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Kozlov Wins 2010 ANZPT Melbourne TitleMartin Kozlov overcame significant deficits and dangerous competition on his way to claiming the 2010 ANZPT Melbourne main event title. In its seventh stop of season 2, the PokerStars-sponsored Australia and New Zealand Poker Tour hosted 310 main event entrants in the Crown Poker Room in Melbourne, Australia. The AU$2,700 buy-in created a prize pool […]
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Full Tilt Poker Signs British Heavyweight Boxer
Audley Harrison, world heavy weight boxing title contender, has been signed by Full Tilt Poker ahead of his title fight against David Haye in Manchester, England on November 13. The 38-year-old, who has cashed twice at the World Series of Poker as well as finishing second in the Bellagio Cup and third at the Venetian […]
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Mark Herm Wins PokerStars Sunday MillionWith the win, Mark “SHIPP ITT” Herm moves into the top 10 in the 2010 Card Player Online Player of the Year Race (OPOY). You can check out the final results for Sunday’s flagship events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, UB, Absolute Poker, Bodog and Cake below: PokerStars — Sunday Million Buy-In: $200+$15 Prize Pool: $1,532,200 […]
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Thomas Thang Wins Unibet Open Valencia
Dane Thomas Thang won the €1,500 + €150 buy in Unibet Open Valencia main event at the weekend taking down the £138,080 top prize for topping the 361-strong field in Spain. The short heads up battle saw Thang and Germany’s Andreas Hoffman get all their chips in pre-flop with the Dane holding 8-8 and Hoffman […]
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PKR London Calling Poker Festival Starts Today
PKR.com kicks off its month long poker festival, London Calling, today, Oct. 11, at The Fox Poker Club, London. The 28 days of poker festivities runs until Nov. 7 and will appeal to all wallet sizes with buy-ins ranging from £20 to £100. There will be a whopping 57 tournaments including no-limit hold’em, pot-limit Omaha, […]
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Russian Spy Anna Chapman Releases Poker AppRecently outed Russian spy, Anna Chapman, has lent her legend to a new iPhone poker application. Poker with Anna Chapman was developed by Zelda Inc. and costs $0.99 to download. Players are invited to “Feel the thrill of playing poker with Anna Chapman, the real-life Russian Bond girl! Find inside an exclusive collection of Anna’s […]
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Paul Foltyn Wins Grosvenor UK Poker Tour BrightonLeg seven of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour was won by Paul “Badpap” Foltyn at the weekend. The £1,000 + £70 buy in event attracted 160 runners to the G Casino on the southern English coast and Foltyn, who won the GUKPT grand final in 2008, entered the heads up dual with Jose Azorin as […]
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WSOP C: Southern Indiana Event BeginsThe second $1,500 main event final table for the 2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit tour will take place on Tuesday, October 12 and Card Player will be there to bring you all of the action from the final day. The full coverage will feature live updates, chip counts, and photos. You can check back […]
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Estonia Gets Legal Online Poker With PokerStars.ee LaunchPokerStars has been granted an operational license in Estonia and its new site, PokerStars.ee, is now live for Estonian players. The company, which also operates in the fully regulated and licensed EU states of France and Italy, received an activity license in the Baltic state in August this year. PokerStars director of marketing for the […]
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A Poker Life: John-Paul KellyJ.P. Kelly is a 24-year-old professional poker player from Aylesbury, just outside of London in the United Kingdom. As you might guess, Kelly’s life is up in the air as a U.K member of Team PokerStars pro who travels the world in search of the largest buy-in poker tournaments. “It maybe isn’t ideal, but that’s […]
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Glamour Model's Irish Winter Poker Festival Flash Game FunIn the spirit of British Carry On films and American auteur Russ Meyer, PaddyPowerPoker.com has launched a cheeky poker quiz game to celebrate the upcoming Irish Winter Festival. The short interactive flash game entitled Tell Tales features well-known British glamour model Kitty Lea. The scenario spelt out at the beginning of the game sets the […]
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WSOPE Bracelet Winner Scott Shelley Joins Team PKR
Twenty-four-year-old PKR employee Scott Shelley has been promoted from PKR Customer Services to Team PKR Pro after his World Series of Poker Europe bracelet win in London last month. Shelly has been a PKR employee for four years though has played poker for longer than that. He topped a field of 582 players to win […]
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Doubles Poker Championship Semifinals To Air SaturdayThe field of thirty-two players who participated in the first season of the Full Tilt Doubles Poker Championship on the Game Show Network (GSN) has been narrowed down to just 16 for the playoffs. GSN will air the first of two semifinal matches this Saturday at 9 p.m. Four pairs will compete against one another, […]
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ANZPT Melbourne Main Event Starts SaturdayThe Australia and New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) is in Melbourne, Australia and set to hold the AU$2,700 main event from October 9-11 at the Crown Casino. The PokerStars-sponsored main event will be capped at 450 players and run for three days. A year ago, a field of 218 players participated in the event, and […]
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POY Update: Major Movement in LondonThere have been a lot of changes in the Card Player Player of the Year standings during the last few weeks thanks to a flurry of tournaments that took place in London. Here is a look at the major POY movement and story lines that are currently shaping the race. Card Player Player of the […]
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Read CP Mag Online: Faraz JakaCardPlayer.com is loaded with news, videos, strategy, and other material special to the website, but don’t forget that you can also read Card Player magazine’s content online. Simply click on the “Magazine” link on the left side of the homepage, and you’ll be able to check out recent issues, which include in-depth features on poker’s […]
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CPTV's The Scoop: Tony Dunst Part 3Tony Dunst stops by for this week’s episode of The Scoop (sponsored by Full Tilt Poker) on Card Player TV. He continues his interview from part II last week. Check out his interview with Diego Cordovez and Adam Schoenfeld on Card Player TV, and you can hear about talking at the poker table and creating […]
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Holland To Open Up Online Poker Market
The Netherlands is finally set to dismantle its online gambling monopoly and open up its online poker market to foreign companies according to Dutch newspaper Telegraaf. Earlier this year a government commission recommended that online poker in the country be opened up to private operators, regulated and licensed. Currently only the Dutch lottery can offer […]
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World’s First iPad Compatible Poker Site Goes Live TodayThe world’s first Apple mobile device compatible real money poker site, Switchpoker.com, makes its debut today at 6 p.m. BST. Three-years in the making, Switchpoker.com allows online poker players to play real money poker on their iPads, iPods, and iPhones. The site is web-based, allowing players to simply sign up for an account and start […]
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Florida Poker Rooms See Mini-Boom Since Law ChangeIn case you haven’t noticed, there’s a poker surge going on in the state of Florida. Ever since the state government decided to lift a buy-in cap that restricted no-limit games to just $100, business has been, for the most part, booming. Since the July 1st law change, poker rooms at pari-mutuels are reporting an […]
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Unibet Poker Open Valencia Starts Today
Up to 350 poker players will descend on Casino CIRSA Valencia, Spain today to take part in the four-day €1,500 + €150 Unibet Open main event. The event is the penultimate leg of the Unibet tour which has so far stopped in Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic this year. The final stop on the […]
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Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Brighton Starts TomorrowThe Grosvenor UK Poker Tour has rolled into Brighton, England with the £1,000 + £70 main event getting underway tomorrow, Friday Oct. 8. The event at G Casino in the southern seaside town sees day one of the main event split into two flights, with play commencing at 12 noon for flight one and 6:30 […]
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Online Poker: PokerStars Turbo Takedown Retuns this MonthPokerStars is bringing back its Turbo Takedown promotion this month with a 3,000 Frequent Player Point (FPP) $1 million-guarantee event on Halloween. In addition to the chance to compete for a piece of the massive prize pool, the winner of the end-of-the-month event will take home a brand new Audi TT (or a choice of […]
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Poker Quiz: Playing a Pocket PairCard 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 […]
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Durrrr Up Nearly $1 Million in Past WeekAlthough Tom “durrrr” Dwan was one of the biggest losers in September, he has drastically reversed his fortunes so far in October. The 24-year-old Dwan sustained blows from multiple high-stakes foes last month. However, the downswing was largely due to falling behind almost $700,000 in the Durrrr Challenge with Dan “Jungleman12” Cates. While Dwan and […]
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2010 WPT Festa al Lago Classic Starts FridayThe World Poker Tour is set to return to the Bellagio on Friday for the Festa al Lago Classic. The WPT will be making its eighth stop of its ninth season with the Festa al Lago Classic, running from October 8-October 20. There are 16 official events on the schedule, but none bigger than the […]
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PokerStars Raises Over £20,000 For Cancer ResearchThe PokerStars EPT London charity event has shipped over £20,000 to Cancer Research UK. The tournament ran from October 2-4 at London’s Hilton Metropole Hotel. It had 646 entries, including re-buys, of the £120 buy-in. £10 of each buy-in was put aside to donate to cancer research. PokerStars players were also able to transfer funds […]
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PokerStars Announces Huge PCA ScheduleIn a press release on Tuesday, PokerStars announced the series schedule for the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure which will take place from Jan. 6-16 at the Atlantis Resort and Casino on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. A total of 47 events will run with an expected $25 million in prize money. In addition to the […]
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David Vamplew Does Remarkable Poker Double in LondonJust one day after his stunning victory in the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London main event, winner David Vamplew completed a remarkable double taking down the UK & Ireland Poker Tour Champion of Champions event. The made-for-TV one table tournament featured all the winners of season I UKIPT main events – EPT London doubled as […]
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Paradise Poker Revenue Sees Small Decline in 2010Sportingbet Plc today delivered solid figures for revenue generated from Paradise Poker to year-end July 31, 2010. Compared to many of its competitors, Paradise Poker registered just a small decline in gross gaming revenue of just 1.4 percent to £21.7 million in the 12 months to end-July 2010 compared to £22 million in the same […]
