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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 […]

UB Online Championship 6 Kicks Off Sunday

The UB Online Championship (UBOC) is back. UBOC6 starts on Sunday, Jan. 16, kicking off with a $500+$30 no-limit hold’em deep stack event at 2 p.m. EST. UBOC6 is designed for players of all bankrolls levels, offering games such as no-limit hold’em, H.O.R.S.E, pot-limit Omaha, eight-game mix, four-max, six-max, and heads-up. UBOC6 will feature nine […]

HPT Rolls into 2011 With Vegas Visit

The first Heartland Poker Tour stop of 2011 is a return to the Red Rock Casino Resort in Las Vegas for this weekend’s $1,100 main event. Numerous satellite events have been running all week, offering entry into Saturday’s main event. Despite scheduling that has the HPT main event taking place at the end of the […]

The Scoop: David Sands Part I

David “Doc Sands” Sands 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 about his DoylesRoom sponsorship competition at the 2010 World Series of Poker. Sands, […]

PokerStars Announces NAPT Season 2 Stops

PokerStars made multiple announcements this morning at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in regards to its international lineup of live poker tours. “For those of you who are keeping track we now have more than 10 tours around the world and by the end of the year we are probably going to have 12 tours around […]

UK And Sweden Crackdown On Online Poker

Newspaper reports this week suggest authorities in both the UK and Sweden are about to launch a crackdown on online gaming operators, including poker sites, who may be bending the rules in those jurisdictions. The Daily Mail in the UK reports that culture secretary Jeremy Hunt is on the war path to prevent overseas operators […]

PCA Bounty Shootout: Day 1

The $5,000 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure NAPT Bounty Shootout attracted 216 entrants on Thursday, all hoping to be a part of Sunday’s ESPN2 televised webcast. In order to get there, players must be the last man standing at two six-handed tables. The triple shootout also featured $1,000 bounties for each player eliminated, rewarding those who were […]

Final Table Set At PCA Main Event

The final table is now set at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event. A total of 22 players returned to the ballroom at the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas and all eyes were set on Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker. The 2003 WSOP main event champion entered the day in second place, but a huge […]

ESPN To Air PCA on Saturday

On Saturday, ESPN will be broadcasting the main event final table from the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. The high-definition coverage will be shown with hole cards on a one-hour, unedited delay starting at 5 p.m. EST on ESPN3.com with ESPN2 joining in at 10 p.m. “For the first time viewers at home will see a poker […]

Full Tilt Poker Sit-Out-At-All-Tables Feature

In addition to the Full Tilt Poker launch of Multi–Entry Tournaments, the online site recently added a helpful feature for cash game players who multitable grind. The Full Tilt software now has an option to sit out at all tables and also to return to them all — with a single click. If you don’t […]

Early Success at WSOPC Choctaw

The first World Series of Poker Circuit event of 2011 is underway, playing for the first time outside a Harrah’s-affiliated property. The WSOPC debuted at the Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma on January 6, and attendance has been impressive so far. Bringing in players from across the Texas-Oklahoma region, the first ring event of […]

PokerStars Launches Online Home Games

PokerStars has announced the launch of its newest software, which allows anyone anywhere to take part in or set up their own home games online. Home Games online enable both the casual and professional poker player to create their own poker clubs and compete against friends, or indeed foes, in private cash games or tournaments […]

Full Tilt Poker Launches Multi-Entry Tournaments

Ever the innovator, Full Tilt Poker has launched an exciting and unique new feature called Multi–Entry Tournaments. The concept is simple – online poker players can register for the same tournament multiple times, effectively allowing them to multi-table the same tournament. Each tournament entry has its own chip stack and is dealt its own hands […]

PKR Mixes Poker With Martial Arts

PKR.com has announced its new, official gaming partnership with British Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) promoter, The British Association of Mixed Martial Arts (BAMMA). PKR’s branding will now be seen at all 2011 fights, and likewise, Bamma’s branding will be featured in the PKR poker rooms. Marketing Manager, Erika Schwartz Poole, said, “It is with great […]

Moneymaker and Marquez Lead PCA

There were 48 players when action began on day 4 at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event. Of those 48 players just two were woman, but by the end of the night, one of those female contenders sat at the top of the leader board. Spanish poker player Ana Marquez is the […]

PCA Q&A: Chris Moneymaker

Team PokerStars pro Chris Moneymaker has had a fantastic tournament here at the $10,000 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event. He started day 4 in the top five in chips and he ended the day with 3.765 million, just one spot off the lead. Card Player caught up with Moneymaker during one of the breaks in […]

Miriam Foundation Montreal Open

Full Tilt Poker is currently running satellites to the sixth annual Miriam Foundation Montreal Open — Canada’s largest televised charity poker tournament. The opening rounds of the tournament take place at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal between Mar. 27 and 30. The top 30 players will then compete on TV in Las Vegas for more […]

PCA: A Level with Mike Sowers

Follow along with all of the action from Day 2 at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event on the PokerStars blog feed. An old adage states that good things come to those who wait. That was certainly the case for Mike Sowers during the first level of play during day 4 at […]

Antonius Running Hot in Limit

Patrik Antonius and Kagome Kagome (formerly with the screen name IHateJuice) engaged in a nearly three-hour battle on the virtual felt Monday at their usual nosebleed stakes of $3,000-$6,000 limit hold’em on Full Tilt Poker. Antonius came out on top more than $400,000 and is in the black about $600,000 in the past week versus […]

Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Scales Back

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour seems to have been the victim of the fierce competition in the live poker market with the unveiling of the 2011 schedule highlighting a truncated jaunt around Britain. Both Brighton and Bolton have been dropped from the 2011 tour which scales to seven stops including the grand final in London. […]

Chris Oliver Leads PCA Main Event

With the top prize of $2.3 million up for grabs, you’d expect a deliberate and cautious approach from the players still remaining in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event. Instead, day 3 produced some of the wildest action seen on the tournament circuit in recent memory. A total of 173 players began the day, but […]

Q&A With PCA Main Event Chip Leader Adam Geyer

In 2008, tournament pro Adam Geyer was just two tables away from winning the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event. Instead, a bad beat at a crucial time saw his tournament run end in 15th place. Alexandre Gomes raised to 102,000 on the button and Geyer reraised to 350,000 from the small blind. Gomes called and […]

UB's 2011 TLB Competitions

UB and Absolute Poker are giving their players more reasons to compete in the 2011 tournament leader board (TLB) competitions. “We’ve revamped our entire leader board system for 2011 to even the playing field and give every player a shot at that huge cash,” Team UB’s Joe Sebok said in a press release. “With more […]

N.J. Approves E-Gaming Bill

On Monday, the New Jersey State Assembly approved a bill that would allow Atlantic City casinos to offer online gambling internationally and to state residents. New Jersey is looking to become the first US state to legalize and regulate online gaming. The bill, which was passed by the New Jersey Assembly Regulatory Oversight and Gaming […]

Caesars Hosts Winter Classic

Caesars Palace will debut its new Caesars Winter Poker Classic Tournament series January 17 through February 4 inside the Caesars Palace Poker Room. Tournament buy-ins for the 27 different events will range from as low as $120 up to $550 for the championship event. One special event on the schedule is the Oklahoma Johnny Hale […]

Entraction Enters Poker Market In China

Swedish gaming operator Entraction has announced its first business-to-business deal outside of Europe with an exclusive agreement to provide its poker software to a new Chinese gaming network. The new network is a joint venture between a Chinese and European company. It will develop a local gaming platform based on Entraction’s software. Peter Åström, chief […]

January 2011 Issue Of Card Player Europe Online Now

The January 2011 issue of Card Player Europe is now live and free to read online at Cardplayer.com. This issue features World Series of Poker main event champion Jonathan Duhamel, the paddypowerpoker.com Irish Winter Festival, World Series of Poker Europe champ James Bord, Monte Carlo millionaire Pieter de Korver, Daniel Negreanu’s near miss in Vienna […]

PKR Launches Asian Poker Tour Philippines Satellites

PKR.com has announced its satellite schedule for the Asian Poker Tour Philippines (APT) 2011, which runs from Mar. 30 to Apr. 3. Every second Monday, from Jan. 17, there will be packages worth up to $5,000 on offer in $200 + $15 buy-in final-stage qualifiers. Players can buy in to the final directly or get […]

PCA Main Event Day 2

Day 2 at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event saw the money bubble burst and many top professionals ascend to the top of the leader board. Team PokerStars pro Chris Moneymaker was one of those players and he ends the night with 650,500. The overall chip leader is Adam Geyer who holds […]

PCA Meet Your Chip Leaders: Jonathan Jaffee

Follow along with all of the action from Day 2 at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event on the PokerStars blog feed. “How did I first come to poker? Well I got kicked out of the house when I was 15 and I was on the streets and I needed to make […]