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New Jersey Senate Passes E-Gaming Bill

The state of New Jersey is now one step closer to becoming the first state to offer licensed, intra-state online gaming after the State Senate voted Monday to pass bill S-490. The bill, which allows Atlantic City casinos to offer online gambling internationally and to state residents, passed by the overwhelming majority of 29-5. Now […]

UB Pro Bounty Madness Tonight

UB will host its Pro Bounty poker tournament tonight with the $120+10 buy-in $25,000-guaranteed Sniper tournament at 9 p.m. EST. There will be a bounty, with a value of $215, on the head of Team UB Pro “Hollywood” Dave Stann. “Nothing this bad boy likes more than a good ol’ fashioned sniper tourney! Kinda levels […]

Poker After Dark Extended Until 2014

POKER PROductions has announced that they have reached an agreement with NBC Universal to continue Poker After Dark through the year 2014. The seventh season of the popular late-night poker program recently wrapped up filming at the Aria Resort and Casino in City Center and will be airing on NBC starting the week of Jan. […]

Ahmed Harajli Wins HPT Main Event at Soaring Eagle

A number of familiar poker pros took their seats at the latest Heartland Poker Tour championship event in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. As the field narrowed, a couple of them even found their way to the final table. But it was Ahmed Harajli who took down the title Sunday night, winning $176,865 and the HPT Championship […]

New Euro Events Added to 2011 World Poker Tour Schedule

Two European televised tournaments have been added to the World Poker Tour schedule for 2011, as well as the first WPT National Series event. WPT Venice will take place at the Casino de Venezia from Feb. 3-9 featuring a €3000 + €300 buy-in main event (Feb. 3-8) and a €10,000 High Roller event (7-9). WPT […]

Nik Persaud Wins World Heads Up Poker Championship

Nik Persaud last night won the World Heads Up Poker Championship at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London. Persaud, a co-founder of Black Belt Poker with Neil Channing, topped the 28-strong field in the £2,000 + £200 buy –in event to take home £30,000. He beat Leon Louis heads up with final hand seeing the […]

European Poker Tour Barcelona: Day 1A

The PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) kicked off its €5,300 main event in Barcelona today with 263 players hitting the felt for day 1A action. And there was plenty of action from the start, as the field was nearly cut in half with 137 players remaining at the day’s end. 2009 EPT Barcelona champion Carter […]

FTOPS XVIII Concludes With Main Event

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) XVIII ended early Monday morning with the conclusion of the $600+$40 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event. Unknown JHoWn outlasted 5,023 players to win $411,932 after a three-way deal. The FTOPS XVIII main event had a guaranteed prize pool of $3 million, and the tournament surpassed the mark by […]

Ho Ho Hold'em Kicks Off At The Bike

The Ho Ho Hold’em Tournament Series kicks off today at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California. Twenty-one events are set to be played Nov. 22 through Dec. 12. with buy-ins ranging from $50 to $200. Tournaments will be held in no-limit hold’em, stud H/L, Omaha H/L, and H.O.R.S.E. Monday’s kickoff tournament is a $100 […]

RICOFELIZ 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: $1,715,000 Entrants: 8,575 1. RICOFELIZ — $252,277 2. musicom — $184,363 3. j_t_s80 — $128,625 4. DuggerGerngy — $85,750 5. alex987 — $68,600 6. onealtiseven — […]

Italian Wins European Masters of Poker Malta

The European Masters of Poker Malta main event was won by Simone Lombardo after he beat 240 other players including heads-up opponent Mathias Fricke. The Italian received €63,000 for his victory in the €1,500 + €150 buy-in main event as a deal was made heads up which meant that Fricke would walk away from the […]

World Heads Up Poker Champion 2010 Crowned Later Today

The quarter finals of the £2,000 + £200 no-limit hold’em World Heads-Up Poker Championship took place yesterday. Jeff Kimber beat Richard Gryko, Nik Persaud beat Victoria Coren, Toby Lewis beat Marius Torbeggien, and Leon Louis defeated last year’s champion Bambos Xanthos. Leon Louis is now waiting to play the winner of the second semi-final between […]

Mediterranean Poker Cup Begins Today

The Mediterranean Poker Cup begins in Cyprus today and will run until Nov. 28. The festival features a three-day $2,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event starting on Nov. 26, with a guaranteed prize pool of $400,000. Until then, there are many side events and satellites taking place. The complete tournament schedule for the festival is: […]

OPOY Spotlight: James Carroll

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. Just […]

Irish Poker Open Package Up for Grabs Tonight

An Irish Open 2011 package worth €4,600 is up for grabs tonight at PaddyPowerPoker.com. The €200 + €20 buy-in event kicks off at 8 p.m. (every Sunday) and one lucky player will not only walk away with the package, but will also get the chance to qualify for the €100,000 Sole Survivor competition. There are […]

A Poker Life: David Peters

Poker pro David “dpeters17” Peters has finally had his breakout year. The 23-year-old Ohio native has racked up a massive $1,392,411 in earnings in 2010, helping to cement his status in the online poker world and on the live circuit after having a consistent record over the past few years. Peters is fresh off a […]

Full Tilt Announces Rush Poker Mobile

Full Tilt Poker has announced the open beta release of Rush Poker* Mobile. Full Tilt’s revolutionary poker format is now available to all players on the go using mobile devices running Flash v10.1 or higher. The mobile version features both real money and play money tables, and Android users will also be able to download […]

Microsoft and Full Tilt Poker Crossover

Heaven Media and Full Tilt Poker have come together to launch the Full Tilt Poker Challenge, a competition which consists of a combination of the highest profile esports tournaments. The Challenge will run on European esports cups website, Esports Heaven, and there will be a prize fund of €6,000 in cash across four events ⎯ […]

POY Update: Selbst and Duhamel Join Top 10

Thomas Marchese was able to increase his lead in the Card Player Player of the Year race slightly this week with a a fifth-place finish in the $5,000 PokerStars North American Poker Tour bounty shootout event to add 160 points to this total. He now holds 6,486 points overall, but a number of contenders have […]

Eric Baldwin Wins NAPT Bounty Shootout

The online poker site sponsored North American Poker Tour $5,250 Bounty Shootout wrapped up Thursday with Eric “Basebaldy” Baldwin winning the final table and the top prize of $134,280. Action kicked off Tuesday at the Crystal Casino in Compton, CA., with 81 players taking their seats at nine tables. The winner of each table earned […]

Soi Nguyen Wins His Own FTOPS Event

Even though he was known as the only rank amateur at the World Series of Poker main event final table, Soi Nguyen certainly played like a professional in a recent Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) XVIII event. Nguyen bested a field of 1,841 in a no-limit hold’em Rush tournament to collect a first-place prize […]

The Scoop: David Oppenheim Part 3

David Oppenheim 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 Oppenheim candidly talk about the biggest downswing of […]

Poker Veteran Thor Hansen Reveals Autobiography

Thor Hansen, the two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner from Norway has published a revealing autobiography in his homeland. Despite living in the U.S. for many years, poker legend Hansen has yet to see his book translated into English, but the clamour for a tale which includes smuggling, robbery, murder, gambling addiction, and sex […]

Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final Festival Underway

The final stop of this season’s Grosvenor UK Poker Tour is underway at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London with eight side events and the grand final main event remaining from today. All events are no-limit hold’em except today’s pot-limit Omaha double chance tournament while the grand final, won last year by Tony Cascarino, sees an […]

UB Partners with the Global Poker League

Last week UB signed on as official sponsor of GPLnow.com, home of the Global Poker League and the World Cup of Poker. The GPL partnership gives UB players access to a worldwide community of poker players. For the next six months, GPL players who register through UB can join the sit-and-go action at 19 designated […]

European Poker Tour Heading To Barcelona

The European Poker Tour is set to make its return to Spain next week for EPT Barcelona. On this stop of season 7, the PokerStars-sponsored EPT will take to Casino Barcelona from November 21-27. The schedule consists of 20 events played in no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha. Turbos, bounties, heads up, and deepstack events are […]

New Zealand TV Stations Lose Poker Ad Appeal

The New Zealand High Court has dismissed an appeal by TV Works, owner of TV3 and C4, over ads promoting the Asia Pacific Poker Tour. According to Stuff.co.nz, Justice Ron Young ruled that the ads were defined as gambling under the Gambling Act and ruled in favour of the Department of Internal Affairs which was […]

Daily Irish Poker Open Qualifiers From €2 Launched

Qualification for the Irish Open 2011 begins to ramp up at paddypowerpoker.com with the launch of The Cheap Seats promotion. Online poker players can qualify for a fortnightly grand final each Wednesday at 8 p.m. starting December 1 through daily Cheap Seats re-buy tournaments for €2 and €4 at 8:15 p.m. and 9 p.m. respectively. […]

PokerStars NAPT: Joe Tehan Wins LA Main Event

When the final table of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour Los Angeles $5,000 no-limit hold’em main event began it appeared that a heads-up showdown between chip leader Christopher DeMaci and Team PokerStars pro Jason Mercier was imminent. Joe Tehan had other ideas though, and by the end of the night he had eliminated both […]

Read CP Mag Online: WCOOP Rundown

CardPlayer.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 […]