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Online Poker: TheAres Wins Full Tilt Monday $1K
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: $402,000 Entrants: 402 Places Paid: 45 Final Table Results: 1. TheAres — $100,500 2. tomasiuxxx — $62,310 3. bonglim — $46,230 4. J4est — $36,180 5. Zachary “HustleGrune” Gruneberg — […]
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Poker Domains in Jeopardy After RulingIt was a case that iMEGA and many in the poker industry said they expected to win. They had won at the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and they didn’t think it would be any different at the highest court in the state. But today, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that iMEGA and the Interactive Gaming […]
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Chelsea F.C. Owner Wins Poker Libel Case
Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich has won an apology and substantial libel damages from Italian newspaper La Repubblica which last year wrongly claimed he had lost a yacht in a poker game. Abramovich claimed, through his solicitor in a London court, that the allegations which included relationship difficulties arising from gambling online, had caused […]
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Be Top of The Dogs at LadbrokesPoker
LadbrokesPoker’s latest promotion, Top of the Dogs, sees those who finish in the top 100 in any of the site’s two MTT leader boards, two weekly cash races, or two weekly sit ‘n’ go races during March, get entered into a draw to win a place on the Ladbrokes Poker Cruise IV. The cruise features a […]
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Playtech's Poker Revenues Continue to Climb in 2009
Gaming software developer, Playtech, has announced its full year results for the year ending 31 Dec. 2009, which see a positive outcome for poker overall. Poker revenues increased by 12 percent from €30.1 million in 2008 to €33.8 million in 2009. This growth is said to be largely due to the success of Playtech’s Italian […]
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Euro City Poker Tour Pulls Into BarcelonaThe Euro City Poker Tour hits its first stop of 2010 today in Barcelona, kicking off with a €100 + €15 buy-in super satellite with rebuys and an exclusive welcome party later tonight at Club Shoko, close to the location of the tournament, the Gran Casino de Barcelona. The €500,000 guaranteed, €2500 + €250 buy-in […]
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Strong Early Voting for WSOP's TOCSo far, the World Series of Poker is quite pleased with the fan turnout for its first Tournament of Champions since 2006. In the first 24 hours that fans could say who they wanted to be in the exclusive 27-person field, more than 40,000 votes had been cast. “In just 24 hours, the poker community […]
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Wynn Poker Classic Championship: Day 2
After day 2 of the Wynn Poker Classic Championship, the players still are not in the money. The final 125 players returned to the poker room at the Wynn to play down to the final table of nine, but the structure was so slow and the players so deep-stacked that tournament officials were forced to […]
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Foxwoods Poker Classic BeginsThe Foxwoods Poker Classic began on Saturday, March 13 with a $200 no-limit hold’em shootout event. The tournament series will run between now and the conclusion of the $3,500 no-limit hold’em championship event March 28. “A few unique things about the tournament this year: we dropped the championship event buy-in down to $3,500 due to […]
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EPT Berlin Suspect Surrenders To PoliceA 21-year-old man suspected of taking part in the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Berlin robbery earlier this month has given himself up to police according to The Press Association. The suspect has been in custody since Monday night but is refusing to give law enforcement officers information about his co-conspirators or where the €240,000 in […]
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Steve 'gboro780' Gross Joins Brunson 10The greatest online tournament player in the world has just found a home with DoylesRoom as the newest member of the Brunson 10. In 2008, Steve “gboro780” Gross finished runner-up in Card Player’s Online Player of the Year race to Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis. In 2009, he finished atop the leader board to lock in OPOY […]
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Wynn Poker Classic Championship: Day 1
Though the Wynn Poker Classic Championship may have been flying under the radar a bit this month, there’s no denying that the $5,000 main event is a success after drawing a strong field of 242 players. Last year’s champion, Keith “DaMurdera” Ferrera (pictured left), spent most of the day on the featured stage overlooking the […]
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Brian Hastings Beats Isildur1 For $1.5 MillionStill reeling after taking a $1.6 million beatdown from Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, high-stakes unknown Isildur1 got back on the horse and almost immediately turned things around by winning $535,000 from Patrik Antonius and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies. Most of that score came from Antonius, who is perhaps the only player running worse than the mystery Swede […]
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Iowa Unlikely to Pass New Poker LawEarlier this month, Iowa joined the running to become the first state in U.S. to pass legislation that would explicitly legalize and regulate online poker within its borders. But after two weeks of discussions, one thing seems obvious: online poker legislation will not be passed in Iowa — at least, not now. “It’s abundantly clear […]
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Ongame Poker Network Consolidates Italian Partners
Ongame today announced the launch of its “first regional online poker network” by consolidating its seven partners in Italy onto the same software to allow shared liquidity. The seven companies — BetPro.it, bwin (which owns Ongame), Casino di Venezia, Fast Poker, Gioco Digitale (which bwin bought last year), Gmatica and SportingBet.it – moved onto the […]
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Ladbrokes Launches Online Poker in Italy
Online poker network Microgaming launched its service in Italy yesterday with Ladbrokes Poker the first operator to go live in the market. The company has received its licence from regulatory body AAMS and is working with local companies to ensure a customised experience for Italian poker players. Negotiations for other Microgaming online poker rooms to […]
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Boylepoker Turns Cheltenham Losers into Possible WinnersFor those looking to take a punt on the races, Boylepoker has an offer not to be refused. Anyone who places a losing bet on the Cheltenham horse racing festival at Boylesports.com, which is more than $1/£1/€1, will get the chance to play in a special €2,500 freeroll. The races kick off today Tuesday March […]
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New Poker After Dark Features $50,000 buy-in Cash GameThe new episode of NBC’s Poker After Dark will feature a $50,000 buy-in cash game with some of the biggest and most entertaining names in poker in the mix. The six players that will be featured are Phil Hellmuth, Mike Matusow, Chris Ferguson, Antonio Esfandiari, Brandon Adams, and Todd Brunson. Blinds will begin at $100-$200 […]
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WSOP Circuit: Roland Isra Wins Caesars Atlantic City EventThe $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship event at the World Series of Poker Circuit stop at the Caesars Palace in Atlantic City attracted 174 players and created a prize pool worth $817,015. The eventual winner of the event that began on Friday, March 12 was 52-year-old poker player Roland Isra (pictured right), who took home the […]
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Poker Hand Discussion: What Would You Do with Two Pair?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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PokerStars Americas Cup of Poker BeginsPlay poker, represent your country, and win cash — what’s not to like, right? Monday marks the kickoff of the 2010 PokerStars Americas Cup of Poker. In Americas Cup, online poker players from across the Western hemisphere will vie to qualify to represent their respective countries in a live event alongside representatives from Team PokerStars […]
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Dwan Bluffs Ivey in High Stakes PokerDaniel Negreanu bemoaned his bad luck as his hand couldn’t hold up either time after he decided to run it twice. Dario Minieri sheepishly grinned and sped to the exit after his all-in bluff was quickly picked off by Tom Dwan. Jason Mercier let out a deflated sigh when Phil Ivey made a difficult, correct […]
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Steve Gross and Casey Jarzabek Score Sunday Wins
It was a good weekend for many of online poker’s most notable players. The biggest story came from Steve “gboro780” Gross, who extended his lead in the Card Player Online Player of the Year race by winning the $100 rebuy on PokerStars for $85,921. He now has $471,000 in online winnings for 2010 and is […]
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World Series of Poker Brings Back Tournament of ChampionsFor the first time since 2006, the World Series of Poker will host a Tournament of Champions. The freeroll will feature 27 players and a $1 million prize pool, with $500,000 reserved for the winner. “We’re thrilled to reinvent (the Tournament of Champions) around a model that should elevate the game by engaging millions of […]
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Durrrr Vs. Ziigmund Poker Game Tonight on Sky Sports
Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies take to the felt across Europe tonight on Sky Sports 3 and HD3 at 10 p.m. (GMT) playing pot-limit Omaha. The cash game was filmed last year as part of the Full Tilt Million Dollar Challenge at Les Ambassadeurs, London. Eddie Hearn, managing director of Matchroom Sport which […]
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Paul Pham Wins Black Belt London Live
The winner of the Black Belt London Live which took place this weekend at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London was local Frenchman Paul Pham. He beat Karim Louis heads up to take home $15,000 and the title. Louis check-raised a flop of J 10 7 and then Pham made his ultimate move. Louis called […]
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Police Let EPT Berlin Robbery Suspect Go Without Charge
According to German news site, The Local, the person arrested on Friday on suspicion of being involved in the PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin raid last week was allowed to walk free the very next day. The 29-year-old man who was arrested in connection with the armed robbery on the Grand Hyatt hotel on Potsdamer […]
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Poker for the Homeless March Madness II Raises €15,000The PaddyPowerPoker.com Poker for the Homeless March Madness II weekend held at Dublin’s Jackpot Club has proved a roaring success raising close to €15,000 for charity across the two days play. Numbers for the Friday night €100 freezeout were up from 93 to 97 (€1,940 raised for charity) with a further €1,430 raised by Phil […]
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Team Devilfish EMOP Lisbon FinalDave “Devilfish” Ulliott is to lead a second Team Devilfish to the €1,100 buy-in European Masters of Poker Lisbon from March 25 to 28. Fresh off a recent jaunt to EMOP Gran Canaria where Ulliott headed a team of six DevilfishPoker.com players, the site has announced Team Devilfish will return in Lisbon with the grand […]
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Pappas Discusses Intrastate Online Poker and the UIGEA
Earlier this week, PPA Executive Director John Pappas said that he remained optimistic that significant progress regarding Barney Frank’s poker bill would likely come this spring, if not by the end of the month. Below, he answers questions on other federal legislation, the UIGEA, and the chances intrastate online poker regulation will come before federal […]
