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Card Player Profile: Ted Lawson
Ted Lawson recently broke the $2 million mark in lifetime tournament earnings. Only four years ago, he won the third tournament that he ever played in, the $5,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha event at the 2004 World Series of Poker, earning $500,000. Since then, Lawson has earned money consistently in tournaments here in the United States […]
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Full Tilt Poker Giving Winners a Choice
Full Tilt Poker is giving players the chance to play big buy-in tournaments in exotic locales — or, really, wherever the heck they want — for extremely cheap with its Winner’s Choice series of qualifiers. The Winner’s Choice tournaments, held on Saturdays at 9 p.m. ET, award $12,000 prize packages that can be used for […]
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LAPT San Jose Enters Day Two with 85 Players
Yesterday, the second event of PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) began with 398 entrants who showed up in San Jose for the $2,500 event. They built a prize pool of $965,150. The winner of this three-day event will receive $274,103. The runner-up receives $144,733, and the top 32 will earn at least $6,756. CardPlayer.com […]
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New Hold'em Game Approved by Nevada Gaming
Yesterday, the Nevada Gaming Commission approved a new variation of Texas hold’em called Royal Hold’em for play in the state. Royal Hold’em was created and is being marketed by the Las Vegas gaming company NewPoker, LLC. Royal Hold’em is played with a stripped deck of 20 cards that only contains tens through aces. Two to […]
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Stars Aligning for Full Tilt $25K Heads-Up Championship
Saturday, the largest buy-in in online tournament in poker history takes place at Full Tilt Poker with its $25,000 Heads-Up Championship. So far, 70 entrants have registered, including a handful of Full Tilt pros and a roster of online pros who will make this event one of the toughest online playing fields ever. At the […]
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ECOOP Starts Tonight on Blue Square Poker
The second-annual European Championship of Online Poker kicks off on BlueSqPoker.com at 7 p.m. tonight with a $200+$15 no-limit hold’em freezeout with $250,000 guaranteed. The ECOOP will have a minimum guaranteed prize pool paid out over the duration of the series of $3.6 million. The 10-event series will culminate in the $1,000+$60 main event, which […]
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Ciaran O'Leary Becomes PaddyPowerPoker Pro
PaddyPowerPoker.com today announced it had signed Irishman Ciaran “Big C” O’Leary as its brand ambassador. O’Leary, who is based in the Pacific Northwest in the U.S., won the $1,500 no-limit hold’em event at the 2007 World Series of Poker. The popular player, who has made several appearances in Europe since his WSOP victory, said, “I’m […]
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German and Spanish Card Player Websites Launched
The Card Player Media family expanded today with the addition of CardPlayerDeutsch.com (Germany) and CardPlayerEspana.com (Spain), bringing to 13 the total of international sites and magazines in Card Player Media’s business portfolio. The sites join CardPlayerEurope.com, CardPlayerItalia.com (Italy), CardPlayer.fi (Finland), CardPlayerBrasil.com (Brazil), and CardPlayerFr.com (France), as well as partner magazines in Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Estonia, […]
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WPT Spanish Championship Gets Under Way Today
The World Poker Tour Spanish Championship is being held at Casino Barcelona from Friday, May 23 to Tuesday, May 27. It is the last major championship on European shores ahead of the start of the World Series of Poker, which starts on May 30 in Las Vegas. The event, despite not being televised, is expected […]
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PokerStars to Open Live Poker Room in Macau Tomorrow
It was announced today that the world’s largest online poker site, PokerStars, is opening a live poker room in Macau tomorrow. The appropriately named PokerStars Macau will boast a 250-person capacity and be located inside the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino in Cotai. The first official shuffle in the new room will take place in […]
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Card Player Media Announces New Global Partnerships
Card Player Media is pleased to announce that it has added two new European versions of its magazines for readers in the United States and elsewhere. Readers now have an easy portal to international poker; Spain and Germany join Finland, France, Italy, Brazil, and Europe in links at the top of CardPlayer.com. Card Player Media […]
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Nick Ceci Wins WSOP Circuit in New Orleans
The $5,000 World Series of Poker Circuit event held at Harrah’s New Orleans was won yesterday by Nick Ceci, of Peachtree City, Georgia. He outlasted 248 other entrants in what is called the Bayou Poker Challenge to take home $382,928. Now that’s a lot of peaches. Last year’s winner, Lou Esposito, again made the final […]
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Cake Poker Has Golden Giveaways for Frequent Players
At CakePoker, players can earn gold chips for Frequent Player Points (FPP) that can be used to buy prizes or buy into weekly tournaments. FPPs are earned by competing in cash games or real-money tournaments. As players earn more FPPs, their Gold Chip Meter will begin to fill up. One gold chip is earned once […]
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The Scoop Returns to CardPlayer TV for WSOP
CardPlayer TV is pleased to welcome back The Scoop, the Card Player TV show that features Adam Schoenfeld and Diego Cordovez breaking down the stories of the World Series of Poker just as they happen. The two did the show during last year’s WSOP. Back by popular demand, the pair will interview both “old school […]
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Former Las Vegas Poker Dealer in Irish Hitman Trial
A former Las Vegas poker dealer has gone on trial with a woman in Ireland for allegedly conspiring to kill her partner and members of his family. Essam Eid, 52, with an address in Nevada, USA, pleaded not guilty along with Sharon Collins of conspiring to kill P.J. Howard and his sons Niall and Robert […]
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PokerStars Opens Live Poker Room in Macau
PokerStars.com will tomorrow open the 250-capacity PokerStars Macau, the first live poker room to open in the former Portuguese colony in Southeast Asia. The poker room is located in the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino in Coti and will launch with a charity tournament in aid of the victims of the recent earthquake in China. […]
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Roy Brindley Hosts Charity Event This Weekend
Card Player Poker + Sports writer and pro poker player Roy Brindley is hosting a €25 rebuy charity tournament this Saturday, May 24 in the Liffey Arms, Newbridge, Co. Kidare, Ireland, in aid of Saplings, a school for autistic children. A percentage of the prize pool will be withheld for the charity, and a number […]
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SpadeClub Members Party at the Playboy Mansion
SpadeClub.com, the new way to win, offers 2,500 free poker tournaments and $100,000* in cash prizes every month. On May 13, SpadeClub held a random drawing for Exclusive members who had been entered into the Party at the Playboy Mansion promotion. Marc “scrummy” Fregoe, a 29-year-old from New York, and David “elk224” Desorcy, a 67-year-old […]
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The World Series of Poker is Just About Here
Has it really been a year since the stars of the poker universe descended upon Las Vegas to try their hands at the World Series of Poker? Since Phil Hellmuth won his record-breaking 11th bracelet? Since Tom Schneider, who won two bracelets last year, was named the top player of the whole Series? Since Jerry […]
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Bodog Offering Free WSOP ME Seat to Card Player Readers
The exclusive promotion on Bodog Poker that is giving Card Player readers a chance at a free $12,000 prize package for the World Series of Poker main event is still running, and there is still time to qualify. Current Bodog account holders who originally signed up through Card Player or any new players who sign […]
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Lee Watkinson to Host Charity Tourney on Full Tilt Poker
This Sunday, May 25 at 9 p.m. ET, Lee Watkinson will host the Save Captive Chips charity tournament on Full Tilt Poker. The buy-in is $10, half of which goes to the charitable cause while the other half will go to the prize pool. The event can be found under the “Tournaments” tab. The first-place […]
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Bodog Poker to Run Mini-SOP Starting May 30
Bodog Poker announced today that the site will run its own tournament series called the Bodog Poker Mini-SOP from May 30-July 3 that features the same 25 hold’em tournaments that run at the 2008 World Series of Poker at one percent of the buy-in. On the same day as the WSOP $10,000 buy-in pot-limit hold’em […]
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Shane Warne, WSOP Trip Prizes in Aussie Home Game
Aussie poker player Nathan Perry’s dream came true when he won Shane Warne as a prize in the 888.com Ultimate Home Game tournament. The top prize was an evening with Warne, who then came to the winner’s home to play a poker game with the winner and eight of his friend while waitresses served pizza […]
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Phil Hellmuth to Appear on Milwaukee's Best Light Cans
It is hard to discuss the World Series of Poker without mentioning Phil Hellmuth. Not only does he have the most bracelets at 11, but he also holds the record for most cashes at 64. Further cementing his legacy at the WSOP is the release of special limited-edition Milwakee’s Best Light cans, donning “The Poker […]
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PPA Launches New Site, Membership Drive
The Poker Players Alliance just launched a newly revamped website designed to give its annual dues-paying members more poker resources, a stronger poker legal connection, better organization, an overall stronger poker community, and a say on the make-up of the largest poker lobbying site’s board of directors. “What we’re really aiming to do here is […]
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Bodog Poker $100,000 Guarantee Offers Huge Overlays
The flagship tournament at Bodog is the weekly $100,000-guaranteed event on Sundays, and, while the tournament has almost always featured an overlay, it has been an especially incredible deal with particularly huge overlays as of late. Over the past month — since April 20 — the tournament has had an average overlay of $29,180, or […]
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Queen of Hearts Team Set for WSOP Ladies Event
The Queen of Hearts team has been assembled for the 2008 World Series of Poker $1,000 buy-in ladies championship event in order to raise awareness and money for the Nevada Cancer Institute. The mix of celebrities and poker pros have already pledged more than $10,000 to the foundation. The following are team 2008 Queen of […]
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WSOP Circuit at Harrah's New Orleans Attracts 249
The $5,000 World Series of Poker Circuit event at Harrah’s New Orleans began Monday with 249 entrants, who built a prize pool of $1,196,650. The winner of the event will receive $382,928, a gold ring, and an entry into this year’s WSOP main event, which is right around the corner. Play went until there were […]
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All-New DevilfishPoker.com Launches Today
DevilfishPoker.com relaunches today on the Entraction network with a host of promos, including a daily €666 freeroll at 8 p.m. (BST), as well as a 150 percent first-time deposit bonus, up to €666, a cash game bad-beat jackpot, and a monthly €100,000-guaranteed tournament. The PLUS market-quoted site is the home of current Card Player European […]
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Final Virgin WSOP Packages Up For Grabs Tomorrow
The last in a series of four tournaments offering World Series of Poker packages takes place tomorrow evening at 8:30 p.m. GMT on Virgin Poker. The company is offering one guaranteed €10,500 package, which includes a $10,000 (€7,000) main-event seat, €1,500 spending money, return Virgin Atlantic flight from London Gatwick to Las Vegas, and hotel […]
