September 30 2008
Out of the 165 players who started in the Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s Seoul event only 16 got to see action on Day 3.
Although the action was relatively cautious through the day, short-stacked players didn’t waste a whole lot ...
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September 30 2008
The 179-player field that started in Day 2 of the WSOPE’s £10,000 Main Event was bustling with poker legends, “name” pros and online poker celebrities.
Daniel Negreanu started the day with the chip lead, and put in a very solid ...
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September 27 2008
The final table of the WSOPE’s £5,000 PL Omaha event featured some pretty illustrious names. Chris Ferguson was there, starting the day’s action with 282,000 chips. Other final table participants were Erik Friberg, with 189,000 chips, Jason Mercier with 650,000, Tomi ...
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September 27 2008
Day 1 of the APPT Seoul saw 165 players start in an event opened by 2004 WSOP Main Event champion Greg Raymer, with the traditional “Shuffle up and Deal”. The field included names like Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Hevad Chan, David Saab ...
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September 24 2008
The final table of the £1,500 NL Holdem event saw the short-stacks dart to victory overcoming all the odds and making poker history. Danish poker pro Jesper Hougaard was 8th on the chip leader board before the start of the ...
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September 22 2008
Day 2 of the WSOPE’s $1,500 NL Holdem event saw 90 players return to the green felt to do battle for the chips and ultimately for a share of the prize-pool involved. Adam Junglen, the young American player who had ...
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September 21 2008
Day 1B of the WSOPE featured a big influx of players taking the total number of participants to 410. The field included several high-profile international professionals like Phil Hellmuth (late as always), Mike Matusow, Allen Cunningham, David Williams, Phil Laak ...
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September 21 2008
The dispute about online poker and gambling between the US and the EU which has been sought to be settled without the WTO’s involvement, looks to be headed in front of a WTO committee after all. The European Union feels that ...
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September 20 2008
Day 14 of the World Championship of Online Poker, the year's biggest online poker event operated by PokerStars, marked another strong performance by Betrand Grospellier. “ElkY” failed to achieve victory in event #27, the $500+$30 NL Holdem Triple Shootout, but he did ...
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September 20 2008
Ever since the use of online currency became wide-spread, there have been plenty of wise-guys attempting to hustle people out of their money under the cover of the relative anonymity provided by the World Wide Web. As the online ...
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September 17 2008
In a rather outstanding development yesterday, Barney Frank’s HR 6870, the Payments System Protection Act has passed the House Financial Services Committee vote with 30 for and 19 votes against. Despite staunch opposition from Rep Spencer Bachus – the leader of ...
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September 16 2008
Event #19 of the World Championship of Online Poker hosted by PokerStars stands out from among the multitude of other online events in several ways. It features a buy-in of $25,000+$500, which alone is enough to limit access to only ...
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September 15 2008
The third day of the EPT’s Barcelona stop saw a total of 36 players take to the tables. Amongst these players, all eyes were on Jason Mercier, the winner of last year’s San Remo event, who was playing for the honor ...
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September 15 2008
Having started the final table in second place as far as the chip counts went, Sebastian Ruthenberg never gave up the edge he came to the table with, and survived everyone else to take down the €1,361,000 first prize and the ...
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September 14 2008
Day 2 of the EPT’s Barcelona stop saw 203 players show up for action, a number which would be down to 38 by the end of the day. Several big live poker players would head to the rail this day, including ...
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September 14 2008
The champion of the anti-UIGEA movement, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Barney Frank has once again proved that true to his word he’d continue fighting what he described as the “stupidest law ever passed”.
In a rather peculiar fashion, the Unlawful Internet ...
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September 13 2008
Day 1A of the much hyped Barcelona event of the European Poker Tour saw a handsome selection of top poker names belly up to the tables. Amongst the participants were Greg Raymer, David Rheem, Annette Obrestad, Reuben Peters and Robert and ...
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September 13 2008
The 321 players who hit the green felt on Day 1B of the EPT Barcelona set a new record for the event’s history, of 619 participants, who contributed to a prize-pool of almost $2 million. The Day 1B field included ...
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September 05 2008
Day 1C of the APPT saw an almost unexpectedly large player turn out. The field of 229 participants contained plenty of big names, amongst which Joe and Tony Hachem, Men and Van Nguyen, J.C. Tran, John Phan, JJ Liu and last ...
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September 05 2008
When the numbers regarding Party Gaming’s first half revenues for 2008 came out, everyone connected in any shape or form with the company was thrilled. The $64.9 million (a revenue before taxes, amortization, depreciation and interest) surpassed even the wildest expectations. ...
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September 05 2008
The preliminary (minus the final table) stage of the 2008 WSOP big Dance has concluded quite a while ago. ESPN has been busy ever since airing various preliminary WSOP events, and keeping their audience connected to the WSOP’s atmosphere through them. ...
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September 05 2008
Macau is an island province which currently belongs to China. It used to be a Portuguese colony from the 16th century onwards, all the way to 1999. It still retains some independence, and that is probably one of the many factors ...
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September 03 2008
Fresh on the heels of the APT’s Macau event, the APPT Macau drew a large crowd of professional players who had initially arrived for the APT. John Juanda, Liz Lieu and Grant Levy have all taken part in the APT’s Macau ...
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September 03 2008
Like Day 1A, Day 1B saw a lot of the big names who came fresh off the APT’s Main Event belly up to the tables. The Champion, Timoshenko was there, as well as the runner-up, Casey Kastle. Johnny Chan, Mel ...
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September 02 2008
Out of the 8 players who made the final table in the APT Macau’s Main Event, only one managed to escape the fate of being personally eliminated by the eventual winner. Casey Kastle started the final table hostilities in the lead, ...
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