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Next Event in Bodog Poker Pro Bowl in Paradise Series Tonight
The 23rd event in the Card Player -exclusive Pro Bowl in Paradise tournament series, which takes place on Bodog, is being held today at 9:05 p.m. ET. The event will feature an added seat in the Bodog Sunday $100,000-guaranteed tournament (worth $109) for the winner. The Pro Bowl in Paradise is a series of 26 […]
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Peter Eastgate Wins PCA Side Event
Danish hero Peter Eastgate is proving himself worthy of the World Champion title, as once again he played some envy-inspiring poker and took down the $5,000 side event at the PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure. Paradise Island in the Bahamas was home to the event which saw 273 entries and a top prize of $343,000. Eastgate’s final […]
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Internet Gambling Regulations Likely for Spain
According to GamblingCompliance.com, the Spanish government is soon to put together national regulations for Internet gambling. The move was triggered by a motion passed in late December, but a time frame for the introduction of new legislation has not been provided. Members of parliament have urged the government to resolve the issue before Easter, but […]
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Europeans Off to Great Start at Aussie Millions
Europe’s hopes for a bumper Aussie Millions got off to a flying start when German Christian Heich won the $1,100 buy in no-limit hold’em event collecting AUS$150,000 (€77,000). The first event attracted a record 731 players and ended when he called his heads up opponent Steve Topakas’ double belly buster straight draw all in with […]
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Poker Hand Value Voice Recognition Software for Mac
Software house Canywriter yesterday released version 2.4 of Poker Ghost for Mac operating systems which the company claims is the world’s first hand strength voice recognition software for Texas hold’em. The software allows players to speak the number and suit of their cards, then say "calculate" and the programme automatically calculates the strength of the […]
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Venetian and Caesars Poker Tournaments Square Off
It has happened again. The Venetian and Caesars Palace have once again selected the same month for their big poker tournament series. Coincidence? “Is it coincidence? Yes and no,” responded Jim Pedulla, Caesars’ poker room manager. “When we schedule these things, we look at what’s in the best interest of the company and what’s in […]
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Second Season of Best Damn Poker Show Airs Tonight
Fox Sports Net will air the season premiere of the second season of the Best Damn Poker Show tonight at 9 p.m. The show, which is sponsored by UltimateBet.net, features 24 poker-playing hopefuls as they compete to be the last man (or woman) standing. The competitors are taught by “The Poker Brat,” Phil Hellmuth, and […]
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Online Poker — livelikunger Wins Poker Stars Sunday Million
Sunday was a big day for many online superstars as they fought for their share of the millions of dollars up for grabs. Over at Full Tilt, Shannon "BLUFFforRENT" Shorr took down the Sunday Mulligan for over $48,000. Mike "Sowerss" Sowers came out on top of the PokerStars $100 rebuy, and Corey "Comandr_Cool" Burbick won […]
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Western Series of Poker Announced
The Western Club has announced its Western Series Of Poker, which is due to kick off on Mar. 3 and run for five days. The £1,000 buy-in main event will play out over three days and is capped at 120 players. The tournament will be a European Ranking Event, and will follow the World Series […]
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Poker Pro Nenad Medic Visits The Scoop
Nenad Medic has the rare distinction of having both a World Series of Poker bracelet and a World Poker Tour title. He sits down with Adam Schoenfeld and Diego Cordovez on Card Player TV for this week’s edition of The Scoop (sponsored by Full Tilt Poker). The professional poker player talks about how he went […]
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Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Returns This Week
The BlueSqPoker.com sponsored Grosvenor UK Poker Tour gets underway for the third year today in Brighton, England with a £200 no-limit hold’em freezeout at the Grosvenor Casino. The two day tournament has blind levels of 45 minutes and players start with 6,000 in chips. Events run all week with the major attraction the four-day £1,000 […]
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Euro PokerStars Win $1.7 Million on Caribbean Adventure
The $10,000 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, held at Paradise Island, was won yesterday by Poorya Nazari from Canada who took home $3 million for topping the record breaking 1,347 strong field. Twenty-three year-old Benny Spindler, an online cash game specialist from Germany came third for $1.1 million while 36-year-old Peter Tielen from the Netherlands came fifth […]
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EPT — Poorya Nazari Wins the 2009 Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure
The final eight players at the 2009 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure returned to the Imperial Ballroom at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas to play for the 10th-largest poker tournament top prize in history today. The massive field of 1,347 players made this event the largest ever hosted outside of the United States, […]
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German and Dutch Make PCA Final Table Today
Benny Spindler from Germany and Pieter Tielen from Holland have made the final table of the $10,000 buy in PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure on Paradise Island. The tournament, which attracted a record breaking 1,347 players, created a colossal $12,674,000 prize pool. Twenty-three year-old Spindler has only been playing poker since 2006 but has worked his way […]
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EPT — PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Day 4
The 32 remaining players in the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure descended upon the EPT live stage and prepared for a long day of grinding it out down to the final table. It took over 13 hours to get the job done, but the final eight are set and ready to battle it out Saturday for […]
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This Week in Poker: Poker Tournament News Jan. 3 – Jan. 9
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: Hevad Khan — 960 2: Rick Fuller — 800 3: Lars Bonding — 640 4: Michael Benvenuti — 528 5: Mark Wilds — 480 5: Flavio Eduardo Imamara — […]
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Aussie Millions Begins Today
The first event at the 2009 Aussie Millions tournament series began today with the start of $1,100 no-limit hold’em opening event at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. There will be 18 events featured in all, running from today until Jan. 26 at the fourth edition of this tournament. A collection of professionals are expected […]
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Southern Poker Championship in Biloxi Rolls On
The Southern Poker Championship at Biloxi’s Beau Rivage Casino is a week into its run of its 15-event schedule that cumulates with the four-day World Poker Tour $10,000 championship on Jan 14. So far, seven events have been completed, and playing fields have been good. The series started off in a big way when 1,005 […]
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Criteria for 2009 Card Player Poker Player of the Year Announced
The Card Player Player of the Year race bestows one of poker’s most sought-after titles every year, and with 2009’s first major tournament series in full swing (check out our coverage of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure), it’s high time to release the updated Player of the Year criteria. The changes from last year’s criteria include […]
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Bertrand Grospellier is Caribbean High-Roller
The PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure held its first $25,000 high-roller event, which saw 48 of the world’s best players take to the felt for an adrenalin-pumping feast of poker. The final eight eventually emerged from a field of doom, which included the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen, and Chris Ferguson, and online big guns Sorel […]
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Carlos Poker Joins Microgaming Network
Carlos Poker, owned by Malta-registered Unibet Plc, has announced it will join the Microgaming Network after being removed from the iPoker network in December. The company said the move will be completed by the end of January 2009. Nils Andén, head of poker at the site said, “We felt that the Carlos Poker players wanted […]
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Gaming Media Group Revenue Exceeds €12 million
Gaming Media Group, the parent company of PokerHeaven.com and The Poker Channel, today announced revenues of over €1 million per month in the 12 months to Oct 31, 2008. Poker rake was up 47 percent while overall revenue, including casino, bingo, and TV advertising, was up 57 percent. The company said it was achieving 10,000 […]
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DTD MonthlyTournaments Reach Greater Heights
Dusk Till Dawn’s monthly events, the £300 + £30 deepstack and the £150 + £15 no-limit freezeout have now been awarded European Ranking Status. Since February of last year, these events have attracted up to 194 players, with an average of 136. This year can only get bigger and better as the club opened 2009 […]
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Bertrand Grospellier Wins the PCA High-Roller Event
Winning back-to-back championships in any sport, in any form of competition, is quite a feat, and in poker it is even harder to accomplish. Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier won the European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in 2008, besting a field of 1,136 players to win $2 million. In 2009, he was unable to beat a […]
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EPT — PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Day 3
At the start of day 3 of the 2009 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, 102 players remained, and they needed to play down to the final 32. Some thought that play would slow down while 70 players busted out of the tournament on the way down to serious prize money and the $3 million […]
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World Record Poker Feats Ripe to Fall
It’s a strange attraction that humans have to the setting of world records. No matter how inane, stupid or ridiculous something is, someone somewhere wants to be the best at it. Although being part of the largest space shuttle crew may be hard to break, there are plenty others to choose from and poker is […]
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Full Tilt Online Poker Series Slated for February
Satellites are running. The schedule is set. Full Tilt recently announced the schedule of events for its popular Full Tilt Online Poker Series, set to begin early next month. February’s FTOPS, the eleventh of its kind, begins Feb. 4 with a $216 no-limit hold’em tournament and a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. There will be […]
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Poker for the Homeless Event Raises €40,000
The PartyPoker.com Irish Poker Championship in Galway saw another success for the annual Poker for the Homeless charity tournament, which was formerly known as Simon Poker Day. The event raised close to €40,000, €18,200 of which went to Galway Simon, and the rest divided between Dublin Simon Community and Brother Kevin at the Capuchin Day […]
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PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Breaks Records
An abundance of events are currently taking place at the Atlantis Hotel and Casino in the Bahamas for the PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure (PCA), including side tournaments such as $1,000, $2,000, and $5,000 buy-in events, a $2,000 Battleship tournament, a $25,000 High Roller event, plus plenty of satellites to other major live tournaments. The one any […]
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Patrik Antonius Officially Accepts Durrrr’s Poker Offer
High stakes cash player Patrik Antonius called Card Player today to officially announce that he, too, will take up Tom “durrrr” Dwan on his poker challenge. Dwan first discussed his poker challenge last month, saying that he would put up $1.5 million to anyone’s $500,000 if his opponent could beat him over 50,000 hands at […]
