January 31 2009
The global economic downturn is certainly affecting pretty much everything these days, including the online poker industry, as specialists are increasingly mentioning the word ‘recession’ instead of ‘slowdown’. Apparently however not all is bleak as far as the poker industry is ...
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January 30 2009
Day 1A of the APT Philippines (Asian Poker Tour) saw a field of 75 players belly up to the tables of the $2,700 Main Event.
In the field were Mansour Matloubi, and WSOP bracelet holder Toto Leonidas. It was Leonidas who ...
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January 29 2009
After a Pennsylvania judge ruled the game of poker a game of skill about a week ago, a Colorado judge reached the same conclusion in the case of Colorado vs Kevin Raley, a case brought in front of the court after ...
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January 28 2009
The final event of the Aussie Millions, the 2-Card Manila one took place on Australia Day, and featured a poker variant which is an Australian specialty so to speak.
Fittingly, the last championship ring of the series went to an ...
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January 27 2009
Although he started the final table in second place on the provisional leader board behind France’s Tristan Clemencon, Germany’s Moritz Kranich surged right to the top after taking down a pot during 3-handed play, which proved to be crucial for ...
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January 25 2009
Australia’s own Stewart Scott answered Joe Hachem’s call for an Aussie player to bring home the Aussie Millions’ Main Event AU$ 2 million first prize, and did it in style too, by never relinquishing the chip lead at a final table ...
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January 23 2009
Day 4 of the Aussie Millions Main Event saw a thinned down starting field of 28 belly up to the tables of the Crown Casino in Melbourne. At the end of the day, there would only be 8 final tablists standing, ...
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January 23 2009
81 Day 2 survivors squared off on Day 3 of the Aussie Millions Main Event with Annica Ivert in the chip lead followed by Annette Obrestad in second on the provisional leader board. Scotty Nguyen, Joe Hachem, Raymond Rahme and Patrik ...
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January 22 2009
John Tabatabai took down the win in the Aussie Million’s $5,300 Heads-up Final, taking home the AU$100,000 top prize.
In the final, he defeated Alec Torelli after making short work of David Gent in the preliminaries.
The first confrontation of ...
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January 21 2009
It seems like most of the players looking for a shot at the Aussie Millions Main Event have saved themselves for the last day of the 3 Day 1 flights. There were 288 players sitting down to the tables on Day ...
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January 21 2009
Day 2 of the Aussie Millions Main Event saw 320 day 1A,B and C survivors belly up to the tables. Scotty Nguyen, Joe Hachem, Patrik Antonius and Tony G were all among these survivors however, at the end of the day ...
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January 19 2009
Many of the players present at the Aussie Millions’ $1,150 NL holdem event (event #6) final table came from the online circuit. Tony Dunst, Rayan Nathan, Sorel Mizzi, Jonathan Karamalikis, and Richard Ashby were all established online professionals. At the end ...
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January 17 2009
Only 8 players were left in contention in event #5 of the 2009 Aussie Millions: the $1,100 HORSE event. The final table action commenced with Van Marcus in the chip lead, followed on the provisional leader board by Leo Boxell.
The ...
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January 15 2009
The $1,100 HORSE event was the first one at the Aussie Millions to fill up to the maximum number of registrants. Day 1 saw 96 players start, a star studded field which included Van Marcus, Mel Judah, Billy Argyros, James Obst ...
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January 14 2009
Another Fixed Limit poker session got underway at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, not long after event #3 had concluded. Event #4 saw 140 hopefuls belly up to the tables. Grant Levy was there as well as Sam Khouiss, Tony Dunst ...
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January 13 2009
Hosted by the Atlantis Resort, the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure’s Main Event drew a crowd of 1,347 players from all walks of life. More than half the field was made up of online qualifiers, and eventually it was one of these ...
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January 13 2009
Event #3 of the 2009 Aussie Millions was a mix of fixed limits and hi/lo split hands which proved to be the perfect recipe for an exhausting 17-hours long tournament, at the end of which veteran Mel Judah emerged victorious ...
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January 11 2009
After a furiously paced Day 1A and a seriously punishing Day 1B, only 110 of the 731 starters returned for Day 2 of the Aussie Millions’ $1,100 NL Holdem event.
Most of the ‘name’ pros had already busted out during one ...
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January 11 2009
342 players bellied up to the tables of the Crown Casino in Melbourne, for the opening event of the 2009 Aussie Millions, the $1,100 NL Holdem event. Day 1A saw some great names in attendance: Jamie Pickering, Tony Hachem, Graeme Putt, ...
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January 11 2009
The $25,000 high rollers event at this year’s PokerStars Caribbean Adventure played host to a select crew of EPT and WSOP champions, as well as for a bunch of “name” pros known from the online and cash game circuits.
The restrictive ...
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January 09 2009
Tom Dwan may have gotten more than he bargained for in his much hyped $1 million dollar challenge, as the person who accepted it and will be playing against him at 4 NL Holdem or PL Omaha tables at once will ...
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January 07 2009
Action-hungry railbirds are likely to get their fill soon at Full Tilt Poker as the beginning-of-the-year lull does apparently hide a perfect storm brewing just over the horizon. Tom Dwan, known as durrrr at the online poker ...
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January 06 2009
The online poker industry is slowly but surely grinding close to a standstill this time of the year, in anticipation of the live scene to kick off or just taking a well-deserved breather before the bustle sets in again. The ...
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January 05 2009
It looks like online gambling and online poker (so unfairly included in the same category with the former again) will gain legal status in the Czech Republic soon. Fortuna Group, a company which offers live sports betting for the Czech Republic, ...
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January 03 2009
The abundance of Russian players in all sorts of high profile live international events like the EPT and even the WSOP, as well as the fact that Russia had declared poker a sport some time ago, have definitely attracted PokerStars’ attention. ...
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January 03 2009
PokerStars certainly knows how to turn a good poker event into a great one, and the PCA (PokerStars Caribbean Adventure) will represent another opportunity to generate great hype around the game we all love.
As part of its online qualifying ...
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January 02 2009
To most of those who follow the legal battle surrounding the UIGEA and its ever imminent repeal, it is probably not news that the incoming Democratic administration generally views the issue in much more favorable terms than the outgoing republican one. ...
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