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Aussie Millions: Main Event Day 1

Day 1 at the 2010 Aussie Millions took place over three days beginning on Sunday, Jan. 24 and concluding tonight at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. The $10,000 AUD no-limit hold’em tournament attracted 746 players overall. The total prize pool for the event is $7.46 million, and the eventual champion will walk away with […]

Caesars Cup, Featuring Negreanu and Obrestad, Airs Sunday

Team Americas and Team Europe went head to head this summer in the first-ever Caesars Cup, and this Sunday at 11 p.m., the World Series of Poker Europe is returning to ESPN2, beginning with coverage of this event. This unique eight-player-per-team format began with captains of each respective team, Daniel Negreanu for Team Americas and […]

Online Poker: UB Online Championship Events No. 1-10

The fourth installment of the UB.com Online Championship is in full swing, and as of Tuesday, 10 events have been completed. The series has seen tremendous success thus far, with eight tournaments surpassing their guarantees. Recent PCA runner-up Tyler “KEEFKING420” Reiman took down the first event, pocketing $65,488 in a no-limit hold’em tournament. Other notable […]

PartyPoker Founder Sells Remaining Stake in Company

PartyGaming Plc founder, Anurag Dikshit, has sold his remaining stake in the company and plans to “move on” from the online gaming sector according to Bloomberg news agency. Dikshit, who was fined $300 million by U.S. authorities in 2008, sold his last tranche of 38.8 million shares at 270 pence each, netting himself £105 million. […]

iPoker Revenue Up 12 Percent in 2009

Playtech, owner of the iPoker network, today announced its key performance indicators for the final quarter and full year for 2009. Poker revenue was up 12 percent in the year to Dec. 31, 2009 to €33.8 million from €30.1 million for all of 2008.The rate of poker revenue growth in 2009 was significantly below that […]

Jake Cody Wins EPT Deauville Event

The PokerStars European Poker Tour now moves on from the Casino Barrière in Deauville to Casino Copenhagen in the Radisson SAS Scandinavia Hotel. But not before a successful and exciting event is celebrated. The EPT Deauville attracted 768 players, most of whom were French, but in the end, a 21-year-old first-time EPT-er, Jake “neverbluff67” Cody […]

Ladbrokes Poker Customer Data Compromised

British bookmaker Ladbrokes has confirmed that a “limited amount” of its customer data has been stolen. On Sunday UK newspaper the Daily Mail reported it had been approached to buy the details of 10,000 Ladbrokes customers while also being offered access to its database of 4.5 million people in the UK and abroad. The paper […]

WPT: Southern Poker Championship Day 2

Day 2 of the 2010 World Poker Tour Southern Poker Championship took place on Monday, Jan. 25 at the Beau Rivage Hotel and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. The $10,000 no-limit hold’em tournament attracted 208 players overall, and 106 returned for day 2. The field played down to the final 27 players this evening and the […]

Poker Players Donate $1.5 Million to Haiti

Time and time again, the poker community has shown its generosity when it comes to charitable donations. Charity poker tournaments are run virtually every week in casinos all around the world, as both recreational players and pros alike consistently give to worthy causes. After a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti earlier this month, more than […]

Online Poker: Juan Maceiras Barros Wins 2nd Sunday Million

Juan Maceiras Barros (pictured right), also known as vietcong01, joined an exclusive club early Monday morning when he took down his second PokerStars Sunday Million tournament. The Spaniard took home $255,954 for the outright win, putting his career earnings at over $1.3 million. When Barros won the Sunday Million in July of 2007, he picked […]

European Poker Tour Deauville -- Day 4

Day 4 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Deauville in the Casino Barriere saw 24 players return from an original field of 768, with 16 more to lose before end of play. Lots of big names were in the lineup for the €847,000 first prize, including Bertrand Grospellier, Freddy Deeb (pictured right), Peter Eastgate, and […]

PartyGaming Confirms Merger Discussions

PartyGaming confirmed on Friday it was in discussions with a number of companies regarding a merger. The owner of PartyPoker and the World Poker Tour, which recently announced a partnership for online poker with Danish gaming monopoly Danske Spil, said in its statement, “Further to recent press speculation, the Board of PartyGaming Plc confirms that […]

Priyan de Mel Wins His Second GUKPT Title

Priyan de Mel has won his second Grosvenor UK Poker Tour title topping the field of 146 players in the £1,000 main event to take home the top prize of £44,600. At the end of 2009 de Mel won the GUKPT Blackpool title and is just the third player to win two GUKPT main events. […]

PaddyPowerPoker Launches Double Up Poker Promotion

Double up single table tournament players are being rewarded this February at PaddyPowerPoker.com with $250,000 in cash prizes for players at all levels. The Double Up Sparkling STT promotion features four weekly counting periods starting Feb. 1 in three categories: $1-5, $10-30, and $50+. Paddy Power, spokesman for the company, said, “There’s a quarter of […]

WPT: Southern Poker Championship Day 1

Day 1 of the 2010 World Poker Tour Southern Poker Championship took place on Sunday, Jan. 24 at the Beau Rivage Hotel and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. The $10,000 no-limit hold’em tournament attracted 208 players, and after the first six levels of play, just 106 remained in the hunt for the first-place prize worth $739,486. […]

Aussie Millions: Shak Beats Ivey for $1.2M

The 2010 Aussie Millions $100,000 AUD no-limit hold’em challenge began on Saturday, Jan. 23 at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament attracted a field of 24 talented poker professionals, and the total prize pool was a handsome $2.4 million. The top five players would walk away with prize money in the event, and […]

European Poker Tour Deauville -- Day 3

On day 3 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Deauville, the tone got serious and the atmosphere tense as play strove towards the money. Only 104 would be paid meaning 29 would go home with nothing, and only 24 of the 104 would be going through to the next day. Nothing is certain in poker, […]

Daily $2,000 PokerStars Freerolls for UK & Ireland

PokerStars.com has launched a daily $2,000 freeroll for British and Irish online poker players. The tournaments take place each evening at 9:30 p.m. GMT for the next six weeks and players who miss the game or bust out early can jump into the $250 freeroll at 10:30 p.m.. Emma Crowe, regional marketing director for PokerStars […]

Phil Galfond Commentates on PKR TV This Week

PKR TV viewers are in for a treat this week with the arrival of online cash game superstar Phil “OMGClayAIken” Galfond in the commentary booth. The action kicks off tonight Sunday Jan. 24 at 6 p.m. GMT for four hours with the Glafond TV Cash Game featuring action at high-stakes buy ins from $1,000 to […]

WPT: Southern Poker Championship Begins Sunday

The first World Poker Tour event of 2010 begins this weekend at the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. The $10,000 no-limit hold’em WPT championship event will began at noon CST on Sunday, Jan. 24, and it will crown a champion on Wednesday, Jan. 27. This is the third time that the WPT has hosted […]

European Poker Tour Deauville -- Day 2

Day 2 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Deauville saw 388 players become 133 in a day filled with big names battling to and fro with lot of explosive poker action. The blinds increased to 75 minutes from 60, and six levels were played without any dinner break. Before the event could find its day […]

Schwartz, Negreanu, Rousso Join Premier League Line-Up

The PartyPoker.com Premier League IV, being held in Las Vegas from Feb. 12 to 18, has added Luke “FullFlush1” Schwartz, Daniel Negreanu, and Vanessa Rousso to its line-up. The trio join Phil Hellmuth, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Tony G, Kara Scott, Roland de Wolfe and defending champion J.C. Tran as the identities of the 12 players taking […]

St. Patrick's Day Irish Open Satellite for London Vic

PaddyPowerPoker.com yesterday announced it would be hosting a special St. Patrick’s Night satellite for the upcoming Irish Open in conjunction with London’s Grosvenor Victoria Casino on March 17 at 7:45 p.m.. Five packages worth £3,600 will be guaranteed on the night and the buy-in will be £100 with rebuys. Players can buy in direct or […]

This Week in Poker: Jan. 16-22

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 The Card Player Player of the Year Race is brought to you by Bodog_ 1: Harrison Gimbel — 3,000 (pictured right) 2: Tyler Reiman — 2,500 3: Barry Shulman — […]

Online Poker: William 'imahustler1' Givens Leads OPOY Race

We’re not even a full month into the 2010 season, but the Card Player Online Player of the Year race is already starting to take shape. Sitting atop the rankings this week is William “imahustla1” Givens. The player from Denver had a monster start to his year by winning the Sunday $750,000 guarantee on Full […]

Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott Finds New Job as Bingo Caller

Devilfish Gaming Plc, owner of DevilfishPoker.com, this week launched a new online bingo site. This would not normally have a sufficient poker angle to make the news pages of CardPlayer.com until we discovered that UK poker legend and ambassador for DevilfishPoker, Dave Ulliott, calls the bingo numbers at the new site, DevilfishBingo.com. Ulliott, famed for […]

European Poker Tour Deauville: Day 1B

Boutique hotels, hidden bakeries exuding powerful aromas, pastel buildings filling streets making them look like something from Hansel and Gretel — and poker. It may not seem like it fits into that sentence, but somehow, in Deauville, it does. The Casino Barriere de Deauville is not your average casino; its high ceilings, long velvet drapes, […]

Tony G Joins PartyPoker as Sponsored Pro

Aussie poker pro and businessman Tony G has joined PartyPoker’s Team Party as one of its sponsored pros as the company announced it had acquired the assets of TonyGPoker.com. TonyGPoker players will be migrated to Party-owned NoblePoker.com while Tony G will join the growing list of Team Party pros and play the upcoming Premier League […]

Poker Tournament Trail: Harrison Gimbel

Harrison Gimbel (pictured left) is just 19 years old, and he is now a millionaire. Gimbel topped a record field of 1,529 players at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event to take home the top prize worth $2.2 million. He is the youngest PCA champion in history, and he now sets […]

Online Poker: Paul Foltyn Wins at Full Tilt Poker

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: $373,000 Entrants: 373 Places Paid: 36 Final Table Results: 1. Paul “LEADBOOTS” Foltyn — $93,250 (pictured right) 2. Mario “Pwnasaurus” Silvestri — $59,680 3. Lauren “locoenlacabeza” Kling — $44,760 4. […]