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Day 1B at the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star
During day 1A at the 2008 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Stars tournament, only five of the professional players anointed as Shooting Stars survived. Day 1B of the tournament presented a different scenario as 11 Shooting Stars advanced. Phil Ivey set the tone early when he got all of his chips into the middle […]
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SpadeClub Poker Reaches One-Month Milestone
SpadeClub: The New Way to Win, powered by Card Player Media, celebrates its one-month milestone today. If you haven’t yet joined SpadeClub, you’re missing your chance at more than $100,000* in cash prizes each month and your opportunity to network with poker enthusiast just like you. Along with that landmark, SpadeClub recently reported that it […]
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Poker Stars EPT Polish Open Starts Today
The PokerStars European Poker Tour Polish Open started today, and 190 entrants are playing in day 1 of the five-day event. Some of the notable players who hit the felt today included Dario Minieri, Katja Thater, Julian Thew, and Magnus Petersson. Last year, Peter Willers Jepsen beat a field of 284 entrants to win $200,000 […]
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Poker Players Alliance Hires Grassroots Coordinator
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) has hired former Senior Federal Policy Advisor Drew Lesofski as director of its grassroots and external affairs. Lesofski is a Washington insider. His previous post was in the office of Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons, where, according to the PPA, he handled a diverse portfolio of issues ranging from immigration and […]
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Cake Poker's Million Dollar Freeroll Series Nearly Over
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, still has three more events left. There are several ways to get into the tournaments, one of which is completely free. Free qualifiers are running around the clock, […]
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Huck Seed Wins Canadian Open Heads-Up Main Event
After four years of cashing in every NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship — with his most recent cash being his second third-place finish in the 2008 event a few weeks ago — 1996 World Series of Poker champion Huck Seed was sick of getting close and not winning a heads-up event. This weekend, Seed won […]
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Day 1A of the Bay 101 Shooting Stars Tournament
A shooting star is considered to be a rare occurrence, but in San Jose’s Bay 101 Casino, the hundreds of fans who lined the rail were treated to 24 of the world’s best poker professionals, who all represented an official shooting star in the tournament. Perhaps even more rare of a sight is a falling […]
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UltimateBet Confirms 'Suspicious Activity' Investigation
In echoes of the recent Absolute Poker “super user” account scandal, UltimateBet has confirmed it is investigating suspicious activity by a player at its site. The company recently said in a statement that a player known online as “NioNio” “exhibited abnormally high winning statistics,” and concerns were expressed about this and the deletion of the […]
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SpadeClub Reaches Milestone of More Than 1,000 Paid Memberships
Las Vegas, NV, March 11, 2008 — SpadeClub, a popular online poker community, recently reached a milestone of more than 1,000 paid memberships and 10,000 free members. With March 11, 2008, marking the one-month anniversary of SpadeClub, the innovative poker community has already crowned two $5,000 weekly tournament winners and one $40,000 mega-monthly main event […]
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Day 1A of the Bay 101 Shooting Stars Tournament
A shooting star is considered to be a rare occurrence, but in San Jose’s Bay 101 Casino, the hundreds of fans who lined the rail were treated to 24 of the world’s best poker professionals, who all represented an official shooting star in the tournament. Perhaps even more rare of a sight is a falling […]
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Win a WSOP Seat in Gold Card Lottery at Cake Poker
CakePoker knows what a grind satellites can be, so to reward its most frequent players, the site is awarding 50 World Series of Poker main event prize packages as part of the Gold Card Daily Lottery promotion. Gold Cards, which serve as the entry into the lottery, are awarded in any ring game. A random […]
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New Free Poker Training Video Available
This week’s free poker training video from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus) features limit hold’em specialist Chris “tribefan9” Rhodes playing a high-stakes fivehanded limit hold’em game with Kenny Tran and some “fish.” In the video clip, Rhodes explains why he classified two of his opponents as fish and why he thought Tran was […]
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PokerStars Releases Schedule for LAPT
First Europe — then Asia — and now Latin America. PokerStars today announced it launched the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT), and players can already begin to qualify for the first event, which is scheduled to take place May 3-5 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two more tourneys are scheduled for this summer: LAPT San […]
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EU Investigates UIGEA Discrimination
The European Commission today launched an investigation into “United States measures affecting foreign suppliers of Internet gambling services,” effectively an inquiry into the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which prevents European-based firms from competing in the U.S. market. The Commission is acting on a complaint from the UK-based Remote Gambling Association (RGA), which says that […]
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EU Investigates UIGEA Discrimination
The European Commission today launched an investigation into “United States measures affecting foreign suppliers of Internet gambling services,” effectively an inquiry into the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which prevents European-based firms from competing in the U.S. market. The Commission is acting on a complaint from the UK-based Remote Gambling Association (RGA), which says that […]
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Jennifer Harman to Host Charity Event on Full Tilt Poker
What better way to spend a Sunday evening than playing a $10 buy-in no-limit hold’em poker tournament with world-class poker pros and X-Games celebrities with a chance to win cash prizes, all while helping raise money to save animals? Two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and high-stakes cash game pro Jennifer Harman has announced […]
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Online Poker: tpir90036 Wins Sunday Million
PokerStars Sunday Million Oh, how much difference a week makes. Just one week after the PokerStars Sunday Million had a record-setting night with 8,063 entrants and a $1,612,600 prize pool (the most the $200 version of the even has ever had excluding special events), the event lured only 7,249 entrants last night. That attendance was […]
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World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star Starts Today
Fifty of the world’s best poker players descend on Bay 101 Casino in San Jose, California, today as targets in the $10,000 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star championship. There will, of course, be hundreds of other players in the event trying to felt the “stars” and pick up a bounty of $5,000 as they […]
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Party Poker Late Night Poker Final Tomorrow
In a busy couple of days for PartyPoker.com, the much-anticipated finale of Late Night Poker is broadcast on Channel Four at 12.40 a.m. on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning while the East versus West Team Cup II is under way at the Concord Casino, Vienna, Austria. The mouthwatering lineup for the trailblazing Late Night Poker includes Ian […]
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Ketul Nathwani Wins Grosvenor UK Poker Tour London
A sellout field of 424 players participated in the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour at the Victoria Casino, London, which was won by Ketul Nathwani, who thoroughly dominated the final table, knocking out five of his opponents en route to collecting the first prize of £119,780. In the deciding hand of the event, Nathwani called Tony […]
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Online Poker: Interview With David 'DumbHick' Hickman
David “DumbHick” Hickman has been playing poker since shortly after Chris Moneymaker won the incredibly influential 2003 World Series of Poker main event. He had always made a good side-income from his poker playing, but he wanted to sustain a normal, more stable job, as well. “Then, in January of this year, I was laid […]
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Last Chance to Qualify Cheaply for Bodog Poker Main Event
CardPlayer.com readers have two final chances to qualify for the $500 Bodog Poker main event for as little as $1, and one of those opportunities is in just two hours. Bodog is holding two private tournaments, exclusive to Card Player readers, both of which guarantee at least one seat into the main event. The cheapest of […]
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SpadeClub Winner: Ryan 'isuckatpoker' Monlux
SpadeClub.com, the innovative new 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. Taking down a field of 569 players is always a challenge, especially when there is $10,000 on the line. Ryan “isuckatpoker” Monlux of Oregon made this lofty […]
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Card Player Player of the Year Weekly Update
It has been a busy two weeks on the tournament trail, and there have been drastic changes on the Card Player Player of the Year leader board. Almost every spot in the top 10 has been shuffled over the course of a busy two weeks, with one exception. Mike McDonald still holds the top spot, […]
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Chip Leader Disqualified at WSOP Circuit Final Table
The first event of the World Series of Poker Circuit series at Caesars Atlantic City attracted a whopping 1,056 players, and the final table was marked by a bit of weirdness when a player, who was the chip leader at the time, was disqualified in fifth place for “unsportsmanlike behavior.” The $300 buy-in no-limit hold’em […]
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Alcarmo Makes Third Final Table at Bodog Poker Open
Bodog Poker held the fourth event in its inaugural Bodog Poker Open last night, this time featuring pot-limit hold’em. The tournament had a $200 buy-in, and Bodog added $10,000 to the prize pool, as it did for all of the preliminary events. The tournament had 185 entrants, and 18 players would finish in the money […]
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Judge Dismisses IMEGA Challenge to UIGEA
A federal judge dismissed the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) case challenging the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) earlier this week, but he left the door open for the organization, which is comprised of members with financial interest in online gambling, to take the case to the Court of Appeals. The ruling […]
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Bay 101 Gears Up for WPT Shooting Star Poker Event
One of the most anticipated and unique World Poker Tour stops is the Bay 101 Shooting Star $10,000 buy-in event, and the action begins tomorrow at the Bay 101 Casino in San Jose, California, with a supersatellite to get into the main event. For the championship event, a “star,” or poker professional with a bounty […]
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World Poker Tour Loses $9.6 million in 2007
The NASDAQ-quoted World Poker Tour yesterday reported full-year revenues down almost 25 percent to $21.7 million at the end of December 2007 compared to $29.3 million to the end of 2006. The WPT had a net loss of $9.6 million in the year ending December 2007 compared to net earnings of $7.8 million in the […]
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Everest Poker Signs Sponsor Agreement with WSOP
Everest Poker has signed a multi-year deal with Harrah’s to become the sole poker-related table sponsor for the World Series of Poker. This means the Everest Poker logo will appear on every table at this year’s WSOP, as well as on the inner ring of the final table of all the events. The deal also […]
