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Attendance at Major Tourney Tours

The past year has been a tough one for many industries in America and all over the world. The poor state of the economy has affected the majority of businesses, and big buy-in tournament poker is certainly included in the dilemma. Tournament poker at the highest buy-in levels took a hit in 2009. The $10,000 […]

SKY Sports Shows WSOP Final Table Tonight

SKY Sports Extra airs the final table of the 40th Annual World Series of Poker across the UK and Ireland tonight from 9 to 11 p.m. The final table, held in November at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, featured Card Player boss Jeff Shulman and six time bracelet winner Phil Ivey and […]

Poker Strategy -- Jon Little Discusses Taking a Beat

Jonathan Little is known for his huge tournament success. He has accumulated more than $4.3 million in winnings, including two World Poker Tour titles. But when he’s not competing in live or online poker tournaments, he’s working on his deep-stack play by grinding in cash games. Little sat down with Card Player to discuss an […]

Bellagio Releases Five-Star World Poker Classic Schedule

The schedule for the 2010 Five-Star World Poker Classic has been released by Bellagio, and one thing that will jump out at players is the preliminary-events schedule. Each one of the 18 preliminary events features a $1,000 buy-in with rebuys. Two of those events will be pot-limit Omaha, while the rest will spread no-limit hold’em. […]

Poker Tournament Trail -- Jason Mercier

Card Player caught up with Jason Mercier just after the European Poker Tour Barcelona where he had been juggling both live events and the World Championship of Online Poker. Mercier played the main event and four side events in Spain, while also playing the WCOOP on PokerStars.com, and at the time he had not made […]

PokerStars Brings European Poker Tour to Berlin

PokerStars.com recently announced a new stop on the European Poker Tour with the winner guaranteed €1 million in Berlin from March 2 to 7, 2010. John Duthie, chief executive officer of the EPT said, “We are excited to be making our first stop in the beautiful city of Berlin. We have experienced great success throughout […]

Poker Tournament Trail -- Arnaud Mattern Part II

In part I of Card Player’s interview with Arnaud Mattern, the French pro spoke about his recent signing with Poker Stars and his experiences of playing against legends like Daniel Negreanu and Doyle Brunson. Here in part II, he speaks about the European Poker Tour London and other EPT’s, as well as a bet he […]

Online Poker -- The Data Mining Dilemma

Brian Townsend’s recent red pro suspension from Full Tilt has many in the industry taking a closer look at the rules of data mining and hand sharing across the various online sites. Townsend received a 30-day suspension after admitting that he gathered 30,000 third-party hands to supplement the 20,000 hands he played himself in preparation […]

Online Poker -- coach6999 Wins 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: $1,868,800 Entrants: 9,344 Places Paid: 1,350 Final Table Results: 1. coach6999 — $143,444* 2. BBOY3110 — $213,443* 3. tsakalias — $190,767* 4. schnaggels19 — $122,287* 5. mystinen60 […]

PokerStars Sets World Record for Largest Online Tournament

Sunday was a historic day for online poker, as PokerStars broke its own record for the largest online tournament of all time. The previous record of 35,000 players was broken twice on July 19, 2009. Full Tilt Poker hosted a tournament that boasted a 50,000 player field, only to see PokerStars top it later that […]

PaddyPowerPoker’s Twelve Days of Christmas Continues

PaddyPowerPoker.com’s Twelve Days of Christmas kicked off on Christmas day, not with a partridge in a pear tee, but with a $10 + $1 buy-in no-limit hold’em freezeout event which had $500 added to the pot by the site. It continues now until Jan. 5 with $5 + $0.50 buy-in rebuy events each evening at […]

Poker Tournament Trail Part I -- Arnaud Mattern

Arnaud Mattern is well-known for his determination to get another European Poker Tour title, and he can be found at nearly every EPT event there is attempting to do so. It then made sense to hear that he had signed with the tour’s sponsor, PokerStars.com. Just after the EPT London, Mattern spoke to Card Player […]

Poker Tournament Trail -- Victoria Coren Part II

In part two of our interview with UK writer, broadcaster, and poker player Vicky Coren she talks about fellow players’ reactions to her book, her adult movie experiences, and her feelings about Erik Cajelais. Drop by part one to find out the story so far. Rebecca McAdam: Did you ever think your first book would […]

PokerStars $1 Buy-In World Record Attempt Tonight

PokerStars.com will tonight attempt to set the world record for the largest ever online poker tournament. It hopes to attract more than the 65,000 players it attracted in July 2009 to the $1 buy-in tournament taking place at 14:45 p.m. ET (19:45 p.m. GMT) on Sunday Dec. 27. The tournament will have a $300,000 guaranteed […]

DevilfishPoker.com's €10,000 Freeroll Takes Place Tonight

Tonight, Dec. 27, it’s time to set the presents (and the leftovers) aside as DevilfishPoker.com’s €10,000 freeroll is taking place. Every night at 8.30 p.m. players have been trying to qualify for the event, but only 72 will take part, and only one will take home the €3,000 first prize. Elsewhere at the site, the […]

Mike Kosowski -- From Ground Zero to Poker Millionaire

On Sept. 11, 2001, Detective Sergeant Mike Kosowski rushed into the World Trade Center as one of the first responders to the largest terrorist attack on American soil. More than eight years later, he still chokes up thinking about the horror he witnessed, describing it on camera as “every kind of misery.” Undoubtedly, 9/11 was […]

Top 10 Poker Stories of 2009 - Part 2

Card Player is recapping the 10 biggest — and most talked about — poker stories of 2009. Part 1 featured stories No. 10 through No. 6, while Part 2 highlights the five biggest headlines of the year. From Jeffrey Lisandro to Phil Ivey, and from Russ Hamilton to Isildur1, it was quite a year for […]

This Week in Poker -- December 19 – 25

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 1: Eric Baldwin — 6,994 2: Cornel Cimpan — 5,934 3: Yevgeniy Timoshenko — 5,509 4: Vitaly Lunkin — 4,473 5: Soheil Shamseddin — 4,283 6: Daniel Alaei — 4,142 […]

Poker Tournament Trail - Victoria Coren

This season’s European Poker Tour has been filled with all the usual suspects and many new faces from the major international poker circuit. In London in October, one of these big names was not only playing in an event she once won, but also launching her brand new book For Richer For Poorer. Card Player […]

Boylepoker Christmas Charity Tournament Tonight

Boylepoker.com today hosts a special Christmas charity freeroll at 4 p.m. with $5,000 guaranteed to the winner and a further $5,000 to charity. Players can qualify throughout the day from just 50 VIP points. The winner can donate the $5,000 charity gift to one of the following charities: 1: World Wide Fund for Nature 2: […]

The 10 Biggest and Most Talked About

In early January, both Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey scrambled to accept Tom Dwan’s infamous poker challenge, in which he offered a 3:1 side bet of $1.5 million to anyone who could beat him over 50,000 hands heads-up. At the time, it seemed like the challenge could become one of the greatest battles – and […]

World Poker Tour Stops in Bucharest Next Spring

The World Poker Tour, recently purchased by PartyGaming, today announced it will host a poker tournament in Bucharest, Romania from March 27 to April 2, 2010. The €3,000 buy-in event will be held in the The Regent Casino at Novotel Hotel in the Romanian capital. It is a non-televised WPT tournament. Sorin Constantinescu, chief executive […]

Own Your Own Game at Betfair Poker

Back in October Betfairpoker.com asked its online players to vote on their favourite promotions which would then be used to reward the players this festive season. The result is the 12 Plays of Christmas promo running throughout December which sees promotions such BF Santa’s Cash Explosion and the Snowball & Santa’s SNG Sack with over […]

Poker Tournament Trail -- Soheil Shamseddin

Soheil Shamseddin (pictured right) was a late bloomer in the 2009 POY race. He finished in second place at the WPT World Poker Finals in November to win $463,332 and 1,750 points. The score helped Shamseddin become a factor in the race, but his jump to 4,000 points would not have been possible without the […]

Poker After Dark Strategy Analysis

Last week, NBC aired the the second week of Poker After Dark’s cash game finale, and the viewers got to watch the effects that $100,000 flips had on some of the greatest players in the game. Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Gus Hansen, and Phil Ivey redrew seats and sat back down […]

Poker Hand Discussion: Heads Up Final-Table Bluff?

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 […]

DoylesRoom's Chris Moorman Sits Fourth in OPOY Race

Four seems to be the magic number this year for Chris “Moorman1” Moorman of DoylesRoom.com’s Brunson 10. The online poker pro was the fourth member to be handpicked by poker legend Doyle Brunson for his team of elite pros and this week, Moorman sits in fourth place in the 2009 Online Player of the Year […]

Boylepoker Christmas Poker Party Tonight

Boylepoker.com has three great money added or guaranteed online poker tournaments this Christmas kicking off with the $10 buy-in Christmas Party at 8 p.m. tonight. The tournament has $1,000 added and an array of $25 bounties on its pros, VIPs, and friends. The centrepiece events over the holidays — the daily Festive Freezeouts — also […]

Montel Williams Sued over Poker League Deal

Guardian Gaming, a Malta-based online gaming operator, is suing U.S. talk show star Montel Williams for the return of $300,000 it alleges it paid him to host an international poker league which he subsequently pulled out of. In July 2008 Guardian Gaming took a 25 percent stake in International Poker League, which the court documents […]

Everest Poker Revenues Down One-Third

Everest Poker has announced a steep drop in its poker revenues for the second and third quarters of 2009. The company, which was recently sold by its owners GigaMedia to Mangas Gaming in a deal worth $100 million, saw revenue in the second quarter fall 36 percent to $17.4 million compared to a year earlier. […]