October 31 2010
Despite the often abusive legal setbacks that have hindered the growth of the game in recent years, online poker continues to draw ever more players and as its popularity continues to increase, poker rooms turn to ever newer and less orthodox ...
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October 31 2010
24 players reconvened in Vienna’s Kursalon to play down to the final table on day 4 of the 2010 EPT Vienna Main Event. Two players came into the day with stacks much bigger than the rest of the ...
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October 30 2010
The Kursalon Palace in Vienna saw 80 players return for the 3rd day of the EPT’s Vienna Main Event. With the money bubble already out of the way, all 80 participants were sure to receive at least a minimum cash for ...
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October 30 2010
The mid-week online poker action (spanning the period from Tuesday to Thursday) was pretty hot this week. Gus Hansen, the Great Dane who’s surprised the railbirds at Full Tilt Poker with some more than profitable runs ...
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October 29 2010
The two day 1 flights of the EPT Vienna stop took care of more than half the initial starting field. Thus, of the 578 initial starters, only 278 got back to the green felt to further approach the ...
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October 27 2010
The action has certainly picked up quite a bit at Full Tilt’s high stakes online poker tables towards the end of last week. Gus Hansen was again in the middle of the frenzy, once again ending up with a profit ...
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October 26 2010
One of the biggest draws of online poker – except the ease of access – was the relative anonymity the internet offered for players who no longer felt intimidated on account of their cumbersome approach and lack of understanding of basic ...
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October 26 2010
The online poker action was pretty hot across the board over the weekend, despite the multitude of live events running around the country. Several “name” pros surfaced in the high-buy-in weekend events, many of them making deep runs and ...
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October 25 2010
16 players bellied up to the green felt on the third and final day of the WSOP-C’s Hammond main event. Despite the low number of remaining participants, everyone involved knew better than to expect a swift conclusion to the ...
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October 25 2010
Due to the extraordinary attrition on day 1, day 2 of the WSOP-C’s Hammond, Indiana stop saw only 162 players return to the green felt. With the money bubble set for 90th place, it was clear from the onset that ...
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October 25 2010
The poker bot problem is apparently far from being a thing of the past at Full Tilt Poker. The world’s second largest online poker site has sent a mass email to some of its members explaining to them how the site ...
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October 24 2010
The revamped WSOP-C is breaking attendance records with every new event held. Event #1 of the third stop of the series (the Hammond, Indiana one) saw an unprecedented starting field of 1,611 players belly up to the tables. In the ...
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October 24 2010
There are large stacks and there are monster stacks, but when you can’t even jump as high as to be able to peek over your stack and you need to walk a few paces to get around it, you know you’re ...
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October 24 2010
The long ailing WSOP-C has received an infusion of fresh blood this season and things aren’t about to stop for everyone’s favorite budget WSOP series there. Poker Productions, the company responsible for TV shows like High Stakes Poker and the ...
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October 23 2010
The online poker action picked up a little bit early last week, after a weekend during which most of the high stakes regulars were away recharging their batteries. Gus Hansen was pretty much the only “name” pro active over the ...
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October 21 2010
At the WPT’s Festa Al Lago final table, Randal Flowers took care of business – in more ways than one. He never lost his composure and sense of humor all through the poker tournament, yet when it was ...
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October 21 2010
The 5th day of the WPT’s Festa Al Lago event saw the last 13 players belly up to the tables, set on making the final table. The day 5 proceedings would end when the 6- handed final table was reached ...
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October 20 2010
The action slowed to a crawl at Full Tilt Poker’s nosebleed stakes tables this past weekend, but some of the savvy professionals still managed to eke out a profit. Gus Hansen was one of these scrappers, most of ...
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October 19 2010
41 players showed up to play on day 4 of the WPT’s Festa Al Lago stop. Steve O’Dwyer was the one who started the day with the largest stack of chips, but not only did he lose his lead by the ...
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October 18 2010
The poker forum world is abuzz with excited rumors from apparent onlookers who have witnessed poker legend and Full Tilt Poker pro Phil Ivey threw a tantrum at two floormen at the famous Las Vegas Wynn while ...
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October 18 2010
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October 17 2010
Although the online poker action has slowed down a little since the beginning of last week, there were still some significant swings, as some players continued to build their bankrolls at Full Tilt Poker, while others were ...
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October 14 2010
The creative minds behind the promotions over at PokerStars are apparently never at rest, and that is just fine with us. This way, we can bring you ever newer deals and offers, giving you ever newer reasons to sign up to ...
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October 14 2010
The second stop of the WSOP-C’s new season took place at the Horseshoe Southern Indiana. The new revamped buy-in structure attracted more players than usual, although the prize-pool and thus the subsequent payouts were much smaller than ...
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October 13 2010
Last week it's become pretty clear what Gus Hansen did with the money he had collected at the WSOPE’s high roller event: he took it to the online poker tables at Full Tilt poker and promptly donated most of it to ...
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October 13 2010
The WSOP’s Circuit has been one of those tours where younger and less financially endowed players could prove their worth for years. Lately however, there has been a marked decline for the WSOP’s small cousin. Even those who didn’t actually crunch ...
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October 12 2010
Party Poker has a new weapon to deal with competitors’ new features like Full Tilt Poker’s Rush Poker – it’s called Double Hold’em and you get 3 cards instead of 2!
It seems poker rooms are trying to be innovative lately ...
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October 12 2010
Last weekend was the weekend of the pros all over in the online poker world. Several “name” players managed to win some of the high prize-pool weekend guarantees, and several others finished deep in the money. The biggest winner of ...
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October 11 2010
In the wake of the 2010 WSOP, Las Vegas became kind of quiet, at least as far as poker was concerned. With all the live tournament action focused in London and in other places world over, it has been a ...
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October 11 2010
How many of you have been dreaming about being able to play real money poker on your iPhones? Well all those who have will now be able to do just that: a poker site has been launched with the specific purpose ...
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October 11 2010
Those of you looking for some fun in the sun to ease into the upcoming winter gloom will be glad to learn about this: PokerStars has just announced the schedule of its PCA (PokerStars Caribbean Adventure) which takes ...
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October 10 2010
PokerStars is having a special freeroll on 10.10.10 at 14:00 ET with a huge $6,500 guaranteed prizepool. This is a great way to celebrate October 10th, 2010!
The freeroll can be found at Tourney->All in the PokerStars software lobby. The tournament ...
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October 08 2010
Railbirds who don’t hang around at Full Tilt Poker all day almost certainly missed the latest Durrrr Challenge get-together, which was consummated on Tuesday. Cates and Dwan put in a lightning-fast 258 hand session, at the ...
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October 08 2010
This past week, online poker action at Full Tilt Poker has flared up quite a bit. It was all reminiscent of the time when Swedish mystery player Isildur1 played, generating million-dollar pots and multimillion dollar swings all ...
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October 06 2010
Playing no strings attached poker is always a delight, especially when there’s no investment required on your part. You reckon it’s way too difficult to find backers on account of your lack of skill and experience? Think again. 888 Poker is ...
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October 05 2010
Of the record number of 848 players who coughed up the buy-in for the EPT’s London Main Event a few days ago, only 8 had earned the right to return to action on the final day of ...
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October 05 2010
Following a 31-day break, Tom Dwan and Daniel Cates squeezed another Durrrr challenge round into the series, albeit this one was indeed a really brief one. The whole thing kicked off with a tweet from Dwan which sent high stakes ...
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October 04 2010
The penultimate day of the EPT Season 7 London stop kicked off with 24 players. Chance Kornuth came into the day with the largest stack of chips, his 2.3 million monster stack offering him an advantage of around ...
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October 03 2010
Because the money bubble had burst the previous day, day 3 of the PokerStars EPT’s London Main Event started with all 127 returning players in the money. With the minimum payout locked up, the survivors tore into each other with ...
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October 03 2010
No one really expected the money bubble to burst on day 2 of the PokerStars EPT’s record-setting London Main Event. With 380 players belying up to the tables at the beginning of the day and with the money bubble ...
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October 03 2010
Not only will online poker not be legalized in the US this year, the pressure on the game appears to be on the increase. Apparently PokerStars, one of the sites that have never backed down after the UIGEA, has been forced ...
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October 03 2010
By attracting 509 players on its second day 1 flight and thus taking the total number of participants to 848, the EPT London Main Event broke all records, becoming the largest ever live poker tournament held in the ...
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