July 31 2010
Despite all the protest from various male and female poker players against gender-segregation at the WSOP’s Ladies only event, PokerStars is planning to do the “unthinkable”: to start a women’s poker league. We’re not sure how one can crossdress ...
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July 31 2010
The fact that Barney Frank’s proposed online poker bill has passed the vote of the House Financial Services Committee, marking the first time ever that US legislators have cast a positive vote on the matter of legal online poker, has set ...
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July 31 2010
Daniel Negreanu has been one of the most popular faces of poker in recent years, on television and in live poker events. He’s also been known for his lack of success at the online tables. The Canadian pro, one of PokerStars ...
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July 31 2010
John Racener may be a virtual unknown to most online poker players and poker fans, but that doesn’t mean he’s a new face at the green felt. Most of the big live poker names know him well, as he’s been playing ...
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July 29 2010
July 28th 2010 will go down in online poker history as a true landmark: it was the day federal lawmakers first viewed legal online poker in a positive light. The 41-22-1 vote that Barney Frank’s Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer ...
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July 26 2010
PokerStars is apparently set to change the makeup of its team, although this time it’s not a new poker pro they’re looking to bring into the fold. Gabi Campos, from 888’s Dragonfish, will apparently take over as the new CEO, as ...
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July 25 2010
The hiatus provided by the 2010 WSOP may have been a welcome one for the players, but it definitely didn’t go down as well with the various online poker rooms, which routinely failed to cover their guarantees and registered awful ...
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July 23 2010
The online poker industry had probably awaited the end of the WSOP breath held, and the reason has now become obvious: as soon as the hostilities ceased at the Rio and as soon as the nosebleed stakes professionals shed the dust ...
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July 19 2010
As the field whittled down to the final two tables on day 8 of the poker tournament, things turned from serious to dead serious. Scott Clements, one of the “name” pros who’d managed to hang on thus far ...
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July 19 2010
As soon as day 8 of the 2010 WSOP Main Event kicked off, it was clear it would be different from previous days. This one would be all business and the highest level at that. The first victim of the ...
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July 19 2010
Day 8 of the 2010 Big Dance is finally over and the November Nine has been set. 9 lucky, not to mention skilled players will return in November to do battle for the biggest title in poker: the gold bracelet worth ...
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July 19 2010
The final summer day of the 2010 WSOP is in the books and the November Nine has finally been set. The last day of action was quite a bit different than the ones leading up to it. While on previous ...
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July 18 2010
The 7th Day of the 2010 WSOP Main Event saw a field of 78 players belly up to the tables. These were the contenders who had survived 6 days of atrocious poker action, and many of them would head to ...
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July 17 2010
Theo Jorgensen had finished with the chip lead on day 5 of the 2010 WSOP, and he’d spent much of day 6 near the top of the leader board too. Day 6 eventually turned out to be his day. He ...
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July 17 2010
Day 6 of the 2010 WSOP Main Event was a truly remarkable one. The reason: Michael Mizrachi. The oldest of the Mizrachi Brothers (two of whom had already been bounced from the Main Event on previous days), won the opening ...
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July 16 2010
No fewer than 368 players bit the dust on day 5 of the 2010 Big Dance. The good news is that while a few “name” pros did drop out, the majority of players railbirds would like to see make it as ...
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July 15 2010
Tony Dunst secured the chip lead at the end of day 4 of the 2010 WSOP Big Dance, a day which saw the money bubble burst too. Dunst managed to amass a 1.5 million chip stack to finish atop the ...
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July 14 2010
Day 4 of the 2010 WSOP’s Main Event saw a milestone reached: the money bubble burst about halfway through the day. From that point onward, the 747 survivors of the initial starting field of 7,319 could rest assured they’d not have ...
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July 14 2010
Day 3 of the 2010 WSOP’s Main Event saw all the remaining survivors belly up to the tables together, not separated by distinct A and B flights. James Carroll, one of the players who’d earned their seats through PokerStars, was ...
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July 13 2010
In a rather surprising turn of events, Peter Eastgate, PokerStars pro, has announced the other day that he was retiring from poker indefinitely. Such announcements are relatively common in the poker world: Saun Deeb was one of the players who had ...
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July 12 2010
Day 2b of the 2010 WSOP Main Event was a relatively short one, at least in WSOP terms: it only lasted for 8 hours. David Assouline emerged with the chip lead at the end of the day, having amassed a stack ...
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July 11 2010
Most online poker players take to the tables in hopes of making money. Some of them do, others end up losing. Those who eventually become successful do so through hard work, study and perseverance. Short-cut seekers are never in ...
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July 11 2010
Day 2A of the 2010 WSOP saw 1,260 Day 1 survivors belly up to the poker tables. Each and every one of these guys was hell-bent on advancing, but of course, only a few of the chosen were eventually ...
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July 11 2010
Day 1d – the last of the 4 scheduled day 1 flights - carried special significance for the 2010 WSOP Main Event organizers. The 2,391 players who showed up for this bout, rounded the total number of participants to ...
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July 10 2010
Day 1C of the 2010 WSOP Big Dance attracted more players than day 1a and Day 1b had before, confirming the trend that as far as WSOP tournaments are concerned, the tough only get going when the doors are almost slammed ...
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July 08 2010
As expected, day 1b of the 2010 WSOP Big Dance managed to attract more players than day 1a. A total of 1,489 protagonists bellied up to the tables of the Rio for the second day 1 flight of the biggest ...
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July 07 2010
The WSOP’s Big Dance is finally afoot, and familiar as well as less known faces have once again appeared around the tables of the Rio, all set to at least grab a price of the last 2010 WSOP prize-pool, ...
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July 06 2010
The Tournament of Champions ended on day 38 of the 2010 WSOP, and Huck Seed was the one who lifted the trophy above his head when the dust had settled.
The final table was by no means an easy one to ...
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July 05 2010
Day 37 of the 2010 WSOP was one of the last ones before the Main Event. The $10,000 PLO Championship, which was supposed to play down to a winner (or at least a final table) alone generated more than enough ...
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July 04 2010
Day 36 of the 2010 WSOP was a pretty eventful one, despite the fact that it saw only one bracelet awarded. The winner of that gold was Brendan Taylor, who came out on top of an initial starting field of 548 ...
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July 03 2010
California is apparently seriously considering legalizing intra-state online poker in an effort to alleviate the financial pressures to which the debt-ridden state is currently subjected. What exactly would legal intrastate online poker in California mean for the online poker ...
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July 02 2010
Event #51, the $3,000 Triple Chance NL Holdem one was responsible for creating the sole bracelet winner on Day 35 of the 2010 WSOP. Ryan Welch was the one to walk away with the goods in that event, after besting ...
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July 02 2010
No fewer than 3 players picked up their WSOP 2010 gold on day 34 of the Series, forever etching their names into poker history.
After 4 days of play instead of the planned 3, event #47, the $1,000 NL Holdem ...
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July 01 2010
PokerStars’ Big Game didn’t really give the two guest players a fighting chance on its week 2, even though one of them was a professional poker player who has allegedly logged more than a million hands online this year already. Will ...
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July 01 2010
Day 33 of the 2010 WSOP saw at least a couple of events slow to a crawl. Event #47, the $1,000 NL Holdem special was one of them. Originally set to play out over 3 days, the event was turned ...
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