Check out CardPlayer.com every Friday for a weekly wrap-up of the news from the live poker tournament trail. This Week in Tournament Poker World Poker Tour Legends of Poker The final table of the WPT Legends of Poker took place on Thursday, Aug. 28 at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens,…
The final six players in the 2008 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold'em championship event took their seats at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California, this afternoon at 4 p.m. A first-place prize worth $1,091,428 was up for grabs, and every player had his eyes set…
One hundred and fifty-four players joined the field for Day 1b of Asian Poker Tour Macau play, bringing the total number of entrants to 257 for the event at the Galaxy StarWorld Hotel and Casino. Among the entrants were John Juanda, J.J. Liu…
Full Tilt Poker has announced an all-star lineup for its third season of the Million Dollar Cash Game, which will take place on September 17th and 18th in central London and will be taped for later broadcast. In Season 2, Team Full Tilt…
Every Thursday, Card Player sits down with some of the best in the game to discuss pivotal hands from the week's biggest tournaments on the circuit. This week, while covering the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker tournament at the Bicycle Casino, we spoke to final table chip leader Amit…
Jesse Jones is so passionate about legitimizing poker as a worldwide sport that he is spending a good portion if his retirement focusing his energies on the World Poker Association, a non-profit organization he founded to protect the rights of poker-playing professionals and semi-pros who go to…
The schedule for the first-annual State of Nevada Poker Championships in Reno, Nevada, at the Grand Sierra Resort has recently been announced, and the 32-event series will run Sept. 25-Oct. 5. Three events will run per day during the series at 11 a.m., 3 p.m., and 7 p.m. There will be 11 State…
The Wheeling Island Hotel, Casino, and Racetrack is getting ready for its first Playboy Poker Open, wherein players can compete in weekly satellites for their chance at a grand prize of $52,800 and a trip for two to a VIP Party at the Playboy Mansion on Nov. 19. The Playboy Poker Open main event…
A judge refused to dismiss the charges levied against five men who were fined for playing home poker in South Carolina, sending the case on a collision with a possible jury trial, or another go-around at dismissal. Bob Chimento, Scott Richards, Michael Williamson, Jeremy Brestel, and John Taylor…
His friends call him ‘The Razor’ — not only for his tendency to raise every pot he’s in or his affinity for the sleek Motorola cell phone, but for his uncanny instincts for reading weakness in his opponents. To the uninitiated, John Phan…
