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Euro Poker: Italian Dario Alioto Wins PLO at WSOPE
European players continued their dominance at the first-annual World Series of Poker Europe, presented by Betfair.com, as 23-year-old Dario Alioto of Palermo, Italy, won the pot-limit Omaha championship, £234,390 in cash, and the second gold WSOP bracelet ever awarded outside the United States. Although an all-star contingent of poker professionals from the United States entered […]
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Euro Poker: Julian Thew Takes Down GUKPT Plymouth
The latest stop on the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, the famous port town of Plymouth, was won yesterday by well-know British pro Julian Thew. He won £69,000 and a £3,000 seat to the grand final of the tour, in London in late November. Thew outlasted 178 other players including several seasoned pros who made the […]
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Card Player Media Named the Official Media Partner of Caesars Palace Classic.
Sept. 10, 2007, Las Vegas, NV: Card Player Media announces that it has been named the official media partner for the Caesars Palace Classic. As the official media partner, Card Player will provide live chip counts, photos, player blogs, and video from the main event. The main event is a $10,000 tournament beginning on Oct. […]
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Bill Edler Wins Gulf Coast Poker Championship
The inaugural Gulf Coast Poker Championship was the setting for one of the most amazing comebacks the poker world has ever seen. With 17 players remaining in the tournament and the blinds at $4,000-$8,000 with a $1,000 ante, Bill Edler was crippled and down to his last two $1,000 chips. After paying his ante, Edler […]
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Online Poker: Interview With Jordan 'iMsoLucky0' Morgan
Jordan "iMsoLucky0" Morgan has been a staple of both the live and online tournament poker circuits for some time, now. He started his poker career playing micro-limits at the University of Oklahoma with some friends. He had been studying to become an engineer, but after having a good amount of success in poker, he decided […]
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Euro Poker: "Buzzer" Bags First Bracelet at WSOPE
Thomas "Buzzer" Bihl made poker history today, winning the £70,875 first-place prize in the inaugural £2,500 H.O.R.S.E. championship at the World Series of Poker Europe, presented by Betfair.com, in London. Bihl, a native of Frankfurt, Germany, who started playing poker just four years ago, outlasted a field of 104 of the world's top poker pros. […]
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Day Three at the Gulf Coast Poker Championship
The third day of play at the inaugural World Poker Tour Gulf Coast Poker Championship featured some entertaining story lines en route to the TV-final table of six players. There were some hometown heroes in the hunt, a collection of unknown amateurs, and, as always, a sampling of the top poker talent on the planet. […]
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Euro Poker: 24-Hour Cash Game for TV
PartyPoker yesterday announced the 'PartyPoker Poker Den: The Big Game II' will take place on Monday Sept. 17. It will be broadcast on television around the world next year. The format is a 24-hour continuous cash game where each player buys in for a minimum $10,000, with blinds starting at $25-$50. Players are free to […]
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Euro Poker: Harman Heads H.O.R.S.E Final Table at WSOPE
The World Series of Poker Europe in London today sees its first final table with eight players remaining from the original 105 in the £2,500 H.O.R.S.E. event. It's an international affair with players from the UK, U.S. and continental Europe chasing the first bracelet to be awarded outside Las Vegas. Jennifer Harman – £204,000 Gary […]
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Euro Poker: EU Pushes French, Greek Gaming Monopolies
The European Commission has given France and Greece a two-month extension to respond to legal action it is taking over those countries barriers to foreign gaming companies according to news agency Reuters. In June, the commission hauled France and Sweden to the brink of European Court of Justice action. At the same time it gave […]
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Gulf Coast Poker Championship Day 2
As almost all the grizzled veterans of major tournaments will tell you, poker is one giant rollercoaster. The ride was in full swing Friday during day two of the Gulf Coast Poker Championship. Notable players that started the day with commanding chip stacks found themselves making frustratingly early exits, while some nursed their short stacks […]
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Strip Poker: Ladies Tournament at Treasure Island on Mondays
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene – on The Strip and around the city. Monday night is no longer just for football. Treasure Island will celebrate the opening of its weekly ladies tournament, called Poker Sirens, on the night of the first NFL Monday Night football game on […]
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CakePoker Launches Two New Promotions Sunday
CakePoker is really adding some frosting to its tournament schedule. Sunday, Sept. 9 will mark the start of the largest prize pool tournament offered by the site to date, as well as the launch of World Poker Tour satellites. The rapidly growing online poker site is doubling the weekly guaranteed tournament's guarantee from $50,000 to […]
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Day One at the Gulf Coast Poker Championship
Just nine days after the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the World Poker Tour stormed into Biloxi, Mississippi for the Gulf Coast Poker Championship. This $10,000 buy-in event at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino marks the first WPT tournament to be played along the U.S. Gulf Coast, giving local fans a chance to witness […]
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Euro Poker: WSOPE Betting Markets Live
The World Series of Poker Europe started yesterday, Sept.6, in London with the £2,500 H.O.R.S.E. event. While players from all over the world are expected to travel to play in the £10,000 buy-in main event starting Sept. 10, bookmakers in Europe and the U.S. are pricing up their markets in anticipation of the event. To […]
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Euro Poker: WPT & WSOP Heads at World Poker Congress
Steve Lipscomb, president of the World Poker Tour, and Jeffery Pollack, commissioner of the World Series of Poker, will jointly deliver the opening keynote address at the World Poker Congress 2007 on Nov. 29-30 in St. Julian's, Malta. The two veterans at the helms of competing poker powerhouses will discuss the current state of the […]
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Vince Van Patten Behind the Scenes
Vince Van Patten has long been known to the poker community for his witty and entertaining commentary alongside Mike Sexton on the World Poker Tour. What fans may not know is that Van Patten was once a professional tennis player. He even won the Seiko World Super Tennis Tournament and beat John McEnroe and two […]
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Strip Poker: Binion's Guarantees $10,000 for $70 Buy-In
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene – on The Strip and around the city. Known as "the place that made poker famous," Binion's Gambling Hall and Hotel, located in Downtown Las Vegas, is running $10,000-guaranteed tournaments for a buy-in of just $70 every Saturday and Sunday at 2 […]
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The WSOP Europe Era Has Begun
The first World Series of Poker event to take place outside of the United States began today with the £2,650 H.O.R.S.E. event, which attracted 105 entrants. The tournament is the first of a three-tournament series to take place at The Casino at The Empire in LCI Leicester Square in London. A two-day £5,250 pot-limit Omaha […]
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WPT Gulf Coast Poker Championship Starts Today
The $10,000 World Poker Tour Gulf Coast Poker Championship starts at 3 p.m. EST today, and Card Player reporters are there at the Beau Rivage to cover all of the action of this four-day event. Click here to view the tournament page. This is the first major poker tournament to be held in Biloxi, which, […]
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Jack Wants Card Player Readers to Submit Questions
Jack is back. Jack McClelland, the tournament director at Bellagio, is again looking for Card Player readers to test his tournament knowledge with their questions. Jack will answer the questions in his "Ask Jack" column, which is returning to Card Player Magazine. Readers with questions should e-mail them to askjack@www.cardplayer.com. As an example of the […]
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Euro Poker: Extreme Poker Four for Australia
InterPoker, the company whose Extreme Poker series has taken players to the Arctic Circle, the bottom of the Caribbean, and 30,000 feet above the Nevada desert, yesterday announced its latest installment in the series – a high stakes poker game on a cliff ledge 270 feet above jagged rocks in Sydney Harbor. Six players will […]
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Blind Poker Player Being Featured on ESPN
It was only about three years ago when Hal Lubarsky's failing eyesight made it impossible for him to play poker. Thanks to a disease called retinitis pigmentosa, the darkness slowly closed onto the center of his eye, and it led him to a point he knew was coming – his eyesight had been deteriorating basically […]
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Euro Poker: UK Regulations Force InterPoker to Malta
InterCasino and InterPoker have been granted online casino gaming and online poker licenses from the government of Malta. Pursuant to their licence, the companies have successfully completed the stringent requirements of the Maltese government to operate their online gaming business from Malta. Recognized as blue-chip brands throughout Europe, InterCasino and InterPoker chose to relocate their […]
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Watch the Poker Stars World Cup of Poker
The fourth annual PokerStars World Cup of Poker finals begin today, and fans can catch every moment of the action since it will be streamed live from Barcelona, Spain. Similar to the soccer World Cup, the World Cup of Poker is an international competition. National teams of poker players go head-to-head for the right to […]
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ESPN Airs Middle Stages of WSOP Main Event
Parts five and six of the 16-episode series of the $10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker main event air today at 5 p.m. PT on ESPN. Thousands of players have already been eliminated at this point, including big name pros such as Phil Laak, Erik Seidel, and Erick Lindgren. The defending champion, 2006 main event […]
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PokerTek Looking to Macau
Early last month, the first live poker appeared in the largest casino market in the world, Macau, when five electronic PokerTek PokerPro tables were installed at the Galaxy Star World Hotel. Four 10-player tables and one heads-up table were installed. More may be on the way to Macau. Per regulations, a 90-day field trial must […]
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Poker Academy Harnesses Years of Poker Research
Kurt Lange, the CEO of Poker Academy, the company behind the poker software products Poker Academy Prospector and Poker Academy Professional, feels his company offers the poker world the best software to teach people how to win at poker. The reason is the lineage of computing that has gone into all of his products. For […]
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Kristy Gazes Wins WPT Ladies Night
The World Poker Tour Ladies Night is the one event each season that is reserved for women. This year, the impressive roster included Melissa Hayden, Linda Johnson, Pamela Brunson, Kristy Gazes, Mimi Tran, and J.J. Liu. After a battle of skill, luck, and woman power, it was Gazes who took down the fifth-annual event. "2007 […]
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Matusow, Friedberg, J-Dags to Instruct at WPT Boot Camp
Sept. 4, 2007, Las Vegas, NV: Card Player Media Player Representation is pleased to announce that Mike Matusow, John D'Agostino, and Jon Friedberg have been chosen as WPT Boot Camp® instructors. WPT Boot Camp offers instructional camps for both cash games and tournament play, for which all three players will be instructing. Matusow, one of […]
