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European Poker Tour — Warsaw Day 1B

Day 1B at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Warsaw main event attracted 115 players, which grew the total for the event to 203. The total prize pool for the event is €1,145,826, and the first-place prize is €358,645. Players from 33 countries entered the event, with France supplying the most players with 28. Poland had […]

Card Player TV’s Poker Show ‘All Inbox’ Shoots This Week

Card Player TV’s newest show, All Inbox, is giving you, the viewer, a chance to participate. In each episode, Card Player TV will sit down with poker’s most accomplished pros to answer your questions. All you have to do is e-mail your questions to AllInbox@www.cardplayer.com and include your name and address. We will send T-shirts […]

Poker Strategy — Carter King Discusses Getting Max Value

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. Altogether, he’s won $2 million in tournaments, and with events these days giving players more and more starting chips, King […]

Poker Revenue Declines Slightly in Playtech’s Third Quarter

International gaming software designer, developer and licensor, Playtech, today announced its financial report for the third quarter ending 30 September 2009. The report shows that although poker revenue has increased by eight percent, from €7.6 million in the third quarter of 2008, to €8.2 million for the third quarter of 2009, it has decreased by […]

Anurag Dikshit Sells Majority of his Shares in PartyGaming

Anurag Dikshit has distanced himself further from PartyGaming, parent company of PartyPoker.com, by selling a hefty chunk of his 28 percent sharehold in the company. He now holds nine percent, but a spokesman for Dikshit said that this too would be sold. According to the Financial Times (FT.com), Dikshit sold 75 million shares to institutional […]

PokerStars Partners with England’s Rugby Football Union

PokerStars has made a new partnership in the sports world. According to news site, Mirror.co.uk, England’s National Governing Body for rugby, the Rugby Football Union (RFU), has taken on PokerStars as its official gaming and casino partner for the England team. PokerStars.com joins a list of sponsors which includes 02, Nike, Land Rover, and Emirates […]

World Poker Tour — Festa al Lago Classic Main Event Preview

The World Poker Tour $15,000 no-limit hold’em championship event begins today at Bellagio. The event is the 19th on the schedule for the 2009 Festa al Lago Classic tournament series, which is being hosted at Bellagio. You can check out results for all of the preliminary events and news recaps for select preliminary events on […]

ESPN Airs New Worlds Series of Poker Episodes Tonight

Tonight at 9 p.m. ET, a new episode of the World Series of Poker main event will premiere on ESPN with only 64 players of the 6,494 who started, and among those still in contention are some of the games biggest stars. Seven-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey and Antonio Esfandiari will begin at the feature […]

European Poker Tour -- Warsaw Day 1A

Day 1A of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Warsaw main event began today in Poland. The first flight for this event attracted 88 players, and by the end of the night, 64 remained. Notable players who were lost along the way during the early going were Angel Guillen and J.C. Alvarado. At the end of […]

Poker Tournament Trail — Ted Lawson on Pot-Limit Omaha

The $10,000 pot-limit Omaha tournament at the 2009 Festa al Lago Classic concluded on Saturday, Oct. 17, and Ted Lawson (pictured right) topped the field to walk away with the $62,080 top prize and a Bellagio championship Rolex. Players that he surpassed on the way to winning the tournament included Matt Glantz, Pat Walsh, Justin […]

Poker Strategy — Raymond Wu on EPT London

Team PokerStars pro Raymond Wu represented his site well at the PokerStars EPT London main event. Wu navigated his way through a field of 730 before busting out in seventh place, netting himself a final-table finish and earning £87,000. A total of 24 players returned to battle to the final table on day five, including […]

Three Poker Final Tables in Three Months for Akenhead

Full Tilt Poker pro James Akenhead will make his third final table appearance in three months at the Full Tilt Poker Million. Akenhead qualified for the final table when he took down the semi-final on Oct. 9. His opponents are Full Tilt Poker’s Dag Martin Mikkelsen, Cardrunners’ co-founder Taylor Caby, and Peter Vasiliou, a travel […]

European Poker Tour Warsaw Starts Today

The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour kicks off today at 12:30 p.m. (local time) in Warsaw, Poland for the second time ever, and will run until Sunday. Over the next two days, a maximum of 400 entrants will sit down and try to outlast each other in the 25,000 PLN (Polish zloty) buy-in no-limit hold’em event. […]

Darren Annis Wins GUKPT Thanet Main Event

The eighth leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour at the G Casino in Thanet attracted 132 players, which created a prize pool of £132,000. This is a drop in the attendance figure from last year when Andrew Teng outlasted a field of 226. This year it was Darren Annis, a 38-year-old former I.T. consultant, […]

Kentucky Supreme Court Prepares for IMEGA Poker Case

On Thursday, the oral arguments for one of the most prominent poker-related cases will take place in Kentucky — and you can watch it live. The hearing, which is open to the public and available on http://courts.ky.gov, could be the conclusion of what has been a lengthy battle between the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming […]

World Poker Finals Tournament Series Preview

The 2009 World Poker Finals began today at Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. The tournament series will feature 20 poker tournaments between now and the conclusion of the World Poker Tour $15,000 no-limit hold’em championship on Nov. 10. Games spread will include no-limit hold’em, limit hold’em, seven-card stud, seven-card stud eight-or-better, pot-limit Omaha, Omaha eight-or-better, […]

Full Tilt Poker — Now You Can Run It Twice

Imagine you are taking a chance with a huge chunk of your bankroll in a game you really can’t afford to be playing in. You look down at pocket queens and after a series of raises, find yourself all in preflop against an opponent’s big slick. Unless you happen to be in Bobby’s Room, the […]

European Poker Tour Warsaw Main Event Begins Tomorrow

The next stop on the PokerStars European Poker Tour season six schedule begins tomorrow in Warsaw, Poland. The 25,000 PLN no-limit hold’em main event will employ the standard EPT structure, and the final table will conclude on Sunday, Oct. 25. Card Player will provide daily recaps for each day of the event. The tournament field […]

Dream Team Poker Comes to the Bike for Monday Night Football

Dream Team Poker recently launched in Las Vegas and flourished with events at Hard Rock, Caesars, and the Rio for the World Series of Poker. But now it may have found a permanent home in Los Angeles at the Bicycle Casino. The company announced last week that it had signed an agreement with the Bike […]

Poker Tournament Trail — Howard Lederer on $10K HORSE

Howard Lederer defeated a tough field that included Eli Elezra, Matt Glantz, James Van Alstyne, Andy Bloch, Jerry Buss, Michael Binger, Scott Clements, David Singer, and Dan Shak, Ralph Perry, and Rod Pardey to win the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. event at the 2009 Festa al Lago Classic. The tournament win at Bellagio was the fourth for […]

Online Poker — Vivek Rajkumar Wins at Full Tilt

It was a solid weekend on Full Tilt Poker for both Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar and Card Player Online Player of the Year leader Steve “gboro780” Gross. (pictured left) Rajkumar made a deal in the Sunday $1 Million Guarantee, but ultimately came out on top to pick up a nice score of nearly $180,000. Gross came […]

German Markus Sippe is International Poker Open 2009 Winner

This year’s Boylepoker.com International Poker Open saw an even bigger field of 1,440, meaning it once again broke the record for the biggest poker tournament ever held outside of America. With many big names in attendance such as Padraig Parkinson, Marty Smyth, Paul Marrow, and Surinder Sunar, scattered among players of all levels from all […]

WPT — Christophe Savary Wins Marrakech Main Event

The third and final day of play at the World Poker Tour Marrakech €4,500 no-limit hold’em championship saw 17 players return to action from the original field of 416. The top prize was €377,262, and the day would not end until one player walked away with that prize. Ludovic Lacay (pictured right), Benjamin Spindler, and […]

APPT — Simon Watt Wins Auckland Main Event

The final table of the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Auckland main event welcomed back nine players to the final table today at the Skycity Casino in New Zealand. The $3,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament attracted a total of 263 entrants, and the top prize that each player was gunning for was the $209,085 NZD. […]

Added Value, Likely Overlay in Bodog Poker Open Satellite

If you want to get a head start on qualifying for November’s much-anticipated Bodog Poker Open IV, the best way to do so is to get in on the private satellite that Bodog is holding this Sunday. The tournament is guaranteeing a seat in the $500 buy-in BPO IV main event, and Bodog is even […]

TamTam Poker Brings Game Back to Far West

TamTam Poker is a recent innovative addition to the world of online poker. The European online poker room was launched in September, and is now up and running on the iPoker network using Playtech as its software platform. The site is open to anyone looking for a poker game of their choice with an added […]

Festa al Lago — Ted Lawson Wins $10,000 PLO Event

The $10,000 pot-limit Omaha tournament at the 2009 Festa al Lago Classic attracted 16 players at Bellagio on Friday, October 16. The final six returned to the Fontana Lounge today to decide who would walk away with the $77,600 first-place prize. Players who fell out of contention on the first day of play included Matt […]

Phil Laak Wins PartyPoker World Open V

Phil “The Unabomber” Laak has been made champion of the PartyPoker.com World Open V after beating 47 opponents including a tough final table. The event ran from Oct. 11-15 and saw many big names and familiar faces such as Tom “Durrrr” Dwan, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, J.P. Kelly, Teddy Sheringham, Andrew Feldman, Roland De Wolfe, and Marty […]

Iraq War Vet Next Up on PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge

The PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge debuted last Sunday, and according to PokerStars representatives, it was the most-watched poker program this year. This Sunday on Fox, a new contestant is getting a shot at $1 million, and that person is Sergeant First Class Denny Luna. Luna, a 20-year Iraq war veteran, is currently serving as an […]

This Week in Poker — Oct. 10-16

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 — 5,596 (pictured right) 2: Yevgeniy Timoshenko — 5,463 3: Vitaly Lunkin — 4,337 4: Brock Parker — 3,772 5: Jason Mercier — 3,711 6: Cornel Cimpan […]