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Ashton Griffin Wins NAPT High-Roller

Ashton Griffin has taken down the first PokerStars North American Poker Tour high-roller shootout championship. Griffin came out on top of the winner-take-all tournament to take home a total of $560,000. The $25,000 event had a unique format. A total of 49 players entered, each competing at a seven-handed table for the honor of moving […]

The Poker Show Live Returns Next Week

Online poker radio show, The Poker Show Live, sponsored by Boylepoker.com is coming back next week for its third season. Continuing as it started, the line-up for this season is no less than spectacular. The first shows were prerecorded at the Premier League IV in Las Vegas and feature a full review of the event […]

Success in Poker But Not in Love at Ladbrokes

Ladbrokes Poker’s first ever Valentine’s Day poker tournament attracted hundreds of players and was a complete success. Although, same could not be said of any much hoped for matches made in poker heaven. Kevin Quinlan from Portsmouth beat 2,000 opponents and was named the highest male scorer. He then had to face the highest female […]

PartyPoker Signs Francesco Totti and Dragan Galic

This week PartyPoker made two new exciting signings – an Italian football hero and a rising star in the world of poker. Football fans and even many of those not so sporty know of the name Francesco Totti. The legend will now act as an ambassador of PartyPoker.it and will play there exclusively. To celebrate […]

PPA Weighs in on Intrastate Poker Efforts

California. Florida. Massachusetts. New Jersey. Iowa. Those may not have been the battlegrounds that the Poker Players Alliance expected itself to be fighting on, but they are where the battles have been fought, as several state governments are considering regulating the online poker industry within their borders. Hungry for additional revenue in these difficult financial […]

WPT: L.A. Poker Classic Begins Friday

The World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship event begins tomorrow at the Commerce Casino in Southern California. The tournament will begin at noon PST and will crown a winner on Thursday, Mar. 4. Card Player’s live reporting team will be providing full live coverage along with videos from Card Player TV […]

Watch NAPT $25,000 High Roller Final Table Now

While the 2010 PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour Venetian main event is officially in the books, the $25,000 buy-in invitational high-roller bounty shootout tournament concludes today, and you can follow the action live here. The coverage includes the NAPT Live video feed and live updates provided by the PokerStars blog. Video coverage starts very soon […]

Evan "DonkeyWrenn" Wrenn Wins PokerStars Super Tuesday

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: $311,000 Entrants: 311 Places Paid: 36 Final Table Results: 1. S_Dot111 — $65,250* 2. Bryn “OneUponAStar” Kenney — $62,260* (pictured right) 3. 747wd — $37,320 4. Tom “hitthehole” Middleton — […]

bwin Poker Revenue Jumps 26 Percent in 2009

bwin today announced its interim financial results for 2009 with gross poker revenue for the full year up 26.1 percent to €118.8 million from €94.2 million in 2008. Of this, Gioco Digitale, the Italian poker operator which bwin bought last year, contributed €12.8 million. Last year the company saw gross poker revenues rise 14 percent. […]

Harrah's May Launch Initial Public Offering in 2013

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Harrah’s Entertainment, Gary Loveman, spoke this week of a possible initial pubic offering (IPO) of the company in 2013. Harrah’s Entertainment turned private in January 2008 when it was bought by the Texas Pacific Group (TPG) and Apollo Global Management LP for $90 a share in a deal worth $17.1 […]

PaddyPowerPoker Holds Its Biggest Irish Open Satellite

Just after announcing its partnership with Dusk Till Dawn card club to hold a live seven-seat guaranteed super satellite in the weeks running up to this year’s Irish Open, PaddyPowerPoker.com is at it again, only this time there are 20 seats guaranteed and the battle will take place on virtual felt. The €300 + €20 […]

Gaming Restrictions in Austria and Sweden Questioned

Austria and Sweden have been critisised by European Court of Justice Advocate Generals for their gaming restrictions, including those on poker, this week. Advocate General Jan Mazák said the current monopoly situation in Austria was, “direct discrimination against companies who are seated in another member state” and pointed out the need for gaming sector licenses […]

LA Poker Classic: Chris Moore Wins Heads-Up Championship

Do you believe in miracles? Well, you would have to if you thought this could happen two years in a row. Chris Moore (pictured right) won the winner’s side of the bracket at the 2010 L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 heads-up no-limit hold’em championship event and Vivek Rajkumar won the loser’s side of the bracket once […]

Tom Marchese Wins NAPT Main Event

The 2010 PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour Venetian Main Event is officially in the books and the champion is Tom “kingsofcards” Marchese. Marchese overcame a 2-1 chip deficit heads-up to take down runner-up Sam “KingKobeMVP” Stein for the title. The $827,648 payday was the largest score of Marchese’s short career, though he recently did make […]

Alex Kamberis Joins DoylesRoom's Brunson 10

The rumors are true. Card Player’s former Online Player of the Year has found a new home with DoylesRoom as the newest member of the Brunson 10. Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis ran away with the award in 2008, beating runner-up Steve “gboro780” Gross by nearly 1,500 points. In his short career, the 23-year-old has already earned […]

Spring Championship of Online Poker Schedule Released

PokerStars has released the Spring Championship of Online Poker schedule for 2010. The 33-event festival which features various formats and buy-in levels will kick off on May 3 and run until May 16, finishing with the main event. Overall, a massive $36 million is guaranteed in prize money. With three different buy-in levels for each […]

L.A. Poker Classic: $10,000 Heads-Up Day 1

The $10,000 heads-up no-limit hold’em championship event at the 2010 L.A. Poker Classic began today at Commerce Casino in Southern California. The tournament attracted a field of 39 players, and a random draw for initial pairings began the day. Seven preliminary matches would determine the final spots in the winners bracket of 32 players to […]

Live Irish Open Super Satellite Set for Nottingham

PaddyPowerPoker.com has partnered up with Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn card club for a live Irish Open super satellite on Mar. 19 at 8 p.m. The £100 buy-in rebuy event guarantees seven seats worth €3,500 (circa £3,150) each in the highly anticipated Irish Open which takes place over four days at the Burlington Hotel from Apr. […]

Poker Players Flush Out Fake Tann From Facebook

A well-loved character from the poker community has been the victim of a Facebook scam. When users of the social networking site began receiving requests from who they thought was Willie Tann for a loan of various small amounts of money for his poker accounts, and also requests for site money exchanges, suspicion arose. The […]

Freeroll to EMOP Lisbon at Entraction

Players are still trying their hands at winning seats this month in the European Masters of Poker (EMOP) Lisbon which kicks off on Mar. 25. Time is of the essence at the Entraction network with the expiry date on its VIP point freerolls and EMOP Challenge almost up. There are three VIP-point freerolls left with […]

Watch the Final Table of the NAPT Venetian Right Now

While the final table of the NAPT Venetian main event won’t be broadcast on ESPN2 until April, you can see it live right now on Card Player’s NAPT live feed. Watch the final few players of the NAPT compete for a first-place prize of $827,648. Day 4 Recap The final table of the PokerStars North […]

NBC National Heads-up Poker Championship

After weeks of speculation, the full list of professional and celebrity names was announced today for the upcoming NBC Heads-up Poker Championship. The list contains many familiar names to past NBC championships, but there are a number of new faces this year as the invitation committee decided to bring in a bunch of players who […]

PaddyPowerPoker Player Hits Mega Jackpot

A PaddyPowerPoker.com regular, Phil “flukesfla” Flavin has pulled off a fantastic feat and earned $110,000 in the process. Flavin finished first in six consecutive $50 buy-in Fort Knox Jackpot Sit ‘n’ Go tournaments, and walked away with the biggest jackpot prize ever won by a PaddyPowerPoker player. Flavin also won an Irish Open 2010 package […]

RealDealPoker Confirms What Its Players Want

RealDealPoker.com, a poker site which made news late last year for its Cut N’ Shuffle system, its use of burn cards, and its post-game auditing system, has conducted a questionnaire among players who have already signed up before the site’s launch in March. The questionnaire was created in order to find out how people feel […]

PokerStars.net NAPT Venetian: Day 3

It was payday on day three of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour Main Event at the Venetian. A total of 149 players had survived up until that point, but only 128 would actually make the money. The short stacks quickly found themselves on the rail and it wasn’t long before the tournament moved to […]

Full Tilt Poker Celebrates with Fast $50 Bonus

Full Tilt Poker is now offering a Fast $50 bonus to all of its players in celebration of the introduction of its revolutionary poker format, Rush Poker. Players who have made a deposit previously but who currently do not have an active bonus can accept their Fast $50 bonus immediately. Other players have until 11:59 […]

Poker Hand Discussion: What Should We Do with Kings?

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 […]

Online Poker: Raj 'BadcardsAA' Vohra Wins FTOPS Event

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) went out with a bang on Sunday as the series concluded its 15th installment. The biggest winner of the weekend was Raj “BadcardsAA” Vohra, who took down the $2,500 two-day event for $430,000. Online Player of the Year front runner Steve “gboro780” Gross went deep in the event, […]

Online Poker: RichieRichZH Wins PokerStars Sunday Million

It was a monster weekend in the world of online poker. The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) XV came to an exciting end with their main event. The eventual winner was JackQKA, who walked away with $237,643 after a seven-way chop. As big as that payout sounds, it pales in comparison to the PokerStars […]

Isildur1 Discussed on High Stakes Poker

The second episode of the sixth season of High Stakes Poker on GSN didn’t quite have the fireworks on the felt that the season premiere had — with 11-time Phil Hellmuth dramatically going bust halfway into the episode and refusing to rebuy — but there was plenty of action and an interesting bit of table […]