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Doyle Brunson Shows Card Player TV His Home
In a very special video released over the holiday weekend, the legendary Doyle Brunson gives us an exclusive look into his home in Las Vegas. The 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and his wife of 45 years, Louise, show cameras around the entire Brunson estate. Click here to view that video.
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Euro Poker: GUKPT Airs Early Tomorrow in UK
The first episode of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour was aired across the UK and Ireland in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Sept. 5 on Channel 4 at 1:05 a.m. The 22-part series follows the final table action at each of the 11 stops on the GUKPT. Each event is split across two programs, […]
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Euro Poker: London Gears up for WSOPE
The 2007 World Series of Poker Europe, presented by Betfair.com, kicks off in London this Thursday, Sept. 6 with the three-day £2,500 H.O.R.S.E. event at The Casino at The Empire, Leicester Square. The Empire will also host a two-day £5,000 pot-limit Omaha tournament starting Sept. 8, and the series culminates with the WSOPE main event […]
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Matusow, Friedberg, and D'Agostino Featured WPT® Boot Camp Instructors.
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 instruction camps for both cash games and tournament play, for which all three players will be instructing. Mike Matusow, one […]
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Online Poker: PearlJammer Gets Heads Up at Sunday Million
The Labor Day weekend killed attendance at the major Sunday tournaments on most sites, including those covered in this weekly recap. While numbers were down for the major tournaments, entries in the smaller tournaments actually seemed pretty steady. The $100 and $200 rebuy tournaments, for instance, had prize pools that were par for the course. […]
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Online Poker: Interview With Adam 'Roothlus' Levy
When it comes to the magic touch, Adam "Roothlus" Levy undeniably has it when it comes to poker, but his original prowess was in a game called Magic. Many poker pros started their forays into card games with Magic: The Gathering (including David Williams and Eric Froehlich), a collectible fantasy card game that required a […]
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Euro Poker: Sander Lylloff Wins EPT Barcelona Open
Sander Lylloff, from Copenhagen, Denmark, today won the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour in Barcelona, collecting €1,170,700 for his victory. He beat his friend, roommate, and EPT London season two winner Mark Teltscher heads up after the Brit got all his chips in preflop with K-K but was bested by the Dane's J-10 which picked up […]
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Euro Poker: EPT Barcelona Final Day Preview
The fourth and final day of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Barcelona Open is under way with the remaining 13 players, first trying to make the final table of eight and then win the season's inaugural EPT and the €1.17 million first prize. Because of late play on day three, the final table was not […]
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Euro Poker: EPT Barcelona Day Three Recap
Day three of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Barcelona Open saw 56 players become 13 as the first event of the European season neared denouement. Starting the day as chip leader was Sweden's Mohamad "TerrorOfSweden" Kowssarie, followed closely in second by former London EPT winner Mark Teltscher, from Britain. The winner of this prestigious event […]
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David 'The Dragon' Pham Takes Over POY Race
The year is three-quarters of the way through, and with only four more months left in the Card Player Player of the Year (POY) race, the pressure is at an all-time high. The most recent World Poker Tour event, the Legends of Poker, was the factor in the latest POY movement, which includes a new […]
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Win a WPT Turks & Caicos Poker Classic Seat
Play in a World Poker Tour event and relax in a beautiful exotic location. It sounds too good to be true, but two online poker sites are holding last-chance satellites to get into the inaugural $10,000 buy-in WPT Turks and Caicos Poker Classic, where players can compete for millions of dollars in the Caribbean, for […]
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New Tax Law Takes Bite Out of Tournament Winnings
A new tax code has been released that spells out just how much money the government will take from those who are lucky enough to cash for $5,000 or more in poker tournaments. Starting March 4, 2008, casinos and cardrooms are supposed to start withholding 25 percent of any poker tournament winnings of $5,000 or […]
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IMEGA's Case Against Federal Government Postponed
IMEGA, a professional association made of members of the online gambling industry, today announced that the first hearing in its case against the U.S. government to stop the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) from being implemented has been postponed until Sept. 29. On that day, the judge will hear oral arguments about iMEGA's petition […]
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Euro Poker News: EPT Barcelona Day Three Preview
Day three of the www.pokerstars.com European Poker Tour Barcelona Open resumes today at 5 p.m (GMT+2) in the Gran Casino with four Scandinavians, three Americans, two Frenchmen, and one Briton in the top 10 places. Sweden's Mohamad "TerrorOfSweden" Kowssarie is the chip leader with former London EPT winner Mark Teltscher from Britain a close second. […]
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Dan Harrington Wins the 2007 Legends of Poker
The final six players at the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker took their seats at 5 p.m. and action got under way to determine which among them would join the ranks of the legends before them. All were hungry for the win and no time was wasted in the early going. Here is a […]
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Full Tilt Launches Game Software in Four New Languages
In the quickly expanding online poker market, it is becoming increasingly more important to make the games available in different languages. Today, Full Tilt successfully released a software update that will allow the interface to be featured in four additional languages, German, French, Spanish, and Dutch. Existing players will be prompted to download the update […]
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Strip Poker: Progressive Bad Beat Jackpots
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene – on the Strip and around the city. Once in a blue moon, a poker player could have the best hand he ever had such as quad tens or an 8-high straight flush and still lose. In many cases, this would be […]
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Euro Poker News: EPT Barcelona Day Two Recap
Day two of the www.pokerstars.com European Poker Tour saw 204 players take to the felt, but only 56 remained at the close of play to battle it out for the first prize of €1.17 million. The field included such luminaries as Thor Hansen, Daniel Negreanu, Paul Wasicka, Julian Thew, Bertrand Grospellier, Johnny Chan, Martin Wendt, […]
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WPT Legends of Poker Final Table Preview
Season VI of the World Poker Tour has featured some fantastic final tables, and the 2007 Legends of Poker is no exception. Here are the players with their official chip counts, headed to the final table: Seat 1 – Shi jia "Jack" Liu: $1,305,000 Seat 2 – Dan Harrington: $2,230,000 Seat 3 – Tom Schneider: […]
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PartyGaming Interim Report Shows Positive Signs
PartyGaming's stock saw a minor boost yesterday when the company released its interim report for 2007. The bump wasn't a result of how much the company has made so far in 2007 – earnings were as low expected – but because of a record number of new real money member signups from people who don't […]
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Euro Poker News: EPT Barcelona Day Two Preview
Day two of the www.pokerstars.com European Poker Tour starts with a field of 204 players contesting a prize pool of €4.18 million. The star-studded field includes Thor Hansen, Daniel Negreanu, Paul Wasicka, Julian Thew, Bertrand Grospellier, Johnny Chan, Martin Wendt, Patrik Antonius, Katja Thater, Noah Boeken, Phil Gordon, Mark Vos, Sverre Sundbo, David Williams, and […]
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Euro Poker News: EPT Barcelona Day 1B Recap
Day 1B at the www.pokerstars.com European Poker Tour Barcelona saw 279 of the world´s strongest players take to the felt in the hope of winning the €1,170,000 first prize in the inaugural tournament of this season´s European circuit. Among the U.S. contingent were Johnny Chan, Greg Raymer, Daniel Negreanu, and Liz Lieu. They were joined […]
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Day Four at the WPT Legends of Poker
Eighteen players were vying for six spots at day four of the 2007 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker. The theme of the day was survival, and whoever had the correct combination of skill and well-timed luck would persevere. Aggression was in the air as the short stacks tried to double up and the large […]
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Gulf Coast Casino Industry Completely Recovered
Today marks the start of the Gulf Coast Poker Championship, a 10-event series at the Beau Rivage that's capped by a $10,000 championship that will be filmed and broadcast by the World Poker Tour. It also marks the two-year anniversary when an estimated 90 percent of Biloxi's buildings were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Images of […]
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Euro Poker News: EPT Barcelona Day 1B Preview
Johnny Chan, Greg Raymer, Daniel Negreanu, and Liz Lieu were among the top-flight US players to take their seats on day 1B of the www.pokerstars.com European Poker Tour Barcelona today. Some 300 players registered for the event (awaiting final confirmation), bringing the total to close to the 600 capacity and creating a prize pool of […]
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The Largest Casino in the World Is Now Open
The largest casino in the world is now open. The Venetian Macao, a $2.4 billion development completed by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, is twice the size of its sister property on the Las Vegas Strip. The casino floor is the largest in the world at 550,000 square feet, which is large enough to hold […]
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Euro Poker News: Party Gaming Results Show UIGEA Impact
Party Gaming, owner of Party Poker, formerly the world's largest poker site, has reported a loss of $47.1 million for the first half of 2007 compared to a profit of $320. 5 million for the same period in 2006. Revenues decreased from $661.9 million between January and June 2006 to $212.5 million between January and […]
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Euro Poker News: EPT Barcelona Day 1A Recap
The www.pokerstars.com-sponsored European Poker Tour made its first stop of season four in beautiful Barcelona and drew a strong field of 264 players from the worldwide poker community. With 550 players preregistered and John Duthie, head of the EPT, expecting the 600 capacity to be reached, the prize pool should exceed €4 million, making it […]
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Legends of Poker Day 3 Recap
Fifty-three players returned for their third day of play, but only 45 would leave the Bicycle Casino with something to show for their efforts. After half an hour of quiet, methodical play around the money bubble, the action opened up and the players started dropping quickly. Mari Lou Morelli went out on the first bad […]
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Canadian Wins Heartland Poker Tour
The Heartland Poker Tour made its way to the Grand Casino-Mille Lacs in Minnesota and crowned the first-ever Canadian winner. Truck driver and avid poker player James Gibson stood atop a field of 148 entrants in the $2,000 buy-in main event to take home nearly $78,000. "I had a dream about this last night. I […]
