April 30 2009
The €10,000 buy-in didn’t really deter anyone from entering the biggest live poker event on the old continent, as scores of name pros, poker stars and other sort of stars descended on the tables of the Main Event, eager to ...
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April 30 2009
As the EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand Final kicked off, French professional Bertrand Grospellier set off on his bid to beat fellow PokerStars team Pro member Hevad Khan’s SNG record. Khan had once filmed himself playing in 26 SNGs in the ...
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April 29 2009
With the WSOP upon us, every live event going down till the start of the first WSOP side event will count as a warm up session for the big one. That’s exactly what the WSOP Circuit’s Caesar’s Palace event is for ...
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April 29 2009
The showdown, the Grand Finale, the EPTs season wrapping Monte Carlo Main Event is just around the corner. Having kicked off yesterday, the event will take place over 6 days, and it will include a High Rollers’ Event between May 1st ...
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April 26 2009
Online poker could go through some major changes in the US in the near future. One of the states eyeing state-level regulations within the legal framework set by the UIGEA, is California.
The initiative started way back in February of ...
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April 25 2009
Who can put an end to Dragan Galic’s dominating run? This question was probably on the minds of the 32 Day 1-2-3 survivors who bellied up to the tables of the Municipal Casino in San Remo on Day 4 ...
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April 25 2009
1,178 players started the European Poker Tour’s San Remo Main Event and when it was all said and done and the dust settled in the wake of 5 days of rabid poker action it was the Netherlands’ Constant Rijkenberg who stood ...
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April 23 2009
Day 3 of the European Poker Tour’s San Remo event saw a sway in the sweeping dominance of Croatian Dragan Galic. The player who had dominated Day 1 and Day 2 from one end to the other, actually lost the chip ...
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April 21 2009
Out of the 469 initial starters who bellied up to the tables at the EPT’s San Remo stop on Day 1a and Day 1b, only 124 returned for Day 2 action. Dragan Galic of Croatia started Day 2 in the chip ...
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April 20 2009
Dominik Nitsche started the final day of the LAPT Grand Final in the chip lead, and that’s exactly how he finished it: on top.
The young German, who hasn’t even graduated from high school yet, has taken down the $381,030 first ...
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April 20 2009
The 62 players who survived the two fast paced opening days of the LAPT’s Grand Final in Mar del Plata bellied up to the tables of the Casino Central, hell bent on working the field down to the final 9 on ...
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April 19 2009
Day 1b of the Latin American Poker Tour’s Grand Final in Mar Del Plata saw an impressive number of 151 players belly up to the tables, taking the total number of participants to 291.
Day 1a had quite a few celebrities ...
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April 18 2009
The Grand Final of the Latin American Poker Tour has kicked off at Mar Del Plata in Argentina, and no fewer than 140 contenders bellied up to the tables on Day 1A.
The field featured some big names as well: tennis ...
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April 16 2009
I’m definitely not fond of writing obituaries for online poker rooms in general, but this one here stirs even more emotions than usual. The list of poker rooms which fell victim to the pressures brought about first by the 2006 UIGEA, ...
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April 15 2009
Dwan and Antonius managed to keep up their daily challenge schedule, putting in a short 135 hand session on Tuesday morning.
The two managed to pass the 12,000 hand mark, as Antonius finished $23,132 in the black this time. This way, ...
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April 15 2009
Just as it was beginning to look like Tom Dwan was back in the driver seat of his $1 million challenge series against Patrik Antonius, Antonius bounced back with an excellent session the end of which found the Finn $142,000 in ...
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April 14 2009
As the WSOP closes in on us, the online poker community is increasingly eager to experience some hot poker action, not just via television or news-feeds, but first hand as well. Titan Poker’s ECOOP IV is a wonderful ...
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April 13 2009
Dwan and Antonius seem committed to push forth with their $1 million challenge logging regular sessions, each of about 800 hands lately. Their latest such session was an 803 hand one and it lasted for about two and a half hours. ...
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April 12 2009
Antonius and Dwan really do look like they intend to take this challenge to an end before the WSOP begins. They got together for the second consecutive night, and put in a 890 hand effort this time, having played for about ...
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April 11 2009
Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius have apparently decided to take matters into hand in the $1 million challenge match they’re currently engaged in. On Wednesday, they logged in the longest challenge session so far, having played a massive 2,043 hands. The ...
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April 09 2009
Although research undertaken by Jan-Philipp Rock and Ingo Fiedler of the University of Hamburg has yielded relevant and mathematically correct results towards proving once and for all that poker was a game of skill, some experts still consider that the ...
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April 09 2009
Most legislation forbidding online poker and poker around the world is based on the presumption that poker is a game of chance and therefore it can be taken under the same umbrella with online casinos and gambling. Poker players have known ...
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April 07 2009
The online poker world never rests, and it is especially busy during weekends. This past weekend hasn’t been an exception either. Full Tilt Poker’s $750,000 Guarantee attracted a huge crowd of 3,882, which meant that the winner’s ...
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April 07 2009
The last challenge session the two players had, tuned extremely sour for Dwan who had taken his first substantial lead in the series, only to lose it all and finish slightly behind Antonius in the end. This time, the 24 minute ...
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April 06 2009
The final table of the WSOP’s Rincon circuit event saw Dwyte Pilgrim claw back from the edge of elimination by hitting a 3 outer first and then working his way up the chip count all the way to the Championship ...
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April 03 2009
As the pressure seems to mount on the 2006 UIGEA, a new blow has just been scored by San Antonio Democratic Representative Jose Menendez. In an attempt to legally expand the game of poker in the State of Texas – where ...
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April 01 2009
The EU Commission has reached a conclusion at the end of a 12-month study regarding the moves that the US has made towards blocking EU-based online gambling and online poker companies from accessing the US market. The investigation commenced ...
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