October 31 2011
27 players returned to action on the 4th day of the WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals. Andy Frankenberger entered the day with the largest stack, but at the end of the hostilities, the lead belonged to Christian Harder. The field of ...
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October 31 2011
27 players survived the 3rd day of the 2011 WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals among them Andy Frankenberger, who managed to clinch the lead. The field is now within sight of the $450k top prize, and the battle is fiercer than ...
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October 31 2011
More bad news emerged from Full Tilt Poker after 180 Pocket Kings Employees were laid off in Dublin over the past week. The newest wave of layoffs took the total number of Pocket Kings employees let go after the Black Friday ...
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October 30 2011
First introduced in 2007, the Venetian’s Deep Stack Extravaganza has become one of the most popular live tournament series in Las Vegas. The Series features deep stacks, generous tournament structures and of course, a luxurious atmosphere in which players will truly ...
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October 30 2011
The organizers of the Foxwoods World Poker Finals kept the registration open for the second day of the event too, but only 4 more players took advantage of late registration. Thus, the eventual stating field totaled 189 players, and the prize-...
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October 29 2011
For those who thought the First Amendment’s “Freedom of Association” protected their poker rights: it doesn’t. Legal precedent has been created in this respect in the town of Wallkill where a group of poker players sued the town over a commercial ...
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October 29 2011
The WPT’s Foxwoods World Poker Final has quite a history to look back on: among the winners of past seasons, there’s not a single name that’s not a well-known one in poker circles.
Having reached its 10th season, the $10k ...
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October 29 2011
The high stakes online poker action has entered something of a slump after the PokerStars WCOOP wrapped up and the after-tremors settled. Of course, the fact that the live poker circuit got rolling big time in Europe may also have ...
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October 29 2011
In the wake the Black Friday events, the two CEREUS network members, Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet have flown quietly under the radar, allowing Full Tilt poker to cope with the bulk of the ire drawn by the ...
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October 29 2011
Much of the post-Black Friday wrangling has been focused on Full Tilt Poker, probably on account of the fact that the number of players who had their funds stuck there was far bigger than in any of the other affected ...
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October 28 2011
The final day of the PokerStars.it EPT’s Main Event was quite an affair indeed. 8 players returned to action at the beginning of the final dash, and each and every one of these players was from a different ...
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October 27 2011
Daniel Cates has been deprived of the online poker spotlight he had so gotten used to during the last couple of years. He can no longer frolic at Full Tilt Poker and apparently, he’s not one of the new regulars at ...
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October 27 2011
The 5th day of the PokerStars.it EPT San Remo Main Event was yet another short one, the third such short day in a row. The objective for the day was for the field to play down to the ...
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October 26 2011
Chris McClung came into the 4th day of the EPT San Remo’s Main Event in possession of the largest stack. He made full use of his chips and never relinquished control. He extended his lead and by the ...
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October 26 2011
The WSOP-C’s Hammond Main Event set a new attendance record. 1,615 players showed up for the event, combining buy-ins for a prize-pool of $2,349,825. The Hammond stop of the WSOP-C started out on the right foot: its ...
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October 25 2011
Day 4 of the PokerStars.it EPT San Remo Main Event was an extremely short one. The organizers had plans for the field to play down to the final 64, and that goal was reached handily. Only 144 players ...
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October 25 2011
482 players returned to action on the 2nd day of the 2011 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo Main Event, ready to do whatever it took them to advance and to build a stack as large as possible. The pace ...
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October 25 2011
477 players showed up for the second day 1 flight of the EPT’s San Remo Main Event. Thus the starting field was taken to a grand total of 837. The players combined buy-ins to create a €3,734,694 prize-pool. Taylor ...
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October 23 2011
Barely has the WSOP-E wrapped up in Cannes, the action has already kicked off just across the border, in San Remo. The EPT San Remo Main Event saw 359 players belly up to the tables on the ...
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October 23 2011
Day 1A of the WSOP Circuit’s Hammond Main Event saw a starting field of 912 players belly up to the tables. The turn-out was quite impressive, especially so in light of the fact that last year’s Main Event attracted ...
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October 22 2011
Last week, there was plenty of live poker action going on in various areas of the globe. Still, for the diehard online maniacs, the time was right to exchange a few 6-figure pots online, and besides the usual nosebleed stakes ...
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October 22 2011
Ex Full Tilt Poker pro Brandon Adams has been one of the scapegoats of the whole Full Tilt ordeal due to a comment he posted to one of the major online poker forums out there, defending Full Tilt Poker in the ...
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October 22 2011
For the umpteenth time, the issue of online poker is about to get some Congressional attention: the US House of Representatives Subcommittee for Commerce Manufacturing and Trade will hold a hearing regarding the possible legalization of online poker. Congressman Joe Barton’s ...
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October 22 2011
The end of the €10,400 Main Event signaled the end of the 2011 WSOPE. Elio Fox, the player who started the final table of the event with the chip lead pocketed the bracelet and the €1.4 million prize.
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October 22 2011
16 players were initially planned to return to action on the 4th day of the 2011 WSOPE Main Event, but 25 showed up as the previous day had missed its mark regarding the size of the end of the day ...
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October 21 2011
The second ever edition of the Caesars Cup took place on Wednesday in Cannes, France, and we’re glad to report that Team Americas has managed to even the score, making the embarrassing 2009 loss all but forgotten. Phil Hellmuth, the captain ...
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October 19 2011
The surviving WSOPE field of 116 returned to action on day 3 with a very ambitious goal in mind: to play down to the final 16. As expected, the goal proved to be impossible to reach. Eventually, the day was called ...
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October 19 2011
Patrick Antonius had been one of the top online players at Full Tilt Poker prior to Black Friday. He was an employee of the site basically. He was also regarded by many as one of the biggest winners ever to play ...
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October 18 2011
328 players returned to the confines of the Hotel Barriere on the 3rd day of the 2011 WSOPE Main Event. These players have all emerged from one of the two day 1 flights. Constant Rijkenberg was the one who finished the ...
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October 18 2011
The LAPT has included a Colombian stop in its schedule for the first time ever and the choice proved to be an inspired one indeed. No fewer than 681 players showed up in the Allegre Casino in Medellin, handily beating the ...
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October 17 2011
Although there was word that more folks would show up for the second day 1 flight of the WSOP-E Main Event than for the first one, 283 players bellied up to the tables at the beginning of the day. While ...
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October 17 2011
Last year, a total of 346 players showed up for the Main Event and James Bord picked up the laurels. This year, the first day 1 flight of the €10,400 affair attracted 310 players, almost equaling last year’s total turn-out. ...
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October 16 2011
Saturday was an extremely busy day at the 2011 WSOP-E in Cannes. The Main Event of the series kicked off and no fewer than two new bracelet winners were crowned: Michael Mizrachi, who won event #5, the $10,300 NL Holdem ...
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October 15 2011
With anti-poker laws and a generally adverse poker-environment dominating the US landscape these days, much of the high-stakes online poker action has moved to Europe, in the apparent wake of the 2011 WSOP-E. Thus, it came as ...
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October 15 2011
Friday didn’t see any of the ongoing WSOP-E events play down to a winner, but it saw events#5 and #6 roll on towards their conclusions. In all fairness, event #5 was quite probably supposed to wrap up. 16 players returned ...
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October 15 2011
Thursday would see yet another WSOP-E event wrap up: event #4, the €3,200 NL Holdem Shootout. Once again, it was an American who managed to work his way past the predominantly European field in order to steal the gold and ...
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October 15 2011
Event #3 of the 2011 WSOP-E returned on Wednesday with its final table, and what a final table it was. There was surely a plentiful supply of talent: Sam Trickett, Sam Chartier, Eoghan O’Dea and Steve Billirakis were all playing, ...
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October 15 2011
The wheels of Swiss justice seem to have been put in motion by the Black Friday indictments. According to local newspapers, around $20 million was seized by the Swiss justice ministry, money which was apparently connected with online poker sites, and ...
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October 13 2011
The final day of the second event of the 2011 WSOP-E, the $1,090 NL Holdem event, lasted for just over 7 hours, at the end of which, Andrew Hinrichsen of Australia emerged with the win, successfully denying Roberto Romanello’s Triple ...
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October 13 2011
Poker pro and online poker business guru Antanas Guoga is contemplating a lawsuit against the AGCC (Alderney Gambling Control Commission) on charges of neglect and lack of proper diligence for its licensees.
According to Guoga’s claims, the AGCC had known about ...
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October 12 2011
The online poker petition posted in the We The People section of the White House website managed to accumulate the 5,000 signatures needed for consideration in less than 3 days. The initial enthusiasm appears to have quickly waned though, and even ...
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October 12 2011
The 2011 WSOPE rolled on with Day 2 of the second event, the $1,090 NL Holdem tournament. The final table was set on the second day of the event and event #3, the $5,300 PLO event kicked ...
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October 11 2011
The first event of the 2011 WSOPE is in the books and the winner is the man who started the final day of action with the chip lead: Guillaume Humbert. 12 players returned to the tables at the beginning of ...
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October 11 2011
Two Argentine PokerStars pros were arrested for allegedly cheating at the craps tables at The Wynn in Las Vegas. Leo Fernandez and Veronica Dabul have apparently put in quite some time at the craps tables at The Wynn, using a ...
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October 11 2011
The second day of the first event of the 2011 WSOPE rolled on, with 80 players returning to the tables. 10 levels of action were squeezed into the day, at the end of which only 12 players were left. Event ...
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October 09 2011
Doyle Brunson’s presence at the EPT’s London stop was a surprise for many. Tex Dolly had previously said that he was looking to cut back on traveling, in order to spare himself the wear and tear that inevitably accompanies such activity. ...
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October 09 2011
The first event of the 2011 WSOP-E, the €2,500 NL Holdem 6-handed tournament got underway, having attracted a starting field of 360 players. The number of registrants eclipsed last year’s 244 players who bellied up to the tables ...
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October 09 2011
It is now official: Phillip Gruissem has an incredible knack for winning high roller events. During the previous stop of the EPT, Grussiem managed to best a starting field of 58 to win the €10k High Roller event, ...
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October 08 2011
Facebook’s ex-VP, Chamath Palihapitiya is apparently not only fond of poker, he is quite good at it too. ESPN has recently featured a piece on his impressive 2011 WSOP Main Event run. Palihapitiya has apparently played poker with Phil ...
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October 08 2011
Representatives of the PPA have apparently engaged in a dialog with the DoJ, aiming to facilitate the return of funds to US players in the Full Tilt Poker case. The talks have taken place before the acquisition announcement regarding the Bernard ...
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October 07 2011
The EPT London Main Event reached a conclusion after 6 days of action, at the end of which Benny Spindler emerged with the win. Spindler took home £750k for his efforts, coupled with the customary bragging rights of ...
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October 07 2011
After revoking Full Tilt Poker’s license, the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) did pretty much everything it could to distance itself from the scandal completely. At one point, AGCC officials announced that the Commission would no longer accept and log player ...
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October 07 2011
Just as the Main Event did on its 5th day, the PokerStars EPT’s London High Roller event managed to play down to its final table. 8 players remained, all of whom are now in the money, guaranteed a ...
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October 07 2011
The objective on Day 5 of the PokerStars EPT London Main Event was for the field to play down to the final table. That objective was indeed reached, when Adria Balaguer busted out in 9th place, leaving only 8 players to ...
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October 06 2011
The Main Event is indeed the focal point of the EPT’s London stop, but there’s much more to this bona-fide poker festival than that. The £20k EPT London High Roller event is definitely not something one can ...
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October 06 2011
Steve Jobs, the man who has single handedly turned Apple and its products like the iPad, iPod, iPhone, iMac and iTunes into a global success story, and whose innovative thinking has made a major mark on the evolution of technology itself, ...
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October 05 2011
The objective for Day 4 of the EPT’s London stop was for the field of 62 to play down to the final 24, and that objective was indeed achieved. Mattias Bergstrom was the one who finished the day ...
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October 05 2011
Day 3 of the PokerStars EPT London consisted of 4 levels, at the end of which James Mitchell emerged with the chip lead. 159 players bellied up to the tables at the beginning of the day, and when ...
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October 04 2011
If you thought you had seen the biggest live poker event ever, soon, you may have to reconsider. According to an advert leaked to one of the most popular poker forums, the International Stadiums Poker Tour is about to be ...
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October 03 2011
Sunday saw the second day of the PokerStars EPT London wrap up. 5 levels were played, at the end of which Benny Spindler emerged with the chip lead. 417 players bellied up to the tables at the beginning ...
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October 02 2011
Full Tilt Poker’s Raymond Bitar was one of the people singled out in the Black Friday indictments, and he has since been considered one of the main culprits in the Full Tilt Poker ordeal.
Bitar didn’t really make headlines in the ...
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October 02 2011
Online poker-related scandals seem to follow in quick succession these days: the other day, online poker and gambling giant Betfair has announced that 18 months ago, several of its servers had been hacked and a tremendous amount of data ...
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October 01 2011
Finally: a glimmer of hope for the thousands of players and affiliates who have significant funds stuck at Full Tilt Poker. It appears that only a day after the Alderney Gambling Control Commission revoked its license (leaving the possibility open for ...
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