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888 Hosts $3 Million Guaranteed World Poker Crown
888.com today announced its $3 million-guaranteed World Poker Crown tournament, taking place on Apr. 26, 2008. The event will see the winner pocket a cool $1 million — one of the largest ever prizes in online poker history. The company described the World Poker Crown as a “new breed” of event that starts online and […]
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Unibet Poker Grows Players 115 Percent in 2007
Maltese-based bookmaker and online gaming provider Unibet today announced its full year results to the year-end December 2007. Gross winnings revenue for the fourth quarter 2007 was £24.5 million, up from £19.4 in the same period in 2006, while full year revenue from winnings was £81.4 million, up from £71.8 to the year-end December 2006. […]
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Ladbrokes Poker Signs Jonas 'Nebuchad' Danielsson
Jonas “Nebuchad” Danielsson, who this week was voted the Scandinavian Online Player of the Year at an awards ceremony in Copenhagen, is the latest player to sign a sponsorship deal with Ladbrokes Poker. The 23-year-old Swedish online cash-game specialist beat Gus Hansen to take the award and is currently competing in the European Poker Tour […]
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Scandi's Dominate EPT Copenhagen Day 1A
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Scandinavian Open, being held in Casino Copenhagen in the Danish capital, is, perhaps unsurprisingly, being dominated by players from the region. The €6,700 buy-in event is a sell-out with 230 players competing on both of the two day ones, but only 82 made it through day 1A. Team PokerStars pro […]
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Reduced Schedule for World Poker Tour Season Seven
The World Poker Tour Enterprises (WPTE) released its tournament event and production schedule for its seventh season today, and it contains about one-third fewer tourneys than were scheduled in its previous season. In season six, WPTE filmed 20 tournaments for broadcast, including several specials and all of its open events. Season seven’s schedule carries 14 […]
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Online Poker: New OPOY Leader, Isaac Baron in Second
With the conclusion of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII (FTOPS), the rankings have definitely been shaken up a bit. With a win in the Full Tilt Sunday Mulligan, Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron, now playing on Full Tilt as “the guru 11,” earned 720 points, enough to put him in second place in the Card […]
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Tournament Trail Q & A: Roy Winston
Roy Winston scored his first major victory at the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open last September and won $1,575,280. He also finished in 26th place at the 2007 World Series of Poker main event to earn a cool $333,490. Those major victories, along with some consistent play on the tournament trail, have taken Winston […]
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World Poker Tour Releases Slimmed-Down Schedule
The World Poker Tour Enterprises (WPTE) released its tournament event and production schedule for its seventh season today, and it contains about one-third fewer tourneys than were scheduled in its previous season. In season six, WPTE filmed 20 tournaments for broadcast, including several specials and all of its open events. Season seven’s schedule carries 14 […]
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Strip Poker: Opportunity Village Event Raises $100K
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene — on The Strip and around the city. The Caesars Palace poker room overflowed with Las Vegas celebrities this weekend for the third-annual Opportunity Village Celebrity Poker Tournament, which successfully earned about $100,000 for the charity. Celebs that attended included Carrot Top, […]
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Online Poker: Tons of FTOPS Winners This Weekend
Jeff “YoungSupremacy” Hakim Reigns Supreme in Event No. 15 Friday night’s Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII featured a $200 buy-in shorthanded no-limit hold’em tournament. A total of 1,815 players entered the increasingly popular tournament to create a total prize pool of $363,000. Among the 204 players who cashed were Full Tilt pro Erich Kollmann […]
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Online Poker: Reverse Wins FTOPS Main Event
Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII $2 Million-Guaranteed No-Limit Hold’em Main Event As expected, the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII (FTOPS) $2 million-guaranteed main event was huge. The tournament lured 5,291 entrants at $500 apiece to build a total prize pool of $2,645,500, easily the biggest prize pool of the night. The winner of […]
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L.A. Poker Classic Preliminary Events Update
The preliminary events at the L.A. Poker Classic are winding down, with only a couple left before the $10,000 buy-in World Poker Tour main event begins on Saturday, and they continue to draw large numbers. Recent WPT final tablist and poker pro Jordan Rich and friend Craig Gray won event No. 21, a $500 buy-in […]
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Mike Matusow's First Free Poker Video Up Today
This week’s free poker training video clip from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus) features Card Player Pro’s newest trainer, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow. Matusow gives hand-for-hand poker advice for pot-limit Omaha in the video, which will go up later today, as viewers watch the World Series of Poker bracelet winner play in actual […]
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EPT Scandinavian Open Taking Place
Most of the PokerStars pros are in Copenhagen today for the first day of the €6,700 European Poker Tour Scandinavian Open, which is set to run until Feb. 23. The tournament’s first day one began today with 230 players taking their seats at Casino Copenhagen for a chance for an EPT title. Russian Alex Kravchenko, […]
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European Poker Tour Copenhagen Starts Today
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Copenhagen starts today at Casino Copenhagen in the Danish capital. The event is already sold out with 460 players paying almost €6,700 to create a prize pool of around €3 million. Players hoping to win a share of the spoils include Team PokerStars pros Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier (the recent PokerStars […]
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Svenska Spel Poker Up 87 Percent
Swedish state-run gaming monopoly Svenska Spel’s online poker revenue grew 87 percent to SEK 385 Million (approximately €41.4 million) between March 2007 and December 2007, compared to the same period in 2006. Overall full-year revenue for 2007 was SEK 5.25 billion (approximately €560 million), up just under 10 percent on 2006, with sports betting up […]
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Card Player Blogger Wins Top European Poker Award
The second-annual PokerStars Scandinavian Poker Awards took place at the Vega Nightclub in Copenhagen last night, attended by many stars of the game in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark as well as dozens of interested media. Danish Card Player blogger Gus Hansen picked up the prestigous Best Live Player award, while Norwegian Annette Obrestad won Best […]
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H.O.R.S.E. Date Changes at World Series of Poker 2008
It was announced today that two changes have been made to the 2008 World Series of Poker schedule to enable comprehensive coverage by ESPN for the $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. World Championship. The biggest buy-in tournament of the series of was originally scheduled for Sunday, June 22 at noon but will now begin at 5 p.m. […]
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Sopranos Star Set for Return of Doyles Room Bounty
DoylesRoom.com announced today that hotel heiress Nicky Hilton and award-winning actress of the hit television series The Sopranos Jamie-Lynn Sigler are going to play in the Celebrity Bounty Poker Tournament on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. Joining the A-list celebrities as bounties are online poker pros Jim “P0KERPR033” Campbell and Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis, as […]
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Card Player Pro Announces the Most Talkative Addition Yet
Las Vegas, Nevada (PRWEB) February 19, 2008: Card Player Pro announces that Mike “The Mouth” Matusow has joined its team of online poker instructors. Matusow, who has close to $6 million in tournament winnings, is a two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, and the 2005 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions winner, adds […]
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Schedule Changes for 2008 World Series of Poker
It was announced today that two changes have been made to the 2008 World Series of Poker schedule to enable comprehensive coverage by ESPN for the $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. World Championship. The biggest buy-in tournament of the series of was originally scheduled for Sunday, June 22 at noon but will now begin at 5 p.m. […]
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Andy Black Wins Party Poker Premier League
The $1 million PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker was won by Irishman Andy Black yesterday. It was the first major title for Black who previously had made the final table at the World Series of Poker main event as well as second in the Aussie Millions. He collected $316,000 for his victory over Roland De Wolfe. […]
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Scandinavian Poker Awards Take Place Tonight
The PokerStars.com Scandinavian Poker Awards take place tonight in the Vega Natklub, Copenhagen ahead of tomorrow’s sell-out European Poker Tour Scandinavian Open. Players from Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are nominated in five categories: Best Live Player Gus Hansen (Denmark) Trond Erik Eidsvig (Norway) Christer Björin (Sweden) Best Online Player Gus Hansen (Denmark) Stephan Kjerstad – […]
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Jeff Kimber Wins Grosvenor UK Poker Tour
Jeff “Jaffa Cake” Kimber, the Ladbrokes-sponsored World Heads-Up Champion, has won the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, Walsall taking home £83,910 for his triumph over a 287 player field. Kimber, a former sports journalist from Newcastle, started the final table as chip leader and retained that position right to the end taking down several well know […]
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Online Poker: Interview With Vivek 'Psyduck' Rajkumar
Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar, like so many of today’s top live pros, got his start by playing with friends. Playing in those $1 buy-in cash games and watching Gus Hansen take down tournament after tournament on TV got him hooked. He then jumped into online poker. He turned his initial deposit of $50 on PartyPoker (using […]
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Card Player Profile: John Racener
John Racener began his poker career by playing tournaments online, and he easily made the transition to live play once he was of age. He recently turned 22 years old, and his first year traveling the tournament trail as a pro brought him more than $800,000 in earnings. More than $500,000 of that was won […]
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Card Player Player of the Year Weekly Update
Card Player Player of the Year points were up for grabs in four different states this past week at the following events: the L.A.Poker Classic in California, the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza in Nevada, the Midwest Regional Poker Championships at Caesars Indiana, and the Oklahoma State Championship of Poker at Cherokee Casino. Most eyes turned […]
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Nicky Hilton to Play Celeb Bounty Event at DoylesRoom
DoylesRoom.com announced today that hotel heiress Nicky Hilton and award-winning actress of the hit television series The Sopranos Jamie-Lynn Sigler are going to play in the Celebrity Bounty Poker Tournament on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. Joining the A-list celebrities as bounties are online poker pros Jim “P0KERPR033” Campbell and Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis, as […]
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Mike Matusow to Provide Videos for Card Player Pro
Mike “The Mouth” Matusow has joined up with the poker video training site Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus), and poker enthusiasts and students of the game can now get an inside track to the pot-limit Omaha and World Series of Poker bracelet winner’s playing style with hand-for-hand examples. The first Matusow video, which […]
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Strip Poker: Win a New Car in Planet Hollywood Promo
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene — on The Strip and around the city. As players enter the Planet Hollywood poker room, they are greeted by a shiny, silver 2008 Saturn SKY convertible roadster. The vehicle is there to remind players of the extra incentive for playing at […]
