September 30 2009
Day 3 of the 2009 WSOPE Main Event saw the survivors of a truncated Day 2 play right down to the money bubble. Although Day 3 had been planned to last till 27th place was reached, the organizers put an end ...
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September 30 2009
Bob Stupak's contribution to Las Vegas, to gambling, and to poker was multi-faceted, and with his passing he will remain in each of our memories for a different reason.
Bob Stupak lost his long battle with Leukaemia last Friday at ...
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September 30 2009
Day 2 of the 2009 WSOPE Main Event saw a field of 178 Day 1 survivors belly up to the tables of the Empire Casino. Play began at 5:30 PM only, which meant that only 86 players bit the dust as ...
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September 30 2009
The WCOOP is over and the millionaires it created have probably already invested their winnings left and right. The big rush for six and seven figure prizes has settled, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t big money to be made online. ...
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September 28 2009
With the WSOPE in full swing in London and with the eyes of the poker world upon the select field taking to the tables event after event, the WPT’s Borgata Poker open had been nearing a conclusion quietly. Not all name ...
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September 28 2009
Nine players returned to the tables of the Empire Casino in London to determine the winner of the £5,000 PL Omaha event, #3 of the series. Parallel to the final table of the third event, the Caesar’s Cup event took place ...
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September 28 2009
As anticipated, Day 1B of the WSOPE Main Event yielded a bigger number of registrants than Day 1A. 175 players coughed up the buy-in and joined the green felt hostilities. Day 1B set the record straight about the total number ...
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September 28 2009
With three of the WSOPE’s events out of the way, the time for the highlight of the series, the Main Event has come. Featuring a £10,000 buy-in and a starting field packed with name pros, the WSOPE Main Event is ...
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September 28 2009
The first edition of the Caesar’s cup, an event tailored after golf’s Ryder Cup, saw a team from the Americas (North and South) face off with Team Europe, in a unique and quite entertaining format.
The battle was mainly for the ...
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September 28 2009
After several winning sessions he had had in past weeks, Ilari Sahamies’ online production seems to have turned southward for good.
Last week has seen a lull in nosebleed cash game activity as tournaments took the center stage for most of ...
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September 27 2009
This month has seen the back of one of PokerStars' best loved players; however new blood has already arrived to fill the gap. Good bye Isabelle Mercier, hello Fatima Moreira de Melo.
Isabelle Mercier burst onto the poker scene when she became ...
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September 27 2009
As IMG Consulting and HIE sign a new contract it looks like the WSOP is about to get bigger and better than ever before.
Harrah's Interactive Entertainment (HIE) and their WSOP have been working successfully with IMG Sports and Entertainment since ...
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September 25 2009
The second day of the WSOPE’s event #3 saw a field of 35 Day 1 survivors belly up to the tables of the Empire Casino, all looking to catch up with Jani Vilmunen, the previous day’s chip leader, who’d managed to ...
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September 25 2009
Event #3 of the 2009 WSOPE, the £5,000 double –chance PL Omaha one, drew 154 players to the tables of the Empire Casino. Though smallish, the field was a very select one: some of the best live and online poker players ...
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September 24 2009
The second event of the WSOPE London saw 5 players return to the tables of the Empire Casino, survivors of an initial starting field of 158. All these guys were pretty close to the gold bracelet offered by the £2,500 Pl ...
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September 24 2009
JP Kelly, the young British who had been hanging around the top of the chip leader board all event long, managed to win the WSOPE London’s £1,000 event in a spectacular fashion.
Having survived a starting field of 608 players, ...
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September 24 2009
The second day of the WCOOP 2009 Main Event spelt the end of the series as well as that of the Main Event itself. Yevgeniy Timoshenko, known online as “Jovial Gent” walked away with the title and the first prize of ...
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September 23 2009
The story began several months ago when UltimateBet first started pursuing Joe Sebok; it was a touch and go courtship, but this week Sebok finally signed on the dotted line.
This week is a good one for Joe Sebok, for UltimateBet, and ...
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September 23 2009
The penultimate day of the WSOPE’s London £1,000 event saw 68 players return to the tables of the Empire casino, out of a 608 player starting field which had begun play on Day 1A and Day 1B.
The goal of the ...
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September 23 2009
If one had to pick a single day which best represents what the 2009 WCOOP stands for, Day 18 would have to be it. Why? Quite simple: if you needed further proof that online poker was indeed a skill based game, ...
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September 23 2009
Day 17 marked a milestone in the 2009 WCOOP. It was the second straight day in which two professional players managed to emerge victorious and take home their WCOOP bracelets. On the previous day, it was Frenchman Bertrand Grospellier and Terrence ...
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September 22 2009
The nosebleed online poker action gathered some momentum last week, although it was still far off the pace that had been set by mystery player “martonas” a few weeks ago, who has since faded away and left the high stakes tables. ...
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September 20 2009
Day 16 of the WCOOP saw the big names finally emerge. With the buy-ins on the rise and thus the low buy-in masses taken out of the equation, it was the pros’ turn to shine. Event #38, the $500+$30 ...
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September 20 2009
Day 1B of the 2009 London WSOPE’s £1,000 event saw another flight of more than 300 players belly up to the tables of the Empire Casino. Day 1B’s starting field was at least as impressive as Day 1A’s in regards to ...
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September 20 2009
Day 14 of the PokersStars WCOOP was remarkable in the sense that it represented the last opportunity for players on lesser bankrolls to compete in the series. The 3figure buy-ins would wrap up on this day and only 4 figure ...
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September 19 2009
A field of 295 players bellied up to the tables of the Empire Casino in London on a typically gloomy London autumn day, but the atmosphere inside the gambling establishment was radically different. The passing of the time was barely noticeable ...
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September 16 2009
The Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino in Cyprus was the scene of several first ever events a few days ago. The World Poker Tour Merit Cyprus Classic has just crowned its first ever champion in French poker professional Thomas Bichon, ...
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September 16 2009
Day 12 of the 2009 WCOOP saw a further 3 events unfold as three players earned their WCOOP bracelets. Of the three of them though, only two were first time bracelet winners. Spencerman3 and Unsyatisfied were the new kids on ...
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September 16 2009
The Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) has recently released its report following a year long investigation of the cheating incident which is said to have plagued Ultimate Bet for the better part of 4 and a half years.
The report pointed a ...
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September 16 2009
Day 7 of the 2009 WCOOP meant a little bit of breathing space for the players involved. After all, there were only two events scheduled set to make two more players happy WCOOP bracelet owners. The first Day 7 event was ...
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September 15 2009
Ever since Swedish mystery man “martonas” dropped what now appears to be his entire bankroll and left from the nosebleed stakes tables, online action has ebbed to a trickle, with the usual ultra high stakes players logging some hands albeit far ...
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September 15 2009
The Kahnawake Gaming Commission, the entity which gave Ultimate Bet an operating license, has finished the investigation it conducted into the cheating that had occurred at the site a while ago and which had set the entire online poker community on ...
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September 11 2009
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the most famous player of us all? I good question as the short list of 2009 Poker Hall of Fame finalists is announced.
It's official, the most famous poker players in the world have been whittled ...
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September 11 2009
10 players returned to action on day 5 of the World Poker Tour Merit Cyprus Classic, aiming to lose 4 of the participants to set the official 6-player final table. Given that goal, day 5 was bound to be a ...
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September 11 2009
With only 8 players remaining in the run for the €850,000 first prize, Day 5 kicked off with furious action right from the very first hands. Short stacks had to jostle for a better position to stave off elimination and large ...
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September 11 2009
Given the fact that the field of 23 survivors set to continue the green felt battle on Day 4 of the EPT’s Barcelona Main Event, included no fewer than 5 former EPT Champions, it was rather clear from the get ...
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September 11 2009
The 72 players who bellied up to the tables of the Casino Barcelona on Day 3 of the EPT’s Main Event could finally focus on their play alone as the money bubble had been reached the day before and they were ...
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September 11 2009
240 players remained in the books following Day 1A and Day 1B of the EPT’s Barcelona Main Event. These guys convened on Day 2 to further reduce the field and to draw closer to the money bubble and sure enough, they ...
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September 10 2009
Day 1B of the EPT’s Barcelona stop saw a field of 270 players belly up to the tables, having coughed up the €8,300 buy-in. Among the 270 starters were several “name” pros, nosebleed stakes cash game players and poker celebrities. ...
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September 06 2009
Prior to the 2009 WSOP, Scotty Nguyen had made a statement so bold, most people would’ve considered it ridiculous had it not been the Prince of Poker himself who issued it. He said that he would quit playing poker if he ...
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September 06 2009
The pace of the Durrrr challenge sessions has picked up somewhat in the wake of the WSOP, as both players returned to the virtual tables. Before the WSOP kicked off, Dwan had built up a sizeable lead over his opponent, a ...
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September 05 2009
Who said Jerry Yang took his 2006 WSOP Main Event winnings and rode out into the sunset? The player often referred to as the one who did the least for the game has finally re-appeared in poker circles and will ...
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September 05 2009
The EPT’s Barcelona stop featured an uncharacteristically rainy start. After weeks of good weather and sunshine, rain and high winds battered the city, sending tourist scrambling for cover. Fortunately, for the 208 players who bellied up to the tables of the ...
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September 04 2009
It's official, Canadian poker fans are now welcome at Bodog as Bodog Canada gets up and running.
As we reported last month, Bodog was planning to open its doors to Canadian players; it is no longer speculation, and now fact. As of ...
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September 04 2009
Though at first sight, the fact that a U.S. appeals court upheld the 2006 UIGEA may seem like bad news, at a closer look, the silver lining of this cloud shines through. After several weeks and months of rumors and news ...
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September 03 2009
The time has come for Ultimate Bet to open its doors even wider as we here a collective sigh of relief from Mac users across the globe, and of course the net.
Mac users have often been a little left out ...
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September 02 2009
The Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s final day saw two of the stop’s most important events conclude. The Main Event saw the final 9 players return to action as the 429 registrants combined buy-ins for a monster prize-pool which gave ...
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