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GUKPT Heads-Up Championship Final Today
The final of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour gets under way today with Marc Goodwin playing Kevin O'Leary for the title, the £20,000 first prize, and a seat in the GUKPT grand final which starts tomorrow, Nov. 29. The runner-up receives £12,000. O'Leary defeated Will Mitchell in his semi-final match in a game which lasted […]
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Bodog Entertainment Files Motion in Washington State
The battle between Bodog and 1st Technology LLC continues. Lawyers for Bodog Entertainment Group filed a motion in Washing state court asking the court to reconsider a prior ruling that allowed 1st Technology LLC to seize several domain names, including Bodog.com. In June, 1st Technology LLC obtained a default judgment against Bodog.com, Bodog.net, and Bodog […]
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B.C. Poker Championship Ends With a Bang
The B.C. Poker Championship ended earlier this week with a $2,700 main event that attracted 643 players to the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond, B.C., Canada. The prize pool amounted to $1.61 million, and Daniel Idema took the top prize of $402,500. The following are the top 10 finishers: Daniel Idema — $402,500 Jason […]
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Boris Becker Signs With Team PokerStars
PokerStars has signed one of the most popular athletes in European history to its team. Boris Becker, the German tennis player who still holds the record as the youngest player to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon when he won at 17, joins Daniel Negreanu, Joe Hachem, Barry Greenstein, and others on Team PokerStars, […]
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Strip Poker: NPL Finishes First Event in Vegas Open
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene – on the Strip and around the city. The U.S. leg of the National Poker League's worldwide tour began Sunday at the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino with the first event of the Vegas Open. The $2,500 buy-in no-limit hold'em event attracted […]
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Neil Channing Wins Warm-Up Event at GUKPT
Neil "Bad Beat" Channing won the £35,000 first prize at the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour finals in the Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London, in a £1,000 no-limit hold'em warm-up event which attracted 64 players over the weekend. Channing recently made the final tables of the £2,500 Great British Poker Tour grand final in Bristol and the […]
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Betfair Presents Irish Christmas Poker Festival This Friday
The Macau Sporting Club, Cork, Ireland, hosts its annual Irish Christmas Poker Festival, in association with Betfair.com, starting with a supersatellite this Thursday, Nov. 29. The centerpiece of this popular festival is the €1,000+€80 main event no-limit Texas hold'em freezeout with a guaranteed prize pool of €100,000. The three-day main event starts Friday, Nov. 30 […]
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Sweden Issues €4.3 million Tax Bill to Multi Poker
Multipoker.com, an early market leader in online poker in Sweden, has been hit with a €4.3 million tax bill for activities prior to its sale to PartyGaming in November 2005, according to Gaming Intelligence Review (GIR). Skatteverket, the Swedish Tax Authority, is claiming SEK40 million (€4.3 million) in unpaid taxes against Multipoker.com. Skatteverket says the […]
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CakePoker's Million Dollar Freeroll Series Under Way
The Million Dollar Freeroll Series at CakePoker is providing players with eight more chances to get a piece of a million-dollar pie by hosting a $100,000 freeroll tournament every month. There are three ways that players can qualify and one way is absolutely free. The top five players of each Million Dollar Freeroll Series satellite […]
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Bodog Deals Its Billionth Hand
Bodog's Billionth Hand Promotion hit its final landmark last night as the site's billionth hand was dealt to nine lucky players competing in an $8.80 buy-in beginner sit-and-go. It happened at 9:36 p.m. EST, and each player received $109 in tournament credits and a share of $10,000. The following are the winning players: bbink of […]
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Bellagio Five-Diamond World Poker Classic Begins
The Bellagio Hotel and Casino is known for its AAA Five-Diamond Award, so it is no wonder that its poker tournaments are also considered world class. The appropriately named Five-Diamond World Poker Classic begins tomorrow with the first of 12 preliminary events leading up to the $15,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Classic Championship. […]
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Online Poker: G0T T!LT? Wins Sunday Million
PokerStars Sunday Million The monthly $500 buy-in version of the PokerStars Sunday Million had 2,704 entrants last night, meaning the players were vying for a piece of a $1,352,000 prize pool. The first-place finisher was looking at having $249,000 more in his PokerStars account than when he started the tournament. After 2,702 players had been […]
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Strip Poker: Treasure Island Hosts $15,000 Freeroll
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene – on The Strip and around the city. The Treasure Island poker room is kicking off the qualifying period for the $15,000 Crown Royal Poker Tournament today. Players must log in 20 hours of cash-game play from now until Dec. 13 to […]
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Washington State Online Poker Legal Update
No state in the nation has a more severe penalty for playing online poker than Washington, which, in early 2006, passed a law that made playing online poker a class C felony there. Washington is one of seven states where state legislators have outlawed online poker. Washington State Attorney Lee Rousso has taken it upon […]
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Andreas Krause Wins Poker Royale Masters in Austria
German poker pro Andreas Krause yesterday won the Poker Royale Masters tournament at the Poker Royale Card Casino in Weiner Neustadt, Austria, defeating former Card Player Europe Bureau Chief Rolf Slotboom heads-up to win the €50,605 first-place prize. The victory brings his total winnings for 2007 to well over $500,000. Krause started the day with […]
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Irish Poker Championship Freeroll This Weekend
A freeroll tournament for entry into the €2,000 PartyPoker.com Irish Poker Championship takes place this Saturday, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. at Cool Hand Lukes, 81 Merrion Square, Dublin. Players can claim their seats in the 2008 IPC freeroll by registering for an account with PartyPoker and using the promotional code "IPCFREE." Players must ensure […]
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Tennis Ace Signs for PokerStars
PokerStars today revealed Boris Becker as the new face representing the company at online and live tournaments. Becker, the winner of six grand slam tennis events, will also star in an upcoming TV commercial. The three-time Wimbledon Men's Champion, speaking about his transition from tennis to poker, said, "When I was still playing professional tennis, […]
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Dinh Le Wins APPT Macau $2,500 Event
After two days and 341 player eliminations, the final table for the $2,500 PokerStars.com Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Macau Asian Poker Open played out last night. The event, the first hold'em poker tournament on Chinese soil, was the largest poker tournament ever held in Asia. The APPT couldn't have asked for a more high-profile […]
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Qualify for BING Poker €250,000 Guaranteed Now
Qualification is underway for BING Poker's inaugural €250,000-guaranteed multitable tournament, to be held on Dec. 16 at 19:00 GMT. The €320 buy-in tournament will be the largest ever held on the site. Players can qualify via the regular Lotto Frenzy satellites from €2.20 to €35. The minimum first-place payout is €60,000. BING Poker is also […]
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Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau Event Breaks Records
The first poker tournament on Chinese soil kicked off today with 352 players buying into the $2,500 Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Macau Asian Poker Open. The winner of the event will take home $222,640 and the bragging rights of having won Asia's largest poker tournament to date. Scotty Nguyen, 1998 World Series of Poker […]
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China's First Major Tournament Attracts Poker Stars
The PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau: Asian Poker Open attracted 352 players to the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino yesterday and made history as the first real-money international poker tournament to take place on Chinese soil. Among those playing for their share of the $810,000 prize pool at the five-day event were former world […]
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T.J. Cloutier Wins Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge
A self-proclaimed "dinosaur" of the game, T.J. Cloutier rose above all 123 other players who competed in the $5,000 buy-in Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge at the Cherokee Casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and won the first-place prize of almost $241,000. Cloutier had to get through several big-name pros at the final table, including Bill Edler, Gavin […]
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Betfair Launches Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Betting Market
Betfair, in association with the Hendon Mob, has launched its Grosvenor UK Poker Tour grand final betting market with Ram Vaswani, Praz Banzi, Roland De Wolfe, and Dave Colclough heading the market at 69/1. The GUKPT grand final is the £3,000 buy-in culmination of a 12-month, 10-event tour which has proved the success of the […]
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Card Player Profile: Bill Chen
Bill Chen has just under $1 million in lifetime tournament earnings, and he credits his mathematical skills for his success. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a practicing quantitative analyst. He also is the author of The Mathematics of Poker. At the 2006 World Series of Poker, he won […]
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Momentum Slightly Shifts for Online Poker in America
The momentum for making online poker unquestionably legal has slightly shifted toward poker thanks to several events that happened in Washington, D.C., in October and November, as well as the World Trade Organization issue. First, the Poker Players Alliance had nearly 100 of its members show up in the country's capitol, mainly to meet with […]
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Strip Poker: Hellmuth to Host Charity Tourney at Palms
Known as the "Poker Brat," Phil Hellmuth has no problem bringing attention to himself with his fashionably late entrances at world-class events, his berating of opponents, and his ability to "dodge bullets." Whether it is his larger-than-life personality or his undeniable talent (backed by his record-breaking accomplishments), Hellmuth is a huge attraction. On Saturday, Dec. […]
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EU Tells U.S. to Stop Foreign-Gaming Exclusion
European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has told the European Parliament that the United States continues to exclude foreign gaming firms, and that it needs to change its position on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which effectively prohibits them from competing in the U.S. "What we really need is for the legislation to be […]
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Daniel Negreanu Mobile Video Tutorials Launched in UK
I-play, the mobile phone game developer, today launched "Win at Texas Hold Em," presented by Daniel Negreanu, on the O2 and T-Mobile networks in the UK. The game is part of I-play's strategy of developing the next generation of poker products for mobile communication devices such as phones and PDAs. More than 50 tutorials featuring […]
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Norway Proposes Legislation to Thwart Online Gaming
According to reports in Gaming Intelligence Review (GIR), the Norwegian government has introduced proposed legislation which will prohibit financial institutions from processing transactions for online gaming companies, much like the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act did in the U.S. recently. The legislative process allows for debate on the proposals until mid-February 2008. Subsequently, it is […]
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UK University Poker Championships Launched
Life of Sports today launched the UK University Poker Championship in partnership with Cake Poker, which offers college students one year's free tuition and a seat at the 2008 World Series of Poker main event, worth $12,000. Open to all college or university students in the UK (PokerStars.com is partnering the U.S. version of the […]
