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Betfair Joins Ongame Poker Network

Betfair Poker yesterday announced it is joining the bwin-owned Ongame poker network and its player pool will transfer to the new site by the end of July 2010. In a joint statement the companies said that by joining the network Betfair Poker players will gain an “enhanced gaming environment, suitable for any poker wallet, with […]

Online Poker: Ty Reiman Wins PokerStars Sunday Million

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: $1,500,000 Entrants: 6,375 Places Paid: 990 Final Table Results: 1. Ty “puffinmypurp” Reiman — $228,150 (pictured right) 2. SLIMOO1 — $168,750 3. mariocolci — $120,000 4. Russell […]

WPT-- Season IX Begins at Bellagio Cup VI

Season IX of the Word Poker Tour kicked off on a high note at Bellagio in Las Vegas on Sunday, July 11. The first day of the Bellagio Cup VI attracted 243 players, which was just shy of the total field of 268 players that entered last year. Registration is open during all fives levels […]

Three Days Left of Paddy Power Poker World Cup Giveaway

There are just three days left of the PaddyPowerPoker.com Win the Shirt of Paddy’s Back promo where soccer fans can win a football shirt. The daily $3 + $0.30c tournaments with $100 added to the prizepool and the winner of each tournament receiving a football shirt of their choice in the promotion. Paddy Power, communications […]

New Zealand Rules Poker is Not Gambling

New Zealand District Court Judge David Harvey has ruled that live poker is not gambling and ads for it and online poker educational sites such as PokerStars.net do not contravene New Zealand law according to NZHerald.co.nz. The country’s Department of Internal Affairs took a case against TV3 and C4 tv stations claiming ads shown during […]

WSOP: Getting To Know Your Day 3 Chip Leaders

There are some familiar faces and notable professionals sitting atop the leader board in the 2010 World Series of Poker main event, but a tournament of this magnitude is bound to have some complete unknowns as well. For the remainder of the main event, Card Player will take a look at a few of those […]

Red Dead Redemption Offers Multi-Player Poker

Red Dead Redemption, one of the world’s most critically acclaimed and successful video games, will get its own multi-player poker game at the start of August. Rockstar Games, producer of the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 open world Western action adventure game, will releases a downloadable content pack called Liars and Cheats Pack costing $9.99 […]

PKR Sponsors London’s First Licensed Poker Club

London’s first fully licensed poker club, the Fox Poker Club, will be sponsored by online poker site PKR.com. Named after the 18th century politician Charles Fox it will host daily tournaments and cash games with free afternoon tutorials available for novice players. PKR marketing director Simon Prodger said, “This is a great opportunity for PKR. […]

Billirakis Determined to Make a Deep Run

It’s the calm before the storm. On Sunday, for the first day since May 27, there will be no bracelet event in action at the Rio. The Pavilion and Amazon Rooms will be mostly deserted, apart from a few cash games and the annual media freeroll tournament where reporters will play for bragging rights and […]

Selbst Moves Up Day 2B Leaderboard

Day 2b of the 2010 World Series of Poker has come to an end and there are only six more days to go before the 2010 November Nine is set. The survivors of today will combine with the remaining players of day 2a and for the first time all tournament, everybody left will be playing […]

Darvin’s Big Buys: Pickups, Properties

How would $5 million change your life? For Darvin Moon and his wife Wendy, it doesn’t appear to have changed it all that much. Both still work full-time at the same jobs, they still live in the same home, and they aren’t throwing around that money before putting in a great deal of thought about […]

Full Tilt Rush Poker Week Starts Monday

Online poker players have an extra reason to play Rush Poker at FullTilt.com next week with Rush Poker Week offering up to $250 cash for accumulating Full Tilt Points. From Monday July 12 to Sunday July 18 players can play Rush Poker on three levels – Gold, Silver, and Bronze – and the accumulated points […]

New Online Poker Routes To Irish Winter Festival Open

PaddyPowerPoker.com is offering 12 free seats to the Irish Winter Festival between now and September 19, 2010 with its exclusive Cash Races and Sit & Go Series promotions. Three seats are up for grabs in the Cash Races which begin this Monday, July 12 – one for each leaderboard. Players score points based on the […]

My Poker Lab Offers New Training Experience

Online poker site PokerTime.eu has launched the world’s first fully integrated online poker training experience, MyPokerLab.com. With multimedia training programs designed to analyse and improve players’ games, it is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, and free product which looks set to revolutionise and improve the experience for thousands of poker players in the search for profitable play. […]

WSOP: Chan Among Leaders After Day 2A

There were 2,412 survivors who made it to day 2a of the 2010 World Series of Poker main event. Of those, only 1,295 will move on to day 3 on Monday. Boulos Estafanous won’t become a household name by ending day 2A as the chip leader, but it’s certainly a good start. The Chicago-native ended […]

This Week in Poker: July 2 – 9

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 2: Sorel Mizzi — 3,862 3: Jeffrey Papola — 3,420 4: […]

The Scoop: Watch Part I with Vanessa Selbst this Week

Vanessa Selbst discusses her incredible rate of tournament success on this week’s episode of The Scoop (sponsored by Full Tilt Poker) on Card Player TV. Check out her interview with Diego Cordovez and Adam Schoenfeld on Card Player TV and you can hear about what it is like to balance attending law school at Yale […]

WSOP Spotlight -- Jamie Gold

The winner of the 2010 main event will receive more than $8.9 million — a mammoth figure no doubt, but still just 75 percent of what Jamie Gold received when he won the 2006 main event, which remains the largest field the World Series has even seen. Because of that win, Gold remains the all-time […]

Euro Court Upholds Swedish Poker Ad Ban

The European Court of Justice yesterday upheld a Swedish ban on online poker advertisements’ by companies based in other EU member states saying, “The Court observes that it is clear that the exclusion of private profit-making interests from the gambling sector is… a fundamental principle of the Swedish legislation in this field." However the Court […]

Police Arrest 33 Suspected South Korean Poker Cheats

South Korean police recently arrested 33 hackers who allegedly used a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) program to cheat online poker players out of 55 million won (approx. $45,000). Up to 11,000 computers in the country were infected by the Netbot Attacker program, purchased from a Chinese hacker, which allowed the hackers to see online […]

Poker Computer Can Compete as “Low-Level Professional”

In 2007 Phil Laak and Ali Eslami took on Polaris, the computer built and designed by the University of Alberta’s Computer Poker Research Group in four limit heads-up poker games in Vancouver. The humans won two games, drew on and were beaten in the fourth. A year later Polaris triumphed in a six game match […]

2010 WSOP: Day 1D of Main Event

While most of the world’s attention was focused on free agent LeBron James and his decision to join the Miami Heat, the poker world’s attention was squared in on day 1d of the 2010 World Series of Poker main event. A total of 2,391 entrants turned out for the fourth of the four starting days, […]

WSOP: Main Event Field 2nd Largest Ever

This has been a promising year for World Series of Poker attendance. Nine of the 17 largest live poker tournaments in history were hosted at the Rio this summer in Las Vegas, including the main event, which announced its official attendance numbers and prize pool today. The field size stands at 7,319 players. This makes […]

From the Main-Event Final Table to Notable Poker Success

If recent history is any indication, of the nine players who make it to this year’s final table of the main event, most of them will be relatively unknown to the poker community at large. But if recent trends continue, a number of them will likely become legitimate pros in their own right in the […]

$2,000 Freeroll on Full Tilt Poker for SpadeClub Members

Have you ever wanted to check out the action on Full Tilt Poker? Well, here is your chance. Full Tilt is hosting a private $2,000 freeroll, exclusively for SpadeClub members. It’s easy (and free, of course) to participate. The event is next Saturday, July 17 at 4 p.m. ET (1 p.m. PT) but you must […]

French Poker Players Protest Against New Rake Regime

French poker players are planning another organized sit out at two of the countries largest recently licenced poker rooms, PokerStars.fr and Winamax.fr, in protest at rake charges. Cash game rake on the sites has increase to as much as 7.7 percent since the government’s recent regulation which imposed a 2 percent tax on rake which […]

Betfair Poker Yalta Live Qualifiers Underway

Qualifiers are underway for the latest stop on BetfairPoker.com Betfair Live tournament series to be held in Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine from July 25 to August 1, 2010. The fifth event in the series will see a $900 buy in main event with Betfair Poker giving away 20 guaranteed packages worth $1,700 including travel, accommodation, expenses […]

WSOP: Johnny Chan Near the Top

Day 1c of the 2010 World Series of Poker main event is in the books. A total of 2,314 entrants turned out for the third of the four starting days. Combined with Monday and Tuesday’s total of 2,614, the 2010 main event field size currently stands at 4,928. At least 1,567 players will need to […]

Commerce Casino Hosts $1 Million Guaranteed Event in July

Commerce Casino in Southern California will host a Guaranteed Million Dollar Tournament with a five-day entry period, which is slated to begin July 20. This $335 no-limit hold’em event gives players the option of entering or re-entering on any of the five days from July 20-24. The top 27 players every day will advance to […]

Bodog Mini Poker Series Could Earn You a 2011 WSOP ME Seat

There are undoubtedly quite a few of you out there who tried to earn a seat in the 2010 World Series of Poker main event and, unfortunately, didn’t make the cut. Now, as the WSOP main event is in full swing, you might be shaking your head thinking of what-ifs. Well, stop worrying about missed […]