CardPlayer.com will provide live updates, reports and photos from all Bellagio Five-Star World Poker Classic events. For the first time, CardPlayer.com will provide live video updates from Bellagio's championship event in order to bring viewers closer to the action.

The Bellagio Five-Star World Poker Classic begins on April 5 with a $1,500 no-limit hold'em event and culminates on April 25 with the final table of the $500,000 Professional Poker Tour event.

The marquee event, the $25,000 buy-in World Poker Tour no-limit hold'em championship has an estimated prize pool of over $6.5 million. It begins on April 18 and runs through April 24.

CardPlayer.com, the sister site of Card Player magazine, began providing live tournament coverage in February 2005 from World Poker Tour and Professional Poker Tour events.