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Donate to China Earthquake Relief at Poker Stars
PokerStars has set up a way for its players to donate to the Red Cross and specifically help the victims of the devastating earthquake that is still rattling China, and the poker site will match every dollar that comes in. Players can donate this way: Click the “Tourney/Special” and look for “China Quake Relief Fund” […]
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Free Poker Training Video by Evan '_Fisherman' Roberts
This week’s free poker training clip from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus) is instructed by Evan “_Fisherman” Roberts. The video features heads up $2-$4 no-limit hold’em. This video clip, as well as additional free video clips by other instructors, is currently available on the Card Player Pro preview page. This week’s video focuses […]
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NBC Signs Four-Year Deal with Caesars Entertainment
NBC announced that it has signed a four-year agreement with Caesars Entertainment that makes the Caesars Palace poker room in Las Vegas home to the National Heads-Up Poker Championship through 2012. The tournament and show has just aired its fourth season on NBC. Jon Miller, the executive vice president of NBC Sports, had this to […]
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Bellagio Announces Deeper Starting Stacks
Upholding its reputation for giving players what they want, Bellagio is introducing deeper starting stacks for all of its major tournaments and daily tournaments, starting in June. Presently, the poker room’s famous 2 p.m. daily tournaments have a $540 buy-in Sunday-Thursday with 3,000 starting stacks, and a $1,080 buy-in with 5,000 in starting chips on […]
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PokerTek Dealerless Poker Heading to Atlantic City
As long as the New Jersey Casino Control Commission gives its approval, Atlantic City poker players will soon get their first taste of dealerless poker. PokerTek, the maker of the PokerPro electronic poker tables, announced it will install tables at Trump Plaza upon approval of the state’s CCC. This will be the Trump Plaza’s first […]
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Casper Hansen Wins WPT Spanish Championship
Casper Hansen is the winner of the World Poker Tour Spanish Championship, which wrapped up last night. He’s $655,720 richer for his effort. The runner-up in the event was Stefan Mattsson, who won $346,621 and now has more than $800,000 in lifetime poker tournament winnings. The event, which won’t be televised, saw 253 entrants from […]
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Beware of the World Series of Poker Monsters
The monsters of the World Series of Poker are again about to stalk the halls of the Rio and although that roster is now full of players who have repeatedly proved themselves by performing well over the last several years, there are a few players that have made the WSOP’s field their whipping boy since […]
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UltimateBet and DoylesRoom Add to Respective Teams
UltimateBet and DoylesRoom have both recently added fresh faces to its’ rosters just in time for the World Series of Poker. Pro Cliff Josephy, also known as “JohnnyBax,” began his poker career online and dominated the multi-table tournament scene. After turning to live tournaments, Josephy has claimed more than $1.3 million in winnings along with […]
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WPT Spanish Championship Ends Today
The World Poker Tour’s Spanish Championship has its final six players and play is set to begin at 11 a.m. ET, which is 5 p.m. local time at Casino Barcelona. This event, which attracted 253 players, will not be televised. All entrants paid €5,000 (approximately $7,800) to generate a prize pool of $1.99 million. The […]
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WPT Spanish Championship Final Table Today
Six players return for the final table of the World Poker Tour Spanish Championship today at 5:00 p.m. CET in Casino Barcelona. The final table chip counts are: Casper Hansen – 604,000 Stefan Mattsson – 1,253,000 Andres Vidal – 140,000 Guy Sitbon – 351,000 Martin Lundenius – 421,000 Thiago Nishijima – 1,031,000 Erik Friberg went […]
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PartyPoker $1 Million Guaranteed This Saturday
PartyPoker.com today confirmed details of the $1 million guaranteed taking place this Saturday May 31 at 5.45 p.m. BST. A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: “There are so many different ways to qualify for the $1 million guaranteed on Saturday. Whether you use PartyPoints, $1, $4, $8, $10, $35, $70 or pay the direct buy-in of $600+$40, […]
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Card Player Media Expands Poker Portal Into Germany and Spain
May 27, 2008 — Card Player Media, the world’s largest poker media organization, today announces the launch of two new European poker portals that join its ever-expanding list of business properties across the world. CardPlayerDeutsch.com (Germany) and CardPlayerEspana.com (Spain) join CardPlayerEurope.com, CardPlayerItalia.com, CardPlayer.fi (Finland), CardPlayerBrasil.com, and CardPlayerFr.com (France). This is just the next stage of […]
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SpadeClub Sponsors Members to Party at the Playboy Mansion
May 27, 2008 — SpadeClub, a poker community poised to revolutionize the world of poker, recently sponsored two of its Exclusive members to Party at the Playboy Mansion. David Desorcy and Marc Fregoe were the lucky winners of the recent promotion that SpadeClub was hosting. The winners signed up for a membership or upgraded to […]
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UltimateBet RAI$E Program Gives Money for Points
Earn your spot as a Contender, Legend, or Icon member at UltimateBet and you could be on your way to earning an extra $1,000 a month by coverting UltimatePoints to cash, thanks to the site’s RAI$E loyalty program. Players earn UltimatePoints through real-money games on UltimateBet, either by playing in cash games or tournaments. The […]
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Online Poker: rythman Wins Sunday Million
The Memorial Day weekend made for calm waters on the online poker front, as far as tournament fields were concerned, at least. Most of the Sunday majors, including all four in this recap, saw significant drops in attendance last night versus the previous weekend, and three of the events required overlays. PokerStars Sunday Million The […]
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David Singer Wins Full Tilt $25K Heads-Up Championship
David Singer may have gone out in the first round of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC) in March, but he lasted all six rounds in the Full Tilt $25K Heads-Up Championship to take down the $560,000 top prize last night. That’s more than the he would have won for taking down the NHUPC […]
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Valdemar Kwaysser Wins LAPT Event in Costa Rica
The PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) went to San José, Costa Rica, for its second stop, where Hungarian Valdemar Kwaysser became the last man standing. He outlasted 397 other entrants to snag the $274,000 first-place prize after qualifying for the $2,500 buy-in event in a $200 PokerStars satellite. Kwaysser, 24, raked in the final […]
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EPT Grand Final Televised in UK Tonight
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final will be broadcast on terrestrial TV in the UK from Monday, May 26 at 12:25 a.m. The show is the first of three following the final stages of the event held in Monte Carlo last month. The broadcast continues on Thursday, May 29 at 12:35 a.m. and on […]
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Pacific Poker Revamps Software With New Graphics
Pacific Poker, the online poker room of gaming giant 888.com, today announced a software upgrade which allows players to view their playing environment in 3-D. The company has released the upgrade and the software now gives players the option to hide/verify all-in action. It also features three table views: classic view, avatar view, and a […]
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Swedish Gaming Monopoly May Be Broken Up
Swedish gaming monopoly Svenska Spel may be broken up with parts sold off to other operators in the market according to Swedish online newspaper TheLocal.se. Finance minister Andres Borg is reported to have floated the idea by questioning whether the government should be involved in forms of online gambling which they consider less addictive. Sweden […]
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Hungarian Wins Latin American Poker Tour Event
The second stop on the PokerStars.netLatin American Poker Tour, held in San José, Costa Rica has been won by Hungarian Valdemar Kwaysser. The 24-year-old poker pro, who qualified online for $200 at PokerStars topped a field of 389 players to collect the $274,102 first prize when his A-A stayed ahead of American Max Steinberg’s J-9 […]
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Online Poker: Interview with David 'dpeters17' Peters
David “dpeters17” Peters may not have the most creative online poker screen name of all time, but that creative deficiency holds no bearing on his poker game. Peters has become well known because of his exploits on the digital felts, where he has earned almost $550,000 in Online Player of the Year-qualified finishes alone. He […]
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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, […]
