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Card Player Is One of America's Fastest-Growing Companies
Card Player Media has been named one of the fastest-growing companies in America. Inc. magazine today ranked Card Player Media number 775 on its first-ever Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Card Player Media grew nearly 450 percent from 2003 through 2006. The Inc. 5,000, an extension of Inc. magazine's […]
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Bodog Forced to Launch Temporary Site
Bodog.com was forced to launch a temporary new website today because of a legal dispute over the domain name "Bodog.com." The site was replaced by "newbodog.com." Players who visit that site will see an exact copy of the suspended Bodog.com site. Services that were affected by the dispute are still being restored. Here's a statement […]
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Euro Poker News: EPT Barcelona Day 1A Overview
The first event of season four of the European Poker Tour got off to a star-studded start today in Barcelona as 263 players from around the world took to the felt on day 1A to compete for the estimated €4 million-plus prize pool. John Duthie, head of the EPT, indicated at a press conference before […]
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Euro Poker News: New Italian EPT Date Announced
John Duthie, head of the European Poker Tour sponsored by www.pokerstars.com, today announced a new tournament on the tour at a press conference for the first EPT date of the season in Barcelona. "We're having a tournament in San Remo, Italy from April 1 to 5," he said. "We'll be getting details up on the […]
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KFC Lands Three Poker Pros
KFC, the fried chicken franchise founded by Colonel Harland Sanders, has hired three professional poker players to help sell its chicken. Gavin Smith, David Williams, and Paul Wasicka will soon appear in KFC commercials that will be shown on ESPN during the World Series of Poker broadcast. They will talk about their ability to read […]
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Legends of Poker Day 2 Recap
In a quiet corner of the Bicycle Casino, day 2 of the Legends of Poker played out as the antithesis of the World Series of Poker. The first major tournament since hordes or poker fanatics descended upon the circuit, Legends produced a focused group of name professionals who batted until 53 were left standing. Flurries […]
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Strip Poker: Free Money at the Wynn
Aside from the 26 tables of cash games that consist of a wide variety of choice, players now have one more reason to bring their game to the Wynn poker room: $100,000. Players who log in 50 hours from today until Sept. 30 are eligible to compete in a $100,000 freeroll. There are a number […]
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Euro Poker News: Premier League Final Broadcast Tonight
The final episode of the PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker will be broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK and Ireland tomorrow night at 12.10 a.m. BST (early Wednesday). The coverage started its run on Tuesday, May 22, 2007, and featured 12 of the world's best players playing in a unique league format for a $500,000 […]
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Online Poker: Final Tables Full of Notable Players
Sir_DonaldRM calls MattZman69's all in on the flop and spikes a deuce on the turn to send him to the rail. PokerStars Sunday Million The PokerStars Sunday Million found 2,644 willing participants for its monthly $500 buy-in version last night. The attendance generated a prize pool of $1,322,000 and promised the first-place finisher a prize […]
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Euro Poker News: Online Qualifiers for Irish Open Begin
Paddypowerpoker.com, host of the Irish Open, Europe's largest tournament, has announced details of its packed schedule of online feeders to the €3 million guaranteed Irish Open 2008. Ireland's largest poker site is hosting a $1 buy-in tournament with a €4,500 Irish Open ticket guaranteed for the winner this Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007, at 8 p.m. […]
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Legends of Poker Day 1B Recap
The 2007 Legends of Poker started Day 1B looking for a larger field than 2006, which featured 460 players. Play began today with about that many, but by the time registration ended after the first level, 485 players entered this event, beating last year's field by 25 players. Shortly after registration closed, the players finally […]
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Card Player Media named one of the fastest growing private companies in America.
Las Vegas, NV. August 27, 2007: Inc magazine today ranked Card Player Media number 775 on its first-ever Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Card Player Media grew nearly 450 percent from 2003 through 2006. The Inc. 5,000, an extension of Inc. magazine’s annual Inc. 500 list, catches many businesses […]
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Barry Shulman Interviewed for Sports Radio
Professional poker player and CEO of Card Player Media Barry Shulman gave listeners an inside track to his almost 50 years of poker experience in an interview he did for sports radio recently. In the interview, which was aired on Aug. 24 on Houston-based Sports Radio 610 with Adam Wexler and Danny Vera, Shulman talked […]
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Online Poker: Interview With Frank 'Round42' Rusnak
Frank "Round42" Rusnak went from covering his beat as a journalist for a Chicago newspaper to laying sick beats on his opponents at the poker tables. Taking a trip to the Bahamas and leaving $247,000 richer can do that. Since snagging that hefty sixth-place payday at the 2007 PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure (PCA), Rusnak has gone […]
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Day 1A at the WPT Legends of Poker
Day 1A of the Legends of Poker event at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California, began at 2 p.m. today. The first flight of the tournament attracted 219 players and they played six levels of poker into the night. This included the 2006 champion, Joe Pelton who was poised to defend his title. The […]
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Strip Poker: Where to Find Games Other Than Hold'em
In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene – on the Strip and around the city. Hold'em games can be found in any casino with a poker room. However, finding games other than hold'em, even in Las Vegas, can be much more difficult. Since no-limit and limit hold'em are so […]
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High Stakes Poker Season Four Premiers Monday
High Stakes Poker on GSN has given the public a look into the world of high-stakes cash games. Every season, there are new players, different twists, and the exchange of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Season four promises to be even more exciting since the last seven episodes feature a $500,000 minimum buy-in. Card Player […]
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Strip Poker: Caesars Palace Poker Room on CPTV
In this new "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene – on the Strip and around the city. When players walk into the Caesars Palace poker room in Las Vegas, they pass through a hallway adorned with original LeRoy Neiman artwork and walk into a 14,000-square-foot room. It is spacious despite […]
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Coverage of the WPT Legends of Poker Starts Saturday
After a slow August, the poker world will converge this Saturday at the Bicycle Casino for the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker event. Card Player will be there to cover all the action from the felt as the new official media partner of the WPT. CardPlayer.com will provide exclusive live tournament reporting from the […]
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Euro Poker News: Legendary Late Night Poker Returns
PartyPoker today announced the return of the legendary Late Night Poker TV show. It makes its annual return to screens on Channel 4 in the UK and Ireland later this year. After a number of different formats over recent years, the tournament goes back to the format of 1999-2002, with an emphasis on the player […]
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Brunson and Tomko Golf Invitational Video on CPTV
To hang on the golf course with some of the high-stakes poker pros like Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Erick Lindgren, and Doyle Brunson, it takes a high level of skill, a large bankroll, and a willingness to gamble. The Doyle Brunson and Dewey Tomko Golf Invitational showcased this, and the Card Player TV crew was […]
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Bodog Adds New $50,000 Guarantee to Lineup
Bodog is introducing a new weekly $50,000-guaranteed tournament to its schedule tonight, and considering Bodog's reputation for generous overlays, this tournament is likely to pack in quite a bit of bang for the buy-in buck. The tournament has a buy-in of $200 (with $15 entry fee), which means at least 250 entrants must register for […]
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Poker Players Alliance Changing Locations and Leaders
The Poker Players Alliance broke the news today that it is both changing leadership and picking up and moving to Washington, D.C., the hub of where all of its efforts are concentrated. PPA President Michael Bolcerek stepped down in order to stay with his family in San Francisco, where the organization is currently based. John […]
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Euro Poker News: Betfair Adds Value for WSOPE Players
Betfair Poker today announced that any player qualifying or buying in directly for the World Series of Poker Europe through its site and who makes a final table at the event will be sponsored into the event for the next three years. The Threedom Pass will be worth $69,000 (buy-ins + $9,000 in expenses). Over […]
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Euro Poker News: Betsson Active Poker Players Down
Betsson, the publicly quoted Swedish gaming company has reported a large increase in net sales and operating profit between April and June but saw the number of poker players playing for real money on its network fall in the same period, year-on-year. The group's net sales increased by 147 percent to SEK155.7 million (€16.6 million), […]
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WSOP Main Event Premiers Tonight on ESPN
In football, it is the Super Bowl and in golf, it is the Masters. In poker, the most prestigious event of the year is the World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em championship tournament. This event showcases amateurs and pros alike on a quest to claim their piece of poker history. The 2007 main […]
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Euro Poker News: eCOGRA Welcomes UK Regulatory Tests
ECommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance (eGOGRA), the online gambling standards and dispute mediation organisation, expressed support today for the UK Gambling Commission's recently published testing approach for online gambling software. The player protection and standards body chief says his organisation is especially pleased that the Commission has recognised the validity of outcome-based testing […]
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Euro Poker News: 3UK Offers WPT Texas Hold'em 2
Hands-On Mobile, the world's leading developer of connected games and applications, has announced the launch of multiplayer World Poker Tour Texas Hold'Em 2 with multi-media company, 3UK. This marks the first time a free play, multiplayer World Poker Tour game will be available to European poker fans. Poker players can play in real time against […]
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Euro Poker News: UK Open Main Event Result
British pro Peter Gould has beaten 33 challengers, including his son Josh, to win the £2,500 no-limit hold'em main event at the National Poker League UK Open. He collected £32,500 for his victory. Gould dramatically knocked his son out in fourth at the final table when they got all their chips in preflop, Peter holding […]
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CryptoLogic Signs Software Deal with WPT
The World Poker Tour is now in the online casino business. The company today announced that it entered into an agreement with CryptoLogic to be the sole software provider to WPT's new casino site. CryptoLogic is already providing the software for the WPT's online poker site that was launched in April. The site will feature […]
