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CardRunners
CardRunners (also "Card Runners" and "Cardrunners") was an instructional poker site developed by Taylor Caby. CardRunners charged members a monthly fee for access to their catalog of poker instructional videos and private poker strategy forums. , CardRunners had over 10,000 subscribers and in 2007 the company took in more than $3,000,000 in revenue. CardRunners was founded in 2005 largely as a response to growth of interest in internet poker due to the Moneymaker Effect. Caby and Wiggins, two college friends and big winners on the Cereus Poker Network, Ultimate Bet poker site, would film their screen while playing online and narrate their thought process. They then sold access to those videos to subscribers. In April 2008, Lee Jones (author), Lee Jones left his position with the European Poker Tour (EPT) to join CardRunners as its Chief Operating Officer (COO). Prior to his work for the EPT Jones was the Poker Room Manager for PokerStars. Jones later left CardRunners to become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Caby
Taylor Caby (born August 20, 1983) is an American poker player and entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO of CardRunners, the poker training website, and a managing partner at Hold'em Manager, the poker analytics software. Career Caby was born and raised outside of Chicago, and started playing poker when he was 14 with his family. During his freshman year of college, and while concurrently employed as a professional lifeguard at Meineke Pool, he deposited money online at Ultimate Bet, UltimateBet.com, and turned his initial deposit of $35 into over seven figures. Caby was one of the first "internet players" to gain online poker fame and established his reputation in the poker world by playing legendary heads-up battles against Prahlad Friedman, Prahlad "Spirit Rock" Friedman. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 2006 with a degree in finance, but had already started CardRunners, managed from a fraternity room, with Andrew "Muddywater" Wiggins. CardRunners, founded in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cole South
Cole South (born 1987) is an American professional poker player, author, and entrepreneur from Washington, DC. South is best known for his play online, though he has also made television appearances on ''Poker After Dark'' in season 5 of the show. South graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in economics in December 2011. Poker career South started playing poker online in November 2005 at partypoker under the username CTS, depositing $50. He quickly improved as a player and through intensely studying the game he increased his bankroll to over $13,000 by October 2006. In just two years he went from playing small stakes poker, to building up a bankroll of over $2 million and playing in high-stakes online games, winning pots of over half a million dollars. In April 2010, South left the team at the CardRunners website, which he was a partial owner of. During his time there he produced instructional poker videos where he shared his knowledge of the game. His mathematical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Jones (author)
Lee Jones is an online poker executive and the author of ''Winning Low-Limit Hold 'em''. Education Jones earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Duke University in North Carolina in 1978, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1983. In 2019, Lee partnered with Tommy Angelo to create the video series called PokerSimple. He also contributes a monthly column to Bluff Magazine. Career From October 2003 to April 2007, Jones worked as the cardroom manager of the PokerStars online poker cardroom. As the poker room manager, Jones decided which poker tournaments and games to offer the players. In April 2007, Jones left PokerStars and began work with the European Poker Tour. Jones said that he was making the change "to expand ishorizons and stretch some new muscles." Jones organized, hosted, and provided television commentary for EPT events, while also still serving as a consultant for PokerStars. In April 2008 Jones announced he was leaving EPT t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Full Tilt Poker
Full Tilt Poker is an Irish online poker card room and online casino that opened in June 2004. Formerly privately owned by Tiltware, LLC and later by the Rational Entertainment Group, the site was acquired by The Stars Group (then known as Amaya Gaming Group) in a deal where Amaya acquired all of Rational's assets, including PokerStars. A statement by Amaya said the takeover would not affect the activities of Full Tilt Poker. The deal was closed on August 1, 2014. Just prior to the close of the purchase, Full Tilt Poker redirected and rebranded its domains from FullTiltPoker.com and FullTiltPoker.eu to FullTilt.com and FullTilt.eu. A company spokesperson stated the change reflected the fact Full Tilt had "expanded to offer a range of single and multi-player variations of casino games". Full Tilt has gaming licenses in Malta and the Isle of Man. Games offered Full Tilt offers both play and real money cash games and tournaments. Freeroll, satellite, sit-n-go, and multi-table t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gambling Companies Established In 2005
Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted. Gambling thus requires three elements to be present: consideration (an amount wagered), risk (chance), and a prize. The outcome of the wager is often immediate, such as a single roll of dice, a spin of a roulette wheel, or a horse crossing the finish line, but longer time frames are also common, allowing wagers on the outcome of a future sports contest or even an entire sports season. The term "gaming" in this context typically refers to instances in which the activity has been specifically permitted by law. The two words are not mutually exclusive; ''i.e.'', a "gaming" company offers (legal) "gambling" activities to the public and may be regulated by one of many gaming control boards, for example, the Nevada Gaming Control Board. However, this distinction is not univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Hastings (poker Player)
Brian Hastings (born June 24, 1988) of Hanover Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania is an American professional poker player known for his six World Series of Poker bracelets and for his profitable online cash game sessions against the Swedish poker player Viktor Blom, better known by his Online-Poker name Isildur1. Poker career Hastings began playing online in 2006, inspired by his secondary school mathematics teacher.Brad Herzog, "Card Sharp," Cornell Alumni Magazine' (July/August 2010) at 26. He entered Cornell University through the College of Engineering, and now majors in economics. He held a minority interest in Cardrunners.com. His style of play has been described on ESPN.com as one that places the game of poker in "a balanced place in a balanced life." The Hastings approach to the game is to draw on the strength of the collective; accent the importance of off-table work, and impart life balance to one's daily routine. Contests vs. Isildur1 In December 2009, Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Benefield
David Benefield (born May 17, 1986) is an American professional poker player considered a high-stakes online cash game specialist who has earnings of over $900,000 from online winnings playing under his name on Full Tilt Poker. He made the World Series of Poker Main Event final table in 2013 finishing 8th. Poker career Benefield picked up the name “Raptor” when he first ran $450 into $20,000. By the age of 20, he shared a half-million-dollar house in Fort Worth with fellow online high-stakes cash game specialist Tom Dwan Thomas Dwan Jr. (born 1986) is an American professional poker player who played online in the highest-stakes No-Limit Texas hold 'em and Pot-Limit Omaha games, primarily on Full Tilt Poker under the screen name "durrrr". Dwan has won prize mone .... As of 2014, Benefield's total live tournament winnings exceed $2,200,000 of which $1,430,630 of his total winnings have come from cashes at the WSOP. References External links David Benefield Hendon Mob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Plus Two Publishing
Two Plus Two Publishing is a private company established and owned by statistician and poker player Mason Malmuth. The company publishes books on poker and gambling written by professionals in the field such as David Sklansky, Dan Harrington, Bill Robertie, Collin Moshman, Ed Miller, Ray Zee, Sunny Mehta, Alan Schoonmaker, William Jockusch, and Malmuth himself. Two Plus Two Publishing has sold over two million books and currently has more than 39 titles to its credit.Two Plus Two Books List and Synopsis of 2+2 Titles. According to Malmuth, the name was adopted from the cover design of his book ''Gambling Theory and Other Topics'' where the equation 2+2=5 was illustrated with card pictures. In addition, many of its titles are now being translated into many non-English languages. The Two Plus Two website operates a popular |
Cake Poker Network
The Cake Network was a Curaçao based online poker network owned and operated by parent company Cake Gaming NV. Cake Network was founded in 2004 and launched its first network skin, Cake Poker, in June 2006. Other network partners followed, including Sportsbook.com, Red Star Poker and BetUS. As of April 2010 the Cake Network saw a steep decline in player traffic as the company lost two major poker rooms, PlayersOnly and Sportsbook.com, to the Merge Gaming Network. Even with the addition of new rooms to the network, Cake continued to lose ground on the rest of the industry. In January 2011, Cake Network's well-known partner Doyles Room left the Cake Network, moving to the Yatahay Network. Cake Poker offered a variety of stakes and types of online poker games including: Texas hold 'em, Omaha (poker), Omaha High / Hi-Lo and Telesina. At one time, Cake Poker was the only site of the 10 largest in the world which allowed players to regularly change their screen names. Cake became no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Poker Tour
The European Poker Tour (EPT) is a series of poker tournaments similar to those in the World Poker Tour (WPT), created by John Duthie, winner of the inaugural Poker Million tournament. It began in 2004 as part of the worldwide explosion in Texas Hold 'em popularity. Since 2011 the EPT has been sponsored and wholly owned and controlled by PokerStars the online casino and taped by Sunset + Vine for television broadcast across Europe. In seasons 1-3, the most significant difference between the competing poker tours was the buy-in and its effect on the prize pool, with the EPT featuring buy-ins about half the size of the WPT. This changed in season 4 when the buy-in for most EPT events was increased to €8,000 (due to increased popularity and lack of space in participating casinos). At 2007 exchange rates, this is approximately equal to the US$10,000 which is the buy-in for most WPT events. Furthermore, the final table is made up of 8 players, as opposed to the 6 player final ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PokerStars
PokerStars is an online poker cardroom that was a part of The Stars Group until it was sold to Flutter Entertainment on May 5, 2020. It can be accessed through downloadable poker clients for the Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It is the largest real money online poker site in the world, controlling over two-thirds of the total online poker market. A PokerStars.com online satellite tournament produced the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) champion, Chris Moneymaker. As the first person to become a world champion by qualifying at an online poker site, Moneymaker's 2003 win was an important factor in catalyzing the poker boom of the mid-2000s. The press has called this the "Moneymaker effect." History PokerStars launched its beta play-money-only site on September 11, 2001. The company began offering real money wagering on December 12, 2001. PokerStars was originally a Costa Rican company, Rational Enterprises, which was majority owned by the Israeli Scheinberg family. The compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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