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wasaberga 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: $1,730,600 Entrants: 8,653 1. wasaberga — $211,181* 2. eman1126 — $164,583* 3. Jude “j.thaddeus” Ainsworth — $194,646* 4. patasss — $86,530 5. WSOP_143 — $69,224 6. […]

All Inbox: Cheong Explains WSOP Play Against Duhamel

Joseph Cheong was already an accomplished online tournament pro before making the final table of the 2010 World Series of Poker main event, but his appearance as a member of the November Nine would no doubt be a life-changing experience for the 24-year-old. Cheong entered poker’s biggest stage and put on a clinic with fearless […]

Head Games: Playing From The Blinds

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! Sometimes it’s hard to get a straight answer from a professional poker player. Ask three players a question, and you’re liable to get three different answers. Why? […]

Richard Campbell Joins Boylepoker's Team of Pros

Richard Campbell has become Boylepoker.com’s latest sponsored player after winning the site’s Be Our Sponsored Pro competition and its $10,000 sponsorship package. He now joins the likes of Marty Smyth, Nicky Power, and John O’Shea in representing the site on international felt. Online qualifiers were followed by a live ninehanded single table final held in […]

World Poker Tour Marrakech Underway

The World Poker Tour Marrakech main event got underway at the weekend saw 222 players pony up the €5,000 buy in at the Casino De Marrakech in the Moroccan capital. The number was significantly down on last year’s turn out of 416. Eighty-five players return today for day two of the event which will see […]

Leon Bui Wins Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final

Leon Bui was crowned the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final main event champion after topping a field of 207 including his heads-up opponent Nicolas Irving for the first prize of £144,905 plus a seat in the Champion of Champions tournament. When the final two went heads up, Bui held 3.4 million and Nicolas Irving […]

Kent Lundmark Wins PokerStars EPT Barcelona

Kent Lundmark topped a 758-player field at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona to become the sixth Swedish EPT champion. The 22-year-old’s final obstacle was Spain’s Jesus Marquez Lizano as the two went head-to-head for the last stand with 12 million in chips each. An hour and 20 minutes later, Lundmark walked away from the […]

Battle to Find Champ at Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Final

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final main event will find its final table today. Lee Song leads 12 remaining players on the ultimate day of the £2,500 + £125 buy-in event, which is taking place at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London. Chip Counts Lee Song 796,000 Nicolas Irving 637,000 Martin Green 595,000 Leon […]

$100 Card Player Freeroll At Betfair Poker Today

Card Player Europe and BetfairPoker.com 
team up today at 12.00 CET (11 a.m GMT) for the second in our series of freerolls for online poker players. This tournament is a $100 freeroll which will pay out the top 15 players in a flat payout structure. Existing Betfair players had to generate five player points (approx […]

Poker Quiz: Playing an Overpair

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 […]

Qualify for Full Tilt Poker España Grand Final Quick

With December well and truly on its way, players are swiftly running out of chances to win a $5,200 prize package to the Full Tilt Poker España Grand Final 2010. On Sunday at 3.45 p.m. ET (9.45 p.m. CET) there is a $500 + $35 buy-in event with three $5,200 prize packages guaranteed, and on […]

Irish Open Seats are Cheap at Paddy Power Poker

Qualification for the Irish Open 2011 is well up and running at PaddyPowerPoker.com. Tomorrow evening, and every Sunday, at 8 p.m. there is a €200 + €20 buy-in event with an Irish Open package worth €4,600 up for grabs. The winner of this tournament also qualifies for the €100,000 Sole Survivor competition. The chance to […]

European Poker Tour Barcelona: Day 4

Young German Giuseppe Pantaleo started day 4 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona in the lead, and ended it the same way. He had to make it through 16 players, and did so with ease, as did 2010 World Series of Poker bracelet winner Konstantin Puchkov who is sitting second in chips on the […]

David Benefield Picks Off Bluff for 100K

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 biggest pot this past week occurred during a Friday […]

Full Tilt Poker Rush Week

Full Tilt Poker is offering its players a special incentive to play Rush Poker next week. Rush Week, running from Monday, Nov. 29 to Sunday, Dec. 5, will give players the chance to accumulate enough Full Tilt Points by playing Rush Poker ring games, sit-and-gos, and tournaments during the seven day promotion to earn up […]

PKR.com Wins Poker Operator Of The Year Award

PKR.com has won its second major gong of the year lifting the E-Gaming Review Poker Operator Of The Year award in London on Wednesday night. Beating off competition in the form of Party Gaming, 888, and William Hill the EGR award now site proudly in the PKR trophy cabinet next to the IGA silverware it […]

Mediterranean Poker Cup Main Event Starts Today

The Mediterranean Poker Cup main event begins in Cyprus today. The three-day $2,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event has a guaranteed prize pool of $400,000 and is the culmination of a week-long festival on the Mediterranean island which included two $1,100 buy-in events and a which will see a $5,300 VIP event tomorrow. Following the […]

European Poker Tour Barcelona: Day 3

Day 3 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona saw 112 players become 24 as the race continues towards the €825,000 top prize. The day was filled with highs and lows for many familiar faces, and as it progressed the field changed drastically. While big names plummeted towards the rail, German PokerStars qualifier Giuseppe Pantaleo […]

Five Diamond World Poker Classic Begins

One of the final large poker tournament series of the year will begin on Friday, November 26 at Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Five Diamond World Poker Classic tournament series will feature a total of 17 tournaments and the World Poker Tour $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship event will run from December 3-8. Card Player’s […]

Eastgate Bracelet Auctions For $147,500

The auction for the bracelet of former World Series of Poker main-event champion Peter Eastgate reached six-figures Tuesday on the auction site eBay. By Thursday morning, after 116 bids, the auction was closed. The winning bid of $147,500 went to “7***l,” whose identity is protected by eBay privacy rules. That bid came in at 5:38 […]

Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Final Main Event Starts Today

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final main event kicks off today and will run for four days (including two starting days). The £2,500 + £125 buy-in event is taking place at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London, and has a maximum capacity of 200 on each starting day. Players will sit down at 2 […]

Full Tilt Poker Baltic Challenge Satellites Underway

Online qualification for the FullTiltPoker.com Baltic Challenge is underway at the site. The event, which will feature a secret Full Tilt pro along with online qualifiers from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, is the first ever televised tournament in the Baltic States and has a prize pool of €150,000. The event consists of two tournament series […]

European Poker Tour Barcelona: Day 2

Day 2 has come to an end at the PokerStars EPT Barcelona main event, and sitting atop the leaderboard is American Bryn Kenney. A little more than 400 of the 758 players who entered the event survived days 1A and 1B to make their way to today’s day 2 action. After another 7 levels of […]

WSOP Circuit Harveys Lake Tahoe: Stanley Quinn Wins

For the past two weeks Harveys Lake Tahoe has been home to the World Series of Poker Circuit. Of the 33 circuit events that took place, none were bigger than the $1,600 buy-in main event that kicked off on Sunday. A prize pool of $354,240 was created by the 246 entrants, with $86,789 going to […]

Jonathan Duhamel's PCA Promotion

PokerStars is giving its players a chance to win a trip to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January with 2010 World Series of Poker main event champion Jonathan Duhamel. The opportunity is thanks to the Jonathan Duhamel’s Caribbean Adventure promotion. Online poker freerolls are currently running daily to put players one step closer to the […]

Patrik Antonius Dominates Limit Hold'em

One of the biggest games this past week occurred at the limit hold’em tables. Unlike the usual fireworks at no-limit hold’em or pot-limit Omaha, $2,000-$4,000 limit at Full Tilt Poker over the past seven days was the home to some massive swings. Patrik Antonius and unknown IHateJuice continued to battle at the highest stakes offered […]

Paradise Poker Revenue Down 17 Percent

Sportingbet Plc, owner of Paradise Poker, saw net poker rake down 17 percent to £3.5 million in the first period of its 2010/2011 financial year (Aug. to Oct. 2010) from £4.2 million in the same period last year. In financial year 2010 the company performed well in the context of declining revenues across the European […]

Victor Chandler Poker Joins Entraction Network

Victor Chandler Poker, launched in 2002 and boasting a database of one million online poker players, is to leave the iPoker network and join Swedish-based Entraction. The migration of software and players will take place in December 2010. Andy Horne, head of poker, at Victor Chandler International, said, “Entraction’s commitment to development of the poker […]

European Poker Tour Barcelona: Day 1B

The PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona €5,300 no-limit hold’em main event posted another strong attendance showing today in Spain with 495 players in the mix. This pumped the size of the field to 758 players overall and created a total prize pool worth €3,790,000. The attendance today actually surpassed the size of the total tournament […]

WSOP Circuit Adds Two More Stops

The World Series of Poker Circuit Tour has added its final two stops to the 2010-11 schedule –- Palm Beach, Florida and Chester, Pennsylvania. Both stops will occur in 2011. The Palm Beach events will run from Feb. 17 to March 1, and the Chester events are scheduled for April 28 to May 9. The […]