December 31 2009
Tom Dwan may have amassed losses totaling a staggering $7 million at one point, but these days he’s proving that true poker professionals can’t go bust. From the beginning of the month, durrrr has recovered a massive $2.66 million, having gone ...
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December 31 2009
The end of the year has brought about the end of a different road for one of poker’s and online poker’s most popular faces. Following a 7-year marriage, Phil Ivey has divorced wife Luciaette, a high-school sweetheart with ...
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December 30 2009
The last weekend of 2009 went off with a bang in the online poker world. It was everything but an average weekend, as world records fell and players took home fabulous prizes once again to ring in the New Year ...
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December 30 2009
One of the biggest losers of the Isildur1 stint, Tom Dwan has been diligently working on building his Full Tilt Poker bankroll back up the past few weeks. He descended to lower limits and sure enough, his winning ...
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December 24 2009
With Isildur1 out of the way and with the storm generated by the circumstances of his bust-out not concerning them, Dwan and Antonius finally decided to convene for another Durrrr challenge session at Full Tilt Poker, thus ...
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December 22 2009
The battle of the televised poker shows between Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars had been pretty one-sided from the get go. The format featured by PokerStars was obviously superior as were the hosts and poker pros involved. ...
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December 22 2009
Generally known as a cash game specialist, Daniel Alaei has proved over the weekend that his tournament game wasn’t too shabby either. He won the PokerStars WPT’s Five Diamond Poker Classic by defeating Josh Arieh heads-up for the $1,428,430 ...
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December 21 2009
Day 5 of the PokerStars WPT’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic featured some controversy amid which Day 4 top finisher Curt Kohlberg faded away to chip Faraz Jaka up, propelling him into the chip lead. Scotty Nguyen, who’d nursed a ...
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December 21 2009
Day 4 of the PokerStars sponsored World Poker Tour’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic had a clear objective: to play down to the money bubble. The 36 players who returned to the poker tournament’s tables at the Bellagio, took about ...
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December 19 2009
For Everest Poker 2010 is going to be a year of change and renewal as news comes of its purchase by Mangas Gaming.
The details of the purchase of Everest Poker by Mangas Gaming are not yet all clear but it ...
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December 18 2009
Day 3 of the PokerStars WPT’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic saw Daniel Alaei soar to the top of the provisional chip leader board, having amassed a stack of 1,664,000 chips. Steven Landfish, the leader of the previous day, managed to ...
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December 17 2009
The PokerStars WPT Five Diamond Classic’s second day of action at the Bellagio saw as star studded a lineup as ever. Obviously, the very cream of the live and online poker world descended on the Bellagio for this last chance ...
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December 16 2009
Here’s one that a couple of weeks ago we’d never thought we’d see: the Isildur1 era of record breaking pots, million dollar swings and out of this world online poker trouncing is apparently over. The mystery Swede had his Full Tilt ...
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December 16 2009
The high stakes poker community has convened for a last 2009 reunion at the Bellagio where the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic is currently underway. The last event of the PokerStars World Poker Tour’s 2009 calendar, the tournament ...
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December 14 2009
Believe it or not, we regular online poker players are not the only ones who consider Isildur1 a basket case. Some of his fellow nutcase nosebleed stakes opponents seem to think so too, and if notoriously looney-bin worthy Ilari Sahamies ...
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December 13 2009
Online poker sharks have an excellent nose for fish. It is partly the reason why they become sharks in the first-place. The nosebleed stakes at Full Tilt Poker have been transformed into a genuine fish hunt lately, where all the ...
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December 11 2009
The $1million durrrr challenge, which was so hyped at the beginning of the year, is almost dead these days. Tied up with the Isildur1 matters (Dwan busy dropping money to the mystery Swede and Antonius busy picking it up) the two ...
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December 10 2009
The holidays may be drawing near, but that doesn’t mean nosebleed stakes professionals will take a break at Full Tilt Poker. Quite the contrary actually. The online poker action seems to speed up as December ticks by and the stakes are ...
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December 08 2009
The European Championship of Online Poker sponsored by Titan Poker has wrapped up last Sunday with the $1.5 million GTD NL Holdem Main Event. I suppose it’s safe to say now, the series have been a resounding success. Out of ...
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December 08 2009
The final table of the 2009 PokerStars APPT Grand Final was dominated by Aussies. Out of the 9 final table participants, 7 were locals, one was from the US and one player was Dutch. Even so, the Dutchman, Ernst Hermans nearly ...
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December 07 2009
The PokerStars EPT’s Prague title stays home in the Czech Republic. Jan Skampa, the young local who entered the final day of the poker tournament with the chip lead, managed to preserve his advantage as he raced home for the PokerStars ...
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December 07 2009
The 4th day of action saw only 24 players return to the tables of the PokerStars EPT Prague Main Event. It took this anything but massive field 8 hours to whittle down to the final 8 players who would represent ...
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December 07 2009
The third day of the 2009 PokerStars APPT’s Grand Final saw the final table reached. The remaining field was moved from the Star City Casino poker room to the Sports Theatre of the casino, where the 66 players who returned to ...
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December 06 2009
Over 200 players showed up for Day 2 of the PokerStars APPT Grand Final’s second day. No energy and hustle was spared this day to thin the field down and to approach the money bubble as much as possible. Those who ...
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December 06 2009
As expected, Day 1c of the 2009 PokerStars APPT Grand Final yielded the biggest number of registrants. An impressive field of 209 players showed at the tables for the final day 1 flight of the poker tournament. The prize-pool of ...
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December 04 2009
The second Day 1 flight of the 2009 PokerStars APPT Grand Final saw a field of 109 players belly up to the tables. At the end of it all, it was poker veteran Leo Boxell who had clinched the chip lead. ...
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December 01 2009
For a change, the capitol of Aussie poker has moved from Melbourne to Sydney. This is where the Grand Final of the PokerStars sponsored 2009 Asia Pacific Poker Tour kicked off today. And what a kick-off it was.
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December 01 2009
Over the past weekend, online poker tournament action was in full swing again. With all the big weekend guarantees that were scheduled, it was certain a bunch of online poker players would walk away with life-changing prizes. Sure enough, there ...
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December 01 2009
Titan Poker’s ECOOP V has reached its 7th day and so far the series looks like a huge success. Various tournament guarantees are easily covered and exceeded. A single event failed to cover the guarantee so far, and even that came ...
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