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Partouche Makes Plans for French Online Poker
French casino group Partouche is going ahead with its plans for the launch of its Gibraltar-licensed online poker site aimed at French players, according to Gaming Intelligence Group. What makes this interesting is that online poker is still classified as illegal gambling in France. The move comes at a time of much talk about the […]
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Countdown to CelebPoker.com €1 Million Guaranteed
The €1,000 + €50 CelebPoker.com tournament is due to take place on Dec. 14. This €1 million guaranteed event will see a tidy sum of €250,000 go to the winner. Current CEO of Irish football club Galway United, Nick Leeson, is the latest notable character to sign up. Leeson is more commonly known as the […]
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Bellagio Five-Diamond World Poker Classic Begins Friday
The last major poker tournament series of the year begins on Friday, Nov. 28, when things kick off at the Bellagio Five-Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas. The first event will be a $500 SpadeClub no-limit hold’em tournament, which begins at 2 p.m. on Friday. The tournament series will feature a total of 13 […]
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Absolute Poker and UltimateBet Are Now Cereus
Tokwiro Enterprises, the owner of both Absolute Poker and UltimateBet, has combined the two networks on a single new poker network named Cereus. According to a company announcement, the Cereus network has been a year in the making and brings the player pools from both sites together, even though the “skins” of Absolute Poker and […]
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Dani Stern Hosts This Week's Free Poker Video Training Clip
Dani “ansky” Stern is the featured host in this week’s free poker video training clip. Stern is playing four tables of six-handed $10-$20 no-limit hold’em in the video, but the clip is mainly focused on talking about moving up and down in stakes. This video, as well as three additional free clips by other instructors, […]
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Borgata Winter Open Officially Removed From WPT Schedule
The rumors have been circulating for months that the Borgata Winter Open would not be participating in the second half of the World Poker Tour’s Season VII schedule. In a recent press update from the WPT, it has been confirmed that the popular $10,000 tournament will indeed not be taking place, at least under the […]
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Ron Rogers Wins Heartland Poker Tour Championship Open
Ron Rogers won the Heartland Poker Tour Championship Open at the Majestic Star Casino in Gary, Indiana, on Monday, Nov. 24. He took home $136,495 in prize money for his victory in the $2,000 no-limit hold’em main event. The main event attracted 239 entrants, including professionals Bernard Lee, David Peters, and Tim Vance (pictured at […]
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Excalibur Debuts Pot-Limit Omaha Poker
Last summer, Lyle Berman was playing against some of the best pros in the world at the $50,000-to-enter H.O.R.S.E. final table. Last week, he was playing the $0.50-$1 pot-limit Omaha (PLO) cash game at the Excalibur. Berman, the chairman of the board of the World Poker Tour, played at the low-stakes cash game on Thursday […]
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World Poker Tour China Debuts on TV
Perhaps you’re sick of all of the poker reruns on TV. Maybe you’ve simply surpassed your quota of cards. Well, probably not, if you’re spending your time reading this poker article. However, for the 1.3 billion people of China, their TV poker explosion is just getting started. This month, the World Poker Tour made its […]
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Sijbrand Maal Wins Belgium Poker Championship
The fourth annual Belgium Poker Championship took place at Casino de Namur, Belgium from Nov. 15 to 23. The €1,500 + €150 main event attracted 843 players, breaking all records for the largest field in Europe at a €1000 plus event. It bumped the previous record — last year’s EPT Monte Carlo — off the […]
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Dusk Till Dawn's Greek Poker Championship Success
The Greek Poker Championship which kicked off on Nov. 14 in Dusk Till Dawn was a complete success. Sixty-two of the players who travelled over for the event (two coach loads) arrived at the club to play in the £200 no-limit event after only a few hours sleep. For many of the players, this was […]
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PartyPoker Premier League First Day Heats Results
The winner of the first PartyPoker.com Premier League Heat was Asian Poker Tour ambassador J.C. Tran. Tran, who is representing PKR for the event, beat newly crowned World Series champion Peter Eastgate heads up to take the maximum of 10 points. Eastgate began the heads up battle with almost 200,000 more chips than Tran but […]
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Daniel Negreanu Wins the B.C. Poker Championships
Canada’s favorite poker son won the second-largest Canadian poker tournament of the year yesterday when Daniel Negreanu took home $371,910 for winning the fourth-annual British Columbia Poker Championships. Negreanu outlasted 689 other players at the $2,500 no-limit hold’em main event that ended on Sunday, Nov. 23. In a press release put out by the British […]
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Online Poker — Danny 'THE__D__RY' Ryan Wins Sunday Million
Sunday saw a lot of action from the diehards of the poker community, grinding out tournament after tournament in an effort to collect that elusive big-figure score. None did that better than Danny "THE__D__RY" Ryan, who not only took down the PokerStars Sunday Million, but also made a deep run in the Full Tilt $750,000 […]
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Great British Poker Tour Grand Final Coming Soon
The Gala Casinos Great British Poker Tour champion of 2008 will soon be crowned at the grand final in Bristol. The £1,500 + £100 deepstack event takes place from Dec. 1 to 7 with the winner set to receive a first prize worth up to £100,000. The total prize pool on offer is an attractive […]
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PartyPoker Premier League Draw Announced
PartyPoker.com‘s Premier League III heats have been announced and the first begins early today. Matchroom Sport devised a unique tournament format, which sees 12 players play six times in the league before the top four progress to the final table, and the four runners-up play heads up for the remaining two places. Last year the […]
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Card Player TV Guide — Week of Nov. 16-22
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‘s "The Scoop" with […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — Joao Barbosa
Portuguese Joao Barbosa has been grabbing the attention of other players and the rest of the poker community at most stops of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour so far. He cashed in 26th place in London for $22,888, went off the radar in Budapest, and reemerged as champion at the EPT Polish Open in Warsaw, […]
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This Week in Poker — Poker Tournament News Nov. 15-21
Check out CardPlayer.com every Friday for a weekly wrapup of the news from the live poker tournament trail. Card Player Player of the Year Update POY Standings: John Phan — 6,704 Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier — 5,410 David “The Dragon” Pham — 5,222 Ivan Demidov — 4,940 Erik Seidel — 4,754 Michael Binger — 4,416 David […]
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Tomorrow's Pro Bowl in Paradise Poker Freeroll Open to All
The Card Player-exclusive Pro Bowl in Paradise promotion — wherein one lucky player will win a VIP trip to watch the Pro Bowl live in Hawaii — is about one-third of the way over, but there’s still time to rack up sone leader-board points, and an open-registration freeroll event tomorrow (Saturday) will ensure that anyone […]
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A Poker Life — Kido Pham
A Poker Life is a new series for CardPlayer.com that looks beyond the felt and into the untold stories of poker’s biggest names. He’s spontaneous, aggressive, and unpredictable. Known for his unmatched fearlessness, he won’t so much as flinch if his entire stack is on the line on a stone-cold bluff. That’s because, hey, it’s […]
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Card Player Analyzes 2008 World Series of Poker Hands
Why did he bet that much? Shouldn’t he have check-raised that flop? What was he thinking with that bluff? If those questions popped into your mind while watching ESPN’s coverage of the main event final table, then it’s time to head over to Card Player’s Hand Matchups, where the most exciting hands of the November […]
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Poker Pro Chris Ferguson Talks Heads-Up with The Scoop
Chris “Jesus” Ferguson 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). He analyzes why he’s been so successful at heads-up no-limit hold’em and talks about how he has transformed his game in recent years. Ferguson remembers when he was […]
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Online Player of the Year Update — Nov. 21, 2008
With less than six weeks remaining in the 2008 Card Player Online Player of the Year Race, players are using the relatively quiet month of November to rack up last-second points in an effort to boost themselves up the leader board. The Full Tilt Online Poker Series X recently concluded and was a major factor […]
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High-est Stakes Poker Ever
Two hundred thousand dollars. That’s the minimum for how much players will have to buy in for on the fifth season of High Stakes Poker. The unprecedented amount highlights the newest season of the poker series that regularly features the richest cash games in television history. In all prior seasons, the series began with players […]
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Online Poker Remains Tax Free in Ireland
Irish Finance Minister, Brian Lenihan, has decided to give the online gambling industry at least one more year as a tax free industry. In yesterday’s Finance Bill the minister said he was delaying major changes to betting duty in order to further study the online betting sector and would not extend the 2 percent betting […]
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Betfred Ladies Poker Tour Final Tomorrow
The Western Club, London tomorrow hosts the grand final of the Betfred Ladies Poker Tour where the eight winners of the heats plus one play-off qualifier will play for the £5,000 added by sponsor Betfred and a £20,000 sponsorship package for 2009. The nine lucky ladies to make it through the heats are: Gail Pirie […]
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Overlay Expected at ParadisePoker €1 Million Guaranteed
Next month’s ParadisePoker.com €1 million guaranteed will see online poker players battle for the estimated €200,000 with the top 10 finishers receiving a Team Paradise Sponsorship and the winner a package worth €10,000. The €1,000 + €50 tournament is expected to provide a massive overlay with just 93 players currently registered but canny players can […]
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What's My Line? — Mike Matusow
Ever since the new and improved Mike Matusow replaced “The Mouth,” the tournament trail has been slightly quieter, but only because Matusow has chosen to let his results speak for themselves. In 2007, Matusow made two World Poker Tour final tables, scoring nearly $1 million for his performances at Borgata and Bellagio. Matusow tore apart […]
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2008 Ho-Ho Hold'em Tournament Series Begins Today
The Ho-Ho Hold’em tournament series kicked off today at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California. The $100 no-limit hold’em tournament that began today is the first of 19 events that will take place between Thursday, Nov. 20 and Monday, Dec. 8. The no-limit hold’em championship event will take place on Saturday, Dec. 6, and […]
