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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 […]
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FullTilt Hosts World Heads-Up Championship Saturday
This Saturday sees the Heads-Up World Poker Championship take place at FullTiltPoker.com. With a $25,000 buy-in the event is the largest event of its kind to take place in either an online or live environment. Hosted by National Heads-Up champion and Team Full Tilt member Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, the event kicks off at 7 p.m. […]
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Tournament Trail Q & A: Orel Hershiser
Every year at the NBC National Heads-up Poker Championship, a Cinderella story emerges and an underdog makes an upset run deep into the tournament. Last year, Don Cheadle upset Phil Ivey in the first round, while Shannon Elizabeth made a run all the way to the final four. This year, the celebrity athlete wearing the […]
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UltimateBet Runs Bounty Poker Tournaments
Phil Hellmuth says he knows how to "doge bullets," and UltimateBet is giving players the chance to show that they can, too. In the site’s new sniper (bounty) tournaments, players are rewarded for eliminating players not only by collecting a cash bounty, but also with tournament entries. There are daily sniper tournaments that each have […]
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Devin Porter's Charity Poker Tournament Begins Tonight
Professional poker player Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter will be holding a charity tournament tonight at 20:30 EST on PokerStars. The tournament is a $30 + $3 buy-in no-limit hold’em event and can be found in the private tab under P5’s Charity. The password is pocketfives. Proceeds will go toward the cancer treatment of Devin’s father, Dean […]
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Free Poker Training Video by Jimmy 'gobboboy' Fricke
Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke is the instructor for this week’s free poker training clip from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus). The video features Fricke playing two $1-$2 pot-limit Omaha tables simultaneously. This video clip and three free video clips by other instructors that are currently available on the Card Player Pro preview page. In […]
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Bonuses Offered for Asian Poker Tour Preregistration
Preregistration for the Asian Poker Tour is now taking place, and those who now register will join a handful of pros who have already signed up for the event, which takes place in Manila May 27-June 1. They include Layne Flack, Nam Le, Steve Sung, Quinn Do, Evelyn Ng, Chip and Karina Jett, Roy Winston, […]
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Online Poker: Cheesemonster Wins FTOPS Main Event
FTOPS VIII Event No. 24: No-Limit Hold’em Main Event Unsurprisingly, the behemoth of the weekend was the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VIII (FTOPS) main event. The tournament, which featured a $500 buy-in, lured 4,750 entrants to build a prize pool of $2,375,000, well above the $2 million guarantee. Plenty of red-named, Full Tilt-sponsored pros […]
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Online Poker: Halfrek Wins Second FTOPS Event of Series
The primary focus of the weekend may have been on the big Sunday tournaments, but there were still four Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) events that took place over the weekend, including an epic two-day affair that saw one of the online community’s best rise up to take his second title of the Series. […]
