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Carter 'ckingusc' King Wins PokerStars Sunday Million
It was a great Sunday for the online poker community, the stars of which boasted numerous final-table finishes in some of the game’s most prestigious tournaments. Over at PokerStars, the action kicked off with the Sunday Warm-Up. James "mig.com" Mackey (pictured right) lost heads up to Buton77, but still pocketed $78,354. Jamie "TheCronic420" Rosen continued […]
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Dream Team Poker Hosts Event at Caesars
Gone are the days where poker is viewed exclusively as a one-person game. Dream Team Poker will host its second tournament — the first that is open to the public — at Caesars Palace March 27-29. “The concept of team poker is not a revolutionary concept by any means,” said Daniel Delshad, CEO of Dream […]
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Jesper Hougaard Injured in Thai Road Accident
Double World Series of Poker bracelet winner Jesper Hougaard from Denmark has sustained a broken shoulder in a road traffic accident in Phuket, Thailand according to sports news website bold.dk. According to his brother Lars who spoke to the site he was involved in a motorcycle accident last Thursday and was not wearing a helmet. […]
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Miss World Takes on Marty Smyth this Weekend
This weekend, Mar. 27-29, is host to a special selection of poker events on offer with the March Madness festival at the Jackpot Club in Dublin. The explosion of poker activity hitting the city is all in the name of Europe’s largest and most popular charity poker fundraiser, Poker for the Homeless. The most recent […]
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Asian Poker Tour Gets Extended Run in Macau
The Asian Poker Tour today announced it has extended its run in Macau this year to 12 days. The event will be held at the Galaxy StarWorld Hotel and Casino from Aug. 12 to 23, 2009. The $4,300 main event at the festival has been extended from Aug. 19 to 23 and will feature a […]
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Play Top Celebs at 888.com Cannes Poker Event
888.com has a new promotion which will suit poker players and celeb followers alike. Its latest offering will see one lucky player partake in the Cannes charity poker event which 888.com is sponsoring as its official gaming partner, at this year’s Cannes Film Festival on May 19. The event is being held in order to […]
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Genting Stanley's Circus Poker Expands Outside UK
UK casino operator Genting Stanley has announced it is opening its online poker and casino to international players although players from the U.S., Malaysia, and Germany will still be blocked from the sites. Previously the online sites, on the Playtech platform, were only open to players from the UK. The company has now also introduced […]
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Belgian Police Arrest 13 at Poker Home Game
Belgian police broke up a home game last week arresting 13 players and confiscating €16,000 according to RTLinfo.be. Police stormed the home game, hosted by a chef in Profondeville, who claimed the police’s actions were completely disproportionate. “They broke down the door. There were 20 of them in the house.” Players were interviewed by the […]
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Liquidator Says Online Poker Players Owed AUS$5 Million
The liquidators of Tusk Investments, which owned 28 online poker rooms operating on the Microgaming network including Battlefield Poker, Poker.ie, Red Nines, Dave’s Poker Room, and Berserk Poker, have updated creditors of the failed Vanuatu-registered operation. The report has been eagerly awaited by players who had money on the poker rooms frozen though no substantive […]
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Steve Brecher Wins the 2009 Bay 101 Shooting Star
The final six players took their seats at the final table of the 2009 Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament at 4 p.m. today, and one of them would walk away with their first World Poker Tour title when the champion was crowned. Here is a look at the seating chart with chip counts when things […]
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Norwegian Wins Latin American Poker Tour
Karl Hevroy, a 20-year-old Norwegian, has won the PokerStars.com Latin American Poker Tour Punta del Este, Uruguay beating 326 opponents to lift the $283,000 top prize in Uruguay. The US$3,700 buy in event created a prize pool of over $1 million and Hevroy eliminated five of his final table challengers. The heads-up match saw Hevroy […]
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Brazilian Maria Mayrinck Signs for PokerStars
PokerStars.com has signed Maria "Maridu" Mayrinck who was the second most successful Brazilian player at the World Series of Poker 2008. Mayrinck, who recently featured on the cover of Card Player Brasil, said, “I guarantee on my end that I will always do my best to honor the name of the best poker site on […]
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LAPT — Karl Hevroy Wins the Punta Del Este Title
The final table of the PokerStars Latin American Poker tour stop at Punta Del Este, Uruguay took place on Friday, Mar. 20. For the first time in LAPT history there was a $1 million prize pool on the line, with $283,500 going to the eventual champion. Karl Hevroy came into the Punta Del Esta event […]
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Winner's Circle — Keith 'DaMurdera3' Ferrera
The Winner’s Circle takes a look at the biggest wins from the tournament trail by the players who 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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Scotty Nguyen Reflects on H.O.R.S.E. Poker Controversy
It may have happened nine months ago, but it still clearly weighs on Scotty Nguyen’s mind. “I hated it,” said Nguyen, when he watched the now infamous episode on ESPN where he won the presitigious $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. championship at the World Series last year. As if that sentence doesn’t adequately describe his emotions on the […]
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This Week in Poker — Poker Tournament News Mar. 14-20
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: Tristan Clemencon — 1,962 […]
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Pro-Poker Legislation Will Be Introduced in Coming Weeks
Soon. It’s coming soon. That’s what the poker community has been told about Congressional action regarding the reversal of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). This week, it has become much clearer just how soon poker players can expect that action. “I expect that we will introduce the legislation in 2-3 weeks. Like […]
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Online Poker — OPOY Update, Mar. 20, 2009
This week, one player shot up the rankings in Card Player’s Online Player of the Year race and another came out of nowhere to join the rest of the top 10. You can click on the links to read about this week’s Sunday majors and the $1K Roundup. Steve "gboro780" Gross held on to the […]
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Dutch Minister Wants Poker TV Shows Banned
Dutch Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin has warned three television broadcasters including RTL and SBS to stop making shows about poker according to DutchNews.nl. Ballin, a long-time anti-poker advocate, said in response to calls from two Dutch MPs for a more liberal regime for poker, “The broadcasters have overstepped the mark. These programmes give people […]
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Seventh Irish Classic Poker Festival Announced
Ireland’s Macau Sporting Club in Cork has today announced its upcoming Irish Classic Poker Festival which will run from Aug. 10 to 16. The seventh annual IPC has been getting increasingly more popular with each instalment, and this year the festival looks set to attract more than 200 players. The €100,000 guaranteed three-day main event […]
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More Big Names Sign Up For Irish Open
PaddyPowerPoker.com today revealed a few more big names for this year’s Irish Open with Tony G, Brian ‘sbrugby’ Townsend, and former world champion Jamie Gold all slated to participate. They will join Ciaran O’Leary, Phil Laak, and Neil Channing at the festival in Citywest Hotel, Dublin from April 9 to 14, 2009. PaddyPowerPoker.com’s online payment […]
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Friday Night Fights at FullTilt Start Tonight
FullTiltPoker.com introduces its Friday Night Fights event tonight with Andy Bloch and Gus Hansen playing a winner takes all heads up game while players can choose a Friday Night Fights Main Event $5,000 Sweat Tournament in support of their favoured pro. The winner of the 20:05 ET Sweat Tournament named after the winning pro will […]
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Bay 101 Shooting Star — Day 3
Day 3 at the 2009 Bay 101 Shooting Star $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship event began with 36 players. The tables were seated six-handed to start the day, which made for a lot of action. Levels were increased to two hours in length to ensure that the remaining players could play deep-stack poker, as well. The […]
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DevilfishPoker.com Opens 14 New Payment Methods
DevilfishPoker.com today launches 14 new withdrawal and deposit methods using Moneybookers.com. The payment options, for European and international regions, are aimed at making life more convenient for players and building on the site’s safe and secure payment methods. The list of new payment options includes: Australia – POLi Austria – EPS (Netpay) Denmark – Dankort […]
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WSOP Circuit — Harrah's Rincon Stop Begins Today
The World Series of Poker Circuit tour pulled into Harrah’s Rincon near San Diego, California, today and kicked things off with a bang. Event No. 1 ($200 no-limit hold’em) attracted 646 players, which ties a record set on Feb. 11, 2007 for the largest WSOP Circuit event ever. The tournament series will feature 22 events […]
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Run it Twice — Niman Kenkre
Niman Kenkre, known as “Samoleus” online, is a professional cash game player who turned $25 into millions. After college, Kenkre took a high-paying job at MIT but soon found that his income from playing part-time online poker quickly overshadowed his salary. In 2006, Kenkre quit to pursue poker and has become well known for analytical […]
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Online Poker — The $1K Roundup, Week of Mar. 15
Read the recaps for the $1K events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, and Absolute Poker below. Full Tilt Poker — $1K Monday The $1K Monday on Full Tilt this week attracted 356 entrants, down 16 from the week prior. Still, the prize pool of $356,000 was more than enough to clear the $300,000 guarantee. The tournament […]
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Online Poker Website Blacklist Leaked in Australia
A leaked blacklist of banned websites drawn up by the Australian Communications and Media Authority contains a “slew of online poker websites” according to report in today’s Sydney Morning Herald. However subsequent reports, including one from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation claim the list is not the official government list. The list, seen by the newspaper, […]
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Card Player Media Goes Live with CardPlayerBulgaria.com
Card Player Media continues to expand with its latest endeavour — CardPlayerBulgaria.com. The new site will feature poker news, strategy, video, tournament information, player of the year competitions, CardPlayer.tv, plus blogs from poker pros such as Daniel Negreanu. It will also include Bulgarian poker news stories, a Bulgarian Player of the Year leader board, tournament […]
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Praz Bansi Finishes Eighth in $10,000 Wynn Classic
World Series of Poker bracelet winner and member of the Hitsquad poker team, Praz Bansi from London, finished 8th yesterday in the $10,000 buy in Wynn Classic main event. He started the final two tables of 12 players joint 8th in chips. Bansi moved all in for his last 30,500 and Alex Melnikow made the […]
