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Mike Ellis Wins Long Event No. 30

For a picture-perfect example of how poker can be a roller-coaster ride, one only needs to look at the final table of event No. 30 ($1,500 no-limit hold’em). Mike Ellis arrived at the final table seventh in chips with just over half a million. He made his way to a heads-up match with Christopher Gonzales, […]

Konstantin Puchkov Wins Event No. 31

Konstantin Puchkov (pictured left) won event No. 31 ($1,500 H.O.R.S.E) at the 2010 World Series of Poker after a grueling three-and-a-half hour heads-up match with Al Barbieri. Both players traded the lead several times but there was only one all-in during that span which resulted in Barbieri’s elimination. The win was Puchkov’s first WSOP bracelet […]

Phil Ivey Multi-Tables Successfully at WSOP

Phil Ivey multi-tabled at the World Series of Poker yesterday. Over the course of the day on Friday at the Rio, the seven-time bracelet winner had chips in three different tournaments: event No. 32 ($5,000 no-limit hold’em six handed), event No. 33 ($2,500 pot-limit hold’em/ pot-limit Omaha) and event No. 35 ($10,000 no-limit hold’em heads-up […]

This Week in Poker: June 12 – 18

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 — 3,902 2: Sorel Mizzi — 3,542 3: Mike Beasley — 3,200 4: […]

Online Poker Debate Heats Up in NJ, CA

Two of most populous — and cash-strapped — states in the U.S. continue to discuss the benefits of explicitly legalizing online poker in an intrastate system, with new and amended bills proposed earlier this month. However, significant hurdles remain in both California and New Jersey before state-approved online poker sites get up and running. In […]

The Scoop: Watch Jason Mercier on this Week's Episode

Jason Mercier talks about his rise in the poker world 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 see what it takes to go from online grinder to live tournament […]

Keikoan Completes Historic Comeback

Matt Keikoan was heads-up with Daniel Idema and was down to his last 300,000 with a big blind of 240,000. He jokingly made the remark to his supporters on the rail, “Greatest comeback in history right here.” Although it was a joke when he said it, Keikoan parlayed that last 300,000 into all of the […]

Poker Tournament Director Matt Savage Joins WPT

World renowned tournament director Matt Savage has joined the World Poker Tour as executive tour director. Savage, who has experience at the highest level in the game with 300 televised tournaments under his belt including Bay 101 Shooting Stars, said, ““I am excited about this opportunity to work with WPT as their Executive Tour Director. […]

Card Player $100 Freeroll on Betfair Poker Tonight

Card Player Europe and BetfairPoker.com team up tonight Saturday June 19 at 20:00 GMT for the first in a series of Summer freerolls for online poker players. This welcome tournament is a $100 freeroll which players can access in the Betfair Poker lobby under ‘Freerolls’. The tournament is titled “Card Player Exclusive $100 Freeroll” and […]

Purple Lounge Revenues Grow as Company Raises Cash

Purple Lounge, the online poker and casino business purchased last year by Media Corporation, said revenue in the first two months of the second half of its financial year have “soared” to over £10 million – almost equal to its revenues for the entire first half of the financial period. “During the current financial year […]

Miguel Proulx Wins Event No. 28

Miguel Proulx (pictured right) entered the final day of event No. 28 ($2,500 pot-limit Omaha) at the 2010 World Series of Poker as the chip leader. Although he did not exactly lead wire-to-wire, he ended the day as the only man holding any chips, taking down his first WSOP bracelet and $315,311. There were 596 […]

WSOP Spotlight -- Dwyte Pilgrim

Dwyte Pilgrim began playing poker online in 2006, and since that time he has built his poker career step by step on the way to contending in the biggest buy-in tournaments in the world. He has become one of the greatest players in the history of the World Series of Poker Circuit series and impressed […]

Ongame Network Launches New Poker Tour

Ongame poker network, owned by Austro-German betting giant bwin, today announced a four-stop poker tour taking in Lativa, Malta, Hungary, and Spain later this year and into next. Fifty packages for each event will be guaranteed across the network. Martin Lerby, head of Ongame Network, said, “GSOP Live is different. It is a live tour […]

William Haydon Wins Event No. 26

William Haydon entered the final table of event No. 26 ($2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Six Handed) last in chips, with only one previous WSOP cash to his name. By the night’s end, he was holding his first World Series of Poker bracelet and was $630,031 richer. These comebacks happen in poker, but Haydon’s climb to the […]

WSOP: Plenty of Bracelet Winners Alive in $10k Limit Hold'em

With just 13 players remaining in event no. 29, the $10,000 limit hold’em championship, there are still four players who already have a WSOP gold bracelet to their name, along with one well-known professional who is looking to break through for his first. At the start of day 2, there were 102 players remaining in […]

WSOP: David Warga Wins Second Bracelet

David Warga (pictured left) navigated through a tough final table featuring notables David Levi, Karina Jett and Allen Bari to win event no. 27 ($1,500 Seven-Card Stud 8-or-better). It was Warga’s second career WSOP bracelet, his first coming in 2002 when he won the casino employees limit hold’em event. The three-day event saw 644 players […]

WSOP: Jeffrey Tebben Wins Event No. 24

Jeffrey Tebben won event no. 24 ($1,000 no limit hold’em) of the 2010 World Series of Poker take down his first career WSOP bracelet. He took home $503,389 for his efforts. The four-day event took five calendar days to complete to account for the two separate flights on day one. The event attracted 3,289 players […]

WSOP TOC Reveals 20 Fan Selections

The World Series of Poker announced the names of the 20 poker pros who were voted into the 2010 Tournament of Champions today, completing the 27-person field. There was little surprise at the top, as Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu distanced themselves from the pack to lead all of the fan favorites, with Ivey receiving […]

Running Red Lights with Phil Hellmuth

“You didn’t see any police, did you?” Phil Hellmuth asked me, as his eyes darted from left to right. “No, I don’t think so…” I started to say. Before I knew it, we sped through our second Las Vegas red light, making a highly illegal left turn on red. I looked down, making sure my […]

France’s Marc Bariller Joins Team PKR Pro

Team PKR Pro just got bigger with the announcement that it has signed Marc ‘Waswini’ Bariller the 23-year-old former PKR Open winner. Bariller, who has qualified for each of the four PKR Live events, spun $5 up to a six figure bankroll at PKR.com and is thrilled with his new appointment saying, “Becoming part of […]

Spanish Poker Site To Launch on Entraction Network

New Spanish gaming site, Jugermola.com, has chosen Swedish-based online poker network Entraction to launch its product in August 2010. The poker launch, which will coincide with the company’s online betting, casino, and bingo product launches, will be accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign in Spain. Peter Åström, chief executive officer of Entraction, said, ““This deal […]

Schmelev Looking For Another Final Table

Day 1 of the $10,000 limit hold’em Championship saw many of the biggest names in poker come out, and while some exploded to the top of the leader board others just couldn’t make it through the day. Michael Reed ended the day at the top of the counts, but guess who was right behind him… […]

Sam Farha Wins Third WSOP Bracelet

Sam Farha hadn’t cashed in a major poker tournament in over a year going into event No. 25 ($10,000 Omaha eight-or-better championship). The cash-game pro ended the drought with his third bracelet in one of the longest Omaha 8/OB final tables in history — over 12 hours of tense action. Farha’s win prevented the 2010 […]

NAPT Announces Los Angeles Stop

The PCA in the Bahamas was considered the North American Poker Tour’s first stop. Then, it moved to the Venetian in Las Vegas. Most recently, the tour held a series in Connecticut for NAPT Mohegan Sun. Now, after months of waiting for the announcement of where the next stop would be, PokerStars has confirmed that […]

888 Acquires Social Media Poker Games for $18 Million

888 has paid $18 million for social game development studio Mytopia from Real Dice Inc. Among the assets acquired in the deal are a social poker application using the company’s Pacific Poker brand and a real-time multiplayer mobile poker application for with over 1 million users on iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, J2ME, and Blackberry platforms. […]

Online Poker: redsfan9 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: 7,309 Places Paid: 1,080 Final Table Results: 1. redsfan9 — $214,803 2. kiaser — $175,751 3. tytkto — $120,000 4. DooM_DaYs — $79,500 5. a$$ou […]

The PokerStars Big Game Premieres

Tonight, the eagerly anticipated PokerStars.net Big Game will finally premiere. Card Player caught up with PokerStars pro Barry Greenstein at the World Series of Poker to talk a little bit about the new show, and just how much staking goes on at these televised cash games. “I personally have never been backed or sold a […]

Everest Poker Legal Wrangle With Harrah’s Continues

Everest Gaming has filed a lawsuit against Harrah’s Entertainment, owner and organizer of the World Series of Poker, alleging the company is continuing to use its trademarked Everest Poker brand according to the Las Vegas Sun. The lawsuit stems from the dispute between Everest’s parent company Ultra Internet Media and Harrah’s which claims that Harrah’s […]

World Cup Specials and More at Betfair Poker

With the World Cup in South Africa starting to build a head of steam, so too is BetfairPoker.com with a host of value-laden promotions for players over the summer. Twitter fans who follow Betfair tweets during the tournament will get a shot at a free $25 bet each day – the first six correct answers […]

Two European Poker Tour Robbers Plead Guilty

Two of the four young Germans facing trail for the robbery earlier this year at the European Poker Tour Berlin pleaded guilty today in a Berlin court according to Deutsche Walle. They are charged with robbery and causing bodily harm. One robber, a 21-year-old, being tried as an adult could face up to 15 years […]