Card Player is the renown poker magazine that insisted on reporting from the World Series of Poker last year as its exclusive chip count and live reporting online. The grades from many of the online blogs and other poker enthusiasts were less then sparkling.

With a deal cut with the World Poker Tour, Cardplayer.com will try once again to prove their meddle in the online poker tournament reporting ring. According to Wicked Chops Poker, Card Player will be providing live online reporting for all WPT events, as well as reporting on World Series of Poker and WSOP Circuit events.

WPT did make a great move by hooking up with the Game Show Network to air season six and should benefit from their expanded audience, but with the bad reviews of Card Player's previous attempts at live reporting it remains to be seen if this is a wise move.

Here's Wicked Chops with the story:

Busy times at World Poker Tour offices, as it appears they have reached agreements with two separate communist regimes in just a matter of days.

Last week the renown commies* at Card Player held a staff meeting to announce a merging of tournament reporting forces with the World Poker Tour. As part of the deal, the WPT will begin live tournament reporting from the WSOP and WSOP Circuit Events. No word yet if this includes the WSOP Europe as well.

Outside of that, we're waiting for more details to emerge. It is expected the deal will be announced to the public sometime this week.

While this is yet another shrewd and practical business move by the WPT-them reaching out to cover WSOP events is something that should've happened awhile ago-isn't partnering with Card Player kind of like making a deal with the devil? It would be one thing if Card Player was a sexy devil, like elizabeth hurley above. Cause if it was, we'd make a deal with that kind of devil any day of the week. "Hey WCP, will you make a deal with-" "Yes." "Wait first hear me out. The deal is-" "Yes." "Just so you know what you're getting into, the deal-" "Yes."

* Communist party affiliation unverified and possibly fabricated.