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Ladbrokespoker Launches Skalie's Sunday Deepstack
Ladbrokespoker.com today announced the launch of its Skalie’s Sunday Deepstack tournament which sees sponsored pro and World Series of Poker 2007 main event fifth place finisher Jon "Skalie" Kalmar host a new weekly deepstack tournament. The event is a $100 + $9 no-limit hold’em freezeout and takes place at 4 p.m. on Sunday afternoons starting […]
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World Poker Tour Announces Moroccan Stop
World Poker Tour Enterprises and Chilipoker.com today announced a joint deal to bring the World Poker Tour to Marrakech, Morocco for the next three years. The event will be held at the glamourous Casino de Marrakech in October. It will be the first time the tour has stopped in Africa, having already touched down in […]
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ParadisePoker Player Turns €1 into WSOP Package
ParadisePoker player “Timatti” turned €1 into a €3,500 package to Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker over the weekend where he will enjoy the Paradise experience of a lifetime. “I have always wanted to try my skills at the real sanctuary of poker, the WSOP in Las Vegas,” said Timatti. “Just a couple […]
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Russian Wins PartyPoker.com Monthly Million
The second PartyPoker.com Monthly Million was won last Sunday by Russian player SuperTight31 at a final table dominated by Russia and Denmark. SuperTight31 topped the 1,591 player field lifting $163,114.08 for his victory as 200 players were paid in the $1 million guaranteed event. “The rise of Russia in the poker world has been acknowledged […]
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Freddy Deeb Wins the WPT Celebrity Invitational
Hundreds of celebrities, athletes, poker players, and VIPs were invited to the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational at Commerce Casino. The event began on Saturday, Feb. 28, and the final six players still remained on Monday, March 3 to play at the televised final table. Among them were notable professionals Freddy Deeb and Scott Clements, […]
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Bring Your 'Eh' Game to Card Player-Exclusive Cake Poker Tourney
Cake Poker has launched satellites to the Canadian Open Poker championship heads-up main event playing in Canada this May. A $5,500 prize package is at stake every Monday at 9:30 p.m. ET, and the package gives players the chance to take on poker’s most notable players heads up May 14-17. The $5,500 prize package […]
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Online Poker — Jay 'THE_GOLDMINE' Kinkade Wins at Full Tilt
The Sunday majors provided huge payoffs to some of the online world’s best players this weekend, and even managed a small shakeup in Card Player’s Online Player of the Year race. Over at PokerStars, Jonas "Tulkaz" Klausen won the $100 rebuy for $75,182 and moved himself into 25th place overall in the rankings. Alex "AK87" […]
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SpadeClub Poker Winner — George 'MasqueMan' Marlowe
SpadeClub.com, the total poker experience, offers unlimited poker tournaments and $100,000 awarded every month, all for just $19.99* a month. No deposits, no wagers, no risk. Find out more. SpadeClub has awarded its sixth Exclusive member with a $2,500 seat in a satellite to the 2009 Five-Star World Poker Classic at Bellagio. George “MasqueMan” Marlowe […]
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Travel the Road to Vegas with DevilfishPoker.com
DevilfishPoker.com today launched its €175,000 Road to Las Vegas campaign offering online poker players at the site a chance to win one of 25 packages to play at the World Series of Poker 2009. The packages include $5,000 in tournament buy ins, €2,000 in expenses, and one week’s stay at a top hotel such as […]
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Innovative Search for Poker Pro Launched at Boylepoker
Boylepoker.com today launched an innovative search for its next online poker pro to join the swelling ranks of players on its roster such as pot-limit Omaha and Poker Million champion Marty Smyth and World Series of Poker main event finalist Padraig Parkinson. During the month of March online poker players can take part in nine […]
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PaddyPowerPoker Grows Players and Profitability
PaddyPower Plc, the publicly-quoted Irish bookmaker which owns PaddyPowerPoker.com today announced its preliminary results for 2008. While the company does not break down the financials for poker within its profit and loss account it said it was happy that revenue level had been maintained when currency fluctuations had been stripped out while active player numbers […]
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Irish Casinos to Be Regulated to Comply with EU Law
Irish casinos and card rooms are to get the regulation they have long lobbied for according to a report in the Irish Times newspaper today. Minister for Justice Dermot Ahearn plans a two-step process for regulation which will first see the establishment of a gaming control section in his department. This will register and control […]
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Sunny Chattha Win GUKPT Walsall Main Event
Twenty-three-year-old Sunny Chattha from south London took down last weekend’s Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Walsall main event beating 300 opponents to lift the £88,150 first prize. Chattha beat of stiff competition from a who’s who of British poker at the final table which included Mickey Wernick who came sixth, James Akenhead who came seventh and […]
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Poker Industry Happenings — March 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 The Rat Pack is Back. On March 15, Ocean’s Eleven Casino will host its annual Rat Pack No-Limit Hold’em Tournament. The buy-in will be $330, with a guaranteed prize pool […]
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Interview with EPT Copenhagen Winner Jens Kyllonen
Nineteen-year-old Jens Kyllonen can afford his dream apartment in Helsinki, and also to play in many future events after beating 462 players at the PokerStars.com EPT Scandinavian Open in Copenhagen last week. Card Player spoke to him after he destroyed the final table and took down the top prize of €878,057. Rebecca McAdam: How do […]
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Bodog Poker Holding Card Player-Exclusive Event Saturday
Last month Bodog awarded a Card Player reader with a VIP trip to Hawaii to watch football with a Card Player-exclusive tournament series. Well, that series may be over, but that doesn’t mean that Bodog is done giving Card Player readers a little extra. For a limited time, Bodog will be hosting value-added tournaments for […]
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Qualify 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 March 1 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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ParadisePoker Bad Beat Jackpot Hit for €102,723
ParadisePoker.com bad beat jackpot hit last Thursday when player oFFShore had his quad jacks (on the flop) beaten by player square19 who hit quad aces (on the river). As a result oFFShore won €102,723 while square19 received €51,261. The pot was worth €109 and was taken down by square19. The bad beat jackpot was €293,495 […]
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This Week in Poker: Poker Tournament News Feb. 21-27
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: Benjamin Spindler — 2,000 4: Binh Nguyen — 2,000 6: Jens Kyllonen — 1,920 […]
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Kathy Liebert Discusses Poker and Backing on The Scoop
On this week’s episode of The Scoop (sponsored by Full Tilt Poker), Kathy Liebert sits down with Adam Schoenfeld and Diego Cordovez for Part 2 of her interview on CardPlayer TV to discuss backing, drinking, and marketing in poker. Liebert and the two hosts describe some of the difficulties and dangers involved in backing players […]
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High Stakes Poker Premieres Sunday on Game Show Network
Doyle Brunson. Daniel Negreanu. Tom Dwan. Patrik Antonius. Hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line. A chance to see their every move. On Sunday, the wait is over. The fifth season of High Stakes Poker debuts Sunday night on Game Show Network at 9 p.m. ET (8 p.m. CST). The popular poker show features […]
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SirWatts, Charder30, and LearnedFromTV Join Card Player Pro Team
The stable of talent for Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus) might need a new wing built as a result of the recent additions to the team. Card Player Pro recently announced that Mike “SirWatts” Watson, Christian “Charder30” Harder, and Tom “LearnedFromTV” Chambers have become permanent members of its team of poker coaches, which […]
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Cornel Cimpan Wins the L.A. Poker Classic
The final six players in the 2009 L.A. Poker Classic took their seats at 4 p.m. today at the final table in the $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship event of this marquee tournament series. Here is a look at the starting stacks when the final table began: 1: Chris Karagulleyan — 4,080,000 2: Mike Sowers — […]
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Everest Poker Gets Malta Gaming License
Everest Poker today announced it had secured a remote gaming license from the Lotteries and Gaming Authority Malta, making it the largest online poker operator to obtain a license from the jurisdiction and giving it full regulated access to EU markets. A statement from the company said, “The LGA-license involves class 1 and 3, and […]
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Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Walsall Main Event Under Way
The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour has made its second stop of the year at the Grosvenor Casino, Walsall with the nine-day festival culminating in the £1,000 main event which started yesterday. The festival got underway with a £100 no-limit hold’em event and more than 300 players are expected to take to the felt for the […]
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Poker Revenue Up at Grosvenor UK Casinos
Rank Plc, owner of BlueSquarePoker and Grosvenor Casinos in the UK, yesterday reported revenue for poker at its UK casinos was up 34 percent to £5.1 million in 2008 from £3.8 million in 2007. The company, which owns the popular Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, also saw online gaming, including online poker, grow 5.7 percent to […]
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Rock Stars Take to Felt at Ultimate Bet
UltimateBet.com yesterday announced Scott Ian’s Home Game which will see online qualifiers take to the virtual felt with the Anthrax guitar legend as well as Guns ‘N’ Roses rocker Slash, Vinnie Paul of Pantera, Kirk Hammett of Metallica, and Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains. Twenty seats are up for grabs in the 27 player […]
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Online Gambling Worth $52 Billion to U.S. Govt.
A new PriceWaterhouseCoopers report estimates the U.S. government could raise up to $52 billion in revenue over the next 10 years by rescinding the Unlawful Internet Gambling and Enforcement Act and taxing and regulating the online gambling industry including online poker. The report also estimates that the online gambling sector has continued to grow despite […]
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World Poker Challenge Begins Today
The World Poker Challenge begins today at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada. The first tournament is a $2,000 added no-limit hold’em tournament with a $200 buy-in. The tournament series will feature 25 preliminary events and a $5,000 championship that runs from Mar. 14-15. A dozen events in Reno will have Card Player Player […]
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Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson — What's My Line?
Chris “Jesus” Ferguson has had success at the World Series of Poker ever since he began playing more than a decade ago. Yet, due to a self-imposed boycott that lasted three years, the five-time bracelet winner had never competed on the World Poker Tour’s grandest stage. Though he came into the day with the chip […]
