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CPsocial Poker Blogs of the Week -- Sept. 7, 2010

With CPsocial — CardPlayer.com’s free community — members can track their poker stats, comment on our stories and videos, make member profiles — and blog! What’s more, we recently updated CPsocial to allow members to follow other members, so if you like a particular blogger or want to follow someone’s comments around the site, just […]

OPOY Spotlight: Mickey 'Mement_mori' Petersen

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. Mickey […]

WCOOP: Jamie Kaplan Wins Big in Event No. 6

The second day of action at the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) ended up affecting the top two spots in the Card Player Online Player of the Year race. In event no. 6, Jamie “Xaston” Kaplan beat Raj “BadcardsAA” Vohra heads up for the bracelet and a $213,986. Vohra, who earned $156,528, picked […]

Swiss Federal Council Upholds Poker Ban

Switzerland will continue to outlaw poker tournaments held outside casinos according to World Radio Switzerland. The Federal Council has upheld an earlier Supreme Court ruling which viewed poker as a game of luck which, as such, could not be played outside a casino environment. This ruling was criticized by the International Federation of Poker. Councillors […]

WCOOP: David 'CrabMaki' Shallow Wins High Roller Event

The first day of the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is officially in the books and by all accounts it was a tremendous success. The three events combined to surpass their guarantees by over $2 million. The highlight of the day came in the $10,000 High Roller tournament, which attracted 313 runners. In […]

Online Poker: Shaun Deeb Wins Full Tilt 750K Guarantee

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 Note: This event did not run this week due to the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Full Tilt Poker — $750,000 Guarantee Buy-In: $200+$16 Prize Pool: $750,000 Entrants: […]

WPT: Jake Cody Wins London Poker Classic

Young Brit Jake Cody is having quite the year. Not only did he take down the European Poker Tour Deauville in January but he is now also the champion of the first ever World Poker Tour London Poker Classic. At just 22-years-old Cody is two-thirds of the way towards poker’s Triple Crown. All he needs […]

Win a Copy of Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott’s Autobiography

To mark the publication this week of Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott revealing new autobiography, Cardplayer.com has five copies of the book to giveaway to our European readers courtesy of publisher Penguin. To win a copy simply respond with the correct answer to the following question in the comment box below. Name a poker tournament which Dave […]

Online Poker: PokerStars WCOOP Begins on Sunday

It’s finally here! The time has come for every online grinder’s dream come true, the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Bloodshot eyes and sore clicking fingers will be the norm for the next three weeks as players compete in the largest online tournament series in the world. This year’s WCOOP will feature a […]

Poker Tournament Makeover Launched Today at PKR

PKR.com has given its multi-table tournament schedule an overhaul and players can experience the new additions from today. The revamped schedule is filled with a wide range of tournaments with various buy-ins to suit all pockets. Anyone who cashes in one of the $5 buy-in Pharaoh’s Treasure weekday tournaments will automatically get an invite to […]

Betfair Poker Live Hits Prague in October

Betfair’s seventh festival of its Live series, Betfair Poker Live Prague will take place from Oct. 20 to 24 in Card Casino Prague. The stop includes a wide range of no-limit hold’em tournaments to suit all budgets but the two major highlights of the festival are the €820 + €80 buy-in main event which is […]

Daniel Negreanu Wins PokerStars Fairways and Felts

On Thursday, Team PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu won the first-ever PokerStars European Poker Tour Vilamoura Fairways and Felts tournament. The €1,100 buy-in contest, which featured a Texas Scramble team event on the golf course, followed by an individual poker tournament, was the first of its kind on the EPT. The winners of the golf section […]

Online Poker: OPOY Race Tightens Up

It was a hectic week in the 2010 Online Player of the Year race, but with the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) starting on Sunday, you can be sure that it’s going to get a lot crazier. A total of 62 events are schedule to take place over the next four weeks and […]

CPTV's The Scoop: Jean-Robert Bellande Part 3

Jean-Robert Bellande continues to talk about his lifestyle, which he dove into last week in part II, on 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 Bellande’s deep run […]

PokerStars Balkan Poker Festival Starts Today

The PokerStars.com Balkan Poker Tour grand final gets underway today at the Golden Sands Resort, Varna, Bulgaria. The Balkan Poker Festival is the first ever PokerStars.com event in Bulgaria and has a buy in of €900+€90. It is expected that up to 200 players from across Europe will play the event at the Grand Hotel […]

Shane Warne Wins Big And Plans Live Poker Room

Australian cricket legend Shane Warne is having a great week in the poker business having won $40,000 in the Victorian Championships event in Melbourne and announcing a potential poker tie-up with compatriot and business billionaire James Packer. Warne earned his highest ever finish in a poker tournament with a third place score in the $10,200 […]

24hpoker Takes Over Dailypoker Customers

iGame has taken over the Dailypoker.com player database and players will be merged into its existing 24hpoker.com database by mid-September. Niclas Lundqvist, brand manager at 24hpoker, said “This deal strengthens our leading position in the Entraction Network. Many competitors struggle to maintain their profitability so we’re certainly looking to acquire more skins both in and […]

New Paddy Power Poker Irish Winter Festival Satellite Series

The selection of routes to get to the PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Winter Festival (IWF) 2010 has just expanded with the site’s launch of its IWF €10 rebuy super satellite series taking place throughout this month. Anyone who wins an IWF ticket via one of these satellites will also be entered into the €20,000 Sole Survivor qualifier […]

This Week in Poker: August 28 – Sept. 3

Check out CardPlayer.com every Friday for a weekly wrap-up of the news from the live poker tournament trail. Card Player Player of the Year Update The Card Player Player of the Year Race is brought to you by Bodog 1: Thomas Marchese — 4,766 2: Sorel Mizzi — 3,862 3: Dwyte Pilgrim — 3,776 4: […]

IPPA: $250,000 Monte Carlo Championship on the Horizon

The largest buy-in tournament in the history of live tournament poker is planned to take this place this fall in Monte Carlo. The International Poker Players Association in partnership with SBM of Monte Carlo will host a high-roller no-limit hold’em shootout tournament that begins in late November. The glamorous location in Monaco is an appropriate […]

Partouche Poker Tour Grand Final Begins

The Partouche Poker Tour Grand Final €8,500 no-limit hold’em tournament began today at the Palm Beach Casino in Cannes on the shores of the French Riviera. The tournament will be filmed for television and will broadcast on 59 countries on Eurosport. A winner will be crowned at the final table on Tuesday, September 7. Check […]

EPT: Toby Lewis Wins Vilamoura Main Event

The final table of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Vilamoura €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event took place today in Portugal. The final eight had emerged from a field of 384 players and they took their seats to settle the matter of who would walk away with the €467,835 top prize and the title of EPT […]

Online Poker: Barney Frank Chats With Leno

Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) joined Jay Leno on The Tonight Show on Tuesday to discuss, among other things, HR 2267 — the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act — which is in Committee. Frank began his debate with Leno by pointing out the obvious … that the federal government was wasting an opportunity […]

Online Poker: Chad Batista Wins PokerStars Super Tuesday

Read the results for the $1,000 events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, and Absolute Poker below. Full Tilt Poker — $1K Monday Buy-In: $1,000+$60 Prize Pool: $333,000 Entrants: 333 Final Table Results: 1. VeryEuropean — $83,250 2. Michael “Bonzo9876” Katz — $53,280 3. ashaman64 — $39,960 4. DarkHorse19 — $30,802 5. shhhookem — $23,310 6. Raj […]

32Red Poker Revenue Down 12 Percent

UK-based online gaming company 32Red today reported half-year 2010 revenue for poker was down 12 percent from £500,000 to £400,000. The company commented on the decline saying, “As reported by other operators, the poker market remains tough but the Board hopes that moves to attempt to restrict those operators still accepting bets from the US […]

BetSoftGaming Launches 3D Online Poker Room

European online poker players have a new 3D poker room to play at from today. BetSoftgaming has launched Poker3 which will challenge a space in the market dominated by PKR.com. Utilising what the company describes as “cinematic quality avatars with stunning, real life animations that bring the game of poker to the next level,” Poker3 […]

Poker Legend Devilfish Autobiography Out Next Week

Curiosity and anticipation is rife as we approach the launch and release of Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott’s new autobiography, Devilfish: Life and Times of a Poker Legend. The book, which will be launched tomorrow and published by Penguin on Sept. 9, reveals for the first time the true extent of the dangerous world Ulliott inhabited before […]

Greek Draft Legislation Blocks Foreign Poker Sites

The latest step in the Greek government’s attempts to regulate online gaming is, according to eGaming Review magazine, drafted legislation which will require Greek sports betting and online poker and casino providers to set up a server in their home country and open a Greece-based domain name. Greek news website, Kathimerini, reported that €5.5 billion […]

Poker Quiz: Playing Pair and a Flush Draw

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 […]

Cake Poker to Debut Monday Night Football Tournaments

On Sept. 13, Cake Poker will debut Money Night Football tournaments. The tournaments, which will run every Monday for four weeks, will award any player who changes their screen name to reference their favorite football team and cashes in the tournament, an entry into a weekly $500 Kamikaze tournament. In addition to the football promotion, […]