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Helen Firth Wins Betfred Ladies’ Poker Tour Grand FinalHelen Firth from North Yorkshire has won the Betfred Ladies’ Poker Tour grand final at London’s Western Club, taking down a £20,000 sponsorship package for her final table victory. Ten players made the grand final but when play left just two remaining it was Firth who was shortstacked with 90,000 while Sue Adams had 160,000. […]
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Poker Strategy — Phil Galfond Talks About Three-BarrelingPhil Galfond, known as “OMGClayAiken” online, is known for his high-stakes cash game prowess, as well as his analytical skills. This not only has made him a talented player, but a successful poker coach, as well. The subscription-based training site Blue Fire Poker features in-depth strategy videos by Galfond, and in a special High Stakes […]
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Latin American Poker Tour Costa Rica — Sulaiman Wins
The $2,500 no-limit hold’em main event at the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour Costa Rica stop welcomed back eight contestants to the final table on Sunday, Nov. 22. The final contestants had emerged from a field of 259 entrants, who created a prize pool worth $628,075. The final eight were all guaranteed at least $13,818, […]
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Online Poker — Jose De La Guardia Wins Sunday Million
You can check out the final results for Sunday’s flagship events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, UltimateBet, Bodog and Cake below: PokerStars — Sunday Million Buy-In: $200+$15 Prize Pool: $1,717,400 Entrants: 8,587 Places Paid: 1,260 Final Table Results: 1. Jose “papadelpoker” De La Guardia — $252,633 2. jakobsen01 — $184,620 3. IveGotToejam — $128,805 4. lookoutdudes […]
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European Championship of Online Poker V Hits BoylepokerThe 14-day festival of events that is the European Championship of Online Poker begins its fifth instalment today on Boylepoker.com. The latest series has a total of $4.5 million guaranteed throughout, and Boylepoker sponsored pro John “doesalrite” O’Shea is looking to take home a piece of the pie once again. Earlier this year, O’Shea successfully […]
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Antonio Matias Wins European Poker Tour Vilamoura
Antonio Matias [pictured right] plowed his way to the top of the leader board the day before the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Vilamoura final table. The Portuguese player kept up the pressure on day 5 and persevered through the final until he was crowned champion yesterday evening at the Casino Vilamoura. He now becomes both […]
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BlondePoker to Leave iPoker Network; Inside Poker Folds
BlondePoker, one of the UK’s largest poker forums with an online poker skin on the iPoker network, has confirmed it has been given three months to leave the network. Popular shareholder in BlondePoker, Tony “Tikay” Kendall, said of the news in a forum post today, “On Friday, BlondePoker Web Ltd received in writing 3 months […]
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Grosvenor UK Poker Tour 2010 Schedule AnnouncedThe Grosvenor UK Poker Tour 2010 schedule has been announced with added prize money jumping to £200,000 and a new club championship and online tournaments launched. The 2009 grand final is currently underway at the Victoria Casino, London. The main tour in 2010 will consist of eight legs, a grand final, and Champion of Champions […]
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Online Poker – Isildur1 Gets Crushed By Antonius, IveyIt may seem foolish to write an article updating Isildur1’s action, knowing full well that the winners and losers can seemingly swap places in a matter of hours, but Saturday night’s action on Full Tilt Poker was much too epic to ignore. Yes, the largest online pot in history record was broken … again, but […]
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Poker Tournament Trail — Eric BaldwinEric Baldwin is the current Card Player Player of the Year leader with a month and a half remaining in 2009. He holds a total of 6,058 points, but he has a group of players close on his heels. Both Cornel Cimpan and Yevgeniy Timoshenko hold more than 5,463 points, and either could catch Baldwin […]
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Five Aussie Millions Packages on Betfair Poker TonightOnline poker players can win an $18,0000 package to the Aussie Millions 2010 this Sunday evening at 6.30 p.m. (GMT) on Betfair Poker. There are five guaranteed packages to be won worth $90,000. Each packages consists of the $9,750 Main Event buy-in, $1,550 accommodation at The Crown Towers, and $6,700 travel and expenses credited to […]
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Partouche Poker Tour Final on Eurosport Today
The €3 Million guaranteed Partouche Poker Tour final table will be shown live on Eurosport across Europe today Sunday Nov. 22 at 9.30 p.m. (CET). The event, which will see the winner pick up €1 million, will be streamed live on the web from 2 p.m. The final table line up is: 1: Michael Tureniec […]
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PokerStars European Poker Tour Vilamoura — Day 4 Recap
With Anthony Lellouche [pictured right] and Jeff Sarwer heavily dominating most recaps of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Vilamoura due to their strong performance in the main event, day 4 proved that being chip leader with 24 to go doesn’t guarantee anything. Play would continue until the final table of eight was found, but 16 […]
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Next Week’s European Masters of Poker Day 1B Sold Out
Next week’s European Masters of Poker Slovenia is set to get season II of the tour off to an explosive start with day 1B already sold out. Direct buy-in seats are currently available for day 1A only. The €1,000+€100 buy-in event takes place from Wednesday Nov. 25 to 28 at the Grand Casino, Ljubljana, Slovenia. […]
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PokerStars European Poker Tour Vilamoura — Day 3 Recap
Knock-outs were fast and relentless on day 3 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Vilamoura main event. A remaining field of 69 quickly became 24, bursting the bubble without delay or hesitancy along the way. Four Team PokerStars Pro members, Ruben Visser, Jude Ainsworth [pictured right], Johannes Strassmann, and Jan Heitmann made the money — […]
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This Week in Poker — Nov. 14-20
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 (pictured right) 2: Cornel Cimpan — 5,670 3: Yevgeniy Timoshenko — 5,463 4: Vitaly Lunkin — 4,473 5: Soheil Shamseddin — 4,085 6: Brock Parker […]
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Online Poker — Shaun Deeb Says He’s Quitting Tourneys
Steve “gboro780” Gross still sits in first place overall by 1,048 points in the Card Player Online Player of the Year race, but that is hardly the story here. The online multi-table community was shaken to the core this week when legendary grinder and third-place resident Shaun “TedsFishFry” Deeb (pictured right) said he’s retiring from […]
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Online Poker – Isildur1 Gives Some of It Back to Ivey, AntoniusFor those of you who haven’t been watching the various Isildur1 matches on Full Tilt Poker, you’ve been missing out on some of the most epic high-stakes cash game action in quite some time. To recap, Isildur1 burst onto the scene as a complete unknown and racked up $6 million in winnings in just over […]
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Durrrr Wins $750,000 from Sammy George in Live Heads Up Poker gameTom “Durrrr” Dwan has won two out of his three heads up matches as part of the Full Tilt Million Dollar Challenge at Las Ambassadeurs in Mayfair, London. After losing a few thousand dollars to Italian Marcello “Luckexpress” Marigliano in Wednesday’s match the beleaguered American bounced back playing pot-limit Omaha against Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies on […]
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Poker Stars Million Dollar Challenge Returns Sunday on FoxThe premiere of the PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge was the most watched poker television show in U.S. history, with more than four million viewers tuning in, easily beating out the World Series of Poker final table on ESPN, and after a short hiatus, the show will continue its first season with a new episode this […]
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PokerStars European Poker Tour Vilamoura — Day 2 Recap
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Vilamoura continued yesterday with day 2 of the €5,300 buy-in main event, which saw all the survivors from both day 1A and 1B come together for the first leg of the long journey to the final table and the top prize of €404,793 ($601,171). There were 177 of them altogether […]
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PKR Live III Kicks Off in LondonOnline poker room PKR sees the return of its live festival, PKR Live, for its third instalment this weekend. It will kick off at the Loose Cannon in London today, Friday Nov. 20 with a welcome party for players at 8 p.m.. The two-day $1,000 buy-in main event with capacity for 150 players and a […]
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bwin Poker Up 22 Percent in First Nine Months
European betting giant bwin yesterday reported its online poker turnover had increase by 22 percent in the first nine months of 2009 to €81.1 million compared to the same period of 2008 when the figure was €66.5 million. The third quarter of 2009, to end September, produced online poker turnover of €23.1 million, up 1.2 […]
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Poker Tournament Trail — Isaac Baron
Isaac Baron had accumulated more than $3 million playing poker professionally heading in to October 2009, but oddly enough he had never won a live major tournament title. Baron has cashed for millions online, he was the 2007 Card Player Online Player of the Year, and he is also a CardRunners instructor. But Baron has […]
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Latin American Poker Tour — Costa Rica Stop Begins Today
The third season of the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour began Thursday, Nov. 19 at the Paradisius Playa Conchal Resort in Costa Rica. The $2,500 no-limit hold’em main event will feature four days of competition, and it will crown a champion on Sunday, Nov. 22. The player cap is set at 350 players for this […]
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Online Poker — DJ_Ponytale Wins $1K Monday
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: $300,000 Entrants: 298 Places Paid: 36 Final Table Results: 1. DJ_Ponytale — $75,000 2. Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson — $48,000 (pictured right) 3. Mighty Grizzle1 — $36,000 4. El_Diablo73 — $27,750 […]
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Online Poker — Isildur1 Bounces Back Against ZiigmundAs the famous saying goes, you can’t keep a good unknown player from Sweden down … or something to that affect. In the aftermath of his $2.7 million loss to Patrik Antonius, high-stakes newcomer Isildur1 bounced back in a big way to keep himself in the black overall with victories against Cole South, Tom “durrrr” […]
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Boylepoker $2,500 Added, $1 World Cup Bad Beat FreezeoutFrance’s Thierry Henry’s now infamous ‘hand of God’ goal in last night’s crucial World Cup 2010 play-off qualifier in Paris killed Ireland’s hope of making South Africa next summer but soccer and poker fans can take some cheer from tonight’s clever Boylepoker.com promotion. The Irish poker room is hosting a special £1 World Cup Bad […]
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Final Qualification for Belgium Poker ChampionshipsOnline qualification for the sixth annual €1,500 + €200 buy-in Belgium Open Poker Championships (BOPC) being held in Casino de Namur in Belgium from Nov. 21 to 29 is drawing to a close with two chances left to qualify on PokerStars.com. Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. (WET) sees a $25 + $2 buy-in satellite with […]
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ESPN Remains Pleased with November Nine Poker ConceptESPN couldn’t have asked for a bigger poker star at the final table of the main event. There sat Phil Ivey, one of the greatest in the game, competing for poker’s most prestigious title. And yet, when the ratings for the final table came in, they were nearly identical to 2008’s, when nine unknowns graced […]
