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SCOOP Day 2 — PokerKai and sexygee Win Big
The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) events are now in full swing. The SCOOP is a 22-tournament series spread out over 11 days of action. Each tournament is offered with three different sets of buy-ins ranging from low, to mid, to high stakes. Buy-ins are offered for as little as $5.50 and can […]
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PKR Sponsors Omar Sharif Charity Poker Tournament
The ninth annual Omar Sharif Poker and Backgammon Charity Tournament takes place on May 10 in London with UK charity One to One set to benefit from a host of celebrity attendees. The event, to be held at Sketches restaurant and sponsored by PKR.com, hopes to beat last year’s fundraising total of £200,000 which was […]
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Fifty Seats for PartyPoker Sunday Million Today
PartyPoker.com‘s Monthly Million — a $1 million guaranteed tournament with a buy in of $600 + $40 — returns this Sunday April 5 on the site at 5:45 GMT (6:45 CET) and the online poker site has just announced three ways to qualify for this weekend’s mammoth event. Fifty seats are guaranteed today, Saturday at […]
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Foxwoods Poker Classic — Day 1
Day 1 of the World Poker Tour Foxwoods Poker Classic began on Friday at noon and just 259 players took seats in the tournament. As a result of the small turnout, the total prize pool was $2,436,930, and for the first time a WPT event at Foxwoods will award a first-place prize that is less […]
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This Week in Poker: Poker Tournament News Mar. 28-Apr. 3
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: Cornel Cimpan — 2,730 3: Anthony Gregg — 2,500 4: Steve Brecher — 2,340 5: Chris Moore — 2,110 6: Kathy Liebert — 2,100 […]
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Texas House Committee Passes Poker Bill
Although there’s still a very long way to go before Texas licenses and regulates poker, poker players in the Lone Star State got some good news yesterday when Texas State Representative Jose Menendez’s bill to do just that was passed by a 6-3 vote in the Licensing and Administrative Procedures Committee. A late addition to […]
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Online Poker — OPOY Update, April 3, 2009
The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is finally here. With only one day of action in the books, it so far has managed to avoid disrupting the top 10 of Card Player’s Online Player of the Year race. Click on the links to read all about the Sunday majors and $1K Roundup. If […]
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Poker Pro Jimmy 'Gobboboy' Fricke Featured on The Scoop
Before his impressive second-place finish at the Aussie Millions main event in 2007, Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke was known in some circles in the online poker community but was hardly a big-name pro. But his second-place finish at a final table that included Gus Hansen, Andrew Black, and Kristy Gazes quickly catapulted him into the realm […]
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SCOOP Day 1 — Isaac 'westmenloAA' Baron, Josh 'Sdouble' Schlein Win
The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) events are now in full swing. The SCOOP is a 22-tournament series spread out over 11 days of action. Each tournament is offered with three different sets of buy-ins ranging from low, to mid, to high stakes. Buy-ins are offered for as little as $5.50 and can […]
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PPA Helps Virginia Poker Player Prepare for Trial
Another SWAT team-esque raid. Another group of poker players arrested. The Poker Players Alliance has been active in courtrooms around the country, fighting for positive rulings for the poker community in Pennsylvania, Colorado, South Carolina, and Kentucky. Now, the organization is turning its attention to Virginia to help out a young poker player. Joo Kim, […]
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Sweden Proposes Blocking of Foreign Poker Sites
StockholmNews.com has today reported the backlash over the Swedish government’s proposals suggested in its gambling report. State censorship of the Internet is the general theme of the government’s proposals in the report, which was commissioned by the Ministry of Finance, and has so far been met with opposition from many important agencies. The proposal to […]
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Greek Poker Tour Set for May
The seventh Greek Poker Tour will be held next month, May 15-17 at the Concord Card Casino in Vienna, Austria. The €100,000 guaranteed main event will kick off on May 16 with 10,000 starting chips and 45-minute blinds. The tournament, which has a buy-in of €550 + €50, will see the same structure as the […]
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Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov Join Team PokerStars Pro
Team PokerStars Pro has added two more players to the fold — Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov. Eastgate, became a well-known name in the poker community after he rose to the top at the World Series of Poker main event to become the youngest ever WSOP main event champion at the age of 22. This […]
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Phil Laak Joins BlackBeltPoker's Boot Camp
A fresh to the scene BlackBeltPoker.com has announced its first ever Live Boot Camp which will take place on May 16 and 17 at the Loose Cannon Sports Club in London. The Boot Camp will see U.S. poker legend Phil Laak join the site’s founders Neil Channing and Nik Persaud, as well as host Nick […]
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Irish Open Last Chance Saloon at PaddyPowerPoker
Just to make sure everyone gets a shot at taking part in one of the most prestigious events of the year, PaddyPowerPoker.com has announced its Irish Open Last Chance Saloon. This series of four $300 + $20 ticket-only satellites will run from Apr. 5-8 at 8:30 p.m. (BST), and for every $4,650 in the prize […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — Kevin Song
Kevin Song might be one of the most consistent tournament poker players in the world who you don’t know about. He has cashed consistently on the tournament trail since 1994 and accumulated more than $3 million in career winnings. Surprisingly, his largest cash is just $397,120, which he took home along with his World Series […]
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WSOP Circuit — Dwyte Pilgrim Wins the Harrah's Rincon Championship
The final day of the World Series of Poker Circuit event at Harrah’s Rincon near San Diego, California, began with 16 players, after a field of 106 players was whittled down on day 1. Play began at two final tables to start the second day of play, and the final table was reached when 10 […]
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Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov Join Team Poker Stars Pro
PokerStars has recently announced the signing of World Series of Poker champion and runner-up Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov to its team of pros. Both players will promote the PokerStars brand in online and live events and will represent the site at various global poker tour circuits. Eastgate (pictured left), from Denmark, became the youngest-ever […]
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Online Poker — The $1K Roundup, Week of Mar. 29
Editors Note: The Absolute Poker recap has been changed below to reflect new information. It’s official. Shaun F. Deeb is an absolute sicko. After a seemingly improbable week where he won four tournaments and took over the Card Player Online Player of the Year race, Deeb has done it again. This time, he outlasted everyone […]
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Poker Stars SCOOP Series Begins Today
The wait is over. The inaugural Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP) kicks off today at 2:30 p.m. ET with a six-handed no-limit hold’em rebuy tournament. There will be 22 different kinds of events over the next 11 days, with 66 tournaments in all, since PokerStars decided to offer three unique buy-in levels for the […]
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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: 02-03-09 Type: Cash games Game: Pot-limit hold’em Blinds: $500-$1,000 The […]
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Everest Poker 2008 Revenue Down 10 Percent
Everest Poker’s full year revenue for 2008 has fallen 10 percent to $24 million, down 10 percent on year end 2007. CEO Arthur Wang said in parent company GigaMedia’s annual results statement that, “Poker and casino will face continued pressure from the tough European economy, but new marketing partnerships combined with the yields from our […]
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Blue Square Sponsors Jeff Kimber
Blue Square Poker, sponsor of both the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (the third leg of which concluded over the weekend), and the Amateur Poker Association and Tour, has announced its sponsorship of professional poker player, Jeff Kimber. Kimber will now join the rest of the Blue Square Poker team which includes Mickey Wernick, Praz Bansi […]
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PKR Gives Away Champions League Final Packages
PKR.com has six VIP packages up for grabs for this year’s Champions League final in Rome. Each package is worth more than $3,500 and includes return flights, two-nights’ accommodation, two full days of golf at the Sheraton Golf Parco de Medici Hotel and Resort, and not to forget one of the best seats in the […]
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Andrew Feldman Joins Team Full Tilt
FullTiltPoker.com has taken on another young livewire as the latest addition to its team — Andrew Feldman. The twenty-one year old Brit is the youngest player to join Team Full Tilt as a ‘red pro’. Michael Tureniec was the last player to sign for the site, which has already amassed a lethal concoction of pros […]
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Poker Industry Happenings — April 1, 2009
Get the scoop on the latest promotions and tournament results from casinos near you with CardPlayer.com’s regular Poker Industry Happenings feature. California Ocean’s Eleven Casino And then there was one. Rob Goldstein emerged victorious from the annual Rat Pack tournament at Ocean’s Eleven Casino last month, after 176 players registered for the event, creating a […]
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State of the Felt — John Duthie
In State of the Felt, Card Player will periodically bring you insights and opinions from some of the most influential players, tournament and poker organization directors, and other people that influence the poker industry. This is a place where the broad trends and forces that continue to shape the game will have space to live […]
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Mike 'SirWatts' Watson Hosts This Week's Free Poker Video
Michael “SirWatts” Watson is the featured host of this week’s free poker video training clip from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus). In this video, Watson reviews several key hands played at the final table of a $530 buy-in tournament on Absolute Poker. This video, as well as three additional free clips by other […]
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Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier Talks About Upcoming Poker Stars SCOOP
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier has an incredible list of accoplishments on his poker résumé. He was the first-ever player to achieve Supernova status on PokerStars (requiring the accumulation of 100,000 Frequent Player Points in a calendar year) and then became the first to reach Supernova Elite (1 million FPPs in a year). He also has nearly […]
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Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza II Begins Thursday
The second Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza event of 2009 begins tomorrow at The Venetian in Las Vegas. The tournament series will feature 24 tournaments that will spread games of no-limit hold’em, pot-limit Omaha, Omaha eight-or-better, and H.O.R.S.E. All tournament days will begin at noon, and if there is a second event scheduled for the same […]
