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Cake Poker MNF Tournaments Tonight

For the Giants versus Cowboys game tonight, Cake Poker will be hosting two Money Night Football tournaments. The tournaments will award any player who changes their screen name to reference their favorite football team (or favorite player) and cashes, an entry into a weekly $500 Kamikaze tournament. The tournaments kick off at 8:30 p.m. EST […]

ramondemon77 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: $1,642,800 Entrants: 8,214 1. ramondemon77 — $246,424 2. Parias — $180,708 3. ovalis — $123,210 4. ambitious207 — $82,797 5. 1chin chan — $65,712 6. armen13 […]

WSOP Circuit: Kurt Jewell Wins Hammond Main Event

Be sure to stay tuned today for full live coverage and videos from CardPlayer TV for the $10,000 Super Regional event. Here is a look back at yesterday’s final table. Kurt Jewell was the chip leader of the $1,500 no-limit hold’em main event at the World Series of Poker Circuit stop at the Horseshoe Hammond […]

OPOY Spotlight: Jordan Young

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. Jordan […]

VIP Freeroll For European Masters of Poker Malta Tonight

VIP-point freerolls for the European Masters of Poker Malta are underway on the Entraction network. The seventh Iron Man freeroll takes place tonight, Monday, Oct. 25 at 20:15 CET and will be followed by one more VIP-point freeroll on October 29. Each freeroll offers one package worth €2,600 to EMOP Malta taking place at Casino […]

Paddy Power Poker Irish Masters -- Day 2

Day 2 of the PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Winter Festival main event, the Irish Masters, played out until nearly 3 a.m. this morning as it made its way from 110 players to 18, all in the money. Day 1’s chip leader, Rory Rees Brennan managed to stay in the top 10 with a strong end of day […]

Paddy Power Poker Irish Masters -- Day 1

The PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Winter Festival is taking place this weekend at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, and yesterday its main event, the Irish Masters, saw a total of 347 players turn out for day 1, creating a prize pool in excess of €500,000. Of the 347, 105 qualified for the €1,650 buy-in event via PaddyPowerPoker.com […]

WSOP Circuit: Hammond Final Day Set

The final day is set at the World Series of Poker Circuit $1,600 no-limit hold’em main event at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana. The final day will begin at 2 p.m. EST on Sunday and Card Player will bring you full live coverage from the final table. There are still 16 players left in […]

Play Poker with Sexy Russian Spy

New mobile gaming company, Zeda Inc, has announced the release of its iPhone app Poker with Anna Chapman. The application was created in cooperation with real-life Russian spy Anna Chapman, and offers extras only for app owners such as photographs of Chapman, a chance to friend her on Facebook, and also access to her personal […]

A Poker Life: Maria Ho

Think limit hold’em is dead? Don’t tell that to Maria Ho. The 27-year-old pro has made a living off the game for the last five years playing $100-$200 and up whenever she’s not competing on the circuit. Though she has successfully branched out to high-stakes mixed games and no-limit tournaments, Ho remains passionate about the […]

Watch the Irish Winter Poker Festival Live

The PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Winter Festival’s €1,650 buy-in main event, the Irish Masters, kicks off today and will run for three days at Dublin’s Burlington Hotel. Players will sit down to a starting stack of 15,000 and 60-minute blinds at 2 p.m. this afternoon. Cardplayer.com readers can watch all the action on the live stream of […]

WSOP C: Hammond $1,500 Event Begins

The $1,500 no-limit hold’em main event at the 2010 World Series of Poker Circuit tour stop at the Horseshoe Hammond Casino in the Chicago area began today and 872 players have entered the tournament, making it the largest WSOP Circuit main event of all time. The final table will take place on Sunday, October 24 […]

Scott Palmer Wins 1,172-Big-Blind Pot

Scott “urnotindangr” Palmer helped slow down Prahlad “Prefontaine” Friedman’s recent upswing by having a lucrative session on PokerStars late last week. Palmer and Friedman sat down at the virtual felt for some $50-$100 no-limit hold’em action. The session helped give Palmer a profit of more than $200,000 for the week. Most of Palmer’s winnings came […]

South Carolina Supreme Court Hears Poker Debate

The South Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday dealing with the arrests of five Mount Pleasant men in 2006 for a playing a home game of Texas hold’em. As it was written in 1802, the state’s gaming law bans all card or dice games. Originally, the local court had found the five individuals guilty of […]

Full Tilt Doubles Poker Championship Preview

The first season of Full Tilt Poker’s Doubles Poker Championship will air its finale Saturday night on GSN, with one of the remaining four teams taking home the $1 million grand prize. The $50,000 buy-in event series began with 32 players being randomly put into 16 two-player teams. In the doubles format, players have to […]

Poker Quiz: Playing a Pocket Pair Early

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 […]

The Scoop: Scott Clements Part 2

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 Clements continue to talk about his deep run in the 2010 World Series of Poker main event. […]

PartyGaming's Poker Revenue Drops while bwin’s Soars

In a third quarter financial statement, Party Gaming reported a 9 percent growth in all products except online poker in the three months to Sept. 30, 2010. Poker revenue was down 5 percent from €31.3 million in the third quarter of 2009 to €29.6 million in the same period of 2010, while daily average players […]

Treats for UK & Ireland New Depositors at PokerStars

First-time UK and Ireland real money depositors on PokerStars.com are in for a treat with the site’s latest offering. As part of the Daily £2,000 Giveaway promotion, the code “UK2K” can be used when making the first deposit which gives each first-timer a ticket to the £0.50 buy-in New Player Depositor tournament. This exclusive tournament […]

Paddy Power Poker's Chip Stack Breaks World Record

The Paddy Power Poker team has chipped their way into the Guinness Book of World Records by creating the world’s biggest poker chip stack. The 3 metres tall and 50 centimetres wide chip stack comprises of 75,000 individual poker chips and took five people more than 72 hours to build. The team managed to build […]

Ladbrokes Poker Introduces Anonymous Poker Tables

LadbrokesPoker.com has announced the launch of its Anonymous Tables. These tables allow players to hide their aliases and avatars from their opponents, giving them plenty of freedom to play however they like. The patent-pending Anonymous Tables will run alongside the usual cash tables, and players can choose either standard or anonymous in the main lobby. […]

Online Poker: UB Satellite Sprints Promotion

UB is now offering incentives for players to win multiple satellite tournaments. Every Sunday and Wednesday, if a player wins enough satellites to be in the top five on the Satellite Sprint Leaderboards, he or she will win extra tournament dollars. On the day of the tournament, a player needs to keep winning as many […]

PKR's Great Scott Week Continues

PKR’s week-long celebration of Scott Shelley’s addition to Team PKR Pro continues tonight with the PKR Superstars event. The player who knocks Shelley out of the tournament will get a $77 Monte Carlo ticket, and the overall winner will receive a $1,200 PKR Live V package plus he/she will play Shelley in a $500 heads-up […]

Card Players Brought Together for Poker Art Lovers

Many who love poker will have somehow, somewhere along the way heard of or seen French artist Paul Cézanne’s Card Players. They are very powerful post-impressionist paintings representing card players heavily focused on the game at hand. However the series of paintings have never been brought together. Until now. According to The Guardian, from today […]

Last Chance to Win Irish Winter Poker Festival Seat Tonight

Today is the final day of the PaddyPowerPoker.com Last Chance Saloon, which means it is the last chance to win a seat in the Irish Winter Festival’s main event, the Irish Masters. A total of 50 seats were given away so far in the Last Chance Saloon, with the final 10 up for grabs this […]

WPT: Randal Flowers Wins Festa al Lago

The final table of the 2010 World Poker Tour Festa al Lago $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event took place today at Bellagio in Las Vegas. Six final players remained when play began at 4 p.m. PST and by the end of the night Randal Flowers won the tournament and $831,500. Flowers also made some WPT […]

Randy Couture’s Charity Poker Event Returns

Randy “The Natural” Couture has won six Ultimate Fighting Championship titles and is in the UFC Hall of Fame. But before he ever stepped inside the octagon, he spent six years in the U.S. Army. And on October 30, the former Sergeant is leading the charge to support troops wounded in the war on terror. […]

$9.95 Card Player Subscription Special

Card Player magazine is now offering a cheaper, shorter-term subscription solution for those with tight budgets or who simply want a cost-effective taste of what a full subscription could get them. For a limited time, those looking to subscribe now will see a 6-issue option for just $9.95. (U.S. addresses only) Subscribers gain access to […]

Schwertley Wins Largest WSOP C Event

This past Saturday, Nebraska native Brett Schwertley won the largest World Series of Poker Circuit event in history. The 27-year-old semi-pro outlasted a field of 1,611 in event no. 1 ($350 no-limit hold’em) at the Regional Championship at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Ind. He won $77,438 in prize money and the gold ring. The […]

Quiet on the Online High-Stakes Front

The past week has been a quiet one in the high-stakes online world, as few pots have exceeded six figures. Patrik Antonius and Dan “Jungleman12” Cates were one of the few to engage in some large confrontations. The pair did battle at $500-$1,000 no-limit hold’em this past weekend on Full Tilt Poker. The two nosebleed […]