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Steve Weinstein — What's My Line?
Every Thursday, Card Player sits down with some of the best in the game to discuss pivotal hands from the week’s biggest tournaments on the circuit. Steve "Thorladen" Weinstein has been a staple of the online community since the days when the biggest game around was $3-$6 no-limit hold’em. The cash game specialist has made […]
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SpadeClub Poker Winner — Heather 'widowmaker' Everett
SpadeClub.com, the total poker experience, offers more than 2,500 tournaments and $100,000 awarded every month, all for just $19.99 a month. No entry fees, no deposits, no risk. Find out more. Heather “widowmaker” Everett of Charleston, South Carolina, grew up watching her father play professional poker. Everett proved that her poker skills rival her dad’s […]
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Oklahoma State Championship of Poker Begins Today
The Oklahoma State Championship of Poker tournament series began today at the Cherokee Casino and Resort in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The series will feature 22 events, and half of them will award Card Player Player of the Year points. The $3,000 championship event begins on Sunday, Feb. 15 and it will conclude the following day. Events […]
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Run it Twice — Andrew Brokos
In this new series, Card Player sits down with high stakes pros to take a second look at a particular cash-game hand. Andrew "Foucault" Brokos is known for his knowledge of the game and experience in no-limit hold’em cash games. In addition to cash games, Andrew has also cashed in the last three World Series […]
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Bicycle Charity Poker Tournament Honors Fallen Heroes
Growing up in a community plagued by drugs and gang violence, Juan Abel Escalante had managed to lead the straight life. With a strict and close-knit Catholic family supporting him, he avoided the troubles and temptations that often tear down male youth in urban environments. He received an education and decided to go into law […]
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Kai Landry Wins WSOP Tunica Circuit Championship
The $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship event at the World Series of Poker Circuit stop at Harrah’s Tunica attracted 154 players and created a prize pool worth $735,900. Two days of poker had whittled this field down to nine final contenders, and chief among them was Matt Stout. He was one of the few notable professionals […]
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Online Poker — FTOPS Kicks Off Strong With Huge Field
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) has always caused a mini-surge within the online community. The regular grinders set aside a chunk of their bankroll to endure the whole series, the low-stakes players hit up the non-stop satellites trying to get a shot at glory, and even the high-stakes cash-game players can’t ignore the […]
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Justin Rollo Coaches This Week's Free Poker Training Video
Justin “WPTHero” Rollo is the host of this week’s free poker video training clip from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus). In this video, Rollo analyzes his play in several multi-table tournaments in real time. This video, as well as three additional free clips by other instructors, is currently available on the Card Player […]
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Online Poker — The $1K Roundup, Week of Feb. 1
With the Full Tilt Online Poker Series looming, the attendance at the various $1,000 buy-ins increased, in some cases dramatically, making it one of the most successful weeks in recent memory. Read the recaps for the $1K events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, and Absolute Poker below. Full Tilt — $1K Monday After a sluggish turnout […]
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Irish Open $1 Rebuy Next Week and Valentine Specials
PaddyPowerPoker.com today announced it is holding a great value $1 rebuy — Paddy’s Cheap Date — for a €4,000 Irish Open package next Tuesday Feb. 10. The winner will also be entered into the $100,000 Sole Survivor competition at the Irish Open. Players can also avail of a variety of low buy in and free […]
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888.com Poker Revenue Slumps in 2008
888.com, the publicly quoted owner of Pacific Poker, saw revenue, numbers, and net revenue per poker player decline in 2008 with the slump most dramatic between Oct. and Dec. Net gaming revenue from poker fell 6 percent to $76 million in 2008 from $81 in 2007 while figures for the fourth quarter to end Dec. […]
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FTOPS is Underway with Six $1 Million Guarantees
The popular Full Tilt Series of Online Poker got underway last night with a $200 buy in $1 million guaranteed event. The 11th series of FTOPS will feature 25 events with over $15 million in prize money in total and six events with at least $1 million guaranteed. Check the full schedule of events and […]
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ParadisePoker Offers 50 Free Las Vegas Packages
ParadisePoker.com this week begins its Las Vegas Holiday promotion which will see it giveaway 50 free packages worth €5,000 each to play poker in Las Vegas this summer. Thirteen packages are available each month between now and May 2009. Online poker players at ParadisePoker.com can qualify for up to four freerolls each month using their […]
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Want to Earn Some Extra Cash from SpadeClub?
SpadeClub.com, the total poker experience, offers more than 2,500 tournaments and $100,000 awarded every month, all for just $19.99 a month. No entry fees, no deposits, no risk. Find out more. SpadeClub is excited to announce its new refer-a-friend program, wherein you will receive $50 in cold hard cash for every friend you refer […]
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Online Zone — Interview with Steve 'thorladen' Weinstein
As one of the original online players, Steve "thorladen" Weinstein has seen the game evolve from its infancy into the behemoth that it is today. Weinstein recently came out victorious in the Borgata Winter Poker Open, taking home nearly half of a million in winnings. Weinstein had come close to winning a major tournament before, […]
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Poker Regulation Promoted in Congressional Magazine
With a new president and a new administration in the White House, the Poker Players Alliance has stepped up its efforts to enact legislation that would regulate online poker. Last week, PPA Chairman Alfonse D’Amato authored a piece entitled, “The New Deal: Regulate and Tax iPoker,” which was featured in Roll Call, the Capitol Hill […]
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Full Tilt Online Poker Series Begins Today
The popular Full Tilt Online Poker Series, more commonly known as FTOPS, begins today at 9 p.m. EST with a $216 no-limit hold’em event. There will be a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million. In the next 12 days, there will be 25 FTOPS events in a wide variety of games, from hold’em to stud […]
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PartyPoker.com European Open V Starts This Friday
The$7,000 buy in PartyPoker.com European Open V takes place in London from Friday Feb. 6 to 13, 2009 with a wealth of top European talent taking to the felt including Neil Channing, Annette Obrestad, Roland de Wolfe, Surinder Sunar, James Akenhead, Padraig Parkinson, Julian Thew, and Michael Keiner. The Matchroom Sports event will see 12 […]
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Danish Poker Players Square Up in Boxing Ring
Danish World Series of Poker Bracelet winner Theo Jorgensen and four-time World Poker Tour winner Gus Hansen fight in an organised boxing match in Copenhagen on Feb. 21. Hansen will put up $35,000 to Jorgensen’s $25,000 and the event will be televised free-to-air at GusHansenTV.com. The fight arose from a squash game the pair played […]
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Gala Casinos Confirms End of British Poker Tour
As reported in CardPlayerEurope.com earlier this week, the Gala Casinos British Poker Tour will not return in 2009. The tour, which was to have entered season three this year, has been cancelled and in a statement put out yesterday the company said, “While we have had two fantastic years running the ‘Great British Poker Tours’, […]
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BlueSqPoker.com Introduces Extra Bite Satellites
BlueSqPoker.com has launched a novel new way for players to have a competitive interest in the £1,000 main events at the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour. The 10-man Extra Bite satellites will see the victor win a seat at a GUKPT main event, taking a 50 percent share of any winnings they accrue. The other 50 […]
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State of the Felt: Joe Hachem
In State of the Felt, Card Player will periodically bring you insights and opinions from some of the most influential players, tournament and poker organization directors, and other people who influence the poker industry. This is a place where the broad trends and forces that continue to shape the game will have space to live […]
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Russian Poker Tour — Oleg Suntsov Wins St. Petersburg Debut
The debut of PokerStars Russian Poker Tour attracted 201 entrants to the $5,000 no-limit hold’em tournament that kicked off the tour in St. Petersburg, Russia. The final table of the event that began on Jan. 25 ran on Sunday, Feb. 1, and it featured seven Russians among the final nine. It was one of those […]
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Caesars Mega Stack Series of Poker Tournaments Begins
Caesars Mega Stack Series is running almost every day in the month of February. The first event began on Feb. 1, and the series concludes on Feb. 26. This tournament is very popular with the Las Vegas poker crowd, as many players fill the room for the large starting stacks that the tournament provides. Eleven […]
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Frenchman Wins First PartyPoker.com Monthly Million
French player Popeye7111 won the inaugural PartyPoker.com Monthly Million at the weekend topping a field of 1659 players to take home $155,000. Popeye, a member of the Palladium Lounge at the online poker site, did a deal with second place mbalzack once the pair got heads up in the $600 buy in event. The tournament […]
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UK Online Poker Player Numbers Up on 2007
The latest UK Gambling Commission Survey on Remote Gambling shows that the proportion of remote gamblers who play online poker is up from 1.6 percent in 2007 to 1.7 percent in 2008. However, the proportion is still some way of the 2006 peak of 2.2 percent. Of the 8,000 people surveyed 9.7 percent said they […]
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LadbrokesPoker Hosts $2,000 Added Event Tonight
Ladbrokespoker.com tonight hosts a special $2,000 added online poker tournament to celebrate the cold snap across northern Europe. The $1 buy in with one 50c rebuy “SnowJoke” tournament gets underway at 7:15 p.m. this evening with a 12 minute clock and 2,500 starting stack for the players. A spokesperson for the site said, “Jackfrost has […]
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Online Poker in Italy Grows 30 Percent in January
Online poker in Italy is booming since regulation and licensing was introduced in the second half of 2008 with industry revenue up 30 percent or more month-on-month in January 2009 to €130 million. Legal play-for-money poker, with games spread from 50c to €100, was launched in September 2008 when €18 million was generated. Over 4 […]
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DevilfishPoker Revamps HellFire Club
DevilfishPoker.com has relaunched its HellFire Club with a new and improved VIP Loyalty Programme which sees more online poker players at the site rewarded and more bonuses. The new structure sees players rewards start from just 300 VIP points and has transparent fixed payout levels from €25 up to €3,600 for bigger players so players […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — Tom McEvoy
Tom McEvoy won the World Series of Poker main event in 1983. He has gone on to win $2,648,348 during a consistent and successful long-term poker career. Along the way, he has written many books about poker startegy, including one of the most influential strategy books ever, Championship No-Limit and Pot-Limit Hold’em, which he co-authored […]
