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Ian Frazer Wins Final Premier League IV Seat

Ian Frazer will represent Team PartyPoker at this year’s Premier League after taking down the final place in a six-seat shootout against Bodo Sbrzesny, Remy Biechel, Felipe Ramos, Mike Sexton and special guest player Dragan Galic. The $100,000 buy-in event starts tomorrow and runs until Feb. 18 in Las Vegas. It will also feature David […]

PKR’s Valentine Gift to Poker Players

PKR and partner Nuts magazine have joined forces to create a $10 buy-in Valentine’s promotional tournament this Sunday with a twist. In addition to the winner taking down the prize pool, he (or she) will win a date with Nuts magazine cover star Lindsey Strutt. The tournament takes place at 8:15 p.m. on Sunday and […]

Online Poker: Julian Thew Signed to Team PokerStars Pro

PokerStars recently announced that poker professional Julian Thew will be the newest addition to Team PokerStars Pro as the site kicks off the UKIPT Manchester main event. “I’m thrilled to have been offered a spot on Team PokerStars Pro, and I look forward to promoting the brand on my travels throughout the year,” said Thew. […]

ANZPT: Adelaide Main Event Attracts 236 Players

The first event for season two on the PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour has drawn a field of 236 players and created a prize pool worth $644,280. The first-place finisher will walk away with $165,900. This tops the field from last year (215 players) by 10 percent, and there is $57,330 in additional prize […]

Lauren Kling Visits The Online Zone

Lauren Kling didn’t just learn poker while attending UC Berkeley, she actually taught it. In fact, the 24-year-old also threw a little blackjack into the mix, as well, while teaching the class for her studies in industrial engineering and business administration. The Orlando native began to consider poker as a career after graduation, and she […]

WSOP Circuit: Paul Wasicka Wins Tunica Championship

Paul Wasicka is back. The 2006 World Series of Poker main-event runner-up took down a $5,000 WSOP Circuit event today for his first major tournament win since his victory at the 2007 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. It also marks another success for well-known poker professionals, who have had a great start to 2010. Hoyt […]

Online Poker: Mike "sowerss" Sowers Wins 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: $354,000 Entrants: 354 Places Paid: 36 Final Table Results: 1. ronnyr37617 — $88,500 2. Jacob “bazeman” Bazeley — $56,640 3. railtard1 — $42,480 4. Nick “agriffrod” Mitchell — $32,745 (pictured […]

Betsson Poker Gross Profit Falls 17 Percent in 2009

Betsson, the publicly-quoted Swedish bookmaker and gaming operator, today announced full year 2009 gross profits from poker had fallen 16.8 percent to SEK131.9 million (€13.09 million) from SEK158.5 million (€15.7 million) in 2008. The drop is even more pronounced at 31.7 percent when compared to 2007 gross profit from poker which was SEK193 million. In […]

Team PokerStars Signs Julian Thew

PokerStars.com today announced it has signed Julian Thew to Team PokerStars pro. The Manchester-based European Poker Tour Baden winner in season IV joins John Duthie, Vicky Coren, and JP Kelly on the site’s UK roster and will kick off his new deal at the UK and Ireland Poker Tour Manchester event tomorrow. Thew said of […]

Euro Finals of Poker Diamond Championship Starts Today

The Euro Finals of Poker, currently underway at the Aviation Club de France, sees the €5,000 Diamond Championship main event start this evening with Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott returning to defend the title. The winners at the 14 event festival so far are: €500 buy-in no-limit hold’em warm up: Jerome Debrie — $14,401 €250 buy-in no-limit […]

One-On-One with Patrik Antonius: Part 2

Where there was action, there was Patrik Antonius. The Finnish pro took on anyone who was willing to face him at the high-stakes tables of Full Tilt in 2009, competing in the Durrrr Challenge against Tom Dwan and facing off against the nosebleeds’ newest competitor, Isildur1, even taking down the biggest pot in online history […]

Calif. Senate Talks Online Poker

Compromise will be key. That was the prevailing lesson that came out of Tuesday’s historic meeting in a California Senate meeting when approximately 30-35 presenters testified on the merits and obstacles of an intrastate online poker system in California. There were competing interests and differing viewpoints, to say the least. In attendance were international online […]

Poker Tournament Trail: Amit Makhija

Amit Makhija (pictured right) has had a successful poker career since he began traveling on the tournament trail in 2008. He has made final tables at both the World Series of Poker (fifth place at the 2008 $10,000 pot-limit hold’em world championship), and the World Poker Tour (second place at the 2008 Legends of Poker). […]

Shak Donates 10% of Winnings to Charity

Few tournament poker players have started out 2010 as well as Dan Shak has. Besides going deep and cashing in the PCA, Aussie Millions, and Borgata Winter Open main events, Shak beat Phil Ivey heads up to win the high-roller event in Australia to launch his 2010 winnings past $1.3 million. And we’re not even […]

Patrik Antonius Interview -- Part 1

No one had a better year online in 2009 than Patrik Antonius. One of the few poker players alive who is almost universally respected, revered, and even feared by his opponents, Antonius sits down with Card Player to discuss the ups and downs that come with being a high-stakes pro, what he expects for the […]

China Cracks Down on Online Poker and Betting

The Ministry of Public Security in China has launched a six-month campaign to clampdown on online poker and gambling according to China Daily. Eight government departments will co-operate to target, “major and severe cases, uproot domestic and foreign groups that organize online gambling, and severely punish criminals… underground banks and third-party payment platforms that provide […]

Pub Poker Booms in Britain

Redtooth, the UK-based pub poker operator, has seen turnover exceed £2 million, a jump of 20 percent according to Morning Advertiser, the pub trade weekly. The report says growth in live pub poker tournaments was 47 percent in 2009 with over 80,000 poker players now registered with the company. Director of the company Steve Saul […]

Estonia Gets First Licenced Online Poker Today

The Olympic Casino group will today launch the first regulated and licenced online poker room in Estonia according to Baltic Business News. The new site will be on the iPoker network and the licence was granted to Olympic Eesti on Jan. 21 by the Estonian Tax and Customs Board. Revenue from the online poker room, […]

Online Buy-In Open for EPT Berlin

PokerStars.com has launched a new online buy-in option for the European Poker Tour Berlin taking place in the German capital from March 2 to 7. In association with Hekticket and Spielbank players can now secure their main event entry a Hekticket.com EPT Berlin is expected to be one of the largest EPT events in history […]

Poker Tournament Trail: John Duthie

John Duthie (pictured right) founded the PokerStars European Poker Tour in 2004, and since that time he has watched it grow into one of the marquee poker tours in the world. Duthie is currently the CEO of the tour, which unfortunately leaves him little time to play at the tables. The poker professional entered his […]

Online Poker: DoylesRoom Brings Back $50K Bounty

This Wednesday, DoylesRoom will be bringing back their $50,000 bounty tournament and allowing their players to compete against some of the very best in the game. Not only is Doyle Brunson scheduled to play, but so is Mike “The Mad Genius” Caro and recent WPT champion Hoyt Corkins. (pictured right) Corkins won the WPT Southern […]

Bernard Lee Named Official Spokesperson for Foxwoods

Foxwoods Resort Casino announced today that Bernard Lee (pictured right) will be the official spokesperson for the property’s World Poker Tour-branded poker room for the next two years. “We’re thrilled to add Bernard Lee to the Foxwoods team,” said Mashantucket Pequot Gaming Enterprises (MPGE) President Michael Speller. “Bernard is such a compelling figure on the […]

Online Poker: UB.net Partners With MMA Company Bellator

Mixed martial arts and poker seem to be going hand in hand these days. With each fighter decked out like a Nascar driver, you are bound to catch more than a few advertisements for online poker sites in between all of the punching, kicking, and choking. UB has recently announced that it is throwing its […]

888 Poker Revenue Down 30 Percent in 2009

888.com today issued an interim statement with its key performance indicators for fourth quarter and full year 2009. Total operating income from poker for 2009 was $52 million, down 30 percent on the $74 million generated in 2008. Fourth quarter (Oct. to Dec. 2009) operating income from poker was $13 million, down 11 percent compared […]

Full Tilt Online Poker Series XV Schedule

Starting Wednesday, Full Tilt Poker is bringing back its quarterly tournament series with the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) XV. The popular series will be guaranteeing more than $17 million in prize money over the course of its 27-event run, including $2.5 million for the $500 buy-in main event. The money is, of course, […]

Devilfish to Defend Title at Euro Finals of Poker

DevilfishPoker.com has announced that its poker ambassador Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott is gearing up to defend his Euro Finals of Poker title at the Aviation Club de Paris this week. The €5,000 buy-in Diamond Championship title holder says, “I’m really looking forward to defending my title there after a nice break in the sun and going […]

Dusk Till Dawn Does Deal with Blonde Poker

Nottingham-based card room and online poker site, Dusk Till Dawn has struck a deal with online forum and former virtual card room Blonde Poker which will see the latter promote Dusk Till Dawn after it lost its own online poker site. Blonde Poker says it was forced off the iPoker network after the introduction of […]

WSOP Circuit: Tunica Championship Event Begins

The $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship at the World Series of Poker Circuit stop in Tunica, Mississippi, began today. The championship event comes at the tail end of a tournament series that featured 18 preliminary events. (Check out the results below.) All of the preliminary events spread no-limit hold’em at various buy-ins. The ladies no-limit hold’em […]

Poker Hand Discussion: What Would You Do With Jacks?

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: palurdo 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: $1,806,200 Entrants: 9,031 Places Paid: 1,350 Final Table Results: 1. palurdo — $248,791* 2. golferen50 — $198,789* 3. jeanphidh74 — $134,471 4. GulahPapyrus — $90,310 5. Fredrik […]