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Strip Poker: Weekly Freeroll at Tuscany
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene – on The Strip and around the city. In an effort to give back to its players, the Tuscany Casino is making it as easy as possible for regulars to qualify for its weekly freeroll. From 12 a.m. Saturday morning until the […]
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Automatic Shuffler for Homegames to Hit Market in 2008
When Hiro Toyama was asked by a friend to build a poker table with an automatic shuffler built in, just like casinos have, he went straight to work. Upon realizing that an automatic shuffler would set him back more than $16,000, he decided to build one himself for much less. It has taken him two […]
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Betfair Appoints New Poker Director
Betfair today announced the appointment of Bruce Stubbs as director of poker. Previously marketing director at Paradise Poker, Stubbs recently worked as the Betfair project manager at the World Series of Poker Europe. He also played a significant role in securing the sponsorship of 19-year-old Norwegian starlet Annette Obrestad. Betfair Media Director Niall Wass said, […]
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APPT Macau Attracting Poker's Elite
The Asia Pacific Poker Tour stop in Macau is already making history as the first international poker tournament in the People's Republic of China, and a slew of the biggest names in the game want to be a part of it. Events are scheduled for Nov. 22-27, and the $2,500 buy-in no-limit hold'em main event […]
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Strip Poker: Planet Hollywood Hosts Tourney for BET
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene – on The Strip and around the city. All stars aligned this weekend at the official grand opening of the new Planet Hollywood Casino in Las Vegas. Red carpet events lined the casino floors, and the poker room was no different, as […]
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Card Player Launches Card Player Europe Website
Card Player Media today announced the launch of its new website, CardPlayerEurope.com. The site, which complements the highly successful Card Player Poker + Sports magazine, will be the most comprehensive poker portal in Europe, offering poker fans a host of unique and useful functions, as well as the best in European and world poker news, […]
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Online Poker: Fkscreennames Wins FTOPS Main Event
While a lot of big tournaments were held this weekend, the two most noteworthy were part of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VI (FTOPS). The quarterly series had yet another successful run; Full Tilt guaranteed $9,125,000 in prize pools over the span of the series' 16 events, but entrants actually generated almost $11.2 million […]
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Irishman Comes Close at WSOP Circuit Event
Irishman Sylvester Geoghegan yesterday continued his good run of form with a fourth-place finish in the World Series of Poker Circuit event in Harveys Lake Tahoe. He picked up $56,955 for his final-table finish but is likely to be disappointed at being knocked out ahead of the big money. The event was won by Chris […]
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Chris Ferguson Wins WSOP Circuit Event in Lake Tahoe
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson defeated a local player heads-up at the World Series of Poker Circuit event that was held at Harvey's Lake Tahoe this weekend. He won $203,000. This is Ferguson's third WSOP Circuit victory. He also owns five WSOP bracelets, including one from the no-limit hold'em main event (2000). The $5,150 event attracted 142 […]
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Paul Bracken Wins GUKPT Blackpool
Paul Bracken won the 10th leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour at the G Casino in Blackpool, winning £109,700 in cash, a seat worth £3,000 to the GUKPT grand final in a fortnight's time in London, and £10,000 added by Blue Square. More than 350 players entered the event, and the London-Irishman beat Leesider […]
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Card Player Media Launches Card Player Europe Website
November 19, 2007, Las Vegas, NV: Card Player Media today announced the launch of its new website, www.CardPlayerEurope.com. The site, which complements the highly successful Card Player Poker + Sports magazine, will be the most comprehensive poker portal in Europe, offering poker fans a host of unique and useful functions, as well as the best […]
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Online Poker: Interview With Randy 'Randers' Haddox
Randy "Randers" Haddox went from teaching eighth-graders pre-algebra calculations and commanding junior-high football players on football fields to calculating pot odds and commanding piles of chips on the digital felts of online poker tables. The job-change, which he made in the summer of 2006, let Haddox remain in Houston, Texas, where he's lived his entire […]
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Lee Childs Taking Your Calls Tonight
Lee Childs, represented by Card Player Media, will be a guest on the Sludge and Lake radio show today at 6:35 p.m. PT. He will be taking calls from listeners at (800) 320-5326. Listen to the entire show by clicking here. The Sludge and Lake Show is a syndicated radio show on Clear Channel covering […]
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Scotty Nguyen Big Part of Cherokee Poker Success
When casino gambling was first approved for Oklahoma in 2004, Cherokee Casinos made sure that poker would be an integral part of its business right from the start when it opened its first poker room in its first casino outside of Tulsa early in 2005. On Sunday, the main event of the Scotty Nguyen Poker […]
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Borgata Deep Stack Tournament Ends
The Borgata Deep Stack Tournament took place over a five-day period and culminated yesterday with Joe "Bobo" Cappello as the last player standing and almost $283,000 richer. The goal of the event was to give players a chance to compete in a multiple-day tournament by providing large starting stacks and a structure similar to that […]
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Strip Poker: LIPS Poker Series Tourney at Orleans
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene – on The Strip and around the city. The next stop on the Ladies International Poker Series is at the Orleans in Las Vegas tomorrow at 11 a.m. It is a no-limit hold'em event with a $175 buy-in. On top of the […]
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National Poker Championship Satellites on BING POKER
BING Poker is currently hosting satellites for the 2008 Genting Stanley National Poker Championship in Circus Casino, Nottingham, England, from March 26-28. The prize is a €2,000 package, including: • March 26: £100 buy-in — no-limit Texas hold'em • March 27-30: £500 buy-in — no-limit Texas hold'em, main event • Five-nights' hotel accommodation — double […]
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Industry News: Bwin Poker Grows 46 Percent in Q3
The latest quarterly figures for Bwin, the Viennese-listed gaming firm, show gross gaming revenue up 20.1 percent to €86.2 million from €71.8 million in the same quarter of 2006, excluding U.S. and Turkish operations. Poker was a significant driver of growth with like-for-like (excluding U.S. and Turkey) revenue up 46.2 percent to €20.7 million from […]
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Industry News: Maestro Poker Removed From iPoker
Maestro Poker has been removed from Europe's largest poker network, iPoker, for offering rakeback deals to affiliates and players in direct violation of iPoker network policy. iPoker does not allow rakeback and is making major efforts to combat it. Recently, the network has fined card rooms, and the latest development is the banishment of Maestro […]
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Borgata Poker Room Employees Busted
Members of a sports gambling ring, including employees of the Borgata poker room, were charged with operating an illegal sports book where most of the bets where made at the Borgata's poker room with help from employees. It's illegal to take sports bets in New Jersey, and none of the state's casinos have sports books. […]
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Audio Clips From Judiciary Hearing on Internet Gambling
Annie Duke, Rep. Robert Wexler, and others appeared in front the Judiciary House Committee meeting on Internet gaming yesterday, and it featured more of the same from the opponents (Internet gambling destroys families, fear of a federal regulatory system), as the proponents hammered home the civil liberties issue, sharing studies with the committee on the […]
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Todd Brunson Talks About His Millions
Todd Brunson, represented by Card Player Media, was a recent guest on the Sid Rosenberg morning show. Brunson discussed the art of being a poker professional and his plans for the future. Click here to listen to the entire interview.
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Industry News: Everest Poker Revenues Up 265 Percent
GigaMedia, the NASDAQ-listed online entertainment software and services provider, experienced growth in consolidated revenues of 88 percent in the second quarter of 2008, year-on-year. Revenues expanded by 11 percent on the first quarter of 2008. A significant driver of growth was Everest Poker. Revenues were $21.8 million, up 265 percent on the same period last […]
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Victor Chandler Launches Pub Poker Online
Victor Chandler has launched a new site, www.vcpubpoker.com, exclusively for customers of the 2,700 pub Admiral Taverns group. Patrons of the pub group are offered weekly freerolls, as well as hundreds of regular prizes, such as luxury chip sets and holiday packages to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Michael Carlton, chief executive […]
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Harrah's Entertainment to Enter Online Poker Market?
The Associated Press yesterday reported that the Harrah's Entertainment chief executive is considering taking the World Series of Poker brand into the online-poker market in the UK and Europe. The newswire said that Gary Loveman made the comment at the Global Gaming Expo, America's largest casino industry trade show. "If you take a look at […]
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Brussels Hosts 'Poker 4 Charity' Tournament Sunday
The Grand Casino, Brussels, Belgium, hosts a charity "team poker" event this Sunday, Nov. 18 in aid of 11 charities. For the past six months, Belgian poker players have been vying to win a place on one of the 11 competing teams who will play for charities including Sensoa, Dreamcatcher, Scale Dogs, Down Syndroom Vlaanderen, […]
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Ladbrokes Launch 3-D Poker Software
Ladbrokespoker.com is set to launch its new 3-D virtual reality poker offering this week. Players are given the option of creating a customizable 3-D avatar with "human-like" movement, as well as being able to talk to others using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The new software will be integrated with the existing software, allowing players […]
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Bodog Hits First Landmark in Billionth Hand Promotion
Bodog recently announced its Billionth Hand Promotion, which includes plans to pay out prizes along the way to dealing the site's billionth hand, and on Sunday, the first landmark was hit. At 4:30 ET, the 980,000,000th hand was dealt. Eight players who were competing in a $4,000-guaranteed tournament were awarded $109 in tournament credits and […]
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Lee Childs Talks Poker on Radio Show
Lee Childs, represented by Card Player Media, was a recent guest on The Junkies radio show. He talked about his seventh-place finish in the 2007 World Series Of Poker main event and the strategy he used to get that far. Click here to listen to the entire show.
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Interview: Annie Duke — Part Two
Annie Duke was one of several people who testified before members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary this morning at a hearing titled Hearing on Establishing Consistent Enforcement Policies in the Context of Online Wagers. Yesterday, Duke spent an hour with Card Player talking about testifying and about fighting the anti-online […]
