August 31 2008
67 Day 1A and Day 1B survivors squared off in Day 2 of the APT Macau. Grant Levy, Tony Dunst and Mel Judah were all among Day 1 survivors. All of these folks would bust out fairly early on Day 2 ...
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August 31 2008
Day 1B of the APT Macau saw no fewer than 154 players belly up to the tables. The field included some rather respect-commanding names like John Juanda and Huck Seed. Mike McDonald and Tony Dunst were also among the participants. ...
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August 31 2008
Apparently, he did. In a blog post written a few days ago, Brian “shrugby” Townsend came clean about having used multiple poker accounts both at Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars. Known for ...
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August 31 2008
Everyone knows that Michael Phelps, the Olympic legend is the definition of “gold material” when it comes to swimming. The question is, is he any good at the green felt? In the wake of his Beijing success, several news sources have ...
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August 29 2008
Doyle Brunson and Jack Binion were the two celebrities who opened the APT Macau’s Main Event with the traditional “Shuffle up and Deal” call. The 103 players who lined up for Day 1A included celebrities like Harry Demetriou, Nam Le, Liz ...
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August 28 2008
A couple of days ago, online poker news portals were abuzz with how the Republican Party dropped the anti-online gambling language it had included in both its 2000 and 2004 platforms, from its draft ahead of the November election. Some ...
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August 28 2008
The Asian Poker Tour’s first stop got underway yesterday, but poker related events had already started a day before at the Galaxy StarWorld Casino Resort and Hotel. Some of these events might have even been more interesting than the actual poker ...
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August 25 2008
The Asia Pacific Poker Tour had its first ever season only about a year ago. It was a cautious and thrifty approach to breaking into the Asian poker market and turning NL Texas Holdem into a household game in the world’s ...
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August 22 2008
Launched with big fanfare in 2006, ChanPoker, one of the most modern operations on the Ongame network, has just expired. One may as well say the company behind Chan Poker has missed the window of opportunity for launching an online poker ...
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August 20 2008
Event #22 was the event which featured the biggest buy-in in the FTOPS. Players had to pay out no less than $2,500+$120 to participate, a buy-in which is far above and beyond what your average online poker player could ...
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August 20 2008
The FTOPS' $500+$35 buy-in Main Event got under way with 4,880 participants. The two day event featured a prize-pool of $2,500,000 with a first prize of $432k, so quite naturally the buy-in/potential prize ratio turned out to be ...
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August 18 2008
Event #17 of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series saw a massive 1059 players belly up to the tables despite the hefty buy-in of $300+$22.
The 6-max short handed event offered an obvious advantage for skilled players, and this fact ...
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August 17 2008
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series is a perpetual source of online poker excitement. Big poker names are drawn to FTOPS events, and records are broken all the time.- a couple of days ago yet another FTOPS record was set, ...
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August 14 2008
Quite an extraordinary online poker player, Wooka Kim (online alias: icebeer) is a Japanese female professional who joined Everest Poker in 2006. During her very first year as an amateur player she amassed a bankroll of over $90,000, which speaks loads ...
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August 13 2008
Little did Reimer Koester from Germany know that signing up to Titan Poker on July 31st would soon be jotted down among the best financial moves of his life. Right after he signed up, he registered for Titan Poker $250,000 Guaranteed ...
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August 12 2008
If you like massive MTTs with huge guaranteed prize-pools, the FTOPS is something you’d definitely enjoy. Event #10, the $1.5 million guaranteed is one of the most generously prize-pooled online events in the industry. It usually attracts huge crowds ...
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August 12 2008
The FTOPS is a perpetual source of high stakes online poker excitement. Event # 12, a $1,000+$60 NL Holdem event had no fewer than 1,405 participants, which is truly impressive considering the size of the buy-in.
Big names once again ...
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August 11 2008
For a guy who’s only begun playing poker seriously in December last year, Jose Miguel Espinar sure didn’t let all those big names in the field of 351 intimidate him. At the end of 3 days of dog-eat-dog poker ...
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August 09 2008
The coastal resort in Uruguay saw quite an outstanding crowd descend on it on Day 1 of the Latin American Poker Tour. This crowd wasn’t looking to catch waves or rays though: they were after a share of the prize pool ...
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August 08 2008
About a year ago, poker became a fully government-sanctioned sport in Russia. While the US continued struggling with its ill-worded UIGEA, the Russians legalized the game, accepted it as a sport and began attracting high stakes tournament and cash ...
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August 08 2008
Unlike many online poker operations which seem to be struggling during the summer vacation season, The European Poker Tour has its sights firmly set on expanding and improving its services. To that end, in order to include Eastern Europe into the ...
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August 06 2008
As complaints about the ambiguity of the UIGEA mounted, the need for the clarification of exactly what constituted illegal online gambling became more and more obvious, especially for those institutions which are supposed to take part directly in its implementation. A ...
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August 05 2008
If you intend to play in some high-profile live events in 2009, the time is about right for you to get rolling. PartyPoker.com’s Irish Poker Championship will be one of the first live events of 2009 where big poker names ...
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August 05 2008
It is official: Iron Duke Poker has just signed its first in-house poker professional. Jennifer Leigh is something of a poker celebrity already. She is an avid online player, and she took part in GSN’s Poker Royale when she was ...
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August 04 2008
A little while ago I ran a news-feature detailing the talks that high ranking EU officials had planned on holding with their American counterparts, after the detailed explanation-seeking document they’d submitted to the US Trade Representative’s Office and other ...
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August 02 2008
Live poker games have come under scrutiny in Pennsylvania recently. Everyone interested in poker knows how home-style games have experienced a surge in popularity as a direct result of the UIGEA. These games give people the impression that they are ...
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August 02 2008
According to Forbes.com, the apparent freedom some online poker rooms have enjoyed in catering for their US customer base may be in danger. According to the article, about $24 million have been seized from different US banks, money which the feds ...
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