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Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza I Begins
The Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza I began today at the Venetian Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. This will be the first of four deep stack extravaganza events that the Venetian poker room will host in 2009. Here is a look at the schedule for all four events throughout the year: 2009 Venetian […]
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Asian Poker Tour — Neil Arce Wins Philippines Main Event
Neil Arce won the Asian Poker Tour Philippines $2,500 no-limit hold’em main event on Feb. 1, and he took home $185,000 for topping a field of 262 players. The stop in Manila that was hosted at the Dusit Thani Hotel was the first of 2009 for the APT, and it featured seven events in all, […]
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Online Poker: Chris Tipper Wins At Full Tilt
The Super Bowl is an event so large that it can sometimes affect completely unrelated venues, such as poker. It is safe to say that many of the overlays offered up by the various sites over the weekend were caused by a lack of participation due to the Big Game in Tampa Bay, Florida. Some […]
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SpadeClub Poker Winner — Adriano 'drincampos' de Oliveira Campos
SpadeClub.com, the total poker experience, offers unlimited poker play and more than $100,000 in cash prizes every month, all for just $19.99* a month. No entry fees, no deposits, no risk. Find out more. Adriano “drincampos” de Oliveira Campos recently won SpadeClub’s $5,000 weekly event. Campos began playing poker more than 20 years ago, but […]
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Gala Casinos British Poker Tour Rumoured to Fold
Speculation is rife that the Gala Casinos British Poker Tour will not be making a reappearance for season three in the UK. The tour, which traditionally kicks off at the end of February, has yet to announce any dates for season three and did not respond to a request for confirmation that the tour had […]
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Local Wins Asian Poker Tour Philippines
Popular Filippino player Neil Arce has won the 2009 Asian Poker Tour Philippines taking down $185,000 for besting the field of 262 players in the $2,500 + $200 main event at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Manila. Having been chip leader at the end of day 1A he made it to the final table third […]
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PokerTrillion Disappears in Controversial Circumstances
The Everleaf Gaming Network announced at the weekend it has assumed full responsibility for Poker Trillion players after the Maltese-regulated poker room appeared to have folded amid allegations of unpaid debts including wages. In a statement published Jan. 31, Everleaf Gaming Ltd., which owns the Everleaf Gaming Network to which Poker Trillion moved after falling […]
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Online Poker — Interview With Daniel 'djk123' Kelly
Daniel “djk123” Kelly had an amazing year online and managed to finish in sixth place in the Card Player 2008 Online Player of the Year race despite balancing poker and school at Villanova University. Kelly, who also plays online as imabigkidnow and mhrep, dominated from start to finish, pocketing nearly $700,000 in the process. The […]
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Card Player TV Guide — Week of Jan. 26-31
Card Player TV provides its viewers with a variety of poker videos every week, and there are a few that you may have missed. Here is a highlight of the new releases from this week: This Week in Poker: Card Player TV‘s weekly news show. The Scoop: Card Player TV presents the first segment of […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A: Roberto Romanello
Roberto Romanello hit the poker scene in 2007 and has since received a lot of attention including that of FullTiltPoker.com, who became his sponsor in 2008. Known for his fantastic reads, charismatic personality, and Welsh charm, Romanello is currently in search for a major first prize for reasons more important than money or fame. Card […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A: Moritz Kranich
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Barcelona was taken down by Sebastian Ruthenberg, and a mere four months later, another German was at it again — staking his claim to an EPT crown. Moritz Kranich followed Ruthenberg’s example and demolished his opponents at the EPT Deauville, taking home €851,400 for first place. But his victory was […]
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Qualify For The PartyPoker Monthly Million Today
PartyPoker.com‘s new Monthly Million — a $1 million guaranteed tournament with a buy in of $600 + $40 — kicks of this Sunday February 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, […]
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This Week in Poker — Poker Tournament News Jan. 24-30
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: Anthony Gregg — 2,500 3: Benjamin Spindler — 2,000 4: Stewart Scott — 1,920 4: Moritz Kranich — 1,920 6: Steve Weinstein — 1,800 […]
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Full Tilt Signs Sweden's Michael Tureniec
In an effort to stretch their marketing efforts to Sweden, Full Tilt Poker has added up-and-coming poker superstar Michael Tureniec to their stable of Full Tilt pros. Tureniec is the first Swede to be signed with Full Tilt, joining other Europeans such as Jens Voertmann (Germany), Sigi Stockinger (Austria), Claudio Rinaldi (Switzerland), Soren Kongsgaard (Denmark), […]
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L.A. Poker Classic — Preliminary Update Part I
The first week at the L.A. Poker Classic is in the books at Commerce Casino. Here is a look at the final tables from each of the preliminary events that have concluded so far. Highlights from the week include a massive field of 1,592 for the opening no-limit hold’em tournament and a win in event […]
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Poker Pro Layne Flack Featured on The Scoop
Six-time bracelet winner Layne Flack sits down with Adam Schoenfeld and Diego Cordovez for this week’s edition of The Scoop on Card Player TV (sponsored by Full Tilt). The 39-year-old pro discusses a wide variety of topics, including the details of his recent, alarming ATV accident and his subsequent hospital stay in Mexico. Flack also […]
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Online Poker — OPOY Update, Jan. 30, 2009
It’s been exactly one month since the 2009 Card Player Online Player of the Year race began, and some players are starting to separate themselves from the pack. This was a great week for online professionals, who claimed deep finishes and wins in nearly every major OPOY-qualifying tournament. You can click on the links to […]
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SpadeClub Poker Winner — Joe 'oldfordman' Wyles
SpadeClub.com, the total poker experience, offers unlimited poker play and more than $100,000 in cash prizes every month, all for just $19.99* a month. No entry fees, no deposits, no risk. Find out more. Joe “oldfordman” Wyles of Waterloo, Iowa, recently took home the first-place prize in SpadeClub’s $5,000 weekly event. Card Player sat down […]
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Grosvenor UK Poker Tour To Hold Student Championship
BlueSqPoker.com today announced it will hold the inaugural Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Student Championship in November 2009 in a bid to encourage more student participation in the Tour. The event, which will take place at the G Casino, Blackpool, looks set to be free to enter and will offer travel and accommodation expenses. Qualification will […]
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Dutch Spend on Online Gambling Soars
Dutch gamblers spent €450 million on online gambling, including poker, in 2008, doubling the spend since 2005 according to De Telegraaf newspaper. A survey by Motivaction found 485,000 regular online bettors in the country, most of them young and many of them poker players. The average spend was €82 per month. The report said addiction […]
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Centrebet Hosts Euro City Poker Tour Qualifiers
CentrebetPoker.com has started its satellite qualification for the Euro City Poker Tour taking place in Salzburg, Austria from April 2 to 6, 2009. Players can win a $4,000 package — which includes 4 nights accommodation and food at the luxury Alpine Palace spa resort, buy in to the €1,400 + €140 main event, and $635 […]
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Steve 'Thorladen' Weinstein Wins Borgata Winter Poker Open
Previously known as a top-notch cash game player and backer for some of the online world’s best players, Steve "Thorladen" Weinstein can now add live tournament champion to his résumé after taking down the Borgata Winter Poker Open. Weinstein has previously experienced some success in main events, but fell just short of the final table […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — David Steicke
David Steicke has a record in high-roller poker tournaments that can be envied by the very best in the game. In 2007, he entered his first high-roller event at the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour stop in Macau and made the final table in his third poker tournament ever. He finished third in that event […]
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Run it Twice — David Benefield
In this new series, Card Player sits down with high stakes pros to take a second look at a particular cash-game hand. David Benefield is a 22-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas, who is widely known to the online-poker community as "Raptor." He is considered one of the most feared cash-game players around, competing in the […]
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Poker's Annette Obrestad Featured in WSOPE Coverage
Imagine what could’ve been. A teenage girl shocks the poker world by winning one of the most prestigious events on the planet. Inspired, millions of new female players take up the game. The first part happened. Unfortunately, the second part didn’t happen (at least not yet) because most people weren’t able to witness Annette Obrestad’s […]
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Bodog Poker Football in Paradise Promotion Crowns a Winner
Card Player and Bodog Poker teamed up to give Card Player readers an amazing deal with a value-added series of tournaments leading up to an incredible VIP prize package to Hawaii to watch football’s Pro Bowl game. As if that package wasn’t enough, Bodog added entries to its Sunday $100,000-guaranteed event to every single tournament, […]
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Online Poker — The $1K Roundup, Week of Jan. 25
The $1,000 buy-in tournaments this week were a bit down, but ultimately provided the same amount of notable winners and even offered up some more controversy. Read the recaps for the $1K events on Full Tilt, PokerStars and Absolute Poker below. Full Tilt — $1K Monday The $1K Monday was down a bit this week, […]
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$20,000 Top Prize in PaddyPowerPoker Cash Race
PaddyPowerPoker.com has launched its $400,000 Cash Cow cash race for February which will see the top 300 players on the leaderboard on the 28th of the month share in the $400,000 prize pool. The winner will receive $20,000 and second place $15,000 while players finishing 126th to 300th in the promotion will receive $750. Additionally […]
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Borgata Winter Poker Open Day 3
After three days of play, the Borgata Winter Poker Open has finally reached the final 27 players, a duration unheard of for a $3,000 buy-in event. Day 3 brought the remaining 172 players back to battle not only to the final three tables, but to the money, as well, which was set to pay out […]
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Dutch to Step Up Crackdown on Online Poker
Dutch Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin has told members of parliament that online gaming sites, including online poker sites, which have refused to shut down, now face legal action. Poker is regulated and run by the government in the Netherlands and the justice ministry confirmed to news agency ANP that both Dutch and foreign-based companies […]
