November 30 2010
The second day of the WPT's Marrakech main event saw a combined field of 82 day 1a and day 1b survivors return to the poker tables of the Casino de Marrakech. Day two of the Chilipoker sponsored event had a clear ...
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November 30 2010
The two durrrr challenge rivals, Tom Dwan and Daniel Cates finally managed to squeeze in another 2,120 hand session, after a hiatus of quite a few months. Although fans of the series were definitely more than excited to see the action ...
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November 30 2010
Apparently, some of the world’s biggest names have few problems showing up at two extremely distant points on the planet almost on the same day. It is sometimes as if these people had doubles to fill in for them in various ...
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November 29 2010
The 8 final table participants who locked horns on the final day of the PokerStars EPT's Barcelona main event, were all from different countries. In the end, from this multinational confrontation it was Sweden's Kent Lundmark who emerged with the ...
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November 29 2010
It took the 24 survivors only eight hours to play down to the final table of EPT Barcelona Main Event on day four. Giuseppe Pantaleo started the day with the largest stack and he navigated his way well ...
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November 26 2010
It would indeed be a real shame for players to fly to a tropical paradise in the middle of winter, only to lock themselves inside a casino and to play poker for their entire stay. PCA organizers obviously ...
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November 26 2010
112 players got back to the poker room of the Casino de Barcelona for the third day of the PokerStars EPT’s main event. Needless to say, each and every one of these players wanted to be among the ...
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November 26 2010
400 players bellied up to the tables of the Casino de Barcelona on day 2 of the EPT’s Main Event. By the time the day was called, only 112 were still alive. Bryn Kenney lead the pack with ...
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November 25 2010
A truly impressive number of 495 players showed up for the second day one flight of the EPT Barcelona main event. To give you an idea why this number was indeed impressive: last year, a total of 428 ...
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November 25 2010
The final stage of the WSOP-C’s Main Event unraveled on Tuesday night at Harvey's Lake Tahoe. Nine players returned to the tables with hopes of securing the title but in the end obviously only one would rejoice. The player ...
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November 25 2010
Full Tilt Poker’s high stakes tables were the scenes of an interesting change of pace over the weekend. Instead of large pots flying to and fro, grinding was the order of the day. Several of the big-name pros saw action, ...
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November 24 2010
The original starting field of 246 registrants was reduced to 51 on day one of the WSOP-C’s Lake Tahoe main event. No name players made it to day two, which meant that one of the amateurs would be guaranteed ...
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November 24 2010
Those who were looking for a legal precedent making online poker a legitimate industry on US soil, may have finally gotten what they were wishing for. New Jersey’s State Senate passed the online gambling bill with 29 votes for and ...
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November 23 2010
The PokerStars EPT is back in the house, this time with one of its most popular stops, the Barcelona one. A massive starting field of 264 players showed up at the Casino Barcelona for the first day one flight of the ...
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November 22 2010
Despite nasty weather, no fewer than 246 players showed up for the first day of the WSOP-C’s Lake Tahoe event. 16 levels could be squeezed into the first day of action but that was enough to decimate the field, ...
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November 22 2010
This week's contestant on the PokerStars.net million-dollar challenge was Ray Reid, a Jamaican born amateur player who is currently residing in Canada. Before the action kicked off, Reid made it pretty clear that the million dollars would end up in ...
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November 21 2010
It's far from us to raise unfounded rumors about any aspect of the poker world, but this one had to be done. What is going on with Phil Hellmuth and Ultimate Bet? The biggest name Pro of the Read More
November 21 2010
Last midweek saw plenty of action at Full Tilt Poker's high-stakes cash and tournament tables. Many of the nosebleed stakes regulars showed up, some of them scoring big, others continuing to drop money. One of those who dropped money yet ...
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November 20 2010
There had been plenty of controversy and plenty of verbal punches exchanged in news articles, blog posts and various other online poker media a while back, over the fact that being the possessor of a set nickname would make one vulnerable ...
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November 19 2010
Midweek tournament action is usually nothing to write home about in the online poker world. Sure, there are all sorts of guaranteed tournaments with decent buy-ins running during the week too, but the bulk of the meaningful action takes place ...
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November 18 2010
Don’t get yourself all worked up about it yet. In the wake of the November elections, when the Republicans gained control of the House, things looked about as dire for legal online poker and online gambling as ever. Barney Frank, ...
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November 18 2010
The PokerStars NAPT’s Main Event was moved to the Crystal Casino in Compton for the televised final table action. Joe Tehan was the one who walked away with the win and a $725,000 first prize when it was all said and ...
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November 18 2010
Day four of the NAPT’s Los Angeles Main Event was an extremely brief one. After all, the goal was for the 19 returning survivors to play down to eight who would then lock horns at the final table the following day. ...
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November 17 2010
Will New Jersey be the first US state legalize online poker? It certainly looks that way. One of the nation's top gambling destinations, New Jersey has seen gambling revenue plummet lately at a rather alarming rate. Not all the bad news ...
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November 17 2010
The weekend was pretty happening over at Full Tilt Poker’s high-stakes tables. Many of the nosebleed stakes regulars saw action over the weekend. DrugsOrMe and cadillac1944 were among them, and they both made headlines, although for quite ...
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November 17 2010
The Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles welcomed a surviving field of 81 players, all of them in the money, yet poised to make it as deep in the poker tournament as possible. At the end of the day, only 19 managed ...
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November 16 2010
Nine extremely jittery players showed up on the final day of the APPT’s Cebu main event. Each and every one of them knew all too well that at the end of the day, there would be only one left standing, clutching ...
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November 16 2010
2008 WSOP Main Event winner Peter Eastgate has apparently had enough of being the sole possessor of the one and only gold bracelet awarded to the winner of the 2008 Big Dance. The Dane has decided to auction off his trophy ...
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November 15 2010
Weekends are always busy times for online poker sites which run massive guaranteed prize pool tournaments, and last weekend was no exception. What was an exception was the fact that PokerStars’ Sunday Million was not responsible for the biggest winner ...
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November 15 2010
314 players returned to the tables of the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles for the second day of the NAPT’s Main Event. Each and every one of these players came back hoping to be among those who would not go home ...
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November 15 2010
Few things showcase the rising popularity of the game of poker in Asia better than the fact that no fewer than 238 players showed up for the two day one flights of the APPT’s Cebu Main Event. Of those players, only ...
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November 15 2010
The last stop of the NAPT’s first season proved to be highly popular with accomplished poker professionals. Following the massive player turnout of Day 1A, Day 1B yielded another 373 players, among them names like Nacho Barbero, Bertrand Grospellier, Mike ...
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November 15 2010
The final stop of the NAPT’s first season kicked off at the Bicycle Casino in LA, attracting a massive starting field of 328 players on its first day 1 flight. There were plenty of big names among the starters too. Greg ...
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November 15 2010
A patchless poker pro is not a real poker pro anymore apparently. There are fewer and fewer “name” players within the game’s top ranks who have not yet signed up to represent the interests of a large online poker operation. A ...
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November 14 2010
Full Tilt Poker’s midweek nosebleed online poker action hit quite an upswing last week. A whole bunch of the biggest names showed up at the tables, including Phil Ivey, Phil Galfond, Ilari Sahamies, Brian Hastings, Andreas Torbergsen and Daniel Cates. ...
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November 12 2010
The 2010 WSOP’s final table hogged all the lime-light this past week as far as tournament poker was concerned, but there were other things cooking in the background as well. Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS got rolling ...
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November 11 2010
With the 2010 WSOP’s final table behind us, it is time to take a look back and analyze some of the stats generated by the November 9. A total of 219 hands were played before the heads-up action commenced. ...
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November 10 2010
Travis Lutes survived three days of poker tournament action in Biloxi, Mississippi, to emerge victorious in the WSOP-C’s Biloxi Main Event. 270 players registered for the tournament, some of them circuit regulars, others representing the local poker scene. Of ...
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November 09 2010
For the first time in several weeks, Gus Hansen failed to make the top of the online poker winners’ list. He did play. He logged quite a few hands over the weekend but the profits failed to come this time: ...
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November 09 2010
The WSOP has a new Main Event champion. Canadian Jonathan Duhamel defeated John Racener heads-up to become the newest winner of the Big Dance, owner of a huge pile of cash and a very special gold bracelet.
On his way ...
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November 07 2010
It’s official: the WSOP Main Event’s 2010 Final Table is underway, and already many of the hopefuls have bowed out. It was high noon when Bruce Buffer set events into motion with the most famous call in poker. No fewer ...
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November 06 2010
The period between last week’s Tuesday and Thursday (the mid-week basically) was dominated by Gus Hansen once again. The Great Dane has had an amazing run for the past month, and his performance last week was an extension of that ...
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November 03 2010
Terrence Chan is apparently done playing poker (or doing anything else for that matter) in the US. In a blog post of his, he relayed the details of a couple of incidents that made him come to this decision. Apparently, some ...
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November 03 2010
The Foxwoods Resort Casino exploded with WPT action on Tuesday as the final table of the World Poker Finals got rolling. It sure turned out to be an interesting affair, one that Lady Luck must not have wanted to end, because ...
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November 02 2010
Gus Hansen, the Great Dane, must’ve been indebted up to his ears to Lady Luck the last couple of years, but whatever debt issues he had appear to have been settled lately. For a while there, “business as usual” meant losing ...
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November 02 2010
The weekend was once again pretty exciting for those who managed to finish deep in the various guaranteed prize-pool, large buy-in poker tournaments that ran all over the online poker world.
The biggest cash once again landed in the ...
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November 02 2010
Week 9 of the PokerStars.net Big Game caused quite a bit of ruckus in poker circles mostly on account of the verbal thrashing that Tony G delivered to Andrew Robl. Daniel Negreanu, Joe Hachem, David Peat and William Reynolds also saw ...
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November 01 2010
8 players returned to action on the final day of the EPT’s Vienna Main Event. In the chip lead, a menacing figure was sharpening its claws, ready to devour all comers in pursuit of the €700k first prize. ...
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