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Harrah’s Launches New Online Subsidiary for the WSOPHarrah’s is one step closer to offering online poker. The company announced on Friday that Mitch Garber, the former CEO of PartyGaming, will head Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment, Inc. — a new subsidiary that will oversee online and international operations for the World Series of Poker. “As the world’s largest gaming company, Harrah’s is taking a […]
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This Week in Poker: Poker Tournament News May 16 — 22
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: Poorya Nazari — 3,000 2: Jude Ainsworth — 2,840 3: Cornel Cimpan — 2,730 4: Anthony Gregg — 2,500 5: Yevgeniy Timoshenko — 2,448 6: Pieter de Korver — […]
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Cake Poker Wants to Send You to Playboy Mansion for Free
How would you like to go to the Playboy Mansion? Yeah, that’s what Cake Poker thought. Next question: how would you like to go to the Playboy Mansion for free? Even better. Cake Poker will be running an exclusive freeroll tournament for all Card Player readers this Sunday, May 24, at 2:30 p.m. ET. Previous […]
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Online Poker — Weekly OPOY Update, May 22, 2009
It’s been a couple weeks since the last Online Player of the Year update, and it’s safe to say that the recent Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) has drastically altered the overall look of the top 10. First place still belongs to Steve “gboro780” Gross, who hasn’t slowed down at all since winning the […]
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Poker’s Andrew Robl Talks Databases on The Scoop
The more Andrew Robl talked about it, the more you could see his conviction. “I don’t think it’s good for the game,” Robl simply said at first, speaking about the databases available online that show which poker players are winners and which are losers online. But the young pro then talked about all of the […]
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Run It Twice — Andrew RoblAndrew Robl is a high-stakes cash game player who honed his skills online under the moniker “good2cu.” He quickly rose up the ranks from the micro stakes and now consistently competes in the highest no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha games live or online. Robl sat down with Card Player to discuss an interesting hand he […]
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PKR Gets Exclusive WSOP TV DealWith ESPN no longer airing the World Series of Poker across Europe, it was announced today that PKR.com will be the exclusive European live broadcaster. Poker fans will be able to watch all the action as it unfolds from 24 bracelet events for free at PKR.com’s World Series micro-site, WSOP.PKR.com. Marketing Director at the site, […]
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Check Raise Management Signs More Pros
Check Raise Management has today announced the latest names to join its agency. The first is Sammy George — a high stakes specialist based in London who is thought to have won $3 million in live cash games. British pro, Roland de Wolfe had this to say about him, “He uses his style to great […]
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Hellmuth’s New Poker Book Profiles The Game’s GreatsAllen Cunningham as a pizza delivery boy. Peter Eastgate as a substitute elementary school teacher. Phil Ivey as a telemarketer. Scotty Nguyen as a busboy. Chau Giang as a KFC employee. Phil Hellmuth as a monkey cage cleaner. You can’t make this stuff up. Deal Me In, a collection of autobiographical accounts from many of […]
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Women’s World Open Starts SundayThe PartyPoker.com Women’s World Open gets underway this Sunday May 24 to May 27, 2009 with 36 players taking part in the $3,000 event including Annette Obrestad, Sandra Naujoks, Jennifer Tilly, and Veronique Gourdon. Returning to chase the $50,000 top prize will be last year’s winner Soraya Homam from Germany. Obrestad, who will be viewed […]
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Forty WSOP Packages at PaddyPowerPoker.comPaddyPowerPoker.com today announced its World Series of Poker Mega Satellite scheduled for Sunday June 14. The $500 + $35 no-limit hold’em freezeout has 40 guaranteed packages worth $13,000 including WSOP main event entry, one week’s accommodation, and travel and spending money. Players can win their seat in the Mega Satellite through daily feeders starting June […]
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Online Poker — The $1K Roundup, Week of May 18, 2009
It was a huge week in the $1K Roundup, as Online Player of the Year candidates picked up valuable points and even bigger paydays. At Full Tilt, Jeremiah “Believer8219” Vinsant continued his dominating run, picking up $78,500 and moving himself into 17th place overall. In the past two weeks Vinsant has racked up victories in […]
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Binion’s Poker Classic Begins Monday
The Binion’s Poker Classic begins on Monday, May 25 in Downtown Las Vegas at the Binion’s Horseshoe on Fremont Street. The historic casino where the World Series of Poker was started will host a tournament series that includes 44 tournaments this summer in Las Vegas. The tournament series will run until July 8, when the […]
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GUKPT Newcastle Main Event BeginsThe main event of the fifth leg of the 2009 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour begins today at 2 p.m. (BST). The £1,000 + £60 buy-in event will run until Sun., May 24 at the Grosvenor casino in Newcastle. Last year’s winner was Ganesh Rao, a doctor originally from Sheffield, who trumped a field of 189 […]
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WSOP Circuit: Jean Gaspard Wins New Orleans Tourney
The final World Series of Poker Circuit $5,000 championship event of the 2008-09 season crowned a champion on Wednesday, May 20 at Harrah’s New Orleans. Jean Gaspard emerged with the win and $161,175 in prize money, along with a championship ring and a $10,000 seat in the upcoming WSOP main event in Las Vegas. The […]
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Charity Tournament Q and A — Brad Garrett
Brad Garrett made a big splash at the 2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, defeating Annie Duke in the first round while entertaining the audience with his table-talk and antics. Garrett has also played at the World Series of Poker, where he participated in the main event and the Ante Up for Africa charity poker […]
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Devilfish Impresses Oxford UnionDavid Ulliott, ambassador for DevilfishPoker.com has joined a long list of names including the likes of Albert Einstein, Richard Nixon, Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, Diego Maradonna, W.B. Yeats, and even Kermit the Frog, after a successful performance at the world famous Oxford Union. Ulliott arrived at the Union in his Hummer last weekend to […]
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Window Shopping for WSOP PackagesWith the World Series of Poker on the horizon, players should know what routes there are out there in the cyber world, so that they too can make their way to that glittering city in the desert for the biggest poker festival of the year. Those who were considering perhaps giving it a miss this […]
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High Stakes Action Poised to Move to Live PlayPeople most often think of the World Series of Poker as a place where a tournament player can rise from obscurity to win a coveted bracelet and untold fortunes. But for many poker professionals, it represents a time in Las Vegas where the cash games are at their best. With the Series just days away, […]
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Texas Poker Bill Dies Without a Vote in the HouseThe tribes that run the Indian casinos in Oklahoma, Louisiana, and New Mexico likely breathed a sigh of relief when Rep. Jose Menendez’s poker bill officially died last week. All the while, poker players in Texas probably sighed with frustration. There will be no Texas hold’em in Texas this year, at least not at the […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — Matt Woodward
Matt Woodward finished in second place at the 2009 PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo, and he took €1.3 million in prize money. This was the largest single cash in Woodward’s young career, but definitely not his first. Woodward has been cashing in poker tournaments since 2005, and he has shown particular […]
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Dream Team Poker Announces World Series Event
Dream Team Poker will host an event this summer at the Rio July 12-13. The tournament will take place during the closing days of the World Series of Poker main event. The team-based $500+$60 buy-in ($1,680 per team) no-limit hold’em event features unique individual and team scoring to award cash prizes. The first 300 teams […]
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UK Bank Blocks Poker TransactionsRoyal Bank of Scotland, one of the UK’s largest banks, has told its online gaming clients, including poker operators, that it will no longer process gambling transactions to the Netherlands and Switzerland according to eGaming Review. A spokesman for RBS told the publication that it had reviewed its policy to take account of regulatory and […]
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Boylepoker’s Champions League GiveawayBoylepoker.com will host a Champions League no-limit hold’em freezeout tomorrow night at 7.30 p.m. where the lucky champion will receive two tickets to the Manchester United versus Barcelona final on May 27, plus flights, and two nights luxury accommodation. Entry to the freezout costs just $1 + 10c, and the event is part of the […]
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888.com Poker Ashes 2009 Qualification888.com has announced the details of its upcoming Poker Ashes 2009, an event which decides which country has the best poker know-how — England, led by former Yorkshire captain Darren Gough, or Australia, led by bowler Shane Warne. Each team will have four international cricketers plus two online qualifiers, and five test matches will be […]
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PKR.com Announces WSOP Party
PKR.com has announced its World Series of Poker party will take place on July 1 at the 9,000sq. foot Hugh Hefner Sky Villa in Las Vegas. The party will see PKR’s online qualifiers treated to top DJs as they schmooze with A-list celebrities by the outdoor cantilevered jacuzzi’s. Marketing director at PKR.com, Simon Prodger, said, […]
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Irish Classic Poker Festival Launches New EventsThe Macau Sporting Club, Cork, in Ireland has announced the addition of a new event to this year’s Irish Poker Festival — a €250 + €25 no-limit hold’em charity tournament. The event which takes place on Aug. 15, sees each registration fee plus €50 from every buy-in go towards the Irish Society for the Prevention […]
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Expekt.com Signs Scotty Nguyen as AmbassadorOnline gaming company Expekt.com has signed one of the most well-known faces of poker, Scotty Nguyen as its new ambassador. Nguyen’s duties to the site include two video blogs per month, and one column based on poker strategy each month also. Nguyen says, “Overall I will be the face of Expekt.com Poker and play WSOP […]
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Swedish Court Rules Poker is Skill Game
The Court of Appeal for Western Sweden last week reduced the jail sentences of two men convicted of hosting a live poker tournament with 700 players in Grebbestad according to TheLocal.se. The men had the charges against them reduced from “serious illegal gambling” to “illegal gambling”. The court ruled that because the game being played […]
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Asian Poker Tour Macau Qualification Underway
PartyPoker.com today announced its qualification schedule for the $4,300 buy-in Asian Poker Tour Macau main event being held in Macau from August 17, 2009. Packages worth $7,000 are up for grabs for one in every 10 players in the $700 + $50 Sunday satellite at 8:55 BST. Feeder satellites take place each day at 8:55 […]
