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Pam Brunson Wins WPT Ladies Night V
Pam Brunson, the daughter of Doyle, won the $1,070 World Poker Tour Ladies Night V that took place at the Bicycle Casino's Legends of Poker this weekend. Brunson not only won more than $34,000 by beating out the field of 125, but she also will play in the World Poker Tour Ladies Night Out championship […]
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Strip Poker: Sit-and-Gos at the Mirage
In this new "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene – on the Strip and around the city. Sit-and-go tournaments provide players the convenience of not needing prior planning and a short time commitment. The Mirage poker room understands the needs of poker players and provides 10-person single-table sit-and-gos at any […]
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Horseshoe Council Bluffs to Hold Poker Series
Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa, will hold the first Horseshoe Poker Classic from Oct. 3-7. The series climaxes with a two-day $2,600 no-limit hold'em event. Four tournaments will be held, as well as three mega-satellites and four "last chance" tournaments. The schedule follows: Oct. 3: 12 p.m., $340 no-limit hold'em; 3 p.m., $225 mega-satellite; […]
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Euro Poker News: Premier League Poker Final Table UK TV Broadcast Confirmed
The highly anticipated climax of the www.PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker TV series will be broadcast on Channel 4 in the U.K. and Ireland at 12:10 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007. U.S. "Poker Brat" Phil Hellmuth enters as chip leader, closely followed by Germany's Eddy Scharf. Finland's Juha Helppi and England's Ian Frazer automatically qualified […]
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Euro Poker News: UK Open Event Three and Four Results
Well-known poker pro Mel Judah won the £1,250 no-limit hold'em event at the National Poker League's UK Open hosted at the Loose Cannon Club in London, England on Aug.15, 2007, while Tony Poulengeris won event four, also a £1,250 no-limit hold'em tournament, the following day. Twelve players entered event three and Judah, who took a […]
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Euro Poker News: 24hPoker Undertakes Restructuring
24hPoker today announced the separation of its operations into two distinct entities: a business-to-business company, 24hPoker Holding AB, and a new business-to-consumer company, 24hPoker.com. The company also signed a letter of intent with Martinspoker.com relating to the incorporation of Martinspoker.com, Staffpoker.com, and Danepoker.com into the new business-to-consumer company, which will operate these brands. The gaming […]
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Euro Poker News: PKR Celebrates First Birthday
PKR, the London-based online poker room that features unique real-time 3D graphics, celebrated its birthday last Friday Aug. 17, 2007, releasing figures that show its rapid growth in its first year of operation. Almost one million players registered to play with the site, launching it into the top 20 poker rooms and establishing it as […]
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Online Poker: CrazyZachary Wins Huge FTOPS Main Event
CrazyZachary eliminates rppkoz when he snags a set of queens on the turn to crack rppkoz's aces. Full Tilt Online Poker Series $2 Million Guarantee Main Event After 11 days and 13 events, the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) V main event was finally here. Most of the big-name pros, both in live poker […]
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Online Poker: Csimmsux Wins FTOPS Pot-Limit Omaha Rebuy Event
The $2,500 buy-in two-day no-limit hold'em event started yesterday, and while that may have been the big news, the pot-limit Omaha (with rebuys) event still managed to pack quite a punch. The $100 buy-in tournament attracted 873 entrants who rebought a whopping 1,799 times and added on 420 times, ultimately building a prize pool of […]
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Online Poker: Interview With Isaac 'westmenloAA' Baron
Isaac "westmenloAA" Baron is one of the most volatile players in the 2007 Online Player of the Year (OPOY) race. He's bungeed up and down the top 10 spots in the standings throughout the year and has found himself duking it out among a cornucopia of notable Internet pros. He is one of the few […]
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Online Poker: Donhaka WIns FTOPS Limit Hold'em Event
Last night's event in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) V was a $200 buy-in $200,000-guaranteed sixhanded limit hold'em event, the only limit hold'em event in the series. Limit hold'em tournaments tend to draw smaller crowds, but this tournament still managed to beat out its guarantee when 1,171 entrants bucked up the buy-in to […]
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Online Poker: Lileor99 Wins Stud Event at FTOPS
Last night's event in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) V both beat out its guarantee and had a big poker star at the final table. The event, a $200 buy-in seven-card stud tournament with a $100,000 guarantee, lured 597 entrants to generate a prize pool of $119,400. Prominent Internet pro Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy […]
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Two-Day FTOPS V Event Starts Saturday
Tomorrow, Full Tilt Poker holds its first two-day tournament as part of the fifth installment of its FTOPS series. The $2,620 no-limit event, which is hosted by Phil Ivey, has a guaranteed prize pool of $600,000. As of Friday afternoon, more than 80 players were entered. First place will top $155,000. The tournament starts at […]
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Euro Poker News: Paddy Power Betting on EPT and WPT Events
Irish bookmaker www.paddypower.com today announced new betting markets on two of the biggest poker tournaments in the world, the European Poker Tour Barcelona and the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker. The Barcelona event, Aug. 28 to Sept. 1, 2007, is the first on the EPT circuit, and traditionally attracts many of the best players […]
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Strip Poker: Doyle Brunson and Dewey Tomko Golf Invite Ends Today
In this new "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene – on the Strip and around the city. The first Doyle Brunson and Dewey Tomko Golf Invitational ends today at the Bali Hai golf course in Las Vegas. The two-day event attracted high–stakes pros such as Erick Lindgren, Daniel Negreanu, Phil […]
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Last Chance to Qualify For World Series of Poker Europe on Bodog
Players looking to qualify on Bodog for the World Series of Poker Europe main event will have their final opportunity to do so this Sunday. Bodog is holding its two WSOPE semifinal tournaments, which will send a guaranteed combined six winners to the Series. The prize packages to be won include a buy-in to the […]
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Online Poker: Matt 'Mattyv' Vengrin Wins FTOPS Event No. 9
Another day, another Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) event, and the prize pool rose above $1 million once again. Last night's event was the $300 buy-in sixhanded no-limit hold'em (with rebuys) tournament. The event had a $450,000 guarantee but crushed that number when the 1,133 entrants rebought 1,652 times and added on 569 times, […]
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Euro Poker News: "El Blondie" Wins UK Open Event Two
The National Poker League UK Open event No. 2, a £500 no-limit hold'em tournament, brought 29 players to the Loose Cannon club in London, creating a prize pool of £14,500 for the second event of the inaugural NPL UK Open. The event was won by well-known high-stakes pro Dave "El Blondie" Colclough. Going into the […]
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Euro Poker News: New Cardroom For Dublin
Respected Irish tournament director Luke Ivory opens his own club on the site of the old Merrion Casino Club in Dublin on Friday, Aug. 17. The Georgian building at 81 Merrion Square has played host to previous stops on the European Poker Tour and "Cool Hand Luke" continues the tradition of offering a comprehensive tournament […]
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Euro Poker News: £100,000 GUKPT Luton Winner
Dave Clark from Colchester won leg seven of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) at the Grosvenor Casino in Luton on Sunday, defeating a field of 314 players to take home the £97,300, an additional £10,000 provided by tour sponsor Blue Square, and a seat in the £3,000 grand final at the end of the […]
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Euro Poker News: Boss Media Profits Rise But Poker Falls
Boss Media, the Swedish publicly quoted gaming software provider, yesterday announced its results for the six months to June 30, 2007. Sales increased by 5 percent to SEK 161.9 million (€17.9 million) from the same period in 2006 while operating profit amounted to SEK 27.5 million (€2.94 million), up from SEK 26.8 million in the […]
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Card Player Launches CardPlayerItalia.com
In an effort to continue bringing poker players worldwide localized content, Card Player Media has launched CardPlayerItalia.com. CardPlayerItalia.com was developed as an extension of Card Player Italia, the localized Italian version of Card Player Magazine. The site features complete tournament coverage from Italy and other European events, up-to-date news, articles, and poker player profiles, all […]
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Online Poker: Kiajessie Wins FTOPS Event No. 8
The first entirely eight-or-better tournament of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) V played out last night with a good deal of success. The $200 buy-in limit Omaha eight-or-better tournament, event No. 8 in the 14-event FTOPS series, had 1,073 entrants to generate a prize pool of $214,600. The guaranteed prize pool for the […]
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Harvard Law Professor Forms Global Poker Society
A Harvard law professor with a special interest in Internet law has formed a University-based think tank called the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS), which he hopes will take root in colleges and universities everywhere and will use poker as a an educational tool to teach everything from basic life skills to war games […]
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Euro Poker News: National Poker League UK Open Events One and Two
The National Poker League began its 2007 World Circuit Tour with the UK Open in London on Aug. 12, 2007. Mike Conway won event one, a £500 no-limit hold'em tournament, picking up £5,000. The field of 25 played down to five, including Tony G and Dave "El Blondie" Colclough. Dave "El Blondie" Colclough was eliminated […]
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Card Player Media Continues Global Expansion With the Launch of CardPlayerItalia.com
Las Vegas, NV. August 15, 2007: In an effort to continue bringing poker players worldwide localized content, Card Player Media has launched CardPlayerItalia.com. CardPlayerItalia.com was developed as an extension of Card Player Italia, the localized Italian version of Card Player magazine. The site features complete tournament coverage from Italy and other European events, up to […]
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ESPN Debuts Two WSOP Episodes Tonight
At 5 p.m., it is the $5,000 buy-in pot-limit hold'em event of the 2007 World Series of Poker. Watch a final table full of poker pros including Allen Cunningham, Jason Lester, Jeffrey Lisandro, Humberto Brenes, and Gavin Griffin battle for a first place prize of nearly $488,000. Then at 6 p.m. PDT, the $2,000 buy-in […]
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WPT Ladies Tournament to Help Fight Breast Cancer
The World Poker Tour has teamed up with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization for its Ladies Night tournament that will be held at the Bicycle Club in Los Angeles this weekend. The WPT and Hands-On Mobile will donate $5,000 each to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization, which focuses on […]
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Strip Poker: Doyle Brunson & Dewey Tomko Golf Invite Begins
In this new "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene – on the Strip and around the city. The best poker players in the world have many of the same personality traits that help them stay on top of the game. Two of these characteristics are competitiveness and a certain gambling […]
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West Virginia Poker Coming to at Least Two Counties
Table games, including poker, are coming to at least two of the four West Virginia counties that have casinos, and depending on the results of a recount, a third county might also allow table gambling. Voters in Ohio and Hancock counties already approved a referendum to allow table games to be added to the casinos […]
