May 31 2013
Event #1 of the 2013 WSOP – the $500k Casino Employees one – is in the books and its winner, and the first WSOP champion of 2013, is Chad Holloway. Holloway bested a starting field of 898 players to grab the ...
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May 31 2013
The WSOP is without a doubt the biggest poker event of the year and its winner (the winner of its Main Event) is considered the poker world champion by most experts. Nowadays, there’s a lot or ruckus made around the champ ...
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May 31 2013
The first day of the 2013 WSOP saw two events kick off and run simultaneously: the $500k Casino Employees event, which is the traditional opener of the WSOP, was the first one to get going. 896 players bellied up to the ...
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May 30 2013
On Thursday, the 2013 edition of the World Series of Poker kicked off with the traditional $500 Casino Employees event. The first open event of the Series got going as well: 481 players bellied up to the tables of the $5k ...
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May 30 2013
The 2013 WSOP is officially on its way: the $500 Casino Employees event, the tournament which has kicked off the WSOP for quite a few years now, got underway on Thursday. The first open event will be the $5k Read More
May 28 2013
As you already know, on Monday, all three Main Events of the 2013 Spring Championship on Online Poker wrapped up at PokerStars, and Viktor Blom walked away with the $1 million+ top prize offered by the High version. There ...
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May 28 2013
On Monday, the three Main Events of PokerStars’ 2013 SCOOP played down to their respective winners. The low tier Main Event featured a $109 buy-in, the medium tier tournament took $1,050 to enter and the high buy-in ...
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May 27 2013
Several high profile online poker players of the olden days have re-emerged this year with strong showings in various live and online poker events. Jason Mercier was one of them, but his fellow PokerStars pro, Daniel Negreanu, had ...
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May 27 2013
Jonathan Hilton is the first ever recipient of a WSOP bracelet awarded in the US, in a location other than Las Vegas. Hilton bested a starting field of 127 especially invited/thoroughly vetted players, on his way to grabbing what may well ...
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May 27 2013
On Saturday morning, David “Chino” Rheem won the WPT’s World Championship event at the Bellagio, besting Erick Lindgren heads-up. Needless to say, the $25k buy-in made certain that the winner of the poker tournament would secure quite the bragging ...
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May 25 2013
Jason Mercier has set himself some rather ambitious poker tournament goals for 2013 and thus far he seems to be on the right track indeed towards accomplishing those goals. His tournament dominance is best illustrated by his 1st place in the ...
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May 25 2013
Despite the numerous live tournament opportunities popping up in various areas of the globe, the high stakes online cash game action was solid all through the week at Full Tilt Poker. Most of the regulars saw action ...
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May 24 2013
The second day of the WSOP’s National Championship event in New Orleans saw the field play right down to the final table. Given the exclusive nature of the poker tournament, it didn’t come a as a surprise that ...
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May 24 2013
There has probably never been a better time in the history of poker to be a well-bankrolled, high-profile poker professional than now. One can barely make time for all the major live events peddling their massive prize-pools left ...
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May 23 2013
The WSOP’s National Championship kicked off the other day in New Orleans, drawing 126 players to its tables. The stakes are high indeed: the player who wins this event will end up taking home the first ever Read More
May 23 2013
As the action rolled towards a conclusion in the WPT’s World Championship $25k Main Event, players were busy in the $100k Super High Roller too, working their way towards the final stretch of that poker tournament. The final ...
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May 23 2013
The 5th day of the WPT’s World Championship event turned out to be an extremely short affair. The objective for the day was an extremely modest one to begin with: 8 players returned to the tables of the Bellagio to play ...
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May 21 2013
The 2013 SCOOP has been roaring on for quite some time now, pushing all the other online poker weekend majors out of its way. On Monday afternoon, 21 of the scheduled 44 events have reached their conclusions. Several “name” pros ...
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May 21 2013
This weekend saw PokerStars’ SCOOP hit its halfway mark, with 21 of the scheduled 44 events in the books. The Sunday Million and the Sunday Warm-Up were yet again missing from the weekend schedule on account of two 2-day ...
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May 21 2013
On Sunday, the second day of the WPT’s World Championship event went into the books. Having coughed up a $25k buy-in, obviously none of the players involved were in a hurry to put their poker tournament lives ...
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May 20 2013
With the WSOP drawing near fast, the pressure has been intensifying on all the other major poker tours to wrap up their respective seasons. The EPT’s 9th season is over: it went out with a bang in ...
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May 20 2013
PokerStars’ 2013 SCOOP has thus far been extremely popular with the “name” crowd. Several high profile players have actually managed to win events, among them Sami Kelopuro, Ana Marquez and Benny Spindler. This week, three more names were added ...
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May 20 2013
The ISPT (International Stadiums Poker Tour) has started out as an extremely ambitious project, but the sheer constraints of reality have since forced the organizers to water down the concept several times. Eventually, a reasonable format was reached, and it now ...
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May 19 2013
Lately, it is apparently more and more fashionable for WSOP champions to auction off the bracelets that had so painstakingly worked to win a few short years ago. Some of them part with their bling out of charity, while others ...
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May 19 2013
Gus Hansen has long suffered as the biggest online poker cash game loser of the year, but Lady Luck seems to have finally gotten over the grudge she bore against him. A couple of days ago we featured a piece ...
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May 17 2013
PokerStars’ SCOOP is incredibly popular not just with the masses, but with the “name” crowd as well. After all, the high buy-in tiers do indeed offer these high-profile players great opportunities to do battle for properly sized ...
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May 17 2013
The final day of the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final’s €100k Super High Roller is in the books and a winner has been crowned: Austrian resident Max Altergott ...
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May 17 2013
It isn’t exactly a secret to anyone who follows the poker and online poker scene closely that Gus Hansen has had quite a disastrous year thus far. In fact, at one point he was down exactly $3,124,456 and needless to ...
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May 15 2013
With the poker world abuzz with excitement over the upcoming WSOP, a bit of sad news mixed into the general frenzy on Tuesday, when Doyle Brunson, the living poker legend, announced through Twitter that he wouldn’t be playing in this year’s ...
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May 15 2013
The second day of the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final’s €100k Super High Roller saw the field play down past the money bubble, and given that only 7 ...
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May 15 2013
The 2013 Spring Championship of Online Poker was in full swing on Monday at PokerStars. Barely has the Series kicked off, it already produced at least one memorable moment. Freddy Deeb, who has turned into quite the SCOOP specialist ...
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May 14 2013
The first day of the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final’s Super High Roller saw 25 players belly up to the tables initially, but – because buy-ins continued ...
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May 14 2013
Spring is the favorite time of poker players world-over for a good reason: there so much to do, one barely knows where to buy in. The EPT’s ...
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May 14 2013
The Ultimate Bet super-user scandal, which happened about 5 years ago, tainted the entire online poker industry and its effects are felt to this day. Also, its various details keep emerging to this day. Last week, a Russ Hamilton’s ...
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May 14 2013
Unlike the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final’s Main Event, the heads-up stage of which saw Andrew Pantling refuse a deal offered by the eventual winner, Steve O’Dwyer, the € 25k High Roller ended in a 3-way ...
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May 13 2013
On Sunday, what was quite probably the toughest final table in the history of EPT Main Events – made up exclusively of high-profile “name” players – got together to play down to a winner in the EPT’s ...
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May 13 2013
The penultimate day of the EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand Final Main Event saw 16 players return to the tables with the stated goal of playing down to the final table. By the end of the day, the final ...
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May 11 2013
PokerStars' SCOOP 2013 is starting tomorrow (Sunday, May 12) and it is looking to hand out more prizes than ever before. The three-tiered Spring Championship of Online Poker features a total guaranteed prize-pool of $40 million. Running ...
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May 11 2013
Not so long ago, the only way for poker players and interested parties could gain information from some of the high profile live poker tournaments taking place in various spots around the globe, was to keep their eyes ...
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May 10 2013
The WPT’s PartyPoker-sponsored Canadian Spring Championship wrapped up the other day in Montreal, with Amir Babakhani’s victory. The scene of the action was the Playground Poker Club which saw 6 players return to its tables on the final ...
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May 10 2013
A total of 5 levels of action went into the 3rd day of the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final Main Event. 34 players survived the day, with Johnny ...
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May 10 2013
The Global Poker Index has made it its mission to create and to publish a list of the best live poker tournament players in the world, based on a set of factors used to quantify their performance on ...
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May 09 2013
The extremely pro-heavy EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final Main Event saw its second day wrap up on Wednesday, after 6 levels of action, at the end of ...
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May 09 2013
As expected, the second day 1 flight of the EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand Final yielded a much bigger starting field than its Day 1A. Still, only 423 players ...
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May 08 2013
On Monday, the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final’s €2,150 Open-Face Chinese Poker event kicked off and wrapped up, with the victory of PokerStars pro Jason Mercier, who ...
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May 08 2013
The first day 1 flight of the EPT’s Monaco Grand Final was a bit of a disappointment turn-out-wise. Only 108 players bellied up to the tables, ...
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May 08 2013
The online poker weekend was a busy time, despite all the ongoing live events which inevitably drew quite a number of “name” players as well as wannabes away from the online tables. PokerStars’ usual Sunday majors saw their guarantees ...
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May 08 2013
Well, this one was expected…after news broke last week that the Atlantic Club Casino has served a notice of termination to Rational Group - the company behind PokerStars – quite probably as a result of pressure exerted by interests ...
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May 08 2013
Barely has the finale of Season 9 kicked off, EPT officials have already made sure that players would know what they would be returning to next season. Indeed, the schedule of the EPT’s 10th season has already been ...
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May 06 2013
When it comes to the richest and most prestigious poker tour on the planet, the European Poker Tour, the expectations of the public and that of the players are high in regards to what the finale of Season ...
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May 06 2013
The APPT’s Cebu Main Event reached its conclusion and its winner is Jae Kyung Sim, a player who hasn’t really rattled any cages through the poker tournament and who only seemed to fire up the boosters once he ...
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May 06 2013
The third day of the APPT’s Cebu Main Event was just as short as the two day 1 flights and day 2: it only consisted of 6 levels of action, well enough for the field to play down to the final ...
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May 04 2013
Full Tilt Poker has been re-launched as a cash game destination above everything else, but as the resurrected operation slowly but surely reclaims its place in the online poker industry, its officials are shifting focus towards the ...
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May 04 2013
The second day of the APPT’s Cebu Main Event saw 76 players belly up to the tables of the Waterfront Airport Casino and Hotel in Cebu, looking to play down as close to the final table as possible. After about 6 ...
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May 04 2013
The first day 1 flight of the APPT’s Cebu Main Event was a bit disappointing for the organizers, who had certainly hoped for a much more solid turn-out. Day 1B continued the event in the same note: the minimum initial ...
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May 03 2013
The first day 1 flight of the APPT’s Cebu Main Event was a short affair as far as major live poker tournaments go: it only consisted of 6 one-hour levels. At the end of the short but ...
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May 03 2013
PokerStars’ initial announcement regarding the plans of Rational Group - its owner - to acquire a live gambling operator (the Atlantic Club Casino) in New Jersey, was met with a certain amount of skepticism by experts from the ...
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May 01 2013
Yesterday, we broke news that Ultimate Poker were preparing to deal their first fully legal and regulated real money online poker hand, and now that we have that milestone behind us, it is time to take a closer look at ...
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May 01 2013
The WSOP will return to the center of the poker world in about a month, and what a changed and thoroughly improved world it is: a year ago, it looked like it would take forever for the first legal real money ...
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