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Online Poker Giant Takes a Stand Against Ranking Sites
PokerStars recently put its foot down on the online poker ranking sites, and the poker community noticed. Poker ranking/tracking sites have been attracting quite a following over the past year by giving users access to leader boards, tournament results, and individual player winnings. Some sites went as far as giving their users the ability to […]
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Euro Poker: VC Poker Launches ECOOP
VC Poker has announced its European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) set to run for 10Y days this November. The inaugural series has a combined $2.5 million-guaranteed prize pool. The poker tournament will also showcase an exclusive $50,000 MVP freeroll where the winner claims the title of 2007 ECOOP Most Valuable Player. Entry to any […]
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Roy Winston Wins the 2007 Borgata Poker Open
After a marathon bubble-session on day four, the Borgata Poker Open's final six players met to decide who would take home the top prize of $1,575,280 from the $5.4 million prize pool. The table began with some of the best players in the game, including Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, Eugene Todd ("Bro"), and Haralabos Voulgaris. […]
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Player's Choice Tournaments Running Now
With so many major land-based tournaments like the World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, and the European Poker Tour, it can be impossible to choose which event to try to satellite into. Now, a few online sites are offering players the opportunity to win a seat into a $10,000 buy-in event and choose to […]
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Borgata Poker Open Final Table Preview
The World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Classic continues the season VI trend of final tables packed with notable players. Any table with Mike "The Mouth" Matusow is instantly notable, and Haralabos Voulgaris and Eugene Todd are also fan favorites. We're expecting an exciting night when the action kicks off at 5 p.m. ET. Here are […]
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Online Poker: Copi Takes Down WCOOP Omaha 8/OB Event
The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) had yet another guarantee-busting event last night, along with a final table full of notable Internet players. Last night's event, a $500 buy-in (with $30 entry fee) limit Omaha eight-or-better tournament with a $300,000 guarantee, was the eighth event in the WCOOP series. The tournament found 917 […]
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Antigua Looking to Get Paid by U.S. on Saturday
Two dates concerning the ongoing battles that are being waged against the U.S. government's anti-online gambling stance and its Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) take place in the next two days, one of which may affect the bottom line of several American businesses who have nothing to do with online gambling. First, the deadline […]
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Playing Down to the Final Table at the Borgata Poker Open
To say that day four of the 2007 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open started out as a race from three tables down to two would be an understatement. It was more of a 100-meter dash. Pots were raised all in preflop with astonishing regularity in the early going. In one hour and 15 minutes, […]
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South African Poker Open Schedule Set
At this year's World Series of Poker, the world was introduced to South African player Raymond Rahme. He finished third in the main event and became an instant poker celebrity. It helped boost the already rising popularity of poker in South Africa, and now, the tournament series that the country calls its own is expecting […]
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Poker Academy Pro Packs a Wallop
Poker Academy is responsible for two poker educational tools that are truly must-haves for players who desire to learn as much about the game as they can. Poker Academy Pro 2.5 and the brand-new Poker Academy Prospector combine for a strong one-two combination that gives players the most important thing they must have to become […]
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Poker Players Alliance Launches Poker Initiative in Kentucky
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) has launched a statewide advocacy campaign in Kentucky in the name of poker. The hope is to rally PPA members and poker fans in Kentucky to contact their elected officials to tell them they want cardrooms to be allowed in their state and warn them that they will make their […]
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Online Poker: Cardinal7 Wins WCOOP Limit Hold'em Event
Limit hold'em players came out in droves last night to build a humongous prize pool for the latest event in the 2007 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Last night was event No. 7 in the 2007 PokerStars WCOOP, a $100,000-guaranteed limit hold'em tournament with a $200 buy-in (and $15 entry fee). That guarantee was […]
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Bodoglife is the New Bodog
And then there was Bodoglife.com. Bodog, which was forced to launch "Newbodog.com" after a judge presiding over a patent-dispute case against the company shuttered Bodog.com, has settled on a new name. The new address is Bodoglife.com. Here's what Bodog CEO and founder Calvin Ayre wrote to his customers about the change: As you may know, […]
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Revival of the Renaissance in Biloxi, Mississippi
Before Aug. 29, 2005, the town of Biloxi, Mississippi, was experiencing a renaissance. Ever since Harrison County, Mississippi, the county in which Biloxi sits, legalized casinos in 1990, which led to the first casinos in Biloxi opening in 1992, the number of visitors to the city has boomed. Now, nearly 10 million visitors a year […]
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Day Three at the Borgata Poker Open
Day three of the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open started with 127 players, and the goal was to eliminate an even 100, ending the day with three tables (27 players). Along the way, the field would pass the money bubble, where the top 54 players would cross the line from nothing-for-their-trouble to something-for-their-trouble. The […]
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Euro Poker: GUKPT Unveils Heads-Up Championship
The schedule for the grand final of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour at Grosvenor Victoria casino in London has been unveiled. The nine-day festival gets underway on Nov. 24 and concludes on Dec. 2. In addition to the £3,000 main event, the festival will also include the inaugural GUKPT Heads-Up Championship. The heads-up event costs […]
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Euro Poker: Dusk Till Dawn Licence Hearing Set
Dusk Till Dawn (DTD), Europe's largest cardroom, attends Nottingham Magistrates Court on Sept. 24 for its casino license hearing. If it is successful, it will become the UK's first legal poker club. The club's opening is being challenged by three casinos, Gala, Stanleys, and London Clubs International, who are objecting to the license on the […]
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Heartland Poker Tour Crowns Winner in Minnesota
The Heartland Poker Tour stopped in Walker, Minnesota, at the Northern Lights Casino and crowned another winner. Mark Sandness, a self-employed owner and manager of investment real estate, defeated a field of 136 players to win his chunk of the nearly $192,000 prize pool, which amounted to more than $53,000. Despite having somewhat of a […]
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IRS to Collect More Tournament Poker Winnings
By Special Contributor on IRS Issues, CPA Don Shelton The IRS has advised sponsors of poker tournaments that they have an obligation to issue W-2G forms and to withhold tax from payments that exceed $5,000. This has been done by issuing what is known as a revenue procedure, Rev Proc 2007-57. A revenue procedure is […]
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Online Poker: Greg Raymer Takes Down WCOOP Event
Greg "FossilMan" Raymer made his first Online Player of the Year-qualified finish last night, and he made it in a big way. Raymer took down event No. 6 of the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), a $300 buy-in (with $20 entry fee) pot-limit Omaha rebuy tournament, to earn yet another golden bracelet to […]
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Card Player Media's Player of the Year Race Heats Up
The movers and shakers of tournament poker have made 2007 a memorable year in the race for one of the most anticipated awards in poker. The Card Player Player of the Year award, established in 1997, is the oldest and most respected tournament poker ranking system in the industry. Past winners include the likes of […]
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Voices of Biloxi – Mayor A.J. Holloway
Hurricane Katrina decimated the town of Biloxi and caused billions of dollars in damage on Aug. 29, 2005. That left Mayor A.J. Holloway with a crisis on his hands and a chance to rebuild for future generations. He called the rebuilding process the "Revival of the Renaissance," and started to put the pieces of the […]
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Team PokerStars Lands Lam, Rahme, Khan, and Minieri
PokerStars has added four more professional players to Team PokerStars today: Canadian Tuan Lam, South African Raymond Rahme, Italian Dario Minieri, and American Hevad Khan. Lam, Rahme, and Khan all were World Series of Poker main event final-table participants this year, and Minieri cashed twice this summer at the WSOP. Minieri also finished third in […]
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Card Player Media's Player of the Year Race Heats Up.
September 18, 2007 — The movers and shakers of tournament poker have made 2007 a memorable year in the race for one of the most anticipated awards in poker. Card Player’s Player of the Year award, established in 1997, is the oldest and most respected tournament poker ranking system in the industry. Past winners include […]
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WPT Borgata Poker Open Day Two Recap
Two 12-hour days and there is still no cash in sight. A day after playing down from 560 players, 350 returned to do it all over again. This time around, 215 players were lost to finish the day with 135, still about 80 spots from the money. In a day when many professionals kept their […]
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Strip Poker: Free Seats for Caesars Palace Classic
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene – on The Strip and around the city. The Caesars Palace Classic (Oct. 12-24) is right around the corner, and Caesars Palace is celebrating the launch of this inaugural event by giving away 18 seats into the $10,000 buy-in main event. Every […]
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High Stakes Poker Season Four Continues Action
Season four of High Stakes Poker on GSN continues with more action, more stars, and more money. Starting at 9 p.m. PT, tonight's episode will feature a number of poker legends making their season-four debut. The "Grandfather of Poker" is one of them. "I love it. This is my favorite TV show. This is the […]
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Online Poker: Taknapotin Vaults Up OPOY Leader Board
While most of the online poker world may have been watching the $2 million-guaranteed World Championship of Online Poker event being held at PokerStars, Full Tilt was also holding a huge event, its monthly $1 million guarantee. UltimateBet and Bodog held their regularly scheduled major Sunday events, as well, making for a full plate of […]
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Online Poker: WCOOP Shattering Guarantees
The 2007 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) kicked off on Friday and has already had five guarantee-crushing events. Those five events have already awarded almost $4.6 million in prizes to their participants, a huge number considering the tournaments had combined guarantees of just $2.8 million. The biggest event of the weekend, the $2 […]
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Poker After Dark Features Two-Time WPT Winners
Last week, Doyle Brunson showed viewers that he is still on top of his game after winning the premiere tournament of Poker After Dark's season two in an epic battle between multiple World Series of Poker bracelet winners. This week will feature multiple World Poker Tour winners, as six of the only eight players who […]
