March 29 2010
With all the EPT and WPT events swirling around us, even the most avid poker fans sometimes miss out on the fact that there are similar caliber poker events taking place Down Under too. The Australia New Zealand Poker Tour’s Perth ...
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March 29 2010
Full Tilt Poker’s Carlos Mortensen followed through on his excellent WPT Hollywood Poker Open run with a win the other day, his third WPT one overall, thus etching his name deeper into WPT history. He is now tied with Gus Hansen ...
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March 28 2010
Six days after Day 1A of the EPT Snowfest Main Event had kicked off in Saalbach Hinterglemm, Denmark’s Allan Baekke lifted the trophy above his head and pocketed the €445,000 top prize. While he truly put in a ...
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March 27 2010
With the field down to 24, the 4th day of the EPT Snowfest Main Event would be about the battle for the final table. Allan Baekke continued to be “in the zone” for day 4 too. He never ...
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March 27 2010
86 players remained in contention for Day 3 of the EPT Snowfest Main Event. With the money bubble set for 80th, trigger fingers were pretty itchy at the start of the day. PokerStars own Johannes ...
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March 25 2010
Tony G is apparently very interested in dragging Isildur1 into the limelight somehow. The online poker guru and businessman had expressed his desire to stake the Swede last time, when his Full Tilt Poker bankroll fell pray to ...
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March 25 2010
Nothing shows Isildur1’s influence on the flow of high stakes cash games at Full Tilt Poker better than fact that for the few days he was absent from the tables, following the huge hit he’d taken from Hastings, ...
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March 25 2010
The second day of the EPT’s Snowfest Main event saw 256 survivors belly up to the tables, looking to play down as close to the money bubble as possible. That objective was pretty much achieved by the end of the day. ...
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March 23 2010
Day 1B of the EPT Snowfest Main Event attracted a starting field of 276 players, taking the overall number of starters to 546, well below the 600 mark the organizers had been hoping for. The 546 players combined ...
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March 23 2010
Last weekend saw some hectic online poker tournament action again. All the big flagship guarantees covered their guarantees and attracted plenty of players. Several players ended the week by taking down 6-figure prizes. Once again, the biggest winner was the ...
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March 22 2010
The first Day 1 flight of the first ever Snowfest EPT Main Event saw a starting field of 270 players belly up to the tables, following a night of free drinks, partying and fireworks. When the line was ...
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March 21 2010
The issue of the legal status of online poker is addressed by various states one after the other. Obviously, most of the countries which decided to do something about the issue, moved towards protecting monopoly one way or another.
The ...
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March 21 2010
Following the explosion of action the nosebleed stakes have seen at Full Tilt Poker in recent weeks, things slowed a little down over the past few days. Isildur1 has dropped most of his rebuilt Full Tilt Poker bankroll ...
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March 18 2010
The daredevil, broad-daylight robbery that marred the 4th day of the biggest ever live poker tournament on German soil was an extremely interesting affair. For some reason, details about the exact number of perpetrators, the weapons used and the amount ...
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March 17 2010
Ever since Isildur1 returned to the limelight, the high stakes online poker action has gained tons of momentum at Full Tilt Poker. His presence seems to stimulate the pace of the action both directly and indirectly.
After he ...
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March 17 2010
One thing has become certain about the durrrr challenge lately: Patrik Antonius just cannot get anything going. Of the last 11 sessions, he finished 10 down 6 figures and to top off the counter-performance, he lost the latest nine-minute ...
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March 15 2010
The online poker weekend saw plenty of high profile events taking place at various online poker rooms. No fewer than 8 players walked away with 6-figure prizes, the biggest haul weighing in at more than a quarter million.
As usual, ...
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March 14 2010
With 6 players returning to do battle on Day 4 of the WPT’s Bay 101 Shooting Star event, all eyes were on the last surviving Shooting Star, Phil Hellmuth. Eventually, McLean Karr was the one who took the title and the ...
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March 13 2010
The 3rd day of the WPT’s Bay 101 Shooting Star event saw 27 survivors return to the tables, with the goal of setting the final table. Phil Hellmuth started the day with the largest stack, and the UltimateBet pro held ...
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March 13 2010
After another overnight chip leader (Eugene Katchalov) had collected a $10k extra reward on Day 1B of the WPT’s Bay 101 Shooting Star event, Day 2 saw 126 players return to the poker tournament action. At the end ...
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March 13 2010
Nobody knows who Isildur1 is, but everyone is certain of one thing: this guy doesn’t play around. He wins big and loses big too. On Tuesday, the Swede took on the Cardrunners duo of Cole South and Brian Hastings at Read More
March 10 2010
Barely had the dust settled in the wake of the last WPT event, the Bay 101 shooting star took over the headlines almost immediately. The unique format of the poker tournament made it possible for participants to make serious money without ...
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March 10 2010
The weekend saw some pretty hectic online poker action at Full Tilt Poker, where the nosebleed tables came under fire by Tom Dwan, Ilari Sahamies and Isildur1. Building on his excellent form, Tom Dwan added $1.3 million in ...
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March 10 2010
The much hyped Durrrr Challenge, now in its second year, looks like it’s finally approaching a quiet downhill roll to the end. The two players involved in the series, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius had another session the other day, which ...
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March 08 2010
The online poker weekend saw plenty of action again. PokerStars’ Sunday Million attracted a starting field of over 10,000 players again and a monster prize-pool developed. No fewer than 4 players took home 6-figure hauls in this poker ...
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March 08 2010
After 4 days of green felt battles, a robbery and several spectacular comebacks from the edge of extinction, Idaho’s own Kevin MacPhee took down the PokerStars EPT Berlin Main Event, pocketing the €1 million top prize and lifting ...
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March 07 2010
The 4th day of the PokerStars sponsored EPT Berlin Main Event turned out to be something more sited for a cheesy western than for a real life scenario. 24 players returned to the tables and there were only ...
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March 07 2010
After 6 days of grueling green-felt battles, the 745-player initial LA Poker Classic starting field finally yielded a winner. Hungary’s Andras Koroknai was the one who walked away with the title at the end of it all, topped off ...
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March 04 2010
Rain or sunshine, the nosebleed online poker action never stops for anybody. This past week, the usual protagonists took their 6 and 7 figure bankrolls to the tables again, some of them logging profits, while others dropped money – more of ...
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March 04 2010
Day 5 of the WPT’s LA Poker Classic saw a lot of heartbreak at the Commerce Casino. Big name players bowed out of the poker tournament one by one, as the grueling 15 hours marathon of a day covered 9 blind ...
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March 04 2010
With the German leg of the EPT moved from Dortmund to Berlin, expectations were high regarding the number of participants, the resulting prize-pool and the general feel of the Main Event. For once, these expectations were fully justified. A much ...
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March 02 2010
Day 3 of the LA Poker Classic had an obvious goal: playing down to the money bubble. That goal was achieved, as out of the 186 players who’d bellied up to the tables of the Commerce Casino, only 72 were left ...
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