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Lederer Wins $100,000 Event at Aussie Millions
Howard Lederer is the winner of the Aussie Millions AUD $100,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament that took place Saturday. He was one of 25 players who made the big purchase and played in this event. He won AUD $1.25 million. This one-day event attracted 18 players last year. This year’s field included Gus Hansen, Phil […]
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GUKPT Brighton Kicks Off 2008 Tour
The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) 2008 gets into full swing today with the first stop of the 10-leg tour pulling into Brighton. The tour will see sponsor bluesqpoker.com add £200,000 to the prize pool, including a £75,000 Champion of Champions tournament and £30,000 in prize money for the leader board (rankings). Today sees a […]
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Online Poker Interview: Eugene 'MyRabbiFoo' Katchalov
The screen name “MyRabbiFoo,” derived from “my rabbit foot,” has certainly lived up to its lucky connotations for the name’s owner. Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov had a killer month in online poker last year that culminated in a win in a Full Tilt $750,000-guaranteed event, worth $133,000. While that win was certainly impressive, it was put […]
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European Deep Stack Poker Championship Qualifier Tonight
Qualification for the Green Joker Poker European Deep Stack Poker Championship enters its final stage this month ahead of start of the innovative event at the Drogheda Poker Club, Drogheda, Ireland, from Feb. 2-10, 2008. Tonight at 9.30 p.m. is the first of the final three $100+$9 rebuy online grand finals being held on Green […]
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BING Poker Freerolls This Weekend
Dive into BING Poker this weekend and play poker absolutely free with friendly and fun freerolls each weekend. The €150 freeroll takes place every day at 17:00 GMT while on Sunday afternoon at 2.20 GMT the €50 freeroll will help you wile away that boring Sunday afternoon. With BING Poker you can try before you […]
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It's Carnival Week at PartyPoker.com
This week sees a unique promotion at PartyPoker.com which will see eight players win $8,000 packages to attend the world’s largest festival in Rio de Janeiro between Feb. 2 and 5, 2008. Starting today, Jan. 12, and running until Jan. 18, players who earn 20 PartyPoints in a day qualify for the following day’s Rio […]
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Card Player Europe Profile: Annette Obrestad
Obrestad Talks About Her Recent Live Success, What Mistakes She’s Made, and How Her Game Has Improved Annette Obrestad is a Norwegian teenager who burst onto the poker scene, as Annette_15, with her formidable online play. Recently, she began to play live events, and it has worked out well; she won the first World Series […]
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paddypowerpoker.com "Finnvasion" This May
paddypowerpoker.com, in conjunction with Poker Magazine Finland and Poker–lehti, has announced a 60-runner live tournament in Dublin, Ireland on May 17. The tournament will comprise 30 online qualifiers from each country and generate a prize pool of approximately $18,000. Online satellites take place every Sunday starting tomorrow and cost $15 with winners proceeding to the […]
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WSOP Circuit Tunica Prelims Nearly Halfway Done
The World Series of Poker Circuit preliminaries in Tunica, Mississippi, are nearly halfway through and are attracting a large number of players. The first event was a $300 buy-in no-limit hold’em event, which attracted an impressive 781 players. The prize pool came out to $233,366, and Howard Reid took home the first-place prize of more […]
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Card Player Profile: Annette Obrestad
Annette Obrestad is a Norwegian teenager who burst onto the poker scene, as Annette_15, with her formidable online play. Recently, she began to play live events, and it has worked out well; she won the first World Series of Poker Europe main event and earned $2 million. Less than a month later, she came in […]
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Lee Watkinson Wins Aussie Millions Event No. 7
Lee Watkinson is the winner of the Aussie Millions AUD $3,000 pot-limit Omaha with rebuys event that attracted 65 entries and 107 rebuys. He will take AUD $180,600 back home to the states. The players generated a prize pool of AUD $516,000. Tom Dwan, of Edison, New Jersey, was the runner-up, which was good for […]
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Goonawardana Wins Aussie Millions Event No. 6
Hometown player Marlon Goonawardana ended up with all of the chips to conclude the $1,500 no-limit hold’em bounty preliminary event at the Aussie Millions. He won AUD $155,400. Michael Binger, the third-place finisher of the 2006 World Series of Poker main event, was the runner-up, which was good for AUD $88,060. Goonawardana’s biggest cash before […]
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Cake Poker's Million Dollar Promotion Nearly Over
CakePoker’s Million Dollar Freeroll promotion, a series of 10 $100,000-guaranteed tournaments, is still in full swing, and players still have time to qualify for this month’s event for free. The remaining $100,000-guaranteed events will take place on the following dates: January 26 2008 March 1 2008 April 5 2008 May 3 2008 May 31 2008 […]
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Win a Seat Into NBC's Poker After Dark on Full Tilt
Full Tilt is giving its players a chance to compete alongside top pros in a $20,000 buy-in tournament on NBC’s Poker After Dark (PAD) for free. The show has grown enormously popular because of the invitation-only status, as well as the cut-throat competition (since it is a winner-take-all tournament). Players can win a free tournament […]
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Free Seats in Bodog Poker $100K Offered Once Again
Bodog is giving CardPlayer.com readers a third free shot at winning their share of $100,000. The football-inspired promotion, which will run until the end of the NFL playoffs, includes a series of freerolls exclusive to Card Player readers wherein seats into Bodog’s Sunday $100,000-guaranteed event are given away. This week’s freeroll, which will be held […]
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Poker After Dark to Feature a Table 'Hecklers'
Next week’s Poker After Dark (PAD) match will feature a few of the game’s wittiest and most outspoken players when it premieres early Tuesday morning at 2:05 a.m. At a table appropriately named “Hecklers,” Gavin Smith, Sam Grizzle, Jean-Robert Bellande, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, Shawn Sheikhan, and Phil “The Poker Brat” Hellmuth will compete for […]
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PKR Hits 10,000 Concurrent Player Milestone
Last Sunday saw the 3D online poker room, PKR.com reach another milestone in its rapid development as 10,007 users played online concurrently. The 18 month-old poker room, which has over 1.3 million registered users, is now ranked the 18th most popular poker site by Poker Scout. The company also launched a substantial TV advertising campaign […]
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Boss Media Aims to Double Revenue by 2010
Boss Media, the Swedish software developer which owns and operates the International Poker Network, has told analysts it plans to double its revenue by 2010. The company, which operates the platform where Mermaid Poker and Poker Heaven reside, made an operating profit amounted to SEK 39.2 (€44.8) million in the first nine months of 2007. […]
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Qualify for Upcoming EPT Events on Poker Stars
Season four of the European Poker Tour is more than halfway through with the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure ending today, but there is plenty of time left to qualify for the remaining events. Satellites are running now for the next three EPT stops, which are Dortmund (Jan. 29-Feb. 2), Copenhagen (Feb. 19-23), and Warsaw (March 11-15), […]
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Frenchman Wins EPT PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Action got under way at 10 a.m. ET this morning in the Bahamas at the final table of the European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, and here is how the chip stacks stacked up at the start of play: David "The Dragon" Pham — 7,390,000 Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier — 3,060,000 Joe "BigEgypt" Elpayaa — 2,755,000 […]
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Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier Wins the 2008 EPT PCA
Action got under way at 10 a.m. ET this morning in the Bahamas at the final table of the European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, and here is how the chip stacks stacked up at the start of play: David "The Dragon" Pham — 7,390,000 Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier — 3,060,000 Joe "BigEgypt" Elpayaa — 2,755,000 […]
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Poker Stars Guarantees 16 Seats to EPT Grand Final
The PokerStars European Poker Tour grand final will take place April 12-17 in Monte Carlo, and like all of the EPT events, PokerStars wants its players to be there. On Saturday, Jan. 19, PokerStars will hold a $1,050 qualifier to the EPT’s championship, which has a buy-in of approximately $14,000 (€10,000). PokerStars guarantees that 16 […]
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Aussie Millions Poker Series Has Two More Winners
The Aussie Millions continued this week with its preliminary events, and the two latest events were won by native Australians. But as the buy-ins begin to grow, so do the number of foreigners making their mark at the Crowne Casino. Jamie Pickering of Gold Coast, Australia, won event No. 4, an AUD $1,000 limit hold’em […]
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EPT Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure Final Table Set
The record field of 1,136 players has been whittled down to the final table of eight at the European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Play began at noon in the Bahamas, and action was set to continue while the final 40 players fought for a spot at the final table. The end came more than […]
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EPT Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure — Day 4 Recap
The record field of 1,136 players has been whittled down to the final table of eight at the European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Play began at noon in the Bahamas, and action was set to continue while the final 40 players fought for a spot at the final table. The end came more than […]
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Tournament Trail Q & A: Hevad 'Rain' Khan
Hevad "Rain" Khan has gone from a multitable online tournament presence to a live tournament professional. He has built on his success at the 2007 World Series of Poker main event and gained respect on the live tournament circuit through consistent finishes. The most recent of these took place in the Bahamas, where he finished […]
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Strip Poker: Operation All In With UFC Fighter Saturday
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene — on The Strip and around the city. The Operation All In charity poker tournament, which will take place inside The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas this Saturday at 1 p.m., was announced a few weeks […]
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Roy Winston Joins the Card Player Blogging Team
Roy Winston, one of the most successful tournament players of 2007, has joined the CardPlayer.com blogging team. Winston kicked off his blog with a report from the Aussie Millions tournament. His blog will cover a variety of topics, including tournament play, money management, and the lifestyle of a professional poker player. Click here to access […]
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World Poker Tour Launches Ladies-Only League
Today, the World Poker Tour announced the formation of the WPT Ladies league (WPTL). The WPTL will feature an annual slate of tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $300 to $1,500 to give women of all skill levels a chance to compete on the WPT stage. The first season of the WPTL tour kicks off Jan. […]
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Full Tilt Online Poker Series Schedule Announced
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) VII is now only one month away, and qualifiers are already running. More than $10 million in guaranteed prize money is going to be awarded over 20 events, with $2 million of that for the main event alone. Every event will be hosted by a Full Tilt […]
