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Aruba Poker Classic Day 3

Day 3 at the 2009 Aruba Poker Classic saw 85 players return for their shot at the first-place prize worth $753,330, and by the end of a quick day of play, just 36 remained in the hunt. The money-bubble burst when 45 players remained, but action continued down to 36 players so that tables can […]

You Can Win a Piece of Phil Ivey’s WSOP Winnings

Full Tilt Poker announced this week that its players can earn “a piece of Ivey” in a new promotion that will give out cash prizes totaling more than 6 percent of whatever Phil Ivey earns for his World Series of Poker final table result. The seven-time bracelet winner is competing for a first-place prize of […]

Belgium Open Poker Championships Announced

Casino de Namur is set to host the sixth annual Belgium Open Poker Championships from Nov. 21 to 29 with up to 1,000 players expected for the €1,500 + €200 buy-in main event. This year also sees the introduction of a €10,000 + €500 heads up team event to the busy schedule. Last year 843 […]

French Parliament Debates Online Poker Legalisation

The debate on how France will regulate and license the €5 billion gaming industry got underway yesterday in the French parliament with the online poker industry watching eagerly from the sidelines. Up to 3 million French people are estimated to use gambling websites from outside the jurisdiction according to Reuters and budget minister Eric Woerth […]

PKR Heads Up Grand Slam Starts Today

The inaugural PKR.com Heads Up Grand Slam gets underway in London today and offers a mouthwatering array of heads up battles for poker fans. Sixteen heats will take place in London and the line-up looks like this: Peter Eastgate Vs. Vicky Coren Nam Le Vs. Lex Veldhuis Juha Helppi Vs. PKR Qualifier Luke Schwartz Vs. […]

Final 40 Seats Available for International Poker Open

Boylepoker.com is offering the final 40 seats to the International Poker Open as direct online buy-ins for day 1A of the event from Thursday Oct.16 at 7 p.m.. They have also announced the prize pool will hit $325,000, up from $205,000 last year. The International Poker Open 2009 is Europe’s largest poker tournament and features […]

Microgaming Poker Network Adds Two New Poker Rooms

Microgaming today announced two new online poker rooms have been launched on its poker network. Mansion88 based in the Philippines and 5050 Poker join around 40 other sites on the expanding network. Mattias Eriksson, chief executive officer of 5050poker said, “Our players wanted the chance to play against a truly global opposition on a platform […]

Aruba Poker Classic Day 2

The 2009 Aruba Poker Classic has attracted a total of 475 players to the Radisson Resort in Aruba. The total prize pool for the $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship is $2,303,750, and the eventual champion will walk away with $753,330. Here is a look at the payouts: 1: $753,330 2: $414,680 3: $218,860 4: $126,710 5: […]

Greek Poker Tour Starts Next Week

The eighth Greek Poker Tour will take place in Vienna, Austria at the famous Concord Card Casino between October 14-18 this year with €170,000 in prize pool guarantees across four events. The festival will include four no-limit hold’em tournaments, one pot-limit Omaha and one satellite to the main event. All events have 30 minute blinds […]

Poker Tournament Trail — Scott Montgomery

One year ago, Scott Montgomery was thrust into the spotlight as a member of the inaugural November Nine. He entered the final table in third chip position and eventually finished in fifth place to score a huge payday worth $3,096,768. With the this year’s World Series of Poker main event final table exactly one month […]

Poker Stars Million Dollar Challenge Starts Sunday on Fox

PokerStars has time and again proven that it isn’t a one-trick pony, and this Sunday, Oct. 11, the online giant is getting into game-show television by premiering its PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge on Fox at 4 p.m. ET. The premise of the show is a familiar one: contestants who win entry to the show via […]

Poker Strategy — Phil Galfond vs. Patrik Antonius

Phil Galfond is a 24-year-old poker pro who is known for dominating nose-bleed stakes online under the screen name “OMGClayAiken.” His analytical skills have not only 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 […]

Full Tilt’s Newest Poker Series Begins Nov. 4

It’s been more than three years since the first Full Tilt Online Poker Series. In that time, the popular FTOPS has become a staple on the online poker calendar, with four series a year that brings tens of thousands of poker players together with the dreams of riches thanks to a few clicks of a […]

Aaron Gustavson Wins PokerStars EPT London Main Event

The 2009 PokerStars EPT London main-event champion is Aaron “aguskb” Gustavson. The 23-year-old Las Vegas resident earned £850,000 ($1,354,042) for the victory over 730 players in the largest live tournament ever held in the United Kingdom. Gustavson battled a truly international final table and made quick work of reigning WSOP main-event Champion Peter Eastgate with […]

PartyPoker Sponsors Racing Legend Giancarlo Fisichella

Formula One racing driver Giancarlo Fisichella has been signed as poker ambassador for PartyPoker.it, PartyPoker.com Italian online poker site. PartyPoker.it is celebrating Fisichella becoming an ambassador with a series of daily freerolls. Players have a shot to win a piece of the €500 prize pool and, better still, a genuine F1 collector’s item ― a […]

Paradise Poker Rake Down Eight Percent in 2009

Sportingbet Plc, the publicly-quoted parent of Paradise Poker, today issued its full year results to July 31, 2009. As a percentage of Sportingbet’s overall business, poker dropped from 15 percent in 2008 to 12 percent in 2009. The poker market remains difficult and investment in the business was “maintenance only” the company said in its […]

Poker Tournament Trail — Thierry Van Den Berg

Thierry Van Den Berg has won $1,226,299 playing tournament poker during a poker career that dates back to 2005. The majority of his success has come on the PokerStars European Poker Tour, where he made two final tables during season four in Baden and Dublin. He has cashed a total of seven times at EPT […]

PokerStars EPT London Main Event — Day 4

Three tables of eight players filled the bottom end of the tournament area at the start of day 4 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London main event. Although the 24 players were in the money, whereabouts exactly was yet to be determined for 16 of them. The chip leader going into the day was […]

Big Poker Oktober Has Begun

The Big Poker Oktober tournament series has returned to the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California. The series will feature 13 events between now and the end of the $300 no-limit hold’em championship event on Oct. 18. Each event will spread no-limit hold’em, and each event will feature a guaranteed prize pool. Multiple satellites for […]

Bodog Poker Open to Have Added Money and Big Prize Pools

The fourth Bodog Poker Open will feature seven championship events, and every single one of them will have money added to the prize pool. Bodog recently released the schedule of its Bodog Poker Open IV series to Card Player, and the seven-event championship series will provide players a slew of opportunities to play in tournaments […]

New Episodes of World Series of Poker Main Event Tonight

ESPN continues its coverage of World Series of Poker main event tonight with two brand-new, one-hour episodes airing at 9 p.m. ET. Showcasing the best of days 5 and 6, tonight’s coverage begins with only a couple hundred players remaining of the nearly 6,500 that started. The episodes will feature Dennis Phillips, as well as […]

Exclusive Boylepoker $1 IPO Freezeout with Card Player

Card Player Europe readers outside of the U.S have another chance to win a package to the International Poker Open 2009 including tournament buy-in, with our exclusive $1 freezeout at Boylepoker.com tonight October 6 at 9 p.m. (BST). The password for the Boylepoker IPO $1 freezeout is CP1000. Registration is now open for this event. […]

PKR Signs APT Macau Winner Adrien Allain

PKR.com has signed up Frenchman Adrien “zlatan35” Allain as its latest member of Team PKR Pro. Allain, who recently won the Asian Poker Tour Macau main event after qualifying via a $5 online satellite and has won the Sunday $30,000, Saturday Big Shot, and Sunday $17,000 at PKR joins players such as Kai Danilo Paulson […]

Alyson Chadwick Wins Betfred Ladies’ Poker Tour

The Betfred Ladies’ Poker Tour (BLPT) in the Spanish resort of Calahonda, Costa del Sol at the weekend was won by Alyson Chadwick who took down the first prize of £1,890 and a place in the grand final in November. Having only played poker for two years she made her fourth final table in Spain. […]

Hungary Plans Poker Tax

Hungary is planning to introduce a poker tax according to the Wall Street Journal’s online blog. The report says Laszlo Keller, the Secretary of State for Finance, intends to regulate live poker and levy tax on winnings but Gergely Tatar of the Hungarian Poker Association says the move could backfire by driving players towards untaxed […]

Aruba Poker Classic Begins

The $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship event began today at the 2009 UltimateBet Aruba Poker Classic hosted at the Radisson Resort in Aruba. The event will feature two day-one flights, and the final table will take place on Saturday, Oct. 10. Players will begin with 15,000 in chips for the championship event, and blinds begin at […]

Bellagio 2009 Festa al Lago Classic Poker Series Has Begun

The 2009 Festa al Lago Classic has begun at Bellagio in Las Vegas. The tournament series will feature a total of 19 events between now and the end of the $15,000 World Poker Tour no-limit hold’em championship event that runs through Oct. 26. Two of the preliminary events (H.O.R.S.E. and pot-limit Omaha) will feature a […]

Poker Law — Barney Frank Urges Regulators to Delay UIGEA

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), the chairman of the financial services committee in the House, wrote a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday, urging them to delay the implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act regulations for another 12 months. “We are writing to strongly urge […]

PokerStars EPT London Main Event — Day 3

We were four days into the 2009 PokerStars EPT London main event, yet for the first time, the players were finally getting a taste of the money. The day began squarely on the bubble, with 111 players fighting to squeeze into the final 104 spots. The process proved to be far more painless than originally […]

Irish Poker Championship Returns To Galway This December

The Irish Poker Championship returns to the west of Ireland city of Galway from December 10 to 14 this year as PokerStars.com takes over from PartyPoker.com and the event moves from early January to pre-Christmas. The €2,000 buy-in main event takes place at the luxurious Radisson SAS hotel in the city and will be supported […]