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PaddyPowerPoker Irish Open Side Events Announced
Paddypowerpoker.com has released further details of the full schedule for the upcoming Irish Open at Citywest Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. In addition to the €3,200 + €300 Irish Open main event, the festival includes a two-day €1,500 + €150 no-limit hold’em freezeout event and an ever-popular pot-limit Omaha €300 + €30 rebuy tournament. The ladies […]
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Swedish Online Poker Championship Chaos
Denmark and Sweden both recently held online nationals, with varying degrees of success. The Danes held their tournament on Mermaid Poker, and everything went smoothly. Jonas Mørch Pedersen, ”hcivohcroM” on Mermaid, eventually won the main event and €40 200. In Sweden, however, this was the second online national event to be held recently, as the […]
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GUKPT Champion of Champions Kicks Off
Season two of the BlueSqPoker.com Grosvenor UK Poker Tour draws to a close today with the £75,000 Champion of Champion events at the G Casino, Luton. The field will be made of players who won any GUKPT main events, side events, monthly leagues, and online festivals during the 2008 season. The one-day event will see […]
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British Poker Tour Main Event Starts Today
The culmination of the nine-month-long Gala Casinos British Poker Tour today sees the grand final £1,500 main event getting underway at 4 p.m. The event, held at the plush Gala Harbourside Casino, Bristol, will have an estimated prize pool of £400,000 and additionally the winner will pick up a package to the World Series of […]
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Tony 'Bond18' Dunst Hosts This Week's Free Poker Video Clip
Tony “Bond18” Dunst is the host of this week’s free poker video training clip. Dunst is playing multiple multi-table tournaments in the video, and he brings the action on certain tables to the forefront any time there’s an interesting situation. This video, as well as three additional free clips by other instructors, is currently available […]
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Schedule Set for 2009 Aussie Millions Poker Tournament
There will be 18 championship events, millions of dollars in prize money, and multiple world champions in attendance. Organizers are expecting the 2009 Aussie Millions, already established as one of the biggest annual poker tournaments in the world, to continue to grow, and they have established a guaranteed first-place prize that reflects that confidence. First […]
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Phil Hellmuth Launches Poker Apparel Line
Some players love him. Some players hate him. All of them would like to have his record of success. But while you cannot be Phil Hellmuth, now you can at least look like him. The “Poker Brat” has just launched his own apparel line, apparently becoming the first poker player ever to do so. Fans […]
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UltimateBet and Absolute Poker Cut Off Kentuckians
Tokwiro, the owner of Absolute Poker and UltimateBet, announced that it will comply with a Kentucky judge’s order and will stop doing business with residents of the Commonwealth. Tokwiro joins the MicroGaming Network in submitting to a judge’s orders to stop Kentucky residents from accessing its poker sites or risk having its domain names seized […]
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Full Tilt Poker Hosts Memorial Tournament Today
She was a mother of two. A wife of 23 years. A former model and an up-and-coming poker player. She was funny and she was brash. She was Mindy. Today, Full Tilt will remember and honor the woman who took the poker community by storm and who so suddenly passed away last October after a […]
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Italian Online Poker Turnover Predictions Rapidly Rise
According to Gaming Intelligence Group, the Italian Finance Ministry has increased its online poker turnover predictions for the first year of real money from €400 million to an outstanding €1 billion, due to the rising demand from Italian poker fans. The newly deregulated, and hence, competitive Italian poker market now has networks such as PokerStars, […]
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Microgaming Acquires Playwize 3D Software
Online gaming software provider, Microgaming, has acquired the rights to Playwize’s 3D software. As well as a realistic video game experience, the software also offers tools which help players improve their game, such as a poker tutorial, and “as-you-play” advice while in practice mode. Last month, Playwize announced its closure due to disappointing trading results, […]
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Cantor Gaming Closes Its Doors to Retail Customers
Cantor Gaming Malta One Limited has now closed down its doors, and is ceasing to provide services to retail customers. The casino closed down on Nov. 28 at 1 p.m., and the poker room on Dec. 1 at 4 p.m.. The company are no longer accepting new customers or further wagers. The decision has been […]
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ParadisePoker Announce New Bad Beat Jackpot
The ParadisePoker Bad Beat Jackpot is due for launch on Dec. 10, and will kick things off with a prize pool of €100,000. To win the jackpot, a player must have four of a kind jacks or better, which is beaten on one of the designated tables. A World Series of Poker package worth $13,500 […]
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SpadeClub Poker Winner: James 'smokefan20' Jarrett
SpadeClub.com, the total poker experience, offers more than 2,500 tournaments and $100,000 awarded every month, all for just $19.99 a month. No entry fees, no deposits, no risk. Find out more. SpadeClub Exclusive member James “smokefan20” Jarrett played a great game of poker on Nov. 23 and took home $1,500. Jarrett is married, has a […]
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Marty Smyth Freeroll Announced at BoylePoker.com
Boylepoker.com has announced the launch of its brand new Marty Smyth Freeroll, which will take place on Thursday, Dec. 11 at 8 p.m. (GMT). The $1,000 minimum freeroll offers online players the chance to win five percent of whatever Smyth takes home from the Poker Million VII. This means that the top prize could be […]
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"GoNuts" Wins Ladbrokes Poker Million Seat
The final seat for the LadbrokesPoker.com Poker Million VII has gone to online player “GoNuts”. The Norwegian, who is also the winner of the Ladbrokes Chase the Chair promotion, beat 120 players to reserve a $120,000 seat at the Poker Million VII semi-final. On Dec. 11, "GoNuts" will come up against pros such as Marty […]
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Devilfish DVD Hits the Shops
Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott’s reality TV show “How to Become a Poker Millionaire” is now available on DVD. The reality show takes four losing poker players, and under the supervision of Brit poker boss Ulliott, attempts to turn their game around. Every episode waves goodbye to one hopeful, until the final two compete heads-up to claim […]
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JC Tran is PartyPoker.com Premier League Champion
JC Tran has taken down the PartyPoker.com Premier League III and the top prize of $300,000 from the $1.25 million prize pool. Tran, who seemed to easily demolish anything that came into his path, was favourite to win as he was top of the league table with three first places and two seconds in the […]
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Poker Stars Introduces Badugi
Badugi is one part razz, one part draw poker, and a whole lot of fun — depending on who you talk to. PokerStars is now offering this unique style of poker, which originated in Asia. The site is running both tournaments and sit-and-gos, although the latter is seldom attracting the higher-limits players. The more frugal […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — Ivan Demidov
Ivan Demidov has accomplished what is arguably the most impressive poker feat of 2008. He made the final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em world championship main event in July, and then he also made the final table of the World Series of Poker Europe main event in October. Demidov […]
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Online Poker — Peter 'twirlpro' Turmezy Wins Sunday Million
The Thanksgiving holiday weekend gave all of the major sites a bit of a boost in traffic but couldn’t help a few tournaments from missing their guarantees. The live tournament action began to heat up at Bellagio, but most of the online community opted to stay in and grind in front of their laptops. Card […]
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APPT: Sydney Grand Final Begins Today
The second Asia Pacific Poker Tour Grand Final will cap off the second season for this growing poker tour beginning tomorrow. The tournament will be held at the Star City Casino in Sydney, Australia. Many professional poker players will be in attendance, including Australia’s only world champion, Joe Hachem. The tournament will feature two day-one […]
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Paul Foltyn Wins Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final
The winner of the BlueSquarePoker.com‘s 2008 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour grand final main event is Paul “BadPab” Foltyn. Foltyn overcame a field of 184 players and beat Jeff Duvall heads up to take down the £167,000 top prize. After taking all of Guy Steel’s chips and sending him packing in third place (£69,000), Foltyn, began […]
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Final Table Set in PartyPoker.com Premier League III
The final table has come to light at the PartyPoker.com Premier League III. JC Tran sits comfortably as the leader with 450,000 chips, as he prepares to vie for the $300,000 first prize. He is also the league winner with 45 points due to the three first places and two seconds he successfully gathered during […]
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T6 Poker Suspends Online Operations
Scandinavian online poker room T6 Poker has ceased operations but assures players this is a transitory move until a network change is implemented. The full statement direct from the company website reads: “Dear Players, We have an important announcement to make. We will be changing network and will be offline for a short time period […]
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PKR.com APT Pro Bounty Sees Record Turn-Out
Players were chomping at the bit to take a shot at the “Poker Pack” in an exclusive APT Pro Bounty at PKR.com. Those who did not play remained on the sidelines for all the action and took part in the live Q&A on the forums, while the record turn-out of 1,130 battled each other, as […]
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Players Criticize World Series of Poker Coverage
At 17 hours, it was the longest final table in World Series of Poker history. Thanks to some seamless editing, it was fit neatly into a two-hour time block for ESPN. Depending on whom you ask, the 2008 main event final table was either a massive failure or a huge success. Or you could ask […]
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This Week in Poker: Poker Tournament News Nov. 22-28
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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Regulate Online Poker Says Polish Expert
Zbigniew Macioszek, a member of the board of Casinos Poland, has told the Warsaw Business Journal that the Polish government’s restrictions on online poker are restrictive and outdated and should be reviewed and online poker made legal. "Poland did not take to craps, for example, but poker is very popular…the need for gambling is as […]
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60 Minutes to Air Segment on Online Poker Cheating Scandal
On Sunday, Nov. 30, the nation will be told about the online poker cheating scandal that rocked the poker world during this week’s broadcast of “60 Minutes.” Titled “The Cheaters,” the segment will focus on how online players uncovered cheating at UltimateBet and Absolute Poker. The story is a collaboration between “60 Minutes” reporter Steven […]
