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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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The Faces of the 2009 POY Race — Part IThe 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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Irish Poker Championship Gets Underway FridayPokerStars.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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Hastings Torches Isildur1 for up to $4.2 Million in Epic PokEasy 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 […]
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Boylepoker Signs Poker Pro Nicky PowerBoylepoker.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 […]
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DC, Baltimore Residents Will Soon Have Closer Poker OptionCurrently, 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 […]
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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 […]
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Miguel Ángel Lorenzo Wins Full Tilt Poker Series MadridMiguel 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 — […]
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Online Poker — Isildur1 and Durrrr Both Pick Up WinsAfter 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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New Poker After Dark Features Cash Game for FinaleNBC’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 […]
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Poker Hand Discussion — Big Pair, Tough FlopIn 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 — 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. […]
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James Akenhead Wins Full Tilt Poker Million VIIIJames 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 […]
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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 […]
