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Win a Poker Cruise From Card Player Cruises and SpadeClub
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 is excited to be able to give its members a chance to cruise around the Western Caribbean on a Card Player Cruises Caribbean […]
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Full Tilt Poker To Be a Part of Major UFC Fight
In what the Ultimate Fighting Championship expects to be their most watched fight ever, Full Tilt Poker has landed a major deal to give its site unprecedented exposure. Randy Coutour, the current heavyweight champion of the UFC, has agreed to wear Full Tilt gear during today’s weigh-in for the fight, which is being broadcast live […]
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This Week in Poker: Poker Tournament News Nov. 8 – Nov. 14
Check out CardPlayer.com every Friday for a weekly wrap-up of the news from the live poker tournament trail. This Week in Tournament Poker Card Player Live Coverage Event — World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event championship final table The final night at the 2008 World Series of Poker main event was a […]
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ACLU Joins PPA in filing Briefs in Kentucky Domain Case
The Poker Players Alliance joined the Kentucky office of the ACLU, Network Solutions, Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for Democracy and Technology in filing Amicus briefs in the Kentucky Court of Appeals yesterday protesting a judge’s that Kentucky has the right to seize domain names used to gamble and play poker online. That day, […]
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Governments Take Huge Bite out of WSOP Final Table Pool
The tax monsters that help feed governments from all around the globe feasted heavily on the World Series of Poker main event’s final table participants. Out of the $32,731,585 collected prize pool that was distributed to the final nine players, about $14,793,416 went to governments from around the world. Russ Fox, and Enrolled Accountant who […]
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EPT — Warsaw Event Begins Tomorrow
The PokerStars European Poker Tour will host its season-five stop in Poland beginning on Saturday, Nov. 15 in Warsaw at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The no-limit hold’em main event features a 20,000 PLN (approximately $6,744 US) buy-in. The tournament has two day-one flights on the schedule, and the final table will take place on Wednesday, […]
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2008 WSOP Final Table Ratings Up 46 Percent
ESPN and Harrah’s Entertainment can let out one long collective sigh of relief because it appears that their controversial decision to delay the World Series of Poker final table four months to create additional buzz and increased ratings has paid off. The 2008 final table outperformed the 2007 final table easily, beating out the ratings […]
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Peter Eastgate Signs with Leading Representation Agency
Dane Peter Eastgate who won the World Series of Poker main event earlier this week has signed with Poker Royalty for worldwide marketing and management representation. Eastgate, who won over $9 million for his victory and is now domiciled in England, said “I believe the team at Poker Royalty is best suited to help me […]
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Devilfish Plays Pro-Celebrity Darts Tonight
Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott trades the felt of the poker table for the darts oche tonight on ITV4 from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. in the PartyPoker.com Pro-Celebrity Darts Challenge. Ulliott will partner darts pro Peter Manley in a match against three-time Olympic javelin medalist Steve Backley and James Wade. He confirmed to Card Player earlier […]
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Live Poker Application for Apple's iPhone
Social gaming network Zynga has launched the first live poker application for the Apple iPhone. Live Poker gives iPhone users the opportunity to play in what Zynga bills “the web’s largest daily poker tournament” against 1.4 million daily players. The application uses Facebook Connect and is free to download from iTunes.com though users can upgrade […]
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Tournament Trail Q&A — Martin Jacobson
Swedish online player Martin Jacobson made some impressive moves as he tortured his way to the final table. No one expected it from the clean-cut, ‘cool as a cucumber’ exterior, but this young man meant business and was determined to make his first proper impact on the live tournament stage. He spoke to Card Player […]
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WSOP — Lake Tahoe Circuit Championship Begins Tomorrow
The $5,000 no-limit hold’em main event at the World Series of Poker Circuit stop at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe begins Friday, Nov. 14, and it will crown a champion on Sunday, Nov. 16. This is the featured tournament of the Circuit stop that also features a dozen preliminary events in one of the most scenic environs […]
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Online Poker Bills Will Be Reintroduced to New Congress
Soon, the 111th Congress will gather in Washington, D.C., to begin its work, and that means that all of the bills that were introduced to the 110th Congress will have to be reintroduced all over again. Several bills that were introduced that, if passed, would have changed the landscape of Internet poker in the […]
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Casinos Struggle, But Poker Rooms Stay Strong
"We are looking at the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, and the biggest economic crisis we have had in the United States since the early 1980s." That’s what Scott Brown, the chief economist with Raymond James and Associates, told a reporter from Reuters earlier this month. The recession is hitting everyone, but especially […]
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Mike Matusow Hosts New Free Poker Video Training Clip
Poker superstar Mike “The Mouth” Matusow is the featured host of the newest free poker training video from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus). The footage and analysis is from an eight-handed $500-$1,000 H.O.R.S.E. game, and his fellow Team Full Tilt member Jennifer Harman is also at the table. This video clip, as well […]
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Adrian Lambe Wins CircusPoker's Poker Classic
CircusPoker.co.uk is celebrating the success of its first ever £100,000 Second Chance Poker Classic. The unique tournament format meant that players who did not qualify live at a participating casino got a second shot at the final, online. The main event took place at the Circus Casino at Star City, Birmingham, from October 30 to […]
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Seats Added to Dusk Till Dawn Anniversary Cup
Dusk Till Dawn’s £100,000 guaranteed Anniversary Cup will kick off on Dec. 3 and run until Dec. 7, and now there are even more ways to win seats before this big event debuts. 25 seats have now been added to the event and can be won via three special satellites taking place on the following […]
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Devilfish and Tony G Join PartyPoker Premier League
PartyPoker.com Premier League III has added two new faces to its line up — Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott and Tony G. The two well-known characters of the poker world will join Annette Obrestad, Roland de Wolfe, Andy Black, Juha Helppi, JC Tran, Nenad Medic, and Victoria Coren in the $75,000 buy-in event. With this increased buy-in, […]
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WSOP Finalists Sit Down with Card Player TV
Of breaking Phil Hellmuth’s record to become the youngest player to ever win the main event, 2008 champion Peter Eastgate told Card Player TV, “It was like the sugar on the top.” Now, we know the Dane is trying to improve his English, so we’ll cut him a little slack. He probably meant “cherry,” but […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — 2008 World Champion Peter Eastgate
Peter Eastgate became the youngest world champion in the history of poker on Monday night at 22 years of age, breaking a record that had stood for 19 years and belonged to Phil Hellmuth. Eastgate topped 6,844 players to win the 39th-annual World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event, and he is now […]
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APPT — Manila Stop Begins Tomorrow
The fourth stop during season two on the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour will begin tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. PHT. There will be two day-one flights, and the three-day event will crown a champion on Sunday, Nov. 16. Players who have registered so far include Team PokerStars pro Lee Nelson and Taiwan-born J.J. Liu. The […]
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UIGEA is Finalized — Rules Can Be Implemented By Dec. 2009
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) had until Nov. 19 to sign off on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) to ensure that the mandatory 60-day-review period that started upon approval would be completed before President George W. Bush left office. They beat out their deadline by seven days. In a move that […]
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Peter Eastgate Signs with Poker Royalty
Peter Eastgate, the 22-year-old World Series of Poker main event champion, has become a client of the poker player representation agency Poker Royalty. The Denmark native is now the newest “name” poker player thanks to his WSOP championship win, and Poker Royalty, the poker player representation firm with a who’s-who list of clients, plans on […]
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SpadeClub Poker Recently Updated Its Features
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 has recently launched new and exciting updates to the site that give members the opportunity to win more cash, more often. SpadeClub implemented […]
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Excalibur's Electronic Poker Tables Wrap Up Beta Test
On a lonely Tuesday afternoon in the city of sin, two dozen poker players have stepped out of their comfort zones to delve into the new and the unknown. There is no shuffling of chips to break up the silence or monotony, no cards to play with or to throw into the muck, no dealers […]
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DevilfishPoker.com Launches Two New Poker Games
DevilfishPoker.com has announced the addition of two new poker games to its site. The first, 32-card draw, is popular among the Italian market and looks set to take flight across the rest of the online poker world. The game itself is similar to 5-card draw but with the lower cards stripped from the deck. Solely […]
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English Invade Belgium for Annual Poker Championship
The upcoming main event at the Belgium Poker Championship, being held at the Casino de Namur in Belgium from Nov. 15 to 23 is expected to see 1,000 players take to the felt to vie for an estimated €1.5 million. A trio of big guns from England ― James Akenhead, Jeff Kimber, and Paul “Actionjack” […]
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European Poker Open Hits Dublin This Christmas
Leprechaun Poker today announced details of its European Poker Open which takes place in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dublin from December 27 to 29. The 500 capacity event has a buy in of $250 + $25 and offers a guaranteed prize pool of €50,000. This is a deep stack event with 15,000 starting stacks and […]
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Neil Channing and Great Britain Win Poker Nations Cup
Team Great Britain, captained by Roland De Wolfe and featuring Irish Open winner Neil Channing, has won 2008 PartyPoker.com Poker Nations Cup. The team, featuring de Wolfe and Channing, as well as Surinder Sunar, Joe Beevers, Ian Frazer and PartyPoker.com VIP online qualifier Charlie Durbin beat Ireland heads-up to lift the prestigious title and $100,000 […]
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Boss Media and CryptoLogic Merge Poker Players
CryptoLogic, the publicly-quoted online gaming software provider, announced today it had entered into a strategic partnership with Boss Media which will see its poker customers merged with Boss’ International Poker Network (IPN) and expected savings of $12-15 million. The move comes in the aftermath of CryptoLogic’s recent announcement that its strategic focus would shift to […]
