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More Luck Than Skill in Poker, Pennsylvania Court ClaimsIt’s a decision that will leave many poker players scratching their heads. “While the outcome of poker may be dependent on skill to some degree, it is predominantly a game of chance,” Judge Robert Freedberg wrote in an opinion last week. So yeah, if you’ve been making a living through poker, consider yourself blessed. Because […]
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The Story of Poker - James McManus Interviewed
James McManus, author of Positively Fifth Street and Word Series of Poker main event finalist tells CardPlayer.com about his new book Cowboys Full – The Story of Poker. What inspired you to write this book? While writing Positively Fifth Street, I researched the history of poker and was surprised to discover that, while historical events […]
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PaddyPowerPoker Announces New $20,000 Points RaceAs the PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Open 2010 prepares to kick off at the Burlington Hotel in Dubin, the site is already looking ahead to post-event when it will begin its Rakes’n’Ladders $20,000 Points Race. The race will run from Apr. 5 to May 2 with the top 100 Paddy Points earners sharing $5,000 each week. The […]
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PO07 KER Number Plate for Sale in UK
A unique car registration is up for sale in the UK and for £25,000 a fan of the felt can pick up P007 KER. Seller and Cardrunners pro Phil Shaw said, “Other plates with the same formulation have sold for much more (for example. RU55 ELL at £79k) and I am led to believe that […]
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Irish Poker Open 2010 Preview
The €3,200 + €300 buy-in PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Open 2010 kicks off today at 3.30 p.m. (local time) at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, and will play out over Easter weekend, finishing on Apr. 5. Hundreds of players have made the trip to the Irish venue, including familiar names previously confirmed such as Dan Harrington, Brian […]
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Latin American Poker Tour: Tournament Added in Lima
The PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour announced today that it has added a stop in Lima, Peru to the season three schedule. The $2,700 no-limit hold’em tournament will take place June 2-5 at the Atlantic City Casino in Peru’s capital city. There will be a number of side events offered at the LAPT Lima tour […]
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Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza II BeginsThe Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza II began today at the Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas. The tournament kicked off with a $340 no-limit hold’em event. The tournament series will host a total of 28 poker tournaments, and it will conclude when the $2,500 no-limit hold’em championship crowns a champion on April 26. You can check […]
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Bellagio Scraps All-Rebuy Poker Schedule for SeriesThe schedule for the 2010 Five-Star World Poker Classic at Bellagio was originally released in December, right at the conclusion of the Five-Diamond World Poker Classic. Due to lower-than-expected player turnout for the preliminaries in December, the decision was made to make all preliminary events no-limit hold’em tournaments with rebuys for the 2010 Five-Star tournament […]
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Charity Poker: Harman Nevada SPCA Tourney ApproachingThe fourth-annual Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament, benefiting the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) no-kill animal shelter, will take place on April 13 at the Venetian poker room in Las Vegas. The tournament will start at 5 p.m., and the event kicks off at 4 p.m. with a red carpet […]
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Online Poker: Kenneth "LoneHixx" Hicks 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: $372,000 Entrants: 372 Places Paid: 36 Final Table Results: 1. chaz-man-chaz — $93,000 2. JakeCombs — $59,520 3. jguthrie20 — $44,640 4. Gamehendge — $34,410 5. Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy — […]
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Marty Smyth’s WSOP Charity OfferThe World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions is the centre of much conversation and debate of late. Things have got a good bit more interesting for fans this side of the water however as Boylepoker has today announced its campaign to have its very own sponsored pro, Marty Smyth, voted in to a table […]
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PokerNations Charity Event on Full Tilt This Sunday
This Sunday at 2 p.m. (EST), PokerNations.com, a social network for poker players, is joining forces with online poker site Full Tilt and Poker Gives to run a $5 + $5 buy-in no-limit hold’em double stack charity event. $5 of the buy-in goes to the prize pool, and the other $5 to Poker Gives’ chosen […]
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World Poker Tour Bucharest Finds Final Nine
The first ever World Poker Tour Bucharest took place at the Novotel Bucharest City Centre Hotel in Romania, where 161 players turned up for the €3000 + €300 buy-in main event, creating a prize pool of €449,450. Recent WPT Hollywood Poker Open champ Carlos Mortensen [pictured right] had a deep run in this event also, […]
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SpadeClub Awarding Seats to 2010 WSOPA final table, nine players, thousands of fans, chips shuffling, the intimidating glares, and the anxiety of a killer hand. Have you daydreamed about that moment before? SpadeClub is making poker fantasies come true by awarding members with seats to the 2010 World Series of Poker††. For 2010, SpadeClub has something special in store, with […]
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WSOP Circuit: Bryan Devonshire Wins Rincon Main EventThe $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship event at the World Series of Poker Circuit stop at Harrah’s Rincon near San Diego, California, attracted 70 players. The tournament began on Monday, March 29, and it came to a close on Tuesday, March 30. Poker professional Bryan Devonshire won the event and he was awarded the top prize […]
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Isildur1 Reportedly Confirms for Televised Poker Cash GameWho is Isildur1? That question has plagued the poker world since the mysterious Swede burst into the world of high-stakes online cash games, winning and losing millions at a time against some of the best players in the game. While many have speculated that the online player is the young Viktor Blom, the 19-year-old has […]
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The State of Poker in FloridaEvery year, it seems like the state of Florida is debating its poker laws with a variety of competing interests at play — most notably, the powerful Native American tribes and a state legislature desperate to boost revenue. The laws governing poker have been discussed, changed, tweaked, and adjusted so much in the past two […]
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Facebook Poker Players Get New Provider
Facebook’s 11 million poker players today got a new option for playing with the news that software developer Enterra has launched its new poker room on the social networking site. The poker game is free-to-play on Facebook and is compatible with both Mac and PC platforms. Dmitry Starostenkov, chief executive officer of Enterra, said, “We […]
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Irish Open Poker Betting Market Takes ShapeWith just two days to go to the start of the PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Open, 13 players head the outright betting market at PaddyPower.com. Among the 66/1 shots are Ram Vaswani (pictured), Roland de Wolfe, Praz Bansi, Sorel Mizzi, Andy Black, Soren Konsgaard, and Nik Persaud. In the second tier at 80/1 are Dario Minieri, Dave […]
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Betsson Adds Entraction Poker NetworkScandinavian gaming operators Entraction and Betsson yesterday inked an agreement which will see bookmaker Betsson offer Entraction’s poker network platform to its 290,000 active players. The Entraction poker network will run parallel to Betssson’s existing poker network run by Ongame which is owned by German betting giant bwin. Magnus Silfverberg, chief executive officer of Betsson […]
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Five-Star World Poker Classic Begins at BellagioNOTE: The Five Star World Poker Classic preliminary schedule has been changed. Bellagio has decided to modify the all re-buy preliminary approach and all tournament series changes can be viewed on the tournament schedule page. The Five-Star World Poker Classic tournament series began today at Bellagio, and it will conclude with the World Poker Tour […]
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PokerStars Launches New Cash-Game Show on FOX
Some of the most entertaining poker on TV is the high-stakes cash games that are seen on High Stakes Poker and special episodes of Poker After Dark. Well, thanks to PokerStars, there’s now going to be another big cash game show on the air. In late March, the popular poker site announced that it would […]
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Poker Hand Discussion: What Would You 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 […]
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McDermott Introduces Poker Companion BillRep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) introduced an updated version of his poker tax bill late last week, adding a new tax that would specifically benefit state and tribal governments if Congress passed legislation to explicitly legalize and regulate online poker. “The major reason (for the updated bill) is to make it possible for states to have […]
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Brit Wins European Masters of Poker LisbonEnglishman Timothy Timotheau was awarded the top prize of €86,680 at the European Masters of Poker Lisbon, after beating 393 players including many top pros such as Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, Joao Barbosa, Johan Storakers, and former champion Anton Wigg. It took only six hands heads up between Timotheau and Lithuanian Povilas Purtokas to find a […]
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Watch Irish Open Live Tourney Video FeedPaddyPowerPoker.com has announced the return of its live web stream for this year’s Irish Open. The stream will kick off at start of play this Friday (3.30 p.m. local time, 7:30 a.m. PT) and will run until the winner’s presentation on Monday, Apr. 5. The live stream can be found here at CardPlayer.com and viewers […]
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World’s First Webcam Poker Site Launched
A Slovakian company, Tom Horn Enterprise, has developed what it says is “the world’s first online poker room with integrated webcams.” The use of webcams on FacePokerLive.com is not mandatory but Jim Harwey, managing director of Diamond Bay, who is a partner in the site along with the developer and the Czech-based Celebrity Poker Tour, […]
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World Poker Tour Bucharest UnderwayThe World Poker Tour Bucharest got underway yesterday and is the first major poker tournament held in Romania. The €3,000 + €300 main event is being held at the Novotel Bucharest City Centre Hotel in the capital and attracted a number of big names among its 161 entrants including WPT Hollywood winner Carlos Mortensen, Dragan […]
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NAPT: Mohegan Sun Tournament Series BeginsThe PokerStars North American Poker Tour has pulled into the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut for the next stop of season one. The $5,000 no-limit hold’em main event will begin on April 7, and it will crown a champion on April 11. There will also be a $10,000 no-limit hold’em high-roller bounty tournament that runs on […]
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Frenchman Wins EC Poker Tour Barcelona
Frenchman Fabrice Bachellez won the Euro City Poker Tour Barcelona on Sunday March 21 topping the 291 strong field in the €500,000 guaranteed, €2,500 buy in event. The final table payouts were: 1: Fabrice Bachellez (FRA) — €170,000 2: Rebecca Mordoff-Gerin (FRA) — €110,000 3: Andrew Grimason (IRE) — €65,500 4: John Eames (UK) — […]
