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Bodog Offering $12,000 Players Choice Packages
Bodog Poker is now offering satellites for $12,000 prize packages that can be used to enter most major land-based poker tournaments, whichever the package-winner wants. Feeders for the $270 (plus rebuys) Players Choice qualifiers, wherein the $12,000 packages are awarded, start for as little as $1. Players can use the packages for any tournament with […]
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Julien Nuijten Wins Latin American Poker Tour Rio
While on vacation from his home in Amsterdam, 19-year-old Julien Nuijten competed in the first-ever PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and outlasted 314 runners to win the largest poker tournament ever to be hosted in the continent. Nuijten entered the final table as a significant chip leader, having Vitaly […]
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Borgata $500,000 Guarantee Ends Today
The $2,000 Borgata Deep Stack tournament with a $500,000 guarantee will conclude today. The event attracted a whopping 775 entrants, building a prize pool of $1.55 million. The winner will receive $395,095. Play resumes at 11 a.m. ET. Players started with 30,000 in chips, and the structure was based on that of the World Poker […]
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APAT Crowns Scottish Amateur Champion 2008
The fifth event on the APAT Poker Association and Tour, held in the Gala Maybury Casino, Edinburgh, Scotland, has been won by Welshman Jason Jones. The £75 freezeout tournament attracted 132 entrants, with sponsor BlueSquare.com adding a Grosvenor UK Poker Tour event seat worth $3,000 to the winner. Jones demolished the final table, knocking out […]
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Two More Resign at Swedish National Gaming Operator
Gaming industry legal research group Gambling Compliance has reported that two more senior employees at Swedish gambling monopoly Svenska Spel have resigned in what appears to be a protest against a move away from competitiveness towards a more restrictive gaming model. The move comes on the heels of the abdication of CEO Jesper Kärrbrink over […]
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iPoker Network Revenues up 161 Percent Since March '07
Playtech, the publicly-quoted gaming company based in Israel, today announced its revenues rose 97 percent in the first quarter of 2008 to $39 million from the same period last year. iPoker, the poker network operated by the company, was a significant driver of growth, expanding by 161 percent in the same period to $11 million. […]
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Marty Smyth Wins PartyPoker World Open
Marty Smyth from Belfast, Northern Ireland, has won the PartyPoker.com World Open VI for $250,000, beating a field of 72 in the $8,000 buy-in event at the weekend. Smyth, who last year won the Irish Open and made the final of the Poker Millions, beat the in-form current Irish Open champion Neil Channing heads up. […]
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Dutchman Wins Latin American Poker Tour in Brazil
Dutch youngster Julien Nuijten yesterday won the inaugural $2,500 buy-in PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, collecting $222,940 for topping the 314-strong field. Nuijten, a former Magic: The Gathering world champion, made the move to high-stakes online cash games just last year. He beat Russian construction company manager Vitaly Kovyazin […]
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Tournament Trail Q & A: Glen Chorny
Glen Chorny recently defeated 841 other runners to win the European Poker Tour Grand Final in April. He took home the largest prize in the history of European poker — €2,020,000. This win was on the heels of another deep finish that he had posted in January, by finishing in 13th place out of a […]
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Mike Matusow's New Free Poker Training Video Available
This week’s free poker training clip from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus) features Mike “The Mouth” Matusow. In the video, Matusow plays a two sixhanded $3/$6 pot-limit Omaha cash-game tables simultaneously. Click here to view this video or any of the other three free video clips currently available. In the freely availabe clip, […]
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FTOPS VIII Online Poker Series to Begin Wednesday
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) is back with the FTOPS VIII, and it will feature a massive 24-event schedule, including three so-called mystery tournaments. Full Tilt is guaranteeing more than $10 million in prize pools over the course of the event, which will run from this Wednesday, May 7, to Sunday, May 18. […]
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MTV Real World Stars to Serve as DoylesRoom Bounties
The popular weekly Celebrity Bounty Poker Tournament on DoylesRoom is welcoming two ladies from MTV’s Real World to serve as coveted bounty players this Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. ET. Joining the regularly featured bounties of Doyle Brunson and Mike Caro are Kimberly from this season’s Real World in Hollywood and Parisa Montazaran from last season’s […]
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Latin American Poker Tour Event in Rio Plays Final Table
The PokerStars.com Latin American Poker Tour kicked off with its opening event in Rio on Friday and attracted 314 runners, and the final table of nine began earlier today and will play down to the first LAPT champion. The following are chip counts at the start of final-table play: Julien Juijten — Holland — 970,000 […]
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Poker Pro Justin Bonomo Joins Team Bodog
Tables on Bodog just got a little tougher, as it was announced today that the poker site signed poker pro Justin Bonomo. The 22-year-old player from Los Angeles got his start online as “ZeeJustin.” He transferred his skills to live play, and in almost three years, Bonomo has made more than $1.1 million in major […]
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Online Poker: Iron Henry Wins Sunday Million
PokerStars Sunday Million The PokerStars Sunday Million resumed its normal $200 buy-in event last night (after last week’s monthly $500 buy-in version) with an almost round 7,001 entrants. That number meant a prize pool of $1,400,200 and a first-place prize barely falling below $200,000, at $197,000. This attendance was actually a slight drop from the […]
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SpadeClub to Giveaway Four $12,000 World Series of Poker Main Event Seats
May 5, 2008, Las Vegas, NV: SpadeClub announces the WSOP 40K Giveaway which will award four World Series of Poker* main event seats to its Exclusive members between June and July. SpadeClub members can compete during the June and July $40,000 mega monthly events, on June 1 and June 29 respectively, for a World Series […]
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SpadeClub Affiliate Program Offering Free WSOP Seat
May 5, 2008 — SpadeClub, the total poker experience, announces the launch of its new promotion, Affiliate Success = Vegas Rewards, just for its affiliates. SpadeClub’s affiliate program offers affiliates the opportunity to earn 10 percent net revenue sharing on all referred members for the lifetime of the referral’s membership with SpadeClub, not just a […]
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Online Poker: Interview with Matthew 'ionlyplayAA' Hilger
The axiom “those who can’t do, teach” is not always the case, especially in the world of poker, wherein many world-renowned players — Doyle Brunson, for instance — have written books meant to train readers to become better poker players. Another exception is poker author Matthew “ionlyplayAA” Hilger, who took down the $750,000-guaranteed event on […]
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Full Tilt Poker Offers More Than $1 Million Every Sunday
Full Tilt Poker continues to cater to poker players’ needs for continuous action and huge prize pools by offering what it calls Big Money Sundays. The site offers well over $1 million in guaranteed prize pools each and every Sunday, and once a month, the prize pool in a single event hits a guaranteed seven […]
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Card Player Profile: Cory Carroll
Cory Carroll has had only nine major tournament cashes in his live career, but they add up to more than $1.8 million in winnings. The Canadian pro captured his first and only title last May at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas when he took down the $5,000 buy-in World Series of Poker Circuit event. He […]
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Cake Poker Million Dollar Freeroll Event Tomorrow
The penultimate event in the Million Dollar Freeroll Series at CakePoker, a promotion providing players with a chance to get a piece of a million-dollar pie via monthly $100,000 freeroll tournaments, will take place tomorrow at 4 p.m. ET. The event is unique in that the top prize is so enormous. Of the $100,000 awarded […]
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SpadeClub Affiliate Program Offering Free WSOP Seat
SpadeClub, the total poker experience, announces the launch of its new promotion, Affiliate Success = Vegas Rewards, just for its affiliates. SpadeClub’s affiliate program offers affiliates the opportunity to earn 10 percent net revenue sharing on all referred members for the lifetime of the referral’s membership with SpadeClub, not just a one-time referral fee. The […]
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Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Talks About UIGEA
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is one of those rare politicians who seems to be in office for reasons other than ego or personal gain. Closer to being a Libertarian than a contemporary Republican, he has served more than 10 years representing Texans in the House of Representatives since 1976 (he’s been in office since […]
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PKR Sponsors Soccer Awards Party
3-D online poker room PKR.com sponsored last weekend’s Professional Footballers Association Awards after-party at London’s exclusive Albannach restaurant in Trafalgar Square. The company provided a fun casino for the star-studded event, which attracted soccer giants Micha Richards, Jermain Defoe, Carlton Cole, and Anton Ferdinand. Marketing Manager Erika Schwartz said of the event, “It was a […]
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Card Player Poker+Sports Magazine Now in Flash
Europe’s top poker and betting monthly, Card Player Poker+Sports, is now available online in a flash-based reproduction of the print copy of the magazine. Flash technology allows web users to enjoy a rich graphical experience, and, with the flash version of Card Player Poker+Sports, readers can now enjoy the full-colour-magazine experience, just like having the […]
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Full Tilt Online Poker Series Returns
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) returns next week on Wednesday May 7 with 24 individual events and more than $10 million in guaranteed prize money. FTOPS, which started in August 2006, is now in its eighth season, and this time around seven individual events will have a prize pool of more than $1 […]
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Allen Cunningham Wins Caesars WSOP Circuit Event
Just hours after announcing that the final table of the WSOP main event will be delayed for 16 weeks, Harrah’s wasted no time getting to the conclusion of the WSOP Circuit main event at Caesars Palace. The final nine players gathered in the corner of the Caesars Palace tournament room, surrounded by bleachers full of […]
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Reactions, Details on WSOP Final Table Date Change
Today, Harrah’s announced it will delay the final table of the World Series of Poker main event until November so that it can be broadcast on ESPN with only a two-hour delay. Managers from the WSOP, ESPN, and Miller Brewing held a conference call today with members of the press to explain the reasoning behind […]
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Pro Celebrity Poker Tourney Saturday at Caesars Indiana
Over Kentucky Derby weekend, poker pros and celebrities are gong all in for climate change at Caesars Indiana this Saturday at 8:30 p.m. The charity poker tournament will benefit the international Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, the Health and Climate Foundation, and the Robby Albarado Foundation. Phil Hellmuth and Robert Williamson III are headlining the […]
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Borgata $500K-Guaranteed Tourney Begins Sunday
The largest guaranteed poker tournament in Atlantic City history begins this Sunday at the Borgata. The $500,000 Guaranteed Deep Stack Tournament features a $2,000 buy-in, and last-chance qualifiers are running this weekend for $430. The supersatellites will take place tomorrow at 6 p.m. ET and Saturday at 11 a.m. ET. One out of every five […]
