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Final EMOP Qualification on DevilfishPoker Tonight
Tonight sees the last chance to qualify online at DevilfishPoker.com for the European Masters of Poker taking place in Varna, Bulgaria from April 15 to 18. Fifteen packages worth €1,800 (inc. buy in and expenses) are up for grabs at 6.40 BST (7.40 CET) in the €100 buy-in event this evening. Two DevilfishPoker.com players have […]
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Ladbrokespoker Bad Beat Jackpot Pays $228,000
Ladbrokespoker.com Bad Beat Jackpot hit at the weekend with player “TvJ1964” scooping the lion’s share of the $228,000 accumulated total. His quad queens were bested by the four aces of player “carrotkid” and the players won $81,222 and $40,611 respectively Other players at the table shared the remainder of the jackpot between them. The Bad […]
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PartyGaming Agrees to Pay $105 Million for Non-Prosecution
After nearly two years of negotiations, PartyGaming announced today that it had reached a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. As part of the agreement, PartyGaming will pay $105 million in fines with the assurance that the U.S. government will not prosecute the company or any of […]
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SCOOP Day 5 — Shawn 'buck21' Buchanan Makes His Second Final Table
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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PaddyPowerPoker Announces TV Broadcast of Irish Open
PaddyPowerPoker.com’s 2009 Irish Poker Open, which kicks off later this week at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, will air on TG4 as eight one-hour programmes starting on May 6, at 11:30 p.m.. “We are proud to partner with TG4 for the broadcasting of this year’s Irish Open,” said Eric Booth, Head of Poker at PaddyPowerPoker.com. […]
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PartyGaming Makes $105 Million Settlement With U.S.
PartyGaming Plc, owner of PartyPoker.com — once the world’s largest online poker room, today announced a $105 million settlement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (USAO). The long-awaited settlement includes a non-prosecution agreement which means PartyGaming has accepted the illegality of its activities in the U.S. prior to the […]
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William Hill Poker Completes iPoker Joint Venture
The joint venture between Britain’s bookmaker William Hill and gaming software company Playtech is now complete, with the result being a wider range of games, tournaments, and features. The poker site has a modern and sophisticated look with a new 3-D graphic interface and some unusual viewing modes such as a 2-D ‘bird’s eye’ view, […]
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Foxwoods Poker Classic — Day 4
It was a very short day at the Foxwoods Poker Classic, but tomorrow could be even shorter. Because of the original tournament schedule, the World Poker Tour film crew wasn’t scheduled to arrive for filming until Tuesday, but due to the very low turnout, the field played down much faster than expected and came into […]
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Winner's Circle — David Plastik
The Winner’s Circle takes a look at the biggest wins from the tournament trail by the players that made it happen. This series will look at the big hands, toughest opponents, and paths to victory each player took in their most recent tournament win through their own eyes and words. If you ever wanted to […]
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Cake Poker's New Gold Cards Provide Path to WSOP
If you’re not familiar with Cake Poker’s Gold Cards, now might be the perfect time to get acquainted with the promotion. Cake recently announced that it would be awarding 100 prize packages to the World Series of Poker based exclusively on its Gold Cards system. The prize package is worth $2,500 — $1,500 for the […]
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Online Poker — SCNoodle Wins at Full Tilt
With the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) running, the normal Sunday schedule was a bit disrupted on PokerStars. However, the action remained the same on the other sites and drew in big prize pools thanks to the increase in online traffic. Though the Sunday Million didn’t run, the Sunday Warmup got under way with […]
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SCOOP Day 4 — Wrasse Wins at H.O.R.S.E., Negreanu Still Alive in $3K
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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Peter Murphy Completes Boylepoker Multiplier Challenge
Peter Murphy has completed his Multiplier Challenge at BoylePoker.com, with two weeks to spare. Murphy turned $100 into $10,000 in nine weeks, finishing $172.21 cent above target. He then qualified for Boylepoker’s $250,000 guaranteed tournament where he collected another $2,000 to top it all off. After finishing fourth out of 1,500 players in the $10 […]
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New PKR Software Upgrade Released Today
Innovative online poker site, PKR.com has today released a new software upgrade with a wide variety of new games and features on offer. New games include Omaha high-low and mini roulette, and the upgrade also means there are additional features such as break skips, and a timebank, for players needing more time to make […]
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Ireland may Ban Online Poker and Gambling
According to the Independent, Minister for Sport Martin Cullen has threatened to ban online poker and gambling in Ireland if bookmakers do not pay more money to the Exchequer for the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund. The most recent figure passed by the government to be made available to the Fund is €68.128m — slightly […]
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Dane Wins New Zealand Poker Championships
Dane Soren Eriksen beat last year’s winner David Borg heads up at the New Zealand Poker Championships last night at the Christchurch Casino, New Zealand. The New Zealand based player earned $100,000 for first place after slaughtering a field of 101 players, according to Scoop.co.nz today. Borg took over the chip lead close to the […]
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Eleven Million Facebook Users Play Online Poker
Online social gaming is fast becoming a cultural phenomenon, and poker is the key factor in this, according to the Financial Times today. With popular social network site, Facebook.com emerging as the place to be for gaming also, companies such as Google are now seeking ways to become part of this market. Facebook has almost […]
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Foxwoods Poker Classic — Day 3
Coming into the third day of competition at the Foxwoods Poker Classic, a strong field of 59 remained with only 30 spots guaranteed to make the money. Reigning Foxwoods champion Jonathan Little was still in the mix, but was eliminated early on in the day when he ran a medium ace into a dominating hand. […]
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SCOOP Day 3 — Clayton Newman, Daniel Alaei Make Two Final Tables
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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Final 18 of Norwegian Poker Championship Set
The Norwegian Poker Championship, currently underway at Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham, England has been reduced from 469 players to a final 18 who return today to vie for the £83,217 top prize. The £617 buy in main event created a prize pool of £289,373 and the denouement of the tournament will see the following 18 […]
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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, […]
