB players access to a worldwide community of poker players. For the next six months, GPL players who register through UB can join the sit-and-go action at 19 designated […]

European Poker Tour Heading To Barcelona

The European Poker Tour is set to make its return to Spain next week for EPT Barcelona. On this stop of season 7, the PokerStars-sponsored EPT will take to Casino Barcelona from November 21-27. The schedule consists of 20 events played in no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha. Turbos, bounties, heads up, and deepstack events are […]

New Zealand TV Stations Lose Poker Ad Appeal

The New Zealand High Court has dismissed an appeal by TV Works, owner of TV3 and C4, over ads promoting the Asia Pacific Poker Tour. According to Stuff.co.nz, Justice Ron Young ruled that the ads were defined as gambling under the Gambling Act and ruled in favour of the Department of Internal Affairs which was […]

Daily Irish Poker Open Qualifiers From €2 Launched

Qualification for the Irish Open 2011 begins to ramp up at paddypowerpoker.com with the launch of The Cheap Seats promotion. Online poker players can qualify for a fortnightly grand final each Wednesday at 8 p.m. starting December 1 through daily Cheap Seats re-buy tournaments for €2 and €4 at 8:15 p.m. and 9 p.m. respectively. […]

PokerStars NAPT: Joe Tehan Wins LA Main Event

When the final table of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour Los Angeles $5,000 no-limit hold’em main event began it appeared that a heads-up showdown between chip leader Christopher DeMaci and Team PokerStars pro Jason Mercier was imminent. Joe Tehan had other ideas though, and by the end of the night he had eliminated both […]

Read CP Mag Online: WCOOP Rundown

CardPlayer.com is loaded with news, videos, strategy, and other material special to the website, but don’t forget that you can also read Card Player magazine’s content online. Simply click on the “Magazine” link on the left side of the homepage, and you’ll be able to check out recent issues, which include in-depth features on poker’s […]

World Poker Tour and Bike Sign 5-Year Extension

Today, the World Poker Tour and the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA announced a five-year extension of their longstanding relationship. The extension will see the Legends of Poker remain a WPT event through 2015. The agreement ensures the Legends of Poker event will maintain its position on the tour and the WPT televised series […]

Action Quiet This Fall Without Isildur1

It is almost exactly one year to the day when Patrik Antonius and Isildur1 played one of the biggest pots in the history of online poker. The $878,959 monster pot between the Team Full Tilt Pro and the mysterious Swede, whom many believe to be Viktor Blom, helped kick-start a week last November that saw […]

Young-shin Im APPT Winner in Cebu

The PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) has crowned its first ever female champion. Young-shin Im, of Korea, was one of 236 entrants who packed into the Shangri-La Mactan Resort & Spa in the Philippines last week for the PHP 100,000 buy-in APPT Cebu main event. After five days of poker, Im eventually found herself […]

Poker Quiz: Playing Trips On The Flop

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 […]

European Masters of Poker Malta Starts Today

The final land-based leg of season II European Masters of Poker gets underway today in Malta. The €1500 + €150 main event gets underway at Casino di Venezia, Malta has two day 1s and will reach a final table on Sunday. The side event schedule is: Nov. 16: 20:00 CET — €150+20 (€100 rebuy & […]

Michal Polchlopek Wins Italian Poker Tour Malta

Michal Polchlopek, 24, from Malta has won the PokerStars.com Italian Poker Tour Malta to take down €190,000 at Portomaso Casino on the Mediterranean island. The final table chip leader at the start of play after overcame a near 2-1 chip deficit heads up after five hours against Ukranian Oleksandar Sharov before taking the title with […]

PokerStars UK and Ireland Online Championship Approaches

The PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Championship of Online Poker is fast approaching and satellites are now up and running. Eleven events of all kinds will take place at PokerStars from Dec. 5 to 12 with $512,000 guaranteed overall including the $150,000 guaranteed main event prize pool. Anyone who cashes in the Championship will get points […]

PokerStars NAPT LA Final Table Set

It isn’t often that one hand of poker sets the entire tone for a tournament day. When one hand takes place between the two largest stacks left in an event it can send the tournament on two drastically different trajectories. If the stack that is second in command doubles up it can set up a […]

UB Hosting Sniper $80K Guaranteed

Tomorrow night, UB will host its Pro Bounty poker tournament with the $200+15 buy-in $80,000-guaranteed Sniper tournament at 9 p.m. EST. There will be a $200 bounty on the head of Team UB Pro Joe Sebok. “I am pumped to be able to rep the Sniper tournament on UB, as I think it’s one of […]

One Week Until Mediterranean Poker Cup In Cyprus

It’s just one week until the Mediterranean Poker Cup hits Cyprus starting Nov. 22 and featuring a three-day $2,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event with a guaranteed prize pool of $400,000. Entertainment will be provided by Ukrainian pop group Hot Chocolate. To get there, European players can fly direct to Lefkosa in Northern Cyprus, while […]

Chris DeMaci Leads at Pokerstars NAPT LA Main Event

A total of 81 players returned to the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles for day 3 of the 2010 North American Poker Tour main event. With two scheduled days remaining, we are now down to the final 19 competitors. Leading the way is Chris DeMaci, better known by his online handle “RuberbandMan.” DeMaci is the […]

Andy Sherwood Wins PKR Live V Poker Event

Online qualifier Andy “jjcooler” Sherwood has won the PKR Live V title at the Fox Poker Club, London taking home $20,000 for his $27 satellite entry. The $500 buy in tournament attracted 150 runners and created a prize pool of $75,000 and the final table hosted some PKR.com legends including “Rob1nHood”, “OMGMrGreen” and “Patatosalatas”. However […]

DrugsOrMe Wins Cooler for 186K

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 biggest game over the past week was a Friday […]

Cake Poker MNF Tournaments Tonight

For the Eagles versus Redskins game tonight, Cake Poker will be hosting two Money Night Football tournaments. The tournaments will award any player who changes their screen name to reference their favorite football team (or favorite player) and cashes, an entry into a weekly $500 Kamikaze tournament. The tournaments kick off at 8:30 p.m. EST […]

Peter Eastgate Puts Bracelet on eBay

Former World Series of Poker main event champion Peter Eastgate has put his bracelet on the auction site eBay. Eastgate, who earlier this year said he was quitting poker, won $9,152,416 for his performance in 2008. Eastgate was then the youngest winner in the history of the event. The starting bid for his championship bracelet […]

Head Games: Early Tournament Strategy

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! Sometimes it’s hard to get a straight answer from a professional poker player. Ask three players a question, and you’re liable to get three different answers. Why? […]

DeadMoney843 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: $1,668,200 Entrants: 8,341 1. DeadMoney843 — $227,364* 2. Sibydom — $197,364* 3. mi777 — $125,115 4. _maarten_436 — $83,410 5. 4everunknown — $66,728 6. superbad2001 — […]

David Johnson Wins Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Blackpool

The second last Grosvenor UK Poker Tour main event of the current season was won by David Johnson in the G Casino, Blackpool at the weekend. Johnson topped the 246-strong field in the £1,070 buy in event after coming back from a two-to-one chip deficit in just 30 minutes against his heads up opponent Ruichard […]

Italian Poker Tour Malta Final Table Set

The PokerStars.com Italian Poker Tour Malta final table is set with eight players chasing the €190,000 first prize. Michel Polchpolek is the chip leader in the €2,000 + €200 buy in event which attracted 385 to Portomaso Casino. The final table chip counts are: Seat 1: Sergio Castelluccio – 968,000 Seat 2: Lars Jesper Persson […]

PokerStars NAPT LA Main Event: Day 2

Day 2 of the PokerStars NAPT Los Angeles main event was, for lack of a better term, fast and furious. There have been numerous examples over the years of tournaments that played just a bit quicker than the escalating blinds dictated, but the field at the Bicycle Casino somehow managed to make all of those […]

Jack Elwood Leads Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Blackpool

Over 250 players ponied up the £1,070 to take part in the penultimate Grosvenor UK Poker Tour of the season in Blackpool. Only ten players remain. They are: Jack Ellwood — 638,500
 David Johnson — 569,500
 Richard Herbert — 499,000
 Andy Bradshaw — 454,000
 Rob Boon — 375,000
 Vinny Musson — 350,000
 Lee Taylor — […]

Boylepoker Launches Western Open Poker Tournament

Hot on the heels of the successful International Poker Open, Boylepoker.com has announced a new event with an unusual twist — the end of day chip leaders get paid. The €40,000 guaranteed Western Open takes place at the Breaffy House Resort, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland from Feb. 25 to 27, 2011 with a buy in […]