January 31 2011
Last weekend was the scene of many a great sporting event, but the high prize-pool weekend online poker guarantees didn’t fail to attract thousands upon thousands of players. Several such players became 6-figure winners.
Responsible for the most radical ...
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January 31 2011
Isildur1 may have lost the first round of the PokerStars Superstar Showdown against Isaac Haxton, and won the second round against long time fan Tony G who never missed an opportunity to point it out that Blom was a better ...
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January 31 2011
With the money bubble set for 128th place and with 205 players showing up for Day 3 action in the Casino Barriere, in Deauville, France, in the EPT Deauville Main Event, it was clear from the get go ...
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January 31 2011
Too early thinking about the 2011 WSOP yet? Not if you’re really serious about making your way there on someone else’s money. You wouldn’t believe how early various online poker sites launch their qualifiers. The schedule has already been released as ...
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January 31 2011
Last week belonged to Gus Hansen and Daniel Cates as far as online poker profits were concerned. The Great Dane took most of his money off Nekotyan, whom he played at Full Tilt Poker’s $500/$1,000 PLO capped game ...
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January 29 2011
18 players returned to do battle on the 4th day of the 2011 Aussie Millions’ Main Event. The stakes were high, as the survivors of the day would all make the final table. Chris Moorman started the day in pole position, ...
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January 29 2011
The Aussie Millions rolled on Thursday, with the Main Event inching ever closer to the final table and the Biggest Buy-in Tournament reaching a conclusion.
76 players returned to action on the third day of the Main Event. The money ...
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January 28 2011
501 players bellied up to the tables of the Casino Barriere on Wednesday, to kick off day 2 of the EPT Deauville Main Event. When the action was called at the end of the day, only 205 players ...
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January 28 2011
The second day 1 flight of the EPT Deauville Main Event attracted a starting field of 472 players, more numerous than the day 1a starting field and apparently more star-studded as well. Team Pokerstars Pro was ...
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January 27 2011
What goes around comes around they say and actions always have consequences one has to be prepared to deal with if he sets out to do something morally and legally questionable. When it comes to morally questionable deeds, there are few ...
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January 27 2011
Who would have thought it was possible? Phil Ivey dropping some dough at the online poker tables, that is. That’s exactly what happened the other day though, when Ivey and Daniel Cates – both in Australia playing in various Aussie Millions ...
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January 27 2011
The first day 1 flight of the EPT’s Deauville Main Event kicked off on Monday, as 419 players showed up buy-in in hand and hope in their hearts. The goal was of course survival to the second day of action, ...
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January 27 2011
The final day 1 flight of the 2011 Aussie Millions attracted a starting field of 274 players. After 3 Day 1 flights, the total size of the starting field hit the 721 mark, creating a prize-pool of AUD$7,210,000. The winner ...
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January 25 2011
There was much less fanfare at the start of the second Day 1 flight of the Aussie Millions Main Event than on Day 1A, but the starting field was almost as large: 209 players showed up to cough up the buy-...
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January 25 2011
The stakes seem to have gone up at the Aussie Millions in recent days. First, the $100k Challenge event made some waves, then the Main Event kicked off. Now, the sharks are out in force again, and apparently so are the ...
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January 25 2011
The Championship Weekend could not keep players away from the online tables apparently. They showed up in droves yet again, filling up the tables of the various high buy-in weekend guarantees and pushing the prize-pools well past the guarantees ...
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January 25 2011
After a marathon of side events and various newly introduced tournament structure trials, the 2011 Aussie Millions has finally reached the stage of the Main Event. Day 1a got going with much fanfare. The person to call the traditional “Shuffle up ...
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January 24 2011
Isildur1, now known under his real name Viktor Blom, should have known that revealing his identity and tossing his mystery man image into the garbage bin would have further reaching consequences than he could anticipate before making the move. He definitely ...
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January 24 2011
The Aussie Millions saw plenty of poker action the other day too, with the conclusion of Event #7, the $1,100 NL Holdem Rebuys event. 86 players entered the poker tournament, but there were no fewer than 255 re-...
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January 24 2011
Now that we all know that online poker has nearly been legalized in New Jersey, it’s time to take a look at the impact the new legal state of affairs will have over online poker in the Garden State. It ...
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January 23 2011
PokerStars’ World Cup of Poker VII took place on January 15th at the PCA, pitting the 4-member national teams of 9 countries against one another, in a truly epic showdown of tag team tournament poker. In the end, it was ...
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January 22 2011
The 9th day of the 2011 Aussie Millions saw plenty of action yet again. As the day wound down, two winners earned their gold stripes, an event kicked off and a welcome party was held. If that’s not enough poker excitement ...
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January 21 2011
It seems like the last FTOPS has barely wrapped up, but a new one is already on the horizon. The 19th edition of the online poker series hosted by Full Tilt Poker will feature no fewer than 45 ...
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January 21 2011
The cash game action has exploded this week both at PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. Some of the biggest guns of the nosebleed stakes online poker scene saw action, among them Patrik Antonius, Daniel Cates and Bryn ...
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January 21 2011
The eighth day of the Aussie Millions saw events unfold according to plan. Two events got going and another one wrapped up, yielding a winner. The first event to get underway was the $1,100 6-handed NL Holdem event, which drew ...
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January 20 2011
A few days ago news surfaced about Annie Duke's newest venture, in the wake of her departure from UB. Former WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack has apparently teamed up with the former UB Poker pro to create something akin to the ...
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January 20 2011
In a bid to promote its new Home Games feature, PokerStars has launched a promotion which offers excellent value for those who open a private poker club at the site and go through a few basic steps towards making that club ...
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January 18 2011
A whole bunch of six-figure winners were born over the past weekend too, thanks to the high buy-in tournament action that takes place every Saturday-Sunday. The biggest winner of the weekend was yet again the winner of Read More
January 17 2011
6 players returned on the final day of the PCA NAPT’s $5,000 Bounty Shootout with their eyes on the prize. Due to the winner takes all nature of the event, they really didn’t have much of a choice but to aim ...
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January 17 2011
For the last 2 years, Will Molson had been gunning pretty close to winning the $25k High Roller event of the PCA, after all, he finished in second place 2 times in a row, but nothing’s quite like ...
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January 17 2011
143 players returned on Day 2 of the 2011 Aussie Millions’ first event to battle it out for the AUD 200k top prize. All-in-all, 1,000 entries were registered through the 3 day 1 flights, but because of the repechage ...
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January 17 2011
151 players had originally registered for the $25k High Roller of the 2011 PCA, thus setting a new record for the event. Of these players, 90 made their way back to the Atlantis Resort and Casino for day ...
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January 16 2011
The final table action at the end of the 2011 PCA’s $10k NL Holdem Main Event was a rather amazing one. It lasted for about 10 hours, at the end of which, Galen hall emerged with the win, taking down the ...
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January 16 2011
PokerStars appear to be hard at work dismantling the opposition, and when it comes to opposition, Full Tilt Poker is the site with a target on its back for PokerStars. The high stakes cash game action that you ...
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January 16 2011
High buy-in tournaments are apparently gaining faster in popularity than all the other kinds and there no better testimony to that than the fact that the $25k High Roller event of the 2011 PCA saw 151 players ...
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January 16 2011
The second day 1 flight of the 2011 Aussie Millions’ first event saw a starting field of 283 players belly up to the table, just a few guys short of the day 1a yield. 12 levels were squeezed into the day, ...
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January 15 2011
The 2011 Aussie Millions kicked off with a $1,100 NL Holdem event. Last year, this same event attracted a starting field of 1,143 players, and offered the winner a little over $200k. This year, the interest was once ...
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January 14 2011
As innovations rear their heads all over the online poker world, PokerStars have come up with a concept that is not only innovative, but is also likely to prove to be a huge hit with the masses. Their new home ...
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January 14 2011
22 players returned to the tables of the PCA’s Main Event on the fifth day of the poker tournament. The goal was nothing more and nothing less than to play down to the 8-handed final table.
Joe ...
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January 14 2011
The 48 day 3 survivors returned to the tables of the PCA’s Main Event looking to play down to the final 24 on day 4.
It took about 5 hours for the field to work its way down ...
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January 13 2011
The high stakes cash game action is always more than decent at Full Tilt Poker, as there are a whole bunch of name players who are regulars there. These past few days though, the nosebleed stakes tables have ...
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January 13 2011
While the PCA’s Main Event and the High Rollers’ Event are obviously rather elitist in nature - if for no other reason, then for the size of the buy-ins - there are other events at the PCA too ...
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January 12 2011
The objective for the 173 surviving players was crystal clear on day 3 of the PCA’s $10k Main Event: they were supposed to play 6 levels or play down to the final 48.
Adam Geyer brought the biggest ...
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January 11 2011
645 players showed up on the second day of the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure’s Main Event. Day 2 consisted of 6 levels of play, during which the majority of hopefuls bowed out of contention. When the action was ...
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January 11 2011
It is now official: the state of New Jersey has become the first US jurisdiction in which placing online wagers is legal and regulated. January 10th 2011 may go down in the poker history books as the date when the online ...
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January 11 2011
The PCA may be in full swing, but given the steep buy-ins featured by pretty much all of its more popular events, and given its location, it has become more of a destination for the poker elite than for the ...
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January 10 2011
The second day 1 flight of the PCA’s $10k Main Event saw a massive starting field belly up to the tables. The 913 players who registered for Day 1b didn’t create a surprise for the organizers who probably ...
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January 09 2011
The third day of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure saw the super High Rollers Event reach a conclusion, and the Main Event kick off. The winner of the Super High Rollers event was Eugene Katchalov, who bested a starting field of just ...
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January 09 2011
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure kicked off with the Super High Rollers event, which attracted a starting field of 38 on its first day. Before you shrug it off as unimpressive, consider the size of the buy-in and you’ll understand why ...
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January 09 2011
It is now official: Isildur1 is indeed 20-year old Swedish poker pro Victor Blom. Rumors have long circulated in the poker world about Isildur1’s true identity and Blom was indeed one of the top suspects. All sorts of other rumors ...
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January 08 2011
According to various rumors (and in the poker world such rumors should never be shrugged off), online poker’s famous yet utterly unknown wild-child, Swedish mystery man Isildur1, is about to reveal his true identity. Being nothing more than a weird ...
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January 08 2011
In case you were wondering who the pro meant to replace Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke at UB was, and whom Joe Sebok referred to in his blog-post in which he discussed the matter, wonder no longer: Prahlad Friedman’s name ...
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January 06 2011
During the last few Durrrr Challenge sessions, Tom Dwan meticulously chipped away at the giant lead his opponent had built up during the first couple of bouts. For a while there he did look like he was making slow but certain ...
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January 04 2011
Before we officially open the 2011 nosebleed stakes cash game season here at PokerStop, it’s only decent that we take a look back at 2010 to give you a better idea on how the most notorious high stakes maniacs faired when ...
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January 04 2011
If one were to choose a top story for 2010, it would have to be Michael Mizrachi’s breakout performance at the WSOP, or better yet: Michael Mizrachi’s entire year. The seasoned poker pro wasn’t the only one to put in a ...
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January 04 2011
The biggest poker news of the waning days of 2010 was about Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth leaving UB, the site they had represented for years through better and through worse. Hellmuth’s departure didn’t come as much of a surprise, ...
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January 04 2011
The very first online poker weekend of 2011 is in the books and 9 people can now boast that they have kicked off the New Year the best possible way: by scoring 6-figure profits. The biggest winner of the ...
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January 03 2011
The second round of the PokerStars SuperStar Showdown saw Swedish mystery player Isildur1 finally score one for the home team. The Swede took on none other than Tony G, in the wake of his defeat in the first round of the ...
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January 02 2011
Everyone even remotely interested in poker knows that women are a rare sight in cardrooms (both online and offline ones), and even more so at the final tables of various high profile live poker events. 2010 saw the emergence of the ...
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January 02 2011
During the last few years, PokerStars have solidified their brand through the launching of a series of live poker tours all over the world. Arguably the most successful such poker tour is the EPT (European Poker Tour), launched ...
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January 02 2011
If you think the most significant event of the 2010 WSOP was the Main Event, you are woefully wrong. It may have been the most significant in terms of money won from the actual prize pool of the poker tournament, ...
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January 02 2011
Every year, before the WSOP gets underway, poker experts release all sorts of lists and statistics about how many bracelets different players have, what the odds are for each of these guys to secure yet another piece of jewelry, and of ...
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