May 31 2010
Event #2 and 3, the $50k Players’ Championship and the $1,000 NL Holdem event rolled along on Day 3 of the 2010 WSOP. Event #4, the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or better event kicked off as well.
On Day 3 of ...
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May 31 2010
The fact that the WSOP just kicked off in Las Vegas this weekend certainly put a mark on the intensity of the online poker action over the weekend. Though on the surface it seemed like business as usual, it was obvious ...
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May 31 2010
The second day of the 2010 WSOP saw event #1, the $500 Casino Employees event come to an end. This also meant that the very first bracelet of the 41st edition of the Series was awarded. Its beneficiary was Hoai Pham, ...
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May 30 2010
Friday was the day the 41st edition of the biggest yearly poker fiesta kicked off at the Rio, in Las Vegas, with 2 separate events. The $500 casino employee event was the first one on the schedule, attracting a starting field ...
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May 27 2010
If you’re a poker fan, you probably know that professional poker player Mike McDonald (known online as Timex) has vowed a while ago to quit poker or at least to push it way back on his list of priorities. In the ...
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May 26 2010
The online poker weekend was punctuated – as usual – by the high buy-in guaranteed prize-pool events that most of the bigger online poker rooms ran. This time though, it would all be a little bit different: ...
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May 26 2010
There’s no doubt about it. The WPT has found a home in Europe, and player numbers continue to rise on various events, despite the steep buy-ins. The latest leg of the series, the €3,200+€300 Main Event came to a conclusion ...
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May 25 2010
The approach of the WSOP, the prime poker event of the year, has made many of the nosebleed stakes regulars take a break from Full Tilt Poker’s tables. A handful of dedicated pros stuck ...
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May 24 2010
The 2010 edition of the PokerStars APPT’s Macau Main Event is over and a victor has emerged at the end of 4 days of almost relentless green felt battles in the poker room of the Grand Lisboa. Victorino Torres walked ...
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May 24 2010
Day 3 of the PokerStars APPT’s Macau stop saw the poker tournament enter a new and important stage: the final table was reached. The crew of final table participants is a truly motley one, representing no fewer than 8 nations. There ...
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May 23 2010
Bobby’s Room has just gotten a new rival: the Ivey Room has opened the other day at Aria in the City Center, looking to attract high stakes maniacs to possibly rival the Big Game at Las Vegas’ best known nosebleed stakes ...
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May 22 2010
With PokerStars’ 2010 SCOOP in the books, it is time to take a look back at the series and to analyze some trends/statistics. The Series culminated in the $10k Main Event the other day, putting the cap on 16 ...
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May 21 2010
The second day of the PokerStars APPT’s Macau stop saw a total of 160 Day 1a, Day 1b and Day 1c survivors return to the tables of the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. The organizers had scheduled 7 levels for Day ...
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May 21 2010
Day 1c of the PokerStars APPT’s Macau stop saw a massive field of 170 players belly up to the poker tables of the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino, once again confirming the trend of most players waiting till the last possible ...
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May 20 2010
The high stakes online poker cash game action slowed down a little over the weekend (the same obviously cannot be said about the online poker tournament scene which comes alive on weekends), but it got rolling again on Monday. All ...
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May 20 2010
The second day 1 flight of the APPT’s Macau stop saw 84 players belly up to the tables of the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Even though there were fewer registrants hitting the green felt on Day 1b, the field may ...
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May 20 2010
The World Poker Tour Spanish Championship is currently underway in beautiful Barcelona. Day 1A has passed and there are 50 players left out of a field of 134.
WPT Barcelona’s main event is a 3,200€ + 300€ buyin even, and takes place ...
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May 18 2010
88 players showed up for Day 1A of the PokerStars sponsored APPT’s Macau stop. That number may not seem like an impressive one through the prism of the quantity it denotes, but given the fact that 8 is the number of ...
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May 18 2010
Over the last weekend, no fewer than 6 players walked away with 6-figure profits from Full Tilt Poker’s tournament tables. The MiniFTOPS Main Event was on the schedule, as well as the $750 GTD and the usual ...
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May 17 2010
It took Londoner Andrew Couldridge, owner of a plumbing business, three days to dispose of all 649 players who together with him made up the starting field of the PokerStars sponsored UK and Ireland Poker Tour.
The £5,000+ £250 UKIPT Main ...
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May 17 2010
Day 13 of the PokerStars SCOOP finally saw the ice break for professional players as Sorel Mizzi and Kevin Saul both sailed to titles in various SCOOP events. Events #31, 32 and 33 were on the schedule for the day, ...
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May 16 2010
The 12th day of the PokerStars SCOOP saw two of PokerStars’ in house professionals, Daniel Alaei and Robert Mizrachi fall just short of the title in event #28. The two players finished 4th and 5th respectively, as the three remaining players, ...
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May 16 2010
Gus Hansen has definitely been one of the most interesting characters of the nosebleed stakes online poker scene lately. The Great Dane was pretty much used as an ATM by his peers last year when nothing seemed to click for ...
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May 16 2010
Theo Jorgensen started the 5th day of the WPT’s grand Prix De Paris with a massive chip lead, and at the end of the final table showdown, he was the one holding up the shiny trophy and stuffing the €633,902 prize ...
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May 14 2010
Day 3 of the WPT’s Grand Prix de Paris event turned out to be a very short one. The start of the day field of 48 whittled down to 25 before the action was called. The highlight of the day was ...
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May 14 2010
25 players returned to the tables of the Aviation Club De France on Day 4 of the WPT’s Grand Prix De Paris event. The goal was to play down to the final table and that’s exactly what the players have achieved.
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May 13 2010
127 survivors returned to the tables of the Aviation Club De France for the second day of the WPT’s Grand Prix de Paris poker tournament.
Of the Day 1A and Day 1B survivors, Fabrice Tuil had the most chips. ...
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May 11 2010
The second Day 1 flight of the WPT’s Grand Prix de Paris yielded a starting field of 141 players, surpassing the mark of 106, set by Day 1A. The action lasted for 6 levels, into the early morning hours, as none ...
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May 11 2010
The weekend saw no fewer than 3 players walk away with 6-figure prizes from Full Tilt Poker’s tournament tables. kate_sexy was the biggest winner, having pocketed $107,500 in the $750k Guarantee.
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May 09 2010
9 players earned their Champions’ titles on Day 6 of the 2010 PokerStars SCOOP. Many of these players were “name” competitors well known by poker fans world over. Peter Traply, known in online poker circles as “Belabacsi” was one ...
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May 09 2010
As the EPT has just wrapped up its 6th season in Monte Carlo a few days ago, live poker specialists barely had time for a breather before the next major event hit the scene. The WPT’s Grand Prix de Paris kicked ...
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May 09 2010
With the UIGEA deadline fast approaching, and with Barney Frank sidelined for the moment, the internet gambling and online poker industry looks to Rep. Jim McDermott’s Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act for salvation. Hopes are high as the ...
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May 08 2010
With the UIGEA’s deadline upon us, Poker Industry members are collectively holding their breaths as it becomes more and more obvious: crunch-time is here. Poker’s supporters in higher circles do not rest either fortunately, and apparently a hearing regarding the ...
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May 08 2010
Tom Dwan had had an awesome 2010 run by all standards. He won about a million in February, more than 3 million in March and over 2 million in April at the online poker tables, making his embarrassingly huge $5.5 million, ...
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May 05 2010
Day 2 of the PokerStars’ Spring Championship of Online Poker was a truly eventful one. Event #2, the two-day NL Holdem event which kicked off on day one, continued. Events #3, 4 and 5 were on the schedule as well. ...
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May 04 2010
The online poker weekend featured plenty of high-gear action as the last events of the FTOPS wrapped up at Full Tilt Poker. A whole bunch of players took home 6-figure winnings and there was no doubting ...
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May 04 2010
The 6th season of the PokerStars EPT did not conclude with the end of the Main Event. There was one more confrontation that needed to work its way down to a winner: the €25k High Rollers’ Event.
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May 03 2010
Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan came together the other day at Full Tilt Poker’s Challenge tables for yet another Challenge session, the third one in as many days – something I’m not sure the series had ever seen ...
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May 03 2010
The $1 million durrrr challenge, which at one time looked like it was going to simply die off, has been revamped during the last couple of days through two solid back to back sessions, in which Patrik Antonius seemed to have ...
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May 03 2010
The fact that Nicholas Chouity had hogged over 40% of the chips in play on day 4 of the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final cast a shadow over the final table. Sure enough, the worst expectations were confirmed ...
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May 02 2010
Last Week’s online poker action bore the mark of the EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand Final. At the beginning of the week, there was plenty of action, but all that slowly died off towards the end as players ...
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May 02 2010
The final table of the EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand final is set, and Nicholas Chouity is the man looking to kick off the final table action from the position of the chip leader. Nicholas Eyster of the US ...
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