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EPT — PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Day 4
The 32 remaining players in the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure descended upon the EPT live stage and prepared for a long day of grinding it out down to the final table. It took over 13 hours to get the job done, but the final eight are set and ready to battle it out Saturday for […]
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This Week in Poker: Poker Tournament News Jan. 3 – Jan. 9
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: Hevad Khan — 960 2: Rick Fuller — 800 3: Lars Bonding — 640 4: Michael Benvenuti — 528 5: Mark Wilds — 480 5: Flavio Eduardo Imamara — […]
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Aussie Millions Begins Today
The first event at the 2009 Aussie Millions tournament series began today with the start of $1,100 no-limit hold’em opening event at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. There will be 18 events featured in all, running from today until Jan. 26 at the fourth edition of this tournament. A collection of professionals are expected […]
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Southern Poker Championship in Biloxi Rolls On
The Southern Poker Championship at Biloxi’s Beau Rivage Casino is a week into its run of its 15-event schedule that cumulates with the four-day World Poker Tour $10,000 championship on Jan 14. So far, seven events have been completed, and playing fields have been good. The series started off in a big way when 1,005 […]
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Criteria for 2009 Card Player Poker Player of the Year Announced
The Card Player Player of the Year race bestows one of poker’s most sought-after titles every year, and with 2009’s first major tournament series in full swing (check out our coverage of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure), it’s high time to release the updated Player of the Year criteria. The changes from last year’s criteria include […]
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Bertrand Grospellier is Caribbean High-Roller
The PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure held its first $25,000 high-roller event, which saw 48 of the world’s best players take to the felt for an adrenalin-pumping feast of poker. The final eight eventually emerged from a field of doom, which included the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen, and Chris Ferguson, and online big guns Sorel […]
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Carlos Poker Joins Microgaming Network
Carlos Poker, owned by Malta-registered Unibet Plc, has announced it will join the Microgaming Network after being removed from the iPoker network in December. The company said the move will be completed by the end of January 2009. Nils Andén, head of poker at the site said, “We felt that the Carlos Poker players wanted […]
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Gaming Media Group Revenue Exceeds €12 million
Gaming Media Group, the parent company of PokerHeaven.com and The Poker Channel, today announced revenues of over €1 million per month in the 12 months to Oct 31, 2008. Poker rake was up 47 percent while overall revenue, including casino, bingo, and TV advertising, was up 57 percent. The company said it was achieving 10,000 […]
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DTD MonthlyTournaments Reach Greater Heights
Dusk Till Dawn’s monthly events, the £300 + £30 deepstack and the £150 + £15 no-limit freezeout have now been awarded European Ranking Status. Since February of last year, these events have attracted up to 194 players, with an average of 136. This year can only get bigger and better as the club opened 2009 […]
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Bertrand Grospellier Wins the PCA High-Roller Event
Winning back-to-back championships in any sport, in any form of competition, is quite a feat, and in poker it is even harder to accomplish. Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier won the European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in 2008, besting a field of 1,136 players to win $2 million. In 2009, he was unable to beat a […]
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EPT — PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Day 3
At the start of day 3 of the 2009 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, 102 players remained, and they needed to play down to the final 32. Some thought that play would slow down while 70 players busted out of the tournament on the way down to serious prize money and the $3 million […]
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World Record Poker Feats Ripe to Fall
It’s a strange attraction that humans have to the setting of world records. No matter how inane, stupid or ridiculous something is, someone somewhere wants to be the best at it. Although being part of the largest space shuttle crew may be hard to break, there are plenty others to choose from and poker is […]
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Full Tilt Online Poker Series Slated for February
Satellites are running. The schedule is set. Full Tilt recently announced the schedule of events for its popular Full Tilt Online Poker Series, set to begin early next month. February’s FTOPS, the eleventh of its kind, begins Feb. 4 with a $216 no-limit hold’em tournament and a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. There will be […]
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Poker for the Homeless Event Raises €40,000
The PartyPoker.com Irish Poker Championship in Galway saw another success for the annual Poker for the Homeless charity tournament, which was formerly known as Simon Poker Day. The event raised close to €40,000, €18,200 of which went to Galway Simon, and the rest divided between Dublin Simon Community and Brother Kevin at the Capuchin Day […]
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PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Breaks Records
An abundance of events are currently taking place at the Atlantis Hotel and Casino in the Bahamas for the PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure (PCA), including side tournaments such as $1,000, $2,000, and $5,000 buy-in events, a $2,000 Battleship tournament, a $25,000 High Roller event, plus plenty of satellites to other major live tournaments. The one any […]
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Patrik Antonius Officially Accepts Durrrr’s Poker Offer
High stakes cash player Patrik Antonius called Card Player today to officially announce that he, too, will take up Tom “durrrr” Dwan on his poker challenge. Dwan first discussed his poker challenge last month, saying that he would put up $1.5 million to anyone’s $500,000 if his opponent could beat him over 50,000 hands at […]
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EPT — PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Day 2
Two grueling days of competition led the way for payday at the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. The large field of 1,347 somehow managed to burst the money bubble in just 10 levels, leaving many to wonder if this tournament would ever show off its brakes. The action was so fast, in fact, that one player […]
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Utah Representative Has Eyes on the World Trade Organization
A Utah lawmaker has presented a resolution that would both clarify Utah’s stance that its behind the Untied States Trade Representative’s (USTR) decision to fight the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Internet gambling and call for the USTR to publicly release all the details concerning its negotiations with the WTO. Utah is devoid of gambling, […]
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UltimateBet's Championship Poker Series Starts Friday
UltimateBet officially kicks off its third UltimateBet Online Championship on this Friday as the site hosts at least one tournament of its series every day for the next 12 days. The site has gone out of its way to attract lower-stakes players in this year’s championship. While the main UBOC schedule has events that range […]
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Poker Goes on Trial Feb. 13 in South Carolina
Friday, Feb. 13, is the day that a South Carolina judge will hear arguments that poker is more of a game of skill than luck as he considers if five men who were caught up in a poker raid should be found guilty. Last month, the defense team of the players got a victory when […]
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The Venetian Announces 2009 Poker Tournaments
The Deep Stack Extravaganza is back. The Venetian will hold four tournament series in 2009 after a very successful 2008 campaign saw hundreds of players flood the poker room with a couple hundred dollars and a dream. The first DSE series of 2009 will kick off Monday, Feb. 2, with the first of 17 $330 […]
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Card Player TV Poker Video Podcasts Now Back on iTunes
The crew at Card Player TV has been producing videos on poker strategy, the lives of poker pros, and poker news nonstop for years, and now podcast viewers can get a steady stream of CPTV videos every single day on iTunes. Whose pimped-out house will we invade next? What new poker strategy or philosophy will […]
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Dani 'Ansky' Stern Hosts This Week's Free Poker Training Video
Dani “ansky” Stern is the host of this week’s free poker video training clip from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus). In this video, Stern discusses so-called "Hero Calls" in detail. This video, as well as three additional free clips by other instructors, is currently available on the Card Player Pro preview page. Stern […]
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Poker Stars Experiences Record Growth in 2008
There may be hundreds of online poker sites out there, but PokerStars is beginning to establish itself as online poker’s behemoth. PokerStars now has more than 35 percent of the entire market share in terms of concurrent cash players, according to PokerScout.com owner Dan Stewart. “That market share is the highest it’s ever been for […]
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PKR.com Releases Comprehensive Software Update
Leading 3-D online poker room PKR.com today announced a raft of new changes to its software with the release of “Version 1.7” of its innovative client. Over 50 changes have been made including several new features and many improvements to existing features. They include: Three new game environments — includes an Egyptian-themed poker room and […]
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PaddyPowerPoker Launches Instant Play Poker
PaddyPowerPoker.com is, as of today, the first on the iPoker network to launch Instant Play poker. This progressive software means downloads are no longer necessary, all a player needs is Internet access via a browser such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, and they can play wherever, whenever. Paddy Power Poker Communications Manager said, “We’re […]
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Devilfish Gets 2009 Off to Winning Start
Larger than life poker pro Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott set the side event alight at the Irish Poker Championship 2009 in Galway. The first major tournament of the year saw the DevilfishPoker.com ambassador ease his way through a field of 126 at the €750 side event to take down first place and €33,000. The table was […]
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EPT — PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Day 1B
Very few poker tournaments pay out a first-place prize of $3 million. The World Series of Poker main event has accomplished this impressive feat every year since Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker won $2.5 million in 2003 and changed the course of tournament poker history forever. The World Poker Tour World Championship has accomplished this […]
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Ivey Accepts Durrrr's Poker Challenge
“Somebody’s probably going to go broke,” said Phil Ivey. “That’s a lot of money, and a lot of time.” When Phil Ivey says something is “a lot of money,” most people take notice. In what will surely become one of the most anticipated heads-up poker matches of all time, should it actually occur, Phil Ivey […]
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Cake Poker Now Counts for OPOY Standings
Starting this Sunday, Cake Poker will become the sixth poker site to be included in the Card Player Online Player of the Year standings. The top 20 finishers of the site’s big Sunday $100,000-guaranteed tournament (8 p.m. ET, $268 to enter) will earn points for the OPOY award in 2009. (Note: Only players who play […]
