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Online Poker: Jordan 'Jymaster11' Young Has Huge Sunday

Jordan “Jymaster11” Young had a monster Sunday, winning not only the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 guarantee for $132,788, but also the Sunday Brawl for another $104,951. Young earned 2,400 OPOY points for his efforts, vaulting him into 21st place overall in the standings. Another strong performer was former Online Player of the Year winner Alex […]

Card Player Expands Poker Media in South America

Argentina and Uruguay join the ever-growing list of countries with their own Card Player magazine in October this year as the company announces a licensing partnership with Galt S.A. in the region. The magazine will feature content from around the poker world including locally produced and focused news, features, columns, interviews and tournament reports and […]

European Masters of Poker Bulgaria Final Table Set

The €1,000 + €100 buy-in European Masters of Poker Bulgaria main event final table plays out today at the Crystal Crown Casino in Sunny Beach. A total of 260 players turned out for the event creating a prize pool of €260,000, with 36 players paid. Just how much the remaining 10 players get will soon […]

Catch Poker's Paddy Power with Pants Down this August

Paddy’s Pantsdown $30K Giveaway begins today at PaddyPowerPoker.com and will run for the next four weeks. This series of money-added tournaments is open to all PaddyPowerPoker players and will see $30,000 given away over the period. Communications Manager for the site, Paddy Power, said, “We have gone absolutely ‘tournamental’ here in Paddy Towers; we’ve finally […]

November Nine Profile -- John Racener

The biggest storyline of the 2010 November Nine is clearly Michael Mizrachi, who has a chance to become poker’s all-time greatest tournament winner. But when the Grinder is asked about the significance of having a major pro at the final table, he makes sure to correct the record — there are two, not one, major […]

Poker Book Review – Lost Vegas by Paul McGuire

Anyone familiar with the writing of Paul “Dr. Pauly” McGuire will know that his scabrously honest and often hilarious take on poker – the business and the characters that populate it ⎯ is required reading for everyone who wants the truth. Or at least as close to the truth as one man can sail in […]

November Nine Profile -- Joseph Cheong

As a student at the University of California San Diego, Joseph Cheong used to fund his modest poker bankroll by way of his $12-an-hour job in the college’s literature department. “I was just printing surveys. I’m not even sure what it was for,” Cheong remembers. “It paid for my buy-ins.” That part-time gig was the […]

This Week in Poker: July 24-30

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 — 4,442 (pictured right) 2: Sorel Mizzi — 3,862 3: Jeffrey Papola — […]

August Poker Tournament Trail Preview

August is a month that always starts slow with a post-World Series of Poker haze that is devoid of major tournament action, but 2010 picks up steam more quickly than years past. The first major tour event is the €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event that will take place in the beautiful medieval town of Tallinn […]

The Scoop -- Watch Part II with Ted Forrest This Week

Ted Forrest talks about how prop bets are paid on the honor system 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 get an inside look at one of the prop […]

Cyprus Planning Online Poker Ban

Cyprus is planning to ban online poker according to Cyprus-Mail.com. Draft legislation, which includes a ban on online poker and casinos, has received unanimous approval in the Cypriot parliament and will now be submitted for approval to EU Commission. The government has decided not to go down the route of France and Italy and licence […]

Tony Bloom Makes Poker Million IX Final

Tony Bloom is the third player through to the FullTiltPoker.com Poker Million IX final table in December, joining Howard Lederer and Barny Boatman. Bloom came from behind against eight-time World Series bracelet winner Erik Seidel to make his third Poker Million final table having appeared in the first two at the beginning of the noughties. […]

Poker Bill Passes Out of Committee

On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee passed Rep. Barney Frank’s poker-related legislation out of committee by a 41-22 vote. The result was hailed by poker advocates as a historic vote in the battle to explicitly legalize and completely open up the markets for internet gaming. The last time an internet gaming bill went to […]

European Poker Giants Agree to Merger

PartyGaming, owner of PartyPoker, and bwin, the Austro-German betting giant, today agreed terms on their long-mooted merger. Pending shareholder approval, bwin will own 51.64 percent of the enlarged group while PartyGaming will own 48.36 percent. The companies said the merger would lead to “the world’s largest online gaming business [with] market leading positions in all […]

European Masters of Poker Bulgaria Kicks Off Today

The €1,000 + €100 buy-in European Masters of Poker main event kicks off today at the Crystal Crown Casino in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria. There will be two starting days and the final table will play out on August 1. Here are the remaining side events on this stop of the EMOP: July 31: €500+50 no-limit […]

Paddy Power Poker Releases Irish Winter Festival Schedule

PaddyPowerPoker.com has announced the full schedule for its Irish Winter Festival taking place in Dublin’s Burlington Hotel over the October Bank Holiday weekend (Oct. 22-25). The three-day €1,500 + €150 buy-in Irish Masters main event kicks off on Oct. 23, but is not the only tournament to look forward to. There is also a new […]

ANZPT -- Julian Cohen Wins Queenstown Main Event

The PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour pulled into Queenstown, New Zealand last week and the tournament came to a conclusion on Sunday. The $2,500 NZD no-limit hold’em main event attracted a field of 119 players and the total prize pool stood at $267,750. The top 15 players all walked away with prize money and […]

World Series of Poker Q&A: Nolan Dalla

No one spends more time at the Rio each summer during the World Series of Poker than media director Nolan Dalla. He stays with each and every final table until the end, and he has had the job with Harrah’s since 2002. Before that he was P.R. director at Binion’s Horseshoe starting in 2001. “I […]

Second Quarter Poker Revenue Falls 13 Percent at iPoker

Poker revenues at iPoker, the online poker network owned by Playtech, fell 13 percent in the second quarter of 2010 to €7.3 million from €8.4 million a year earlier. This was “owing to the impact of the Football World Cup and seasonality effect” according to the company’s latest interim statement. The second quarter decline in […]

Barny Boatman Qualifies for Poker Million IX Final

Barny Boatman joins yesterday’s winner Howard Lederer at the final table of the FullTiltPoker.com Poker Million IX in December after he beat fellow Hendon Mobster Ram Vaswani head’s up in the second heat. Boatman reached his first Poker Million final in 10 years by overcoming a 2-1 chip deficit heads up against Vaswani, eventually taking […]

Online Poker: Full Tilt Poker Signs James 'Flushy' Dempsey

One of this summer’s top performers has been rewarded with a new sponsorship deal at Full Tilt Poker. James “Flushy” Dempsey tore up the 2010 World Series of Poker, cashing four times for just over $511,000. In the process, Dempsey picked up his first career bracelet by winning event no. 9 ($1,500 pot-limit hold’em) and […]

Jungleman12 Accepts Durrrr Challenge

The 2010 World Series of Poker is over, at least until November, so it is time for the poker world to get things back to normal. Though he didn’t cash in on his bracelet prop bets, Tom “durrrr” Dwan can at least be comforted by the fact that he no longer has to sprint across […]

ESPN Begins 2010 WSOP Broadcast

The new season of the World Series of Poker begins tonight at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN. The first two-hour episode will feature the $50,000 Players Championship. The event attracted a very talented field of 116 players, with a prize pool of $5.6 million up for grabs, and $1.5 million going to first place. The […]

Jonathan Duhamel Analyzes Key Hand

At 22 years old, Jonathan Duhamel is the youngest member of the 2010 World Series of Poker main event November Nine. With nearly 66 million in chips, Duhamel is the far-and-away chip leader and the odds-on favorite to take down the title. The Montreal, Canada, native secured most of those chips with a monster pot […]

Full Tilt and PKR Among Latest French Poker Licensees

FullTiltPoker and PKR were among the latest round of online poker rooms to be granted a licence to operate in the newly regulated French market. Five new poker licences were awarded by regulator Arjel yeterday and they were (operator – site): Rekop – FullTiltPoker.fr PKR France SAS – PKR.fr AD Astra — pokersubito.fr LB Poker […]

Irish Classic Poker Festival Set For August

The eighth annual Irish Poker Classic takes place at the Macau Sporting Club, Cork, Ireland from August 16 to 22, 2010 with the €1,000 + €100 buy in main event seeing a €100,000 guaranteed prize pool. The schedule for the festival also includes a number of no-limit hold’em events with buy-ins ranging form €20 to […]

Howard Lederer Through To Poker Million IX Final

Howard Lederer has won heat one of the FullTiltPoker.com Poker Million IX beating recent World Series of Poker bracelet winner Richard “Chufty” Ashby heads up. Ashby entered heads up with a three-to-one chip lead but Lederer battled back to take a two-to-one chip lead before losing it again, clawing his way back to chip leader […]

Online Poker: David Paredes Chops Up Full Tilt Sunday Major

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: $1,663,800 Entrants: 8,319 Places Paid: 1,260 Final Table Results: 1. BarneyR2005 — $244,749 2. B Buddy — $178,858 3. nenita02 — $124,785 4. Richard “RonaldKosh” Fohrenbach — […]

Betfair Poker Moves to Ongame Network Tomorrow

BetfairPoker.com makes its much anticipated move to the Ongame poker network tomorrow, Tuesday July 27. The new site, which is both PC and Mac compatible, will feature $13 million in guaranteed tournaments each month, five times more players, a new loyalty scheme, four new games – Omaha high-low, Seven-card stud high and high-low, and Five-card […]

Festival Fever For UK & Ireland Poker Tour Edinburgh

The PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour pulls in to Edinburgh, Scotland from August 19 to 22 and poker players who enjoy a little bit of culture are in for a treat – the event takes place during the world famous Edinburgh International Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe arts festivals. Hosted in one of the […]