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Poker After Dark's Fifth Season Debuts Tonight
The fifth season of NBC’s Poker After Dark will debut tonight at its normal late-night time (2:05 a.m.) with a special cast of characters who came oh-so-close to winning the big one. “Basically, we’re going to have 16 new episodes that will be spread out in 2009,” said executive producer, Mori Eskandani. This first three […]
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Online Poker -- PokerStars Sets Guinness World Record
PokerStars is now home to the largest online poker tournament in history thanks to Sunday’s record-breaking no-limit hold’em contest. The tournament was the culmination of their World Record Weekend promotion and saw an astounding 35,000 entrants put up the $10+$1 buy-in to be a part of history. If that wasn’t enough, PokerStars was kind enough […]
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Online Poker — PokerStars Has Huge Weekend With Big Payouts
The last weekend before the new year was also a record setting one. While PokerStars attempted to host the largest online tournament in history, thousands of players flooded the site, in some instances creating larger than normal prize pools. A few notables were able to claim wins on Sunday, including Dan "Lenny" Heimiller, who beat […]
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Charity Poker Events in 2009 to Benefit Paralyzed Vets
Two charity poker tournaments featuring some of the biggest names in poker and entertainment — both benefitting the Paralyzed Veterans of America — will take place early in 2009. Ben Affleck, Andy Bloch, Lee Childs, Poker Players Alliance Chairman Senator Alfonse D’Amato, Richard and Kyle Petty, Mike Sexton, and Montel Williams committed to the events, […]
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Season VII of World Poker Tour Premieres on FSN
The World Poker Tour begins its stay at another new home Jan. 4 on Fox Sports Net, when the poker show begins airing its seventh season of 26 episodes on Sunday, Jan. 4. Please check your local listings for times. The WPT is also changing its format for the new season. All final tables of […]
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Boylepoker.com Players win over $120,000
Two Boylepoker.com players recently made big scores at the site winning over $120,000 between them. John O’Shea, playing under the name “doesalrite” lifted $44,950 when he won event four at the European Championship of Online Poker and immediately followed up with a fifth place finish in event five. O’Shea finished fifth in the $2,500 event […]
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NoIQ Poker Leaves iPoker Network for Entraction
NoIQ Poker today announced its move from the iPoker network to the Entraction network which hosts poker rooms such as DevilfishPoker.com. The online poker room, which has 10,000 active players per month, was removed from the iPoker network earlier this week. "We made a thorough evaluation of several poker networks before we decided to go […]
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"Super Sunday" €250,000 at DevilfishPoker.com
DevilfishPoker.com today hosts "Super Sunday" with €250,000 in guaranteed prize pools and a special €1,000 added “Devilfish New Year Chip Race” with nine limited edition 500-piece casino-grade Devilfish chip sets for the finalists. ‘Super Sunday” sees a huge €200,000 guaranteed no-limit hold’em tournament at 8 p.m. GMT this evening followed a the pot-limit Omaha €50,000 […]
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iPoker Network Removes Two Online Poker Rooms
iPoker network today announced that NoIQ Poker and Carlos Poker will be removed from the network on January 24, 2009. No reason was given in the statement but NoIQ Poker has issued a statement to its players which says, “It’s Christmas time and we are about to close off the year, but not without some […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A Part II: Noah Boeken
One dangerously talented pro often found at various events around Europe and the States is 27 year-old Dutchman Noah Boeken. Card Player spoke to the young gent at the recent European Poker Tour in Prague, where despite feeling unwell, he remained upbeat about his game and upcoming events. Continuing on from yesterday’s Tournament Trail Part […]
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What's My Line — David 'Chino' Rheem
Every Thursday, Card Player sits down with some of the best in the game to discuss pivotal hands from the week’s biggest tournaments on the circuit. David "Chino" Rheem didn’t have much time to soak in his seventh place finish at the World Series of Poker main event. Just one month later, Rheem was back […]
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This Week in Poker: Poker Tournament News Dec. 20 – Dec. 26
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 POY Standings: John Phan — 6,704 David “The Dragon” Pham — 6,022 Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier — 5,510 Ivan Demidov — 4,940 Erik Seidel — 4,754 David Benyamine — 4,436 Michael […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A Part I: Noah Boeken
Noah Boeken is a familiar face on the international tournament circuit. The thing is however, he cannot be classed as just another young hot shot who shows up at numerous events guns blazing, only to bust out days before the money. The reason he can be separated from this rapidly expanding group is the list […]
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Buddhist Monks Busted Playing Poker in Korea
The Korean Times reported on Christmas Day that five Buddist monks had been apprehended for playing poker at a hotel in North Chungcheong Province. The monks, who were staying at the hotel near Mt. Songni to attend a Buddhist event, had over 9 million won in play (approx. $6,700) and according to a police source […]
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January Tournament Trail Preview
The first full week in January will see the start of the first major poker tournaments of the New Year, and the first month is going to be a busy one after the slow holiday tournament poker season. The European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure will begin on Jan. 5, 2009 and Card Player’s live […]
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PartyPoker and PaddyPowerPoker Offer Seasonal Cheer
It’s Christmas Day and by the time you’ve eaten your turkey and watched some trashy TV you can get away from the in-laws by hitting the online poker tables and get treated to a little more Christmas cheers from two of Card Player’s most innovative partners. PaddyPowerPoker.com launches its “12 Days of Christmas” promotion today […]
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Poker for the Homeless Charity Event This January
Formerly known as Simon Poker Day, the Poker for the Homeless charity event takes place at this year’s PartyPoker.com Irish Poker Championship event in Galway on Sunday Jan. 4. The €330 buy in event (of which €100 goes directly to homeless charities) is generously supported by some of Europe’s top online poker rooms including PartyPoker.com […]
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UltimateBet Software Error Mistakenly Awards Pot to Hellmuth
Tokwiro’s new CEREUS network experienced a glitch on Dec. 20 that awarded the player with a losing hand the pot on Ultimate Bet. That player with the losing hand happened to be Phil Hellmuth, the face of the poker site. This software SNAFU comes at a time that Tokwiro is doing its best to prove […]
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Tournament Trail POY Q and A — Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier began 2008 with the biggest win of his career. He won the European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, emerging from a filed of 1,136 players to take home $2 million. The second major title of the year for ElkY came in October. He won the World Poker Tour Festa al Lago tournament […]
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CEREUS Network Clears Up Hand Controversy
Tokwiro Enterprises, owner of the CEREUS network which hosts the Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker sites, today explained the mystery surrounding how Phil Hellmuth was recently awarded a pot despite having a losing hand against opponent “DoubleBaller”. The problem arose as a result of a bizarre coincidence which saw “DoubleBaller” disconnect at the exact millisecond […]
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Real Money Games Hit Italian Poker Market
Playtech, the software design and development company which owns the iPoker network, has announced the launch of a “play for real money“ poker network on the Italian poker market. This latest development sees Italian operators Snai, Gala Coral’s Eurobet Italia SpA, Sisal SpA, and Cogetech SpA offer its players real money poker for the first […]
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PokerStars.com Hosts World Record Breaking Week
PokerStars.com is attempting to end the year with a bang by hosting a world record breaking online poker tournament on Dec. 28 at 3:30 p.m. (ET). This event will see 35,000 players get the chance to be part of the Guinness Book of World Records by participating in “The Largest Online Poker Tournament”. Hopefuls must […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — POY Runner-Up David Pham
David "The Dragon" Pham has won the Card Player Player of the Year title twice. His firsct victory came in 2000, and he followed that up with a POY title in 2007. As the defending champion in 2008, Pham gave POY winner John Phan a major scare as he put together an impressive title defense. […]
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Poker Stars and Card Player Sending Reader to Bahamas
On Friday, PokerStars and CardPlayer.com are teaming up to give one of our readers a trip to the Bahamas to attend the three-day PCA Bahamas Poker Camp. The freeroll takes place Friday, Dec. 26, at 2:30 p.m. ET. Card Player readers can find it under the “Tournaments/Private Area” tab on PokerStars. Use the password “Raymer” […]
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First Colorado Casino Town Approves Higher Limits
Higher limits are coming to at least one Colorado casino town. Residents of Cripple Creek overwhelmingly voted in favor to expand the amount that can be wagered in its casinos from a $5 maximum to $100 and also to erase a law that forced casinos to close from 2 a.m.-8 a.m. A statewide referendum that […]
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PokerPro Conducting Field Trial on Norwegian Cruise Lines
PokerTek is expanding it offerings to those who love to sail the high seas as it starts a 90-day field trial on Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Pearl. If the trial is successful, tables will be added to all 11 of Norwegian Cruise Line’s ships. PokerTek already placed its automated dealerless PokerPro tables on all 22 […]
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Bodog Poker Pro Bowl in Paradise Series Now Open to All
Bodog’s Pro Bowl in Paradise tournament series (a Card Player-exclusive event) is now open to everyone. There are 10 events remaining in the series, so there is plenty of time for players to qualify for the series’ grand prize — a VIP trip to Hawaii to watch football’s Pro Bowl live. Your next chance to […]
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Oklahoma Poker Scene Shows No Signs of Slowing Down
Someone forgot to tell Oklahoma that the tough economic times were supposed to hurt the casino industry. While the recession has stalled the growth of casinos in other areas of the country, the Sooner State continues to see its casinos expand and grow in dramatic fashion. Last year, tribal gambling raised $2.5 billion in […]
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Christmas Brings Double PartyPoints and More at PartyPoker
PartyPoker.com is getting into the Christmas spirit with lots to look forward to over the holiday season. First of all, it is offering double PartyPoints to all real money players who simply take to the virtual felt on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day from 12:00 to 9:59 p.m. (ET). The points will be added to […]
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PKR.com Announces Christmas Cracker Poker Festival
PKR.com’s festive Christmas Cracker has just begun and will run until early 2009, offering 13 events over the best part of two weeks with prizes worth more than $170,000. In true Santa style, each event has some extra presents up its sleeve for the winner, such as a Sony Playstation 3, an Apple iPod Touch, […]
