August 31 2010
221 players returned to the confines of the Casino Vilamoura to battle it out for survival on day 2 of the EPT’s Vilamoura Main Event. Russia’s Leonid Bilokur, of the PokerStars qualifiers, started the day with the largest stack. The way ...
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August 31 2010
With the 2010 edition of the WCOOP on the horizon, players are taking to the tables in larger and larger numbers. The massive buy-in online weekend guarantees have recorded more than decent numbers and they have largely managed to cover ...
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August 31 2010
As expected, the EPT’s Portuguese Main Event saw slightly more players belly up to the poker tables of the Casino Vilamoura on Day 1B of the event. 203 players coughed up the buy-in, rounding the total field to 384, ...
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August 29 2010
By now, you’ve probably already had your fill of the Negreanu vs Annie Duke drama, but if not, here’s a small introduction to this Hollywood-like battle of words (and apparently not so much one of wits): in an interview, Daniel ...
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August 29 2010
181 players showed up at the Casino Vilamoura for the PokerStars EPT’s Day 1A, chasing after the European summer and after the massive prize-pool that the event would hopefully generate. The size of the PokerStars reception held a day ...
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August 28 2010
It took him 5 grueling days of green felt action in the Bicycle Casino in LA, but in the end, it was all worth it for Andy Frankenberger, the previously unheard-of player who won the WPT’s 2010 Legends of Poker ...
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August 25 2010
As the live poker season was in full swing and not slowing down one bit, player numbers at various online events were smaller than usual this past weekend. Regardless of that though, most of the flagship weekend tournaments managed to cover ...
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August 25 2010
Ultimate Bet’s online poker championship is in full swing, offering those who miss out on the weekend guarantees the opportunity to battle it out for high prize-pools and against reputable foes. Sunday saw 2 UBOC events unfold: event #7, the ...
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August 23 2010
A total of 141 players returned to action on day 2 of Full Tilt Poker’s Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event. Of these guys, only 45 remained after 7 grueling levels of poker and Manig Loeser grabbed the chip ...
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August 23 2010
Organizers hopes for getting more players to belly up to the tables of the Merit Cyprus Classic’s Main Event were dashed as only 71 players showed up for the second and final day 1 flight. Still, the number of big poker ...
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August 22 2010
Perica Bukara was the one with the biggest stack at the beginning of the final day of Full Tilt Poker’s Merit Cyprus Classic high roller event, and at the end of it all, he was the one who ...
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August 22 2010
Full Tilt Poker’s Merit Cyprus Classic is finally in the books, wrapped up last Wednesday, and having culminated with the victory of Andreas Krause. The televised final table of the poker tournament was a truly select one. Headlined by Read More
August 22 2010
As far as poker is concerned, things are certainly moving about at an alert pace on the isle of Cyprus. Last year marked the first time ever that an international poker tournament was held there, and this year, ...
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August 22 2010
The second day of Full Tilt Poker’s Merit Cyprus Classic high roller event saw an important milestone reached: the poker tournament played down to its final table. The interesting thing this about the situation was that not even all the final ...
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August 21 2010
Full Tilt Poker’s Merit Cyprus Classic got rolling with the high rollers’ event a few days ago. Only 36 players found it within their means to cough up the $25,000 buy-in, and at the end of day 1, only 24 ...
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August 18 2010
These days, online poker tournament series seem to follow each other in quick succession. Barely has Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS wound down, Ultimate Bet is readying the dish for the online poker players who’ve gotten used to the ...
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August 18 2010
The last online poker weekend went down bearing the mark of the FTOPS’ 17th edition. A whole host of FTOPS events rolled to a conclusion on Sunday, on top of the usual flagship guarantees.
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August 18 2010
During the WSOP, the online poker action had pretty much ground to a stand-still, all the regulars caught up in various WSOP-related ventures. Nowadays, as the memory of the summer’s biggest poker frenzy is slowly fading into the distance, ...
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August 18 2010
The 17th edition of Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS is in the books, and as always, it has yielded a bunch of heroes, zeros and weirdos and that’s ok, because that’s exactly what we like to see. Poker pros and amateurs have ...
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August 17 2010
The player with all eyes on him at the EPT Tallinn’s final table was PokerStars France pro Arnaud Mattern. He had the experience, he had the swagger, and most importantly, he had the chip lead going into ...
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August 17 2010
The 4th day of the PokerStars EPT Tallinn stop saw no fewer than 25 players belly up to the tables of the venue, on account of the fact that many of the short-stacks had proven way to ...
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August 15 2010
Day 3 of the EPT’s Tallinn Main Event proved to be a real game-changer. Of the 84 players who returned to action, only 25 would be standing at the end of the day, the money bubble safely behind them. The ...
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August 15 2010
The second day of action was a smoking one at the EPT’s Tallinn stop. The action only lasted for 5 levels, but plenty of things happened during this short outing. Jonathan Weekes shot to the top of the provisional leader board, ...
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August 11 2010
It’s that time of the year again folks: the Merit Cyprus Classic is just around the corner. The event will take place on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Cyprus, in the Merit Cristal Cove Hotel and Casino, which is positively one ...
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August 11 2010
Matthias Habernig survived 4 days of intense poker tournament action to win the PokerStars LAPT’s Florianopolis event. The Austrian was the one who calmly held up the Ac,10c, the last hand he played, sitting behind a trophy and a stack ...
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August 08 2010
After some uncharacteristically rainy weather on the first day of action, the sun finally broke free from under the blanket of think clouds for the second day of the LAPT’s Florianopolis stop.
Mathias Habernig was the one who topped the 183-...
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August 07 2010
The vul… er… agents hovering about the tables during the final stages of this year’s WSOP will like this one: EPT San Remo Main Event winner Liv Boeree may have parted ways with her sponsor, Ultimate Bet. ...
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August 07 2010
By now, those with anything to do with the online poker and online gambling industries as well as with their live counterparts, have probably gotten used to the litany of bad news that Summer seems to bring about every year. We ...
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August 07 2010
The PokerStars sponsored Latin American poker Tour’s penultimate stop is currently underway in Florianopolis, in Brazil. Day 1 of the event saw a starting field of 356 players belly up to the tables, many of them PokerStars pros and European ...
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August 06 2010
With the WSOP largely in the books, the poker world has currently turned its attention to the LAPT’s Florianopolis event but some bigger things are already brewing just over the horizon. The EPT’s 7th season is set to kick off ...
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August 06 2010
Full Tilt Poker really needed something to get the online action going and to have those massive guaranteed prize-pools covered again in the wake of the WSOP, and the XVIIth edition of the FTOPS was apparently that something. The ...
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August 06 2010
Soon after the session that managed to break the ice following the 92-day hiatus the durrrr challenge had seen on account of the WSOP, the two protagonists reconvened for another 181 hand bout. The session only lasted for 36 ...
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August 05 2010
You have probably heard about Barney Frank’s HR 2267 passing through the House Financial Services Committee with flying colors. If you’ve been reading the news on here for a while, you probably also know that here was a cost to this ...
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August 05 2010
The fact that Barney Frank’s famous online gambling bill got a positive vote in the House Financial Services Committee, got a lot of players and online poker operators excited. Many people act like federally legalized online poker is just around ...
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August 05 2010
It took them a while in the wake of the WSOP (where Dwan was busy chasing that elusive prop bet bracelet of his), but the two Durrrr Challenge rivals finally got together again for a session on Read More
August 04 2010
The PokerStars.it Italian Poker Tour’s Venice stop was a true record setter. The €2,000 event saw 504 players belly up to the tables of the Casino Ca’Noghera, marking the biggest Italian Poker Tour event ever. Hungary’s Tamas Lendvai was the one ...
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August 04 2010
It’s official: the WSOP hangover is done with in the online poker world. Big names like Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey have returned to the tables at Full Tilt Poker and a surprise appearance ...
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August 02 2010
The online poker industry is slowly but surely recovering from the shock of the 2010 WSOP. High buy-in weekend guarantees are excellent indicators in this respect, and according to them, people are returning to the online tables. PokerStars’ Sunday ...
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August 01 2010
John Dolan is probably one of the least known members of the November Nine, but that doesn’t change the fact that the 45 million chips he managed to accumulate (mostly on the final table bubble) make him one of the favorites ...
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