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WPT -- Doyle Brunson Classic Championship Day 3The big story coming out of day 3 at the WPT Doyle Brunson Classic Championship was Eric Baldwin (pictured right) clinching the 2009 Card Player Player of the Year race. Unfortunately, two players did their best to steal the spotlight with their bad behavior as the night continued. Only two players (a different two than […]
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Poker Strategy -- Dwan Discusses Poker After Dark HandsLast week, NBC began airing the Poker After Dark season-ending cash games, and viewers everywhere were stunned by the lineup, the gambling, and the high-stakes poker action. On Saturday, a special Director’s Cut episode aired which recapped the week’s action and also provided player insight on a few of the biggest hands. With Tom Dwan’s […]
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Pala Casino Completes Renovation and Expansion
The Pala Casino Spa and Resort has completed a $100 million expansion and renovation project. The Pala now has 507 rooms, including 82 luxury suites. All rooms now include flat-screen televisions, luxury armories, iPod docking clock radios, and high-speed Internet. All suites also now have in-room Jacuzzis. “The upgrades to our hotel rooms and suites […]
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DevilfishPoker’s €15,000 Endurance Challenge Starts TodayDevilfishPoker.com today starts its second €15,000 Endurance Challenge where online poker players who earn just 100 VIP points at the sitefrom today, Dec.15 to Dec. 30 will share equally a €15,000 prize pool. The online poker room is also running its €500 reload bonus in December – simply use the code XMAS500 when depositing and […]
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Georges Tohme Wins Paradise Poker Tour LondonThe first leg of the new Paradise Poker Tour has been won by Georges Tohme who beat 256 competitors to lift the £23,500 top prize at the Empire Casino last weekend. The 250 player cap for the £500 buy in tournament was exceed by seven players and a prize pool of £128,500 was created. Georges […]
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Soccer Stars Turn Out for PartyPoker’s Charity Match
The Italian anti-racism charity soccer event, the Idolo Cup presented by PartyPoker.it, yesterday secured some more big names for the game taking place in Torino, Italy on Dec 21. Named to take part yesterday were Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea), John Carew (Aston Villa), Anderson (Manchester United), Florent Malouda (Chelsea), Ji Sung Park (Manchester United), Patrice Evra […]
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WPT — Doyle Brunson Classic Championship Day 2Day 2 of the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five-Diamond Wold Poker Classic $15,000 no-limit hold’em championship event took place today in Las Vegas. The field was scheduled to play five levels of poker, but in accordance with Bellagio tournament rules, registration was open until the end of the third level of play today. The […]
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Hearing Scheduled for CA Online PokerCalifornia — the cash-strapped state that has shown willingness in the past to be a trendsetter when it comes to legislative action — is ready to hold a hearing on the merits of regulating online poker. California State Sen. Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood) told the LA Times this week that the state legislature is planning on […]
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L.A. Poker Classic — 2010 Schedule Released
Commerce Casino has released the full schedule for the 2010 L.A. Poker Classic, and the tournament series will feature 51 events that will run from late January until the end of the World Poker Tour $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship on March 4. The LAPC will also once again host the WPT Celebrity Invitational, which begins […]
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Padraig Parkinson Wins Irish Poker ChampionshipPadraig Parkinson has won the Irish Poker Championship, the first stop on the new PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour. He beat 258 opponents to take down the €2,000 buy in event for the top prize of €125,000. The final table payouts were: 1: Padraig Parkinson — €125,000 (+£5,000 EPT qualifier) 2: Paul Marrow — […]
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Festive Poker Offerings from PaddyPowerPoker.comIt’s that time of year again when poker sites begin to get festive, and one site which has already begun its Christmas crusade is PaddyPowerPoker.com. The site’s latest promotion, Paddy’s Cracking Christmas, is an assortment box of poker delights from cash races to money-added and freeroll tournaments to sit ‘n’ go leader boards. The promotion […]
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WPT –- Doyle Brunson Classic Championship Day 1Roughly 200 players were on hand for the start of the 2009 World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Classic Championship on Monday, but by the end of the day, the field size had grown to 292, 205 shy of 2008’s numbers. The difference this year is that registration will still be open through level 8, which […]
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Hand Discussion: To Bluff or Not to 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 […]
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Online Poker — Mark Newhouse Wins Sunday Million
Former World Poker Tour Champion Mark “newhizzle” Newhouse overcame a bad beat at the final table of the PokerStars Sunday Million to claim the victory and $245,897. Sitting four-handed, Newhouse had DeuceBuster all in with pocket tens against his pocket kings. Had the cowboys held, Newhouse would have been three-handed with more than half of […]
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A Poker Life -- Andrew BrownTo be great, a player must have unassailable self-assurance and be able present themselves with a certain air of confidence without a hint of vulnerability. Any weakness shown — a regard for money, traces of intimidation, or failure to show 100 percent trust in instincts — will be pounced upon in high-stakes games. Andrew “Browndog19” […]
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PartyGaming and bwin in Merger Talks Reports Say
Shares in PartyGaming and bwin jumped 2.5 percent and 4.1 percent respectively this morning after a report in the Sunday Times at the weekend which suggested the two companies were in talks to create a £2 billion betting company. Analyst Nick Batram of KBC Peel Hunt told Reuters today that the discussions were not a […]
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Irish Poker Championship Final Table SetThe final table of the €2,000 buy in Irish Poker Championship has been set with Card Player writer and Boylepoker pro Padraig Parkinson sitting third in chips. Parkinson remained near the top of the chip counts all through day 2 and, with just nine players left from a field of 259 in the first leg […]
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Irish Poker Championship Day 2 Update
The Irish Poker Championship main event, the first stop on PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour, saw its field squeezed to just 36 players during day 2 at the Radisson SAS Hotel in Galway, Ireland. The €2,000 buy in event saw players such as Jude Ainsworth, J.P. Kelly, and Kieran Walsh knocked out as players […]
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World Poker Tour — Doyle Brunson Classic Starts MondayThe World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Classic $15,000 no-limit hold’em championship event begins at noon on Monday, Dec. 14 at Bellagio. This will be the last WPT event in 2009, and it is the 17th event in the Five-Diamond World Poker Classic tournament series (Preliminary event results are listed below). Players will be able to […]
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Paradise Poker Tour London Starts TodayThe first leg of the Paradise Poker Tour takes place at the Empire Casino, London today and tomorrow, December 12 and 13, and will be followed by events in Prague (February 2010), Madrid (May 2010) and Bulgaria. The €500 buy-in event has a €100,000 guaranteed prize pool and over half the seats have already been […]
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Irish Poker Championship Day 1 UpdateThe PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour got underway in Galway yesterday with the Irish Poker Championship main event. The €2,000 buy in event attracted 259 player, up from last year’s 255 but down on 2007’s 298, creating a prize pool of €471,380 and a first prize of €125,000. The tournament, held at the Radisson […]
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The New WPT Under PartyGaming's LeadOn Monday, the final World Poker Tour event of the year will begin. It was a tumultuous 2009 for the WPT, as the company was put up for sale and entertained three different offers before finally being absorbed by the European gaming giant PartyGaming. On the eve of the $15,000 buy-in Doyle Brunson Classic, Card […]
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This Week in Poker — Dec. 4-11
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 — 6,202 2: Cornel Cimpan — 5,934 3: Yevgeniy Timoshenko — 5,509 4: Vitaly Lunkin — 4,473 5: Jason Mercier — 4,104 (pictured right) 6: Soheil Shamseddin […]
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Online Poker — OPOY Weekly Recap, Week of Dec. 6, 2009
Just three Sundays remain in the 2009 Card Player Online Player of the Year race and Steve “gboro780” Gross still holds a dominating 1,196-point lead over the competition, but we have a new second-place resident in Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen (pictured left). Rasmussen’s late run has seen him leapfrog the idle Shaun “TedsFishFry” Deeb and then […]
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Faces of the 2009 POY Race — Part IIThe 2009 Card Player Player of the Year race is winding down, with the top contenders eyeing the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Classic $15,000 no-limit hold’em event at the end of the Five-Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio next week as their final chance to collect POY points. The top 10 players have each […]
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Online Poker Site Poker Ducks Closes
PokerDucks.com, an online poker site on the Boss Media network and sponsor of this year’s Irish Open winner Christer Johansson, has closed. While no formal announcement has been made other than a brief statement on the company website which says, “Pokerducks is closed. Please contact support@pokerducks.com”, it is beleived that the site was something of […]
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Pro Poker Log App for iPhone Launched
Deep Powder Software has launched a new poker app for iPhone and iPod Touch which allows players to keep an organised record of all their poker sessions. Costing $7.99, the app can track and organises variables such as time of game, fees/rake paid, blinds levels and location of games and can graphically represent these for […]
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Online Poker — Brian Hastings Talks to CPTV After Historic WinOn Monday, Brian Hastings will take an economics final – the last one of his semester. While he might indeed study a little bit this weekend, he will undoubtedly find time to celebrate after completing one of the most amazing heads-up sessions the online poker world has ever seen. The college student took some time […]
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Charity Poker -- One Step Closer Event This Saturday
The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino will host a $550 no-limit hold’em tournament with $200 rebuys on Saturday, Dec. 12 in Las Vegas. The charity event will benefit The One Step Closer Foundation, which is a non-profit, charitable organization whose main goal is to ease, as much as possible, the lives of those who suffer […]
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Online Poker — UB’s Power Hour Offers More Rewards
Now UB players can earn UltimatePoints at double the rate thanks to the new Power Hour promotion on the Cereus Network. UltimatePoints are redeemable for tournament buy-ins and cash. In addition, every raked hand and tournament allows players to accumulate points, which add up to free merchandise such as MP3 players, home theater equipment, and […]
