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January Tournament Trail Preview
The first full week in January will see the start of the first major poker tournaments of the New Year, and the first month is going to be a busy one after the slow holiday tournament poker season. The European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure will begin on Jan. 5, 2009 and Card Player’s live […]
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PartyPoker and PaddyPowerPoker Offer Seasonal Cheer
It’s Christmas Day and by the time you’ve eaten your turkey and watched some trashy TV you can get away from the in-laws by hitting the online poker tables and get treated to a little more Christmas cheers from two of Card Player’s most innovative partners. PaddyPowerPoker.com launches its “12 Days of Christmas” promotion today […]
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Poker for the Homeless Charity Event This January
Formerly known as Simon Poker Day, the Poker for the Homeless charity event takes place at this year’s PartyPoker.com Irish Poker Championship event in Galway on Sunday Jan. 4. The €330 buy in event (of which €100 goes directly to homeless charities) is generously supported by some of Europe’s top online poker rooms including PartyPoker.com […]
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UltimateBet Software Error Mistakenly Awards Pot to Hellmuth
Tokwiro’s new CEREUS network experienced a glitch on Dec. 20 that awarded the player with a losing hand the pot on Ultimate Bet. That player with the losing hand happened to be Phil Hellmuth, the face of the poker site. This software SNAFU comes at a time that Tokwiro is doing its best to prove […]
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Tournament Trail POY Q and A — Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier began 2008 with the biggest win of his career. He won the European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, emerging from a filed of 1,136 players to take home $2 million. The second major title of the year for ElkY came in October. He won the World Poker Tour Festa al Lago tournament […]
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CEREUS Network Clears Up Hand Controversy
Tokwiro Enterprises, owner of the CEREUS network which hosts the Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker sites, today explained the mystery surrounding how Phil Hellmuth was recently awarded a pot despite having a losing hand against opponent “DoubleBaller”. The problem arose as a result of a bizarre coincidence which saw “DoubleBaller” disconnect at the exact millisecond […]
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Real Money Games Hit Italian Poker Market
Playtech, the software design and development company which owns the iPoker network, has announced the launch of a “play for real money“ poker network on the Italian poker market. This latest development sees Italian operators Snai, Gala Coral’s Eurobet Italia SpA, Sisal SpA, and Cogetech SpA offer its players real money poker for the first […]
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PokerStars.com Hosts World Record Breaking Week
PokerStars.com is attempting to end the year with a bang by hosting a world record breaking online poker tournament on Dec. 28 at 3:30 p.m. (ET). This event will see 35,000 players get the chance to be part of the Guinness Book of World Records by participating in “The Largest Online Poker Tournament”. Hopefuls must […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — POY Runner-Up David Pham
David "The Dragon" Pham has won the Card Player Player of the Year title twice. His firsct victory came in 2000, and he followed that up with a POY title in 2007. As the defending champion in 2008, Pham gave POY winner John Phan a major scare as he put together an impressive title defense. […]
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Poker Stars and Card Player Sending Reader to Bahamas
On Friday, PokerStars and CardPlayer.com are teaming up to give one of our readers a trip to the Bahamas to attend the three-day PCA Bahamas Poker Camp. The freeroll takes place Friday, Dec. 26, at 2:30 p.m. ET. Card Player readers can find it under the “Tournaments/Private Area” tab on PokerStars. Use the password “Raymer” […]
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First Colorado Casino Town Approves Higher Limits
Higher limits are coming to at least one Colorado casino town. Residents of Cripple Creek overwhelmingly voted in favor to expand the amount that can be wagered in its casinos from a $5 maximum to $100 and also to erase a law that forced casinos to close from 2 a.m.-8 a.m. A statewide referendum that […]
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PokerPro Conducting Field Trial on Norwegian Cruise Lines
PokerTek is expanding it offerings to those who love to sail the high seas as it starts a 90-day field trial on Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Pearl. If the trial is successful, tables will be added to all 11 of Norwegian Cruise Line’s ships. PokerTek already placed its automated dealerless PokerPro tables on all 22 […]
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Bodog Poker Pro Bowl in Paradise Series Now Open to All
Bodog’s Pro Bowl in Paradise tournament series (a Card Player-exclusive event) is now open to everyone. There are 10 events remaining in the series, so there is plenty of time for players to qualify for the series’ grand prize — a VIP trip to Hawaii to watch football’s Pro Bowl live. Your next chance to […]
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Oklahoma Poker Scene Shows No Signs of Slowing Down
Someone forgot to tell Oklahoma that the tough economic times were supposed to hurt the casino industry. While the recession has stalled the growth of casinos in other areas of the country, the Sooner State continues to see its casinos expand and grow in dramatic fashion. Last year, tribal gambling raised $2.5 billion in […]
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Christmas Brings Double PartyPoints and More at PartyPoker
PartyPoker.com is getting into the Christmas spirit with lots to look forward to over the holiday season. First of all, it is offering double PartyPoints to all real money players who simply take to the virtual felt on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day from 12:00 to 9:59 p.m. (ET). The points will be added to […]
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PKR.com Announces Christmas Cracker Poker Festival
PKR.com’s festive Christmas Cracker has just begun and will run until early 2009, offering 13 events over the best part of two weeks with prizes worth more than $170,000. In true Santa style, each event has some extra presents up its sleeve for the winner, such as a Sony Playstation 3, an Apple iPod Touch, […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A: 2008 Player of the Year John Phan
John Phan clinched the 2008 Card Player Player of the Year title last week after an amazing year of poker success. This is the first time that Phan has won the POY award, and he joins a fraternity of players that includes Men “The Master” Nguyen, T.J. Cloutier, Tony Ma, David “The Dragon” Pham, Daniel […]
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Online Poker — Steven 'UFman2' Burkholder Wins Third Major
There are less than two weeks remaining in the 2008 Card Player Online Player of the Year race, and Alex "AJKHoosier1" Kamberis has shown no signs of letting up. With a sixth-place finishin the $100 rebuy on PokerStars, Kamberis put more distance between himself and the pack behind him. At this point in the season, […]
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12 Days of Christmas at PaddyPowerPoker.com
Paddypowerpoker.com today launched its “12 Days of Christmas” promotion which will see online poker players vie for money-added tournaments each evening as well as games consoles from Christmas Day until Jan. 5, 2009. Paddy Power, Communications manager at the site said, “We always run a giveaway promotion at this time of the year; ‘tis the […]
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Boylepoker.com Celebrates Poker Million Victory Tuesday
Boylepoker.com celebrates Marty Smyth’s $1 million win at the recent Ladbrokes Poker Million VIII with a special bounty tournament tomorrow night at 8 p.m. The $10 buy-in tournament sees over $2,000 added in bounty prizes with $1,000 to the player who knocks Smyth out, $300 to the play who knocks out “mmcgenius” (recent winner of […]
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€250,000 Super Sunday at DevilfishPoker.com
DevilfishPoker.com today heralds the Christmas season with the announcement of “Super Sunday” this coming weekend, Dec. 28 which will see €250,000 in guarantee prize pools and a special €1,000 added “Devilfish New Year Chip Race” with nine limited edition 500-piece casino-grade Devilfish chip sets for the finalists. ‘Super Sunday” sees a huge €200,000 guaranteed no-limit […]
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SunPoker Completes Move to iPoker
SunPoker completed its move from the CryptoLogic to iPoker network this weekend. The move is indicative of the decline of the once powerful CryptoLogic network, which is shifting its strategic focus to casino games, and the ascendancy of Israeli-based iPoker which is owned by the publicly-quoted Playtech. Players at SunPoker can still play on CryptoLogic […]
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DevilfishPoker.com €1,000 Added This Sunday
Poker players are being given the chance to win the Devilfish’s chips this Christmas at DevilfishPoker.com As part of its Christmas festival of online poker the company will be giving away18 exclusive limited-edition casino-grade Devilfish chip sets on top of two €1,000 added tournaments and over €250,000 in guaranteed prize money. The poker party starts […]
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Another Online Poker Room Folds
Zosoz.com, the subscription-based, U.S. facing online poker operator has closed for business less than two months after launching. The site, which opened for business in mid-October 2008, stated that, “due to circumstances beyond its control,” it would cease operations at 11:59 ET on Dec. 14. The company, which allowed players to play for real money […]
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WPT -- Chino Rheem Wins the Doyle Brunson Classic Championsh
The final table at the $15,000 World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Classic Championship was defined by periods of play with little to no action, and then other times where the poker table turned into a mine field where no one was safe. This standard carried through to the heads-up match, one that lasted for several […]
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High Stakes Poker Will Premiere March 1
The fifth season of High Stakes Poker will premiere March 1 on Game Show Network, Card Player learned today. While NBC established that in the fall, “Sunday Night is Football Tonight,” thanks to its relentless marketing campaign, it appears that as of March, Sunday night will be Poker Night on GSN. The network plans on […]
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Ante Up for Africa Tourney at UltimateBet Saturday
UltimateBet is holding an Ante Up for Africa tournament Saturday, Dec. 19, at 7:30 p.m. ET. Annie Duke will play in the event, and all funds raised through the tournament will be donated to Ante Up For Africa, an organization created to raise public awareness and funds for the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. The buy-in […]
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S.C. Court to Hear Arguments that Poker is a Game of Skill
A South Carolina judge is allowing an attorney to argue that charges against five of his clients who were busted in a poker raid should be dismissed because Texas hold’em poker is a game of skill. Municipal Court Judge J. Lawrence Duffy, Jr. has agreed to allow both the prosecution and defense to present any […]
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SpadeClub Poker Winner: Donald 'JOKER' Nunley
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. On Dec. 7, SpadeClub held the $30,000 Mega Monthly event, and more than 1,900 Exclusive members battled it out at the tables to take […]
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Poker Pro John Phan Visits The Scoop
It’s not going to happen again this year. After leading the Card Player Player of the Year race for most of the year in 2005, only to get overtaken in the final few weeks, John Phan has all but locked up the honor in 2008. Phan sits down the Adam Schoenfeld and Diego Cordovez on […]
