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WPT: LeRon Washington Wins the Celebrity Invitational

The World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational final table took place last night at Commerce Casino. The event began on Saturday, Feb. 20 and attracted 567 players. Along with a host of poker stars, celebrities that played in this year’s event included Teri Hatcher, Jenny McCarthy, Jade Nicole, Sam Simon, Jerry Buss, and Dick Van Patten. […]

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Latin American Poker Tour: Chile Tour Stop Canceled

PokerStars announced today that the Latin American Poker Tour stop in Vina del Mar, Chile, has been canceled. The 2010 Chile festival of poker was scheduled to take place at the Vina del Mar Casino from March 19-23, 2010. Vina del Mar is located just 175 miles north of the epicenter of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake […]

Online Poker -- RockPrincess82 Wins $1K Monday

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: $321,000 Entrants: 321 Places Paid: 36 Final Table Results: 1. RockPrincess82 — $80,250 2. grindtherail — $51,360 3. Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy — $38,520 (pictured right) 4. Jesse “JMaster130” Cohen — […]

PartyPoker Profit Down 47 Percent in 2009

PartyGaming, the publicly-quoted parent company of PartyPoker, today issued its full-year financial results for 2009. Continuing profit before tax slumped 47 percent to $38.7 milllion from $73.1 milion in 2008. Gross poker revenue fell 23 percent to $250.9 million from $327.6 percent in 2008 while net poker revenue in the same period declined 28 percent […]

Roland de Wolfe Wins Poker's London Open

Roland de Wolfe has won the London Open winning £77,700 for topping the 111 strong field at Les Ambassadeurs in the British capital. De Wolfe faced a challenging field including the Boatman brothers and Andy Andreou before seeing off James Vogl heads up. Jeff Turner, marketing director at Mansion and Casino.com, which sponsored the event […]

European Poker Tour: Berlin Day 1B

Day 1B at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event has come to a close and the second day of play attracted 557 players. That brings the total for the event up to a huge field size of 945 players. The turnout grew by more than 41 percent from the EPT […]

L.A. Poker Classic: Preliminary Update Part III

The L.A. Poker Classic is coming to a close this week, and 48 of the 50 events have crowned a winner at this massive tournament series at Commerce Casino. The World Poker Tour $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship and WPT Celebrity Invitational will both conclude during the next two days, bringing an end to a successful […]

Paradise Poker Revenue Grows 6.6 Percent in Last Quarter

Sportingbet yesterday issued its quarterly financial report for the three months to January 2010. Poker revenue from the company’s Paradise Poker site was up 6.6 percent to £6.5 million compared to £6.1 million in the same period last year. Poker now makes up 11.3 percent of Sportingbet’s revenue compared to 12.6 percent this time last […]

Final Table Set at L.A. Poker Classic Main Event

Carlos Mortensen, Annie Duke, Steve Sung, Mark Newhouse, and Johnny Chan. Those familiar names and faces will not be at Thursday’s WPT L.A. Poker Classic main-event final table. What started as a potentially star-studded affair has turned into the kind of television that perhaps only a mother could love. But we should probably take a […]

European Poker Tour: Berlin Day 1A

Day 1A at the “PokerStars”:PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event has ended in Germany. The first day of play attracted a large field of 389 players and 202 remain in contention at the end of the day. Many more are expected tomorrow so this should be one of the largest EPT […]

Scott Seiver Wins LAPC High Roller Event

Less than a week after claiming the most bounties in the NAPT Venetian High Roller Championship, Scott Seiver (pictured right) has claimed the $25,000 High Roller Championship at the L.A. Poker Classic. The tournament attracted 41 of the best players in the world and was played out over a three-day period. Coming into the final […]

Florida Drafts Bill for Intrastate Online Poker

A bill to legalize Florida online poker was filed today, setting out a plan to license and regulate sites offering real-money games within the state. HB 1441, The Internet Poker Consumer Protection and Revenue Generation Act of 2010, would, according to the 42-page bill, “create a framework for the state to regulate Internet poker sites […]

International Poker Federation Applies for Mind Sport Status

The International Poker Federation has issued a statement saying that rumours of its formal acceptance into the International Mind Sports Association are “premature”. The IPF says that despite rumours sweeping the Internet, “We are not there yet.” The statement goes on to say it is, “planning to apply to become a member of both Sportaccord […]

Greek Poker Player Stings Irish Bank

Achilleas Kallakis, the Greek property developer and poker enthusiast, has been remanded on bail until May 4 after being charged with conspiracy to defraud, forgery, fraud by false representation, money laundering, and deception yesterday. The Irish Independent newspaper today reported that Allied Irish Bank (AIB) lent Kallakis over €700 million over five years for blue […]

WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event: Day 4

The fourth day of the $10,000 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic no-limit hold’em main event took place today at Commerce Casino in Southern California. The final 72 players returned to the felt, and each of them was guaranteed to walk away with prize money. The tournament clock began with half an hour left in […]

Iowa Considers Intrastate Online Poker

Iowa, like most states across the U.S., is looking for revenue to shore up its state budget. A bipartisan group of state lawmakers are proposing intrastate poker legislation as a solution. According to Rep. Doug Struyk (R-Council Bluffs), who is part of a legislative group reviewing statewide gambling issues, 50,000 people in Iowa gamble online. […]

Full Tilt Poker Offering 'Fast $50' Bonus

Full Tilt Poker has been all about speed, recently. Not long after the introduction of Rush Poker — a poker variant that allows players to play hands up to four times more quickly — the site launched a Fast $50 bonus. Combined with the Rush Poker variant, players truly can unlock the Fast $50 bonus […]

EPT: Germany Event Hosted in Berlin for First Time

The PokerStars European Poker Tour has hosted a stop in Germany three times in previous seasons. Those first three stops took place in Dortmund and attracted fields of 493 players in 2007, 411 players in 2008, and 667 players in 2009. This year, the Germany stop has moved to the world-class city of Berlin, and […]

Online Poker: orionrg 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: $2,015,400 Entrants: 10,077 Places Paid: 1,440 Final Table Results: 1. orionrg — $255,429* 2. dean23price — $232,302* 3. Nick “mad.afurable” Behling — $145,108 4. Relhok — $100,770 […]

OnlinePokerNetwork and Connective Games Partner

OnlinePokerNetwork and Russian software provider Connective Games today announced a partnership which will see the former launch its new poker new on the latter’s platform. Connective Games chief executive officer Konstantin Zubarev said, “We are delighted to have partnered with OnlinePokerNetwork, which enables us to offer enhanced value to all our licensees. Initially the new […]

William Hill Poker Revenue Falls 14 Percent in 2009

William Hill, the publicly-quoted British bookmaker, has seen online poker revenue drop 14 percent to £21.3 million in 2009 from £24.9 million in 2008 as “customer attrition” from the company’s move to the iPoker network took its toll. Hill’s signed a deal with iPoker owner Playtech last year to revamp its online gaming business and […]

Belfast Man Wins Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Walsall

The Grosvenor Casino in Walsall played host to the £1,000 buy-in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) main event which attracted 207 players and turned out to be one of the toughest fields in the four-year history of the Tour. Down to 23 players, more than half of them had made it to a GUKPT final […]

WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event: Day 3

A total of 186 players returned to the Commerce Casino ballroom with one thing on their minds: Make the money. Only 72 players would earn a payday, which left the majority of the field on the outside looking in with nothing to show for their three-day effort. Coming into the day second in chips, Daniel […]

LAPT: Jose Barbero Wins Punta del Esta Main Event

The PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour just finished up its most recent tour stop in Punta del Esta, Uruguay, and the champion of the $3,500 no-limit hold’em main event was Team PokerStars pro Jose Barbero (pictured right). He came back from the shortest stack at the start of the final table to win, and he […]

WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event: Day 2

At the start of the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship many players complemented the tournament structure put together by Tournament Director Matt Savage and his tournament staff at the Commerce Casino. By the end of the night it was hard to tell that the structure was designed to give tournament […]

Poker TV: WSOP Europe Final Table Airs on Sunday

Author’s note: The final table of the WSOP Europe main event took place on Oct. 1, 2009. You can check out Card Player’s reports on the final table at the tournament’s landing page if you can’t wait to watch the television broadcast this Sunday night. The final table of the World Series of Poker Europe […]

WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event: Day 1

It seems that nobody told the players at the WPT L.A. Poker Classic that we were in a recession. A total of 745 players put up the $10,000 buy-in, creating a total prize pool of $7,152,000. The official number was 744 at first, but a late tournament entry was called in to bump the field […]

This Week in Poker -- Feb. 20-26

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: Harrison Gimbel — 3,000 2: Thomas Marchese — 2,880 (pictured right) 3: Tyler Reiman — […]

Online Poker -- Top Four Remain Unchanged in OPOY Race

Though some points were won, the top four in the Online Player of the Year race stayed strong this week, holding their lead over the rest of the field. Steve “gboro780” Gross and Casey “bigdogpckt5s” Jarzabek (pictured right) still lead the field by nearly 1,000 points, but are just 78 points apart from each other. […]