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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 […]
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GPSTS Charters Welcome Poker Speakers
The Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS) has announced several poker events featuring a trio of speakers at campuses with GPSTS charters. On Wednesday, Feb. 20, Harvard law school is hosting journalist Vin Narayanan to discuss the Massachusetts Casino Gaming Bill. According to the GPSTS, Narayanan has worked for USAToday.com, CNN, and Capital News Service, […]
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New Poker After Dark Episodes to Feature Cowboys
In old western movies, there are always barroom poker scenes where cowboys play some variation of the game, with guns a flick of the wrist away. Times have changed, and although guns aren’t allowed at the table, there are still cowboys playing the game. Next week’s brand-new Poker AFter Dark episodes will feature poker’s favorite […]
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Online Poker: Two FTOPS Events, Two New Winners
Gigid Wins Event No. 13 There were two events in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII (FTOPS) last night, the first of which was a $200 H.A. tournament (pot-limit hold’em/pot-limit Omaha). The guaranteed prize pool of $100,000 was easily broken, as 777 entrants amounted to a total of $155,400. Full Tilt pro Scott Fischman […]
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AsianLogic Buys Asian Poker Tour
AsianLogic, the Asia-Pacific online and land-based gaming company listed on the Alternative Investment Market in London, today announced it had acquired the Asian Poker Tour (APT) from Capital Events in Singapore. Capital Events will continue to run the tour, which recently added the Korean Professional Poker Tour and remains a shareholder. The agreement will see […]
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Online Gaming Worth €5 Billion in Europe
The Kuwait News Agency yesterday reported British MEP Arlene McCarthy, chair of the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO), as saying there are 3.3 million regular online gamblers in Europe, gambling €5 billion. The report said that the IMCO hosted a hearing on the consumer and internal market aspects of online gambling […]
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Party Poker Sports Star Challenge Starts Sunday
The PartyPoker.com Sports Stars Challenge returns for its third year in London from Feb. 17-20 with 36 sports legends, including last year’s winner and former world snooker champion Ken Doherty, footballers Tony Cascarino, Teddy Sheringham, John Aldridge, Lee Sharpe, and Norman Whiteside, snooker players Willie Thorne, Steve Davis, and Mark William, cricketer Mark Ramprakash, and […]
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Strip Poker: Opportunity Village Charity Event Saturday
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene — on The Strip and around the city. The Third-Annual No-limit Texas Hold’em Celebrity Poker Tournament to benefit Opportunity Village is this Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Caesars Palace poker room in Las Vegas, with first place being a seat into […]
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'The Master' Climbs Poker Mountain by Back Roads
Men “the Master” Nguyen, four-time Card Player Player of the Year (POY), is again paving a route to the top of the mountain by blasting through smaller buy-in events at the L.A. Poker Classic. By winning a $300, a $1,500, and a $2,500 event at the LAPC since February 3, he has pocketed $139,869. He […]
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SpadeClub: 'The New Way to Win at Poker' Launched
Card Player today launched SpadeClub, a new membership poker software and innovative poker community that gives its members access to the full community, the tools to improve their game, and a shot at more than $100,000 in cash and prizes each and every month. Each month culminates in a $40,000-guaranteed freeroll, wherein the winner pockets […]
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Online Poker: ilikeaces86 Wins Rebuy at FTOPS VII
Last night’s event in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII (FTOPS) was a shorthanded no-limit hold’em event (with rebuys), and the relatively expensive $300 rebuys promised a stacked field. In all, 1,361 entrants bucked up the initial $300 buy-in for the 12th event in the series, and those players put 2,148 rebuys and 782 […]
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Men Nguyen Wins Third 2008 L.A. Poker Classic Prelim
Men “The Master” Nguyen is dominating the L.A. Poker Classic. Not only is he the only player to win more than one event, but he has just won his third. Nguyen won event No. 20, a $2,500 buy-in limit hold’em tournament. First place was good for almost $43,000. Since the event only attracted 52 players, […]
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Hellmuth and His Hat Receive Red Card in London
Phil Hellmuth, the 11-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, was removed from London’s upmarket Dorchester Hotel on Monday evening after refusing take off his trademark baseball cap during dinner. Dining with fellow Ultimate Bet pro Annie Duke at the award-winning The Grill restaurant, Hellmuth was relaxing after a session at the Premier League tournament […]
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Poker Tournament Trail Q & A: David Fox
In 2007, David Fox burst on to the tournament poker scene to make 11 final tables, vaulting him into sixth place in Card Player Player of the Year (POY) standings and putting him in elite company. For his efforts, Fox earned nearly $700,000 and had easily his best year on tour. Unfortunately for the 31-year-old […]
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Online Pro Wins Event at L.A. Poker Classic
Vivek Rajkumar, also known as “Psyduck” in the online poker community, won the biggest buy-in event so far in the L.A. Poker Classic. He took home more than $113,000 in event No. 18, a $2,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament. Rajkumar defeated a field of 167 players, as well as a final table full of pros. […]
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PlayersOnly Video Contest Deadline Pushed Back
Everyone probably has a few different definitions of what it is to be a “player.” Some may imagine driving around in a Mercedes with a hot model by their side, showered in expensive jewelry. Others might envision a player as someone who is focused and devoted to playing their game of choice, with the look […]
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Battles Over Online Poker in Europe Intensify
It was never going to be easy to reconcile the interests of the 27 member states of the European Union with the goal of a single economic market, but Internal Markets Commissioner Charlie McCreevy probably never envisioned it would be this hard. Since the start of 2008, he has watched on as Germany banned online […]
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Online Poker: Pycb Wins FTOPS Omaha 8/OB Event
Things were pretty quiet on the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII (FTOPS) front last night as the only event running was the $200 buy-in Omaha eight-or-better event, hosted by Howard Lederer. Despite the lack of overall activity, the first exclusively eight-or-better event of the series easily surpassed its $200,000 guarantee, as the 1,333 entrants […]
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Boss Media Recommends Increased Offer Acceptance
Boss Media, the Swedish-listed gaming software provider today recommended shareholders accept an increased bid the company received of SEK 25 (approximately €2.66) per share from GEMed, a company jointly owned by GTECH and Medströms. This is an increase of 31.6 percent on the previous offer of SEK 20 and values the company at around €130 […]
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Bodog to Hold First Bodog Poker Open
Next month, Bodog will hold its first Bodog Poker Open, a six-event tournament series wherein Bodog is adding a total of $75,000 in free money. The series starts March 3. The series is capped by a $500 buy-in no-limit hold’em event Saturday, March 9. The winner of this event will be crowned the Bodog Poker […]
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GSN's World Poker Tour TV Schedule Released
GSN will start airing new episodes of the World Poker Tour starting Monday, March 24. The new season, the first to be aired on a network that isn’t the Travel Channel, with feature 23 two-hour episodes. The show will be aired every Monday at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Check local listings to confirm. After spending five […]
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Online Poker: Isaac Baron Back in OPOY Top 10
Don’t look now, but last year’s Card Player Online Player of the Year (OPOY) winner Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron has stormed up the leader board to make his first appearance of the year in the top 10 standings. Baron’s 1,552 points are good for ninth place, and he’s still a long way from the impressive 8,304 […]
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Dealerless Poker Coming to Indiana
The Indiana Gaming Commission has given PokerTek temporary permission to install its PokerPro automated poker tables on all 11 riverboat casinos in the state for a year-long field trial. The company has no timeline for when the tables will be installed or which casinos in Indiana will have them. PokerTek is currently in negotiations with […]
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Darren Kramer Wins South African Poker Open
In Johannesburg, South Africa, the South African Poker Open kicked off with 175 entrants, who each paid a 25,000 rands (or approximately $3,600) buy-in, building a prize pool of more than $500,000. Raymond Rahme, the third-place finisher in the 2007 World Series of Poker main event, played in the South African Poker Open but failed […]
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UltimateBet Poker Introduces New Loyalty Program
UltimateBet today launched its new player-loyalty program called RAI$E, which includes a new auction site where players can bid on unique life experiences and memorabilia from sports, poker, and he entertainment worlds using their UltimateBet points. The RAI$E program has five levels: Member, Player, Contender, Legend, and Icon. All depositing players automatically enter the RAI$E […]
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Strip Poker: Venetian Deep Stack Boasts Big Numbers
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene — on The Strip and around the city. The Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza (DSE) is eclipsing numbers from last year in just the first eight events. In comparison, there has been a nearly 23 percent increase in attendants and a 75 percent […]
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Gautchos Wins FTOPS $1K Buy-In Event
Last night’s event in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII (FTOPS) was a much-anticipated tournament for many of the online poker professionals. The $1,000 buy-in shorthanded no-limit hold’em tournament, which replaced the normally scheduled $1K Monday, had a lofty guarantee of $1 million. However, like Sunday’s $1 million-guaranteed event (won by Erick Lindgren), this […]
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888 Sees Poker Revenue Rise 16 Percent
888 Holdings PLC, the second-largest online gaming company in the UK, today said fourth-quarter revenue rose by 55 percent to $62.8 million as both the Pacific Poker and Casino-on-Net brands continued to flourish. Poker revenue grew 16 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007 to $21.4 million while casino was up 60 percent to $35 […]
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Nick Slade Wins Party Poker European Open IV
Nick Slade, a 45-year-old professional player from Preston, Lancashire, enjoyed the biggest win of his career over the weekend when he topped the 72-runner field at the PartyPoker.com European Open IV to lift the $200,000 first prize. Slade, who almost quit the game in 2007 after his wife fell seriously ill and he sustained a […]
