February 28 2009
Despite the fact that there were several big names and skilled scrappers at the LA Poker Classic’s 6-player televised final table, it was a relatively unknown player walking away with the $1,686,250: Cornel Andre Cimpan.
Lady Luck certainly had a ...
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February 27 2009
Day 5 of the LA Poker classic saw only 20 players belly up to the tables, the remnants of an initial starting field of nearly 700.
Chris Ferguson started the day in the chip lead, but he took a couple of ...
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February 26 2009
The final table of the Council Bluffs WSOP Circuit event saw John McDonald come into the battle with a huge chip lead, thus carrying the best odds for the victory. At the end of the day however, it would be someone ...
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February 25 2009
The 63 players who made the money and survived to do battle in Day 4 of the LA Poker Classic, wasted little time to rip into each other as the game kicked off. Day 3 chip leader Kofi Farkye had a ...
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February 24 2009
The WPT’s LA Poker Classic saw 137 players belly up to the tables of the Commerce Casino as Day 3 action kicked off. The money bubble was set for the first 63 players, and it would burst this day. Kofi Farkye, ...
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February 23 2009
Day 2 of the WPT’s LA Poker Classic saw long time WPT overachiever, Antonio Esfandiari take the chip lead over surprise presence Kofi Farkye and Mike Sowers. More than 400 players took to the tables of the Commerce Casino as play ...
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February 22 2009
The first prize of the EPT’s Copenhagen stop, totaling a $1.14 million was poised to go down between Norway’s Anders Langset (the chip leader after Day 2) and local boy Rasmus Nielsen who had been riding a huge stack himself and ...
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February 22 2009
The “Durrrr challenge” is under way with the first 1,541 hands of the planned 50,000 already played between Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius, the first challenger of a line which includes Phil Ivey and David Benyamine.
According to the challenge rules ...
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February 21 2009
The European Poker Tour’s Danish stop is quickly turning into an all-European affair. Despite the fact that it had initially attracted a number of professional players from the other side of the Atlantic too, the Read More
February 21 2009
Following player complaints that its events weren’t really deep stacked tournaments and thus offered an unfair advantage to those riding the luck factor, the EPT’s John Duthie and Thomas Kremser decided to do something about the starting stack sizes and the ...
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February 19 2009
Day 1A of the EPT’s Copenhagen stop drew a star-studded field of 225 players, 99 of whom made it though that day’s hostilities and will play again on Day 2. Among the participants were Albert Iversen, Frederik Hostrup and Noah ...
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February 18 2009
The FTOPS is over, but nobody can say that it went out without a bang at the end: the $500+$35 NL Holdem Main Event attracted a huge field of competitors (no fewer than 5,387 players) which gave birth ...
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February 17 2009
The FTOPS $5,200 high roller event came to a conclusion Sunday as the 50 remaining players sat down to their computers to settle the issue for good.
The massive Day 1 of Full Tilt Poker's high roller event ...
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February 16 2009
The $5,000+$200 High Rollers NL Holdem event (#22 of the FTOPS) got underway with a Day1 outing which saw much of the field vanish into the thin air and the money bubble burst. One of the highest buy-in online events, ...
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February 16 2009
On Monday, February 16th, two players won the 25 billion hand to split the huge $100,000 cash prize. The two players - ‘NeoFrost’ and ‘tupapi777’ - will each receive $50,000 in poker tournament packages. The other players in the ...
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February 13 2009
The $500+$35 H.O.R.S.E. event of the 11th edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series guaranteed a prize-pool of $300,000. Compared to the other events, the H.O.R.S.E. one saw a much reduced number of registrants. The 703 ...
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February 12 2009
The 25 Billion Bash is here and so is the 25 Billionth Hand to be dealt. Just play at PokerStars and if you’re lucky enough to be the winner of the 25 Billionth Hand you will receive an amazing $100,000 ...
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February 10 2009
Event #9 of the FTOPS IX was one putting a bigger accent on skill over luck than any other. The heads-up structure of the game would make sure that only the best players advanced indeed, and the $500+$35 coupled with ...
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February 09 2009
Event #6 of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series was a PL Omaha 6-Max one, featuring a hefty buy-in of $500+$35. Despite the size of the buy-in, interest among the public was great and no ...
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February 07 2009
The eleventh edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series is underway, with Event #2, the $240+$16 PL Omaha Hi/Lo one already having found a winner.
The relatively low buy-in and the great possibilities offered by such ...
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February 05 2009
Kai Landry of Biloxi, MS took down the first prize of the WSOP Circuit’s Tunica Main Event, beating all the other players in a 3-day slugfest extravaganza.
In the heads-up stage, he disposed of David Dao (the player who ...
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February 04 2009
The first ever edition of the PokerStars sponsored RPT (Russian Poker Tour) took place at St. Petersburg over the weekend. The Russian presence was quite naturally massive, even at the final table where seven of the nine available seats were occupied ...
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February 04 2009
Asian Poker Tour Philippines report: It took the 292 player field two long days of play to slim down to the 9 final table participants, but it only took local player Neil Arce a little more than 3 hours to tip ...
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February 01 2009
Day 2 of the APT Philippines (Asian Poker Tour) Main Event was all about Full Tilt player Steven Yea and his 122,700 deep stack, which all the others were aiming for. The player closest to Yea’s chip count leading stack at ...
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February 01 2009
Following the relatively reduced attendance of Day 1A, Day 1B of the APT Philippines (Asian Poker Tour) saw a field of 187, more than double the previous day’s quota.
The number of ‘name’ pros has also increased for Day1B. David Rheem, ...
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