European Circuit Springs to Life as Dane Wins European Poker Tour Barcelona Open By Brendan Murray Sander Lylloff from Copenhagen, Denmark, won the first major event of the 2007-2008 European season - the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Barcelona Open - collecting €1.17 million ($1.6 ...
It's time to speak up, because poker is flagging a little and television has as much responsibility as anyone else in keeping the fire burning. In 1998 I created an experimental TV show called Late Night Poker, a show with the kind of budget that ...continued
Poker protégé Alina "Catgirl" Salnikova cast a spell over the PartyPoker Women's World Open. In this extract from her diary, she outlines her experiences at her first major televised tournament. As part of my upbringing in ...continued
It was with great sadness that the poker community learnt of the death of visionary TV producer Rob Gardner in August. Rob was the creative driving force behind Late Night Poker, the Channel 4 show that did so much to popularise the game across Europe ...continued
England Invaded How does a small collection of islands like the UK come to be attracting players on a monthly basis whose local casinos are places like Commerce and The Bicycle, the Rio, and The Venetian? Almost every televised event this year has ...continued
It's That Time o' Year Again Fall is, traditionally, the poker tournament season in the Netherlands. Holland Casino recognizes the effect that the World Series of Poker has on the popularity of poker worldwide, and makes sure to squeeze as ...continued
UK Advertising Ban - Good News for Gibraltar? Earlier this year the UK government decided to stand by its decision to ban advertising by gambling organisations based in countries that had not met the UK's new regulatory guidelines. The ban ...continued
The Game It was quite flattering to get an invitation to The Game - but playing for almost all of my bankroll against some of the best players in the world wasn't for me, so I turned the offer down. For the third year in a row, Sweden's ...continued
Better Odds + Best Prices = More Profit Card Player Media is pleased to announce its newest web property: CardPlayerOdds.com. Powered by Easyodds, CardPlayerOdds.com is a comprehensive betting service that helps punters find the best odds and the best ...continued
Imper1um's Empire No More By Shawn Patrick Green Sorel "Imper1um" Mizzi's reign over the Card Player Online Player of the Year leader board empire is no more. It's not that he was a bad leader, it was just time to move on, and ...continued
Austria native Nikolaus Jedlicka, 20, has always chosen the road less traveled. At 18, the former Magic The Gathering competitor walked away from school one month prior to graduation. Poker was not to blame. He simply didn't believe in school, and ...continued
The Golden Sands Poker Festival, sponsored by The Rivercard, took place in Torquay on Aug. 17-19 and players were able to enjoy the classical elegance of the newly named Mint Casino. Eleven Poker in the Pub players won their way through to the ...continued
One of the recurrent themes on Internet forums is live play versus online play. This was especially brought into focus when one of the darlings of the Internet set joined what was perhaps the biggest public no-limit hold'em and pot-limit Omaha ...continued
Expensive Phone Calls All the information you can now gather from books and from the Internet means that you can get 20 years of poker experience in about six months if you're keen. A lot of the "20-year" men can be heard moaning and ...continued
My sponsor (Matt Dale of Poker.co.uk) must be wondering what he's doing backing me to win tournaments. I haven't even sighted a final table on the horizon recently, let alone get into the prize money, but I think I've found the answer, and ...continued
I recently went to Manchester for the simple fact that I had my phone stolen in Las Vegas. I had renewed a friendship with someone after 25 years, and his number was stored in that phone. So, I went and stood in the pub in Manchester, where I last ...continued
Reigning British Darts Organisation (BDO) World Champion Martin "Wolfie" Adams is taking an admirable stand by refusing his invitation to the upcoming inter-organisational Grand Slam of Darts. "Loyalty is not a dirty word in my ...continued
Bank reconciliations and ledger accounts were never going to be edgy enough for Chronicle Bookmakers front man Justin Carthy, so it was unsurprising that after a year of studying accountancy, he packed it in and decided to concentrate on a career as a ...continued
Rounding Up the Best Betting Markets Antepost has been very busy counting its money. The last three months have been kind. Back in July we laid Tiger Woods to win no major in 2007 at 13/8 with Betfair. He duly obliged, picking up the PGA trophy in ...continued
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