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NETELLER Will Return all $94 Million to U.S. Players
Today, NETELLER announced that it is out of negotiations and will soon begin to implement a plan for the distribution of $94 million in US funds. The distribution process will begin by July 30, 2007. Customers will receive an e-mail when distribution is available. The two most important things to note are: 1) Beware of […]
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Strip Poker: The Orleans Open Attracting Big Fields
In this new "Strip Poker" series, Card Player will cover the Las Vegas poker scene – from the Strip and around the city. With no Mardi Gras beads or party floats in sight, the Orleans Open that began on July 14 has attracted large fields. The tournament series is characterized by small buy-ins and a […]
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Euro Poker News: Good News From Denmark
A Danish has court has ruled favorably for poker players: Poker isn't just a game of luck; it also requires a substantial amount of skill – thus making tournament poker legal. The key seems to be, as always in Scandinavia, to organize not cash games, but only freezeout tournaments. Frederik Hostrup, chairman of the Danish […]
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Heartland Poker Tour Continues to Grow
The Heartland Poker Tour will kick off one of its largest events this weekend when the $2,500 main event gets underway at the Majestic Star Casino in Gary, Indiana, on Saturday, July 28. According to HPT cofounder, Todd Anderson, approximately 300 players should enter the event to create a prize pool over $700,000. The first-place […]
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Panel Established to Decide on Antigua-U.S. Sanctions
This week, the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda officially asked the World Trade Organization's Dispute Resolution Panel for $3.4 billion in trade sanctions against the United States for not complying with a WTO ruling that said the U.S. is in violation of WTO rules by working to prevent its citizen's from playing poker and […]
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Florida Police Turning to Cards to Help Solve Crimes
Florida officials are hoping card-playing inmates will help them solve a slew of cases that have gone cold. Two 52-card decks featuring pictures and details about unsolved Florida crimes are being distributed to Florida prisoners starting today. Approximately 100,000 decks of cards will be distributed to inmates. Each card has a picture (when available) of […]
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Strip Poker: Retro Is Making a Comeback
In this new "Strip Poker" series, Card Player will cover the Las Vegas poker scene — from the Strip to the outskirts of the city — like no one else. Stay tuned to CardPlayer.com for all your Las Vegas poker news. It is a new idea for old games. The poker room at the Stratosphere […]
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NETELLER Resumes Trading Its Stock
NETELLER resumed trading its shares on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) today after enduring a six-month suspension by the LSE because of the U.S. Government's investigation into the company. When trading was suspended, shares were frozen at 176 pence. Today, shares plummeted to 63 pence. NETELLER has yet to release the details of its plan […]
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Humans Still Masters of Computer Poker
It looks like the computers have to wait to take over the poker world. Phil Laak and Ali Eslami swept the final two matches of the Man Versus Machine Poker Championship that was held at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) conference in Vancouver the last two days. "We just played our […]
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ESPN Airing 2007 World Series of Poker
Although the 2007 World Series of Poker just recently came to an end, ESPN has already begun airing episodes of the first few preliminary events. All new episodes premiere on ESPN at 5 p.m. PDT on Tuesdays. There are no premieres tonight, but next week, event No. 7, a $5,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha with rebuys […]
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National Poker League Hosts Inaugural Event
The National Poker League announced on August 17 that it will host the first annual NPL UK Open at the Loose Cannon Club in London. The tournament will feature five events that begin on August 12 and end with the final table of the main event on August 18, which is a ₤2,500 buy-in no-limit […]
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Man Versus Machine: Computer Giving Players Real Test
Phil Laak and Ali Eslami are representing the human race at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and, well, they aren't doing so good. The two are in the middle of a two-day match with a poker playing computer program named Polaris that was developed by a team of students and professors […]
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Debbie Burkhead Wins Third LIPS Grand Championship
The Ladies International Poker Series Tour held its third annual Grand Championship tournament this weekend at the Orleans Open in Las Vegas with great success. The weekend kicked off on Friday with a championship dinner in which winners from this year's LIPS events came together for an exclusive reception. The next day, a warm up […]
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World Series of Poker by the Numbers
The dust stirred up by the thousands of players who traipsed through the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino the last two months has cleared, and now it's time to look at some of the figures that came out of the 38th World Series of Poker. With 55 events, the 2007 version was the most ambitious […]
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Michael Mizrachi Signs With Planet Hollywood
Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, the 2006 Card Player Magazine Player of the Year, has signed on with Planet Hollywood as an in-house poker celebrity. Mizrachi can be found in Planet Hollywood's poker room every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6:30 p.m., where he will give 30-minute poker lessons for guests and visitors to Planet Hollywood. […]
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Online Poker: 5902838181 Wins $196,244 at Sunday Million
5902838181 makes a flush on the river to draw out on Professor122 and eliminate him from the tournament. PokerStars Sunday Million The PokerStars Sunday Million had 6,959 entrants last night, which built a prize pool of $1,391,800. That attendance was down from last weekend's 7,054 entrants, but the drop was not significant. The first-place finisher […]
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Online Poker: Interview with Scott 'emptyseat88' Fischman
Scott "emptyseat88" Fischman is one of the few players whose name is truly revered on both the digital and real-world poker felts. He's also one of the few players with the cojones to put up $10,300 on a 16-person heads-up tournament twice in as many weeks. This ex-poker dealer's patient playing style recently landed him […]
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PokerStars Antes up $1 Million for Africa
One thing you may have heard about during the World Series of Poker this summer was the successful “Ante Up for Africa” charity poker tournament that raised $500,000. The event brought together the stars of poker, professional athletics, and Hollywood, including much of the cast from Ocean’s Thirteen in a $5,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em charity […]
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Matusow's Fox Sports Radio Interview Found Here
Mike "The Mouth" Matusow appeared on The 1st Team With Steve Czaban, a Fox Sports radio show that is syndicated on more than 150 markets. Unfortunately, most of us on the West Coast were asleep, as he went on about 4:15 in the morning. Steve Czaban and the good folks at Fox Sports were kind […]
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Jon Friedberg Appeared on Business Radio Show
Jon Friedberg, who is represented by Card Player, will appear as a guest on the wsRadio Business Magazine show tomorrow (July 20) at approximately 11: 15 a.m. PT. Friedberg, who before finding success on the poker table was a successful businessman and entrepreneur, joins host Lee Mirabal on her show that covers all aspects of […]
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Full Statements from NETELLER and USAO Here
The following are the full releases that both the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (USAO) and NETELLER made today concerning the agreement made between the two entities. Click here to read a news story about the case. First NETELLER'S statement: NETELLER Announces Settlement of US Situation Wednesday, 18 July 2007: […]
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NETELLER Resolves Investigation With U.S. Government
NETELLER today announced that it entered into an agreement with the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (USAO) that will resolve the investigation that caused headaches for so many customers located in the U.S. As a result, U.S. customers will be able to log into their NETELLER accounts and request […]
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Card Player Media Continues International Expansion
Card Player Media has announced that it has entered into licensing agreements that will bring Card Player Magazine to the rapidly growing poker markets of Spain, Russia, and Hungary. The magazines will launch in the Fall of 2007, and will join the growing group of Card Player Media Partners that include Card Player Europe, Card […]
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Jerry Yang Wins the 2007 WSOP Main Event
Members of The Eccentric's Club from Ireland made the first international inroads into the World Series of Poker in the early 1980s. If any of those original members, who came across the Atlantic to chase WSOP gold, were at the main event final table in 2007, they would have had to smile when they saw […]
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WSOP Final Table: European News Roundup
Day 47 of the 38th World Series of Poker saw three Europeans attempt to win the most prestigious and richest prize in poker, the $10,000 world championship no-limit hold'em tournament. Dane Phillip Hilm started the final table as chip leader with just over $22 million in chips, but was first to be eliminated, busting out […]
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Raymond Rahme Eliminated Third
Raymond Rahme Eliminated 3rd ($3,048,025) Jerry Yang raises to $2 million and is reraised by PokerStars qualifier Raymond Rahme to $8.6 million. Yang makes the call, and the flop comes A J 8. Rahme checks and Yang fires out a $10 million bet. Rahme moves all in, and Yang is faced with his biggest decision […]
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Alex Kravchenko Eliminated Fourth
Alex Kravchenko Eliminated in Fourth Place ($1,852,721) A turning point hand at the final table just occurred. Jerry Yang moves all in preflop and Alex Kravchenko makes the call. Kravchenko flips over his initials, in the form of A K. Yang turns up pocket eights. The flop rolls out Q 9 8 and the crowd […]
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Jon Kalmar Eliminated Fifth
Jon Kalmar Eliminated in Fifth place ($1,255,069) Raymond Rahme raises to $2.5 million and Jon Kalmar moves all in for $10,490,000 more. Rahme thinks briefly as his green-clad spectators stand, ready to burst at any second. Rahme makes the call and shows down J J, and Kalmar tables A K. Both camps explode in support […]
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PokerStars Qualifiers Made Millions in Main Event
PokerStars players are having another great year at the World Series of Poker. The online site qualified 1,410 players to the $10,000 main event, and although because of recent law changes that prevented the online sites to buy their players directly into the events makes it hard to say exactly how many players actually usedthe […]
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Hevad "RainKhan" Khan Eliminated Sixth
RainKhan Eliminated Jerry Yang raises to $1.5 million from middle position, and PokerStars qualifier Hevad "RainKhan" Khan reraises to $6 million from the small blind. He leaves himself less than $3.5 million behind . Yang goes into the tank, then elects to make the call. Prior to the flop, Khan moves all in dark, putting […]
