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Online Poker -- PokerStars Debuts Team Pro Tuesdays

PokerStars has made it even easier for its patrons to watch, chat, and compete with their lineup of professional players with the addition of Team Pro Tuesdays. The weekly promotion will feature two “Outlast the Pro” tournaments at 13:00 and 20:00 ET wherein the site promises to offer up $1,000 in bonuses. PokerStars’ online poker […]

Online Poker — Kyle Zartman, Eric Ladny Pick Up $1K Wins

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: $372,000 Entrants: 372 Places Paid: 45 Final Table Results: 1. Kyle “thewood503” Zartman — $93,000 2. JUMP PUTT — $59,520 3. this is punny — $44,640 4. Christian “charder30” Harder […]

Poker Tournament Trail -- Jack McClelland

Jack McClelland (pictured left) has been one of the best in the business for decades. He started out at the World Series of Poker in 1984. After that, he ran the Grand Prix of Poker at the Golden Nugget Casino. He was the first tournament director to host events at Commerce Casino in Southern California, […]

The Faces of the 2009 POY Race — Part I

The 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 […]

Irish Poker Championship Gets Underway Friday

PokerStars.com gets the first event of its new UK & Ireland Poker Tour underway tomorrow in Galway, Ireland at the Radisson Hotel, as part of the Irish Poker Championships which PokerStars has taken over this year from PartyPoker. The €2,000 buy in main event, which runs from from Dec. 11-14 and was won by Rory […]

PartyPoker Offers 25 Aussie Millions Packages This Weekend

Sunday Dec. 13 sees an Aussie Millions extravaganza at PartyPoker.com with 25 guaranteed packages worth either $12,000 (5 packages) or $15,000 (20 packages) up for grabs at the site. There will be two $600 + $40 satellites at 02:45 and 14:30 ET at the site with five and 20 packages guaranteed respectively. Last year the […]

Thursday Funeral for Bob Thompson, Former WSOP Director

Bob Thompson, the World Series of Poker tournament director from 1999-2002, passed away on Sunday. He was 80 years old. “He was the fairest and most decent person I have ever worked with,” Nolan Dalla, the WSOP’s media director, said about Thompson after hearing of his death. “He was as honest as the day is […]

Poker Strategy — Jonathan Little Talks About Check-Calling

Jonathan Little is known for his huge tournament success, having accumulated more than $4.3 million in winnings, including two World Poker Tour titles. But when he’s not competing in live or online tournaments, he’s working on his deep-stack play by grinding in cash games. Little sat down with Card Player to discuss an interesting no-limit […]

Hastings Torches Isildur1 for up to $4.2 Million in Epic Pok

Easy come, easy go. There was a lot of speculation as to who would be the one who would bust Isildur1. Although the anonymous Swede had more than proven his skill at the toughest games around, his insane willingness to gamble against anyone and everyone at the highest stakes available seemed like it couldn’t end […]

Boylepoker Signs Poker Pro Nicky Power

Boylepoker.com today announced Nicky Power would join Marty Smyth and Padraig Parkinson as a member of its pro poker team. Power, whose results include sixth in the Irish Open, fourth in the Irish Poker Classic, and first in the Irish Poker Championship charity event, said of the signing, “It’s an honour to be signed to […]

DC, Baltimore Residents Will Soon Have Closer Poker Option

Currently, residents in the greater Baltimore and Washington, D.C., area have to trek to Atlantic City to find an established live poker room. But it’s only a matter of time before they have a much closer and convenient place to play. Jefferson County in West Virginia voted by a 2-to-1 margin over the weekend to […]

Poker Tournament Trail — Jerry Buss

You probably know Jerry Buss (pictured right) as the owner of the NBA champions the Los Angeles Lakers. He has also become a familiar face on the tournament trail, as he plays poker to quench his competitive thirst. Buss has cashed in poker tournaments more than 30 times during the past two decades, and he […]

Miguel Ángel Lorenzo Wins Full Tilt Poker Series Madrid

Miguel Ángel Lorenzo has won the Full Tilt Poker Series grand final at the Gran Casino Madrid beating 225 opponents in the €3,000 buy in event to take home €200,000. The final table payouts were: 1: Miguel Ángel Lorenzo — €200,000 2: Joshua Goldstein — €120,000 3: Alvaro Puyol — €75,000 4: John Cautela — […]

Online Poker — Isildur1 and Durrrr Both Pick Up Wins

After nearly a week of rest, it was back to the grind for Isildur1 and the Full Tilt cast of crazies. Tom “durrrr” Dwan started off in the black with back-to-back winning sessions and a $1.5 million upswing. The next day, Isildur1 picked up a nice $1.6 million win of his own, only this time […]

PCA Will Host Charity Poker Event for amfAR

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Festival of Poker will feature a massive lineup of dozens of poker tournaments that will run from Jan. 4-14 at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. On Jan. 8, there will be an opportunity for poker players to give back. PokerStars will host a $5,250 no-limit hold’em charity […]

Online Poker — Cake Introduces New Reward Program

In an ongoing effort to keep their players satisfied, Cake Poker has recently announced an expansion of their current Gold Chips and Gold Cards rewards program. Now, players will be given Gold Chips for playing in real-money games. When those chips get to a set level, they become Gold Stacks, which are redeemable bonuses and […]

New Poker After Dark Features Cash Game for Finale

NBC’s Poker After Dark has saved the best for last. The finale of the fifth season is going to feature two weeks of high-stakes cash-game action, and it all starts tonight at 2:05 a.m. The theme is aptly named “Railbird Heaven,” as the players seated at the table are among the fan favorites. The lineup […]

Poker Hand Discussion — Big Pair, Tough Flop

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 […]

Online Poker — ran77 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: $1,725,200 Entrants: 8,626 Places Paid: 1,260 Final Table Results: 1. ran77 — $253,781 2. SeraphimV — $185,459 3. Team Angle — $129,390 4. aaronmermel — $86,260 5. […]

James Akenhead Wins Full Tilt Poker Million VIII

James Akenhead from England won the European Full Tilt Poker Million VIII on Friday, taking down the $500,000 top prize after battling through a strong international final table. Akenhead, who made the final tables of both World Series of Poker main events this year, was marginal favourite to win the event ahead of chip leader […]

Haitao Wu Wins Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Champions Event

A Chinese poker pro living in Dundee, Scotland won the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Champion of Champions event at the weekend topping a field of 125 players to take down the £25,000 first prize. Haitao Wu, a 30-year-old who made the invitation-only event by winning a £500 side event at the London leg of the […]

Swedish Poker Pro Wins Polish Unibet Open

Jimmy Jonsson is the young Swede who is now the proud owner of €161,271 and a shiny new trophy for taking down the final Unibet Open of the year in Poland. From Dec. 3-6, 401 players took their seats at Casinos Poland at the Warsaw Hyatt, and by the time Jonsson had picked up his […]

Asia Pacific Poker Tour — Aaron Benton Wins in Sydney

The final table of the 2009 PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Sydney Grand Final was contested today in Australia. Nine players returned for the final day from a starting field of 396 players. The total prize pool for the event was $2,376,000 AUD, and the first-place prize up for grabs was $594,000 AUD. The final-table […]

European Poker Tour — Jan Skampa Wins Prague Main Event

The final table of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event took place today in the Czech Republic. The final eight had emerged from a field of 586 players, and one of them would walk away with €682,000 at the end of the day. Team PokerStars pro Luca Pagano (pictured right) […]

European Poker Tour — Prague Day 4

Day 4 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event saw 24 players return, and all of them were eager to make the final table of eight. Everyone was guaranteed at least €15,500, but after three days of poker, they wanted much, much more. It took a little more than five […]

Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Champions Event Today

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Champion of Champions event gets underway today in Luton with Karl Mahrenholz (pictured) leading the 122 players in the £100,000 freeroll. The event is open to GUKPT winners from 2009 including online, side event, and main event victors. The top 10 in chips going into the event are: 1: Karl […]

This Week in Poker — Nov. 28-Dec. 4

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 (pictured right) — 6,202 2: Cornel Cimpan — 5,670 3: Yevgeniy Timoshenko — 5,463 4: Vitaly Lunkin — 4,473 5: Soheil Shamseddin — 4,085 6: Brock Parker […]

European Poker Tour — Prague Day 3

Day 3 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event welcomed back 95 players, and the first order of business was to burst the money bubble. The top 80 players would get paid, and the unfortunate bubble brigade that fell during early play included Team PokerStars pros Sandra Naujoks and Jude […]

Poker Tournament Trail — Chris Bjorin

Chris Bjorin (pictured left) is one of the pioneers of London tournament poker. He has been traveling to the U.S. to play since 1991, when he cashed three times at the World Series of Poker and almost won his first gold bracelet when he finished second in a $1,500 pot-limit Omaha event (he has since […]

Online Poker – joeingram1 Breaks World Record

On Nov. 25, a Russian online player with the handle “innerspy” set the record for the most hands played online in a 24-hour period. The 22-year-old fought through a tough session of 40,088 hands, but failed to turn a profit during his run. Five days later, American player “joeingram1” broke the record on PokerStars, logging […]