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Aussie MIllions: Obrestad, Mizzi Headline Final Table

World Series of Poker Europe’s 2007 main-event champion Annette Obrestad has made the final table of the Aussie Millions main event. Today, she will attempt to win her second major title, but she faces staunch competition in chip leader Sorel Mizzi and fellow pro Peter Jetten. Read the full recap below of how the final […]

Aussie Millions: Main Event Day 3

Day 3 at the 2010 Aussie Millions has come to a close at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. The $10,000 AUD no-limit hold’em tournament attracted 746 players overall, and just the final 18 are still in the race for the top prize worth $2 million. There were 83 players at the start of the […]

Online Poker: Nicolas Leger Takes Down Full Tilt $1K Monday

Thanks to the higher guarantees on Full Tilt Poker and the current UB Online Championship (UBOC) on the Cereus Poker Network, tournaments on nearly every site have benefited with larger fields and prize pools. Read the results for the $1,000 events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, and UB below. Full Tilt Poker — $1K Monday Buy-In: […]

Poker Revenues Boom at Leisure & Gaming

Leisure & Gaming Plc, the parent company of BetShop.com, today announced revenue from poker tournament fees jumped to €14.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2009, up significantly from the €2.7 million earned in the same period of 2008. The company said the average weekly participation in tournament fees had grown from €0.8 million per […]

Royal Cash Races at PaddyPowerPoker This February

Starting Monday Feb. 1 PaddyPowerPoker.com is rewarding its cash game players with over $2,500 in cash and prizes each week. The Royal Cash Race promotion will see players vie for their place on the weekly leader board based on the number of hands they play, the table stakes, and time spent at the tables with […]

Brunson and Benyamine Make Premier League Poker

Doyle Brunson and David Benyamine are the final two players to be added to the PartyPoker Premier League IV line-up in Las Vegas. The $100,000 buy-in event will take place from Feb. 12 to 18 and also will feature Roland de Wolfe, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Luke Schwartz, Tony G, Phil Hellmuth, and […]

Hoyt Corkins Wins WPT Biloxi

The final table at the 2010 World Poker Tour Southern Poker Championship took place on Wednesday, Jan. 27 at the Beau Rivage Hotel and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. The $10,000 no-limit hold’em tournament attracted 208 players overall, and DoylesRoom’s Hoyt Corkins (pictured right) walked away with the first-place prize worth $739,486. Corkins was the chip […]

Aussie Millions: Main Event Day 2

Day 2 at the 2010 Aussie Millions has ended at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. The $10,000 AUD no-limit hold’em tournament attracted 746 players overall and now just 80 remain in contention for the top prize worth $2 million AUD. Action played quick on day 2, almost 73 percent of the 294 players that […]

Poker Strategy: Brian Rast Talks About Semi-Bluffing in PLO

Victory Poker Pro Brian “tsarrast” Rast is most well known for his killer cash game skills and his highly analytical approach to pot-limit Omaha. When he’s not grinding online, he’s competing in the biggest cash games in Las Vegas. Rast sat down with Card Player to discuss a pot-limit Omaha hand he played recently. The […]

New Jersey Considers Online Poker Bill

While supporters of intrastate online poker in California are still trying to secure a legislator to sponsor their bill, a New Jersey state senator has introduced a bill in the Garden State that would grant licenses to Atlantic City casinos for online gambling. “There are probably 500,000 online poker players in New Jersey alone,” said […]

DragTheBar Acquires PokerSwat Online Poker Training Site

PokerSwat.com, the online poker training video site, has been acquired by start-up poker training site DragTheBar.com. DragTheBar will incorporate all of PokerSwat’s 240 training videos to its site over the next couple of months in a move that marks the first takeover of one poker training site by another. Hunter Bick, chief executive officer of […]

Irish Poker Open Tournament Structure Improved

PaddyPowerPoker.com yesterday announced it had tweaked the structure of the Irish Open 2010. The main event will now see two new levels – 1,200/1,400 and 2,500/5,000 – as well as longer blinds which are being increased from 60 minutes to 75 minutes from level seven onwards. The starting stack is 10,000 chips. Spokesman for the […]

WPT: Southern Poker Championship Day 3

Day 3 at the 2010 World Poker Tour Southern Poker Championship took place on Tuesday, Jan. 26 at the Beau Rivage Hotel and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. The $10,000 no-limit hold’em tournament attracted 208 players overall, and just the final table of six remain in contention for the first-place prize worth $739,486. The final table […]

Team Devilfish Hits European Masters of Poker Gran Canaria

Dave “Devilfish" Ulliott will tomorrow take part in the sold out European Masters of Poker Gran Canaria, leading his five-strong Team Devilfish in a charge to make a big impact on the €1,000 main event. Team Devilfish is made up of: Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott — UK Daniel “allin-tony” Boije — Finland Benedetto “DMTRX” Passantino — […]

Aussie Millions: Main Event Day 1

Day 1 at the 2010 Aussie Millions took place over three days beginning on Sunday, Jan. 24 and concluding tonight at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. The $10,000 AUD no-limit hold’em tournament attracted 746 players overall. The total prize pool for the event is $7.46 million, and the eventual champion will walk away with […]

Caesars Cup, Featuring Negreanu and Obrestad, Airs Sunday

Team Americas and Team Europe went head to head this summer in the first-ever Caesars Cup, and this Sunday at 11 p.m., the World Series of Poker Europe is returning to ESPN2, beginning with coverage of this event. This unique eight-player-per-team format began with captains of each respective team, Daniel Negreanu for Team Americas and […]

Online Poker: UB Online Championship Events No. 1-10

The fourth installment of the UB.com Online Championship is in full swing, and as of Tuesday, 10 events have been completed. The series has seen tremendous success thus far, with eight tournaments surpassing their guarantees. Recent PCA runner-up Tyler “KEEFKING420” Reiman took down the first event, pocketing $65,488 in a no-limit hold’em tournament. Other notable […]

PartyPoker Founder Sells Remaining Stake in Company

PartyGaming Plc founder, Anurag Dikshit, has sold his remaining stake in the company and plans to “move on” from the online gaming sector according to Bloomberg news agency. Dikshit, who was fined $300 million by U.S. authorities in 2008, sold his last tranche of 38.8 million shares at 270 pence each, netting himself £105 million. […]

iPoker Revenue Up 12 Percent in 2009

Playtech, owner of the iPoker network, today announced its key performance indicators for the final quarter and full year for 2009. Poker revenue was up 12 percent in the year to Dec. 31, 2009 to €33.8 million from €30.1 million for all of 2008.The rate of poker revenue growth in 2009 was significantly below that […]

Jake Cody Wins EPT Deauville Event

The PokerStars European Poker Tour now moves on from the Casino Barrière in Deauville to Casino Copenhagen in the Radisson SAS Scandinavia Hotel. But not before a successful and exciting event is celebrated. The EPT Deauville attracted 768 players, most of whom were French, but in the end, a 21-year-old first-time EPT-er, Jake “neverbluff67” Cody […]

Ladbrokes Poker Customer Data Compromised

British bookmaker Ladbrokes has confirmed that a “limited amount” of its customer data has been stolen. On Sunday UK newspaper the Daily Mail reported it had been approached to buy the details of 10,000 Ladbrokes customers while also being offered access to its database of 4.5 million people in the UK and abroad. The paper […]

WPT: Southern Poker Championship Day 2

Day 2 of the 2010 World Poker Tour Southern Poker Championship took place on Monday, Jan. 25 at the Beau Rivage Hotel and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. The $10,000 no-limit hold’em tournament attracted 208 players overall, and 106 returned for day 2. The field played down to the final 27 players this evening and the […]

Poker Players Donate $1.5 Million to Haiti

Time and time again, the poker community has shown its generosity when it comes to charitable donations. Charity poker tournaments are run virtually every week in casinos all around the world, as both recreational players and pros alike consistently give to worthy causes. After a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti earlier this month, more than […]

Online Poker: Juan Maceiras Barros Wins 2nd Sunday Million

Juan Maceiras Barros (pictured right), also known as vietcong01, joined an exclusive club early Monday morning when he took down his second PokerStars Sunday Million tournament. The Spaniard took home $255,954 for the outright win, putting his career earnings at over $1.3 million. When Barros won the Sunday Million in July of 2007, he picked […]

European Poker Tour Deauville -- Day 4

Day 4 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Deauville in the Casino Barriere saw 24 players return from an original field of 768, with 16 more to lose before end of play. Lots of big names were in the lineup for the €847,000 first prize, including Bertrand Grospellier, Freddy Deeb (pictured right), Peter Eastgate, and […]

PartyGaming Confirms Merger Discussions

PartyGaming confirmed on Friday it was in discussions with a number of companies regarding a merger. The owner of PartyPoker and the World Poker Tour, which recently announced a partnership for online poker with Danish gaming monopoly Danske Spil, said in its statement, “Further to recent press speculation, the Board of PartyGaming Plc confirms that […]

Priyan de Mel Wins His Second GUKPT Title

Priyan de Mel has won his second Grosvenor UK Poker Tour title topping the field of 146 players in the £1,000 main event to take home the top prize of £44,600. At the end of 2009 de Mel won the GUKPT Blackpool title and is just the third player to win two GUKPT main events. […]

PaddyPowerPoker Launches Double Up Poker Promotion

Double up single table tournament players are being rewarded this February at PaddyPowerPoker.com with $250,000 in cash prizes for players at all levels. The Double Up Sparkling STT promotion features four weekly counting periods starting Feb. 1 in three categories: $1-5, $10-30, and $50+. Paddy Power, spokesman for the company, said, “There’s a quarter of […]

WPT: Southern Poker Championship Day 1

Day 1 of the 2010 World Poker Tour Southern Poker Championship took place on Sunday, Jan. 24 at the Beau Rivage Hotel and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. The $10,000 no-limit hold’em tournament attracted 208 players, and after the first six levels of play, just 106 remained in the hunt for the first-place prize worth $739,486. […]

Aussie Millions: Shak Beats Ivey for $1.2M

The 2010 Aussie Millions $100,000 AUD no-limit hold’em challenge began on Saturday, Jan. 23 at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament attracted a field of 24 talented poker professionals, and the total prize pool was a handsome $2.4 million. The top five players would walk away with prize money in the event, and […]