April 30 2010
With the money bubble out of the way on Day 2, the 116 players who returned to the tables of the poker tournament on Day 3 were all content in the knowledge that they had some dough secured. Therefore, instead of ...
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April 30 2010
Yes indeed, Patrik Antonius has actually managed to finally turn things around a little by logging a winning session. It wasn’t a landslide of a turn-around, but its psychological value probably far outweighs its real one. After having dropped 11 ...
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April 28 2010
Day 1B of the PokerStars EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand Final drew a starting field of 497 players, bigger than that of Day 1A, and established the eventual size of the prize-pool, which in turn set the winner’s ...
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April 28 2010
413 players returned to the green felt on day 2 of the EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand final. The roof of the state of the art facility remained on, therefore players weren’t forced to juggle around for shady seats. ...
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April 27 2010
351 players registered for the 2010 EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final’s Day 1A. The venue where the action kicked off yesterday was the definition of a state-of-the-art facility. The roof could be lifted off the ...
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April 27 2010
The weekends are usually pretty busy times in the online poker world. All the massive prize-pool guarantees take place over the weekends and this past weekend was no exception. The FTOPS’ 16th edition was in full swing at Read More
April 26 2010
The 6th day of theWPT’s World Championship event saw the best of the best return to the tables of the Bellagio to battle down the home stretch towards to the title. The official final table of the event included names like ...
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April 24 2010
Day 5 of the WPT’s World Championship event saw 18 players return to the green felt, all hoping to become one of the 10 who would survive to do battle at the televised final table of the poker ...
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April 24 2010
The online poker world is abuzz with excitement in the wake of the appearance of a new high stakes mystery player, known as “Odonkor1” at Full Tilt Poker’s nosebleed tables. Because the player in question is Swedish, everyone ...
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April 23 2010
The EPT’s 2010 San Remo stop is finally over. After 6 days of action and after having survived a record starting field of 1,240, Liv Bouree was crowned champion, thus becoming the third woman to take down an Read More
April 23 2010
24 players returned to the tables of the Casino Municipale in San Remo with the objective to play down to the final table on day 5 of the EPT’s Main Event. Sure enough, at the end of the ...
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April 23 2010
66 players returned to the green felt of the Casino Municipale in San Remo to do battle until only 24 would be left for day 5. The goal was not an overly ambitious one, and sure enough, it was reached in ...
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April 19 2010
The 3rd day of the EPT San Remo stop saw 194 players return to the tables, led by Dmitry Selmak. The day’s hostilities lasted for 5 levels, at the end of which 66 players were still left standing. ...
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April 19 2010
The WPT’s 8th annual World Championship event kicked off on Sunday at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, having drawn a starting field of 161 players. The numbers were quite a bit off last year’s pace, when no fewer than 388 hopefuls ...
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April 19 2010
While several people have gotten into trouble in the wake of the 2006 UIGEA for breaching the provisions of the act, none has been formally arrested and charged on UIGEA related basis. None until last Friday, when 27-year old Australian, ...
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April 18 2010
Given the huge number of Day 1A and Day 1B participants, the 620 players who returned to the tables of the PokerStars EPT’s San Remo stop did not come as a surprise to anyone. After having broken the record of the ...
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April 18 2010
Tom Dwan was not running roughshod over the online poker tables last week and Isildur1 was not present to generate a frenzy, but the nosebleed stakes online poker action was still interesting. After all, Gus Hansen was winning. That’s right. A ...
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April 18 2010
As many have anticipated on Day 1A, the starting field record of the PokerStars EPT’s San Remo stop has been broken on Day 1B. 656 players bellied up to the tables on Day 1B, taking the total number ...
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April 18 2010
Sorel Mizzi’s 3rd place finish at the Aussie Millions in January proved to be the pebble that would set a true avalanche in motion: the Full Tilt poker pro scored one huge cash finish after another in the wake of that ...
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April 16 2010
The Pokerstars sponsored EPT’s San Remo stop has always been one of the more popular ones of the tour. This year its status seems confirmed as Day 1A alone has already drawn 585 registrants. Given the fact that later day 1 ...
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April 14 2010
The most talked about cash game of the past week - the PartyPoker Big Game IV - has come to an end with David Viffer taking the big win. Viffer played one of the loosest games ever ...
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April 12 2010
After 5 days of rabid poker action and after having survived an initial starting field of 715 players, Vanessa Selbst took down the top prize and the trophy awarded by the PokerStars NAPT’s Mohegan Sun event. Selbst is by no means ...
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April 11 2010
Despite the fact that the live poker scene has been pretty hot last week, the nosebleed online poker tables have seen their fair share of action at Full Tilt Poker too. Tom Dwan has been on a ...
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April 11 2010
The PokerStars sponsored North American Poker Tour’s 3rd day was set to be a long and tedious affair, but fortunately for the participants (especially for those who didn’t get bounced) that was not the case. Vanessa Selbst and Scott Seiver took ...
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April 08 2010
Easter presented a great opportunity for people world over to relax and to take it easy for a couple of days, but obviously, nosebleed stakes professionals viewed it as yet another opportunity for some high stakes antics, so there was no ...
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April 06 2010
The third day of the Irish Poker Open saw the final table reached. The returning players played right down to the final 8. The Day 3 survivors went to bed content in the knowledge that they all had a minimum payout ...
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April 06 2010
Day 4 of the 2010 Irish Poker Open would see the final act of a 708-player drama unfold, and was it ever a spectacle worthy of attending...when the dust settled in the wake of operation “Final Table”, James Mitchell was ...
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April 04 2010
Durrrr had dropped quite of bit of dough to Ilari Sahamies a few days ago, around $1.5 million to be exact. Only a day after his loss, he took on the Finn again, thirsty to exact some revenge. Sure enough, at ...
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April 04 2010
A couple of days ago a huge news hit the WWW about retired Swedish hockey professional Mats Sundin claiming that he was in fact the illusive Swedish online poker professional, currently only known by his online moniker: Isildur1. I must ...
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April 04 2010
256 players returned to the tables on Day 2 of the Irish Poker Open. Of these guys, only one would lift the trophy above his head at the end of the event though, pocketing the €600k top prize in the process. ...
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April 03 2010
The first day of the 2010 Irish Poker Open kicked off on Good Friday, with 708 players bellying up to the tournament tables. This edition of one of Europe’s biggest live poker tournaments carried special significance: the Irish Poker Open has ...
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April 03 2010
PokerStars sure do get around, but only in the best possible way. PokerStars have just announced both an added stop in an already existent tour and a whole new tour.
The Latin American Poker Tour has become an established element of ...
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April 02 2010
High stakes poker players seem to need a break every now and then. By and by, one can hear about one of them “giving up” on the game and switching his/her focus to something else, most often though, these guys are ...
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April 01 2010
As you probably know, about a week ago, PartyPoker professional, Tony G offered to stake Swedish mystery player Isildur1, for the PartyPoker Big Game IV, a massive cash game which will take place in London. Several other high profile online ...
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April 01 2010
As April 23rd draws near, the thoughts of every red-blooded online poker player turn to the FTOPS XVI. The Mini FTOPS series barely over, the FTOPS is another huge money making opportunity looming just over the horizon. The FTOPS ...
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April 01 2010
The last couple of weeks have seen some pretty hectic high stakes online poker action at PokerStars and at Full Tilt Poker too, despite the absence of the usual catalyst for such bustle: Isildur1. This time, it was ...
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