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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 […]

PokerStars EPT London Main Event — Day 2

On day 2 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London main event, 318 players (a combination of both day 1A and 1B’s survivors) turned out for quite a tough day on the felt. With a field including the likes of Chris Ferguson, Erik Seidel, Annette Obrestad, and Jeffrey Lisandro, the short stacks had to pull […]

Daniel Negreanu in Soccer Bet Challenge

Team PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu is to test his soccer prowess against one of the world’s leading goalkeepers in a penalty shootout wager worth £12,000. According to UK newspaper The Sun, Negreanu, who last week finished second to Card Player’s Barry Shulman at the World Series of Poker Europe, met Jose Reina at a poker […]

PokerStars EPT London Main Event — Day 1B

If yesterday’s day 1A field of 305 was impressive then day 1B field of 425 was astounding. The story of the day was clearly the record-breaking number of entrants for a London tournament, shattering last year’s solid number of 596. All of those £5,000 buy-ins obviously amounted to one hell of a prize pool and […]

Poker Winner’s Circle Q & A — Barry Shulman

Card Player CEO Barry Shulman defeated one of the most impressive final tables in poker history to win the 2009 £10,000 World Series of Poker Europe Championship. The final table included six former WSOP gold bracelet winners – Daniel Negreanu (6 bracelets). Chris Bjorin (2 bracelets), Jason Mercier (1 bracelet), Praz Bansi (1 bracelet), Matt […]

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 […]