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PKR Heads Up Grand Slam Features Devilfish Tonight

Tonight at 10 p.m. on SKY Sports 2 and HD 2, DevilfishPoker’s ambassador David Ulliott and young Welsh pro John Tabatabai can be seen taking each other on in the PKR Heads Up Grand Slam. The 32-player event which has a prize pool of $350,000 of which sponsor PKR added $30,000 began its run on […]

Hungarian Wins Greek Poker Tour Main Event

For the first time in Greek Poker Tour history, there were no Greek players at the final table of this season’s second main event. A Hungarian, Zsolt Feher, was crowned champion but he was not to take home the most money. Due to a deal made eighthanded, and then again threehanded, Austrian Bari took home […]

Aussie Millions Poker Series Gets Started Down Under

The 2010 Aussie Millions began on Thursday, Jan. 14 at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, with a $1,100 AUD buy-in no-limit hold’em event. The first tournament of the popular series attracted a large field of 1,143 entrants and generated a prize pool worth $1.1 million AUD. It set a record as the largest live […]

Bodog Sponsors CP's Player of the Year

With a good few weeks of live tournaments under their belts, poker pros around the world already starting to rack up points in the 2010 Card Player Player of the Year race. With a recovering worldwide economy and some new poker tours debuting, this year could sport some huge events. Given all of that, this […]

Online Poker: DoylesRoom Puts Bounties on Brunson 10

It’s no secret that online bounty tournaments have exploded in popularity in the last couple years, and now DoylesRoom is rewarding its players with extra monetary incentives for playing in their new bi-weekly bounty tournament, “Beat the Brunson 10.” The action kicks off Monday night at 9 p.m. ET Jan. 18, and will continue every […]

Online Poker: AceQuad 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: $1,777,000 Entrants: 8,885 Places Paid: 1,350 Final Table Results: 1. AceQuad — $253,755 2. yurabond — $186,585 3. Jonathan “IveGotToeJam” Wein — $132,297 4. DRKP — $88,850 […]

A Poker Life -- Alexandre Gomes

As poker spreads across the globe, superstars are emerging in many of the flourishing markets. In Brazil, few poker players are as well known as Alexandre Gomes. In just two years as pro, Gomes has claimed both World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour titles. In all, he’s accumulated more than $3 million in […]

Final European Masters of Poker Qualifiers Tonight

The European Masters of Poker rolls into Casino Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands from Jan. 28 to 31, 2010 and the event has now sold out its 260 seats with just the final eight seats avilable in the last €200 buy in qualifier tonight, Sunday Jan. 17 at 20:40 CET. Qualification is now underway […]

Poker and Horse Racing at the Irish Open with Betfair

Betfair is getting in on the upcoming Irish Open action by bringing every one of its online qualifiers (plus a guest) to a free VIP day at the races to watch the Irish Grand National on the Bank Holiday Monday of the poker-filled Easter weekend. The only qualifiers left out of the day out will […]

2010 Online Poker Series Round-Up

Once upon a time, a tournament pro struggled to find a poker series worth playing in. Legitimate tournament series were few and far between, and even when there was a tournament going on, he or she would inevitably wonder, “Would enough players show up? Would there be a decent prize pool?” Never mind the fact […]

Ladbrokes Launches Poker Cruise IV

LadbrokesPoker.com yesterday announced the launch of the Ladbrokes Poker Cruise IV which will set sail from Port Everglades, Florida, USA for a week-long trip around the Caribbean in January 2011. Players can qualify now at the site from as little as £4.40 for a £4,000 package which includes an ocean view balcony cabin for the […]

Under The Gun Poker Q & A: Jason Mercier

Card Player spoke to Jason Mercier as he juggled European Poker Tour Barcelona and World Championship of Online Poker events for a few quick fire questions about some lighter issues in his poker life. Rebecca McAdam: Favourite hand? Jason Mercier: I don’t have one, I never fold (laughs). Q-9 of spades. RM: Favourite take away […]

Heartland Poker Tour: Season 6 Launches in Las Vegas

The Heartland Poker Tour will begin season six with one of its most ambitious tour stops ever. The HPT Vegas Vacation began earlier this week in Las Vegas at Red Rock Casino and on Saturday, it will feature a $1,100 no-limit hold’em main event. The tournament series will also host a HPT/DAV Celebrity Charity Event […]

Microgaming Poker Network Acts Against Datamining

Online gaming software provider Microgaming has announced that it is making moves to prevent datamining. Players will no longer be able to download hand histories in bulk or store them on their computer from observed tables. Andrew Clucas, Head of Poker at Microgaming Software Systems, said, “Concern has been rising over the long-term effect of […]

PartyPoker Team Expands as Does Premier League Line-Up

A lot of moving and shaking is going on this week at PartyPoker.com. First of all, Kara Scott has signed a deal with PartyPoker which will see her representing the site as a Canadian in various major tournaments worldwide (including Canadian Poker Tour events). She will also resume the role she is most known for, […]

Freeroll into Irish Poker Open 2010

PaddyPowerPoker.com is offering even more ways to get to the 2010 Irish Open, scheduled to begin on Apr. 2 at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin. Now is the chance to qualify for free with the site’s new Irish Open freeroll tournaments, where tokens for super satellites can be won. Each day from Thursday through to […]

William Reynolds Wins PCA High Roller Event

The final table of the $25,000 high roller no-limit hold’em championship at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure began a little after noon EST today in the Bahamas. The final-table bubble took many long hours the night before and the unfortunate bubble girl was Team PokerStars pro Sandra Naujoks. The final eight players had fought long […]

Poker Sites Matching Haiti Donations

Devastated by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, the country of Haiti is reeling as tens of thousands are likely dead and many more injured or without necessities. As relief and rescue efforts come into the country, many people around the world are wondering what they can do to help out. Always charitable, the poker community has […]

Poker Strategy: Reynolds vs. Raymer

William Reynolds is a young pro from Sioux City, Iowa, whose biggest score to date is a fourth-place finish in the 2009 European Poker Tour San Remo event for $490,000. He competed in the $25,000 high-rollers event at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and got into a big hand with 2004 World Series of Poker […]

Chinese Taipei Win World Cup of Poker VI

Croatia may have gone into the final day of the PokerStars World Cup of Poker VI as chip leader, but in the end it was the Chinese Taipei team consisting of Wan Hsan Lai, Wen-Hao Pan, Tsu-Chi Wang, Tseng Wei Ming, and captain Raymond Wu who rose to the top after almost 10 hours of […]

Titan Poker Launches Sportsbook

Euro Partners, an affiliate program for Playtech licensees, is tapping into the world of sports betting with Titanbet.com. This new online sportsbook platform comes from the makers of Titan Poker and is the first platform of this kind to be produced by software developer Playtech. Euro Partners Marketing VP, Marc Kenigsberg , said, “Euro Partners […]

DoylesRoom.com Eyes European Online Poker Market

DoylesRoom.com yesterday announced it was planning a major European expansion in 2010 though a variety of overseas partnerships. Will Griffiths, president of the online poker room which sponsors UK player Chris Moorman, said, “We’re all really excited about what we have planned for Europe in 2010, from both an affiliate relationship standpoint and in terms […]

Win Place on Team Devilfish for EMOP Gran Canaria Tonight

Dave Ulliott invites online poker players to shoot for a spot on Team Devilfish at European Masters of Poker Gran Canaria tonight, January 14 at 8 p.m. GMT (21:00 CET) on DevilfishPoker.com with three guaranteed packages worth €2,000 in the highly anticipated €100 buy-in grand final. Team Devilfish will take part in the €1,100 buy-in […]

PCA High Roller Championship -- Day 3

A total of 24 players returned to the Imperial Ballroom at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller Championship, but only a third of them would survive the day and make the EPT Live final table of eight. Furthermore, a third of them would walk away from the tournament […]

Commerce Adds Five $10K Seats to Prelim LAPC Events

In 2009, Cornel Cimpan won the Los Angeles Poker Classic main event for nearly $1.7 million. He beat out 695 other players — most of whom put up the $10,000 buy-in themselves — to win one of the most prestigious titles in poker. Always one of the biggest series of the year, the 2010 LAPC […]

Croatia Leads World Cup of Poker VI at PCA

The second day of heats for the PokerStars World Cup of Poker VI at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in the Bahamas played out yesterday and saw Finland soar from sixth place to second in the list of nine competing. The final begins today and each team sits down with a chip stack relative to […]

DevilfishPoker's Let it Snow Freerolls Begin Tonight

As much of Europe remains under a blanket of snow and temperatures struggle to reach 0 celsius, DevilfishPoker.com is running a series of $100 freerolls to help house-bound online poker players get through the cold snap. The $100 freerolls begin tonight at 7:30 p.m. GMT (8:30 p.m CET) and run until Saturday, Jan. 17. Registration […]

Peppermill Hosts Deep Stack Poker Series

Reno poker players itching for bigger starting stacks and more play will be pleased to learn about the new Deep Stack Poker Tournaments that will be running at the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino from Jan. 13-17. The casino will run three daily tournaments during that time (at noon, 4 p.m., and 7 p.m.), at several […]

PCA High Roller Championship -- Day 2

Coming into day 2 of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller Championship, Dario Minieri (pictured left) was listed as the overall chip leader, just a chip or two ahead of another big stack in Lex Veldhuis. But when the players returned Tuesday afternoon to continue play, Veldhuis discovered that he had miscounted his chips and, […]

WSOPE Coverage Begins Jan. 31

It was one of the most talented final tables in televised poker history. And soon, you will be able to watch it on ESPN2. The sports television network recently announced the dates for its World Series of Poker Europe coverage, scheduled to begin Jan. 31 at 11 p.m. Lon McEachern and Norman Chad will commentate […]