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PartyGaming Wins Place on FTSE4Good Index
PartyGaming, the parent Company of PartyPoker.com, today announced it will be included in the FTSE4Good Index. The Index aims to help responsible investors identify companies who meet a high standard of corporate social responsibility with criteria ranging from aiming for environmental sustainability, growing positive relationships with stakeholders, supporting universal human rights, countering bribery, and upholding […]
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WPT: Borgata Poker Open Day 2
Day 2 of the WPT Borgata Poker Open After seven slow, tortuous levels yesterday, the final level of the evening really opened things up and over 200 players were lost in total. Returning for day 2, many expected the elimination rate to hit a wall, however, the increasing blinds and multitude of short stacks ensured […]
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New Free Poker Video Training Clip from Card Player Pro
Andrew “Foucault” Brokos is the featured coach in this week’s free poker training video clip. In the video, Brokos goes over some hands he played in the 2008 World Series of Poker main event using the Card Player Pro hand replayer (powered by PokerSavvy Plus). This video clip, as well as three additional free clips […]
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Online Poker: acatlover Wins Full Tilt $750,000 Guarantee
Full Tilt $750,000 Guarantee The Full Tilt $750,000-guaranteed tournament had 3,643 entrants last night, which sunk the tournament back into overlay-territory after having avoided it last weekend. The 3,643 entrants built a prize pool of $728,600, leaving Full Tilt to pump in a $21,400 overlay to match the guarantee. The first-place finisher would snag nearly […]
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Strip Poker: Hard Rock Hosts Official Grand Opening
In true rocker style, the Poker Lounge at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel and Casino hosted an official grand opening, which included a flashy red carpet and a star-studded tournament. Festivities kicked off with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, in which Las Vegas Mayor Oscar B. Goodman and the “Grandfather of Poker” Doyle Brunson shared the […]
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Online Poker: Stevesbets Wins WCOOP $25K Heads-Up Event
The two events from the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) to take place last night were both $1 million-plus events. The marquee event was the $25,000 buy-in heads-up no-limit hold’em event, wherein 64 entrants, including some of the best in the world, plunked down 25 grand to take a shot at a $560,000 […]
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PartyPoker.com Poker Nations Cup Returns Tomorrow
The PartyPoker.com Poker Nations Cup returns tomorrow night Tuesday Sept.16 (or more accurately the early hours of Wednesday morning at 1:15 a.m.) with Great Britain, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Ireland, and the U.S. vying for the $100,000 top prize. Poker fans can get a sneak preview of the action on YouTube: Quirijn Van der Peet Vs. […]
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ECOOP Returns to VC Poker in November
VC Poker today announced its participation in the European Championship of Online Poker III. The popular 14-day online poker festival this year has a guaranteed prize pool of $4.15 million and will cover limit and no-limit hold’em, pot-limit Omaha, pot-limit Omaha high-low, and seven-card stud. Players can qualify in three ways at VC Poker: Tournament […]
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Devilfish's Reality TV Show This Week
Week three of Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott’s “How to Become a Poker Millionaire” TV reality show airs this Thursday on ITV Wales at 10:35 p.m. with the UK poker legend tackling the twin demons of drink and tilt. The five-part series where UK poker legend Ulliott takes four losing poker players and tries to turn them […]
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Sebastian Ruthenberg Wins European Poker Tour Barcelona
There were eight at the felt and then Ruthenberg said move over, move over… Well, it was something like that, on a final table that would give the United Nations a run for its money at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour main event in Barcelona. With a player each from Denmark, Belgium, Canada, America, Italy, […]
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"Back That Ace Up" At PaddyPowerPoker
PaddyPowerPoker.com has announced its new “Back That Ace Up” promotion, where almost $5,000 will be up for grabs for cash game players between now and Nov. 12. In total more than $38,000 in cash is available as well as tickets to the estimated €1 million Irish Winter Festival and satellite tickets for other major events […]
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WPT: Borgata Poker Open Day 1
Day 1 of the Borgata Poker Open Boasting a $5 million guarantee, the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open needed a total of 521 players in order to avoid an overlay. However, due to the high volume of tournaments around the world, what was once considered an easy accomplishment for one of the most popular […]
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EPT: Sebastian Ruthenberg Wins 2008 Barcelona Open
Many hours of poker had shrunk a record field of 619 players to eight to start the final day of competition at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona Open. Those eight players took their seats at the final table of the first no-limit hold’em championship of season five on the EPT a little after 4 […]
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Online Poker: Play Some Hands with Alex 'AJKHoosier1' Kamberis
Alex “AJKHoosiers1” Kamberis did well for himself in 2007, but his 2008 is shaping up to be incredible. He already has more than $500,000 in Online Player of the Year-qualified finishes for ’08, including a runner-up finish in the Full Tilt $750,000-guaranteed event in July and numerous other first-place finishes. He currently sits in third […]
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Card Player TV Guide: Week of Sept. 7-13
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: High Stakes Living: Card Player TV tours the home of Annie Duke and Joe Reitman. Online Zone: Card Player TV’s […]
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Online Poker: WCOOP H.O.R.S.E. and PL Hold'em Event Conclude
Last night’s two events in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker featured H.O.R.S.E. and pot-limit hold’em. Read the event recaps below to find out who the winners were, and check out the entire WCOOP schedule and results list on CardPlayer.com. WCOOP Event No. 17: $500 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Hold’em A six-handed pot-limit hold’em tournament was the […]
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European Poker Tour Update: Barcelona Day 3
From a record turnout of 619 players we’re down to the final eight at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Barcelona Open at the Gran Casino in the Catalan capital. Day three saw 36 players return to vie for the €1,361,000 first prize. Team PokerStars pro Chad Brown was one o the first eliminated when all […]
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WPT: Borgata Poker Open Main Event Begins Sunday
Poker players spending their time this week in the north east are looking forward to Sunday’s World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open. The tournament is boasting a $5,000,000 guarantee for its main event and satellites are running around the clock in an effort to meet that mark. This $10,000 buy-in tournament has always been a […]
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EPT: Barcelona Open Day 3
Day 3 at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona Open was relatively tame compared to the carnage that saw 167 players fly out the door of the Gran Casino on day 2. The order of the day was to shrink 36 players down to the final eight, and every hopeful competitor dug in to face […]
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Online Poker: Andy McLEOD Wins WCOOP PLO Event
The two events to play out last night in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) had comparable prize pools, despite having a $200,000 difference in guarantees. Both put their guarantees to shame, though, and a heads-up clash of the titans in one event ensured that there were plenty of railbirds. Read the event […]
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European Poker Tour Update: Barcelona Day 2
Day 2 at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Barcelona began with 203 players coming out of the gates. With a few minutes left in the first level that number had dived down to the 180 range. The biggest name to fall in the first round was Fabrice Soulier. It only took 11 minutes for the […]
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EPT: Barcelona Open Day 2
The first couple of levels during day 2 at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona Open saw some of the fastest tournament poker play in quite some time. Players knew they had a long way to go to before they could start dreaming of the €1,361,000 first-place prize, and the approach seemed to be to […]
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This Week in Poker: Poker Tournament News Sept. 6-12
Check out CardPlayer.com every Friday for a weekly wrapup of the news from the live poker tournament trail. This Week in Tournament Poker EPT Barcelona Open The first stop on season five on the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour began on Wednesday, Sept. 10 in Barcelona, Spain. The event broke its own field-size record by attracting […]
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Barney Frank Reintroduces the Payments Systems Protection Act
Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has reintroduced the Payments Systems Protection Act, and the bill will get marked up in the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday. The new bill, HR 6870, is “to ensure that implementation of proposed regulations under subchapter IV of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code, does not cause harm […]
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Win a Seat in Bellagio Festa al Lago Prelim from SpadeClub.com
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 will be hosting the first preliminary event in the Festa al Lago Classic tournament series at the Bellagio Resort Hotel and Casino in […]
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Players Can Earn Rewards Turbo Style Now at Cake Poker
This month, CakePoker is rewarding its members even faster than before with its Turbo Gold Card event. Each Friday in September from 12:01 a.m. ET to 3 a.m. ET Saturday, players can earn Gold Card rewards by 75 percent faster. Gold Card rewards are earned by playing in cash games, and, as opposed to other […]
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Online Poker: lrdvoldemort Wins WCOOP No-Limit Rebuy Event
Two PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) events took place last night, including the fourth of seven events with guarantees of $1 million or more. As with every WCOOP event thus far, both events surged past their guarantees with ease. Read the event recaps below to find out who the winners were, and check […]
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100 Percent, €1,000 Reload Bonus at DevilfishPoker.com
DevilifishPoker.com, in celebration of the Large Hadron Collider experiment in Cern, Switzerland, today announced a new 100 percent reload bonus up to €1,000 for all players including previous depositors. To avail of the bonus until Oct. 31, 2008, players can simply: Log in to your account Click on ‘Cashier’ Click on ‘Deposit’ Enter the code […]
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European Poker Tour Update: Barcelona Day 1B
This year’s tournament field at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour in Barcelona has set a new record for the event as 619 players in total took to the floor, over days 1A and 1B. There were 292 wannabe champions on day 1A, and 327 yesterday, on day 1B — a total increase of 76 players […]
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Bwin Poker Outlawed By German Court
Reuters news agency today reported that Austro-German betting giant, bwin has lost its challenge in a regional German court to overturn a previous ban imposed on its international services by German states. The Cologne court rejected bwin’s request to suspend the previous ruling which banned Internet gambling, including poker. Bwin had hoped to get a […]
