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Christmas Cracker Keeps Giving at PKR

The Christmas Cracker continues at PKR.com with more fun, daily events such as four, six, and tenhanded hold’em tournaments, deep stacks, terminators, and lots more, including Santa’s Grotto freeroll. This special freeroll takes place on Sunday, Jan. 9, so to be in with a chance of winning 40” LCD TV’s, Nintendos Wii, iPads, and so […]

Christmas Poker Q and A -- Fatima Moreira de Melo

As the new year approaches, 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 2011. Fatima Moreira de Melo is a relatively new member of Team PokerStars SportStars after turning her attention from the top rungs […]

Euro Poker Year Review -- June 2010

Player of the Month: James “Flushy” Dempsey won event no. 9 at the World Series of Poker and followed it up with a second place finish to Sammy Farha in the world championship Omaha eight or better event. Quote of the Month: Sammy Farha after his bracelet victory – “I am not competing for bracelets,” […]

Taylor Paur Leads OPOY Race

There’s only a week’s worth of results left to enter for the 2010 Card Player Online Player of the Year race, but the overall winner is far from determined. Taylor “ambiguosity” Paur currently holds a 840-lead over the rest of the competition, but a deep finish in any of the Sunday majors would allow anyone […]

Euro Poker Year Review -- May 2010

Player of the Month: Ahead of her first trip to play the World Series of Poker (after turning 21) Annette Obrestad won most of her expenses, $87,000, online after taking down the PokerStars Sunday 500 . Quote of the Month: Roy Brindley on flawed hindsight in poker decision making . “According to a recent paper […]

Christmas Special Poker Q and A -- Jason Mercier

As the new year approaches, 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 2011. Team PokerStars Pro member Jason Mercier extended his results list even further this year with some very juicy 2010 scores including […]

Super Turbo Christmas At Paddy Power Poker Today

PaddyPowerPoker.com is offering a set of Super Duper Turbo Tournaments today Sunday December 26 and every day over the holidays until January 2, 2011. The freewheeling Irish bookmaker is also throwing in a free €10 bet in its sportsbook to the winner of each tournament.

 There are seven tournaments each day from 16:30 GMT to […]

Euro Poker Year Review -- April 2010

Player of the Month: Soren Eriksen from Denmark won his second New Zealand Poker Championship on the trot. Quote of the Month: Author James McManus on the most interesting story his research turned up for his book Cowboys Full – The Story of Poker. “The extent to which poker logic was deployed by the leaders […]

Boylepoker Charity Freeroll Tonight

Boylepoker.com hosts a charity freeroll tonight December 26 at 16:00 GMT. The winner will take down $5,000 in cash, as well as an additional $5,000 which they can donate to a charity from a list including: 1: Huruma Children’s Home and School 2: International Children’s Fund 3: Doctors without Borders 4: The Nature Conservancy 5: […]

The Scoop: David Baker Part I

David Baker 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 win in the World Series of Poker deuce-to-seven no-limit lowball event. Baker discusses […]

WSOP Announces 2011 Dates

The 42nd Annual World Series of Poker has announced the dates that it will run in 2011. Beginning on Tuesday, May 31, the WSOP returns to the familiar Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino for 50 days of poker, concluding on Tuesday, July 19. One change in 2011 will be the inclusion of hard stop […]

Young Russian Wins Red Sea Poker Cup

Young Russian Aleksandr Yasnogorodsky won the €1,100 buy-in Red Sea Poker Cup main event last weekend, beating 86 other players to the €26,400 top prize. Yasnogorodsky’s final opponent was also from Russia, as were all the final-table players, apart from the fifth-place finisher, Potemkin from Belarus. In the ultimate hand, Roman Shugrin’s pocket deuces were […]

Euro Poker Year Review -- March 2010

Player of the Month: Card Player Netherlands editor Anton Pieter Wink takes down the Unibet Open Budapest. Quote of the Month: Padraig Parkinson on the European Poker Awards — “John Lennon once described the Eurovision Song Contest as a night out for middle-aged pop fans. If he’d lived and got into poker, I’d love to […]

Plans to Ban Online Poker Delayed in Cyprus

Cyprus will have to wait until March 2011 to find out the feedback from its proposed legislation to ban online poker, slot machines, and casino games, which legislators have estimated to have a turnover of 2.5 billion euro per year. According to Reuters, the draft legislation, which excludes online sports betting, calls for a licensing […]

PokerStars Macau 2011 Calendar

PokerStars Macau at the Casino Grand Lisboa has announced its schedule for the upcoming year, and it looks like there will be plenty of poker on the 2011 calendar for contiental Asia’s largest poker room. From February 21-27, PokerStars Macau will host the Macau Poker Cup Series. Its Red Dragon main event has seen more […]

Borgata Winter Open Schedule

The sixth annual Borgata Winter Poker Open will kick off in Atlantic City on January 19 and run through February 4. A total of 26 events are scheduled with buy-ins as low as $170. But all eyes will be on the $3,300 buy-in no limit hold’em championship event running January 30-February 4. The event features […]

Festive Freeroll at Victor Chandler Poker Tonight

As part of Victor Chandler Poker’s ongoing celebrations surrounding its move to the Entraction network, there is a €1,000 Festive Freeroll at the site this evening at 9 p.m. (CET). The entrance fee is just 1 VIP point, and this sole point must have been earned in the 48 hours before the start of the […]

Euro Poker Year Review -- February 2010

Player of the Month: David Benyamine for his victory in the PartyPoker.com Premier League. Quote of the Month: Padraig Parkinson refutes any suggestion that Devilfish could be a criminal mastermind — “Firstly, between playing poker and partying, the man barely has time to sleep, let alone look after a criminal empire. Secondly, if you’ve ever […]

Chris Bell Wins at WSOP Circuit

The 2010 World Series of Poker Circuit Northeast Regional Champion is none other than poker veteran Chris Bell from Raleigh, North Carolina. Bell outlasted a top-notch final table that included Micah Raskin, Todd Terry, Nick Mitchell, Andy Frankenberger and his eventual heads-up opponent, Chris Klodnicki. It was a long and grueling final table with seven […]

Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies Returns To Action

After a few weeks off from the nosebleed stakes in the online world, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies is back playing six-figure pots. In late November the Finnish pro said he was taking a short break from the game. On Tuesday, the high-stakes regular put in a two-hour session of $300-$600 pot-limit Omaha on Full Tilt Poker. […]

Brad Daugherty's WSOP Main Event Bracelet on eBay

The bidding for the 1991 World Series of Poker main event bracelet of Brad Daugherty ended this past Sunday on the auction site eBay. The closing bid was $30,100, however the undisclosed reserved price was not met, and the item was not sold. Daugherty’s 14-karat gold piece of jewelry, which has his first name engraved […]

PokerStars LAPT Announces Season 4

The PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour has announced it will return for a fourth season, and its schedule will include a new destination — Colombia’s largest city, Bogota. Also announced were returns to the familiar venues in Brazil, Chile, Peru and Argentina. Season 4 will also introduce the LAPT Player of the Year awards to […]

UB Online Championship Scheduled For January

The UB Online Championship (UBOC) is back. The series, which will run from Jan. 16-30, will feature $5 million in prize money across 29 events. 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 new events […]

Devilfish Poker Sold To The Weather Lottery

The Weather Lottery today announced it has agreed to acquire Devilfish Poker, the trading entity owned by Devilfish Gaming Plc. The Weather Lottery is listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market and will pay £40,000 in cash and £290,000 in shares for Devilfish Poker. The Weather Lottery chairman Lord Razzall, said, “Devil Fish Poker has an […]

Dag Palovic Joins Team PokerStars Pro

Dag Palovic from Slovakia has joined Team PokerStars Pro. The two-time PokerStars.com European Poker Tour finalist joins Martin Hruby among the ranks of the PokerStars sponsored pros. Palovic recently lost a heads up prop bet to Hungarian Hruby and will now dye his hair with the PokerStars logo for an upcoming EPT. Palovic finished 37th […]

Euro Poker Year Review – January 2010

Player of the Month: Harrison Gimble wins $2.2 million. Quote of the Month: Mad Marty Wilson regaling players at a TV tournament — “I spoke about my grandma, the Guinness Book of Records, Lou Macari, and my sheepskin coat. Just as the door opened with the money coming in, I gave six players the punch […]

WSOP Circuit: East Regional Day 3

Day 3 at the 2010 World Series of Poker Circuit Eastern Regional Championship was filled with great story lines. Some of them ended on the way to the final table, while others still have a couple of chapters left to be written at tomorrow’s final table. This tournament that serves as a period at the […]

ESPN Same-Day PCA Coverage

One of the biggest poker events to start the new year is the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, and ESPN will be there to broadcast the final table of its $10,000 main event, showing hole cards on a one-hour delay. The main event final table will take place on January 15 at the Atlantis Hotel and […]

Rounders Sequel to be Made

This past Thursday, Miramax and The Weinstein Company announced an agreement to create sequels to some of Miramax’s properties. The deal includes the long anticipated sequel to the cult classic Rounders, according to a press release on Miramax’s website. Harvey and Bob Weinstein left Miramax — the company they had founded in 1979 — and […]

Markus Stoeger Wins Betfair Poker LIVE! Vienna

Austrian Markus Stoeger has won the £250 buy in Betfair Poker Live! Vienna main event. The tournament attracted 595 players to the Montesino Pokertainment Centre in the Austrian capital. Stoeger overcame a 3-1 chip disadvantage against fellow countryman Christian Kern with the decisive hand seeing both players all in pre-flop with Kern holding A Q, […]