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PokerStars EPT: Prague Day 2

Dirk Richter started Day 2 of the the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague main event as chip leader, and when the day came to an end he was still in the pole position. The German is one of 93 players to make it through the day, down from the 254 who started it. Richter ended […]

Tom Dwan Claws Back in Challenge

Early Wednesday morning Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Dan “jungleman12” Cates put in another session in the Durrrr Challenge. The two nosebleed regulars sat down at the virtual on Full Tilt Poker for some action at $200-$400 no-limit hold’em and ended up playing slightly more than 1,400 hands. Dwan finished the session up about $18,000, which […]

Matt Waxman Wins WSOP Circuit Main Event

Matthew ‘Poligraph’ Waxman has won the WSOP Circuit main event championship at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City. The 25-year-old Florida poker pro has found plenty of success online, including winning the FTOPS XIII Main Event in 2009 for $453,663, but Tuesday’s WSOP Circuit finish marked his first win in a major live tournament. The $117,797 first-place […]

UB Christmas Giveaway With Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho

UB is currently offering freerolls this holiday season in their Green Christmas Giveaway promotion, which is running now through Dec. 29. The online poker site is awarding seats to two of its most popular $200+$15 buy-in tournaments –- the $80,000 guaranteed Sniper on Wednesdays and the $200,000 guaranteed on Sunday. On every designated promotional day, […]

Alexey Zharko is PokerStars Russian Player Of The Year

PokerStars.com recently hosted its Russian Poker Awards 2010 in Kiev with Ukrainian player Alexey Zharko winning two awards — Best Russian Player of the Year and Breakthrough of the Year. Also picking up gongs for the fan voted awards were Konstantin Puchkov for Player of the Year and Dmitriy Stelmak for Internet Player of the […]

Aussie Millions Freerolls

Online players can win their seats to the 2011 Aussie Millions main event for free at Full Tilt Poker. A prize package can we won via a series of freeroll qualifiers, and round 1 of these freerolls is now running daily until Jan. 6. The prize package includes a seat in the main event, 11 […]

Red Sea Poker Cup Main Event Begins Today

The Red Sea Poker Cup 2010 €1,100 buy-in main event begins today at the Domina Coral Bay Hotel & Casino, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Players will sit down to 20,000 in chips and 60 minute levels at 4 p.m. (local time). The festival kicked off on Dec. 12 and will run until Dec. 18. The […]

PokerStars EPT: Prague Day 1B

Day 1B of the final PokerStars European Poker Tour main event of 2010 took place today in the capital city of the Czech Republic. The €5,300 no-limit hold’em EPT Prague main event attracted 372 players for the second day-one flight. One hundred and sixty-nine have made it through to day 2, and they will be […]

UB Freerolls to L.A. Poker Classic

UB is currently running freeroll qualifiers to the 2011 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic main event in February. From now until Feb. 19, UB is hosting six daily round-one freerolls Monday to Saturday. The top 100 finishers will qualify for the round-two freeroll each Sunday from Dec. 19 to Feb. 20. Any player who […]

WPT's Melanie Iglesias Named Maxim Hometown Hottie

The World Poker Tour’s own Melanie Iglesias has been named the 2010 winner of Maxim Magazine’s “Hometown Hotties” national model search. Iglesias is a member of the WPT’s Royal Flush Girls, a group of models who serve as the tour’s event ambassadors. Iglesias beat out thousands of contestants for the title and will appear in […]

Paddy Power Poker Releases Full Irish Open 2011 Schedule

PaddyPowerPoker.com has announced the full schedule for the Irish Open 2011 including a wide range of side events for all types of players. The festival kicks off on Apr. 21 and runs until Apr. 25 at the Burlington Hotel. The schedule features events such as a €750 + €75 pot-limit Omaha Championship, a €1,000 + […]

Betfair Poker Revenue Declines Since Ongame Move

Betfair Plc today announced its financial results for the six months from May to October 2011 and commented that poker revenue had decreased since the recent move to the Ongame network. While the company did not break down the figures to indicate the size of the fall it said, “Games growth has strengthened but poker […]

PokerStars EPT: Prague Day 1A

The final PokerStars European Poker Tour main event of 2010 began today in the capital city of the Czech Republic. The €5,300 no-limit hold’em EPT Prague main event attracted 191 players for the first day-one flight. Eighty-five have made it through to day 2, which will take place on Wednesday, December 15. This tournament attracted […]

Tom Dwan Fights Back in Durrrr Challenge

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 second installment of the Durrrr Challenge has been all […]

Karamalikis Wins APPT Grand Final

On Sunday, Jonathan “MONSTER_DONG” Karamalikis won the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Sydney Grand Final for $459,510 AUD. The online poker pro’s victory marks the fourth consecutive year an Aussie has won the APPT season finale. Karamalikis outlasted a field of 289 players and a final table that included Roland de Wolfe, Edward Sabat, and […]

Troopaloop10 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: $1,655,600 Entrants: 8,278 1. Troopaloop10 — $243,544 2. MILIANOS68 — $177,977 3. waynecoal — $124,170 4. Sirocko — $82,780 5. mapletrees — $66,224 6. ricestud — […]

Irishman Wins EMOP Poker Cruise

The top 16 players from this season’s European Masters of Poker (EMOP) went to battle on the Mexican Riviera between Dec. 5 and 12 for its final event of the year, the EMOP Master Cruise. It was Irishman John O’Shea who was crowned poker king of the seas, taking home the first prize of €12,500 […]

UK & Ireland Championship of Online Poker Main Event Today

Today is the last day of the PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Championship of Online Poker and it’s ending with a bang with a two-day $530 main event. The main event features a $150,000 guarantee, and will pause after level 24 to continue tomorrow. Eleven events of all kinds (including the main event) took place between […]

Mark Herm: Final Table Takedown

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! Mark Herm made online poker history on July 13, 2008 when he won two Sunday major tournaments on the same day. Shortly after taking down the Bodog […]

A Poker Life: Randal Flowers

When 18-year-old Randal Flowers started skipping class his senior year to hurry home and play the $100 rebuy on PokerStars, he realized that his priorities were changing. Like most high school seniors, Flowers was starting to think about his future. The difference was that his career was already taking off. Midway through his senior year […]

Gus Hansen Wins Full Tilt Million

Gus Hansen has won the FullTilt.com Poker Million IX in a year that has seen the pro also win his first World Series of Poker bracelet. Hansen beat Tony Bloom in a short heads up after the strongest final table in the tournament’s history which played out in London and was aired live on SKY […]

Egypt's Red Sea Poker Cup Festival Begins

The Red Sea Poker Cup 2010 kicks off this weekend at the Domina Coral Bay Hotel & Casino, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt and runs until Dec. 18. The festival’s highlights are the €1,100 buy-in main event and the €3,300 buy-in VIP event. The full schedule of events is: (all events are no-limit Texas hold’em) Sun. […]

Isildur1 Wins $300K Thursday

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. Isildur1 is back recording six-figure swings. Although the newest member […]

POY Update: Marchese Leads

Here is a look at current standings in the Card Player Player of the Year Race: 1: Thomas Marchese — 6,738 2: Dwyte Pilgrim — 5,576 3: Sorel Mizzi — 4,785 4: Vanessa Selbst — 4,608 5: John Racener — 4,493 6: Harrison Gimbel — 4,080 7: Jeffrey Papola — 3,870 8: Andy Frankenberger — […]

New Jersey Assembly Passes E-Gaming Bill

On Thursday, The New Jersey Assembly Regulatory Oversight and Gaming Committee passed a bill that would allow Atlantic City casinos to offer online gambling internationally and to state residents. New Jersey is now one step closer to becoming the first state to offer licensed, intra-state online gaming, after the State Senate passed bill S-490 by […]

Online Poker Not Part Of Tax Bill

The Internet Poker Act of 2010 will not be included in President Obama’s year-end tax bill, according to a spokesman for Senator Reid. Reid’s bill sought to legalize and regulate online poker in an effort to increase tax revenue at both the state and federal level, but including it in the tax bill was met […]

The Scoop: Matt Affleck Part II

Matt Affleck stops by for this week’s episode of The Scoop (sponsored by Full Tilt Poker) on Card Player TV. He continues interview from part I last week. Check out his interview with Diego Cordovez and Adam Schoenfeld on Card Player TV, and you can hear him continue to talk about his heart-breaking elimination in […]

PKR.com Launches Christmas Cracker Schedule

PKR.com has announced its seasonal spectacular tournament schedule, the Christmas Cracker, with $238,000 in prize money expected starting December 23. As well as cash prizes, players can win lots of cool gear in Santa’s Grotto Freeroll where the starting stack will be determined by how many other Christmas Cracker events the player takes part in. […]

FullTilt.com Poker Million IX Tonight

The FullTilt.com Poker Million IX takes place tonight in London and is broadcast live on SKY Sports 2 and HD2 at 7 p.m.. The line up was completed this week with the qualification of Gary Peniket from England. He’s joined by an array of big names including Patrik Antonius, Gus Hansen, Barny Boatman, Howard Lederer, […]

All In For Cerebral Palsy Saturday At Venetian

World Series of Poker main event champion Joe Cada and actress Cheryl Hines of Curb Your Enthusiasm will be playing host to the third annual All In For Cerebral Palsy celebrity charity invitational poker tournament Saturday, Dec. 11 at the Venetian in Las Vegas. The $540 buy-in with unlimited $200 rebuys tournament will benefit the […]