October 31 2009
The newest feature at Absolute Poker and UltimateBet could mark the end of sitting crossed legged, or missing the pizza delivery guy; Synchronized Breaks may change our poker experience.
We've all been in the situation, that you're playing a couple of ...
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October 30 2009
Matt Vengrin is hosting greed. Sponsored by Absolute Poker, if you're in the LA area this Halloween, you might want to consider if you can afford to be anywhere else.
Absolute Poker pro Matt Vengrin, or Plattsburg as he ...
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October 30 2009
The online poker world and the majority of the public are rooting for Phil Ivey to win the November conclusion of the WSOP’s final table. There are no questions about that. Some root for him because he’s the only one ...
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October 30 2009
Full Tilt Poker’s 7-game tables are where most of the high stakes action goes down these days. Apparently, the special format featured by these tables facilitates huge wins as well as huge losses. The best example in this sense would ...
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October 29 2009
After another incredibly long break in their $1 million Challenge Series, Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan were once again at each-others throats at the 4 challenge poker tables at Full Tilt Poker.
Their Wednesday session was in fact ...
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October 28 2009
Tommy Vedes bested a starting field of 275 players to win the WPT’s Festa al Lago event at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. The winner’s share of the prize-pool was a whooping $1,218,225. Vedes crossed swords with Jason Lavallee heads-...
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October 26 2009
The final day of the 2009 PokerStars EPT Warsaw Main Event saw the emergence of France’s Christophe Benzimra, who defeated Alfio Battisti in a short heads-up confrontation to win the event and to secure the 5th ...
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October 26 2009
Day 4 of the 2009 PokerStars EPT Warsaw Main Event saw the field play right down to the final table. Day 5’s action will start with Oleksandr Vaserfirer in the chip lead, and with PokerStars Team Pro member ...
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October 25 2009
The third day of the PokerStars EPT’s Warsaw Main Event saw a field of 55 players return to the tables of the Casinos Poland in the Hyatt Hotel in Warsaw.
Day 3 action lasted for 8 hours, during which ...
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October 25 2009
Australia’s own version of the UIGEA, the Interactive Gambling Act might be about to suffer a major setback. The Australian Productivity Commission has just proposed the “managed liberalization” of online gambling (and online poker) in Australia, through a draft report ...
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October 24 2009
The EPT’s Warsaw stop saw 115 players belly up to the tables of the Casinos Poland, bringing the total number of participants to 203. The event attracted participants from 33 countries, some of them online qualifiers, some everyday Joes and a ...
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October 24 2009
148 Day 1A and Day 1B survivors bellied up to the tables of the Casinos Poland at the Hyatt Hotel in Warsaw for the second day of the EPT’s Warsaw Main Event. The action lasted for almost five ...
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October 23 2009
Day 1A of the fourth stop of the PokerStars sponsored EPT kicked off at the Hyatt Hotel in Warsaw with a starting field of 88 players. The buy-in was approximately $9,000 but that didn’t mean those looking for EPT ...
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October 23 2009
Players at Full Tilt Poker will notice the addition of two new features introduced as part of the latest software update.
Full Tilt Poker is pretty good at staying ahead of the curve and their latest additions to their software package pays ...
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October 22 2009
UltimateBet has announced a live tournament series and a German website to go with it – UltimateBet.de is the one stop answer to central European poker.
Is it a website? Is it a tournament series? No, it's both. UltimateBet is launching a ...
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October 22 2009
Ladbrokes Poker will soon be adding several great new features including Auto Top-Up, 5 Minute Sit Out Time, and Deep Stack Cash Tables.
Those of you who already play at Ladbrokes Poker will know that its standard as a site ...
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October 21 2009
The online poker scene has once again seen hundreds of thousands of dollars won by individual players in various online poker rooms over the past weekend. Of course, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker were once again at the ...
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October 21 2009
The PokerStars APPT’s New Zealand Main Event is over and the title stays home. Following a heads-up showdown with Gerome Guitteau, New Zealand’s own Simon Watt took down the title and the NZD 209,085 that came with it.
Day ...
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October 21 2009
The final day of the first ever WPT stop on the African continent saw 17 players return to the tables of the Casino Marrakech to decide the winner of the €337,262 first prize.
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October 18 2009
The third day of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s Auckland Main Event saw 32 Day 2 survivors return to the green felt, all hoping to reach the final table and to possibly amass a big enough stacks to make them favorites ...
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October 18 2009
On the event’s second day, The PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s Auckland stop welcomed 130 Day 1 survivors. The 130 players would play right down to the money bubble and then past it as only 32 players would be left alive ...
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October 17 2009
Day 1b of the APPT’s Auckland stop saw a further 128 players start, a number which took the overall field to 263 players. The organizers were probably not delighted as it represented a downswing from last year’s numbers, but the prize-...
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October 17 2009
135 players bellied up to the tables of the SkyCity Casino in Auckland, New Zealand on Day 1A of the second leg of the 2009 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker tour. Due to the remoteness of the location, the majority of ...
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October 15 2009
The Hall of Fame deliberations have finally come to an end and we're happy to reveal that Mike Sexton is to be the latest addition to the prestigious list.
It's been a long process but the verdict is in. From the ...
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October 15 2009
Russian player Vladimir Geskenbein won the first ever PKR Heads-up Grand Slam. Now, you may not know him, but that doesn’t mean he’s an entirely new face on the international poker scene. He’s won the APPT Macau High Rollers event, ...
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October 14 2009
It's a good day for poker players across the country, the country of France that is: The French government have passed a bill that will regulate online poker play!
It's always nice when another country chooses to join the online poker ...
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October 13 2009
The World Series of Poker final table is clearly where all eyes are going to be focused in November, but for some it will be less observing and more preparing.
The World Series of Poker is embracing the learning opportunity of the ...
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October 13 2009
The online poker tournament action was as hot as ever over the past weekend. The biggest winner was player “Sumai” who scored a massive $225,000 in PokerStars’ Sunday Million. Sumai beat Paul Nash and player “44-Skadoo” to the prize, ...
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October 13 2009
The final table of the 2009 Aruba Poker Classic had been scheduled to take place outdoors, over a pool, however the weather had other ideas and the continuous rain meant that organizers had to find an alternative location for the conclusion ...
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October 12 2009
Day 3 of Ultimate Bet’s Aruba Poker classic saw a field of 86 players return to the tables, and while the sun was shining and the weather was just right for all sorts of water related entertainment outside, inside the Radisson ...
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October 12 2009
36 players returned to the tables of the Radisson Aruba Resort, Casino and Spa on the 4th day of the Ultimate Bet Aruba Poker Classic. The interesting thing about the surviving field was the fact that it contained two ex-...
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October 12 2009
The PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge gets off to a roaring start with $100,000 being won by Catholic Father Andrew Trapp for a new church building!
In our report last week about the upcoming PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge, we mentioned a certain ...
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October 09 2009
With the hype surrounding it slowly dying off, the durrrr challenge, 231 days after its kick-off, has finally reached the 25,000 hand mark, which means that half of the required 50,000 hands are finally in the bag.
The latest challenge session ...
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October 09 2009
The final day of the EPT’s London Main Event saw a field of youngsters belly up to the final table at the London Hilton Metropole, with 2008 WSOP Main Event winner Peter Eastgate highlighting the field and with ...
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October 08 2009
Be it build up to the November Nine, or good old win yourself a million TV shows, PokerStars will be hitting the airwaves this week, and Full Tilt Poker pros had our attention last.
Thank the heavens that ...
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October 07 2009
Nine survivors returned for the final day of WSOPE action to the tables of the Empire Casino in London. The final table survivors knew that one of them would walk away with the title on Day 5, so quite naturally, none ...
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October 07 2009
The 4th day of WSOPE hostilities at the Empire Casino in London saw a field of 36 survivors take to the tables. This star-studded lineup was all that remained of the initial 334 players who had registered at the start ...
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October 05 2009
It’s official: Tom Dwan has completed one of the most spectacular comebacks in high stakes cash game history. After having gone down about $700k in his challenge series versus Patrik Antonius, the New Jersey Wonderkid managed to bounce right back into ...
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October 04 2009
The clock is counting down the days until the next FTOPS gets underway, and with over $16 million to be won, that's a countdown worth taking part in.
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series has gone from strength ...
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October 04 2009
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) is back for it's fourteenth instalment and here's the full schedule so you'll not have to miss a thing.
Here's everything you need to know about the Full Tilt Online Poker ...
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October 02 2009
Full Tilt Poker thought that they could knock PokerStars off the title, but it's Guinness Book of Records official: PokerStars is the biggest!
In Las Vegas gaming revenues suffered another loss in September, indicative of a trend representing the current financial ...
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