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PKR High Stakes Cash Game on TV This WeekThe PKR High Stakes Cash Game with Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond commentating on the action begins March 8 at 10 p.m. on The Poker Channel across Europe. The three episodes of the show will be aired in the UK and Ireland from Mar. 8 to 21, Monday to Friday from 10 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. and […]
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EPT Berlin Armed Robbers Still At LargeSaturday’s armed robbery at the European Poker Tour Berlin made mainstream media headlines around the world but police say the perpetrators are still at large despite the event being captured on film. According to Associated Press, police are still questioning witnesses and have said that the bandits made off with a “low six-digit figure” from […]
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Titan Poker's $50,000 Cash Game Race Starts TodayTitanPoker.com has launched the first round of its $50,000 Cash Game Race which starts today and ends on Mar. 20. The second round will run from Mar. 22 to Apr. 3. The race sees players ranked on points earned at Titan Poker’s cash game tables during these periods. The more points earned, the higher the […]
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Annie Duke Wins NBC Heads-Up TitleAnnie Duke (pictured left) has added her name to an elite list of champions today by winning the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. The final day of action (at the three-day event) began when the elite eight returned starting at 11 a.m. this morning. After two rounds of poker just Duke and Erik Seidel […]
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Kevin Macphee Wins EPT Berlin Main EventThe final table of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event was held today at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Berlin. Things had returned to normal after an armed robbery disrupted play yesterday and the focus was once again back on poker. A top prize of €1 million waited for the […]
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Irish Open Freeroll for Card Player ReadersCard Player and PaddyPowerPoker.com have joined forces to offer readers a free shot at winning a €4,000 package to this year’s Irish Open being held in Dublin from April 2 to 5. Europe’s leading poker event will attract some of the world’s top players and one lucky (and skillful) Card Player reader will win a […]
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NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship: Day 2Day 2 at the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship began at 1 p.m. today at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The final 32 players battled to see who would make the money in the first round of matches today and then they faced off to see who would advance to the elite eight and the […]
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European Poker Tour: Berlin Day 4Everything was running smoothly on day 4 at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event until shortly after 2 p.m. local time. That was when six armed robbers stormed into the tournament room at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Berlin and a wave of confusion followed. Players, staff, and media fled […]
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European Poker Tour: Berlin Event Robbed
Action during day 4 at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event came to an abrupt halt today just after 2 p.m. local time, when four armed men stormed into the tournament registration area. The robbers were only after cash and no one was seriously injured at the Grand Hyatt Hotel […]
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Armed Robbery at European Poker Tour Berlin
A group of armed and masked me today attempted to rob the cashier at the European Poker Tour Berlin. A statement from organisers PokerStars said, “An armed robbery by six men took place today at EPT Berlin. Nobody was seriously injured. We hope to re-start all events at 4pm local time. A police investigation is […]
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Qualify for European Masters of Poker Lisbon at EntractionCasino Estoril is the place to be from Mar. 25-28 as the European Masters of Poker pulls into Lisbon, Portugal, for its next stop. There are numerous ways of getting there for those looking to be the next Maciej Lipny – the Pole who took down EMOP Gran Canaria for €66,240. March offers up another […]
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NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship: Day 1The most prestigious poker invitational tournament of the year began today at 1:30 p.m. at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas when cards got into the air for the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. During the course of the day 64 of the top names in poker battled in 32 heads-up battles to see who would […]
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This Week in Poker: February 27 – March 5
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: Harrison Gimbel — 3,000 2: Thomas Marchese — 2,880 3: Tyler Reiman — 2,500 4: […]
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European Poker Tour: Berlin Day 3The third day of play at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event has ended with 24 players. Action was brisk to start the day thanks to the fact that the field played into the money late yesterday, so the field shrunk down to the prescribed goal of 24 quickly. Those […]
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Win Your Way to Play Poker in MontrealBodog Poker is having an exciting few months, what with offering up the Ultimate Sports Fan Experience and upping their bonus to 110 percent up to $1,100. But Bodog isn’t done yet — the site recently announced that its going to qualify 10 players for a poker tournament experience in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. What’s more, […]
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Ladbrokes Poker Unveils New Flash Poker Client
Microgaming today launched its new 1Click Poker in conjunction with Ladbrokes Poker. The new software is Flash-based and works on both Mac and PC platforms Andrew Clucas, head of poker at Microgaming Software Systems, said, “It is with immense pleasure that we unveil this innovation to the industry. The concept driving our work on 1Click […]
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Play in NBC Heads-Up Bracket ContestTo find the link to submit a bracket, scroll down to the “Rules” section. One of the most exciting, fun poker tournaments of the year is less than 24 hours away, and CardPlayer.com wants to help build the excitement and give our readers an extra reason to root on their favorite players. The 2010 NBC […]
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Goldbet Joins Microgaming Poker NetworkGoldbet, the Austrian-based bookmaker founded in 2000, has joined the Microgaming poker network. The online poker site was previously an Italian-facing room known as Goldwin Poker. Luigi Amadio, casino and poker manager at the site said of the move, “We are delighted to be entering into this new partnership with Microgaming and we have found […]
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Andras Koroknai Wins LAPC Main EventThe final table of the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship event took place today at Commerce Casino. The final six players emerged from a large field of 745 but only one of them would walk away with $1,788,001 and the title of WPT L.A. Poker Classic champion. Here is what […]
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European Poker Tour: Berlin Day 2Day 2 at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event has come to a close and 124 players remain from the 493 that started the day. The field played into the money late in the day so action should be quick tomorrow as well thanks to the fact that every player […]
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WPT: LeRon Washington Wins the Celebrity InvitationalThe World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational final table took place last night at Commerce Casino. The event began on Saturday, Feb. 20 and attracted 567 players. Along with a host of poker stars, celebrities that played in this year’s event included Teri Hatcher, Jenny McCarthy, Jade Nicole, Sam Simon, Jerry Buss, and Dick Van Patten. […]
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Latin American Poker Tour: Chile Tour Stop CanceledPokerStars announced today that the Latin American Poker Tour stop in Vina del Mar, Chile, has been canceled. The 2010 Chile festival of poker was scheduled to take place at the Vina del Mar Casino from March 19-23, 2010. Vina del Mar is located just 175 miles north of the epicenter of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake […]
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Online Poker -- RockPrincess82 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: $321,000 Entrants: 321 Places Paid: 36 Final Table Results: 1. RockPrincess82 — $80,250 2. grindtherail — $51,360 3. Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy — $38,520 (pictured right) 4. Jesse “JMaster130” Cohen — […]
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PartyPoker Profit Down 47 Percent in 2009PartyGaming, the publicly-quoted parent company of PartyPoker, today issued its full-year financial results for 2009. Continuing profit before tax slumped 47 percent to $38.7 milllion from $73.1 milion in 2008. Gross poker revenue fell 23 percent to $250.9 million from $327.6 percent in 2008 while net poker revenue in the same period declined 28 percent […]
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Roland de Wolfe Wins Poker's London Open
Roland de Wolfe has won the London Open winning £77,700 for topping the 111 strong field at Les Ambassadeurs in the British capital. De Wolfe faced a challenging field including the Boatman brothers and Andy Andreou before seeing off James Vogl heads up. Jeff Turner, marketing director at Mansion and Casino.com, which sponsored the event […]
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European Poker Tour: Berlin Day 1BDay 1B at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event has come to a close and the second day of play attracted 557 players. That brings the total for the event up to a huge field size of 945 players. The turnout grew by more than 41 percent from the EPT […]
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L.A. Poker Classic: Preliminary Update Part IIIThe L.A. Poker Classic is coming to a close this week, and 48 of the 50 events have crowned a winner at this massive tournament series at Commerce Casino. The World Poker Tour $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship and WPT Celebrity Invitational will both conclude during the next two days, bringing an end to a successful […]
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Paradise Poker Revenue Grows 6.6 Percent in Last QuarterSportingbet yesterday issued its quarterly financial report for the three months to January 2010. Poker revenue from the company’s Paradise Poker site was up 6.6 percent to £6.5 million compared to £6.1 million in the same period last year. Poker now makes up 11.3 percent of Sportingbet’s revenue compared to 12.6 percent this time last […]
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Final Table Set at L.A. Poker Classic Main EventCarlos Mortensen, Annie Duke, Steve Sung, Mark Newhouse, and Johnny Chan. Those familiar names and faces will not be at Thursday’s WPT L.A. Poker Classic main-event final table. What started as a potentially star-studded affair has turned into the kind of television that perhaps only a mother could love. But we should probably take a […]
