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Irish Christmas Poker Festival Announced for Cork
The Macau Sporting Club, Cork, Ireland, which recently saw record numbers travel from the UK and around Ireland to play in the €150,000 guaranteed Irish Poker Classic, yesterday announced its annual €100,000 guaranteed Irish Christmas Poker Festival. The three-day €1,000 + €80 no-limit hold’em freezeout main event takes place from Friday Nov. 28 to Sunday […]
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Scott Montgomery: What's My Line?
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. While some members of the November Nine have gone into hiding, choosing to seclude themselves from the spotlight of media attention, Scott Montgomery has no doubt done the opposite, […]
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Bellagio WPT Festa al Lago Adds a Day to the Main Event
Bellagio today announced that the $15,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Festa al Lago Classic main event will add a day of play, pushing back the televised final table to Oct. 26. This decision is largely due to the new deeper starting stacks at Bellagio. This summer, the Bellagio poker room announced triple stacks for all […]
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EPT: Barcelona Open Day 1B
The second half of the field in the 2008 EPT Barcelona Open kicked off its tournament with eight levels of play on Thursday afternoon, maxing out the casino floor and accommodating so many alternates and late entries that the player count reached a total of 619, two tables more than what was originally determined to […]
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SpadeClub Poker Winner: Tiffany 'tiffjoy' Rothenberger
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. Exclusive member Tiffany “tiffjoy” Rothenberger has only been playing poker for about six months and was able to best the competition of more than […]
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UltimateBet Best Damn Poker Show Season Two Airs Oct. 27
UltimateBet has announced today that the second season of the Best Damn Poker Show will begin airing Oct. 27 on Fox Sports Net. The show features Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth competing for the bragging rights of who is the better poker coach. For that, the two need players to teach. Duke and Hellmuth picked […]
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U.S. Poker Championship Prelims Start Sunday
The Taj Mahal is home of the United States Poker Championship, one of the oldest major tournaments around, and the 2008 installment of the series begins on Sunday. The first of 24 events is a $340 buy-in limit hold’em event at 11:15 a.m. Prelims have buy-ins ranging from $340-$1,080 and feature a variety of games, […]
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Online Poker: Randers Wins WCOOP Mixed Hold'em Event
The 2008 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) continued last night with two new events, both with $300 buy-ins and $300,000 guarantees. The first event was a pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better event, and the final event of the night was a six-handed mixed hold’em tournament. Read the event recaps below to find out who the […]
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PokerStars Software Now Available for Mac Users
PokerStars.com today announced the launch of its new software for the Apple Mac operating system. Mac owners using the Mac OS X 10.4.10 and later versions of the operating system can now download and play on the world’s largest online poker room. Bertrand “ElKy” Grospellier, the 2008 PCA Champion, said of the development, “PokerStars understands […]
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European Poker Tour Update: Barcelona Day 1A
The fifth season of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour, saw its opening event, the $8,000 no-limit hold’em tournament, begin in the Gran Casino, Barcelona yesterday. Players sat down with starting stacks of 10,000, and registration was capped at 600. Another celebration was to be had with the European Poker Tour’s birthday party — during which, […]
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PartyGaming May Lose Up to One-Third of Employees
PartyGaming, which last week confirmed a redundancy plan to the Gibraltar Chronicle, could be cutting up to one-third of its 330 plus workforce according to Panorama, an online daily news source on the Rock. According to sources quoted to the news site and Gibfocus.gi, over 100 redundancies have already been confirmed internally and the figure […]
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Qualifiers Running for Bodog Poker Open Main Event Now
Bodog Poker is going to offer the biggest guaranteed prize pool in the site’s history for the Bodog Poker Open II (BPO) main event on Oct. 5 at 4 p.m. ET, and qualifiers are running now. The buy-in for the main event is $500, and the guaranteed prize pool is $300,000. Players can satellite into […]
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EPT: Barcelona Open Day 1A
To say that the chips were flying on day 1A at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Barcelona Open would be an understatement. In a tournament poker world where double and sometimes triple starting stacks have become the norm, the 10,000 stacks that players began with at the Gran Casino Barcelona looked quaint by comparison. From […]
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Strip Poker: Sports Celebrity Charity Tourney at Hard Rock
Though it is pretty much impossible for an average Joe to match up against an NBA star on the basketball court, it is possible to go head to head with one of these athletes on the poker felt. On Monday, Sept. 15, Greg Anthony and Jermaine O’Neal will host the Sports Dream Celebrity Poker charity […]
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EPT: Tournament Trail Q and A — David 'Chino' Rheem
New PokerStars pro David "Chino" Rheem is perhaps the most experienced player heading to the World Series of Poker final table, but even he has had to adapt to life since becoming a member of the November Nine. No stranger to the limelight, Rheem has earned more than $600,000 in over tournament career and is […]
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Nam Le Wins the APPT High Roller Event
Nam Le won $474,358 in prize money when he defeated Andrew Scott heads-up to win the Asia Pacific Poker Tour high-roller event in Macau. The event featured a buy-in worth $19,250, and 61 players entered to make a total prize pool worth $1,282,052. Many top players in the game were drawn to the large buy-in […]
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Strip Poker: Hard Rock Poker Lounge Grand Opening Saturday
The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is notorious for knowing how to party, and on Saturday, Sept. 13, the celebration at hand will be the grand opening of its one-of-kind Poker Lounge. The red-carpet reception begins a 5 p.m. with a VIP poker tournament at 6 p.m. Players will get to experience the Poker Lounge […]
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Online Poker: jonasof87 Wins Four-Handed WCOOP Event
Two more events took place in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) last night, a $200 buy-in, $400,000-guaranteed, four-handed no-limit hold’em event and a $200, $100,000-guaranteed razz event. Read below to find out who earned the bracelets in those two events, and check out the entire WCOOP schedule and results list on CardPlayer.com. […]
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Dutch Online Gaming Tax Set at 40.85 Percent
Gaming Intelligence Group today reported that the Dutch Senate yesterday passed a bill to tax games of chance. The tax will be set at 40.85 percent. It is not yet clear if poker is to be included in the games to be tax but the bill will target what they consider ‘illegal’ online gaming operators. […]
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Nam Le, JC Tran, and Quinn Do Sign for APT
The Asian Poker Tour today announced it has signed three well known professional poker players to represent the tour on the world poker circuit. Nam Le, who has just won the APPT Macau High Rollers event, J.C. Tran, and Quinn Do will “spread the word about the APT worldwide,” according to AsianLogic CEO Tom Hall. […]
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SpadeClub's Bellagio Championship Series Monthly Qualifier Winner
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. On Aug. 31, Exclusive member Jeremy “TheBulldog” Keefer beat out 108 other entrants to make a first-place finish and win a $2,500 seat […]
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Strip Poker: $50,000 September Friday Cash Giveaway at Wynn
During the month of September, not only do Fridays mean the start of the weekend, but they also mean free cash at the Wynn. The Wynn poker room is giving away $50,000 this month to reward its cash game players. Every Friday, $2,500 cash drawings are held five times a day at 10 a.m., 1 […]
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EPT: Barcelona Open Kicks Off Season Five Tomorrow
Day 1A at the opening stop of the fifth season on the European Poker Tour will begin in Barcelona, Spain, on Wednesday, Sept. 10 at 3 p.m. local time. The no-limit hold’em tournament features an €8,000 buy-in, and there will be two day-one flights. The final table will take place on Sunday, Sept. 14, and […]
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Online Poker: Calvin32 Wins WCOOP $500 Two-Day Event
Three PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) events concluded last night. Read on for more details, and be sure to check out the WCOOP schedule and results page on CardPlayer.com. WCOOP Event No. 6: $500 No-Limit Hold’em (two-day event) The first two-day event of the 2008 PokerStars WCOOP began on Sunday night and came […]
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Poker and Sports Stars Set For Irish Poker Festival
The €250,000 guaranteed LadbrokesPoker.com Irish Poker Festival taking place in Killarney, Ireland from Oct. 2 to 5, 2008 will see recent World Series of Poker Pot-Limit Omaha World Champion Marty Smyth take on former World Snooker Champions Steve Davis and Mark Williams who hope to return from the China Open to take part. Smyth, who […]
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Devilfish's "Poker Millionaire" Continues
Episode two of “How to Become a Poker Millionaire” — Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott’s new poker reality TV show — is broadcast this Thursday night at 10:35 p.m. on ITV Wales. In the first episode, broadcast last week, Ulliott put the four contestants through their paces to see if their luck was in, they were smart […]
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PartyPoker.com Poker Nations Cup Returns
The PartyPoker.com Poker Nations Cup returns next week at midnight on Tuesday Sept.16 / Wednesday Sept. 17 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. Benjamin Kang Surindar Sunar Vs. […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — Paul 'uclabruinz' Smith
Recent World Poker Tour final tablist Paul Smith has been having an impressive year on the tournament circuit. First, Smith turned heads with a deep run in the L.A. Poker Classic last February. Then, in April, Smith won event No. 9 at the Five-Star World Poker Classic for more than $200,000. He followed up that […]
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UltimateBet Gives CP Readers a Chance to Freeroll to Aruba
UltimateBet’s signature live tournament, the Aruba Poker Classic, begins at the end of the month, and the site is offering Card Player readers a freeroll awarding five seats into a last-chance $530 buy-in qualifier that awards 50 seats into the event. The free tournament is scheduled for Sept. 11 at 8 p.m. ET. Anyone who […]
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Slaktarn Wins $25,000 Heads-Up Omaha Event on Full Tilt
Full Tilt held its $25,000 heads-up pot-limit Omaha world championship on Saturday, an event that attracted 64 of the best online and live poker players in the industry. Online player slaktarn beat Patrik Antonius heads up to win the $560,000 top prize. Antonius had to beat Hac “trex313” Dang in the Elite Eight and then Di “urindanger” Dang […]
