July 30 2009
Despite the fact that most of the nose-bleed stakes online pros remained to play live at Bobby’s room, the online scene finally came alive in the wake of the WSOP Main Event. The $200/$400 PL Omaha tables bore the brunt ...
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July 27 2009
After two days of hard green felt action, the 28 surviving players re-convened at the Casino du Liban, to determine the winner of the first ever Lebanese Poker Championship. Having already disposed of “name” pros like Joseph Hachem, Nenad Medic ...
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July 27 2009
Day 2 of the Lebanese Poker Championship saw the 111 player starting field slowly whittle down to 28 as the progress was much slower than the organizers had anticipated. The slow nature of how the events unfolded was mostly due to ...
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July 27 2009
The first ever Lebanese Poker Championship was a huge success from the get-go. Lebanese-born Australian poker pro and WSOP Main Event Champion, Joe Hachem threw a huge party before the event kicked off to get the word out there ...
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July 25 2009
Justin Bonomo won PokerStars’ Super Tuesday besting a field of 389 initial entrants to take home the $75,855 prize, together with the bragging rights.
Some better known players who missed the final table were: Christian Harder, who busted out in 19th ...
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July 25 2009
The WSOP 2009 is about to hit the airwaves; ESPN coverage starts on July 28th, making Tuesday nights poker night.
Just when you thought it was all over, it's only just beginning. The WSOP may have reached its near end in ...
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July 23 2009
For a good few years now, we in the poker industry have been referring to Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars as two industry giants, the biggest and best online poker sites out there. Which one of them is bigger though? Although ...
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July 22 2009
Following a long break caused by the 2009 WSOP, high stakes poker action kicked off in style. Phil Ivey, a November Nine member now, showed up at the highest stakes to play Ilari Sahamies, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius. The nose-...
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July 18 2009
It’s official, the 2009 WSOP Main Event final table has been set, and Phil Ivey, the player considered the best in the world by some experts, is among the final 9.
Day 8 of the Big Dance was a much shorter ...
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July 16 2009
Four bi-lateral trade issues shall hit the table of negotiations between the US and the EU according to EU Trade Commissioner, Catherine Ashton and Ron Kirk, the new US Trade Representative. Among the four issues, the problem of online gambling ...
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July 16 2009
Day 7 of the 2009 WSOP Main Event ended almost the same way it had started: with Darvin Moon on top of the provisional leader board and Billy Kopp in second place. Phil Ivey finished 4th, still looking very capable of ...
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July 15 2009
The action on days 4 and 5 of the 2009 WSOP’s Main Event had been cut short by the level-target set by the organizers. The 185 players who returned to the green felt on day 6 though could literally knock ...
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July 15 2009
The U.S Department of Justice’s Southern District of New York’s seizure of about $40 million in player funds has caused some serious ripples in the online poker world and apparently, the move drew some legal consequences as well. Account Services Corporation, ...
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July 14 2009
During the WSOP, and especially during the Main Event, the high stakes online poker scene always slows down. As players slowly drop out though and the number of those directly interested closes in on the November Nine, the online high stakes ...
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July 14 2009
Feeding on the post bubble energy carried over from Day 4, Day 5 of the 2009 WSOP Main Event started out at a breakneck pace and sure enough, by the day’s end, it managed to break the tournament necks of over ...
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July 14 2009
With the money bubble reached on Day 4, Day 5 featured a cool-down following the action frenzy which ensued right after the bubble had burst. It virtually set the stage for the second part of the poker “circus” that the ...
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July 13 2009
Day 4 of the 2009 WSOP Main Event had just about slowed to a crawl before the elimination of Kia Hamadani, the official bubble boy of the event, who was rewarded with a free trip to next year’s Big Dance by ...
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July 12 2009
As the 789 players returned to the Rio to do battle at the green felt, the money bubble set to 648th place was looking tantalizingly close. Well aware of what it took to make it there, short-stacks began the day ...
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July 12 2009
Day 3 of the 2009 WSOP marked the first time the entire field played on the same day this year. 2,044 Day 2A and Day 2B survivors convened, filling up every bit of available space at the Rio, as the field ...
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July 10 2009
Having yielded a field of 2,924 players, Day 2B eclipsed Day 2A from every angle. Although the field may not seem like a huge one compared to the total number of entrants the four day ones had recorded, it is still ...
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July 10 2009
The first one of the two day 2 flights of the 2009 WSOP Main Event, Day 2A featured a field of 1,476 players, all Day 1A and Day 1B survivors who returned for a shot at the $61 million prize-pool ...
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July 09 2009
Following 3 undersold days, poker players took the 2009 WSOP’s Main Event by assault on Day 1D. The result of the late rush was that all the space sold out and hundreds of players – among them some of the biggest ...
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July 09 2009
Following a Day 1B which failed to hit the 1,000 mark starting-field wise, Day 1C brought the largest number of players to the table so far. 1,697 players bellied up to the tables, among them star athletes and professional players. ...
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July 09 2009
Day 1B of the 2009 WSOP Main Event featured a smaller field at 873 than Day 1A, but it was an equally colorful field. Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker, Amarillo Slim and Doyle Brunson represented the pros, joined by Chris Ferguson and ...
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July 07 2009
Day 1A of the 2009 WSOP’s $10,000 Main Event saw a contingent of 1,116 players belly up to the tables. No question about it, the Main Event is slowly but surely turning into a popular poker festival. The opening day of ...
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July 07 2009
The $5,000 buy-in “Ante Up for Africa” charity event of the 2009 WSOP featured a star-studded field, complete with amateurs, professional players as well as sports and movie stars. Charles Barkley was there as well as Mike Tyson, Kenny ...
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July 07 2009
The $1,500 NL Holdem events of the 2009 WSOP never failed to attract large starting fields, on account of the reasonable buy-in amounts and the large prize-pools that these events have generated. Event #54 was no exception. 2,818 players ...
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July 05 2009
The final side-event of the 2009 WSOP featured a hefty buy-in and nice payouts for the top finishers. 16 players returned on the third day of the $5,000 Short-handed NL Holdem event to fight for the last gold ...
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July 05 2009
Germany’s Jorg Peisert took down the $3,000 Triple Chance NL Holdem bracelet, following Carsten Joh’s $1,500 NL Holdem win, to make it back to back WSOP victories for Germany. 16 players returned to the tables of the $3,000 Triple Chance NL ...
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July 04 2009
The $162,521 first prize and the bracelet the 2-7 Triple Draw event offered had been contested over the first two days of the event by a motley crew which included world champions, poker writers and gamblers.
By day 3, the ...
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July 04 2009
The $50,000 HORSE event is not just the highest buy-in event of the Series, it is also one that hits players with the most intricate test of skill and can thus be considered the most accurate measure of poker ability. ...
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July 03 2009
The final day of the $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo event saw a field of 14 players return to the tables, all looking to get their hands on the coveted piece of jewelry that only WSOP champions can rightfully bear.
The ...
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July 01 2009
The final day of the 2009 WSOP’s $1,500 NL Holdem event (#51), kicked off with 30 players returning to do battle at the green felt.
At the end of a 13-hour marathon session, which included a one-hour heads-up ...
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July 01 2009
Brandon Cantu started the final day of the $1,500 PL Omaha event of the 2009 WSOP in the chip lead. Lee Watkinson was also there at the final table and eventually faced off with Cantu heads-up for the title. Both ...
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