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Commerce To Hold Event For Traumatized Children

A group of celebrities will put their money where their hearts are and compete in the second annual Children’s Institute, Inc. Celebrity Poker Tournament on October 23 at the Commerce Casino, near downtown Los Angeles. Children’s Institute, Inc. has been serving at-risk children and families in the Los Angeles area since 1906. Last year’s charity […]

WSOP Circuit Hits Hammond, Indiana

The World Series of Poker returns to the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana today for what is expected to be a record-setting visit. Last year’s stop in Hammond featured the largest tournament field ever in a WSOP Circuit event, with nearly 1,500 players entering event No. 1. The trip to the Chicago area culminated with […]

Doubles Poker Championship Semifinal Airs Saturday

Two teams have already earned their spot in Full Tilt Poker’s Doubles Poker Championship finals, and this Saturday we’ll find out which other two teams will be a part of the final four and have a shot at the $1 million first place prize. The teams of Huck Seed – Allen Cunningham and Howard Lederer […]

CPTV's The Scoop: Scott Clements Part 1

Scott Clements 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 about his deep run in the 2010 World Series of Poker main event. “I think the main […]

World Poker Tour Returns To Marrakech in November

The World Poker Tour returns to Marrakech, Morocco from November 27 to 30 with a main event buy in of €4,250+€750 at Casino De Marrakech. Last year the event attracted 416 players from around the world and was won by Christophe Savary from France who won €379,014 and a $25,500 seat to the WPT Championship […]

PokerStars Hosts Regional Championships of Online Poker

PokerStars.com has launched the Regional Championships of Online Poker with 13 different geographically-targeted series’ between the end of October and mid-February 2011. First up is the Russia Open Championship of Online Poker from October 31 to November 7, followed by series’ for Nordic, Baltic, U.S., Canada, German, Asia Pacific, Mediterranean, UK & Ireland, Central & […]

Boylepoker.com International Poker Open Starts Today

Europe’s largest poker tournament, the Boylepoker.com International Poker Open, gets underway today in Dublin, Ireland with a prize pool of around €200,000 expected. Day 1B — Saturday October 16 — has filled up with 600 players while today’s day 1A is expected to attract over 600 players also. The €180 + €20 buy-in tournament has […]

Watch Live Updates From WPT Festa Al Lago Now

Follow live updates from the World Poker Tour Festa al Lago $10,000 main event today live from Bellagio. The World Poker Tour $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship event begins tomorrow, October 15 at noon PST at Bellagio. The event is the 12th on the schedule for the 2010 Festa al Lago Classic tournament series, which is […]

Full Tilt Brings Back Take 2 Promotion

On Friday, Full Tilt Poker will bring back its Take 2 promotion, which will give players with more modest bankrolls a chance to earn double Full Tilt Points (FTPs) and a $25 bonus. From Oct. 15-24, playing at two or more ring-game tables at the same time or any Rush Poker table during the Take […]

World Series of Poker Main Event Betting at Betfair

With the World Series of Poker main event final table just under a month away, UK betting exchange Betfair, has been taking bets on the outright winner. Unsurprisingly, chip leader Jonathan Duhamel in favourite to win at current odds of 13-5 while Michael Mizrachi is 7-1 and has taken over a third of all money […]

Poker Quiz: Playing a Small Pair Heads-Up

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 […]

2010 Foxwoods World Poker Finals Is Underway

The 2010 Foxwoods World Poker Finals began Monday and will continue through November 2 at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. Several events in a variety of games are on the schedule leading up to the 6-day World Poker Tour $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship starting on October 28. Last year’s World Poker Finals saw […]

Iraq Veteran Wins Latest Heartland Poker Tour Event

US Army Staff Sergeant Jason Fennell has been deployed to Iraq on four different occasions, but he was in an entirely different fight this past weekend as he became the newest champion of the Heartland Poker Tour. Fennell, of Chicago, took home $100,017 for his performance at the Downstream Casino Resort in Quapaw, OK. Here’s […]

Online Poker: Prahlad Friedman Running Hot

Although Prahlad “Prefontaine” Friedman doesn’t grind the nosebleed stakes in the online world, he has been one of the most consistent winners over the last couple months — and he continued his upswing this past week. Friedman has won more than $500,000 in October so far, thanks to winnings of more than $300,000 over the […]

Toni Judet Joins Team PokerStars Pro

PokerStars announced the signing of Romanian Toni Judet to Team PokerStars Pro yesterday. Judet has $701,854 in career tournament earnings. The highlights of his young career include a 22nd-place finish in the 2008 World Series of Poker main event, a win in the 2009 CAPT Bregenz Open main event for $141,245, and a victory in […]

EU Must Make Online Gambling ‘Legitimate’ Says MEP

The third Responsible Gaming Day is taking place at the European Parliament today and the audience has been hearing from gaming industry bosses and EU legislators. MEP Timothy Kirkhope, who is hosting the event, said, “This is a golden opportunity to begin to set in place a level playing field for a sector which is […]

World Poker Tour London Airs in UK Tonight

The recent World Poker Tour London Poker Classic hits the small screen tonight at midnight as Five in the UK begins its four-week coverage of the event. Two weeks of the run are devoted to the main event which took place at London’s Palm Beach Casino in early September with a £5,000 + £300 buy […]

WSOP C: Charles Moore Wins Main Event

The 2010 World Series of Poker Circuit $1,500 no-limit hold’em main event crowned a winner tonight on the shores of the Ohio River at the Horseshoe Casino in Southern Indiana. The 289 players that entered the tournament this year represented a huge bump from the 55 players that entered last time the WSOP Circuit pulled […]

UB Freerolls to WPT Five-Diamond World Poker Classic

UB is currently running freeroll qualifiers to the 2010 World Poker Tour Five-Diamond World Poker Classic main event in December. From Oct. 11 to Nov. 27, 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 Oct. 11 to Nov. 28. Any […]

Nick Schulman on MTV's World of Jenks

On Monday night, poker pro Nick Schulman was featured on MTV’s documentary style show World of Jenks. Andrew Jenks, the host and star of the series, follows around young people from the United States for a slice-of-life perspective from each subject. The 26-year-old Schulman was followed around for a rags-to-riches-to-rags story on the life of […]

PokerStars Partners With Belgian Casinos For Online Poker

PokerStars has partnered with Belgian casino operator, Circus Groupe, to launch a regulated online poker site in the country. The new site will be regulated by the Belgian Gaming Commission and complies fully with current Belgian law. Marketing Manager for PokerStars Benelux, Sander Siezen, said, “PokerStars and the Circus Groupe are logical partners. Namur Casino […]

WSOPE Champ James Bord Wins $247,000 in Marrakech

Young UK poker player James Bord is on quite a rush. Having won the World Series of Poker Europe main event in September he has just taken down the High Rollers event at the Marrakech Poker Cup. The $50,000 buy in event held at Casino de Marrakech, in the Moroccan capital netted Bord a cool […]

Ladbrokes Poker Revenue Down 27 Percent in Third Quarter

Yesterday’s interim management statement by Ladbrokes Plc, the UK’s largest bookmaker, indicated a continuing and significant decline in online poker revenue. The company, which operates Ladbrokes Poker, said, “Poker continues to be impacted by the industry-wide issues regarding liquidity in Europe compared to US facing sites and net revenue was down 27% over the prior […]

Final International Poker Open Online Satellite Tonight

Online poker players get their final chance tonight to qualify for this weekend’s Boylepoker.com International Poker Open in Dublin. The super satellite takes place at the site this evening, Tuesday October 12 at 20:15 BST and Boylepoker is guaranteeing two tickets worth €200 to the main event which gets underway on Friday October 15. The […]

WSOP Circuit: Southern Indiana Final Table Set

The final nine are set at the World Series of Poker Circuit $1,600 no-limit hold’em main event at the Horseshoe Casino in Southern Indiana. The final table will begin at 1 p.m. on Tuesday and Card Player will bring you full live coverage from the final table. Leading the way heading into the final table […]

Ziigmund Loses 800-Big-Blind Pot

Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies has been experiencing vicious swings over the past couple months, and a session late last week was a microcosm of his recent trend. On Full Tilt Poker last Thursday, Sahamies, who began last week by losing nearly $1 million to Tom “durrrr” Dwan, started a session at six-max pot-limit Omaha deep running […]

Full Tilt Doubles Poker Championship Update

Two teams have played their way into the final four of Full Tilt Poker’s Doubles Poker Championship on the Game Show Network. When the show debuted there were 32 players competing in 16 teams of two. The show’s doubles format requires teammates to alternate who is in control after every stage of a hand. Going […]

PokerStars Running Satellites to the USPC Main Event

PokerStars is currently running satellites to the 2010 United States Poker Championship (USPC) main event on Nov. 19. Qualifiers to the $5,250 buy-in main event start as low as just a few dollars, giving players with modest bankrolls a chance to compete. The USPC, which will take place at the Trump Taj Mahal resort in […]

Maxim Lykov Joins Team PokerStars Pro

An announcement was made on Friday to confirm that Maxim Lykov has joined the elite stable of players known as Team PokerStars Pro. The 22-year-old pro joins fellow Russian players such as Ivan Demidov, Alexander Kravchenko and Vadim Markushevski as representatives for their country. Lykov learned the game in 2005 while studying in Moscow. Since […]

OPOY Spotlight: Alex 'ags104' Santiago

The Card Player Online Player of the Year (OPOY) award honors the best tournament player across the major online sites in a given calendar year. Previous winners have included greats such as Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron, Alexander “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis and Steve “gboro780” Gross. Here, we take a look at one of the current top contenders. Alex […]