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Tony Cascarino Wins Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final

Former Chelsea and Celtic footballer Tony Cascarino yesterday won the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final topping a field of 183 players and taking home £168,800 for his win. This is the second time the soccer pundit has won a GUKPT title and it shot him to the top of the all-time GUKPT money list. […]

Antonio Guida Wins Belgium Open Poker Championships

Antonia Guida from Belgium has won the €1,500+€200 buy-in main event at the Belgium Open Poker Championships in Namur, Belgium. Guida beat 816 opponents to take down the title and, after a deal was done three-handed, €256,082. 1: Antonio Guida — €256,082* 2: Fabian Gantile — €190,122* 3: Springael Joris — €167,089* 4: Dilal Massaud […]

Poker Author in Court Over Unpaid Fines

UK poker player and author, Johnny “Texas” Hewston appeared in court recently for non-payment of motoring fines totaling £2,772 according to Birmingham newspaper The Sunday Mercury. The paper’s online site said he “narrowly escaped jail… [and was] facing a possible three-month sentence – but left the court a free man when his wife pulled the […]

A Poker Life — Dani Stern

Back in August, DoylesRoom announced that it was going in a new direction with plans to sign 10 fresh new faces with soaring potential. The latest addition to the Brunson 10 is 23-year-old high-stakes cash-game killer Dani Stern, also known as “Ansky451” online. The barely legal online assassin epitomizes the unique combination the online site […]

Springael Joris Heads Belgium Open Final Table

After eight days of play the Belgium Open Poker Championships at Casino de Namur has reached a final nine with a top prize of €302,946 on offer for the winner. Eighty-one players were paid in this tournament. The final table will play out today and the chip counts and seat numbers are: Seat 8: Springael […]

Final Table of Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final Set

The final nine players of this year’s Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final have fought their way through the 183-strong field to chase today’s top prize of £168,800 at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London. Included in the line-up are , a Cypriot, a Swede, a Frenchman, four Englishman and an Irishman with two players – […]

Russian Poker Player Joins Team PKR Pro

Vladimir “beyne” Geshkenbein, the 21-year-old Russian poker player who recently won the PKR Heads Up Grand Slam and Asia Pacific Poker Tour High Roller event, has been signed up by PKR as one of its Team Pro members. “beyne” joins karl “discomonkey” Fenton and Adrian Allain representing the next-generation poker room. He plays professionally out […]

Poker Players Grateful as UIGEA Delayed Six Months

In what was arguably the greatest victory for the poker industry in the past three years, the Treasury and Federal Reserve announced on Friday morning that they would delay the implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act regulations for at least six months. “The [Poker Players Alliance] is extremely pleased with the decision by […]

This Week in Poker — Nov. 21-27

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 — 6,058 2: Cornel Cimpan — 5,670 (pictured right) 3: Yevgeniy Timoshenko — 5,463 4: Vitaly Lunkin — 4,473 5: Soheil Shamseddin — 4,085 6: Brock Parker […]

Poker Tournament Trail — Matt Glantz

Matt Glantz (pictured left) has cashed nine times playing tournament poker in 2009. This fact is not remarkable for a player of Glantz’s talent, but if you look at the quality of events he has cashed in, the feat is commendable. Glantz has cashed in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, the World Poker Tour Championship, and […]

PartyPoker Takes Premier League IV to Las Vegas

PartyPoker.com today announced it was hosting season four of the Premier League TV show in Las Vegas for the first time next February. Last year the event was won by J.C. Tran. Party’s Palladium Lounge players can qualify for the event in a points race which will seem them share $155,000. Play-off packages worth $9,000 […]

Poker Training Site Seeks Buyout

Online poker training site PokerSwat.com yesterday said it was in talks with a number of parties about a takeover of its website. The statement said, "For the past few months we have been working hard on upgrading a number of areas on the website and introducing a number of new features. Ultimately, we want to […]

Five-Diamond World Poker Classic Series Preview

The last major tournament series of the year will begin on Friday, Nov. 27, when cards get into the air for the 2009 Five-Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio. The first event is a $500 no-limit hold’em event that is sponsored by SpadeClub.com. The tournament series will host a total of 18 events and the […]

Poker Revenue Drops at Sportingbet

Bookmaker Sportingbet yesterday released its financial information for its first trading quarter from August to October 2009. The company saw its online poker offering Paradise Poker generate rake of £5 million in Europe during the period, down 2 percent on the £5.1 million achieved in the same period last year. Net gaming revenue from poker […]

Body of Missing Poker Player Found

Police in London today said they were “satisfied” that a body found yesterday morning in a canal in Camden, London was that of missing poker player John Regan. Mr. Regan had disappeared on November 19 after leaving the Bar Tok pub in Chalk Farm and friends and family had been involved in an intensive search, […]

Everest Poker Signs Fabrice Soulier as Latest Pro

French poker pro Fabrice Soulier has joined Everest Poker as its latest ambassador. The Frenchman joins fellow countryman and November Nine-r Antoine Saout on Everest‘s roster. The company said the move was, “…reinforcing its presence in the country in a continued effort to develop poker in France ahead of the opening of the market.” Soulier […]

World Record Broken By Russian on PokerStars

A 22-year-old Russian professional poker player called “innerpsy” set himself a challenge of playing 40,000 hands without stopping in a 24-hour period, and that is what he did, and then some. The challenge was hosted on PokerStars.com by the Russian forum Card Game Masters and nearly 10,000 enthusiasts tuned in to see if he could […]

B.C. Poker Championship Winner Sophon Sek Arrested

One year ago, Daniel Negreanu topped a field of 688 players to win the British Columbia Poker Championships at River Rock Casino in Richmond, British Columbia. He took home $371,910 CDN in prize money and gave the tournament a marquee Canadian champion. It was a dream scenario for the tournament series, but this year’s champion […]

Online Poker — Isildur1 Beats Dwan, Ivey, Antonius

After saying goodbye to the majority of his profits from the last month, some speculated that Isildur1 might quit Patrik Antonius, or at least settle for a break in the action. Instead, the unknown player from Sweden picked right back up where he left off and challenged the Full Tilt Poker pro to some more […]

Barney Frank to Hold Hearing on Poker Bills Next Week

Suddenly, poker players have a whole lot more to be thankful for. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) has scheduled a hearing for his two poker-related bills for Dec. 3. The news comes in the final days before banks are legally required to begin enforcing the regulations of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Frank introduced two […]

Police in Cyprus Break Up Pensioners’ Poker Game

Cypriot police yesterday said they arrested and charged 42 old age pensioners with gambling after busting up a poker game in a private home in Limassol according to Reuters. Neighbours complained to the police about the comings and goings at the house and when the law popped by to investigate they found the 42 women, […]

Entraction Poker Network Expands in Spain

Spanish tourism business Group Globalia today launched its online poker site PepeGames on Swedish-based poker network Entraction currently operates a number of Pepe-branded businesses including Pepecar and Pepetravel which helped it achieve an annual turnover of €4 billion. Julio Fernandez, spokesman for Globalia said, “The online gaming market in Spain, as well as the broader […]

Online Poker Banned in Poland

A new bill has just been passed in the Polish Parliament, restricting gambling to casinos only. This means that not only will an estimated 50,000 slot machines, which may have been in places such as bars, cafes, and shopping centres, be removed, but Internet gambling such as online poker, and advertising for games of chance […]

Irish Open Returns to Burlington Hotel

Excitement begins to build as more details are confirmed for 2010’s Irish Open. PaddyPowerPoker.com today announced that one of the world’s most prestigious poker events will return to the Burlington Hotel, Dublin for a second time. This 4-star hotel which sits in the epicentre of Dublin city first played host to Europe’s longest running tournament […]

European Masters of Poker Slovenia Starts Today

The European Masters of Poker €1,000 + €100 buy-in main event kicks off today and will run until Nov. 28 at the Grand Casino, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Last season, the tour attracted more than 1,000 players over five legs, and paid out €1.6 million in prize money. This season is sure to compete as a large […]

Poker Tournament Trail — Yosh Nakano

Yosh Nakano is involved with the poker world in a number of ways. First and foremost, he has been a respected high-stakes cash game player for 25 years, and he is the high-limit host at the Bicycle Casino. Nakano has recorded a number of cashes in live tournaments, as well, and he was the champion […]

Poker Tournament Trail — Mike Leah

Mike Leah is currently in ninth place in the 2009 Card Player Player of the Year race with 3,497 points. At this late point in the race, he would need a major victory to make a serious run at the title, but his year has been impressive, especially when you consider that this is the […]

Turkey Shoot Ho-Ho Hold’em Poker Tournament Series Preview

The tournament series that has become an annual holiday tradition at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California, will begin on Thanksgiving. The first tournament in the 2009 Turkey Shoot/Ho-Ho Hold’em tournament series will be the $100 Turkey Shoot no-limit hold’em shootout, and it will begin at 7 p.m. PST on Thursday. The tournament series […]

Vincent “vd12345” Diver Wins PKR Live III

Vincent “vd12345” Diver won PKR Live III at the weekend taking top slot from a field of 134 players and a subsequent $33,500 payday after 18 hours of play at the Loose Cannon Club in London. The 21-year-old Londoner arrived at the final table with just under average chips but busted the first player to […]

PartyGaming Delves Further into Italian Poker Market

PartyGaming announced today that as part of a three-year deal, Italian gaming operator, Fueps has joined its Italian poker network. The site, 4A – The Poker Suite, now joins others already on the network such as Intralot and PartyPoker, bringing with it more than 100 games and 550,000 registered users. Jim Ryan, Chief Executive Officer […]