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PKR’s Charity Poker Tournament Raises £100,000

Celebrities and poker stars galore turned out for the ninth annual Omar Sharif One to One PKR poker tournament on Sunday, which was won by Beverley Pace (comedian Norman Pace’s wife). Actor and pro poker player, Michael Greco finished second, and actor Dexter Fletcher took third. Familiar poker faces among the celebrities included Roland de […]

Sven Ragnar Åström Wins WPT Venice

The World Poker Tour Venice saw a turn out of 397, creating a prize pool of €1,521,260. Unlike many major tournaments of late, familiar faces could be found getting down to the business end of the prize pool, but it was Sven Ragnar Åström who topped the lot for a payday of €387,960. Surinder Sunar […]

Online Poker in Italy Continues to Grow

In the wake of the huge numbers attending the European Poker Tour San Remo and the success of the World Poker Tour Venice, Italians continue to show their enthusiasm for online poker, wagering €188 million during April 2009. This is an increase of three percent on March 2009 when the total was €182 million according […]

Entraction Poker Network Expands Rapidly

Sweden’s Entraction online poker network, home to DevilfishPoker.com and NoIQpoker, has announced strong interim results for the first quarter of 2009. Net turnover was up 52.2 percent to SEK121.1 million (€11..5 million) in the period compared to a year earlier while operating profit was up 101.3 percent to SEK15.5 million (€1.5 million) in the first […]

WPT — Sven Ragnar Astrom Wins First Venice Stop

The World Poker Tour Venice event came to a conclusion on Sunday, May 10, at the Casino de Venezia in Italy. The €4,000+€400 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament drew a total of 397 players, which created a prize pool worth €1,521,260, with a first-place prize worth €397,960 going to the winner. After four days of poker, […]

Gavin Smith Wins FTOPS Event

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) is now in its twelfth run, but so far Team Full Tilt has been relatively quiet when it comes to collecting wins of their own. In fact, up until this weekend, only Erick Lindgren had ever claimed a victory for the men in red, winning the event he […]

Online Poker — David Sands Takes Down FTOPS Event

With the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) in full swing, not only did the host site see the benefit of an increase in traffic, but the rest of the online community received a bump, as well, making for some large prize pools and big winners. In the replacement for the Sunday Brawl, Ben “benba” […]

Poker’s Annie Duke Finishes 2nd on Celebrity Apprentice

For a fleeting moment, the two women were indistinguishable. After Joan Rivers’ latest board room rant against Annie Duke on Celebrity Apprentice, the cameras panned over a live shot of the two contestants in last night’s season finale. Both women were silently and slowly shaking their heads, both clearly incredulous at the actions and the […]

Ladbrokespoker Las Vegas Dream Freeroll Tonight

Ladbrokespoker.com expands its World Series of Poker Vegas Dream promotion for the month of May, increasing the multi-table tournament leader board prize pool by $6,500 with three Las Vegas Dream packages for the top three players on the leader board at the end of the month. Additionally the site is offering a new Monday night […]

Outdated Irish Gambling Legislation Takes Another Hit

The Atlantis Casino Club in Clonmel, County Tipperary in Ireland does not plan to reopen despite the dismissal of the unlawful gaming charge brought against it in May 2008. The charge was made after seven policemen raided the club and seized the roulette wheel, safe, and gambling chips. According to The Irish Times, the District […]

Edward Norton to Host Celebrity Charity Poker Night

The Wilhelm & Karl Maybach Foundation and the Sunflower Children Foundation join forces at this year’s Cannes Film Festival to host a celebrity poker night to raise funds for charity. The event will take place at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc at 10.30 p.m. on May 17 and the host of the VIP table is actor, […]

Unibet Poker Revenue Falls 8 Percent

Unibet, the publicly-quoted Scandinavian bookmaker, has reported poker revenue down 8 percent to £6.54 million in the first quarter of 2009 compared to £7.11 million in the first quarter of 2008. Poker made up 30 percent of non-sports betting revenue in the most recent quarter compared to 34 percent a year earlier. In its interim […]

European Masters of Poker Hits Prague

The European Masters of Poker (EMOP) heads to the Spearmint Casino in Prague for its third instalment. The €1,100 buy-in event will take place over four days including two starting days, with the first kicking off on Jun. 25. 300 players is the anticipated figure, which would mean an estimated prize pool of €300,000. Qualifiers […]

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 who have signed up for the poker site with […]

Durrrr Versus _FullFlush1_ on The Poker Show

Week two of The Poker Show saw presenters Jesse May and Padraig Parkinson get the skinny on the world of nose-bleed stakes online poker via two of its most talked about citizens — Tom Dwan and Luke Schwartz. The conversations became the hot topic of online poker forums worldwide as Tom “Durrrr” Dwan spoke about […]

Omar Sharif Charity Poker Tournament Today

The ninth annual Omar Sharif Poker and Backgammon Charity Tournament takes place today, Sunday May 10 in London with UK charity One to One set to benefit from a host of celebrity attendees.The event, being held at Sketches restaurant and sponsored by PKR.com, hopes to beat last year’s fundraising total of £200,000 which was boosted […]

Florida Passes Bill to Allow for Uncapped No-Limit Poker

Floridians are one step closer to “normal poker” in Florida. The Sunshine State has had to endure watered-down poker for years, but poker players might finally get their wish soon. The Florida legislature passed a bill today that would eliminate the maximum buy-in for no-limit poker and get rid of the maximum bet per round […]

Tournament Trail Q and A — Pieter de Korver

He might have gotten lucky to win the 2009 European Poker Tour Grand Final title with a run of seven double-ups to come back from the shortest stack in the event to win the title, but success in the poker world is nothing new for 26-year-old Dutchman Pieter de Korver. He quit his job in […]

This Week in Poker — Poker Tournament News May 2-8

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 — […]

Poker Pro Erica Schoenberg Returns to The Scoop

Most professional blackjack players are wary of pit bosses, constantly looking over their shoulder to see if their hours of card-counting are about to come to an abrupt end. While Erica Schoenberg shared this paranoia, the popular poker pro lightheartedly admits to The Scoop that, with her physique, she was usually mistaken for a hooker […]

New CardPlayer.com Launches

Welcome to the new CardPlayer.com. Card Player Media has come a long way since its first magazine debuted in a few select cardrooms in Nevada and California in 1988. What began as a 40-page pamphlet, entirely black and white, quickly lived up to its motto as “The Poker Authority.” While the magazine expanded its reach, […]

PaddyPowerPoker Charity Event Raises €26,000

The recent PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Open charity event raised €26,537 for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin. A grateful Tom Hickey, spokesman for the hospital, said, “We are delighted with the amount of funds raised at the Irish Open and it will go a long way in helping us in our work, the main focus of […]

Online Poker — The $1K Roundup, Week of May 4, 2009

With the next FTOPS looming, all the $1K events but the Super Tuesday made their respective guarantees and a few Online Player of the Year candidates added to their point totals with deep finishes. Nick “Grippolio” Grippo maintained his third place ranking with a small cash at Full Tilt and Nick “FU_15” Maimone closed the […]

Run it Twice — Brian Rast

Brian "tsarrast" Rast is a professional cash-game player who regularly competes in the highest hold’em and pot-limit Omaha (PLO) games online. Rast sat down with Card Player to talk about an interesting pot-limit hold’em hand he played at a mixed $500-$1,000 table. The Game Date: 03-19-09 Type: Cash games Game: Pot-limit hold’em Blinds:  $500-$1,000 The […]

Full Tilt Online Poker Series XII Begins Today

Can’t wait until the World Series of Poker? Need your big tournament action now? Full Tilt Poker is happy to oblige. The popular Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) kicks off today, highlighted by 12 events that are guaranteed to have a minimum prize pool of $500,000. In all, the tournament series will feature 25 […]

Barney Frank Introduces Two Poker-Related Bills

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) introduced two bills today that would dramatically alter the online poker landscape if passed. One bill seeks to repeal the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, while the second bill proposes to delay the UIGEA implementations, which are set to begin Dec. 1. “The government should not interfere with people’s liberty unless […]

PaddyPowerPoker Launches Irish Winter Festival Sole Survivor

PaddyPowerPoker.com has today launched the Irish Winter Festival Sole Survivor promotion with its 3-Tickets-Guaranteed Super Satellite which is due to take place this Sunday, May 10, at 9 p.m.. Feeders running to the satellite begin today and will run daily. The Sole Survivor promotion at the Irish Open 2009 saw Marcel Koch win a €100,000 […]

Boylepoker Launches WSOP Betting Markets

Boylesports.com has launched its World Series of Poker betting markets with dozens of match bets available for punters. Each bet will be settled in accordance with official figures from the World Series indicating who won the most money. Some intriguing match-ups include: Phil Ivey – 8/11 Vs. Daniel Negreanu – Evens Phil Hellmuth – 5/6 […]

PartyPoker Sports Stars Challenge Returns

The PartyPoker.com Sports Stars Challenge is back from May 29 to Jun. 1 in London and for the first time ever Matchroom Sport has included heats for motorsport pros, top golfers, and online qualifiers. Some of the sports stars taking part are Formula 1 driver Giancarlo Fisichella; world class golfers Graeme McDowell and Jean Van […]

Barney Frank to Introduce Pro-Poker Bill Tomorrow

The Poker Players Alliance has confirmed that Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) will introduce a bill tomorrow that seeks to reverse the policies of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act at a 10 a.m. press conference. The bill has been in the works for a long time. An aide for the Congressman told Reuters in February […]