May 31 2009
Day 3 saw a skeleton field of 23 players return to the tables of the $40,000 Anniversary NL Holdem event of the 2009 WSOP, the remnants of a once proud motley crew of live poker legends, online professionals and illustrious poker ...
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May 31 2009
Event #3 of the 2009 WSOP, the first one that is not a “special” or an anniversary one, attracted a record field of 918 players, a full 10% more than last year. The $1,500 buy-in Omaha Hi/Lo event saw several ...
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May 31 2009
89 players returned to the green felt on Day 2 of the 2009 WSOP’s $40,000 anniversary event. Among these players were chip leaders Bruno Fitoussi and Chris Moneymaker as well as Phil Ivey, Greg Raymer, Doyle Brunson, and Mike Matusow who ...
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May 30 2009
The first WSOP bracelet of the 2009 Series has found a home. Andrew Cohen, a bartender in The Palms Casino took the title, together with the $83,778 prize.
Cohen bested an original starting field of 861, of which 81 players made ...
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May 29 2009
The 40th Anniversary $40,000 NL Holdem Event of the 2009 WSOP kicked off yesterday, drawing a field of 201 players.
The high buy-in was meant to restrict participation to those who could afford to put that much money into an ...
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May 28 2009
For all those who’ve been living in a cave or under a rock for the past few weeks: the WSOP is finally underway and the first event, the $500 Casino Employees has already sent the first 2009 WSOP victims to the ...
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May 26 2009
There have been rumours flying that PKR is going to be airing no less than 24 of the final tables from this year's World Series of Poker; we can confirm that this is in fact the case.
In a press release ...
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May 26 2009
Matt Shepsky definitely didn’t start the final table of the $1 Million Monday at Full Tilt Poker as a favorite, but someone apparently forgot to tell him that.
When it was all said and done, it was him who ...
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May 24 2009
These days are supposed to be the slowest for online poker everywhere. With the start of the WSOP just a few days away, and with people descending over Vegas for the first event, the high stakes tables at various online poker ...
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May 22 2009
Jean “Prince” Gaspard dominated play at the WSOP-C New Orleans Final Table, chopping the prize-money with Ken Christopher and Billy Kopp, but eventually taking it all the way for a $161,175 prize and a championship ring, not to mention ...
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May 22 2009
Who is the most successful high stakes cash game player of the year so far? Obviously, it’s Patrik Antonius. Besides his other cash game achievements, he seems to be in firm control of the challenge series he’s currently involved in ...
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May 20 2009
There's movement across America as the march towards, and away from, legalised poker continues. In Texas it was a step backwards as Rep. Jose Menedez's Poker Gaming Act of 2009 got taken off the agenda last week when lack of support ...
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May 20 2009
Jeremiah Vinsant, known online as “Believer8219” won the Full Tilt $1k Monday for the second time in two months. What are the odds on that? - one may ponder, and rightfully so. Vinsant won the $1k Monday on April 6th ...
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May 20 2009
Day 1 of the Bayou Poker challenge saw Billy Kopp from Kentucky clinch the top spot of the provisional leader board. He was followed by Dwyte Pilgrim, who was a massive 100,000 chips down on the leader.
The New Orleans WSOP-C ...
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May 17 2009
Vegas is slowly being taken over by the WSOP fever these days, and soon there will be thousands of players and railbirds descending on the Strip. The good news is, because of the economic downturn and the negative effects it’s ...
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May 16 2009
Inspired by the UIGEA and despite the generally clear EU directives defining the status of online gambling and online poker in the EU, several member states have attempted and keep on trying to push through legislation which would either subject ...
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May 16 2009
Exactly a week after Antonius had scored a huge winning session over Dwan, creating the first serious gap between the two contestants in the series thus far, they got together again for a quickie session which lasted almost 1 hour and ...
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May 13 2009
There's not a more beautiful city in the world than Venice, and if you ask Sven Ragnar Astrom of Sweden, he's sure to agree. Astrom arrived in the historical city to take part in his first ever live poker tournament, the ...
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May 13 2009
A WSOP bracelet speaks volumes, and if you receive one, it's a sign of prestige, pride, and achievement. However, in this year's World Series of Poker, winners won't simply be receiving a bracelet, they'll be awarded it in a Bracelet Ceremony. ...
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May 13 2009
When poker players get to Vegas in the summer, it often feels a little like how the kids that got the golden wrappers must have felt when they got to the chocolate factory. With the exception of Charlie, the chocolate factory turned ...
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May 13 2009
When the then President-Elect opened up the Citizen's Briefing Book, it was with the hope that America would speak, telling President Obama what they wanted and what they needed. In total more than 1.5 million people from across the Untied ...
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May 13 2009
It seems like each year that the WSOP comes around there is a reason why this is the best WSOP ever; maybe it's huge numbers, more games than ever, a new final table format; or maybe as is the case this ...
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May 13 2009
Jamie Gold – still the beneficiary of the world’s largest single live poker payday, has parted ways with Aced.com – a poker site with which he had had an endorsement deal – a few days ago. Apparently the cause of the ...
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May 13 2009
Player “NORCALonica” came from behind to win 1st place in the PokerStars Sunday Million and the $163,430 prize.
NORCALonica began the final table action as the short-stack, and managed to overcome the odds to shoot to victory, after having bested ...
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May 10 2009
It was a year, and then it was just months, and now it's hardly even weeks until the WSOP begins. In its 40th year, let's see what this landmark event is all about.
The World Series of Poker was born in ...
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May 10 2009
Just weeks before 3 new faces get sworn into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame, just after Vanessa Rousso wiped the floor with her male opponents, and just as Annie Duke is all over the media, it seems a little ...
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May 10 2009
It’s not news to anyone who eats, drinks and breathes poker that Tom Dwan is having an extremely tough year. He’s rumored to be nearly $4 million down since the beginning of the year and despite the flying start he got ...
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May 10 2009
The Women in Poker Hall of Fame is to get a little bigger next month as three new inductees get introduced in a ceremony on June 5th. The Women in Poker Hall of Fame saw its first inductees in February of ...
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May 10 2009
State legislation that had limits imposed on NL Poker buy-ins and maximum bets per round has been revoked in Florida. The bill meant to bring about the change has been passed by the House, with 88 votes for and 35 ...
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May 08 2009
As promised, Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, who’s also the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and a champion in the poker and gambling industry’s anti-UIGEA fight, has introduced a bill aimed at legalizing online poker by allowing US-based ...
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May 06 2009
Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan have logged another session in their $1million, $200/$400 PL Omaha series. Though this session was a brief one (less than an hour long), it was a huge one in terms of gains for one player.
At ...
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May 06 2009
The final day of the EPT Monte Carlo’s High Roller event saw a field of 8 players start, the final table survivors of an initial crowd of 79. At the end of the day, it was Vanessa Rousso who held up ...
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May 04 2009
The EPT’s Season 5 Grand Final is over and the champion is Holland’s Pieter de Korver. There was only one challenger to European supremacy at the final table, but that was a rather formidable one: American Matthew Woodward narrowly missed the ...
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May 03 2009
Day 4 of the EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand Final saw the final table reached and the situation atop the leaderboard somewhat “normalized”. This is after all a European event and having an American atop the provisional leader board at the end ...
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May 03 2009
Day 3 got off to a fast and furious beginning and by 11 pm they were down to 31 with Mathew Woodward leading the pack. As those 31 reconvened for day 4 of play, they were in for a mini-marathon ...
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May 02 2009
The National Broadcasting Company has been instrumental in bringing poker to everybody's living room, and now there's another feather to be added to the proverbial cap.
Between Poker after Dark and the Heads Up Championship, NBC has certainly being doing its bit ...
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May 02 2009
It's been an exciting few days in Monte Carlo, as the European Poker Tour draws to an end and the list of its final contenders gets smaller and smaller.
Day 1b was enormous in terms of both the numbers and the personalities ...
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May 02 2009
The European players’ grip on the top positions of the provisional leader board of the EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand Final was broken on Day 3 of the event as American Matthew Woodward clinched the chip lead, having amassed a 2.7 million ...
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May 01 2009
Day 1B of the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final attracted a field of 539 players, which took the overall number of participants to 935, exceeding last year’s record by nearly 100.
As star studded as Day 1a was, Day 1b surpassed ...
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May 01 2009
The last big warm-up before the WSOP came to a conclusion the other day, with Justin Bonomo having come from behind to take the win and the $237,697 first prize.
Day 3 of the WSOP’s Caesar’s Palace Circuit event saw ...
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May 01 2009
Approximately 500 Day 1a and Day 1b survivors took their seats at the tables of the EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand Final.
Day 2 saw the emergence of two European players to dominate the top of the provisional chip leader board. As ...
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