August 31 2009
The high stakes online poker scene has been sizzling these days as nearly everyone who’s anyone has showed up at Full Tilt’s nosebleed tables recently. The main attraction is a Swedish player known only by his online nick “martonas”. Martonas had ...
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August 30 2009
The echoes of the last durrrr challenge session have long died off, and the online railbird community has begun pondering whether or not Dwan and Antonius have given up on the issue altogether. Following a busy two month period though, during ...
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August 30 2009
Following the huge $300 and some thousand hit he’d taken a few days ago, Dwan was anxious to get back on the four PLO challenge tables to build some of his pre-WSOP challenge lead back. Unfortunately for him, things didn’t ...
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August 29 2009
September will see a new Monthly Million tournament on the block; joining the PartyPoker Monthly Million, the new Monthly Million will be running on the iPoker Network.
The newest Monthly Million will be hitting the internet on September 13th on the ...
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August 28 2009
After years of being left out in the proverbial cold, it is all about to change for Canadian online poker players as rumours fly that Bodog is coming to Canada!
Despite the long and illustrious history of Bodog all across the globe, ...
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August 28 2009
Day 2 of the APT’s Macau was all about a duel: the one between David Steicke and Inwook Choi. Steicke had pretty much dominated his Day 1A flight and he was definitely on a mission: he wasn’t about to let this ...
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August 24 2009
Of the 296 players who started out five days ago with high hopes, only eight returned to the Kyiv Sport Palace to decide who takes home the €330,000 first prize and the EPT Championship trophy.
Maxim Lykov had put in quite ...
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August 24 2009
Day 2 of the EPT’s Kyiv stop saw players jostle for position to make the money bubble and in the process, as some managed to build their stacks, others fell victims to the attrition. Max Lykov didn’t have any such problems. ...
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August 24 2009
Organizers had expected over 200 players to show up for the second Day 1 flight of the APT’s Macau stop. Unfortunately, those hopes weren’t met as only 193 registrants took to the green felt on Day 1B. That still took the ...
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August 23 2009
The Asian Poker Tour’s Macau Main Event kicked off the other day, starting the high buy-in poker season in the Asian gambling paradise. Compared to last year, when the APT’s Macau Main Event drew an overall crowd of 257, this ...
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August 23 2009
After a colorful 4 days of action at the Kyiv Sport Palace, complete with a power outage and some notable surprise attendees, the 296 player starting field of the first ever EPT event in the Ukraine has been reduced to the ...
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August 23 2009
Day 3 of the EPT’s Kyiv stop, the first of season 6, was an extremely short affair. The mission that the remaining field of 68 was faced with was to play down to 32 survivors, and they achieved that without ever ...
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August 23 2009
Day 1B of the EPT’s inaugural Kyiv stop saw the remaining 167 players hit the green felt. Some of the biggest names registered decided to get rolling on the second Day 1 flight, as Gus Hansen, Ivan Demidov, Katja Thater, Dario ...
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August 21 2009
The first ever Ukrainian EPT stop got underway with loads of bells and whistles. The opening stop of the 6th season of the European poker Tour had originally been planned for Moscow, but the organizers’ plans have been upset by the ...
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August 20 2009
Winner of 11 bracelets, Phil Hellmuth will be hosting the 5th annual Hold'em for Heroes Celebrity Tournament later this year, and will be bringing a bunch of his Ultimate Bet teammates along for the event.
Phil Hellmuth is one ...
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August 18 2009
As ESPN coverage of the 2009 WSOP airs to great excitement, news of a new 7 year contract between the cable channel and the poker series emerge.
Reliable sources in the field are announcing that the World Series of Poker ...
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August 18 2009
Despite holding the 7th chip leader position, Bodog is seeing more November 9 bets on Phil Ivey than anyone else.
When November comes and the final table of the 2009 WSOP reconvene Phil Ivey will be taking his seat with ...
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August 16 2009
This August has had it's ups and downs; the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, the loss of John Hughes. For many of us however, the best thing to have happened this month was the new features at Full Tilt Poker – check ...
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August 16 2009
The PokerStars Italian Poker Tour has been the biggest poker tour to be hosted solely in Italy, and has provided not just top notch poker play but also the stuff that dreams are made of.
The first stop of the Italian ...
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August 16 2009
The first stages of the PokerStars World Cup of Poker are soon to get underway at PokerStars where the final table will be determined, and hopes and dreams may be realised.
The World Cup of Poker is one of the most exciting ...
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August 12 2009
Last Sunday saw some frenzied action at the online poker tables all over the web. Several players have walked away with hundred of thousands of dollars in winnings. With the FTOPS XIII in full swing, business was booming over at Full ...
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August 11 2009
With the 13th FTOPS in full swing, members of Full Tilt’s pro team are gunning closer and closer to the mark. Last Friday, Andy Bloch almost managed to secure the first prize of event #5, the $200+$16 Stud tourney. He eventually ...
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August 10 2009
MMA star Randy Couture is making the move from the squared circle to the green felt. He’ll first play in a charity tournament named Operation All-in, then in the Sports Legends Challenge.
Known for making minced meat out of his ...
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August 09 2009
August is the month during which the poker world, online and offline, is supposed to come to a virtual halt. Somebody forgot to tell that to the industry though. For starters, the online vert wasn’t just alive and kicking…big things were ...
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August 09 2009
In the wake of the success of the PPA’s National Poker Week, which has supposedly turned the tide in the battle for legal online poker, New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez tossed another can of gas onto the fire in the shape ...
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August 09 2009
At the end of July, the Poker Players’ Alliance organized the first ever National Poker Week. The event marked a never before seen escalation of pro online poker activity. PPA members attended more than 100 Congressional meetings, over 375,000 signatures were ...
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August 08 2009
The World Poker Tour (or WPT) no longer exists as we knew it. Gamynia Limited, a privately owned investment group, has recently walked into the picture, offering to pay $9,075,000 for all of WPT Enterprises’ assets, including its sponsorship, licensing, television ...
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August 08 2009
The month of holidays, a traditionally slow period for online poker has barely started, but already millions of dollars have been wagered at Full Tilt Poker’s nosebleed tables. The PLO action has yielded several big winners and losers this week. Ashton ...
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August 07 2009
The entire poker industry mourns the loss of one of its better known personalities: Andreas Oscarsson was the founder of PokerListings, a top poker information, news and blog site most online players know like the back of their hands. Born in ...
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August 02 2009
The WSOP’s November Nine experiment has entered its second year, and by the looks of things, it is yet to accomplish the goal its creators had in mind when the idea first came up.
The first crew that ever made it ...
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August 01 2009
With the online poker scene slowly but surely rebounding from the shock of the WSOP, PokerStars’ Super Tuesday managed to attract a field of 394 players last week, a field which combined for a total prize-pool that awarded the winner ...
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