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Casino Barcelona to Host Second World Poker Tour Event
The World Poker Tour and Grup Perlada are joining forces once again for a second event at Casino Barcelona, to take place May 21-27. The first Spanish Championship debuted in season six last year with considerable success. Markus Lehman beat 225 other entrants in the €7,500 buy-in tournament to win €537,000 ($762,540). The upcoming event […]
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WPT to Honor All 96 Champions in Ceremony at Bellagio
In the middle of the World Poker Tour Championship event at Bellagio, a WPT Ceremony of Champions will take place inside the “O” Theatre on April 21 to honor all 96 champions of the first six seasons on tour. A private cocktail party for players and VIPS will kick off the festivities at 8:30 p.m., […]
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Strip Poker: Caesars to Run Mega Stack Series in June
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene — on The Strip and around the city. The largest poker room in Las Vegas is inside Caesars Palace, and this summer, the poker room is running its first-ever Mega Stack Series, running June 1-July 9. Competing against the draw of World […]
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$250,000 Friday Night Party at Party Poker
PartyPoker.com today announced its new Friday night tournament schedule which sees $250,000 guaranteed each week just ahead of the weekend. The ‘Friday Night Party’ sees World Series of Poker seats available, a $50,000 guaranteed tournament and value added at all skill and bankroll levels including shootouts, deep stack events, satellites, multi-table tournaments, and six-handed speed […]
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South Africa Stalls on Online Gaming Law
Technology news website, ITWeb, has reported that South Africa’s national Parliament has “parked” the National Gambling Amendment Bill in order to further scrutinize the issues surrounding advertising online gambling. The Bill, which was introduced by Parliament in 2007, was recently amended by the National Council of Provinces to outlaw the advertising of online gaming. It […]
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James Scullion is Irish Student Champion 2008
James Scullion, a computer science student from Queens University, Belfast won the Irish National Student Poker Championship 2008 over the weekend. The event, sponsored by Devilfish Poker, attracted 278 runners from all over the country to the Regency Airport Hotel, Dublin. The €65 (+ €7 reg. fee) buy-in event was fully dealer dealt and created […]
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Win Vegas Trip On Virgin Poker Today
The second in a series of four tournaments offering World Series of Poker packages takes place this evening at 8:30 p.m. GMT on Virgin Poker. The company is offering one guaranteed €10,500 package, which includes $10,000 (€7,000) main-event seat, €1,500 spending money, return Virgin Atlantic flight from London Gatwick to Las Vegas, and hotel accommodation. […]
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WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic Final Table Bios
Erik Seidel — Seat 1 Chips: 3,820,000 Lifetime winnings: $7,743,921 2008 Player of the Year (POY) points: 1,600 (22nd) Prior WPT experience: This is Seidel’s 12th WPT main event cash. Previous cashes include 2004 World Poker Finals, 2005 L.A. Poker Classic, 2005 World Poker Finals, 2006 Winter Poker Open, 2006 Mandalay Bay Poker Championship, 2006 […]
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SpadeClub Poker Winner: Vinnie 'SpclDelivery' Taylor
SpadeClub.com, the innovative online poker community, offers a risk-free way to win at poker with no deposits and no buy-ins. Click here to find out more. Donivan “SpclDelivery” Taylor (or Vinnie, as he likes to be called), 43, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, is SpadeClub’s most-recent $5,000 weekly event winner. Playing on SpadeClub is something his […]
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Ladies International Poker Series Looking for Bloggers
The Ladies International Poker Series (LIPS), brought to the world by Card Player, is searching for a few ladies who have a way with words. LIPS is looking for women players to become featured bloggers on its website. Women of all skill levels who think they have something to share through blogging are wanted. Interested […]
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Florida Poker Bill Would Expand Cardroom Hours
A Florida bill that would both extend cardrooms’ hours of operation and allow them to hold large buy-in poker tournaments made it through a subcommittee, but it is still far from being voted on by state senators. If passed, the bill would allow cardrooms in all venues to stay open 18 hours a day on […]
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Foxwoods Poker Classic Day 5
Day 5 at the Foxwoods Poker Classic featured just nine players who returned at noon EDT to play down to the final television table of six. Erik Seidel came in as the chip leader, and he was joined in the 2-million-chip club by up-and-coming Internet professional Adam Katz. Ted Forrest rounded out a strong top […]
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Pacific Poker Helps 888 Rebound from UIGEA
888.com today announced its preliminary results for year-end 2007 with poker, which makes up 38 percent of the business, seeing revenues expand 18 percent to $81 million from $68 million a year earlier. Active customers in the poker segment grew 15 percent between quarter four 2007 and quarter four 2006. The company report said, “This […]
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World Poker Tour Returns to Spain This May
Casino Barcelona in Spain will once again host the World Poker Tour in 2008 with more than 400 entrants expected to turn up for the €5,000 buy-in event. Last held in October 2007 and attracting 226 runners, the Season VI event moves to May, taking place May 21-27. Steve Lipscomb, WPT founder and CEO, said, […]
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Day 4 of the Foxwoods Poker Classic
Calling the slow grind that was day 4 of the Foxwoods Poker Classic anything other than excruciating wouldn’t be doing it justice. After the field motored through the first two days of the tournament, it didn’t look like anything could stop what was predicted to be a premature conclusion to one of the premier stops […]
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Scott Clements Wins First $5,000 Prelim at Bellagio Series
Scott Clements and Ted Lawson finished first and second in Saturday’s $5,000 no-limit hold’em event at Bellagio’s Five-Star World Poker Classic. Clements’ victory and the $206,000 top-prize put him just over the $3-million mark in lifetime tournament cashes. Lawson won $122,150 for second place and is nearing the $2-million mark in lifetime tournament cashes ($1.95 […]
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Brad Garrett to Host a Charity Poker Tournament April 20
Funnyman Brad Garrett is putting away his comedy act for a serious cause on April 20, when he will host a charity poker tournament at the Hollywood Park Casino to benefit the 1736 Family Crisis Center. The tournament begins at 1 p.m., and the buy-in is $350 with $100 rebuys throughout the first hour. A […]
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Poker Stars Shooting the Moon with New SnG Promotion
PokerStars has launched a promotion targeting their players who can’t get enough of the sites sit-and-go tourneys. Battle of the Planets is the name of a multi-layered leader-board promotion that awards prizes to the top point earners in each of eight different divisions, based on buy-in amounts. Each division is represented by names of planets, […]
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Weekly Free Poker Training Video Available Now
This week’s free poker training clip from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus) features Evan “_Fisherman” Roberts (playing on UltimateBet as evanski). In the video, Roberts plays a $2-$4 heads-up no-limit hold’em cash game on UltimateBet. Click here to view this video or any of the other three free video clips currently available. In […]
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Online Poker: Lion's Share for Vaga_Lion at Sunday Million
PokerStars Sunday Million The $200 buy-in version of the PokerStars Sunday Million was back in the $1.5 million prize-pool range again last night. The event had 7,680 entrants, which made for a prize pool of $1,536,000, the most the $200 buy-in version has had since the beginning of March. (Last week’s $1,000 buy-in event had […]
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Abi Titmuss to Play Ladbrokes Poker Ladies Event
British glamour model turned TV presenter, Abi Titmuss, is set to play the LadbrokesPoker.com European Ladies Championship from May 3 to 4 this year. The event, which will be broadcast on Sky Sports 2 every Tuesday at 10 p.m. throughout July and August, has a $30,000 first prize and the winner will also get the […]
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Nokia N-Gage Launches WSOP Challenge Game
Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia today officially launched its N-Gage application for the N81, N82, and N95 mobile devices, following eight weeks of beta testing. One of the first games available on the new platform is World Series of Poker Pro Challenge by Glu Mobile. The cost is somewhere between £6-£8 and can either be […]
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Qualify for 888 World Poker Crown Today
Ever the innovators in online gaming 888.com are hosting one of the world’s biggest ever guaranteed prize pool online poker tournaments and you can qualify for free this Monday and Wednesday with CardPlayerEurope.com. Up to 5,000 people will play the $1,000 + $50 buy-in event from the comfort of their own PCs but the final […]
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SpadeClub Partners with WPT Boot Camp
April 7, 2008, Las Vegas, NV — SpadeClub, the complete poker community, announces its partnership with WPT Boot Camp. Within this partnership, SpadeClub will offer its Exclusive members up to 16 percent off WPT Boot Camp seminars. Starting soon, SpadeClub members will have the opportunity to compete in a series of free poker tournaments for […]
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Foxwoods Poker Classic Day 3
The first two days of play at the World Poker Tour Foxwoods Poker Classic were devastating for the original field of 346 players, and at the start of day 3, only 75 players remained. The plan was to play five full levels of poker or until the field was sliced down to the final 18 […]
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Online Poker: Interview with Alex 'AJKHoosiers1' Kamberis
The big buy-in rebuy tournaments online always feature a veritable who’s who of Internet poker talent, and the winners of those events get a massive amount of credit from the online poker community for outlasting such tough fields. Alex “AJKHoosiers1” Kamberis is a rebuy tournament master, so it’s no surprise that he is one of […]
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Jason Mercier Wins the 2008 EPT San Remo Event
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour stop at San Remo, Italy has been won by 21-year-old American Jason Mercier, who took home €869,000. Mercier qualified for this €5,000 buy-in event online at PokerStars and it was only his second live tournament. The EPT’s first stop in San Remo sold out, attracting 701 players, and it was […]
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Day 2 of the Foxwoods Poker Classic
Two days of action have shrank the tournament field close to the money bubble here at the 2008 Foxwoods Poker Classic. This World Poker Tour event was scheduled for six days, but the small number of entrants have made for a much shorter affair. Only 75 players remain, leaving us just a few levels away […]
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Twenty-One Year Old Online Qualifier Wins EPT San Remo
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo, Italy has been won by 21-year-old American James Mercier who lifted €869,000 after qualifying for the €5,000 buy-in event online with the sponsor. It was only the second live tournament for the former trainee maths teacher. The event, which attracted a sellout 700 runners, was the first major […]
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Foxwoods Poker Classic Day 1
Action began on day 1 of the World Poker Tour Foxwoods Poker Classic at noon, and at the start of the day 338 players were registered to play, but quite a few of them were not in their seats. A large contingent of the field arrived late (it was not uncommon for some tables to […]
