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WSOP November Nine Profile -- Darvin MoonDarvin Moon may be more comfortable with a chainsaw in his hands and work boots on his feet, but the small-town logger from Oakland, Maryland, has more than held his own at the 2009 WSOP main event. As play suspended for the November Nine, Moon had established himself as the overwhelming chip leader with nearly […]
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Entraction Poker Revenue Remains Healthy in Third Quarter
Publicly quoted Swedish poker network, Entraction, home to online poker rooms such as DevilfishPoker.com, today announced its interim report for the third quarter of 2009. The report looks at the time frame of Jul. 1 to Sept. 30 this year, and also looks at the year-to-date from Jan.1 to Sept. 30. Net sales for poker […]
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PokerStars Signs Irishman Jude Ainsworth for Team ProPokerStars has signed Irishman Jude “J. Thaddeus” Ainsworth as its latest Team PRO. He now becomes part of its expanding UK and Ireland PRO’s team and will be playing in the new UK and Ireland Poker Tour. Ainsworth said, “I’m really looking forward to competing in the UKIPT and being part of such an exciting […]
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WPT — World Poker Finals Day 1
Day 1 of the 2009 World Poker Tour World Poker Finals took place today at Foxwoods Hotel and Casino in Connecticut. The $10,000 no-limit hold’em tournament attracted 353 players and created a total prize pool worth $3,321,377. The champion will walk away with $910,058, and the top 36 players will all walk away with at […]
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Jeff Shulman to Give Live Updates from WSOP Final Table
Are you ready for the final table of the 2009 World Series of Poker main event? It’s been four long months, but the time has finally come, and Card Player will be the best place to catch all of the action. Card Player President and COO Jeff Shulman is one of nine lucky finalists who […]
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WSOP Circuit — Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Stop Begins Thursday
The World Series of Poker Circuit tour is returning to its most beautiful annual stop at Lake Tahoe, high up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The 19-event tournament series will be hosted at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe, and events No. 1 ($300 no-limit hold’em) and No. 2 ($200 casino employees no-limit hold’em) each began on Thursday, […]
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Online Poker — Darren Elias and Ben Wilinofsky Grab $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: $373,000 Entrants: 373 Places Paid: 36 Final Table Results: 1. digididopp — $93,250 2. xTrumptightx — $59,680 3. Thomas “ChuckSty” Rau — $44,760 (pictured right) 4. Shawn “phat_cat1” Luman — […]
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Phil Hellmuth to Sign Poker Book in Las Vegas Sunday
Phil Hellmuth will be in Las Vegas this weekend for two reasons — to root on his “student” Jeff Shulman at the World Series of Poker final table and to autograph his new autobiographical poker compilation, Deal Me In, which features the stories of 20 of the biggest names in poker. Hellmuth will be at […]
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High Stakes Poker to Return on GSN in FebruaryGSN’s High Stakes Poker, the beloved cash-game poker show, will begin airing its sixth season on Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. ET, and today, the network announced the player lineup, as well as news that Kara Scott will join Gabe Kaplan as co-host. Scott is a TV personality, as well as poker player herself. Known […]
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WSOP November Nine Profile — Eric BuchmanIt’s hard not to like Eric Buchman’s chances. Sitting second in chips, Buchman enters the final table of the World Series of Poker main event with confidence and experience. The cash-game pro from New York has cashed in the World Series nine times, results that include a second-place finish in a 2006 limit hold’em event […]
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Playtech’s Poker Client Gets Revamped
Playtech has announced the release of a new version of its poker client on the iPoker network and on Italian network, iPoker.it. This new version is all about ease of use with a long list of new tools and features such as a more user-friendly poker lobby and search options. Thought has also been put […]
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Snooker Star Turns to Felt for New Sky Poker Tour
Snooker legend Dennis Taylor will take part in the first leg of Sky Poker’s new Tour which kicks off on Saturday at the G Casino in Manchester with a 150 seat, £100 buy-in event. Sky Bet is taking bets on Taylor and he is currently at 100/1 to win it, 10/1 to make the final […]
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Phil Ivey is PartyBet’s Favorite in WSOP FinalPoker lovers everywhere have been queuing up to place bets on Phil Ivey to win the World Series of Poker main event final this weekend, despite the fact he is seventh in chips. Now PartyBets.com has had to cut his odds from 5/1 to 7/2, which has in fact made him its new favorite to […]
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World Poker Tour — World Poker Finals Begins Tomorrow
The World Poker Tour is returning to New England once again for the World Poker Finals at Foxwoods Hotel and Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. The $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship event begins on Thursday, Nov. 5 at noon EST. The tournament will conclude when a champion is crowned at the final table on Tuesday, Nov. 10. […]
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EPT — Poker Stars Releases Full Season Six ScheduleThe Chief Executive of the PokerStars European Poker Tour, John Duthie, announced the second half of the season-six schedule for the tour today. There will be six events that take place in 2010 on the EPT schedule after the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, bringing the total number of events for season six up to 13, which […]
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WSOP November Nine Profile — Steven BegleiterThe pressure of the main-event final table might get to some people, but one man who will likely be unfazed by that pressure is Steven Begleiter, someone who has experienced the intense thrills of success and the deep pains of failure, and not only at the poker table. Begleiter witnessed first hand the epic rise […]
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Cereus Poker Network Introduces Synchronized Breaks
The online-poker market has been making the push for synchronized breaks for years, but it wasn’t until earlier this year that the various sites responded by implementing the feature into their software updates. Just last week, the Cereus Poker Network added the functionality to both the UltimateBet and Absolute Poker sites, joining others, such as […]
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Poker Strategy — Carter King on Queens and Scary Boards*Carter “ckingusc” King is widely known for his tournament success, with his biggest score to date being a win in the 2008 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker main event for more than $1.2 million. When he’s not competing in the biggest tournaments in the world, he’s grinding cash games. The Game Location: Bellagio Stakes: […]
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Full Schedule Announced for European Poker Tour Season 6Chief Executive of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour (EPT), John Duthie, today announced the second half of the schedule for season 6. The events include well-loved stops such as Copenhagen, Prague, and of course the grand final in Monte Carlo, but the new addition of EPT Snowfest in the Austrian Alps should provoke even more […]
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Full Tilt Online Poker Series XIV Kicks Off
Today sees the start of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) XIV. The series runs until Nov. 15 and will feature 25 different events including knockout, shootout, turbo, and two-day events. Not to mention the pièce de resistance, the $2.5 million guaranteed main event. All together the total guaranteed prize pool swells to more […]
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Ladbrokes Poker goes Down UnderLadbrokes Poker has announced that online qualification for the 2010 Aussie Millions will begin on Nov. 9. The Aussie Million packages the site is offering are worth €10,000 each and include the AUS$10,500 main event buy-in, 10 nights accommodation from Jan. 22 to Feb. 1 at the Crown Promenade Hotel, and €2,150 in travel/spending money. […]
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Report Estimates Online Gambling Could Bring in $42 BillionLast week, a new Congressional report estimated that the regulation of Internet gambling could bring in up to $41.8 billion in revenue in the next 10 years. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), one of the co-sponsors of Rep. Barney Frank’s (D-MA) legislation to explicitly legalize and regulate online gaming, announced the findings, which were conducted by […]
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WSOP Main Event Gets Down To Nine Tonight on ESPNViewers are finally going to see exactly how the November Nine secured their places at the main-event final table as the last recorded World Series of Poker main event episode premieres tonight on ESPN at 9 p.m. ET. Day 8 begins with just 18 players of the 6,494 who began. Among the final two tables […]
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WSOP November Nine Profile -- Jeff ShulmanIn a time before Jesus was Jesus, Jeff Shulman was poised to become the world champion of poker. But one two-outer and a brutal cooler later, and that dream was dashed, with Chris “Jesus” Ferguson taking the title. Now, nine years later, he’s back at the WSOP main-event final table. With just nine players remaining […]
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WPT Enterprises Sells to Peerless Media Despite Third OfferWorld Poker Tour Enterprises (NASDAQ WTPE) has closed its deal with Peerless Media, a subsidiary of Party Gaming, and fully agreed to sell nearly all of its substantial assets — other than cash, investments, and certain other assets — to the company. Despite a third offer being put on the table from Mandalay Media last […]
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Online Poker — FTOPS Begins Wednesday on Full TiltThe Card Player Online Player of the Year race is just eight short weeks away from completion. Those looking to make their final push toward the top of the rankings will now get their shot with the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) XIV. The popular tournament series began in August 2006 with just eight […]
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Mel Judah Officially Launches Cashout Poker
Mel Judah has officially launched Cashout Poker and a version of it can now be found exclusively at FullTiltPoker.com. This innovative payment system allows players to cash out chips at any stage of a multi-table tournament. The system involves two prize pools, the main prize pool and a cashout pool. If a player needs to […]
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Martin Hruby Wins Czech-Slovak Poker Tour Brno
The Brno leg of the PokerStars.com Czech Slovak Poker Tour (CSPT) was won by local Martin Hruby. The PokerStars qualifier beat 130 others to take down the top prize of CZK 380,257 (€14,407 or US$21,102). The event was not too far off its cap of 153 and was the largest stop on the tour so […]
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Virgin Online Poker Takes On Italian MarketAccording to news site Reuters, in a conference on Monday, the chief executive of Virgin games, Simon Burridge, spoke about the UK based group’s plan to take a 5 percent share of Italy’s online poker market within its first year. Virgin’s online poker saw a soft launch in September with a revenue-sharing partnership with Cogetech […]
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Poker Strategy — Glen Chorny at Caesars Palace ClassicErik Nomberg was perhaps the only unknown player at the final table of the Caesars Palace Classic, but he was unwilling to back down to the notable professionals who surrounded him. Nomberg was getting players to lay down big hands, and up until the final table, his strategy had been working brilliantly. Then, with eight […]
