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Online Poker: Chris Ferguson Final Tables FTOPS Event

You can check out the final results for Sunday’s flagship events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, UB, Bodog and Cake below: PokerStars — Sunday Million Buy-In: $200+$15 Prize Pool: $1,640,400 Entrants: 8,202 Final Table Results: 1. cmis91 — $246,064 2. Tonimonntana — $180,444 3. Snow in June — $123,030 4. alwaysnice — $82,676 5. Tunnelvisie — […]

Russian Poker Series Riga Final Table Set

The PokerStars.com Russian Poker Series Riga has reached its final nine with Artur Egorov sitting as chip leader. The event attracted 183 players, ponying up €1,850 to play the main event at the Royal Casino & Spa Hotel Resort in the Latvian capital. The first prize is just over €95,000. The final table consists of: […]

Card Player Launches Poker Magazine in India

Hot on the heels of the news that Card Player Media was expanding further into the South American poker market with the launch of Card Player Argentina and Uruguay comes the announcement that the company is set to launch India’s first poker magazine in September. Card Player has reached a licensing deal with Rakesh Press, […]

Irish Classic Poker Festival Returns Next Week

A strong local and international field is expected for the eighth annual Irish Poker Classic taking place at the Macau Sporting Club, Cork, Ireland next week from August 16 to 22, 2010. The €1,000 + €100 buy in main event has a €100,000 guaranteed prize pool and takes place from August 19 to 22. The […]

November Nine Profile -- Michael Mizrachi

Last year, there was Phil Ivey. This year, there is Michael Mizrachi. For the second straight year, there is a big-name pro at the final table of the main event. Mizrachi, or as he is better known in poker circles, ‘The Grinder,’ enters November play with a chance to make history. If you ask a […]

Interview with PPA's John Pappas

When Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) first discussed his online gaming bill with Card Player in this legislative session, he said that the goal was to pass the legislation as a stand-alone bill with the back-up plan to pass it as an attachment to another bill. It seems like the back-up plan might be the new […]

Phil Laak Hospitalized After ATV Accident

Professional poker player Phil Laak was hospitalized on Thursday after an ATV (all-terrain vehicle) accident. Laak, Antonio Esfandiari, Brian Rast, Alec Torelli, David Wells, and three others (named Lee, Tony and Dave) all geared up for a camping trip in Oregon, according to Esfandiari. The details are unclear, but it appears that Laak lost control […]

The Scoop: Watch Daniel Alaei on This Week's Episode

Daniel Alaei joins Diego Cordovez and Adam Schoenfeld on this week’s episode of The Scoop, brought to you by Full Tilt Poker. The trio discusses how Alaei has managed to maintain such a low profile despite racking up more than $5.2 million in tournaments earnings, including three World Series of Poker bracelets and a World […]

WSOP November Nine -- Filippo Candio

In a day and age where most poker players are almost dour in how serious they are at the tables, Filippo Candio stands out. The young Italian often sports a warm and contagious smile, as he seems to genuinely enjoy every second he spends at the poker table. After the final nine was decided for […]

London’s Fox Poker Club Delays Opening

The Fox Poker Club in association with PKR.com was due to open in London tonight but the launch has been delayed due to “technical issues”. Chris North, managing director of the club, which will be London’s first fully licenced poker venue, said, “Our final inspections before opening raised a few technical issues which though easily […]

PartyGaming Poker Revenue Down 10 Percent

PartyGaming, owner of PartyPoker.com, today announced its first half 2010 key performance indicators. Poker revenue fell 9.6 percent in the first six months of this year to €64.4 million compared to €71.2 million in the first six months of last year. However the company more than compensated for this with strong performances in sports and […]

PokerStars Russian Poker Series Riga Starts Today

The PokerStars.com Russian Poker Tour makes its second stop in Latvian capital Riga this weekend with the €1,850 main event getting underway today. The event is being held at the Royal Casino & Spa Hotel Resort with 70 players from 25 countries already pre-registered to play. The first stop on the new tour was Kiev, […]

Blind Man’s Bluff at Irish Winter Poker Festival

Ever the innovator, PaddyPowerPoker.com has come up with a novel twist on no-limit hold’em at it’s forthcoming Irish Winter Festival – the Blind Man’s Bluff World Championship. The €100 + €10 buy in event will play just like no-limit hold’em except players will not be permitted to look at their own two cards, instead they […]

Harrah’s Now Offering Free Online Poker

Technically, the free WSOP online poker site has been open for Americans for over a month now. But just recently, Harrah’s has started a PR barrage to introduce its newest project to the world. A week ago, Harrah’s advertised its new venture in USA Today, and now the company will promote its new online poker […]

Matt Affleck Visits CPTV's Online Zone

Matt “MCMATTO” Affleck has more than $1.7 million in career earnings, with the highlight being a $550,000 score for winning the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) two-day event back in April of 2009. Despite that success, it was just two months ago that his mother began pestering him about getting a “real job.” […]

Harrah’s and 888 To Launch U.S. Online Poker Site

Harrah’s and 888.com today announced plans to expand their partnership with the launch of a new World Series of Poker free-to-play online poker site aimed at U.S. players. The site will be hosted by Dragonfish, 888’s business-to-business poker network, and builds on the companies recent launch of the WSOP real money poker site aimed at […]

Ladbrokes Poker Down 15 Percent in First Half 2010

Net revenue at Ladbrokes Poker fell 15.7 percent in the first half of 2010 to £10.7 million from £12.7 million in the first six months of 2009. The company said in its half-year interim statement that active customers were down 30 percent in the same period compared to a year earlier noting that, “this is […]

Vienna Stop Returns to EPT, Season 7 Begins

The European Poker Tour will be making its long-awaited return to Vienna in October as part of its season 7 schedule, PokerStars announced earlier this week. The Austrian capital will host a €5,300 event with a €500,000 guarantee for first place on Oct. 16-31 at the Concord Card Casino at the Kursalon palace in City […]

Full Tilt Kicks Off FTOPS XVII

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) XVII kicks off today, August 4th with a $750,000 guaranteed no-limit hold’em tournament. The event will feature a buy-in of $200+$16 and will begin at 9:00 p.m. EST. The popular online poker series will see 34 events guaranteeing more than $19 million in prize money, including a $3 […]

Tom Dwan Now Leads by $2M in Durrrr Challenge

Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan finally resumed their match in the Durrrr Challenge on Saturday, giving the online poker world hope that perhaps their battle might winding down to its conclusion. After a 92-day hiatus, the two pros sat down for a very brief session of just 280 hands. The swings, however, were vicious, and […]

CardPlayer.com Launches Mobile Site

Card Player recently launched a mobile version of CardPlayer.com tailored for use on smart phones. Now you can keep up to date with poker news, read pro blogs, watch videos, and keep tabs on live tournaments from the comfort of … well, anywhere! The new cell phone-friendly site is optimized for touch-screen phones (and it’s […]

Facebook Companies Eye Poker Market

With the prospect of regulated online poker in the U.S. taking a step closer last week, social gaming poker operators are eyeing the prospect of entering the potentially lucrative market according to BusinessInsider.com. A source close to Zynga, the largest of these operators and owner of Facebook’s second most popular game, Texas Hold’Em, told the […]

European Poker Tour Announces Date and Venue Changes

The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour has announced a couple of changes to the season seven schedule which kicks off in Tallinn, Estonia next week. EPT Deauville, taking place in France from January 25 to 31, 2010, is moving from the Casino to the Deauville International Centre to accommodate up to 1,000 players. One day will […]

Löser Victorious in European Masters of Poker Bulgaria

German Manig Löser is the season II European Masters of Poker Bulgaria champion having taken down the €1,100 buy in event at the Crystal Crown Casino, Sunny Beach last weekend. After the 260-strong field was reduced to a final table of nine, Löser was third in chips, eventually getting to threehanded play and busting Romanian […]

Phil Ivey Owns Nosebleed Online Cash Game

The biggest cash games online have been relegated to the cap games on Full Tilt for the past few weeks. Many players, including Phil Galfond and Patrik Antonius, have complained that the cap pot-limit Omaha games are not ideal, but unfortunately, that’s where all of the action has been. “I really dislike cap PLO,” Galfond […]

Tamas Lendvai Wins PokerStars Italian Poker Tour Venice

Tamas Lendvai from Hungary has won the PokerStars.com Italian Poker Tour Venice topping the 505-strong field to take down €235,000 prize money. Lendvai was the short stack going into the final table, having previously been as low as seven big blinds on day 3. He beat Davide Cerrato from Italy heads up after moving all […]

888 Poker Income Falls 36 Percent in Second Quarter

888.com, the publicly-quoted online gaming operator based in Israel and London, today announced total operating income in its business-to-consumer (B2C) poker unit fell 36 percent to US$8 million in the second quarter of 2010 from US$13 million in the same period of 2009. The company said this was “in line with general online poker trends” […]

November Nine Profile -- Matthew Jarvis

As Matthew Jarvis was starting the main event, his father was starting chemotherapy and radiation. Just before the 25-year-old Canadian came out to Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker, he learned that his dad had been diagnosed with cancer on the throat and tonsils. “It was a real shocker. It came out of […]

PokerStars Launches Women’s League

Ladies events have become regular fixtures at some of the biggest and most prestigious live poker series in the world. Now, PokerStars is trying to grant that same kind of atmosphere online. The site recently announced the creation of the PokerStars Women’s Poker League, which will allow females to compete against each other over the […]

CPsocial Poker Blogs of the Week -- Aug. 2, 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 […]