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European Poker Tour: San Remo Final Table SetThe field played down to the final table of eight during day 5 at the PokerStars European Poker Tour San Remo €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event. It took more than 12 hours to decide the final table, thanks to a stubborn battle for places 11-9 during the final stages of the night. The chip leader […]
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Harrah’s Denies Everest Lawsuit ClaimsHarrah’s Entertainment has denied allegations from United Internet Media (UIM), owner of Everest Poker, claiming it breached a $22.5 million World Series of Poker sponsorship arrangement with the West Indies-based online poker site. Court papers filed last week saw Harrah’s attorneys respond to the lawsuit saying that UIM, “Entered into the agreement primarily to gain […]
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PartyGaming Announces Second French Poker Deal
Amid rumours about an upcoming merger between PartyGaming and bwin, the company has announced its second B2B deal in France which will see it provide a white label online poker service for French TV broadcaster, AB Groupe in an exclusive multi-year agreement. The service joins PartyGaming’s French poker network, which also includes PartyPoker.fr, and will […]
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Online Poker Data Mining - The Pro Opinion IVFollowing on from Card Player’s recent report about the data mining dilemma facing the online poker industry we decided to ask a selection of players their thoughts on what has become a very sensitive issue. Each player was asked if they use online poker tracking tools and if they felt people should be allowed to […]
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World Poker Tour Championship: Day 2When registration came to a close at the end of level eight today at the World Poker Tour Championship at Bellagio, the final size of the field was just 195 players. This was the lowest turnout for the championship event of the WPT season since 111 players competed in this event during season I. Last […]
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Hellmuth, Ferguson Take on Qualifiers on Poker After DarkIn the history of Poker After Dark, a qualifier has never won one of the six-handed sit-and-go tournaments that are televised each week on NBC. But in no week will they have a better chance than this week, when four qualifiers will square off against two of the biggest names in poker for a chance […]
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European Poker Tour: San Remo Day 4Day 4 at the PokerStars European Poker Tour San Remo €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event saw a familiar chip leader take charge on the shores of the Italian Rivera. As he had in the Austrian Alps in March, EPT Snowfest champion Allan Baekke (pictured left) built a large chip stack during the day and he […]
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Jon Friedberg Hosts CPTV Poker ShowOn Monday, April 26, Jon Friedberg will host the series premiere of Under the Gun, a new show on Card Player TV that is expected to ratchet up the dialogue in the poker community and address anything and everything that is going on in the industry. The series, sponsored by UB.com, will feature Friedberg as […]
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Matusow and Doyle Tangle on HSPMike Matusow was running bluff after bluff, although almost entirely with his mouth as opposed to his cards. He bemoaned the fact that he wasn’t getting any cards to play, not even suited connectors, moments after he mucked 7 5 to a standard preflop raise. He was playing unapologetically tight, and his opponents were taking […]
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Poker Hand Discussion: 9-9 Facing an All-in DecisionIn this weekly series, CardPlayer.com and the Card Player Pro poker video training site (powered by PokerSavvy Plus) are giving you a free, full-length training video. In each article, we will highlight a particularly interesting hand from that video that features unconventional play, and we will ask for your opinions on the hand. Tell us […]
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Online Poker: Taylor McFarland Wins Full Tilt 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: $1,692,800 Entrants: 8,464 Places Paid: 1,260 Final Table Results: 1. speedy0308 — $205,973 2. KenshoSatori — $175,983 3. playerscard — $175,983 4. elitelive — $84,640 5. fivetenatrad […]
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U.S. Online Poker Processor ArrestedDaniel Tzvetkoff, the Australian national whose online payment processing company collapsed last year owing four online poker sites over $30 million, has been arrested in Las Vegas. The 27-year-old faces four charges of gambling conspiracy, bank fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and money laundering. Dow Jones newswire reported Tzvetkoff’s lawyer, Mace Yampolsky, as saying on […]
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Dane Makes History with Consecutive NZ Poker Success
The New Zealand Poker Championship, held in Christchurch Casino, was this year won again by Soren Eriksen. Eriksen beat more than 80 players including heads-up opponent Cole Swannack to take home the $60,000 top prize. Last year the New Zealand-based Dane earned $100,000 for first place after taking out a field of 101 players. His […]
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Aussie Rugby League Poker Woes Continue
Following on from last week’s news that Australia’s National Rugby League was putting on hold its relationship with FullTiltPoker.net after government pressure is the news that Cronulla rugby club has been told to seek legal advice over its sponsorship arrangement with PokerStars.net. The digital economy department of government is investigating whether these “play money” .net […]
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PartyGaming and bwin Merger Rumours PersistThe merger of Gibraltar’s PartyGaming and Austria’s bwin will take place this summer according to Austria’s Format magazine. Negotiations over the long-heralded union of two of Europe’s largest gaming operator has entered an “intensive phase” according to the report. However a PartyGaming spokesman told Reuters news agency that, “"We will not comment on market speculation." […]
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WPT Championship: Shawn Buchanan Leads After Day 1A total of 161 players were in attendance for day 1 of the 2010 World Poker Tour Championship. That number is a far cry from 2009’s total of 338, won by Yevgeniy Timoshenko, (pictured right) but thanks to a liberal late registration policy at Bellagio, the field size is expected to grow close to the […]
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European Poker Tour: San Remo Day 3
Day 3 at the PokerStars European Poker Tour San Remo €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event saw 194 players return to the felt and the first order of business was to bust the money bubble. Cole Robinson claimed the title of bubbly boy early in the day (see hand below) when he finished in 185th place. […]
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Online Poker Data Mining - The Pro Opinion III
Following on from Card Player’s recent report about the data mining dilemma facing the online poker industry we decided to ask a selection of players their thoughts on what has become a very sensitive issue. Each player was asked if they use online poker tracking tools and if they felt people should be allowed to […]
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European Poker Tour: San Remo Day 2
The big news at the beginning of day 2 at the PokerStars European Poker Tour San Remo €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event was the announcement of the prize pool. This year’s San Remo stop is the largest EPT event ever hosted in Europe with 1,240 players and thanks to the very strong attendance the total […]
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Annie Duke Releases New iPhone Poker App
Poker pro Annie Duke has released a new iPhone application called Annie Duke Poker Tutor. The app gives users a new poker strategy tip every day – from beginner to advanced, access to an odds calculator, the rules of Texas hold’em, Duke’s website and twitter pages and the Ultimate Bet website. The app is free […]
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Online Poker Data Mining - The Pro Opinion IIFollowing on from Card Player’s recent report about the data mining dilemma facing the online poker industry we decided to ask a selection of players their thoughts on what has become a very sensitive issue. Each player was asked if they use online poker tracking tools and if they felt people should be allowed to […]
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European Poker Tour: San Remo Day 1B
Day 1B at the PokerStars European Poker Tour San Remo €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event took place on Friday and the turnout for the second staring flight was even stronger than the first with 656 players in action. That makes the total field size a European record 1,240 players. There were 344 players that survived […]
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Connect to Facebook, Win a WSOP ME SeatCardPlayer.com and SpadeClub.com are joining forces to send one of our Facebook fans to play in the World Series of Poker * main event — for free! A free chance to play in the year’s biggest, richest poker tournament likely already has you salivating, so we’ll cut to the chase. Here’s what you need to […]
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World Poker Tour Championship Begins on SundayThe first day of action at the $25,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Championship begins on Sunday, April 18 at noon PT, and Card Player will be providing full live coverage from the event, including live updates, chip counts, photos, and videos from Card Player TV. This annual event, hosted at Bellagio, is one of the […]
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World Series of Poker Circuit: Jeff Roper Wins in St. LouisThe first ever World Series of Poker Circuit stop in St. Louis has crowned a champion at the local Harrah’s Casino. The winner of the $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship event is Jeff Roper (pictured right), a corporate attorney who makes his home in St. Louis. The tournament attracted a total of 129 players and the […]
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WSOP Releases TOC's Current Top 20On July 4, the World Series of Poker will host what will be its fourth Tournament of Champions since the poker boom erupted following Chris Moneymaker’s magical win at the 2003 WSOP main event. But ironically, if voting for which players the public wants in this year’s freeroll ended today, Moneymaker still will not have […]
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This Week in Poker: April 10-16
!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 — 3,506 2: Sorel Mizzi — 3,278 3: Harrison Gimbel — 3,000 4: […]
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2010 NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship Airs SundayThe first episode of the sixth-annual NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, presented by GoDaddy.com, premieres on Sunday, April 18 at 1 p.m. ET on NBC, and action will begin in the spades bracket. The show will air during six consecutive weeks at the time slot on Sunday afternoons until a champion is crowned in the […]
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Online Poker: Jonathan Karamaliks Cracks OPOY Top Five
It was a ho-hum week for most of the Card Player Online Player of the Year candidates, but one player did stand out amongst the top 10. Aussie Jonathan “Monster_Dong” Karamalikis (pictured right) moved from unranked to fifth place after taking second place in last weekend’s PokerStars Sunday 500 for $64,812. Karamalikis has quietly put […]
