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The Scoop: Huck Seed Stars in This Week’s Episode

Huck Seed discusses his success at the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship over the years, and how the Isildur1 saga has inspired him to work on his online heads-up game, all on this week’s episode of The Scoop (sponsored by Full Tilt Poker) on Card Player TV. Seed sits down with Diego Cordovez for The […]

This Week in Poker: March 13-19

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 (pictured right) 2: Harrison Gimbel — 3,000 3: Dwyte Pilgrim — […]

ESPN Gets Emmy Nomination for WSOP

For the second consecutive year, ESPN’s final-table coverage of the World Series of Poker main event has been nominated for a Sports Emmy by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Just like last year, it is up for the award for “Outstanding Live Event Turnaround.” In 2008, in an effort to energize and […]

Senior Citizens' Poker Game Broken Up

It seemed too absurd to be true. And after the public ridicule and outcry that followed, Idaho legislators decided it was too absurd to continue. Approximately 20 elderly residents of the Twin Falls Senior Center in Idaho were told by local police last month that they were breaking the law by playing in their regular […]

Steve Gross and Casey Jarzabek Extend Lead in OPOY Race

On Sunday, Steve “gboro780” Gross finally created some distance between himself and Casey “bigdogpckt5s” Jarzabek in the Card Player Online Player of the Year race when he took down the $100 rebuy on PokerStars for $85,921. Little did he know that just a few hours later, Jarzabek would keep the pace by taking down the […]

Poker Strategy: Scott Seiver at LAPC High Roller Event

Scott Seiver has over $2.1 million in tournament earnings and a WSOP bracelet, but that doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of the 24-year-old’s poker career. Thanks to his extensive cash-game background, Seiver has excelled in deep-stacked tournaments, specifically high-roller events at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, North American Poker Tour, and, most recently, the […]

Second EPT Berlin Robber Arrested

A second suspect in the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Berlin robbery has been arrested by police in the German capital. Twenty-year-old Ahmad El-Awayti was picked up at a central Berlin subway station on Wednesday afternoon according to The Associated Press. He did not resist arrest. Police also say they have found the Mercedes car used […]

PKR Live IV Returns to Loose Cannon Club

Online poker room PKR.com has announced the return of PKR Live to the Losse Cannon Club in London from May 7 to 9, 2010. This will be the fourth outing for the popular live poker weekend and will feature a $500 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event as well as a $150 side event. Packages worth […]

ANZPT: Perth Main Event Will Award $500,000

The first day of play has come to a close at the PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour $2,500 no-limit hold’em main event, and the two day-one flights have attracted a field of 222 players. The total prize pool for the event stands at $510,600, which makes for a strong showing at the first major […]

Brandon Cantu Wins Wynn Poker Title

The final 28 players returned for what promised to be a long day at the 2010 Wynn Poker Classic Championship. Deep-stacked with long blind levels, it would take nearly 14 hours before a winner was crowned. As a dominant chip leader entering the day, Brandon Cantu (pictured left) stumbled a bit out of the gates, […]

Online Poker: TheAres Wins Full Tilt Monday $1K

Read the results for the $1,000 events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, and Absolute Poker below. Full Tilt Poker — $1K Monday Buy-In: $1,000+$60 Prize Pool: $402,000 Entrants: 402 Places Paid: 45 Final Table Results: 1. TheAres — $100,500 2. tomasiuxxx — $62,310 3. bonglim — $46,230 4. J4est — $36,180 5. Zachary “HustleGrune” Gruneberg — […]

Poker Domains in Jeopardy After Ruling

It was a case that iMEGA and many in the poker industry said they expected to win. They had won at the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and they didn’t think it would be any different at the highest court in the state. But today, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that iMEGA and the Interactive Gaming […]

Chelsea F.C. Owner Wins Poker Libel Case

Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich has won an apology and substantial libel damages from Italian newspaper La Repubblica which last year wrongly claimed he had lost a yacht in a poker game. Abramovich claimed, through his solicitor in a London court, that the allegations which included relationship difficulties arising from gambling online, had caused […]

Be Top of The Dogs at LadbrokesPoker

LadbrokesPoker’s latest promotion, Top of the Dogs, sees those who finish in the top 100 in any of the site’s two MTT leader boards, two weekly cash races, or two weekly sit ‘n’ go races during March, get entered into a draw to win a place on the Ladbrokes Poker Cruise IV. The cruise features a […]

Playtech's Poker Revenues Continue to Climb in 2009

Gaming software developer, Playtech, has announced its full year results for the year ending 31 Dec. 2009, which see a positive outcome for poker overall. Poker revenues increased by 12 percent from €30.1 million in 2008 to €33.8 million in 2009. This growth is said to be largely due to the success of Playtech’s Italian […]

Euro City Poker Tour Pulls Into Barcelona

The Euro City Poker Tour hits its first stop of 2010 today in Barcelona, kicking off with a €100 + €15 buy-in super satellite with rebuys and an exclusive welcome party later tonight at Club Shoko, close to the location of the tournament, the Gran Casino de Barcelona. The €500,000 guaranteed, €2500 + €250 buy-in […]

Strong Early Voting for WSOP's TOC

So far, the World Series of Poker is quite pleased with the fan turnout for its first Tournament of Champions since 2006. In the first 24 hours that fans could say who they wanted to be in the exclusive 27-person field, more than 40,000 votes had been cast. “In just 24 hours, the poker community […]

Wynn Poker Classic Championship: Day 2

After day 2 of the Wynn Poker Classic Championship, the players still are not in the money. The final 125 players returned to the poker room at the Wynn to play down to the final table of nine, but the structure was so slow and the players so deep-stacked that tournament officials were forced to […]

Foxwoods Poker Classic Begins

The Foxwoods Poker Classic began on Saturday, March 13 with a $200 no-limit hold’em shootout event. The tournament series will run between now and the conclusion of the $3,500 no-limit hold’em championship event March 28. “A few unique things about the tournament this year: we dropped the championship event buy-in down to $3,500 due to […]

EPT Berlin Suspect Surrenders To Police

A 21-year-old man suspected of taking part in the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Berlin robbery earlier this month has given himself up to police according to The Press Association. The suspect has been in custody since Monday night but is refusing to give law enforcement officers information about his co-conspirators or where the €240,000 in […]

Steve 'gboro780' Gross Joins Brunson 10

The greatest online tournament player in the world has just found a home with DoylesRoom as the newest member of the Brunson 10. In 2008, Steve “gboro780” Gross finished runner-up in Card Player’s Online Player of the Year race to Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis. In 2009, he finished atop the leader board to lock in OPOY […]

Wynn Poker Classic Championship: Day 1

Though the Wynn Poker Classic Championship may have been flying under the radar a bit this month, there’s no denying that the $5,000 main event is a success after drawing a strong field of 242 players. Last year’s champion, Keith “DaMurdera” Ferrera (pictured left), spent most of the day on the featured stage overlooking the […]

Brian Hastings Beats Isildur1 For $1.5 Million

Still reeling after taking a $1.6 million beatdown from Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, high-stakes unknown Isildur1 got back on the horse and almost immediately turned things around by winning $535,000 from Patrik Antonius and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies. Most of that score came from Antonius, who is perhaps the only player running worse than the mystery Swede […]

Iowa Unlikely to Pass New Poker Law

Earlier this month, Iowa joined the running to become the first state in U.S. to pass legislation that would explicitly legalize and regulate online poker within its borders. But after two weeks of discussions, one thing seems obvious: online poker legislation will not be passed in Iowa — at least, not now. “It’s abundantly clear […]

Ongame Poker Network Consolidates Italian Partners

Ongame today announced the launch of its “first regional online poker network” by consolidating its seven partners in Italy onto the same software to allow shared liquidity. The seven companies — BetPro.it, bwin (which owns Ongame), Casino di Venezia, Fast Poker, Gioco Digitale (which bwin bought last year), Gmatica and SportingBet.it – moved onto the […]

Ladbrokes Launches Online Poker in Italy

Online poker network Microgaming launched its service in Italy yesterday with Ladbrokes Poker the first operator to go live in the market. The company has received its licence from regulatory body AAMS and is working with local companies to ensure a customised experience for Italian poker players. Negotiations for other Microgaming online poker rooms to […]

Boylepoker Turns Cheltenham Losers into Possible Winners

For those looking to take a punt on the races, Boylepoker has an offer not to be refused. Anyone who places a losing bet on the Cheltenham horse racing festival at Boylesports.com, which is more than $1/£1/€1, will get the chance to play in a special €2,500 freeroll. The races kick off today Tuesday March […]

New Poker After Dark Features $50,000 buy-in Cash Game

The new episode of NBC’s Poker After Dark will feature a $50,000 buy-in cash game with some of the biggest and most entertaining names in poker in the mix. The six players that will be featured are Phil Hellmuth, Mike Matusow, Chris Ferguson, Antonio Esfandiari, Brandon Adams, and Todd Brunson. Blinds will begin at $100-$200 […]

WSOP Circuit: Roland Isra Wins Caesars Atlantic City Event

The $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship event at the World Series of Poker Circuit stop at the Caesars Palace in Atlantic City attracted 174 players and created a prize pool worth $817,015. The eventual winner of the event that began on Friday, March 12 was 52-year-old poker player Roland Isra (pictured right), who took home the […]

Poker Hand Discussion: What Would You Do with Two Pair?

In 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 […]