January 31 2010
It took Antonius and Dwan only 24 hours following their last challenge session to convene for another round of $200/$400 PLO at Full Tilt Poker’s Challenge tables. This second online poker session occurred on Friday, when the ...
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January 31 2010
With his bankroll pretty much rebuilt and with Isildur1 out of sight, Tom Dwan finally figured it was about high-time he and Antonius put in some more hands in their hopelessly drawn out Durrrr Challenge battle. The two players met ...
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January 31 2010
The 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event is finally over, and a champion has been crowned. Tyron Krost is that champion, and the title stays at home in the land Down Under for the second straight year. Somehow it seems that the ...
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January 31 2010
In a move unprecedented in online poker, iPoker network member VC Poker has moved to block successful players’ access to its cash tables. Ever since it’s stopped offering its players rakeback, the iPoker network has been eyeing such a move. ...
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January 30 2010
83 players showed up for Day 3 action at the Aussie Millions. The money bubble would be reached on this day, but 10 players would still leave empty handed.
When the dust settled in the wake of the Day 3 green ...
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January 30 2010
Satellites are the most accessible means of entry for many online and offline tournaments, but how accessible are the satellites? The answer is “very” at Absolute Poker.
The sign of a good poker site, or any online venue for that matter ...
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January 27 2010
A total of 746 players registered on Day 1A, B and C of the Aussie Millions’ Main Even, taking the prize-pool to a mind boggling AUD 7.46 Million. Of these players, only 294 made it to Day 2, the rest ...
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January 26 2010
8 remaining players bellied up to the final table of the EPT Deauville Main Event, in front of the TV cameras, 7 of them trailing chip leader Teodor Caraba, but all of them equally hungry to cut themselves ...
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January 26 2010
The $100k Challenge of the Aussie Millions came to an end the other day as the final table participants played down to a winner on the second day of the event. The peculiar thing about the poker tournament ...
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January 26 2010
With the multitude of live poker events running this past weekend keeping the pros busy, amateur players have seized the opportunity to get in some shots of their own at the high prize-pool weekend online poker guarantees.
The biggest single ...
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January 25 2010
The $100k Challenge of the Aussie Millions attracted a field of only 24 players. Considering the size of the buy-in though, even that was impressive. Obviously, pretty much all of the participants in this poker tournament were ...
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January 25 2010
With only 24 players in contention, the action got going at the EPT Deauville stop on the 4th overall day of the poker tournament. Amateur Romanian player Teodor Caraba held the chip lead at the ...
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January 24 2010
133 Day 2 survivors came back to the tables of the Barrier Casino on Day 3 of the EPT Deauville stop. This day of the event carried special significance from several angles: the money bubble would be reached ...
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January 24 2010
The second day of the EPT’s Deauville stop was the scene of some radical provisional leader board changes. 395 players survived day 1A and Day 1B of the poker tournament, and although PokerStars’ Luca Pagano finished Day 1B ...
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January 24 2010
Thursday saw no fewer than two Aussie Millions winners take down the gold: Jonathan Karamalikis won event #5, the $1,650 NL Holdem w/re-buys one, taking home a AUD 122,700 prize and John Joannou won event #6, the $1,100 Read More
January 23 2010
The latest additions to the Full Tilt Poker software gets the big A-OK.
As you may recall, we already shared with you the joys of the new Full Tilt Poker Rush Poker application which is transforming play at the Read More
January 23 2010
The second day of the EPT’s Deauville stop fulfilled all expectations of a record breaking turn out. In addition to Day 1A’s 339 registrants, Day 1B yielded a starting field of 429 players, taking the total number of starters to 768, ...
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January 22 2010
Tony G (Antanas Guoga)’s name is a household name in the online poker industry. The Lithuanian-born Australian player has had quite a bit of success in live poker as well (he’s amassed more than $4 million in live tournament winnings) ...
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January 22 2010
The Aussie Millions’ 4th event, a $1,100 PL Omaha event, saw Annette Obrestad, known online as “Annette_15”, rise to victory. Born on September 18th 1988, Annette Obrestad was too young to take part in live poker tournaments until not too long ...
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January 21 2010
Day 1A of the EPT Deuville stop saw a huge field of 339 players show up at the tables. The nasty weather could’ve been partly responsible for the massive turn-out, but it’s far more likely that the ...
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January 20 2010
For those addicted to online poker news outlets, and receiving the majority of their daily poker information dose from such sources, it is often easy to forget that online poker and online gambling have numerous enemies out there and ...
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January 19 2010
Bad Bead Jackpots are the freaks of the poker and online poker world. I’m not just saying that based on how hard to come by they are. These jackpots are freaks trough their very nature. They reward the guy who’s ...
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January 19 2010
The third poker tournament of the 2010 Aussie Millions attracted a field of only 90 registrants. In a mere two days of action, that field played down to the winner. Due to the small number of participants and ...
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January 18 2010
Event #1 of the Aussie Millions series featured a buy-in of $1,100 and drew a massive number of 1,143 registrations. Many of these were direct buy-ins but there were many online poker qualifiers as well. The AUD 200,025 ...
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January 18 2010
This past weekend was an extremely generous one as far as massive winnings and prize-pools were concerned in the online poker world. PokerStars once again led the way in prize-pools and in player numbers, followed by Full Tilt ...
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January 17 2010
Even though the nosebleed stakes have suffered a terrible loss through the felting of Isildur1, the action is slowly but surely rebounding. The $2,000/$4,000 7-game tables at Full Tilt Poker saw quite a bustle on Wednesday, when ...
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January 17 2010
Nine hours of intense green felt battles was all it took William Reynolds to take the $576,240 first prize and the title in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Rollers event on Thursday.
A total of 8 players showed ...
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January 17 2010
The third day of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Rollers event came to a conclusion when the remaining 24 players played down to the final table.
When the dust settled on day 3, Tobias Reinkenmeier stood atop the handful of ...
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January 17 2010
One of the biggest online losers of 2009, Gus Hansen made waves at the end of last year through an announcement that he would retire, at least for a while. That while proved to be an extremely short one though, as ...
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January 17 2010
The second day of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure high roller event saw Dario Mineri dart to the top of the provisional rankings. Day 2 came to an end when the final 24 was reached, during the 12th blinds ...
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January 15 2010
I suppose I needn’t tell you about the earthquake in Haiti that possibly made tens of thousands of victims a few days ago, in what is slowly but surely shaping up as one of the biggest natural disasters of modern times. ...
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January 14 2010
The $25,000 high rollers event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure attracted a field comprised almost exclusively of “name “ players. The high buy-in always acts as a filter: it sieves out amateurs and to a certain degree ...
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January 14 2010
After 7 days of red hot poker action and 32 blind levels, the Caribbean Poker adventure has finally come to an end. The chips, which had originally been spread among 1,529 participants, were shoved to a fro, played with and juggled ...
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January 14 2010
Day 5 of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure saw the remaining 24 players belly up to the tables at the Imperial Ballroom of the Atlantis Resort, to play down to the final 8. Sure enough, in about 6 hours’ time, the ...
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January 10 2010
The 62 survivors who bellied up to the tables on Day 4 of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure were greeted by gloomy, windy weather outside the Imperial Ballroom at the Atlantis Resort. The action inside was sizzling though. By ...
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January 10 2010
The third day of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure was a crucial one: the money bubble would be reached this day to separate those who would go home empty handed from the winners.
Praz Bansi came into the day with the ...
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January 10 2010
The second day of the PokerStars Caribbean adventure saw a field of 884 Day 1A and Day 1B survivors return to action. Praz Bansi was the player who made the biggest progress on Day 2 and finished with ...
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January 09 2010
The second Day 1 flight of the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure broke the record for attendance without any kind of problems. A massive field of 846 players took to the tables, thus taking the overall starting field to more than 1,500 ...
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January 06 2010
What better way is there to ring in the New Year than by traveling to a tropical paradise to leave the winter behind and to play poker for a share of a fabulous prize-pool, while rubbing shoulders with biggest names ...
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January 05 2010
The first Sunday of the year is gone, and some players have already set off in the New Year on the right foot. The big flagship tournaments at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and the other noteworthy online poker sites went ...
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January 04 2010
The popular Poker After Dark series is back with its 6th season this January, with plenty of the already known team of professional players, and a whole bunch of new faces that are at least as interesting as the seasoned guys, ...
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January 01 2010
The recent success of the EPT in Eastern Europe has certainly drawn a lot of attention to the region. EPT events in the Ukraine, Hungary and Poland all drew great starting fields and generated awesome prize-pools. It ...
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