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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 […]
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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 […]
