March 30 2009
When the dust settled in the picturesque ski resort of Saalback Hinterglemm in Austria, it was Belgium’s Marc Naalden who stood triumphant, at the end of a grueling three hours heads-up battle with Runnar Lindepuu of Estonia.
For most of ...
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March 30 2009
The latest round of the durrrr challenge saw Tom Dwan take what appeared to be a rather decisive lead in his match-up against Patrik Antonius early on. He took down 4 significant pots one after another, and had built up ...
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March 27 2009
The 33 survivors of the first day of the PokerNews Cup Alpine Main Event took their seats at the tables of the Alpine Palace Hotel and Card Casino in Saalbach Hinterglemm for the second day of hostilities. At the beginning of ...
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March 27 2009
Day 1 of the PokerNews Cup Alpine Main event saw 126 players cough up the €1,500 buy-in and belly up to the tables of the Alpine Palace Hotel and Card Casino in the picturesque ski resort of Saalbach Hinterglemm in ...
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March 26 2009
Tom Dwan’s $1 million challenge finally seems to be on the right track. After weeks of sparse play and short sessions, the two players, Dwan and Antonius, seem to have focused in on their challenge match-up lately. On Tuesday, they ...
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March 25 2009
Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan got together again on Friday for a further 425 hands of their 50,000 hand, $1 million challenge. This session only lasted for about 82 minutes though as durrrr was having connection problems and that can be ...
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March 25 2009
In another durrrr Challenge session in which the two players logged 411 hands and which lasted for about 80 minutes, Tom Dwan finally shook off the streak of bad luck following him around and managed to not only erase Antonius’ lead ...
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March 22 2009
Norway’s Karl Hevroy won the LAPT’s Uruguay stop, having started the final table of the event with a massive chip lead. He managed to preserve and even to extend his lead, on his way to the heads-up showdown with Argentina’s ...
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March 22 2009
The massive field of 327 players who bellied up to the poker tables of the Mantra Casino and Resort in Punta del Este, Uruguay on Day 1 of the LAPT’s Main Event, was reduced to 64 for Day 2. The second ...
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March 21 2009
After a long pause caused by the abundance of online high stakes cash games and various other reasons, the challenge match between Patrik Antonius and durrrr got underway for its third leg. This time, the two played no fewer than 914 ...
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March 21 2009
After the setback suffered in Mexico three months ago, the LAPT’s organizers have been keen on providing high level professional poker action for the Tour’s participants. The Punta del Este event had all the makings of one such event.
The three-...
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March 20 2009
I‘m sure you remember that about three months ago, the LAPT’s Mexico stop in Nuevo Vallarta was vilely interrupted by the Mexican authorities, the same ones who had given the green light for the tournament’s organizers some time before.
Anyway, when ...
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March 17 2009
With the biggest yearly live poker event drawing near, all the major online poker rooms pull out the best of their offers. The number of WSOP seats offered not only for the Big Dance but also for the WSOP side events, ...
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March 16 2009
The WSOP Circuit’s Atlantic City event saw an extremely interesting final table. Though at first glance, the 9 players who remained in contention for the championship ring were all virtual unknowns in the poker world, at a closer look it ...
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March 15 2009
Day 3 of the EPT’s Dortmund Main Event saw a field of 34 players belly up to the tables. The German dominated field was quick to eject the lone American left in contention. Brandon Hall was eliminated in 30th place.
Germany’s ...
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March 15 2009
The final day of the EPT’s Dortmund Main Event featured an extremely diverse final table, with an ex-champ of the same event, a woman aiming to become only the second female to ever win an EPT Main Event and a ...
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March 15 2009
Sandra Naujoks has had a number of careers in her 27 years; after studying German and History she became a teacher, only to pack that in order to find success in the area of Graphic Design and Modelling. However, a third ...
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March 13 2009
Despite the problems it has recently had with US authorities, and despite the severe – and may I add rather unfair – beating it has taken from its competitors like Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, PartyGaming is doing fine, according to ...
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March 13 2009
The attendance record set by last year’s EPT Dortmund was shattered on Day 1B of this season’s event, when no fewer than 358 players showed up, to round the overall starting field up to 664. Germany’s Marco Noll ...
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March 11 2009
The EPT’s Dortmund stop’s Day 1A attracted 306 players promising an even more numerous Day 1B field and a pretty hefty total prize-pool as a result.
No fewer than 115 of the 306 starters survived the day ...
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March 10 2009
The 8 survivors of the four flights of the National Heads-up Poker Championship squared off on Day 3 of the event, to determine the winner. The star-studded field had slimmed down to 8, though each and every one of ...
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March 08 2009
Day 1 of the NBC-sponsored National Heads-up Poker championship was a parade of big poker names and respect-worthy poker skills. Everyone who’s anyone in the world of live poker was there, as well as a few online qualifiers ...
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March 07 2009
I know what you’re thinking: we just have to see that...
Now then, I’m not sure what athletic abilities poker requires (as far as I know, a beer belly parked on your laps is a standard requirement), but whatever they are, ...
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March 06 2009
The bulk of the high stakes online action usually happens on weekends,but the otherwise grey and dull weekdays also get their share of the hustle.
Poker rooms like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker never rest.
PokerStars’ Super ...
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March 05 2009
Various political forces, organizations and interests are slowly but surely gathering behind the efforts to have the infamous 2006 UIGEA repealed, sooner than most experts would’ve thought possible.
The anti-UIGEA forces are definitely gathering momentum, using the circumstances created by ...
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March 04 2009
Sunday morning saw another episode of the durrrr vs Patrik Antonius challenge go down, albeit an extremely short one. The two players set about playing in their 50,000 hand match but they only played about 226 hands in 35 minutes before ...
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March 03 2009
Last Sunday was an extremely action-filled day in the world of online poker. PokerStars’ Sunday million saw no fewer than 4 players take home 6-digit winnings, mainly due to a chop the final 4 remaining players had agreed ...
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March 02 2009
Last week has been an excellent one for online poker in general and especially eventful for those railbirding the high stakes tables. There was so much high stakes action going on, that Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius, who have played around ...
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