December 31 2010
Without a shadow of a doubt, 2008 WSOP Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate’s decision to quit poker was one of the top stories of 2010. I remember a while ago I compiled a list for a blog about various WSOP ...
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December 31 2010
US-based poker players looking for legal protection while playing their favorite game online were treated to a genuine emotional rollercoaster in 2010. At the beginning of the year, things started off slowly, and often gave the impression that not much ...
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December 31 2010
What the online poker world has been speculating on for months, namely that Phil Hellmuth’s UB poker pro days might be numbered, seems to have finally come true. The Ultimate Bet pro first raised the community’s suspicions after appearing ...
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December 28 2010
WPT Magazine is set to name the best online poker player, the best poker personality, the best international player, the best UK cardroom, the best international cardroom, the best British player, the best online poker forum and a few other such ...
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December 26 2010
The time between Christmas and New Year’s Eve is always an interesting time for the online poker industry. People usually don’t work during this stretch and they end up stuck in the house, so all those with any kind of interest ...
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December 26 2010
The first round of PokerStars’SuperStars Showdown is in the books and the time to take a look back at the action is here. It’s fairly safe to say that things have pretty much gone down as expected. Isildur1 did put ...
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December 23 2010
PokerStars may have acquired Isildur1, but the bulk of the nosebleed stakes cash game action still takes place at Full Tilt Poker’s tables. Ilari Sahamies was one of the players particularly ravaged by Lady Luck lately. He bounced ...
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December 23 2010
Caesar’s Interactive Entertainment (for those of you not entirely up to date with the latest industry developments, it’s Harrah’s we’re talking about here, under a new name), announced the other day that that it has reached an agreement with Italian poker ...
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December 21 2010
The poker tournament action was again if full swing over the weekend at all the major online poker rooms. Several name players made it deep in various events, among them Lily Mizrachi who nearly won Full Tilt Poker’s ...
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December 21 2010
When an online poker/gambling company can’t otherwise obliterate its competitor, there’s one obvious choice left: buy it out. Apparently, that’s exactly what Ladbrokes are up to now, as it’s rumored they’re in talks to acquire rival 888. According to ...
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December 21 2010
The first-ever edition of the Superstar Showdown kicked off at PokerStars on Sunday. The durrrr challenge-like series consist of short 2500 hand sessions between PokerStars’s newly acquired in-house pro, Isildur1 and a challenger. The first challenger was ...
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December 20 2010
Week 12 (the last of the Big Game’s current season) proved to be the decisive one when it came to determining the loose cannon champion. This week’s loose cannon was Bob Ferdinand, a former bus driver from Boston, who managed to ...
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December 20 2010
PokerStars seems to have started an all out offensive against rival Full Tilt Poker in recent weeks. The site considered the biggest online poker room in the world has recently signed Swedish mystery player Isildur1, ...
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December 20 2010
The PokerStars EPT’s Prague final table saw a rather peculiar mix of talent get ready for the final run on the 5th day of the event. There were three Italians at the table (plus Roberto Romanello who is ...
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December 19 2010
The 4th day of action saw the final table reached at the PokerStars EPT’s Prague Main Event. Marco Leonzio is the one who’ll start the final stretch of action with the largest stack of chips.
24 players bellied up to the ...
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December 18 2010
Except for a spell of Durrrr challenge action, which saw Dwan nibble away a tad more at Cates’ series advantage, the midweek was relatively quiet at Full Tilt Poker’s nosebleed stakes tables. That lull allowed Ashton Griffin to ...
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December 18 2010
Poker news outlets were abuzz last week with word of PartyPoker founder Anurag Dikshit’s trial which eventually resulted in the Indian national’s sentencing to a year’s probation instead of the two years in jail he was facing for having ...
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December 18 2010
Tom Dwan and Daniel Cates continued their Durrrr challenge the other day, logging another short 1,214 hand session. Little by little, Dwan seems to be digging himself out of the hole into which he fell as the challenge series started. He ...
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December 17 2010
ESPN is set to make poker television history by broadcasting the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure’s final table. ESPN2 and ESPN3 will cover the action, broadcasting it uncut for the first time ever, with a 60-minute delay (which for people not directly ...
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December 17 2010
The third day of the PokerStars EPT Prague main event lasted for about eight hours and it saw the surviving field of 93 whittled down to a mere 23 at the end of the action. The money bubble ...
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December 16 2010
254 poker players weren’t able to enjoy the winter wonderland that settled over Prague on day 2 of the PokerStars EPT’s Main Event, because they were busy playing poker in the basement of the Hilton. At the end ...
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December 16 2010
After all the hype and the elevated hopes surrounding Senate majority leader Harry Reid’s online poker initiative, according to ESPN, the said bill will not be attached to a vehicle law, nor will it pass in any other shape or form ...
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December 16 2010
PokerStars may not be able to break Isildur1’s streaky habits, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t struck gold by hiring the Swede. The attention of the poker world has already been massively diverted from Full Tilt Poker’s nosebleed ...
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December 15 2010
Dwan and Cates put in yet another short Challenge session this morning at Full Tilt Poker’s Challenge tables, which once again ended in a rather inconclusive manner. Dwan won this 1,407-hand session too, but he only finished ahead by $18k. ...
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December 15 2010
During the last few days, news about Sen. Harry Reid's proposed online poker bill have been abundant but often contradictory. One thing all news sources seem to agree upon though is that having failed to attach the bill to the President's ...
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December 14 2010
Before we go any further on this issue, let’s clarify one thing: under the provisions of the UIGEA, playing online poker is NOT illegal for US-based players. It is illegal for financial institutions to complete funds transfers to and from ...
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December 13 2010
The APPT’s Sydney main event went out with a bang. The final table was a truly awesome one and when it was all said and done in the end, it was Jonathan Karamalikis who smiled into the cameras, his victorious pocket ...
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December 12 2010
Many things may have changed for online poker’s favorite masked avenger upon his signing with PokerStars, but his extreme streakiness was definitely not one of those things. It was only a couple of days ago that we told you about how ...
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December 11 2010
The 44-page Tax bill put forth by the senate a couple of days ago, which – according to some rumors – was supposed to have a bill legalizing online poker (but not online gambling) in the US attached, did not ...
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December 10 2010
As you probably know, one of online poker’s best know unknown players, Isildur1, has signed with Pokerstars a few days ago, becoming an in-house pro for the world’s largest online poker operation. The Swede wasted little time in ...
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December 10 2010
Wednesday saw the final table of the WPT’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic reconvene to decide a winner. The 6 players who survived the initial starting field of 436 were all name pros and they all came into the final table ...
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December 09 2010
For online poker players and poker fans, Isildur1 needs no introduction. For the rest of you out there: he is an online poker player who took the nosebleed stakes world by storm in 2009, when he charged the top ranks of ...
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December 07 2010
The weekend proved to be an especially lucrative period for the 8 players who walked away with 6-figure prizes from the various high prize-pool weekend guarantees. The top winner of the weekend was yet again the winner of Read More
December 07 2010
As part of the online poker world rejoices over the prospect of online poker becoming legal in the US in the near future, many who have looked deeper into what’s in store, behold the unfolding events with an understandably increasing sense ...
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December 07 2010
When there’s a will there’s a way – they say, and apparently, enough will has finally been mustered on Capitol Hill to pass legislation making online poker legal during this lame-duck session of the Senate and House.
Harry Reid is ...
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December 06 2010
After a brief break, PokerStars’ Big Game returned to the green felt last week, with a new lineup of professional players, and with a new loose cannon, who managed to survive all the way, winning the session hands-down.
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December 06 2010
Just when things looked about as bleak as possible for legal online poker in 2010, and when the prospects of any meaningful legislation in this sense seemed to drift into the distance, along comes a knight in shining armor in the ...
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December 05 2010
UB and Absolute Poker, two of the online poker websites which took quite a bit of flak a couple of years ago for their poor management of security, which resulted in several cheating scandals involving some of the ...
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December 02 2010
So you thought high buy-in, high-prize pool online poker tournament action only took place on weekends… well, you were wrong. Much like the city, the online poker world never sleeps. There's always something going on, and whenever you think ...
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December 02 2010
It has apparently become fashionable lately for poker players to sell their belongings on eBay. Those who missed the chance to bid on Peter Eastgate’s 2009 WSOP main event champion’s bracelet might take interest in the fact that there is ...
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December 02 2010
California has been one of the states to flirt with the idea of legal intrastate poker for a while. As a matter of fact, rumors about possible moves aimed to legalize online poker in the Golden State have surfaced as soon ...
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December 02 2010
The PokerStars sponsored United States championship of online poker rolled to a conclusion on Tuesday, as the Main Event ended with John Hayes's victory. Hayes pocketed a first-place prize of $140,743, having survived a starting field of 1,650 registrants.
The ...
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December 01 2010
The final day of the World Poker Tour's Marrakech Main Event saw nine players return to the tables of the Casino de Marrakech, with Sebastian Homann holding the chip lead. The young German took full advantage of his position and he ...
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December 01 2010
Daniel Cates and Tom Dwan’s durrrr challenge session served as a wake-up call for many of the name Pros at Full Tilt Poker’s nosebleeds stakes tables over the weekend. Di Dang saw plenty of action as well, ...
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December 01 2010
While we definitely do not want to make this out to be a huge development for the online poker cause, one must admit that it is indeed a significant step in the fight against the infamous 2006 UIGEA: the New Jersey ...
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