Poker News

Antonius Up, Dwan Down Recently

Patrik Antonius is down $1,844,430 to Tom Dwan in the Durrrr Challenge to with just over 11,000 hands remaining. In all likelihood, Antonius will have to pony up an additional $500,000 to Dwan once the challenge ends, but the Finnish poker superstar couldn’t be happier at the moment with how his game has been going. […]

Exclusive Card Player Bodog WSOP Freeroll

The password is sccpwsop (case sensitive). It pays to be a Card Player reader — and right now, it may pay with a free seat to the 2010 WSOP main event. Card Player is giving its readers yet another way to qualify for the 2010 World Series of Poker main event for free. (The other […]

David Williams Talks Magic and Mindset on The Scoop

“I needed some structure in my life,” David Williams explained. That structure seemingly did wonders. After hiring mindset coach Sam Chauhan, who has become quite popular in the poker industry, everything seemed to go right for Williams. Just a little while later, he was crowed the winner of the WPT Championship to push his lifetime […]

This Week in Poker: May 1 – 7

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 (pictured right) 3: Dwyte Pilgrim — […]

Entraction Poker Drops 25 Percent in First Quarter

Entraction, the Swedish publicly-quoted online poker network, yesterday said its net sales for poker fell 25 percent to SEK63.3 million (€6.5 million) in the first quarter of 2010 from SEK84.4 million (€8.7 million) a year previously. Poker gaming surplus was also down 25 percent to SEK91.4 million (€9.4 million) from SEK122.3 million (€12.6 million) a […]

PaddyPowerPoker Announces Irish Winter Festival 2010

PaddyPowerPoker has announced the 2010 Irish Winter Festival, a four-day poker frenzy which will include the €1,500 + €150 buy-in Irish Masters main event, plus numerous side events. The Festival will take place at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin from Oct. 22–25, but until then there are plenty of online super satellites to attempt at […]

Chen Analyzes EPT Grand Final Hand

Andrew Chen got his first taste of live tournament success with a fifth-place showing at the 2008 LAPT Costa Rica main event. Just a month later, Chen finished third at EPT Prague earning $323,820. His first trip to the World Series of Poker in 2009 also proved to be successful when he finished runner-up in […]

Poker Tournament Trail: Sorel Mizzi

Sorel Mizzi has started 2010 on a hot streak and he is currently in second place in the Card Player player of the year standings with 3,542 points. Mizzi has cashed a dozen times and he has made nine final tables, winning four of them. He has won $1,266,801 so far this year, and his […]

PKR's Charity Poker Partnership

PKR.com has today announced that Ante Up for Africa will be its charitable partner for the next 12 months. PKR players will be able to raise much needed funds and, indeed, awareness of this non-profit organisation through various activities such as charity tournaments, pledging a percentage of winnings, and making cash donations using loyalty points. […]

PartyGaming Signs Third French Deal, Poker Revenue Falls

PartyGaming today published its first quarter 2010 key performance indicators which saw daily poker revenue for the period fall 11 percent to $531,000 from $595,300 in the same period of 2009. Total poker revenue for the period was $47.8m compared to the first quarter of 2009 and flat compared to the previous quarter. The company […]

iPoker Revenue Down 4 Percent in First Quarter

Playtech, the publicly-quoted owner of the iPoker network, has issued its interim financial statement for the first quarter of 2010 which reports poker revenue down 4 percent to €8.5 million compared to €8.88 million in the same period of last year. Poker revenue was however up 2 percent compared to the final quarter of 2009. […]

World Poker Tour: Grand Prix de Paris Begins Saturday

The World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris €10,000 no-limit hold’em championship event begins on Saturday, May 8 at the Aviation Club de France in Paris. The championship event is a part of the Rendez-vous a Paris tournament series that is hosted annually by the casino, which is located on the legendary Champs-Elysees in the […]

California State Poker Championship Begins Today

The California State Poker Championship begins on Wednesday, May 5 at Commerce Casino in the greater Los Angeles area. The first event is a $220 no-limit hold’em tournament with a $500,000-guaranteed prize pool that is scheduled for five days. If you bust out of the event, you may re-enter on day 1B, 1C, or 1D. […]

Cake Poker Adds New Features

Protect the fish. You may not see that slogan on T-shirts and baseball caps just yet, but it’s a motto that Cake Poker Card Room Manager Lee Jones firmly believes in, and it is a way of thinking that has guided Cake Poker through its recent relaunch. “We have an ecosystem here,” said Jones. “We […]

Ongame Poker Exapnds in Italy as EU Drops Lawsuits

bwin’s Ongame poker network has signed three new partners to its Italian network ⎯ MatchGames, TOBS, and Casino Italia. This brings the total number of partners on Ongame’s regional Italian online poker network to 10. bwin recently saw its Italian poker revenue grow to $12.8 million. Martin Lerby, head of Ongame, said “Ongame Network’s Italian […]

PokerStars Begins 2010 WSOP Satellites

Most of the attention on PokerStars this week belongs to the second-annual Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), but players have another reason to get excited with the launching of the 2010 World Series of Poker satellites. The world’s largest poker site is offering numerous ways to get into the $10,000 main event in Las […]

Sen. Reid Addresses Poker Speculation

A spokesperson for Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) has told Card Player that rumors of the Nevada senator pursuing online poker legislation are “greatly exaggerated,” but the senator’s office did acknowledge that its staff was looking into the issue in detail. British stockbroker Daniel Stewart caused quite a stir in the poker community when he told […]

Bodog Adds New Poker Pro to Team

Bodog.com has announced the addition of a new player to its team. After a media-driven search via social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook for a new female poker pro to represent the site, Bodog has decided on Amanda Musumeci. Musumeci joins Evelyn Ng on Team Bodog, while recent WPT Championship winner David Williams is […]

Full Tilt Hosts Exclusive CP Freeroll

Two thousand dollars will be up for grabs in a tournament exclusive to Card Player readers who signed up for Full Tilt through www.cardplayer.com. Full Tilt will host the $2,000 freeroll on Friday, May 14, at 4 p.m. ET. To be eligible for this tournament, you must have registered for Full Tilt through Card Player […]

World Series of Poker Circuit: 2010 Africa Event Announced

Before 2010, the biggest claim to fame that South Africa had in terms of the World Series of Poker came when resident Raymond Rahme finished third in the 2007 main event for over $3 million. That soon will change, because the WSOP is adding a new stop to its circuit tour this October — the […]

Online Poker: Kirbynator Wins FTOPS Main Event

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 — FTOPS Main Event Buy-In: $600+$40 Prize Pool: $3,000,000 Entrants: 4,534 Final Table Results: 1. Kirbynator […]

Doyle Brunson Begins HSP Comeback

Depending on your point of view (and your sense of humor), the big winner on Sunday’s episode of High Stakes Poker was not Tom Dwan or Doyle Brunson. Nor was it Daniel Negreanu or Mike Matusow. The big winner was High Stakes Poker commentator Gabe Kaplan, who delivered a number of memorable lines at the […]

World Poker Tour Sets Late Summer London Date

The World Poker Tour today announced its long-awaited first UK stop to be held in the Palm Beach Casino, at the Mayfair Hotel, London, from August 29 to September 5, 2010. The £5,000 + £300 main event, from August 30 to September 5, will be filmed for television, featuring two day one’s and a cap […]

VIP Races Worth €58,000 at Devilfish Poker in May

DevilfishPoker.com is hosting four rake races this May with a total of €58,000 in money added to be split between the leader boards of each competition. The €30,000 no-limit hold’em rake race is split into two buy in levels with 5c/10c to 10c/20c to suit lower limits and 25c/50c and 50c/€1 for medium stakes players. […]

Tobias Reinkemeier Wins EPT High Roller

The final table of the €25,000 no-limit hold’em high roller event at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo took place and Saturday. The final eight had survived from a talented field of 113 players, which made this the largest EPT high roller event in history. Here is a look at the […]

Full Tilt Poker Signs Annette Obrestad

Full Tilt has pulled of something of a coup announcing yesterday it had signed 21-year-old poker phenomenon Annette Obrestad. Obrestad, the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe champion, famously deposited $9 into her poker account and turned it into millions. She also once won an online poker tournament without looking at her cards. She will […]

PokerStars’ SCOOP Series Under Way

The SCOOP is back. Last year, no one really knew what to expect when PokerStars launched its inaugural Spring Championship of Online Poker. But the results were staggering — people came, and they came in droves. Over 22 events and 66 tournaments, the site received nearly 200,000 individual entries. More than $38 million was distributed, […]

Boylepoker Adds $12,000 in May Cash Dash

This weekend sees the start of the Boylepoker.com Cash Dash and Double Up Dash competitions at site with $12,000 added by the site to make things a little more interesting for online poker players. Starting at 00.01 am (GMT) on Sunday May 3 is the Double Up Dash which sees players win a point for […]

PokerStars EPT Grand Final: High Roller Day 2

Day 2 of the €25,000 no-limit hold’em high roller event at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo took place today, and a field of 41 players returned from the initial 113. By the end of play the final table of eight had been set, but some of he biggest names in […]

WSOP Circuit: Andrew Lichtenberger Wins Vegas Event

The $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship event at the World Series of Poker Circuit stop at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas attracted a field of 150 players. The total prize pool for the event was $717,500 and the top prize was $190,137. The top 18 players walked away with at least $12,556 in prize money and […]