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PokerStars EPT London Main Event — Day 1A

It was a long day 1a at the 2009 PokerStars EPT London Main Event. With 307 players registered thus far and another day to go, the field is well on its way to beating last year’s mark of 596. The long night of the WSOP Europe Main Event was evident on many player’s faces who […]

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Matthew Glantz Wins PokerStars EPT High Roller Event

With the poker spotlight shining on London, all eyes were on the World Series of Poker Europe main event. However, attention was quickly drawn to the heaving field of pros and stars who turned out for the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London £20,000 + £500 ($31,952 + $799) High-Roller no-limit hold’em event. Last year the […]

This Week in Poker — Sept. 26-Oct. 2

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: Yevgeniy Timoshenko — 5,463 2: Eric Baldwin — 4,636 3: Vitaly Lunkin — 4,337 4: Cornel Cimpan — 3,570 5: Angel Guillen — 3,492 6: Daniel Negreanu — 3,342 […]

2010 Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure Bigger than Ever

Four pages. That’s how long the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure schedule is when you print it out. Oh my, PCA, how you have grown… What started as a single World Poker Tour event in 2002 with “only” a $455,780 first-place prize has blossomed into a full-fledged poker series with dozens of events and a $10,300 main […]

OMG Omaha October at DevilfishPoker.com

Omaha players are in for a treat this month at DevilfishPoker.com with the launch of OMG Omaha October today. The site is giving away €30,000 to Omaha cash players – €20,000 to high rollers and €10,000 to low rollers – with VIP points earned at the tables going towards a final leader board position at […]

PartyPoker Signs New Pro

PartyPoker.com today announced it has signed 2009 Aussie Millions winner Stewart Scott from Queensland, Australia as its latest pro recruit. Scott joins Ian Frazer and Remy Biechel as ambassador for the site. The 37 year-old earned $1.87 million earlier this year when he became the first Australian to win the Aussie Millions and said of […]

Barry Shulman Wins the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event

The World Series of Poker Europe main event has done it again, producing one of the most memorable final tables of the year. Card Player publisher Barry Shulman (pictured right) won the WSOP Europe main event during the early hours of the morning in London on Oct. 2. He was awarded £801,603 and a WSOP […]

PokerStars EPT High-Roller Recap — Day 2

It was a fast paced day at the 2009 PokerStars EPT High-Roller Championship at the Hilton London Metropole hotel. A total of 31 players still remained of the original 75 and all had their eyes set on the final table of eight, some camera time on EPT Live and of course, the £542,000 first-place prize. […]

Shulman Duo Accomplish Rare World Series of Poker Feat

It’s a good year to be a Shulman. Nine years after he finished seventh in the World Series of Poker main event, Jeff Shulman navigated his way through a 6,494-player field to land himself at his second WSOP main event final table in the past decade. He enters November’s play fourth in chips. As if […]

World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Betting

Sportingbet and Betfair have opened markets on today’s final table of the World Series of Poker Europe main event at the Empire casino in London. At the time of writing (11 a.m.) one arbitrage opportunity existed with Daniel Negreanu available to back at 14/1 on Sportingbet and to lay at 11/1 on Betfair. However the […]

Police Shut Down Moscow Poker Club

Police have shut down an illegal poker club in the south of Moscow city after raiding a restaurant and finding 15 people playing poker according to the Moscow Times. The raid took place a number of weeks ago but police only made public details yesterday. The poker room was hidden in a restaurant called the […]

Card Player’s Irish Winter Festival Online Poker Freeroll Today

Card Player is offering an exclusive freeroll in conjunction with PaddyPowerPoker.com to the main event of the upcoming Irish Winter Festival (IWF), the Irish Masters. The IWF Card Player Freeroll will take place today Sun., Oct. 4, at 9 p.m. (GMT) and in it there will be an Irish Winter Festival ticket worth €1,650 plus […]

World Series of Poker Europe Main Event — Day 4

The World Series of Poker Europe main event has done it once again. The lineup of professional players that have made the final table that will take place tomorrow in London have loaded the felt with interesting story lines, and excitement will run high at tomorrow. Six of the final nine players have won WSOP […]

PokerStars EPT High Roller Recap — Day 1

The 16-event festival of poker that is the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London began today with the £20,000 + £500 ($31,952 + $799) High-Roller no-limit hold’em event. This is always an exciting tournament as so many big names are usually in London for all the poker action that occurs when the EPT and the World […]

Six More Gambling-Related Bank Accounts Seized

The Poker Players Alliance posted a Baltimore City Paper story on its website today that details the latest developments in an investigation that has seen more than a dozen bank accounts seized by federal authorities, six of which were confiscated earlier this month. The focus of this case has been centered on Maryland, although most […]

Poker Strategy — Andrew Brokos on Not Three-Betting

Andrew “Foucault” Brokos is known for his knowledge of the game and experience in short-handed no-limit hold’em cash games. An instructor for Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus), Brokos has lots of experience breaking down hands for strategy analysis, and here, he discusses a no-limit cash-game hand with Card Player. The Game: Game: No-limit […]

World Series of Poker Europe Main Event — Day 3

Day 3 has come to a close at the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe main event, and 36 players remain from the original 334 who entered. When the field enters level 17 at noon local time in London on Wednesday, big names who will still be in the hunt include Card Player Player of […]

$40,000 Murphy Multiplier x2 at Boylepoker.com

Last April Boylepoker.com pro Peter Murphy turned $100 into $10,000 in the Multiplier Challenge. Starting tomorrow he attempts to go one better in the Multiplier Challenge x 2 when he will try to turn $1,000 into $40,000 in just 11 weeks. Paul Spillane, head of poker at Boyle Sports, said, “Peter showed just how good […]

EPT London Poker Festival Kicks Off Wednesday

It’s not only the field-sizes that are growing on the European Poker Tour, it’s also the number and variety of tournaments that are being offered. Beginning on Wednesday, Sept. 30 and running until Oct. 7, the EPT London Poker Festival will feature new events, such as the £2,000 European 8-Game Championship, a £1,000 pot-limit Omaha […]

Krzystzof Grubka Wins EMOP Malta Grand Final

The European Masters of Poker Malta Grand Final which took place at the weekend in Vittoriosa, Malta was won by Polish player Krzystzof Grubka who lifted €95,000 for topping the 291 strong field. Grubka faced Joakim Sörenson heads-up but the pair cut a deal with chip counts of 2.4 million and 1.9 million respectively and […]

Entraction Poker Network Jettisons Boss Media Deal

Entraction, the Swedish-quoted online gaming network, yesterday said it had terminated its contract with Boss Media and will close Cardroom2 on its network as a result. Boss Media, which operated the International Poker Network is currently available as a second cardroom on Entraction but the company said the traffic between the networks was not extensive […]

International Poker Open Betting Market Launched

Marty Smyth and Julian Gardner today head the Boylesports.com betting market for the upcoming Boylepoker.com International Poker Open 2009. Both players are priced 175/1 to win the tournament which looks set to become the largest poker tournament ever held outside the U.S. Other notable players whose participation has been confirmed by the market are: Padraig […]

Dusk Till Dawn Opens Seven Days Per Week

Dusk Till Dawn, the Nottingham, England-based live poker room has announced it will return to seven day opening from tomorrow Sept. 30. The club, which recently hosted the English Poker Open but faced an uncertain future earlier this year, will now open Sunday to Thursday 7:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Friday and Saturday 7:30 […]

World Series of Poker Europe Main Event — Day 2

The two starting-day fields of the World Series of Poker Europe main event (sponsored by Betfair) saw 178 players whittled down to 92. Despite this, there is a fantastic line-up for day 3, including Card Player’s own CEO Barry Shulman (111,200) [pictured right], John Tabatabai (160,100), Ram Vaswani (202,500), Yevgeniy Timoshenko (192,100), Antonio Esfandiari (173,300), […]

Poker Stars Crushes Record for Most Players at One Time

PokerStars likes its world records. In July, the site welcomed 65,000 players for the largest poker tournament field ever assembled. Today, it announced that it had eclipsed its previous record for the most players in an online cardroom at one time, with 307,016 players competing at 42,118 tables at the same time on Sept. 6. […]

IMG Contract to Focus on WSOP’s Global Expansion

Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment announced last week that it was extending its contract with IMG Sports & Entertainment an additional four years for the global representation of the World Series of Poker brand and property. IMG will be responsible for expanding the brand internationally, with regards to sponsorship, event management, licensing, and television distribution. IMG has […]

Online Poker — Jeremiah Vinsant Wins at UltimateBet

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: $1,503,000 Entrants: 7,515 Places Paid: 1,080 Final Table Results: 1. nomaddman — $225,450 2. mikla12345 — $165,886 3. jas42 — $120,240 4. Richard “RonaldKosh” Fohrenbach — $79,659 […]

New Poker After Dark Pits USA Against Italy

New episodes of Poker After Dark on NBC keep rolling off the reel, and this week, U.S.A. will square off against Italy in a winner-take-all $20,000 buy-in six-handed tournament. Making up the U.S. side is Howard Lederer, Erick Lindgren, and Chris Ferguson, who is fresh off of a win in last week’s “Magnificent Six,” in […]

International Poker Open Set to Smash Records

Boylepoker.com today said direct buy-ins to the upcoming International Poker Open 2009 had sold out and the only way for players to participate in the $225 + $25 event was by qualifying online at the site. So far 1,271 players have registered for the event, taking place at the Regency Hotel, Dublin from Oct. 16 […]