February 28 2010
These days, we’re witnessing a genuine poker explosion all over: the online poker scene is bustling. Online poker tournaments are breaking attendance and prize-pool records and all this while the online nosebleed cash games are in full swing too. The ...
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February 28 2010
More than 400 survivors showed up for day 2 of the WPT’s LA Poker Classic. At the end of the day, only 186 players were left in contention. Team PokerStars Pro players were out in force, and they pretty much stole ...
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February 28 2010
The Mantra Resort in Punta del Este saw 24 players return to the green felt to battle it out for a final table seat, on day 3 of the PokerStars LAPT’s Punta Del Este Main Event. The goal set by ...
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February 28 2010
Though his record breaking nosebleed stakes days are over at least for the time being, Isildur1 is back at the high level cash tables at Full Tilt Poker and he continues to frustrate his most bitter online poker ...
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February 28 2010
The 4th and last day of the PokerStars LAPT’s Punta del Este stop saw the 8 remaining players return to the poker room of the Mantra Resort to sort out the fate of the top prize once and ...
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February 27 2010
The PokerStars sponsored NAPT’s Venetian stop came to a conclusion yesterday as the final table of the High Rollers Event wrapped up with Ashton Griffin taking down the title and the $560,000 first prize.
Concocted by PokerStars pros, the event featured ...
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February 27 2010
With half the initial starting field eliminated on Day 1, the PokerStars LAPT’s Punta del Este stop saw 145 players return to the green felt on Day 2. The goal for day two had been set for the final 24, and ...
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February 26 2010
Despite the several high profile live events going on last week, the online poker scene stayed as hot as ever. Isildur1, everyone’s favorite Swedish mystery player was in the thick of the action again. This time though, things didn’t quite work ...
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February 26 2010
The final day of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour saw an epic heads-up battle between eventual winner Tom Marchese and Sam Stein, the player who had dominated the previous day as well as the preceding final table hostilities.
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February 25 2010
The PokerStars sponsored LAPT’s second stop kicked off yesterday at Punta del Este in Uruguay. The event attracted a field of 307 participants, and given the $3,500+$200 buy-in, the first place prize was set to $279,330.
Day 1 saw the ...
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February 24 2010
24 players returned to the tables of the Venetian for the 4th day of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour’s Main event. The goal was obviously to play down to the final 8 players, setting up the official final table.
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February 24 2010
With the main event of the North American Poker Tour slowly winding down, the limelight was taken by the NAPT High rollers event, a poker tournament featuring a unique shootout structure devised by PokerStars’ specialists. The $25k buy-in event ...
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February 23 2010
Day 3 of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour’s Venetian event saw a surviving field of 149 players return to the green felt. This day was a crucial one in the poker tournament because the money bubble would be reached ...
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February 23 2010
PokerStars shatters every new record it sets in a few weeks’ time lately. It is now a definite trend. Just 3-4 weeks after it set a new attendance and prize-pool record with its Sunday Million, this past weekend it ...
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February 22 2010
The final day of the EPT Copenhagen Main Event saw 9 players return to the green felt, instead of the 8 that had been scheduled initially. Because the final table bubble just wouldn’t burst on day 4, organizers ...
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February 21 2010
The 4th day of the EPT’s Copenhagen Main Event saw three tablefuls of players return to the ballroom of the Radisson Hotel. The goal for the day was for these 3 tables to whittle down to one before the final whistle, ...
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February 20 2010
The third day of the EPT Copenhagen Main Event was a crucial one, at least for those 20 players who would be eliminated without making the money. With the last paying position set for 56th place, the 76 ...
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February 19 2010
The second day of the EPT Copenhagen Main Event hosted a massive field of 243 Day 1A and Day 1B survivors. Due to the large number of “name” pros registered for the poker tournament, and due to the ...
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February 18 2010
Day 1B of the EPT’s Copenhagen stop featured a starting field of 232 players. Though the size of the field may have been a little disappointing (the poker tournament failed to make its cap) its makeup was more than impressive. Day ...
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February 18 2010
A snowy Copenhagen played host to Day 1A of the EPT’s Danish stop. A pretty impressive starting field of 191 players showed up for the first one of the Day 1 flights. 8 blinds levels were waded through ...
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February 16 2010
The third heat of the PartyPoker Premier League came to a conclusion on Sunday, with David Benyamine scoring a win to take his points total to 24, good enough for second place on the leader board, right behind Phil Laak who ...
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February 16 2010
Phil Laak has trounced the PartyPoker Premier League 4’s field thoroughly, sweeping the three heats in which he played and shooting to the top of the overall leader board in a more than dominant manner. The Unabomber accumulated 48 ...
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February 16 2010
With the 50,000 hand Durrrr Challenge slowly winding down, it is more and more obvious that Tom Dwan has found some sort of lucky charm, or a key breach in his opponent’s approach that allows him to close each and every ...
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February 15 2010
Last week was one of the more eventful ones, at least as far as the nosebleed stakes online poker action was concerned. Several important things happened, among which Isildur1’s return to action stood out head and shoulder.
The mystery Swede ...
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February 14 2010
The third day of the PartyPoker Premier League playoffs was the last one, as the final Main Event seat was taken. Ian Frazer defeated Remy Biechel heads-up in the pros’ playoff series, thus securing the last available Main ...
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February 14 2010
The second day of the PartyPoker Premier League playoffs kicked off at the M Resort with the first day participants back for the third heat of their playoff series.
Felipe Ramos began the day with the most points accumulated ...
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February 10 2010
With not much going on at the nosebleed stakes cash tables At Full Tilt Poker the other day, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius convened for yet another durrrr challenge session. The Finn was obviously hoping to shave a bit off of ...
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February 10 2010
The M-Resort, just off the famous Las Vegas Strip hosted the first flight of the long-awaited PartyPoker Premier League playoffs. 6 players bellied up to the tables to begin their 3-heat run to determine the final table qualifiers. ...
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February 08 2010
Poker players are either not football fans or they’re adept at multi-tasking: despite the Super Bowl taking place last weekend, the online poker action remained as frantic as ever, as thousands upon thousands flocked to the big guaranteed prize-...
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February 08 2010
The last 10 players left alive in the Borgata Winter Poker Open bellied up to the final table of the poker tournament on Friday to decide who would take home the $625,000 first prize.
Sirous Jamshide went into ...
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February 06 2010
The 4th day of the 2010 Borgata Winter Open saw a surviving field of 27 players belly up to the tables, in pursuit of the top prize. Tom Marchese and Jeff Matros had excellent day 4 runs, and so did Jeff ...
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February 05 2010
If you thought that depositing money to your favorite online poker room was tough, wait till you get a load of this: Credit Card giant MasterCard has once again figured out how to make life harder for US ...
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February 04 2010
The nosebleed stakes online poker action has seen an unexpected resurgence this week. All the big names hit the tables at one point or another and monster pots went down left and right, once again dazzling railbirds and driving action ...
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February 01 2010
This past weekend was a truly memorable one for the online poker industry. Due to the end of the month promotions most online poker sites were running, high octane action had been anticipated, but the resulting player numbers took everyone ...
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February 01 2010
In the wake of the Aussie Millions, Phil Ivey has made it official that he was the best ever poker money earner. The community has long proclaimed him the best all round poker player ever, but until not so long ago, ...
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