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World Poker Tour — Thomas Bichon Wins Cyprus Classic

The first-ever World Poker Tour Merit Cyprus Classic has crowned a champion, and it is Frenchman Thomas Bichon. The $10,000 no-limit hold’em event attracted 181 players who created a top prize worth $579,165. The top 18 players were awarded prize money at the event, and many top professionals found themselves in the money. They included […]

DevilfishPoker Opens DevilfishForums.com

DevilfishForums.com toady opened its doors at DevilfishPoker.com with a host of online community features including player blogs, photo albums, and discussion forums for news, strategy, events, gossip and regular interactive competitions. To celebrate, the site is offering a €1,000 online poker freeroll on Monday Sept. 21 at 9 p.m. CET to any Devilfish poker player […]

Frenchman wins World Poker Tour Cyprus Main Event

Frenchman Thomas Bichon has won the World Poker Tour Cyprus main event topping the 181-strong field in the $10,000 buy-in main event at the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino in Kyrenia. The final table payouts were: 1: Thomas Bichon — $579,165 2: Uri Keider — $380,645 3: Steven Fung — $216,275 4: Rep Porter […]

bwin Pays €115 Million for Italian Online Poker Room

Publicly-quoted Austrian bookmaker bwin today announced details of its takeover of leading Italian online poker room Gioco Digitale. The company will pay up to €115 million for the company which has a 20 percent share of the newly regulated and liberalized Italian online poker market. The deal will see bwin pay up to €50 million […]

Online Poker — Eugene Katchalov Wins WCOOP HU Event

The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) had a monster Friday and Saturday highlighted by an epic heads-up tournament won by Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov. The tournament was a grueling 11 rounds of poker. Due to the extremely deep stacks, most rounds took roughly 2 hours to complete. By the time Katchalov got heads-up with […]

Deal Me In — Poker Pro Annie Duke

In its pages are never-before-revealed details of the lives of some of the biggest names in poker. Phil Hellmuth’s new book profiles 20 of the biggest poker players in the world, giving the reader an intimate look at the game’s biggest celebrities. Deal Me In, a collection of autobiographical accounts from many of poker’s elite, […]

Exclusive Boylepoker IPO Card Player Freeroll Tonight

Card Player Europe readers outside of the U.S have a chance to win a package to the International Poker Open 2009 including tournament buy in, two nights accommodation and $300 spending money with our exclusive freeroll at Boylepoker.com tomorrow, Sept. 13 at 9 p.m. BST. The password for the Boylepoker IPO VIP freeroll is IPO2009. […]

Kahnawake Issues Final Report on Online Poker Scandal

Twenty months after the UltimateBet cheating scandal first began to break, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission released its final decision regarding the incident on Friday afternoon. “In total, the Commission’s investigation revealed 23 accounts that had a total of 117 usernames that were used by the responsible individual(s) to facilitate the cheating incidents,” the report stated. […]

This Week in Poker — Sept. 5-12

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 — 4,588 2: Vitaly Lunkin — 4,337 3: Cornel Cimpan — 3,570 4: Angel Guillen — 3,492 5: Mike Leah — 3,137 6: Brock Parker — 3,132 […]

Online Poker — OPOY Weekly Recap — Sep. 11, 2009

For the first time in several months, Shaun “TedsFishFry” Deeb is not in the top two of the Card Player Online Player of the Year race. Steve “gboro780” Gross still leads the way, but David “Sir Sands” Sands (pictured left) has jumped into the second-place position thanks to two final tables this week, including a […]

NBC’s Poker Game Show ‘Face the Ace’ Returns

If it’s not broke, don’t fix it. If it is, well, then break out the duct tape. That’s what the producers of the NBC poker game show Face the Ace hope they have done with improvements to the program, which had poor ratings and widespread criticism after its debut in August. Ending a month-long hiatus, […]

Poker Stars Hosts Charity Event Tomorrow for Kent Senter

Earlier this summer, PokerStars helped make Kent Senter’s lifelong dream come true. The online poker site flew out Senter and his entire family from Pittsburgh to Las Vegas so that he could participate in the World Series of Poker main event. Now, PokerStars is hoping to do a little bit more. The site has announced […]

Harrah’s Chooses 888 for Online Poker and Gaming Brands

888 — it’s a number and a company that all online poker players should start getting familiar with, because they will likely be seeing it much more in the years ahead. Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment announced today that it has signed a long-term contract with 888 Holdings Plc (888 on the London Stock Exchange) to provide […]

The Scoop — Online Poker Star Carter King Part Two

Last week on The Scoop, 2008 World Series of Online Poker main-event champion Carter “ckingusc” King was the featured guest, and this week, he’s back for part two. In part one, Carter proved that his natural honest and open personality allows him to talk freely not only about poker strategy but his personal life, as […]

Online Poker — George Danzer Wins WCOOP Bracelet

For the first time this year, PokerStars can now claim one of their own as a World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) winner. In one of the biggest events of the series, Team PokerStars Pro member George Danzer topped a stacked field of nearly a thousand to win event No. 19, a short-handed pot-limit Omaha […]

What’s Next? The Future of Online Poker in the United States — Part 1

In what has been a roller coaster of a decade for the poker industry, the final few months of 2009 have the potential to be as important as any recent stretch for the game. Banks have begun preparing for Dec. 1, when they will be legally responsible for complying with all UIGEA regulations. iMEGA has […]

Harrah’s Takes World Series of Poker Online

Israeli online gaming operator, 888, today announced it has signed a long-term deal with Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment to power the U.S casino giant’s new online poker site. 888’s recently launched white-label business Dragonfish will host and roll out Harrah’s World Series of Poker brand online and the company will also deliver casino software, customer support, […]

The Poker Show gets High and Heads-Up on Monday

Heads-up marathon world record challenger Paul Zimbler takes to the guest presenter’s hot seat Monday on the world’s leading online poker radio show, The Poker Show. Vicky Coren will be dropping by to talk to Jesse May and Matt Broughton about her new poker memoir and the boys visit the English Poker Open and Poker […]

Poker in the Sky in Denmark Tonight

Tonight 22 poker players will take each other on at City Hall Square in Copenhagen. However, this is no ordinary tournament as it takes place 50 metres above the ground. PartyPoker.com’s Poker in the Sky will play out for four hours and the winner will go home with a PartyPoker World Open V package which […]

Online Poker — Interview With Mike ‘SowersUNCC’ Sowers

Each week, Card Player TV brings you the Online Zone, a glimpse into the world of high-stakes online tournament players. Tournament pro Mike Sowers has been tearing up both the live and online circuit since his first World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) win in 2007. Since then, Sowers has amassed more than $3 million […]

Online Poker — Thiago Decano Wins WCOOP Event

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: $345,000 Entrants: 345 Places Paid: 36 Final Table Results: 1. Bryn “OneUponAStar” Kenney — $86,250 (pictured right) 2. EDGEOS — $55,200 3. Keven “Stamdogg” Stammen — $41,400 4. Bryan “Squirrely1” […]

Court Orders Danish Online Poker Player to Forfeit Winnings

The Danish Supreme Court has forced a 35-year-old unemployed man to forfeit DKK194,000 (€26,000) he had won playing online poker after finding he was playing professionally. The court ruled that the man had broken laws relating to earning a living from gambling as he had won the money over the course of a full year […]

Back to School Poker Lessons at DevilfishPoker.com

DevilfishPoker.com settles into September with five Back to School poker lessons and players have 20 days left to make the grade. The upside is these lessons are there purely to help players fatten up their bankrolls. Ambassador for the site, Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, said, “I was no angel in school but I learned a thing […]

Borgata Poker Open Kicks Off Today in Atlantic City

The 2009 Borgata Poker Open kicked off today with its first event of the series, a $350 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament. Tournament officials are gunning for huge turnouts, and so far, the prognosis is good with 850 players showing up for the first event. The tournament drew some notable players in Eugene Todd, Lacey Jones, […]

Carter Phillips Wins Poker Stars EPT Barcelona

The final table of the 2009 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona main event began at 2 p.m. local time in the Catalan region of Spain. When cards got into the air for the final day of this €8,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em event, Carter Phillips held the chip lead, and Marc Goodwin was second place in […]

Poker Strategy — Matt Hawrilenko Cash Game Hand Analysis

Matt “Hoss_TBF” Hawrilenko is known as one of the most skilled limit hold’em players in the world. Despite rarely traveling to tournaments other than the World Series of Poker, he’s accrued more than $1.6 million in tournament winnings and won his first bracelet this summer in the $5,000 short-handed no-limit hold’em event. Hawrilenko spends most […]

Online Poker — Ray Davis Wins His First WCOOP Title

Floating is not a big part of Badugi, and that’s probably why Raymond “raydavis77” Davis came out on top in event No. 15 of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Davis beat out a large field of 376 players and a stacked final table that included the likes of Billy “crocky” Agyros, Jason “JP […]

Deal Me In — Poker Pro Howard Lederer

In its pages are never-before-revealed details of the lives of some of the biggest names in poker. Phil Hellmuth’s new book profiles 20 of the biggest poker players in the world, giving the reader an intimate look at the game’s biggest celebrities. Deal Me In, a collection of autobiographical accounts from many of poker’s elite, […]

Durrrr and Ivey Featured on Poker After Dark’s Cash Game

The cash game is back. Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Phil Ivey headline a talented group of six players who put their games on display in a special two-week cash-game edition of Poker After Dark, which will air this week and next week on NBC. Patrik Antonius, Howard Lederer, Eli Elezra, and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies round […]

European Court Ruling Could Restrict Online Poker

Europe’s highest court, the European Court of Justice, yesterday delivered a blow to online gambling companies when it ruled that Direccao do Departamento de Jogos da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Lisboa, a charity which monopolises electronic betting in Portugal, could restrict the free movement of goods and services (in this case online betting) if […]