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Dennis Phillips Looks to Roy Winston for Coaching
At the beginning of May, the World Series of Poker announced the drastic and unprecedented decision to move back the final table of the main event to November, nearly fourth months later. The decision was met with an overwhelming response, and questions arose as to what the nine players would do during the hiatus. Getting […]
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Dani ‘Ansky’ Stern Hosts New Free Poker Training Video
Dani “ansky” Stern is the featured coach in this week’s free poker training video clip. The video shows Stern playing four deep-stacked, six-handed no-limit hold’em tables at once: three $10-$20 and one $25-$50. This video clip, as well as three additional free clips by other instructors, is currently available on the Card Player Pro preview […]
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2008 Borgata Poker Open Begins Today
The first preliminary event at the 2008 Borgata Poker Open, hosted at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey, begins today. It is a $300 no-limit hold’em tournament that is the first of 12 events leading up to the World Poker Tour $10,000 championship event, which begins on Sunday, Sept. 14. […]
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Online Poker Kicks Off in Italy
With the seal of approval from Italy’s gaming authority AAMS, virtual cards were shuffled up, and real-money games played out for the first time on Italian licensed website Gioco Digitale yesterday afternoon. GamblingCompliance.com today reported that two tables with buy-ins of €0.50 kicked things off, with 18 enthusiasts reserving their seats in six seconds, and […]
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Partouche Poker Tour Final Starts Today
The Partouche Poker Tour grand final kicks off today in Cannes, France, at the Palm Beach Casino, and will run until Sept. 7. The €8,500 buy-in main event has a guaranteed prize pool of €2 million. After 2,460 satellite tournaments and eight super-satellites, a minimum of 300 players will now go in to battle. The […]
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Nick Jenkins is New Amateur Poker Champ
Nick Jenkins beat a field of more than 200 to take home the World Championship of Amateur Poker 2008 title, the championship cup, gold medal, and a first prize of £3,500. His winnings did not stop there, as he also received an expenses-paid package worth $8,000 to the GUKPT final event from the event’s sponsor […]
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iPoker Largest Non-U.S. Poker Liquidity Pool
Playtech, the publicly-quoted owner of the iPoker network, has today reported its interim results for the six months ending June 30, 2008. Poker revenues saw growth of $11.5 million to $22 million, an increase of 109 percent compared to $10.5 million for the same period in 2007. Chief Executive Officer Mor Weizer said “In the […]
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Celebrate with CP Columnist John Vorhaus Sunday
Book release parties usually take place at fancy restaurants or in upscale book stores, but poker authors celebrate in different ways. Card Player columnist and author John Vorhaus is celebrating the launch of his latest poker novel, Under the Gun, at Hollywood Park Casino Sunday, Sept. 7, with the JV Celebrational, a $120 no-limit hold’em […]
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Gulf Coast Poker Championship Cancelled by Gustav
Hurricane Gustav has forced the casinos in Gulfport and Biloxi to temporarily shutter their doors, but the casinos did not suffer damage from the storm and will reopen shortly. The Gulf Coast Poker Championship, which was supposed to hold its $5,000 championship event Thursday, has been cancelled, and there’s no word yet if the event […]
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Strip Poker: Caesars Palace Awarding Free $10K Seats
The annual Caesars Palace Classic begins in October, and with festivities just around the corner, the poker room is giving away $400,000 worth of seats into the main event — for free. There are two ways players can snag one of these $10,000 tournament entries. The first promotion is a daily raffle that runs from […]
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Online Poker: diegoaiz Wins Sunday Million
PokerStars Sunday Million The PokerStars Sunday Million tournament had its first overlay in at least two years (possibly ever) this Labor Day weekend when just 7,212 entrants bought in. The tournament, which now has a guarantee of $1.5 million, had been close to requiring an overlay for the previous two weeks, with a prize pool […]
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ESPN to Premiere World Series of Poker Main Event Tonight
It’s finally time for the big one. The most prestigious and anticipated poker event of the year is the World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, and ESPN is ready to show the world the best of this year’s tournament leading up to the final table. The first episode premieres tonight at […]
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Yevgeniy Timoshenko Wins Asian Poker Tour Macau
The Asian Poker Tour Macau event at the Galaxy StarWorld Casino ended this weekend with 20-year-old U.S. player Yevgeniy Timoshenko, who plays as “Jovial Gent” online, as the champion. He defeated a field of 257 players, which was short of the entrants needed to create the guaranteed $1.5 million prize pool. After the APT made […]
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Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Returns Home
BlueSquarePoker.com Grosvenor UK Poker Tour has returned to its roots at the Grosvenor Casino in Bolton. This was where the very first GUKPT event was hosted in January 2007. It was in this casino that Praz Bansi from London beat 196 players to go head-to-head with his good friend Karl Mahrenholz. But all is fair […]
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World Poker Congress Coincides with EPT Budapest
The third annual World Poker Congress will be held on Oct. 29 and 30 in Budapest. If those dates ring a bell, it is because the European Poker Tour’s Budapest tournament is due to play out at the same time. This is expected to boost attendance at the conference and make for a good mix […]
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Jacques Zaicik Wins Barriere Poker Main Event
This year’s Barriere Poker Tournament took place in Enghien les Bains, 14 kilometres from the Champs Elysées in Paris. The €1,100 main event ran from Aug. 22 to 24 with a guaranteed prize pool of €100,000. Many notable French poker pros were among the 90 players in attendance, including Remy Biechel, Michel Cohen, François Montmirel, […]
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Online Poker: Play a Tournament with Adam 'Roothlus' Levy Part II
This is Part II of an interview with Adam “Roothlus” Levy regarding key hands that he played in the PokerStars $200 rebuy tournament that he eventually won. Please refer to Part I for the previous hands in this interview. Hand No. 356 Info Blinds: 3,500-7,000 with 700 ante Seven-handed Player Adam “Roothlus” Levy exposabre […]
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Timoshenko Takes Down Asian Poker Tour Macau
Young American Yevgeniy Timoshenko topped a field of 257 players to take down the top prize of $500,000 at the StarWorld Galaxy Hotel and Casino Asian Poker Tour in Macau at the weekend. Timoshenko, whose previous largest live win was around $160,000 at the Irish Open in 2007 obliterated the final table at the event, […]
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Entraction Network Grows Poker Revenues
Entraction network, formerly 24hPoker network, has reported poker revenues up 29 percent from SEK110 million (€11.7 million) in the first half of 2008 compared to SEK85.5 million (€9 million) in the same period of 2007. Q2 2008 saw poker revenue rise 22 percent to SEK51.9 million on the same quarter in 2007. The company, which […]
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Bet365 Signs Danish Poker Pro Jesper Hougaard
Jesper Hougaard, the 24-year-old Danish poker professional who won a bracelet at this year’s World Series of Poker in Las Vegas has signed up as brand ambassador with Bet365. The former national table tennis coach will write a poker diary blog at Bet365 which will include strategy tips and will play regular bounty tournaments at […]
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Online Poker: Play a Tournament with Adam 'Roothlus' Levy Part I
It takes a lot of things to win a poker tournament: perseverance, good luck, cushion for overcoming bad luck, gutsy calls, spot-on reads, and not-so-good reads that go your way. Online poker star Adam “Roothlus” Levy checked pretty much all of those boxes on his way to taking down a recent $200 rebuy event on […]
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Card Player TV Guide: Week of Aug. 24-30
Card Player TV provides its viewers with a plethora 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 This is CPTV’s staple news show. Every week the show brings viewers the latest happenings in […]
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Strip Poker: PokerPro Tables in Las Vegas
Electronic poker tables have been popping up all over the globe, and it seemed to be just a matter of time before the innovation reached Las Vegas. Excalibur Hotel and Casino, an MGM Mirage property, recently installed 12 PokerPro electronic tables, completely replacing its old 12-table poker room. It’s the first poker room in Nevada […]
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Qualify for WCOOP for Cheap on PokerStars
PokerStars wants as many players as possible playing in the events that fill its World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) schedule, which starts next Friday, and that’s why its satellite schedule is so jam-packed with qualifiers for players of all levels and bankroll sizes. Players can get into any of the 33 events by playing […]
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Cake Poker to Host Its First $250K-Guaranteed Tourney Sunday
This Sunday, CakePoker is hosting its first-ever Cake Poker $250,000 guaranteed tournament at 5 p.m. ET, and there is still plenty of time left to qualify for the $215 buy-in tournament for cheap. Players can satellite in through cash, loyalty point, and freeroll options. This massive guaranteed tournament will take place on the last Sunday […]
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Play on SpadeClub for Your Chance to Win a $25,000 Seat
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. The first SpadeClub Bellagio Championship Series monthly qualifier, wherein the top nine finishers will automatically be entered in the Bellagio Championship Series finals in […]
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This Week in Poker: Poker Tournament News Aug. 23-29
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 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker The final table of the WPT Legends of Poker took place on Thursday, Aug. 28 at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California. The $10,000 buy-in […]
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Devilfish Wins His First Bounty Tournament
53 players’ efforts proved fruitless yesterday when they did their best to knock Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott out in a bounty tournament on DevifishPoker.com. Ulliott now adds his first bounty tournament victory to a long list of titles accumulating under his belt. After defeating all his opponents, including “igotabigpp” who came second in the recent Devilympics, […]
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888.com Announces Poker Open V
888.com has announced the launch of its fifth Poker Open which will be filmed for Sky Sports at the Maidstone television studios from Oct. 27 to Nov. 7. This exclusive event has only 108 seats on offer, meaning every aspiring champion will get a shot at their own few minutes of fame. 888Poker.com is giving […]
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WPT: John Phan Wins the 2008 Legends of Poker
The final six players in the 2008 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship event took their seats at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California, this afternoon at 4 p.m. A first-place prize worth $1,091,428 was up for grabs, and every player had his eyes set on that prize. Five of […]
