CardPlayer.com Launches New Online Poker Section New Section Includes an Online Player of the Year Contest, Detailed Room Reviews With User Ratings, Video Content, and More By Shawn Patrick Green CardPlayer.com is gearing up to launch a massive new section, and online poker players are finally ...
The third season of the European Poker Tour has concluded in an absolutely spectacular manner - and with Gavin Griffin, we have yet another American winner of the Grand Final. Europe seems to be a happy hunting ground for the Americans, and the fact ...continued
Yahoo! Opens Real-Money Poker Site In a move that will surely change the online poker market, online giant Yahoo! has launched a real-money online poker site at www.yahoo.co.uk/poker. This is the first instance of an online company the size of Yahoo! ...continued
Records and more The European Poker Tour event in Dortmund was a tournament of records. Never before, a bigger field attended an EPT tournament. Never before, more German-speaking players took part in a high-stakes tournament. And never before, a nice ...continued
Television, Internet, and Vegas Poker just keeps popping up on television. The growth in popularity continues, far beyond earlier estimation and far beyond the wildest dreams of poker enthusiasts such as yours truly. And wouldn't you know it, the ...continued
Yet more not-so-good news The European Poker Tour third season concluded in a beautiful manner last March in luxurious Monte Carlo. All records were broken during what became the biggest tournament ever held outside the United States: attendance (706 ...continued
BetDirect moves to Gibraltar Online casino and poker operator 32Red announced recently that it would be relocating its online sports-betting business BetDirect from Liverpool to Gibraltar during the course of this summer. BetDirect is a relatively new ...continued
Irish Open roundup A Party at the ad breaks Production company Win Media impressed everyone with its groundbreaking show, which captured the day's action and was fit for broadcast by midnight. However, it and event sponsor Paddy Power were surely ...continued
Springtime for championships in Scandinavia It's been an eventful spring, with lots of tournaments throughout Europe. As a journalist, I've travelled a lot and done a lot of reporting from the tours, and I've clearly seen the high entry ...continued
Dave Colclough Wins Leg 4 of Grosvenor UK Poker Tour It had been more than a year since the top UK player had a won a major event, but in the small hours of Monday, April 23, Dave "El Blondie" Colclough finally again tasted sweet victory. ...continued
"And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth." Following on from last month's column, I want to linger on the emotional aspects of poker playing; in particular, every player's evil ...continued
The fame game One of the reasons the Paddypowerpoker.com Irish Open became the biggest as well as the best in Europe was that Alan Betson showed up. Every man has his price, and the €2 million guaranteed by the sponsors was enough to get former ...continued
Here are a few more tales from the felt that I hope you enjoy. The "action" this time occurs in Las Vegas and Ireland. Several years ago when the World Series of Poker was played in Downtown Las Vegas at Binion's Horseshoe, the pot-limit ...continued
Editor's note: Card Player Europe Bureau Chief Rolf Slotboom has read just about every poker book available, and in this series of columns, he analyzes the work of several poker authors, one at a time. He analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of ...continued
The first season of Poker in the Pub comes to a close after the National Final in May, and it has exceeded all of our expectations. We now have more than 4,000 members and already have hosted eight successful regional finals, with an additional five ...continued
Despite having played poker all over the world for the past 16 years, and having known Thomas and Marina Kremser for the last nine, this was my first visit to Vienna and the Concord Card Casino. I had, of course, heard about it being one of the ...continued