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Ladbrokes Poker Revenue Down 10 Percent
Ladbrokes Plc, the UK bookmaker with a significant online poker business, today reported poker revenue down 10 percent in the first four months of 2010. The interim report, ahead of today’s Annual General Meeting at the company, did not break down the financials for poker into more detailed metrics but the company did say that […]
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Card Player and Full Tilt Freeroll Tonight
CardPlayer.com and Full Tilt Poker have teamed up to give our readers a $2,000 freroll at FullTilt.com tonight Friday May 14 at 9 p.m. BST. Any player who registered for Full Tilt through CardPlayer.com is eligible for this freeroll. All a player needs to do is earn 100 Full Tilt Points by Friday and he […]
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WPTE Transitions Into Energy CompanyWhen World Poker Tour Enterprises sold its well-known poker tour and all of its poker-related assets to PartyGaming, the dissolved company was left with nothing but $28 million in cash and a desire to start a new project. There was no public comment on what direction it would take, but Steve Lipscomb told Card Player […]
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The New and Improved Card Player StoreThe Card Player poker store is back in action with a new interface and new products to add to your collection of poker gear. Today we’re re-launching our poker store with a streamlined look and cool new items, including new T-shirt designs on high-quality shirts, iPhone skins to individualize your phones, and cool collectible posters […]
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Poker Success for Hungary at PKR Live IVThe PKR Live IV main event found its winner at the Loose Cannon Club in London over the weekend in the form of 21-year-old Gábor “Gab1988” Vasvenszki. The young Hungarian beat 150 players to the first place prize of $20,000 and the PKR champion trophy. His final obstacle was online poker player Jamie “JJBird22” Birdsey […]
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International Poker Network Signs Dusk Till Dawn
Online poker room Dusk Till Dawn (DTD) has agreed a three-year deal with GTECH G2’s International Poker Network which will now supply the company with the software for its site. The deal sees the Nottingham, England based online poker room move from the Cryptologic network. Nick Whiten of DTD said, "The new deal with GTECH […]
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Poker Tournament Trail: Sam Stein
Sam Stein (pictured right) began 2010 with a few near misses in big events. He has made five final tables during the first five months of the year, but each time a tournament win has eluded him thanks to the fate of lady luck. He most recently battled with Jason Mercier in the heads-up final […]
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Poker Processor Pleads Guilty in NY“I had a business that transferred money from offshore gaming sites to American players within the Southern District of New York,” said Douglas Rennick in federal court yesterday as he pleaded guilty to a single count of processing offshore bets. Rennick, a Canadian who was allegedly behind several online poker payment processing companies, will be […]
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PokerStars Announces Season 7 EPT SchedulePokerStars announced the dates and destinations for season 7 of the European Poker Tour today. The current tour schedule consists of 12 tournament stops and there will be one new stop in Tallinn, Estonia, from Aug. 11-16 to kick off the season. Tallinn was previously the host city for the PokerStars Baltic Festival in October […]
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Mag: Patrik Antonius' Amazing ComebackLess than two months ago, Patrik Antonius was down more than $3.6 million on the year in high-stakes cash games online, according to various poker-tracking sites. Nothing was going right, and one of the world’s greatest players seemed to be in freefall. Fast forward two months later, and life is sunny and rosy again for […]
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bwin Poker Revenue Grows 22 Percent in First QuarterAustrian bookmaker bwin today reported first quarter gross poker revenues up 22.4 percent in the first quarter of 2010 to €38.1 million from €31.1 million a year earlier. Revenue also expanded 1.2 percent from the fourth quarter of 2009 when it was €37.7 million. However stripping out the results of Italian poker network Gioco Digitale, […]
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Full Tilt Sponsors Omar Sharif Charity Poker TournamentThe 10th annual Omar Sharif Poker & Backgammon Tournament takes place on Saturday May 16 at Sketch, Conduit Street, London from 5 p.m. in aid of the One to One children’s charity. This year Full Tilt Poker is generously sponsoring the event which sees celebrity bounties in Neve Campbell, Jennifer Tilly, Duncan Bannatyne (pictured), Colin […]
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PokerStars UKIPT Nottingham Starts TodayThe fourth stop on the PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour gets underway today at Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham, England. The £560 buy in main event has a cap of 800 players over two day one’s and a guaranteed prize pool of £100,000. It also hosts a variety of side events with buy ins from […]
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Foxwoods Mega Stack Challenge XVI Begins
The Foxwoods Mega Stack Challenge began today at Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Connecticut. The first event was a $340 no-limit hold’em event that attracted 925 players. The top 100 will get paid and the top prize is $67,294. 2002 World Series of Poker champion Robert Varkonyi highlights the field. There will be two other […]
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40% Off Card Player Subs WorldwideTime is running out to improve your poker this spring with the Card Player magazine spring subscription special! New subscribers worldwide can take advantage of a discounted subscription rate, but there are only days remaining to lock in the savings! Subscribe now to snag savings of 40 percent. USA — 26 issues (1 year) for […]
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$15,000 Added to Milwaukee Poker Tournament
The Potawatomi Bingo Casino will host its 2010 Keeper of the Fire Poker Challenge this August, with an additional $15,000 provided by the house on top of the prize pool if at least 300 players register. The spacious 20-table poker room will host three different starting days for the event — Aug. 14, Aug. 15, […]
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Hungarian Home Game Poker Players Criminalised
Hungarian poker players face up to two years in prison if they are caught playing poker outside of a casino or officially sanctioned card club according to business website realdeal.hu. A new law introduced on May 1, 2010 and based on a bill passed in December 2009 criminalises poker players outside of these very strict […]
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Four Freerolls for CP ReadersIt’s a good month to be a Card Player reader. With absolutely no need for money for a buy-in, you can win a seat to the 2010 World Series of Poker main event or play for your share of thousands of dollars in prize money over four sites in the next month. Full Tilt, Bodog, […]
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UK Poker Pro Fights Rabbi in Court Over £140,000UK poker pro Andrew Feldman (pictured) was in court in London yesterday asking a judge to strike out a £140,000 payment demand from a Rabbi who claims Feldman owes him the money after a spread betting deal gone wrong according to the Daily Telegraph. The High Court heard that 22-year-old Feldman and his former friend […]
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888 and Microgaming Poker Networks Sign French Deal888 and Microgaming Poker Network today announced an agreement to establish a new online poker network in France when the market opens up to non-state providers over the next couple of months. The joint venture will see a new poker network which will host both Microgaming and Dragonfish licencees as well as 888’s current and […]
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Cereus Works to Fix Security FlawsCereus Network, which is the home of the popular poker sites UB and Absolute Poker, was in the middle of a security controversy late last week when it was discovered that its two major poker sites used weak encryption methods. A poker tracking site announced on Thursday that it had hacked Cereus’ encryption method and […]
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Online Poker: kate_sexy Wins at Full Tilt Poker
You can check out the final results for Sunday’s flagship events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, UB, Bodog and Cake below: Note: PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Events will be recapped at a later date. Full Tilt Poker — $750,000 Guaranteed Buy-In: $200+$16 Prize Pool: $750,000 Entrants: 3,414 Final Table Results: 1. kate_sexy — […]
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Unibet Poker Up 6.5 Percent in First Quarter 2010Unibet Poker saw revenue grow to £6.99 million in the first quarter of 2010, up 6.5 percent from the £6.54 million generated in the same period of 2009. Poker makes up 29 percent of all non-sports betting revenue at Unibet (down from 30 percent last year) with casino making up 57 percent of the £24.1 […]
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Titan Poker Expands Pro Team for 2010Hot on the heels of signing Canadian pro Sorel Mizzi, Titan Poker has announced six additions to Team Titan for 2010. The players are Florian Desgouttes (France), Jonas Klausen (Denmark), Marvin Rettenmaier (Germany), Yann Brosolo (France), Joel Benzinou (Belgium), and Sam Trickett (England – pictured). The players are on a 12-month contract until May 2011 […]
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Brunson Falters, Dwan Soars on HSPUsually, when Doyle Brunson (who has played fairly tight historically on this show) fires a $60,000 bet on the river and you’re only holding a pair of deuces, it’s probably OK to just muck your hand. But Lex Veldhuis defied logic and in doing so, made the best call of the night to win a […]
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Mini ECOOP Tickets Up for Grabs at PaddyPowerPokerPaddyPowerPoker.com has announced that it will be giving away 100 tickets to Mini ECOOP event no.1 and 100 tokens to Mini ECOOP event no.5 feeders in a freeroll on May 13. This is part of PaddyPowerPoker’s exciting promotion surrounding both events. Those wanting to take a stab at the freeroll should submit their poker alias […]
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Will Poker Euros Miss Out on Tournament of Champions?
There are just seven weeks to go before the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions $1 million freeroll poker invitational kicks off at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, during the 41st WSOP. Twenty-seven players will take part and this includes past TOC champions Annie Duke, Mike Matusow, Mike Sexton, reigning […]
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Full Tilt Poker and Virgin Racing Make Ace FormulaAfter much discussion dating back to last year, Full Tilt Poker has signed a sponsorship deal with Formula 1 racing team Virgin Racing. The announcement was made just ahead of the start of the Formula 1’s European season. The drivers and their VR-01 race cars will all be sporting FullTiltPoker.net branding as they take to […]
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World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris Begins Today
The World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris kicks off today at 3 p.m. (local time) at the Aviation Club de France in Paris as part of the club’s Rendez-Vous a Paris poker festival which began on May 1. The €10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em freezeout is making a return to the WPT schedule after five […]
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PokerStars SCOOP Recap: Events 1-12The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) was so successful the first time around that the site decided to bring it back. A total of 12 events have already been played with millions of dollars changing hands. Recent FTOPS champion Taylor “ambiguosity” Paur still leads the way in the Online Player of the Year […]
