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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 […]
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Asian Poker Tour Hits Philippines Today
The Asian Poker Tour has stopped off at the Dusit Thani Hotel, Manila with the centerpiece main event, the $2,500 + $200, starting today. Last year the event was won by David Saab who picked up $280,000 for his victory. Among those participating next week are the “Poker Pack” — Nam Le, David ‘Chino’ Rheem, […]
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Bodog Poker Features Super Bowl Tournament
Bodog will host two special tournaments this weekend, one in celebration of Super Bowl XVIII and another for a seat in the Latin American Poker Tour event in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. The LAPT seat will be up for grabs on Saturday in a $135 tournament at 4 p.m. EST. For every 48 players in […]
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Matusow to Discuss Poker and the Super Bowl Tomorrow
Poker. Football. Mike Matusow. Card Player TV’s The Mouthpiece, the popular weekly TV show featuring the brash poker pro, will film its third episode of the new year tomorrow (Thursday) at 3 p.m. Matusow will undoubtedly discuss who he likes in Super Bowl XLIII between the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers, and what his […]
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APT — Philippines Stop Begins Thursday
The second stop for the Asian Poker Tour in the Philippines has come to Manila. The Dusit Thani Manila hotel in Makati plays host to the $2,500 no-limit hold’em main event. Players will begin with 10,000 in tournament chips. The tournament begins on Thursday, Jan. 29 at noon local time and continues until the conclusion […]
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Borgata Winter Poker Open Day 2
The $3,000 Winter Poker Open Championship is down to the final 172 players over at Borgata, just 72 spots from the money. A total of 710 had survived both starting days and despite the extremely deep stacks (50,000) and long, slow structures (75-minutes) in play, the field managed to whittle itself down to a manageable […]
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Online Poker Gets Boost from U.S. Legal Rulings
The beleaguered poker industry in the U.S. has received a significant boost over the last couple of weeks with a series of court rulings finding in favour of poker players and online operators. Last week a Pennsylvania judge dismissed a case against a resident who ran a small-stakes home poker ruling that poker is a […]
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Ladbrokes Poker Begins "Vegas Dream" Journey
Ladbrokespoker.com today launched its World Series of Poker Vegas Dream promotion which will see the focus shift from qualifying for the main event in Las Vegas to embracing the experience of the trip itself. The package will see successful players win seven nights accommodation in Caesars Palace, $2,000 expenses, buy ins to three WSOP main […]
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World Series of Poker Changes Spark Excitement, Debate
The 2009 World Series of Poker schedule was released Monday morning, and, as has become an annual tradition, it was the subject of much speculation and debate. The three major storylines that developed from the announcement concerned the addition of a $40,000 no-limit holdem event, the removal of rebuy events from the Series, and the […]
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DoylesRoom Confirms Move to Cake Poker Network
DoylesRoom.com, the online poker site fronted by poker veteran Doyle Brunson, yesterday confirmed in had launched its online poker room on the Cake Poker Network. The move will come as a blow to the Microgaming network (formerly Prima Network) which recently signed up Carlos Poker. Last year Microgaming restricted access to the U.S. market by […]
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SpadeClub Poker's 2008 Player of the Year
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. SpadeClub’s 2008 Player of the Year race came to a finish on Dec. 31, 2008, and Exclusive member Kevin “CHILLSHOT” Williams […]
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Kentucky Won't Quit Trying to Grab Domain Names
Kentucky officials will appeal a Court of Appeals decision to stop Commonwealth attorneys from attempting to seize 141 Internet domains related to gambling and poker. The Court of Appeals sided with lawyers representing the Interactive Gaming Council (IGC) and the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) — two trade groups representing dozens of the […]
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Dennis Phillips and Ylon Schwartz Become Team PokerStars Pro
PokerStars has signed World Series of Poker November Nine members Dennis Phillips and Ylon Schwartz to its team of pros. Both players will promote the PokerStars brand in online and live events and will represent the site at various global poker tour circuits. Phillips, an accountant for a trucking company in St. Louis, Missouri, finished […]
