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Poker Domain Name Sells For $100,000

Online gambling site 888.com, one of the top offshore casinos, has bought web domain Poker.com.au for US$100,000 according to Smart Company and will use the address to direct people to “a seriously exciting new poker revolution” which is “coming soon”. The price however was lower than expected due to restrictive laws on advertising gambling in […]

Tobias Reinkemeier Leads PCA Super High Roller

The highly anticipated $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller event at the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure drew stacked field of 38 of the world’s best and on Saturday, one of those players will claim the $1.5 million first-place prize. With 250 big blinds and hour-long levels, many expected a slow grind and few early casualties. That […]

Prahlad Friedman Joins UB

On Thursday, UB announced that Prahlad “Spirit Rock” Friedman is now a Team UB Pro. Friedman’s signing comes less than a week after long-time representatives Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth parted ways with the online site. The 32-year-old’s career highlights include a win at the 2009 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker for $1,009,000, a […]

Rajkumar Takes Lead At PCA Super High Roller

You can catch all the action at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller event by following along with the live updates. Nick Schulman jumped out to an early lead at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller and held it for the better part of four levels before running into Vivek Rajkumar. Rajkumar had […]

A Level With Viktor Blom at PCA Super High Roller

You can catch all the action at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller event by following along with the live updates. Perhaps no other player has garnered more interest here at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure than Viktor Blom. The 20-year-old Swede is thought by many to be the online phenom Isildur1. Isildur1’s identity has […]

Full Tilt Aussie Millions Qualifier

On Saturday, Jan. 8 at 22:00 EST, Full Tilt Poker will run a qualifier to the 2011 Aussie Millions main event. The event this weekend is a no-limit hold’em super stack with a $600+$40 buy-in. Held at the Crown Casino in Melbourne starting Jan. 23, the Aussie Millions main event is one of the world’s […]

Changes in 2011 POY Scoring

Card Player will make two changes to the scoring criteria for the 2011 Player of the Year race. These changes will allow players to score points in two types of events that have become popular on the tournament trail. The first change states, “International events must have a buy-in of at least $500 USD, but […]

Nick Schulman Takes Early Lead at PCA Super High Roller

You can catch all the action at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller event by following along with the live updates. The Super High Roller event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is underway and leading the field is Nick Schulman, who was able to stack high stakes pro Koen “tuff_shark” Berendsen just 30 minutes […]

BigBetPoker.com Shuts Down

BigBetPoker.com, launched in early 2009, is shutting down and has requested players begin withdrawing any money they have at the site. Jay Parcells, head of poker at the site said, “Over the last two years, we gave poker our best shot but in the end determined that several factors made an early exit from the […]

Jungleman12 Leads Durrrr by $819,213

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Dan “jungleman12” Cates and Tom “durrrr” Dwan sat down on the virtual felt and recorded their longest session together in the nearly one-third completed Durrrr Challenge. The duo battled on Full Tilt Poker for more than six hours, engaging in almost 3,000 hands of intense $200-$400 no-limit hold’em […]

Full Tilt Sit-and-Go Madness

Full Tilt Poker will run its Super Sit-and-Go Madness promotion starting Friday, Jan. 7, at 16:00 EST. The online site will allow its players to win a share of more than $150,000 in cash and prizes, including entry to the $75,000 Super Madness Freeroll. Any interested player needs to play single-table sit-and-gos and super turbo […]

Hellmuth Discusses UB

Late last week, 11-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth confirmed month-old rumors that he was severing ties with UB. The news came just hours after the site reported that Annie Duke was also leaving the company. Many have speculated as to why Hellmuth decided to walk away from a nine-year relationship, but […]

Pilgrim Finishes Runner-Up in POY

Dwyte Pilgrim entered 2010 as one of the best poker players the casual fan had never heard of. A year earlier he had been a proven winner, but because much of his success came in lower buy-in preliminary tour events instead of the prestigious larger buy-in tournaments of the WSOP or the WPT, Pilgrim wasn’t […]

Mizzi Finishes Third in POY

Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi earned his way into the poker spotlight years ago as a regular winner of the major online tournaments. Though you can still find him going deep online, Mizzi has since brought his rare consistency into the live realm. The 24-year-old from Toronto spent 2010 going deep in tournament after tournament. In the […]

Analyst Suggests Ladbrokes/888 Deal Is Good Move

Michael Campbell, equity analyst at Daniel Stewart & Co has issued a note suggesting Ladbrokes discussion to buy 888.com “make sense”. It todays Morning Meeting Note from the company, Campbell said, “Firstly it gives LAD [brokes] a lot more scale in the online space, 2nd in Poker, 2nd in Casino, 2nd in Bingo but only […]

New Irish Poker Open €20 Rebuy Satellites Launched

As 2011 begins to unwind PaddyPowerPoker.com has launched a new route to this year’s Irish Open – the €20 + €2 rebuy with one ticket to the Irish Open guaranteed. The no-limit hold’em rebuy tournament takes place each Monday night at 8 p.m. GMT and all players who qualify via this route will be eligible […]

Live Tournaments -- January Preview

After an exciting year of poker in 2010, the New Year is underway and will waste little time breaking into some major tournament action. Numerous major tournaments will take place across the globe in January, but by far the two largest are the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and the Aussie Millions. Following what was a record-setting […]

UB Satellites to Canada Classic II

UB will be sending more than 20 players to the second annual Poker Pro Classic in Montreal later this month. The Poker Pro Canada Classic is Montreal’s biggest poker event — a $1,500+$150 buy-in no-limit hold‘em tournament at the Four Aces Poker Club on Jan. 27. Satellites will run at UB as follows: Sunday, Jan. […]

John Racener Finishes Fifth in POY Race

The 2010 Card Player Player of the Year race has come to a close, and following a couple of big finishes in November and December, 24-year-old John Racener earned 4,493 POY points to finish in fifth place in the rankings. Leading up to 2010, Racener had over $1.7 million tournament winnings and had established himself […]

Vanessa Selbst Finishes Fourth in POY Race

Despite spending a lot of time away from poker in 2009 to focus on her studies at Yale Law School, Vanessa Selbst showed little rust in 2010. The 26-year-old had the best poker year of her life, winning $2.8 million and 4,608 Card Player Player of the Year points, good enough for fourth place in […]

Betfair Poker LIVE! For London

Betfair Poker LIVE! makes its first trip to London next month hitting the Fox Poker Club in Soho in the English capital. The £230 +£20 main event takes place on Saturday Feb. 12 while the £30 + £3 turbo bounty side event takes place on Sunday Feb. 13. Qualification starts soon from just 55 cent […]

Poker After Dark Monday Night

The seventh season of Poker After Dark kicks off Monday night on NBC and viewers are in for a treat. The usual $20,000 buy-in has been increased to $100,000, which means that the winner will take home a $500,000 profit when all is said and done. The lineup for this week’s episodes include some of […]

PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Kicks Off At Noon

For the eighth straight year the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is on the calendar to start the poker year off in exciting fashion at the Atlantis Hotel and Resort in the Bahamas. All eyes will be on the $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event, running Jan. 8-15. Last year’s record-setting main event field reached 1,529 players and […]

He77_Razor 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: $1,893,200 Entrants: 9,466 1. He77_Razor — $270,353.82 2. stevemruk — $198,786 3. touchmynuts1 — $140,948.74 4. BacarySagna — $94,660 5. bigred2587 — $75,728 6. MorningBuzz — […]

Isildur1 Defeats Tony G

Team PokerStars Pro Isildur1 and poker veteran Antanas “Tony G” Guoga did battle on the virtual felt Sunday in the second installment of the PokerStars SuperStar Showdown. After a long fight featuring vicious swings, Isildur1 came out on top $44,820 after 2,500 hands of $50-$100 pot-limit Omaha and no-limit hold’em. The match was aggressive from […]

$70,000 Fish & Chips Points Race Begins at Betfair Poker

Betfair Poker’s $70,000 Fish & Chips Points Race kicks off today and will run until Jan. 24. Players at the site can win a share of the $70,000 prize pool and packages to Betfair Poker LIVE! London by choosing to opt in and play. Coming up shortly, on Jan. 10, there is the Fish & […]

New Year Poker Q and A -- James Akenhead

With the arrival of 2011, Card Player caught up with some of the big names on the international poker circuit to find out how their 2010 went and what they hope for in the New Year. Full Tilt Poker pro James Akenhead has had better years in poker, but is optimistic about the one ahead. […]

Taylor Paur Wins Online POY

It’s official. Taylor “ambiguosity” Paur is the 2010 Card Player Online Player of the Year. The race came down to the wire, but after the ball dropped Friday night, Paur was left with a record 11,030 points and the title. Paur had led down the homestretch, but was forced to withstand a late surge from […]

Euro Poker Year Review -- December 2010

Player of the Month: Gus Hansen completes a great year with victory in the Full Tilt Poker Million in London. Quote of the Month: Michael Piper realises he’s just thrown himself to the lions in the form of British comedian Jimmy Carr. “Oh fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. Really? Fuck! OK, my shoes are untied. God, […]

New Year's Poker Q and A -- Lex Veldhuis

Card Player caught up with some of the big names on the international poker circuit to find out about their best moments, best hands, and even their worst moments of 2010. On the first day of 2011, it’s Team PokerStars Pro player Lex Veldhuis turn to look back on his 2010, and forward to the […]