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WPT Championship — Day 2
It took eight levels and just under three days, but the entire remaining field at the WPT Five-Star World Poker Classic was finally able to fit inside the Fontana Lounge. The first two days of play saw only 36 players bust, leaving 302 to crowd each and every table available, including part of the main […]
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Bodog Prepares for its Third Poker Open Tournament Series
Three-tiered tournaments are so ‘in’ right now. Bodog will offer three unique buy-in levels for its Bodog Poker Open III tournament series, which kicks off this Sunday, April 26. The popular poker site will offer a championship series (with entries ranging from $55 to $500), a mid-stakes series (from $22 to $163), and a mini-bounty […]
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Online Poker — Scott 'SCTrojans' Freeman Runner-Up at PokerStars
It was definitely a down week for the majority of the sites in the wake of the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). Every site’s major Sunday tournament failed to meet its guarantee except for Cake. Despite the decrease in traffic, there were still some major tournament victories from some of the game’s best players. […]
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Harvard Study Says Online Poker Risks Moderate
The widespread availability of online gambling has not led to an increase in the number of people becoming addicted to gambling the Harvard Crimison reported yesterday. The study, undertaken by the Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions, observed 3,445 poker players on Austrian site Bwin since February 2005 and was designed to thoroughly investigate whether […]
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German, 18, Wins Latin American Poker Tour Grand Final
Eighteen-year-old Dominik Nitsche from Miden in Germany has won the PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Season Two Grand Final in Mar del Plata, Argentina topping the field of 291 players in the $5,000 + $200 event to win $381,030. It took just four hours to get to heads up play with Nitsche holding a 2:1 […]
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European Poker Tour San Remo Day 1B Recap
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo has become the largest poker EPT ever held in Europe with yesterday’s 600 runners making the total turnout 1,178. The participants created a prize pool is €5,713,000 and the winner will receive €1.5 million. Click here to check the full payouts for the top 112 players in San […]
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European Poker Tour San Remo Day 1B Update
The official numbers are in, and the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo has become the largest EPT ever held in Europe with yesterday’s 600 runners, making the total turnout 1,178. The prize pool is €5,713,000, and the winner will receive €1.5 million ($1.9 million). Click here to check the full payouts for the top […]
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WPT Championship — Day 1B
The second day-one flight of the 2009 World Poker Tour Championship attracted 211 players, to bring the total player count up to 337. The first-place prize will be $2,143,655, and the top 50 players will make the money. The field size is down 208 players from the field of 545 from last year, when the […]
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European Poker Tour San Remo Day 1A Recap
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo could break attenndance records for a European event with 1,200 players in total expected over both starting days. 578 players took to the felt on Day 1A yesterday and a similar filed is expected today (the Caribbean Adventure attracted over 1,300 players in January). Some of the more […]
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European Poker Tour San Remo Day 1A Update
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo could break participation records, as 578 players took to the felt on day 1A yesterday. With over 200 online qualifiers from the sponsor’s site, the total field looks likely to hit 1,200, setting a new record for a Europe-based event (the Caribbean Adventure attracted over 1,300 players in […]
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WPT Championship — Day 1A
The times, they are a changin’. With the U.S. economy struggling, the $25,000 WPT Five-Star World Poker Classic mustered a disappointing 126 for its first starting day. The attendance is expected to dramatically increase for day 1B, but it’s clear that last year’s total of 545 will not be reached. There have been many speculations […]
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Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Manchester Underway
The fourth leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker tour rolls into the G Casino, Manchester today with a £100 no-limit hold’em freezeout. A series of side events precede the £1,000 main event which starts on Thursday. Apr. 23. Play in the main event will start over two days at 2 p.m. and up to 300 […]
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Three Ways to Hit the WSOP with Boylepoker
Boylepoker is offering three separate ways to get to the World Series of Poker this year with packages available for the no-limit hold’em main event, pot-limit Omaha world championship, and two side events. Super satellites for packages to the $10,000 no-limit hold’em world championsip event (worth $13,000) take place every Sunday at 8 p.m. BST. […]
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Bodog Adds Five Satellite Seats to CP-Exclusive Tourney Tomorrow
For just $11, Bodog will provide an opportunity for Card Player readers to win a seat into Bodog’s Flight Club Semifinal (valued at $270). And if that wasn’t enticing enough, the popular poker site has announced that it will add at least five additional seats on top of the prize pool, meaning there will be […]
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WPT Championship Begins on Saturday
The first day of action at the $25,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Championship begins on Saturday, Apr. 18 at noon, and Card Player will be providing full live coverage from the event, including live updates, chip counts, photos, and videos from Card Player TV. This annual event, hosted at Bellagio, is one of the marquee […]
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This Week in Poker: Poker Tournament News Apr. 11-17
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: Steve Brecher — 2,340 6: Chris Moore — 2,110 […]
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Online Poker — OPOY Update, April 17, 2009
There were two new faces to the Online Player of the Year top 10, which, of course, meant that two players were bumped out. Continue reading below to find out how the best players in the game performed this week. It was a bittersweet week for OPOY leader Shaun "tedsfishfry" Deeb (pictured right). Deeb was […]
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Poker's David Grey Gives the Inside Scoop on Andy Beal
It was the Durrrr challenge on steroids. And truthfully, that description doesn’t do it justice. In 2001, Andy Beal challenged the greatest poker pros in Las Vegas to heads-up games that saw $10 million swings. It was Beal vs. “The Corporation,” immortalized in Michael Craig’s novel The Professor, The Banker, and The Suicide King. Now, […]
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PKR.com Announces Team PKR Pro Signings
PKR.com, the 3-D online poker room, yesterday announced the six players who will make up Team PKR Pro. Three of the names will be recognisable to many players: TV presenter Ashley Hames, Grosvenor UK Poker Tour champion Andrew Teng, and Irish Open main event finalist Kai Danilo Paulsen; while the other three are regular high-profile […]
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European Poker Tour Hits San Remo This Weekend
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour pulls into the northern Italian town of San Remo this weekend for its penultimate stop of season five before moving down the riviera into France for the Grand Final in Monte Carlo. So far over 200 players have qualified online at PokerStars and the cap of 800 already exceeded (over […]
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Betfred Ladies Poker Tour Kicks off Tomorrow
The third season of the Betfred.com Ladies Poker Tour kicks off tomorrow Saturday Apr. 18 at the Alea Casino in Leeds, and will take in eight stops across the UK and Spain between now and November. Betfred is adding £1,500 to each £110 buy-in event, and the winners of each will be brought together at […]
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EPT — San Remo Event Begins Saturday
The penultimate stop on the season-five schedule of the PokerStars European Poker Tour begins on Saturday, April 18 in San Remo, Italy. Card Player will be there to provide live updates, chip counts, photos, and interviews from this event, which is hosted at the Casino San Remo on the shores of the Italian Riviera. The […]
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Bellagio Changes Daily Tournament Structure
The daily no-limit hold’em tournaments at Bellagio will resume on Friday, Apr. 24 at 2 p.m. The tournament structure and schedules for these daily events are going to change moving forward. The $300+$30 no-limit hold’em event will run Sunday-Thursday each week, and players will begin with 10,000 in tournament chips. Levels will be 35 minutes […]
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Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament Starts Tomorrow
Festivities for the popular and always successful Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament kicks off tomorrow, Friday, with a red-carpet ceremony from 4 p.m.-5 p.m. A myriad of celebrities and poker pros have already confirmed attendance in the charity tournament, which begins at 5 p.m. in the Venetian poker room. Past World Series of Poker main-event […]
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Florida Debates Possibility of High Stakes Poker
Another year, another attempt to change Florida’s ever-evolving poker laws. With just weeks remaining in the state’s legislative session, the Florida Senate has been pushing hard to expand gaming laws in an effort to generate additional revenue. With a $3 billion budget deficit in the state, some Florida legislators believe that a relaxation on the […]
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Call in with Questions for Mike Matusow on the Mouthpiece
Card Player TV’s The Mouthpiece, with host Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, will be filming this afternoon. Matusow will be discussing the recent World Poker Tour stop at Foxwoods and the upcoming WPT Five-Star World Poker Classic at Bellagio. As always, viewers may call in and ask their own questions of Matusow, who’s never shy of […]
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Online Poker -- The $1K Roundup, Week of April 12
Now that the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is over, order has been restored to the online community, and the $1,000 buy-in tournaments can take the spotlight once again. At Full Tilt, Online Player of the Year contender Aditya "Intervention" Agarwal went heads up with Danny "THE__D__RY" Ryan. On the final hand, Agarwal’s A […]
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Henrik Tollefsen is New Norwegian Poker Champion
Henrik Tollefsen (pictured right) is the new Norwegian Poker Champion having beaten 468 compatriots to lift the $124,000 top prize at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham, England. Tollefsen also won a World Series of Poker main event entry at the four-day tournament which was held in England for the second year due to onerous Norwegian […]
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Bwin Online Poker Revenue Up 14 Percent in 2008
Bwin, the Viennese-quote online gaming operator, today reported gross online poker revenue for the full year 2008 up 14.2 percent to €94.2 million, up from €82.5 million in 2007. Net gaming revenues (when costs were deducted) for poker saw a 8.6 percent jump in 2008 to €81.0 million from a year earlier. The company said […]
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Reload up to €2,000 at DevilfishPoker.com
DevilfishPoker.com is offering players of all bankroll levels a reload bonus this month for depositing from €50 up to €2,000. At the top level players can recieve a 1,000 percent bonus up to €2,000 by using the code AK2K. The bonus clears after 30 days. Players can choose the 100 percent up to €1,000 bonus […]
