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Bertrand Grospellier Wins $776,000 at World Poker Tour
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier from France finished thrid in yesterday’s World Poker Tour Five Star World Poker Classic at Bellagio, Las Vegas collecting $776,245 for his efforts. Scotty Nguyen was the first to be ousted from the six-handed final earning $285,985 with Shannon Shorr busting next for $408,550. Christian "charder30" Harder and ElkY were eliminated in […]
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The Poker Show Returns to Online Airwaves Tonight
The Poker Show, presented by Jesse May, Padraig Parkisnon, and Matt Broughton and sponsored by Boylepoker.com, returns to the online airwaves tonight with Tom "Durrrr" Dwan and Dan Harrington among the first guests. The UK’s first regular live radio show will be broadcast from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. each Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday starting […]
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Online Gaming Bank Ivobank Offers Monte Carlo Trip
Ivobank, the online bank dedicated to the online gaming community, is offering customers the chance of winning a luxury break to the famous Hotel Ambassador in Monte Carlo for five nights, with €1,000 spending money and helicopter transfers included. To win, players simply need to deposit at one of Ivobank’s partner sites listed at ivobankinfo.com/sites. […]
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Yevgeniy Timoshenko Wins 2009 WPT ChampionshipIt took a while, but 21-year-old online phenom Yevgeniy "Jovial Gent" Timoshenko won the 2009 Five-Star World Poker Classic WPT Championship late Saturday night. The feat took eight days and thousands of hands, but in the end, the young gun got it done, besting a stacked final table that included Scotty Nguyen, Shannon Shorr, Bertrand […]
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Bertrand Grospellier Makes WPT Final Table Again
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier from France has made the six-handed final table at the World Poker Tour Five Star Poker Classic at Bellagio, Las Vegas today. His fellow countryman Bruno Fitoussi (pictured right) exited the tournament in 10th place yesterday for $98,050 when he raised to 210,000 in middle position and Shannon Shorr reraised to 560,000 […]
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WPT Championship — Day 6
The sixth day of play at the 2009 World Poker Tour Championship began with 10 players at noon on Friday. It took three hours to lose the first player of the day, when Bruno Fitoussi exited in 10th place ($98,050). Eugene Katchalov fell next in ninth place ($130,735) more than a half-hour later. It took […]
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David Grey Reveals the Secrets of the Andy Beal Game
No security necessary — just $26 million in chips, David Grey, and a pistol-carrying Todd Brunson. Perhaps there were safer ways to transport The Corporation’s winnings after Phil Ivey took Andy Beal to town, but it was what it was. A quick drive to Bellagio, and the players divvied up their earnings. Grey returns to […]
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This Week in Poker — Poker Tournament News Apr. 18-24
Check out CardPlayer.com every Friday for a weekly wrapup 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: Constant Rijkenberg — 2,400 6: Steve Brecher — 2,340 […]
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Card Player Pro Christian Harder Battling for WPT Title
It’s one thing to talk the talk. It’s quite another to walk the walk. There are a lot of instructional online poker sites out there, but few have the record and the consistency of the instructors of Card Player Pro (powered by Poker Savvy Plus). This week, Card Player Pro instructor Christian ‘Charder30’ Harder is […]
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Card Player Back to Playboy Mansion for Charity Poker Event
Poker in the Playboy Mansion. Does it get any better? On Saturday, July 11, the Playboy Mansion and the Kardashians will host the Aces & Angels Celebrity Poker Tournament. Card Player is the exclusive poker media sponsor for the event. Aces and Angels, founded in 2007, has raised over $427,000 for the families of Southern […]
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Celebrity Charity Poker Event Hits Monte Carlo
Monday, April 27 sees a massive influx of celebrities to Monte Carlo to take part in the Ante Up for Africa tournament which precedes the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final. The €4,000 buy in no-limit hold’em event will see a host of big names from the entertainment and sport fields including Nelly, Nico Rosberg, […]
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Two Frenchmen Make World Poker Tour Final Table
Bruno Fitoussi and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier from France have made the final table of the $25,000 buy in World Poker Tour Five Star World Poker Classic at Bellagio, Las Vegas. They are guaranteed $98,050 with a top prize of $2.15 million on offer. The final table with chip counts is: Scotty Nguyen — 5,880,000 Yevgeniy […]
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Jeff Kimber Leads Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Main Event
The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour main event has rolled into the G Casino, Manchester with Jeff Kimber leading the pack after day 1A on the fourth leg of the tour. A series of side events preceded the £1,000 main event which started yesterday. Play in the main event will start over two days at 2 […]
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Dutchman Wins European Poker Tour San Remo
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo achieved a remarkable feat, having atttracted 1,178 players vying for the €1.5 million top prize. Chip leader Dragan Galic had done something no other player had in EPT history – he was chip leader overnight each night since day 1 – but could he sustain his charge for […]
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Constant Rijkenberg Wins European Poker Tour San Remo
The eight players who found themselves at the final table of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo had already achieved a remarkable feat, having bested 1,170 other players on their way to their shot at the €1.5 million top prize. Chip leader Dragan Galic had done something no other player had in EPT history […]
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WPT Championship — Day 5
The final table at the 2009 WPT Championship is set. There are still two more days of play remaining, but the field played down so fast that it caused not only one early day, but presented an opportunity for another tomorrow. On Friday, the field will have to cut itself from 10 to just six, […]
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See Both Players Cards in This Week's Free Poker Video
This week’s free poker video training clip from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus) features Dani "Ansky" Stern. In this video, Stern is playing Mike Matusow in a heads-up battle. What makes this video especially unique, however, is that the viewer can see both Stern’s and Matusow’s holecards, so you can see just how […]
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Online Poker -- The $1K Roundup, Week of April 19
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: $315,000 Entrants: 315 Places Paid: 36 Final Table Results: EO777 — $78,750 Ton Locsta — $50,400 deuceballz — $37,800 Kevin "wobblymr" Parkes — $29,138 Grippolio aka GripDsNutz — $22,050 Va […]
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Europeans Riding High at World Poker Tour Event
Several well-known European players cashed yesterday at the World Poker Tour Five Star World Poker Classic at Bellagio Casino, Las Vegas. The were: David Benyamine – $32,685 Boris Becker –$40,855 Barny Boatman (pictured right) — $40,855 Three players remain in contention when play gets back underway today: Ross Boatman —1,545,000 Bertrand Grospellier — […]
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Online Poker Rooms Get in on Asian Poker Tour
A host of online poker networks and rooms have signed up to send players to the Asian Poker Tour Macau this year including iPoker Network, PartyPoker, Ongame Network, Bwin, PKR, Dafa Poker, JBET Poker, Betfriends and 32Red The Asian Poker Tour has extended its run in Macau this year to 12 days. The event will […]
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Run It Twice — Matt Giannetti
Matt Giannetti is a 24-year-old professional poker player who lives in Las Vegas. Since turning pro, he has been consistently beating high-stakes no-limit hold’em cash games both online and live. He sat down with Card Player to discuss a hand he played at Bellagio. The Game Game: No-limit hold’em Blinds: $25-$50 Key Concepts: Don’t be […]
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Switzerland To Lift Online Poker Ban
Switzerland is the latest European nation to plan on lifting its ban on online gambling including poker, following hot on the heels of Denmark which announced it would do the same earlier this week. Swissinfo.com says the justice ministry was planning to draft a proposal to grant a limited number of licences to operators of […]
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World's Largest Team Poker Event Announced
Details of the Team Championship of Poker were released yesterday and organisers hope the event will attract 150 teams and up to €350,000 in prize money to Dublin, Ireland from Aug. 20 to 23, 2009. The event will take place at Citywest hotel, famed for the Irish Open, and will have €30,000 in added prize […]
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European Poker Tour San Remo Day 4 Recap
Just 32 players from the original field of 1,178 players returned for day 4 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo with all eyes on the €1.5 million top prize. By the end of play we had our final eight. Here’s how some of the action went down from CardPlayer.com’s live updates yesterday: Benjamin […]
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European Poker Tour San Remo Day 4 Update
Day 4 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo saw 32 players take to the felt pushing for the €1.5 million top prize. By the end of play we had our final eight. Those knocked out along the way were: 9: Pierre Neuville, Belgium, €78,800 10: Gianni Giaroni, Italy, €78,800 11: Giuseppe Argento, Italy, […]
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WPT Championship — Day 4
Day 4 at the 2009 World Poker Tour Championship at Bellagio saw 62 players return. Action began with just a dozen players needing to fall before the money bubble burst. It took two levels of action for that feat to take place, and the players who fell very close to the money included Jimmy Fricke, […]
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D'Amato Criticizes Capitol Hill Article On Frank's Poker Bill
Poker Players Alliance Chairman Alfonse D’Amato, the former Republican Senator of New York, criticized an article in The Hill this week for what he said “wrongfully suggests that the issue of regulating Internet gaming is somehow partisan in nature.” The article in question, “Frank’s Internet gambling bill faces tough course to passage,” was written by […]
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Is PartyGaming in Takeover Talks with Everest Poker?
The London Times reported at the weekend that online poker giants PartyGaming, owner of PartyPoker.com, and Everest Poker were in talks about a potential deal which could see PartyGaming take over GigaMedia, Everest’s parent company. However, subsequent reports have suggested this was an unlikely scenario. GamblingCompliance.com has said that, “Reports that PartyGaming is in advanced […]
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Online Poker Ban to End in Denmark
Denmark is set to abolish its 60-year-old state-run gambling monopoly Danske Spil according to the Copenhagen Post. The announcement, made yesterday, will see licences granted to online poker, sports betting, and casino games operators. Companies wishing to operate in the jurisdiction will pay for licences and those who are not granted licences will not be […]
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Karl "discomonkey" Fenton Wins PKR Live II
PKR Live II, the second live event to be held by online poker room PKR.com at London’s Loose Cannon Club, has been won by Karl “discomonkey” Fenton who took down the $20,000 top prize in the main event. The 23-year-old Englishman won the $75,000 main event when he paired the board with Q-9 and overtook […]
