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Online Poker: tony6733 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: $1,874,200 Entrants: 9,371 Places Paid: 1,350 Final Table Results: 1. tony6733 — $267,640 2. Alex “He1en ke11er” Moore — $196,791 3. kvnok88 — $139,534 4. Galgeberg — […]

Full Tilt Launches WSOP Satellites

Full Tilt Poker has announced numerous ways to qualify for this year’s World Series of Poker main event, regardless of your wallet size. A total of 600 seats are on offer via various online qualifiers until Jun. 27 and those who qualify at the site and finish in the money will get a free seat […]

Team PKR Gets First Female Poker Player

The latest addition to Team PKR is Sofia “welllbet” Lövgren from Gothenburg, Sweden. The 20-year-old is a PKR cash game regular and since March 2008 she has become one of the site’s biggest earners from its group of female up-and-comers. The online cash game professional will now take on her first live tournament as part […]

Cuong Tran Takes Down GUKPT London

Vietnam-born, London resident Cuong Tran took down the third leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour in London after beating a 318-strong field including an extremely tough final table. Tran’s ultimate obstacle in the way of the £127,800 first prize was former Irish Open champion Neil Channing, but two vital hands went Tran’s way and […]

Negreanu Struggles on High Stakes Poker

Daniel Negreanu has lost a lot of money on High Stakes Poker. To be fair, the four-time bracelet winner has been incredibly unlucky. Over the history of the popular television cash-game series, he has lost a six-figure amount to opponents holding quads on three different occasions. And that’s just a small sample of the big […]

Sorel Mizzi Hits Double Jackpot in Austria

Although players dressed for the cold last week, high up in the snow-covered Austrian Alps, for the PokerStars European Poker Tour Snowfest, there was one player who just couldn’t run any hotter. Recent Card Player Europe cover star Sorel Mizzi didn’t have much luck in the main event, which was won in the end by […]

German Students Design Exciting New Poker Game

An invention by students from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany explores a different way for poker players to interact with each other in a game. The paper, written by the students was published on the ACM Portal, and discusses the student’s invention, Poker Surface, which combines multi-touch table and mobile phones in interactive card […]

Poker Grows in South Africa Prompting Legislation Debate

According to business news site, Business Report, the growing popularity of poker in South Africa has led to talk of changing existing legislation. At a Gambling Review Commission public hearing to review existing gambling policies, Attorney Nico Jagga spoke about the difficulties of policing the game in South Africa under current legislation and said that […]

Allan Baekke Wins European Poker Tour Snowfest

High up in the snow covered mountains of Saalbach-Hinterglemm in Austria, 546 poker players spent a week skiing, snowboarding, having snowball fights, and most importantly, playing poker. It was the first time the PokerStars European Poker Tour visited a place like the Alpine Palace, but it probably won’t be the last, with players from 48 […]

Pro-Filled Final Table Set at GUKPT London

The third leg of the 2010 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour kicked off on Mar. 18, with the £1,500 + £90 main event starting on Mar. 25, and it all ends later today with one lucky player going home with £127,800 for first place. The tenhanded final table starts at 2 p.m. (local time), and promises […]

This Week in Poker: March 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: Thomas Marchese — 3,506 2: Harrison Gimbel — 3,000 3: Tyler Reiman — 2,640 4: […]

Online Poker: Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies Dominates March

March is drawing to a close, but the high-stakes cash games on Full Tilt continue to draw players and crowds alike day in and day out. Let’s take a look at the biggest winners and losers on the month. Cole South entered the month up nearly $3.5 million in 2010, but March saw a significant […]

The Scoop: Catch Part II of the Interview with Huck Seed

Huck Seed talks about some of the interesting prop bets that he has taken part in during his career on this week’s episode of The Scoop (sponsored by Full Tilt Poker) on Card Player TV. Check out part two of his interview with Diego Cordovez for The Scoop on Card Player TV, and you can […]

Lithuania Declares Poker to be a Sport

Oftentimes it is the subject of a mindless debate — should poker be considered a sport? Well, that debate is unlikely to end now, but one country has decided that for its purposes, poker indeed does qualify as a sport. On March 20, the department of physical education and sports of Lithuania issued a decree […]

$50,000 Buy In World Team Poker Line Up Announced

The Golden Nugget Casino, Las Vegas is to host the $50,000 buy in World Team Poker event on May 19 this year. The event will see 40 of the world’s top pros battle it out in eight teams captained by Phil Hellmuth (Team USA) (pictured), Johnny Chan and David Chiu (Team China), Men “The Master” […]

iMEGA Member Comes Forward in Kentucky Poker Case

Yahtay Limited, the owner of the domain “truepoker.com,” has come forward and signed a public affidavit saying that it is indeed a member of the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association. iMEGA says that this should be enough to establish “standing” so that it may continue its case against the Commonwealth of Kentucky. “The owners […]

PartyGaming Signs French Online Poker Deal

PartyGaming, owner of PartyPoker, today announced a multi-year deal with French betting company PMU to provide it with an online poker service when the French market opens later this year. The PMU-branded company will come into existence when both companies obtain a French licence and will see PMU’s new online poker site share liquidity on […]

European Poker Tour Snowfest -- Day 4

On day 4 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Snowfest, high up in the Austrian alps, chip leader Allan Baekke [pictured right] didn’t waste a minute. In the very first hand, Nasr El Nasr, another strong force within the field, raised to 26,000 and Baekke reraised to 71,000. It was folded to El Nasr who […]

APPT: Binh Nguyen Wins Manila Main Event

The first event for season four of the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour has come to a close in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. The $2,700 no-limit hold’em championship event had a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million and it attracted a field of 431 players. A total prize pool of $1,042,750 was […]

Online Poker: Philip "USCphildo" Collins 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: $359,000 Entrants: 359 Places Paid: 36 Final Table Results: 1. Philip “USCphildo” Collins — $89,750 (pictured right) 2. 7IMLOVINIT7 — $57,440 3. PokerToronto — $43,080 4. Mike “CuteIsWhatIAim4” Telker — […]

Pippa Flanders Wins Women's World Open IV

Pippa Flanders, former winner of the World Open in 2006, has won the equivalent women’s version of the tournament taking down $30,000 in the PartyPoker Women’s World Open in the UK yesterday. The 24 player $3,000 buy-in tournament had a total prize pool of $72,000 and a six-seat final table. The full results from the […]

European Poker Tour Snowfest -- Day 3

Day 3 of the €3,500 buy-in PokerStars European Poker Tour Snowfest saw a handful of players fighting their way to the front and leading the charge. Those seated around these players felt their wrath, and many didn’t stand a chance on a day filled with casualties, suck outs, and hopes dashed. With 86 players returning, […]

PokerStars Expands UK and Ireland Poker Tour Dates

PokerStars.com has made some changes to its UK and Ireland Poker Tour which will see extra days added to both the Nottingham and Brighton stops. The Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham stop has expanded by two days and will now take place from May 12 to 17,2010 while the Rendezvous Casino, Brighton stop has been extended […]

European Masters of Poker Lisbon Starts Today

Casino Estoril is the place to be over the next few days (Mar. 25-28) as the European Masters of Poker pulls into Lisbon, Portugal, for its next stop. This is the third €1,100 buy-in EMOP event in season two with the most recent winner being Maciej Lipny – the Pole who took down EMOP Gran […]

Boylepoker.com Cheltenham Poker Freeroll Tonight

Boylepoker.com tonight hosts its Cheltenham poker freeroll for all Boylesports.com punters who placed a losing bet over $1/£1/€1 on any horse race at last week’s Cheltenham’s festival. The freeroll takes place this evening Thursday March 25 at 8 p.m. at Boylepoker.com with a total prize pool of €2,500 up for grabs. Boylepoker’s head of poker, […]

Carlos Mortensen Wins Hollywood Poker Open

Carlos Mortensen (pictured right) made history on March 24 when he won the World Poker Tour Hollywood Poker Open $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship event. It was the third time that Mortensen has won a WPT title, and it ties him with Gus Hansen for the most WPT victories ever. Mortensen won his first title at […]

UB.net Sends Players to Bellator Fights

Six weeks ago, Card Player brought you the story that UB.net was partnering with mixed martial arts giant Bellator Fighting Championships and becoming an exclusive sponsor for all nationally televised broadcasts. To celebrate their partnership, UB.net will now host a weekly special weekly Bellator freeroll from March 25th to June 24th, offering winners two cage-side […]

WPT: Hollywood Poker Open Day 4

The final table is set at the World Poker Tour Hollywood Poker Open, and Carlos Mortensen (pictured right) is the chip leader with 1,127,000. Mortensen is in the hunt for his third WPT title at his fifth final table on the tour. He won his first title at the Festa al Lago in 2004, and […]

Betfair Australia CEO Blasts Poker Rivals

Betfair Australia chief executive operator Andrew Twaits has published a stinging opinion on two of his company’s main poker rivals in Australia. Writing on his blog earlier this week Twaits bemoaned what he perceives as unfair practices by Betfair competitors. “A handful of the largest illegal operators are actively promoting their products in the Australian […]

Four World Champions Confirmed for Irish Open

PaddyPowerPoker.com has confirmed four former world poker champions will hit the felt at this year’s Irish Open being held in Dublin’s Burlington Hotel from April 2 to 5. Dan Harrington(pictured), Noel Furlong, and Jamie Gold – all former World Series of Poker main event winners – will be joined by former Irish Open winner and […]