September 30 2010
London is slowly but surely morphing into the poker capitol of the world, there are fewer and fewer doubts about that. Barely have the media waves generated by the WSOPE subsided, there’s another thing afoot in London to keep media rats ...
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September 29 2010
9 players bellied up to the tables of the Empire Casino in London for the final day of the long and tedious battle that the 2010 WSOPE’s Main Event turned out to be. With more stars per table than just about ...
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September 29 2010
There’s no denying the fact that most of the nosebleed stakes online poker regulars preferred live and online tournament action this past week. Richard Ashby won a WCOOP bracelet in the 6-max PLO event and Gus Hansen took down a ...
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September 29 2010
After 3 weeks of online poker battles and after countless WCOOP bracelets finding their owners (not to mention the millions of dollars awarded in prize-pools) the WCOOP has finally wrapped up. The Main Event is in the books and its ...
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September 28 2010
The history of the 2010 WSOPE’s High Rollers Heads Up title turned put to be a rather convoluted one, but in the end one thing became clear and certain: the winner is Gus Hansen and he fully deserves the title and ...
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September 28 2010
The PokerStars LAPT’s Rosario Main Event is finally in the books and a winner has had his hand raised and pockets stuffed. The poker tournament attracted a starting field of 254 players, generating a total prize-pool ...
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September 27 2010
66 players returned to the tables of the Empire Casino in London for the 3rd day of the WSOPE’s Main Event, fully aware of the fact that with the money bubble set for 36th place, 30 of them would still walk ...
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September 27 2010
The PokerStars LAPT’s Rosario Main Event had had a whole bunch of different story lines heading into its Day 2. The continent’s best poker players had pretty much all registered for the $5,000 event, there was an ex champ there ...
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September 27 2010
195 of the world’s best poker players reconvened for day 2 of the 2010 WSOPE’s Main Event the other day. Leading the illustrious field were James Mitchell, an Irish Poker Open champion, and John Dolan, one of privileged who will return ...
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September 25 2010
The final round of the 2010 WSOPE’s High Rollers Heads-up event obviously couldn’t be decided through a single heads-up bout. Instead, the best of three format was adopted, to make sure that the player winning the title would indeed ...
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September 25 2010
Despite the slightly smaller Day 1A turn-out, Day 1B of the 2010 WSOPE’s Main Event managed to save face by improving on last year’s numbers. The improvement was quite marginal (12 players) but it was there nonetheless, to stroke the ...
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September 24 2010
The first day 1 flight of the 2010 WSOPE’s Main Event kicked off the other day, as 137 players coughed up the £10,000 buy-in to participate in one of the most popular and richest live poker tournaments ...
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September 23 2010
There was a lot of worrying about how many players the 2010 WSOPE’s High Roller NL Holdem Heads-up event would attract. Some experts said there wouldn’t be more than 50 something players willing to cough up the £10,000+£350 buy-in, ...
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September 23 2010
For the second consecutive week, Ilari Sahamies surfaced as the biggest online poker winner, pocketing around $700k from Cardrunners Brian Hastings and Cole South. The Finn had a field-day over both Cardrunners pros, taking around $621k from South and almost ...
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September 22 2010
Jason Mercier has been one of the players with the most diverse repertoire when it came to the variety of live poker events won, for quite a while. His latest addition to an already impressive trophy case was a WCOOP title, ...
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September 20 2010
The last 9 survivors of 3 days of poker hostilities showed up at the APPT Auckland’s Main Event final table, some hell bent on winning, others probably content to just make it as deep into the big money as possible.
Leo ...
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September 20 2010
28 players showed up at the SKYCITY Auckland Casino for the 3rd day of the PokerStars APPT’s Main Event. The immediate goal of the 28 survivors was to outlast 4 more players, in order to make it into the money.
Soon, ...
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September 19 2010
What exactly are the odds of legislation making online poker legal, passing before the end of the year? The answer may not be what many in industry would like to hear: not very good. The upside of the deal is that ...
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September 19 2010
Event #3 of the 2010 WSOPE kicked off by attracting a starting field of 202 players on its first day 1 flight. The organizers had originally planned to let the day 1A field battle it out over 10 levels of play, ...
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September 19 2010
The two day 1 flights of the PokerStars APPT Auckland’s Main Event came together for day 2 of the poker tournament. 96 players returned to action, all looking to at least make it past the day before concocting ...
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September 19 2010
49 players returned to the tables of the Empire Casino in London to battle it out past the money bubble on Day 2 of the £5,000 PLO event. Most of these players were established pros, PokerStars and Read More
September 18 2010
The second event of the 2010 WSOPE, the £5,000 PLO one, started out with a minor disappointment: only 120 players registered, quite a bit fewer than last year (when there were 154 registrants) and even fewer than the year before (165). ...
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September 17 2010
The first event of the 2010 WSOPE is in the books, and Phil Laak is a WSOP bracelet and £170k richer. So far, 2010 has indeed shaped up as Laak’s year. He’s successfully set the new world record for the ...
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September 16 2010
Day 1A of the PokerStars’ APPT Auckland event saw a starting field of 89 players welcomed in the SkyCity Casino’s poker room by a traditional Haka performance.
Though kind of smallish by European and US standards, the starting field was by ...
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September 16 2010
Day 2 of the 2010 WSOP Europe London event had a clear goal set: working right down to the final table. With only 31 of the 244 Day 1 starters returning to the grinder on day two, that goal appeared ...
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September 16 2010
The 2010 WSOPE (the 4th ever edition of the World Series of Poker Europe), kicked off on Tuesday, in London. There were no fewer than 244 players willing to cough up the buy-in of £2,650, for the Read More
September 16 2010
The king of all online poker sites PokerStars is sure that this month is going to be one to go down in history, and as that historic moment gets closer members of the PokerStars online poker community are waiting with ...
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September 16 2010
The PartyPoker.com World Open VI promised to be a roaring success and it’s pretty clear to both online poker sites, poker forums, and live poker players that it lived up to the expectations. There is no-one that is more ...
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September 14 2010
The WCOOP is currently at the center of the online poker world’s attention, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any smaller yet equally important events going down in other poker rooms. Full Tilt Poker’s MiniFTOPS is one such series. Though the ...
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September 12 2010
PokerStars, the biggest online poker operation currently in existence is about to celebrate its 50 billionth dealt hand. While the milestone is indeed a nice one, all a red-blooded poker player should care about is what sort of Read More
September 11 2010
Losing a hand in poker is never a good thing, and losing one on a monster is quite probably the worst. It can set of a nasty tilt, or…it can take one’s bankroll to never before seen heights. The latter was ...
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September 10 2010
The online poker cash game action is hot again at Full Tilt Poker. Ilari Sahamies is back and taking names once again. The latest opponent to cross his path, Cole South, paid dearly for his decision to take on the ...
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September 09 2010
Poker pros had a field day on day 4 of PokerStars’ WCOOP. Several “name” players made final tables and one of them even managed to take down a bracelet. Among those to make final tables were PokerStars’ own Steve Jacobs and ...
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September 08 2010
Qualifying for the Fast $50 is very easy and can be done in any of the following ways:
- Make a first deposit at Full Tilt Poker and earn your outstanding bonuses. Do that and you’ve got ...
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September 05 2010
Playing one’s way into a high prize-pool live poker tournament for a few bucks or Poker Points is always a great bargain. Nobody would testify in favor of that statement more eagerly than Giovanni Safina, who’d earned his WPT London ...
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September 05 2010
It was only fitting that the WPT’s inaugural London event be won by one of the home-boys. Jake Cody was the one in prime position to come through for the home crowd in London, and he did just that, defeating ...
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September 04 2010
Lately, WPT events have been off somewhat off the radar in the poker world. With the WSOP and the EPT taking over all the poker news headlines, there was little word about the mother and ...
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September 04 2010
Apparently Tom Dwan and Daniel “jungleman12” Cates are not about to let their challenge series go down the same path the Patrik Antonius series have taken. They reconvened for their second challenge session at Full Tilt Poker last ...
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September 03 2010
When the PokerStars EPT Vilamoura’s final table kicked off, there were three Brits at the tables, two of whom would end up the talk of the poker tournament. Toby Lewis was one of the two: he won the ...
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September 03 2010
The 4th day of the PokerStars EPT’s Vilamoura Main Event was one dominated by the British contingent. 24 players returned to action to the Casino Vilamoura, and almost all the British players survived to the 8-handed final table, through ...
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September 03 2010
The PPA (Poker Players Alliance) has deemed it necessary last week to address the issue of the Commerce Casino’s attitude towards legal online poker in a letter forwarded to the officials of the above named operation. To give it real ...
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September 02 2010
The third day of the EPT’s Vilamoura Main Event saw 69 survivors return to the tables of the Casino Vilamoura. Of these guys, only 24 were still in action when the day got called. The money bubble burst ...
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