Cake Poker Now Counts for OPOY Standings

Top 20 Finishers of Site's $100,000 Guarantee Earn Points in Online Player of the Year Race

Starting this Sunday, Cake Poker will become the sixth poker site to be included in the Card Player Online Player of the Year standings. The top 20 finishers of the site's big Sunday $100,000-guaranteed tournament (8 p.m. ET, $268 to enter) will earn points for the OPOY award in 2009. (Note:...

Online Poker -- Tourneys Kick Off First Sunday of 2009

2009 Online Player of the Year Gets Started

by Julio Rodriguez

The first Sunday of the 2009 Card Player Online Player of the Year race kicked off yesterday, though many of the online world's best competitors were kicking their feet up to relax at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Surprisingly, the number of laptops in the lobby was down yesterday as...

Online Poker -- PokerStars Has Huge Weekend With Big Payouts

Matt "All_in_at420" Stout Wins Sunday 500

by Julio Rodriguez

The last weekend before the new year was also a record setting one. While PokerStars attempted to host the largest online tournament in history, thousands of players flooded the site, in some instances creating larger than normal prize pools. A few notables were able to claim wins on Sunday,...

UltimateBet Software Error Mistakenly Awards Pot to Hellmuth

Error Took Place Dec. 20

by Bob Pajich

Tokwiro's new CEREUS network experienced a glitch on Dec. 20 that awarded the player with a losing hand the pot on Ultimate Bet. That player with the losing hand happened to be Phil Hellmuth, the face of the poker site. This software SNAFU comes at a time that Tokwiro is doing its best to...

Poker Stars and Card Player Sending Reader to Bahamas

Freeroll Takes Place Friday

by Bob Pajich

On Friday, PokerStars and CardPlayer.com are teaming up to give one of our readers a trip to the Bahamas to attend the three-day PCA Bahamas Poker Camp. The freeroll takes place Friday, Dec. 26, at 2:30 p.m. ET. Card Player readers can find it under the "Tournaments/Private Area" tab on...

Bodog Poker Pro Bowl in Paradise Series Now Open to All

Everyone Now Eligible for Remaining Events in Card Player-Exclusive Series Awarding Trip to Hawaii for Pro Bowl

by Shawn Patrick Green

Bodog's Pro Bowl in Paradise tournament series (a Card Player-exclusive event) is now open to everyone. There are 10 events remaining in the series, so there is plenty of time for players to qualify for the series' grand prize - a VIP trip to Hawaii to watch football's Pro Bowl live....