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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 […]
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Heartland Poker Tour Championship Open Begins Friday
The $2,000 no-limit hold’em Heartland Poker Tour main event will begin on Friday, Nov. 21 at 6 p.m., and it is the featured event of the HPT Championship Open hosted by the Majestic Star Casino in Gary, Indiana. This is the last stop on the 2008 HPT schedule, the fourth for the tour and its […]
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WSOP Items, Including Final Table, in eBay Auction
Just in time for the holidays: Harrah’s has put many World Series of Poker items up for auction through eBay, and these are definitely things you can’t get at your local mall. The crown jewel of the collection up for sale is the table and felt used by the final nine players during the main […]
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Joao Barbosa Wins EPT Polish Open 2008
With so much poker activity in Europe, a smaller field than usual turned up at the casino in the Hyatt Regency Hotel for the PokerStars.com 2008 EPT Polish Open. However, the 217 players who did turn up made for five days of high-octane, action-packed poker. Some of the notables included Sorel Mizzi, Johnny Lodden, Roland […]
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Final Ladbrokes Poker Million Seat Up For Grabs in Freeroll
The much anticipated Ladbrokes Poker Million VII semi-finals take place mid-December and online poker players have a final chance to win their way to the final seat at the table with daily “Chase the Chair” freerolls between now and Nov. 28. The freerolls take place at 7 p.m. GMT on LadbrokesPoker.com and the winners of […]
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Bwin Quarterly Online Poker Revenue Grows
Net gaming revenue at Austro-German online poker room bwin poker grew 7 in the third quarter of 2008 to €19.8 million compared to the same quarter of 2007 while growth in the first nine months of 2008 was up 4 percent to €58 million. While the number of active customers in the third quarter of […]
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Everest Poker Revenues Up Seven Percent Last Quarter
GigaMedia, the publicly-quoted Asian online gaming operation, saw revenue at Everest Poker grow 7 percent, year-on-year, in the third quarter of 2008 to $23.5 million. However, compared to the previous quarter revenue fell 14 percent. There were 176,000 active depositing players during the third quarter 2008, this was down 8 percent on the previous quarter […]
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More Online Poker Rooms On The Move
Consolidation in the online poker industry continued apace this week with the announcement by Sun Poker that it was moving to the rapidly expanding iPoker network and WPT Online was closing its doors for good today. Sun Poker will leave the beleaguered CryptoLogic network before the end of January 2009, migrating its players to the […]
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Joao Barbosa Wins European Poker Tour Warsaw
The PLN 20,000 buy-in PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Polish Open has been won by Portuguese player Joao Barbosa who topped a pro-heavy field of 217 players to collect the €367,140 first prize. While this field was one of the smallest of recent times on the EPT
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Tournament Trail Q and A -- Keone Young
The HBO show Deadwood portrays the American West in the Black Hills of Deadwood, South Dakota, before the end of the nineteenth century. The show involves a scene that portrays the death of Wild Bill Hickok as he got shot in the back at a poker table. The show involves many scenes with poker and […]
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Aliante Station Casino Opens in North Las Vegas
Aliante Station wanted to make sure no one could forget about its grand opening. That’s why it was set for 11:11 p.m. on Nov. 11 (11/11). If you did forget, but live within several miles of the North Las Vegas casino, you were probably reminded by the sounds and the sights of its fireworks display. […]
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Phil Hellmuth Added to Premier League Line-Up
Eleven-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth has been announced as the final participant in the PartyPoker.com Premier League III line-up. He joins world champion Peter Eastgate and online whizz Tom "Durrrr" Dwan. along with Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott, Tony G, Annette Obrestad, Roland de Wolfe, Andy Black, Juha Helppi, JC Tran, Nenad Medic, […]
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Cheri Dokken Retires as Commerce's Tournament Director
Cheri Dokken couldn’t sleep. She tossed and turned in bed, questioning her sanity, as well as her abilities. It was the night before her first tournament. She had been promoted to the position of tournament director for the Commerce Casino, the biggest poker casino in the world. Her predecessor, the great Jack McClelland, was one […]
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PartyPoker Quarterly Revenue Down 15 Percent
Party Gaming, the publicly-quoted parent company of PartyPoker, PartyBets, PartyCasino, and PartyBingo, today release revenue figures for the third quarter 2008 with key business PartyPoker showing revenue decline of 15 percent to $65 million from $76.3 million in the same period of 2007. In its interim report the company explained the drop, saying the fall […]
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Philip Conneller Wins PKR Live Main Event
Philip “escalope” Conneller has won the $500 buy in PKR Live main event run at the Loose Cannon club at the weekend by 3-D online poker room PKR.com Conneller scooped the $20,000 top prize by hitting a runner-runner straight with 7-2 offsuit though he did happen to be massive chip leader at the time. “I’ve […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A Part II — Arnaud Mattern
Arnaud Mattern is a PokerStars.com European Poker Tour champion. He was the victor of the event in Prague during season 4, and has made continuous attempts since at repeating this achievement. His performance at this season’s EPT Polish Open has been nothing less than stellar. Taking skills from his background in backgammon (in which he […]
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DevilfishPoker Acquires Hungarian Online Poker Room
DevilfishPoker.com today said it was targeting Hungary and Eastern European markets with the announcement that it had acquired the player base of Paramin Poker. Players at the online poker room, formerly owned by Poker Akademia, have been migrated to Devilfish Poker and the two companies have entered into a new affiliate agreement. Paul Barnes, CEO […]
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European Poker Tour Warsaw — Day 3 Recap
Yesterday’s day 3 of the PLN20,000 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Polish Open at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Warsaw started with 24 players and in just four hours had played down to the final nine which sees young Italian Dario Minieri start as chip leader.. The eliminations and payouts for the event so far are: 10th: […]
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B.C. Poker Championship Begins on Thursday
The fourth-annual British Columbia Poker Championship begins on Thursday, Nov. 20, and it will crown a champion on Sunday, Nov. 23. The event will also be televised and will gather a lot of poker professionals to the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond, British Columbia. Among the professionals who will play in the event are […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A Part I — Arnaud Mattern
Young Frenchman Arnaud Mattern has made a strong and impressive impact on the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Polish Open throughout. With charisma, aggression, skill, and an instinctive way of reading people, Mattern is attempting to do something that has never been done before — he is determined to win another EPT. He took down first […]
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Casinos Offer Promotions and Freerolls
Free money is so ‘in’ right now. As are free entries to some of the most prestigious poker tournaments in the world. With the slumping economy bruising The Strip, Las Vegas poker rooms are offering new promotions to keep their rooms active. Want to play in the invitation-only, star-studded National Heads-Up Poker Championship on […]
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European Poker Tour Polish Open Day 3 Update
Day 3 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Polish Open started with 24 players and in just four hours had played down to the final nine. The chip leaders at the beginning of the day were: Sergey Shcherbatskiy (Russia) — 265,900 Dario Minieri (Italy) — 211,400 Roland De Wolfe (UK) — 169,900 Arnaud Mattern (France) […]
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Landmark Swedish Online Poker Tax Ruling
Sweden’s Östgöta Correspondenten newspaper has reported that a Swedish court has ruled an online poker player does not have to pay tax on SEK 650,000 ($80,900) he won playing poker online with an Isle of Man based site which is operated by a Cyprus-based company. According to the newspaper the Swedish tax authority Skatteverket had […]
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Betsson Wins Growth Ranking Accolade
Respected business magazine Business Week magazine has ranked Swedish betting company Betsson the 14th fastest growing company in Europe in its annual European Hot Growth ranking. The company, which was established in 1965 as a land- and sea-based casino operator branched out into online gaming in 1996 and now offers online poker, sportsbook, bingo, slot […]
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Pacific Poker Revenues Steady in Tough Trading Conditions
Net gaming revenue at Pacific Poker, the online poker offering from publicly-quoted gaming operator 888.com, remained steady at $18.7 million in the third quarter of 2008, marginally higher than the third quarter 2007 figure of $18.6 million. However in the three trading quarters so far this year poker revenue has dropped from $21.9 million (Q1), […]
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Dusk Till Dawn's 2009 Poker Offering
Dusk Till Dawn has announced its 2009 arrival — a £60,000 guaranteed monthly deepstack tournament. Its monthly 321 has been reenergised, and this monthly deepstack event has been more than doubled. This will take place alongside the regular £300 deepstack, with the slight changes of an increased guarantee from £25,000 to £50,000 and an earlier […]
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European Poker Tour Warsaw — Day 2 Recap
109 hopefuls took to the felt in the casino at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Warsaw for day 2 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Polish Open. The first 30 minutes saw 15 players bust out, and it’s not surprising with the many pro-laden tables crowding the casino floor. At the end of level nine, […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — Jonathan Little
Jonathan Little has $4 million in tournament earnings, and he’s only 23 years old. In his short career, he has made 14 final tables, and in 2007 finished third in Card Player’s Player of the Year race. The young gun from Pensacola, Florida, started his career in college and built up a sizeable bankroll by […]
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European Poker Tour Polish Open Day 2
109 hopefuls took to the felt today in the casino at the Hyatt Regency Hotel for the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Polish Open. The chip leaders going into day 2 were: 1. Roland De Wolfe (UK) — 67,150 2. Antony Lellouche (France) — 57,600 3. Alain Roy (France) — 50,950 4. Ludovic Lacay (France) — 49,600 […]
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Peter Eastgate and Tom Dwan Added to Premier League
PartyPoker.com Premier League III has added two more faces to its intriguing line up — World Champion Peter Eastgate and online whizz Tom "Durrrr" Dwan. They join Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott, Tony G, Annette Obrestad, Roland de Wolfe, Andy Black, Juha Helppi, JC Tran, Nenad Medic, and Victoria Coren in the $75,000 buy-in event. One seat […]
