Poker News

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 […]

Republican Rep. Fights Minnesota's Attempt to Ban Poker Sites

Not so fast. A Republican in the Minnesota state legislature introduced a bill yesterday that would prevent the state from carrying out its plan to ban access to approximately 200 gambling sites. “I have some serious concerns about the government censoring web sites,” said Rep. Pat Garofalo, who has served in the legislature since 2004. […]

World Poker Tour Revenues Rise

World Poker Tour Enterprises yesterday announced revenues of $5.5 million for the first quarter of 2009, an increase of 10 percent on the $5 million in the first quarter of 2008 and a positive turnaround from results throughout 2008. The financial statement from WPT said this was a result of higher ClubWPT revenues and a […]

888 Poker Income Continues to Fall

888.com, owner of Pacific Poker, today published its key performance indicators for the first quarter (Jan. to Mar) 2009. The figures show total operating income for its business-to-consumer poker operation was US$14 million, down from $15 million in the fourth quarter of 2008. The number of active customers in the business-to-consumer poker operation was 133,000, […]

World Poker Tour Venice Stop Begins Wednesday

The World Poker Tour will make its first stop in Italy on Wednesday, May 6, with a €4,000+€400 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament at the Casino Di Venezia in Venice. The main event will take place from May 6-10, and in addition to prize money, the eventual winner will walk away with a WPT bracelet and […]

Phil Hellmuth Featured in Cash Game on Poker After Dark

With 11 bracelets, Phil Hellmuth is considered by many to be one of the best tournament players in the world. But that doesn’t stop his detractors from saying that he can’t compete at a high level in the big cash games. Over the next two weeks, Hellmuth’s doubters and supporters will have a chance to […]

Patrik Antonius Up Nearly $500,000 in Durrrr Poker Challenge

At this pace, Tom "durrrr" Dwan will lose nearly $3.5 million in this challenge. Of course, it is still early. Even though the online pro is down nearly $500,000, the deficit is far from insurmountable with so much poker left to be played. The two competitors have played just 13,246 hands of the 50,000-hand challenge. […]

Online Poker — Steve 'gboro780' Gross Takes OPOY Lead

It was kind of a quiet Sunday across the online poker world, as many of the top names in the game were still transitioning from stops overseas at the EPT San Remo and EPT Monte Carlo. Dan "Wretchy" Martin had a solid day, however, taking down the second $100 rebuy on PokerStars after finishing runner-up […]

Scotland's Largest Poker Tournament by Paddy Power

PaddyPower Dial-a-Bet has launched the Paddy Power Charity Poker Open which it hopes will become the largest tournament ever to take place in Scotland. The event takes place at the Normandy Hotel, Renfrew, with four starting heats on May 16, 17, 23, and 24. These heats are expected to attract up to 500 players with […]

Dutchman Wins European Poker Tour Monte Carlo

Pieter de Korver  (pictured right) from the Netherlands yesterday won the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Grand Final, topping a field of 935 at the €10,000 buy in Monaco event. The final table of eight consisted of: Seat 1 – Peter Traply, Hungary, PokerStars qualifier, 4,365,000 Seat 2 – Mikhail Tulchinskiy, Russia, 3,220,000 Seat […]

EPT — Vanessa Rousso is European High Roller Champion

The PokerStars.com €25,000 European High Roller Championship attracted a mixed field of main event bustouts, online whizz kids, legendary pros, and up-and-coming faces. A  total of 79 players turned out for the star-studded event, including Daniel Negreanu, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, William Thorson, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Erik Seidel, Thomas Wahlroos, Michael Mcdonald, John Juanda, Nelly, Chris Ferguson, […]