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Bodog Offers 100 Percent Reload Bonus
Bodog is giving existing players an opportunity to boost their bankroll by offering a 100 percent reload bonus up to $500. New players can also take advantage of a deposit bonus of 110 percent. With the extra free money, players can compete in daily qualifiers for the 2008 World Series of Poker main event, the […]
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World Poker Crown Entry Every Hour for One Cent
888.com today announced the hourly ‘almost freeroll’ one cent qualifying satellite to Saturday’s $3 million guaranteed World Poker Crown. Every hour, on the hour, players can try to win a $1,050 package for just one cent. Each event is limited to just 500 players and registration opens 30 minutes before each tournament. Up to 5,000 […]
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E-mail with Virus Sent by DoylesRoom.com Pretenders
A malicious e-mail made to look like a customer service message from DoylesRoom.com warning that the player’s account has been suspended has been hitting inboxes recently. Players should not open this message, as it contains a virus. The message contains a DoylesRoom.com banner, the words “Your account will be blocked. Please click on the link […]
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Poker Profits Up At Gaming VC
Gaming VC, the online casino, sports betting, and poker operator has seen gross poker profit grow to €2.41 million in 2007, up 132 percent on 2006 when it was €1.04 million. Net revenue from poker was €3.42 million in 2007, up 55 percent on 2006. The company launched a new poker brand www.pokerkings.com in December […]
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PokerTrillion.com Moves to New Network
Online poker site PokerTrillion.com has announced it is moving to the Everleaf Gaming Network. The site, which offers players 30 percent rakeback on demand and discounted live tournament entry, will complete the move this Friday April 25. Current players at the site will be switched seamlessly to the new platform said the company and to […]
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World Poker Tour Championship Day 2
With all due respect to the $50,000 World Series of Poker H.O.R.S.E. Championship, Day 2 of the 2008 World Poker Tour Championship featured the most impressive field, pound-for-pound, that an open buy-in no-limit hold’em poker tournament has ever seen. Professional players were stacked six deep at every table in the room, and at times professional […]
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Online Poker: Nous44 Takes Down Sunday Million
PokerStars’ Sunday Million The $200 buy-in version of PokerStars’ Sunday Million built a prize-pool of just over $1.4 million on Sunday. The event attracted 7,176 entrants (7,254 people played the previous week), and was won by Canadian Nous44, who scooped the entire top prize of $202,363. It was Nous44’s largest cash and he was the […]
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Win A Seat Into LAPT San José on PokerStars
PokerStars, the online site that brought players the European Poker Tour and the Asia Pacific Poker Tour, is introducing the Latin American Poker Tour and providing $5,000 packages to the event in San José. The package includes the $2,700 tournament buy-in, four night’s hotel accommodation at $740 a night, and $1,560 for traveling and other […]
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Bodog Founder Calvin Ayre Retires
Calvin Ayre, Bodog founder and self-proclaimed international playboy today announced that he will soon retire from Bodog and disappear from public life. A representative of Bodog’s public relations firm told Card Player that Ayre would not be doing interviews about his retirement. An exact date of his retirement was not released. The entire press release […]
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GSN to Premiere North American Poker Championship
Warning: This story contains spoilers. The 2007 World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship at the Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort was a battle to the $1.5 million first-place winner out of the 504 entrants, and GSN is showing the final table action tonight at 9 p.m. The six players featured at the televised final table […]
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Swedish Poker Chief Quits Over Disagreements
Swedish news site TheLocal.se today reported the resignation of Jesper Kärrbrink, the chief executive officer of Swedish state-run gambling operator Svenska Spel. According to the report Kärrbrink had become disillusioned over differences with his employers on how the monopoly should be run. “It has become clear lately that my ideas about how Svenska Spel […]
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Rupinder Bedi Wins British Poker Tour Nottingham
Nottingham was the second stop on the Gala Casinos British Poker Tour 2008 over the weekend with 224 players paying £500 + £50 to participate in the three-day event. The sponsor added £5,000 for a total prize pool of £118,000 and after two day one’s, a tense day two where the bubble burst at 20 […]
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Day 1B of the WPT World Championship
After Day 1A’s bleak turnout of 210, it seemed as though this year’s WPT World Championship was destined for failure. But a Sunday field of 335 rebounded in a strong way to not only salvage what could have been deemed a disappointment, but create a prize pool large enough to guarantee that at least two […]
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World Poker Tour Championship Day 1A
The story during day 1A of the World Poker Tour Championship at Bellagio had more to do with who was not here than who was, as the cards got into the air shortly after noon in the Fontana Lounge. A small field of 210 players registered for day 1A when things were all said and […]
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Phil Hellmuth Donates to Guy Laliberte's Foundation
News From the Live Updates Team Phil Hellmuth just stopped by at the Five-Star World Poker Classic to let us in on a little secret… He is down to his last $20,000 here in Las Vegas. That’s right, the poker brat himself is nearly busto…. at least in this city. But Phil is not one […]
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New Top Two in the Player of the Year Race
With the end of April drawing near and almost 25 percent of the 2008 almost over, the top ten spots in the Card Player Player of the Year (POY) race are becoming increasingly more difficult to crack. But the recent drastic movements prove that any player still has a chance. The player currently owning the […]
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WPT Settles Lawsuit With Five Elite Players
The World Poker Tour Championship event that begins today just got that much harder because five elite players who refused to play in WPT events while engaged in a lawsuit with World Poker Tour Enterprises have settled. Chris Ferguson, Andy Bloch, Annie Duke, Phil Gordon and Howard Lederer have settled a lawsuit with WPTE they […]
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David Baker Leads Going Into Day 2 of the last Bellagio Prelim
Event no. 14, the last preliminary event before the $25K WPT Five-Star World Poker Classic begins, will conclude today. Amidst the numerous super-satellites going on in the Fontana Lounge at Bellagio, the remaining 19 players return to battle for a first place prize of just over $430,000. Among the notables still in contention are chip […]
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Glen Chorny Wins the 2008 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final
The final table of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final took place yesterday and played into the eary parts of today (over 12 hours) in Monte Carlo. Here is a selection of the most important hands from that final table pulled from Card Player’s live updates from the event. The eventual champion, Glen Chorny, […]
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Cult Poker Personality Brandi Hawbaker found Dead
Note: Contains updates. Brandi Rose Hawbaker, cult poker figure and maligned beauty, has died. She was 26. The Los Angeles County Coroner confirmed that her body was found Sunday, April 13, in a residence in the 8700 block of Pershing Drive in Playa Del Rey, Cali. An autopsy ruled her death as a suicide. Thanks […]
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100 Seats Guaranteed for World Poker Crown Tonight
888.com is guaranteeing 100 seats this evening at 7.30 p.m. GMT for its $3 million guaranteed World Poker Crown (WPC). The $100 + $10 tournament sees the final 88 players receive tickets for the $1,000 buy-in WPC with 12 tickets given away on bounties such stars of the game as Surinder Sunar, Padraig Parkinson, Michael […]
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World Poker Tour Championship Starts Today
The most prestigious event on the World Poker Tour’s yearly schedule starts tomorrow at the Bellagio Five-Diamond World Poker Classic, and today is the last chance to qualify in a super satellite for the $25,000 buy-in WPT Championship that is sure to feature a multi-million dollar prize pool. The last two $2,500 buy-in super satellites […]
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Poland To Regulate Online Gaming This Year
EGaming Review has reported Poland as the latest country suggesting it could regulate online gaming and betting in the second half of this year. The report comes in the wake of similar noises being made in Denmark and France over the last few weeks. The Review says that deputy minister for finance, Marek Kapica is […]
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Finn's Spend €50 million Per Year on Online Poker
Finnish news agency STT has reported that Finnish poker players are spending €50 million per annum on foreign poker sites. State-run lottery and betting monopoly Veikkaus believes it could capture at least a portion of this spend by operating an online poker site, much like Svenska Spel does in neighbouring Sweden. “We could gather the […]
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Canadian wins European Poker Tour Grand Final
Glen Chorny yesterday won the €10,000 buy-in PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo topping a record field of 842 to win Europe’s largest ever first prize payout of €2 million. The 22-year-old business student from Ontario, Canada said after his victory, “It was tough out there, like a hard day at the […]
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Glen Chorny Wins European Poker Tour Grand Final
At the biggest poker tournament ever held in Europe, Glen Chorny, a 22-year-old business student from Ontario, Canada, outlasted a field of 842 players in the European Poker Tour Grand Final for a first-place prize of nearly $3.2 million. The following are the final table results: Glen Chorny ─ $3,193,822 Denes Kalo ─ $1,864,116 Maxime […]
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Cali. Intrastate Online Poker Room Bill Moves Forward
A bill that would authorize the study of intrastate online poker in California moved forward yesterday when the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee (AGOC) unanimously sent the bill forward to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. AB 2026 calls for the California Gambling Control Commission and the Department of Justice to perform a study on authorizing intrastate online […]
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Strip Poker: Harman Charity Event Tomorrow at Venetian
The Second-Annual Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament is taking place tomorrow at the Venetian, and seats are still available. A red-carpet reception will begin at 2 p.m., just before the start of the event at 3 p.m. The recommended donation (buy-in) is $300, and optional re-donations (rebuys) of $200 will be available throughout the first […]
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Matt Savage to Direct Asian Poker Tour Event in Manila
The Asian Poker Tour (APT) announced today that highly respected Tournament Director Matt Savage will oversee next month’s event in Manila. The $2,500 buy-in tournament with a $1 million prize pool is high stakes but nothing new for Savage. He is equipped with years of experience and a number of prestigious events under his belt […]
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Evolution of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour – Part III
Between season’s one and two of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour, Duthie, a formidable poker player himself who in 2000 won £1 million at the first Poker Million, made the final table of the $3,000 no-limit hold’em event at the World Series of Poker. Shortly afterwards Duthie explained to Card Player Europe how the tour […]
