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European Poker Tour: Berlin Day 1A

Day 1A at the “PokerStars”:PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event has ended in Germany. The first day of play attracted a large field of 389 players and 202 remain in contention at the end of the day. Many more are expected tomorrow so this should be one of the largest EPT […]

Scott Seiver Wins LAPC High Roller Event

Less than a week after claiming the most bounties in the NAPT Venetian High Roller Championship, Scott Seiver (pictured right) has claimed the $25,000 High Roller Championship at the L.A. Poker Classic. The tournament attracted 41 of the best players in the world and was played out over a three-day period. Coming into the final […]

Florida Drafts Bill for Intrastate Online Poker

A bill to legalize Florida online poker was filed today, setting out a plan to license and regulate sites offering real-money games within the state. HB 1441, The Internet Poker Consumer Protection and Revenue Generation Act of 2010, would, according to the 42-page bill, “create a framework for the state to regulate Internet poker sites […]

International Poker Federation Applies for Mind Sport Status

The International Poker Federation has issued a statement saying that rumours of its formal acceptance into the International Mind Sports Association are “premature”. The IPF says that despite rumours sweeping the Internet, “We are not there yet.” The statement goes on to say it is, “planning to apply to become a member of both Sportaccord […]

Greek Poker Player Stings Irish Bank

Achilleas Kallakis, the Greek property developer and poker enthusiast, has been remanded on bail until May 4 after being charged with conspiracy to defraud, forgery, fraud by false representation, money laundering, and deception yesterday. The Irish Independent newspaper today reported that Allied Irish Bank (AIB) lent Kallakis over €700 million over five years for blue […]

WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event: Day 4

The fourth day of the $10,000 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic no-limit hold’em main event took place today at Commerce Casino in Southern California. The final 72 players returned to the felt, and each of them was guaranteed to walk away with prize money. The tournament clock began with half an hour left in […]

Iowa Considers Intrastate Online Poker

Iowa, like most states across the U.S., is looking for revenue to shore up its state budget. A bipartisan group of state lawmakers are proposing intrastate poker legislation as a solution. According to Rep. Doug Struyk (R-Council Bluffs), who is part of a legislative group reviewing statewide gambling issues, 50,000 people in Iowa gamble online. […]

Full Tilt Poker Offering 'Fast $50' Bonus

Full Tilt Poker has been all about speed, recently. Not long after the introduction of Rush Poker — a poker variant that allows players to play hands up to four times more quickly — the site launched a Fast $50 bonus. Combined with the Rush Poker variant, players truly can unlock the Fast $50 bonus […]

EPT: Germany Event Hosted in Berlin for First Time

The PokerStars European Poker Tour has hosted a stop in Germany three times in previous seasons. Those first three stops took place in Dortmund and attracted fields of 493 players in 2007, 411 players in 2008, and 667 players in 2009. This year, the Germany stop has moved to the world-class city of Berlin, and […]

Online Poker: orionrg 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: $2,015,400 Entrants: 10,077 Places Paid: 1,440 Final Table Results: 1. orionrg — $255,429* 2. dean23price — $232,302* 3. Nick “mad.afurable” Behling — $145,108 4. Relhok — $100,770 […]

OnlinePokerNetwork and Connective Games Partner

OnlinePokerNetwork and Russian software provider Connective Games today announced a partnership which will see the former launch its new poker new on the latter’s platform. Connective Games chief executive officer Konstantin Zubarev said, “We are delighted to have partnered with OnlinePokerNetwork, which enables us to offer enhanced value to all our licensees. Initially the new […]

William Hill Poker Revenue Falls 14 Percent in 2009

William Hill, the publicly-quoted British bookmaker, has seen online poker revenue drop 14 percent to £21.3 million in 2009 from £24.9 million in 2008 as “customer attrition” from the company’s move to the iPoker network took its toll. Hill’s signed a deal with iPoker owner Playtech last year to revamp its online gaming business and […]

Belfast Man Wins Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Walsall

The Grosvenor Casino in Walsall played host to the £1,000 buy-in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) main event which attracted 207 players and turned out to be one of the toughest fields in the four-year history of the Tour. Down to 23 players, more than half of them had made it to a GUKPT final […]

WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event: Day 3

A total of 186 players returned to the Commerce Casino ballroom with one thing on their minds: Make the money. Only 72 players would earn a payday, which left the majority of the field on the outside looking in with nothing to show for their three-day effort. Coming into the day second in chips, Daniel […]

LAPT: Jose Barbero Wins Punta del Esta Main Event

The PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour just finished up its most recent tour stop in Punta del Esta, Uruguay, and the champion of the $3,500 no-limit hold’em main event was Team PokerStars pro Jose Barbero (pictured right). He came back from the shortest stack at the start of the final table to win, and he […]

WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event: Day 2

At the start of the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship many players complemented the tournament structure put together by Tournament Director Matt Savage and his tournament staff at the Commerce Casino. By the end of the night it was hard to tell that the structure was designed to give tournament […]

Poker TV: WSOP Europe Final Table Airs on Sunday

Author’s note: The final table of the WSOP Europe main event took place on Oct. 1, 2009. You can check out Card Player’s reports on the final table at the tournament’s landing page if you can’t wait to watch the television broadcast this Sunday night. The final table of the World Series of Poker Europe […]

WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event: Day 1

It seems that nobody told the players at the WPT L.A. Poker Classic that we were in a recession. A total of 745 players put up the $10,000 buy-in, creating a total prize pool of $7,152,000. The official number was 744 at first, but a late tournament entry was called in to bump the field […]

This Week in Poker -- Feb. 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: Harrison Gimbel — 3,000 2: Thomas Marchese — 2,880 (pictured right) 3: Tyler Reiman — […]

Online Poker -- Top Four Remain Unchanged in OPOY Race

Though some points were won, the top four in the Online Player of the Year race stayed strong this week, holding their lead over the rest of the field. Steve “gboro780” Gross and Casey “bigdogpckt5s” Jarzabek (pictured right) still lead the field by nearly 1,000 points, but are just 78 points apart from each other. […]

Ashton Griffin Wins NAPT High-Roller

Ashton Griffin has taken down the first PokerStars North American Poker Tour high-roller shootout championship. Griffin came out on top of the winner-take-all tournament to take home a total of $560,000. The $25,000 event had a unique format. A total of 49 players entered, each competing at a seven-handed table for the honor of moving […]

The Poker Show Live Returns Next Week

Online poker radio show, The Poker Show Live, sponsored by Boylepoker.com is coming back next week for its third season. Continuing as it started, the line-up for this season is no less than spectacular. The first shows were prerecorded at the Premier League IV in Las Vegas and feature a full review of the event […]

Success in Poker But Not in Love at Ladbrokes

Ladbrokes Poker’s first ever Valentine’s Day poker tournament attracted hundreds of players and was a complete success. Although, same could not be said of any much hoped for matches made in poker heaven. Kevin Quinlan from Portsmouth beat 2,000 opponents and was named the highest male scorer. He then had to face the highest female […]

PartyPoker Signs Francesco Totti and Dragan Galic

This week PartyPoker made two new exciting signings – an Italian football hero and a rising star in the world of poker. Football fans and even many of those not so sporty know of the name Francesco Totti. The legend will now act as an ambassador of PartyPoker.it and will play there exclusively. To celebrate […]

PPA Weighs in on Intrastate Poker Efforts

California. Florida. Massachusetts. New Jersey. Iowa. Those may not have been the battlegrounds that the Poker Players Alliance expected itself to be fighting on, but they are where the battles have been fought, as several state governments are considering regulating the online poker industry within their borders. Hungry for additional revenue in these difficult financial […]

WPT: L.A. Poker Classic Begins Friday

The World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship event begins tomorrow at the Commerce Casino in Southern California. The tournament will begin at noon PST and will crown a winner on Thursday, Mar. 4. Card Player’s live reporting team will be providing full live coverage along with videos from Card Player TV […]

Watch NAPT $25,000 High Roller Final Table Now

While the 2010 PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour Venetian main event is officially in the books, the $25,000 buy-in invitational high-roller bounty shootout tournament concludes today, and you can follow the action live here. The coverage includes the NAPT Live video feed and live updates provided by the PokerStars blog. Video coverage starts very soon […]

Evan "DonkeyWrenn" Wrenn Wins PokerStars Super Tuesday

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: $311,000 Entrants: 311 Places Paid: 36 Final Table Results: 1. S_Dot111 — $65,250* 2. Bryn “OneUponAStar” Kenney — $62,260* (pictured right) 3. 747wd — $37,320 4. Tom “hitthehole” Middleton — […]

bwin Poker Revenue Jumps 26 Percent in 2009

bwin today announced its interim financial results for 2009 with gross poker revenue for the full year up 26.1 percent to €118.8 million from €94.2 million in 2008. Of this, Gioco Digitale, the Italian poker operator which bwin bought last year, contributed €12.8 million. Last year the company saw gross poker revenues rise 14 percent. […]

Harrah's May Launch Initial Public Offering in 2013

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Harrah’s Entertainment, Gary Loveman, spoke this week of a possible initial pubic offering (IPO) of the company in 2013. Harrah’s Entertainment turned private in January 2008 when it was bought by the Texas Pacific Group (TPG) and Apollo Global Management LP for $90 a share in a deal worth $17.1 […]