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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 […]
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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 […]
