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Strip Poker: Orleans Introduces a POY Worth $100,000
In this “Strip Poker” series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene — on The Strip and around the city. Successful tournament players have one characteristic in common ─ consistency, and the Orleans is adding an extra incentive for locals and regular players to bring their A-game every time. Starting yesterday, players can […]
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Card Player Releases POY Scoring Criteria for 2008
Card Player magazine revised portions of its Player of the Year scoring criteria for 2008. The new rules give players who go deep in several marquee international events POY points and also outline changes to heads-up and short-handed events. The complete scoring criteria follows, but the changes new to 2008 are: The championship events of […]
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Poker Stars Seated 150,000 Players on Sunday
PokerStars hit a stunning milestone Sunday, Dec. 30, when 150,000 players logged onto the site to play poker. That's approximately 20,000 tables running at once (PokerStars runs hundreds of shorthanded games). There's nowhere near that number of tables at brick-and-mortar casinos in the entire United States. The achievement took place during the $1,050 Sunday Million, […]
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Poker Pro Isaac Baron Wins Online Player of the Year
The final few days of the Card Player Online Player (OPOY) of the Year race were nail-biters, but then, most of the year was for the top contenders. In the end, however, Isaac "westmenloAA" Baron came out on top to take down the coveted title. The top two players, Baron (8,304 points) and Matt "ch0ppy" […]
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Devilfish is Card Player European Poker Player of the Year
Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott has won the 2007 Card Player European Player of the Year title in a battle with Swede Chris Bjorin which went right to the wire. Ulliott’s third-place finish in the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Classic on Dec. 17 catapulted the Englishman to the top of the leader board with 3,446 points, […]
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Germany Outlaws Online Gaming Today
Online poker players in Germany have one fewer reason to celebrate the coming of the New Year. Jan. 1, 2008, will mark the beginning of a state-ratified online gambling ban in Germany, a move meant to safeguard the country's state monopolies on lotteries and other forms of online wagering. The new online-wagering laws – which […]
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Online Poker: Sunday Million Offered $354K to Winner
PokerStars Sunday Million PokerStars held the quarterly $1,000 buy-in version of the Sunday Million last night, and the tournament was a tremendous success. It boasted the third-largest prize pool in Sunday Million history at $1,803,000. That's saying a lot, considering the the two leading tournaments had unfair advantages. The Sunday Million on March 11, 2007 […]
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Germany to Outlaw Internet Gambling Tomorrow
Online poker players in Germany have one fewer reason to celebrate the coming of the New Year. Jan. 1, 2008, will mark the beginning of a state-ratified online gambling ban in Germany, a move meant to safeguard the country's state monopolies on lotteries and other forms of online wagering. The new online-wagering laws – which […]
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$20,080 Added to Mansion Poker's New Year Tourney
MansionPoker.com is adding $20,080 to its Jan. 2 freezeout to celebrate the start of 2008. The $1+$0.10 tournament takes place this Wednesday at 19:00 GMT and gives players 3,000 in starting chips and a 15-minute blinds clock to ensure plenty of play and a sparkling opportunity to start the new year with a bulging bankroll. […]
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Online Poker: Interview With Dani 'Ansky' Stern
Dani "Ansky" Stern is trying to break the curse that successful cash-game poker players are less recognizable than successful tournament players. Kicking ass at high-stakes cash games is a good start for that plan. Becoming a trainer for the highly respected poker training site PokerSavvy Plus is a good follow-through. It's hard to argue with […]
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PokerTrillion.com Launches €75,000 Poker League
PokerTrillion.com has announced its exclusive €75,000 Trillion Poker League, which begins on Jan. 1, 2008. The innovative online poker room, which also offers 30 percent rakeback and up to 50 percent in discounts on major live tournament buy-ins, is giving all players who enter multitable tournaments of 31 players or more the opportunity to win […]
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Card Player Poker Profile: J.C. Tran
J.C. Tran has been playing in major poker tournaments for five years, and in that time, he has earned more than $5.7 million. He began 2007 as the points-leader in the Card Player Player of the Year (POY) race, but throughout the year, he slipped down the ranks. He rallied during the Five-Diamond World Poker […]
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Bodog Poker Offering Free Seats in $100K Guarantee
Bodog Poker is looking to give free entry into its $100,000-guaranteed tournament to up to 27 Card Player readers. The site is holding exclusive freerolls for Card Player readers – wherein one out of every 20 entrants is guaranteed entry (worth $109) into the site's flagship tournament – to celebrate the end of the college […]
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Online Poker: Isaac Baron Takes Over OPOY Race
On Sunday, Dec. 23, when many people around the world were gearing up for Christmas, Isaac "westmenloAA" Baron was gearing up to take over the coveted top spot of the 2007 Card Player Online Player of the Year (OPOY) leader board. His win in the $200 rebuy tournament on PokerStars that night earned him $58,000 […]
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Harrah's Sale Won't Change World Series of Poker
The pending closing of the multi-billion dollar sale of Harrah's to two private firms will not change the way the World Series of Poker will be run in 2008, and the current management, who will stay with the company, says that the WSOP will remain an important property for the company for years to come. […]
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RGA Files Complaint against U.S. with EU
An online organization that calls as members some of the largest online gambling companies in the world announced that it would file a formal complaint against the United States for "discrimination based on violations of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules." The Remote Gambling Association says the compliant filed with the European Union opens up another […]
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Tournament Trail Q & A: Ryan Daut
Ryan Daut won the very first World Poker Tour final table of 2007 when he took down the title at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in early January and he finished the year by making the final table of the last WPT event of the year, the 2007 Doyle Brunson Classic (he finished in sixth place). […]
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EPT and WPT Sends Poker Players Right Back into Action
Tournament poker players don't have long to cool their spurs before returning to the poker trail again. In only 10 days, they'll start the new year by heading to the Caribbean to play some major poker. The year starts with the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), which, for the first time, is a European Poker Tour […]
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Poker Pros New Year's Resolutions
With only a few more days left in 2007, plans for a better 2008 have begun to creep in people's minds, and New Year's resolutions are hatched. The career choice of being a professional poker player can often lead to unhealthy lifestyles. According to USA Today, the most popular New Year's resolutions are ones that […]
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John D'Agostino Talks Poker on ESPN Radio
John "JDAGS" D'Agostino, represented by Card Player Media, recently sat down with ESPN radio to talk about the game of seven-card stud poker. He gave tips and valuable insight into the game. Click here to listen to the entire interview. (Or right-click and click "save" to save the MP3 file of the interview directly to […]
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The Future Looks Bright for Electronic Poker Tables
Historically, poker has required several physical elements to play: chips (or money), a table, some chairs, and a deck of cards (which is truly one of the earliest versions of an analog random-number generator). Then Internet poker came along and introduced the world to the virtual table. With online poker, only a personal computer, an […]
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Two Millionth Player Bonus on BING Poker
BING Poker's network will shortly sign up its 2 millionth registered player – predicted in the first week of January 2008 but possibly much sooner. To celebrate the site is offering a €300 bonus to the two millionth registered player plus €50 to the players who register immediately before and after the two millionth sign-up. […]
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12 Days of Christmas at VC Poker
VC Poker has announced its 12 Days of Christmas promotion which tonight, Christmas Eve, sees the start of the $40,000 action point freeroll series. The series continues on Dec. 25 and 31, and Jan. 1, 2008. The $15,000 Christmas 'Cash Grab' Cracker begins on St. Stephen's Day (Boxing Day) and sees players divided into two […]
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Online Poker: Interview With Chris 'Tribefan9' Rhodes
Chris "tribefan9" Rhodes has been playing poker for about four years and has been a poker pro – specializing in limit hold'em cash-game play – for about 2.5 years. He graduated from college with an accounting degree and spent a year working in corporate banking before realizing that he was making more money playing poker […]
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Joe Beevers Wins Ladbrokes Poker Million
Londoner Joe Beevers has won the Ladbrokes Poker Million VI, beating current Irish Open champion Marty Smyth heads-up to take down the $1 million first prize. Beevers started the six-man final table, broadcast live last night on Sky Sports 2, as fourth favourite. The chip counts at the beginning of play were: Howard Lederer – […]
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Card Player Profile: Dutch Boyd
Dutch Boyd has more than $1.2 million in lifetime tournament earnings. For the past few months, Boyd did not play any major tournaments, but he came out to Las Vegas for the Five-Diamond World Poker Classic. Card Player had the chance to chat with him after he won a preliminary event, and we discussed his […]
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U.S. Settles With Antigua and Barbuda
A World Trade Organization arbitrary panel has ruled that Antigua and Barbuda are entitled to $21 million a year from the United States, far below the $3.4 billion that the Caribbean countries sought in its claim against the United States concerning Internet gambling. The panel ruled for that dollar amount because it only took into […]
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Poker Academy Goes International
Now poker fans who enjoy learning as much about the game as possible but don't speak English will have the access to Poker Academy's world-class instructional programs, Poker Academy Poker Pro and Poker Academy Prospector. Thanks to an agreement with French software publisher Anuman, the Poker Academy suite of poker tools is now available in […]
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Strip Poker: Operation All In to Take Place at Hard Rock
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene – on The Strip and around the city. Poker players, mixed-martial-arts fighters, and Hollywood celebrities are coming together Jan. 12, 2008, to raise money to help injured G.I.’s by hosting a charity poker tournament at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Casino […]
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Qualify for Euro Deep Stack Poker Championship Sunday
The next $250 (with $20 entry fee) grand final satellite offering seats for the Green Joker Poker European Deep Stack Poker Championship is this Sunday at 9.30 p.m. GMT. The $3,000 package offers the €1,500 main-event entry, accommodation, and expenses. Players can qualify for the Championship for free via two daily freerolls at 10.30 a.m. […]
