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Ladbrokes Poker Million Format Changes
The Ladbrokes Poker Million, Europe’s longest-running televised poker tournament, today announced that series VII, to be aired every Tuesday from Sept. 9-Dec. 9, will feature a new format. Ladbrokes will add four additional semifinal seats (making the semis an eighthanded affair this year). Two of these will be won online exclusively at Ladbrokes Poker while […]
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Harrah's Courts Gala Casinos in UK
The Times newspaper in London today reports that Harrah’s Entertainment, owner of the World Series of Poker and UK casino group London Clubs International, has made a tentative approach to Gala Coral — owner of the Gala Casinos British Poker Tour — about merging the two casino groups. The prospect of a combined group of […]
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Betdaq Launches New Online Poker Room
Betdaq, the Irish-based betting exchange owned by billionaire Manchester United and Celtic shareholder Dermot Desmond, has launched its new online poker room on the Scandinavian Entraction network (formerly 24hPoker). Betdaq Poker’s initial flagship promo will be the Betdaq €100,000 Poker Bonanza — an online/offline tournament with a guaranteed €100,000 prize pool. The final table will […]
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Dutch State-Run Poker Postponed
Dutch Minister of Justice Hirsch Ballin this week postponed the scheduled Senate vote on granting a temporary but exclusive licence to state-run Holland Casino, which would allow it to offer online gaming, including poker. The Gaming Compliance website reports that Minister Ballin feared the bill would be defeated just one week after the European Commission […]
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Poker in the Name of Valentine's Day
Instead of hugs and kisses, it will be bluffs and check-raises this weekend. Valentine’s Day is only a week a way, and two casinos are giving people a new way to celebrate the holiday with poker. The Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California, is hosting a Sweet Heart’s Weekend. It kicks off tomorrow at 7:15 […]
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Card Player Introduces Gus Hansen Poker Blog
CardPlayer.com is pleased to welcome poker superstars Gus Hansen and Isaac Haxton to our roster of players who share their thoughts on poker strategy, and life in general, through blogging. Recent additions to the CardPlayer.com blog page also include prominent live pro Roy Winston and the entire team of professional poker players/trainers for Card Player […]
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Paul Darden Wins Event as L.A. Poker Classic Continues
With two more preliminary events coming to an end, the L.A. Poker Classic at the Commerce Casino creeps closer to its $10,000 buy-in World Poker Tour championship event, which begins Feb. 23 Professional Paul Darden won event No. 12, a $1,000 buy-in Omaha eight-or-better tournament. He defeated a 134-player field to win almost $42,000 of […]
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Poker Pro Isaac Haxton Joins Card Player Pro Team
Poker pro Isaac Haxton — best known for winning $862,000 by finishing as the runner-up in the 2007 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) — recently joined the stable of professional poker trainers for Card Player Pro, powered by PokerSavvy Plus. Haxton will join the talented roster of trainers to provide hand-for-hand training videos, poker blogs, and […]
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Watkinson, Smith at WSOP Circuit Final Table
The final table of the World Series of Poker’s Circuit event at Harrah’s Rincon is set, and includes the two champions Lee Watkinson and Gavin Smith, who join a group of up-and-comers. Watkinson, who finished eighth in last year’s WSOP main event and also owns a bracelet for winning the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha event at […]
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$1 Million Prize Pool Kicks Off Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII (FTOPS) started off with a bang last night when it’s first event generated a prize pool of just over $1 million. The event, a $750,000-guaranteed no-limit hold’em tournament, attracted 5,319 runners, 738 of which stood to get paid. The first-place finisher was going to leave the table with […]
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Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII Starts Off Big
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII (FTOPS) started off with a bang last night when it’s first event generated a prize pool of just over $1 million. The event, a $750,000-guaranteed no-limit hold’em tournament, attracted 5,319 runners, 738 of which stood to get paid. The first-place finisher was going to leave the table with […]
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New Magic Holdem Poker Odds Calculator Out Now
MagicHoldem, the odds calculator for online Texas hold’em poker rooms, has recently been upgraded to support more than 115 online cardrooms and the free test version can be downloaded from MagicHoldem.com now. The sophisticated odds calculation engine instantly reads the table parameters in virtually any poker room on the Internet, giving players real-time odds and […]
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National Poker Championship Attracts Star Names
The Genting Stanley National Poker League has gotten off to a flying start with more than 4,000 players taking part in the first month, which saw more than £500,000 paid out in prize money. The players are battling for a free ride to the Genting Stanley National Poker Championships, where they will compete against pros […]
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Party Poker Premier League Starts Sunday
The $1 million PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker starts this Sunday in London with 12 of the world’s top players vying to take down the title and $250,000 first prize. Player’s returning from the 2007 event — which was won by Juha Helppi — are 11-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, cardplayereurope.com European […]
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Swede Wins Ladbrokes Poker Cruise III
The LadbrokesPoker.com Poker Cruise III has been won by Swede Claes Westerberg, who took down the $123,625 first prize after topping the field of 242 entrants, which included such luminaries as Jon Kalmar, Michael Greco, Marc Goodwin, Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, and Roy Brindley. The Swede has only been playing poker for 18 months. The cruise […]
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Q&A with EPT Dortmund Winner Mike "Timex" McDonald
Mike “Timex” McDonald may have learned the game by sitting in front of a computer, but over the past month he has proven himself to be more than capable on the live tournament circuit, tearing up January with three final tables, including a win in Germany for nearly $1.4 million. McDonald has only been playing […]
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Tournament Trail Q & A: Mike 'Timex' McDonald
Mike “Timex” McDonald may have learned the game by sitting in front of a computer, but over the past month he has proven himself to be more than capable on the live tournament circuit, tearing up January with three final tables, including a win in Germany for nearly $1.4 million. McDonald has only been playing […]
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Borgata Forced to Provide Overlay in Poker Tournament
On Friday, for the first time in the history of the Borgata poker room, an overlay was needed to match a prize-pool guarantee for its $330 buy-in, $75,000-guaranteed hold’em event. The casino blamed horrible weather in the Atlantic City area for barely not attracting enough players to cover the guarantee. The city experienced a rainstorm […]
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Local Leads at WSOP Circuit Rincon Main Event
The championship event of the World Series of Poker Circuit event at Harrah’s Rincon started Tuesday with 148 players plunking down $5,000 to try to win the $229,000 grand prize. This is the seventh WSOP Circuit event of the 2007-2008 season, and six more are scheduled through the end of May. The winner also receives […]
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David Pham Pulls Into POY Top 10 With LAPC Score
David “The Dragon” Pham was named the Card Player Player of the Year for 2000 as well as 2007, and he isn’t wasting any time gaining points for the 2008 race. With his most recent second-place finish at the L.A. Poker Classic in event No. 11, a $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament, Pham cracked the […]
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Strip Poker: Venetian Deep Stack Finishes First Event
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene — on The Strip and around the city. The deep starting stacks, generous blinds structure, and one of the biggest poker rooms on The Strip attracted 571 entrants to the first event of the 2008 Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza. The prize pool […]
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Gala Casinos British Poker Tour 2008 Details Announced
The Gala Casinos British Poker Tour — formerly the Great British Poker Tour — returns this year with five regional festivals, one grand final, and an estimated £1 million-plus prize pool. The tour kicks off on Feb. 27 in the Gala Maybury Casino, Edinburgh, with a total estimated festival prize pool of £150,000. The centerpiece […]
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Swedish Court of Appeal to Rule on Advertising Ban
Gaming Intelligence Group today reports that the Swedish Supreme Court has ordered the Court of Appeal to test the compatibility of the country’s lottery law with existing European law. Daily newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen have been battling for years to overturn a District Court ruling which barred them from accepting foreign gaming ads. According to […]
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Paradise Poker Announces €250,000 Guaranteed
ParadisePoker.com today announced its next €250,000-guaranteed multitable tournament, due to take place on Apr. 6, 2008, at 6 p.m. Daily satellites from as little as $2.20 start on Feb. 11, with the site guaranteeing 10 seats each week, while the buy-in to the tournament itself is $320. ParadisePoker also offers a Players Club and Players […]
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Rummy Royal Launches Online Kalooki Tournament
RummyRoyal.com, the specialist online multiplayer gin site, has added kalooki to its spread of games and is reinforcing its reputation as the leading online gin site in the world. The site, which now has 25,000 registered users, was the first to host multiplayer online gin games and now spreads gin rummy, Oklahoma gin, and other […]
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European Deep Stack Poker Main Event Preview
The Green Joker Poker European Deep Stack Poker Championship main event starts today 6 in Drogheda Poker Club, Drogheda, Ireland, with up to 300 players expected to attend the 50,000 starting stack, one-hour clock event. BlueSquare.com has posted the betting market for the event with in-form Julian Thew firm favourite at 40/1 to win. The […]
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Bodog Poker Offers 120-Plus Seats in WSOP Main Event
Bodog today kicked off its qualifiers for the 2008 World Series of Poker main event, and the site is likely going to award more than 120 seats into event before the tournament is held on July 3. Three main-event satellites, called Main Event Semifinals, are being held on a weekly basis starting tonight and leading […]
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MLB Athlete Hosts Poker Celebrity Bowl, Raises $40K
Major League Baseball shortstop Royce Clayton hit it out of the park over Super Bowl weekend with the first ever Poker Celebrity Bowl, as it raised $40,000 for charity at Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino Resort in Phoenix, Arizona. The benefiting charity was the Royce Clayton Family Foundation, an organization aimed at improving the lives of people […]
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Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII Starts Wednesday
The 20-event Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) VII kicks off tomorrow with a $750,000-guaranteed no-limit hold’em tournament. The series as a whole offers more than $10 million in guaranteed prize pools and culminates in a $2 million-guaranteed no-limit hold’em main event (with a buy-in of $500) on Sunday, Feb. 17. Every event will be […]
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Men Nguyen Wins Seven-Card Stud Event at LAPC
Men “The Master” Nguyen is coming off of his recent World Poker Tour final table nicely, as he just won event No. 10 at the L.A. Poker Classic. It was a $300 buy-in seven-card stud event with 173 runners and a more than $50,000 prize pool. Nguyen beat Raymond Bonavida heads up to win more […]
