November 30 2011
PokerStars have seriously set their minds on expansion. They appear to be taking advantage of every bit of opportunity to get the brand name out including sports sponsorships. They haven’t had much of a presence in Germany in this respect, ...
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November 30 2011
Czech poker player Martin Staszko wasn’t exactly what one would call a “name” player before the 2011 WSOP Main Event. Having taken down a $5.4 million prize for his second place finish instantly put him onto the map and apparently onto ...
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November 30 2011
Macau was a poker hot-spot last weekend, as it drew a whole bunch of poker professionals who showed up to play in the big cash game, the one featuring $1,300/$2,600 blinds against a selection of poker-playing Chinese businessman, on ...
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November 29 2011
There’s barely a day to go by without PokerStars adding another event to its much-hyped 10th anniversary celebrations which are set to take place in December. The latest addition is a $10k high rollers event which is meant to cater ...
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November 29 2011
Full Tilt Poker’s own contribution to the world of online poker and a major result of the pre-black Friday arms race between FTP and PokerStars, Rush Poker took the online poker industry by storm. Often “praised” as the crack ...
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November 29 2011
The cause of legal online poker will lose a major supporter in 2012. Congressman Barney Frank has announced the other day that he would not be running for a 17th term in 2012. He said that the reason for his stepping ...
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November 28 2011
The festivities marking PokerStars’ 10th anniversary will kick off in December, but until then, there was one more weekend and weekends always represent special opportunities for PokerStars’ Players.
The Sunday Million, the biggest and most prestigious event on the block, ...
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November 28 2011
Nobody can accuse Party Poker of lack of ambition when it comes to promotions. Their latest and biggest promotion, called the World Domination is about players earning Party points and conquering cities all over the world with them. The promotion is ...
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November 28 2011
The final day of the PokerStars APPT’s Macau Main Event saw 15 players return to action. India’s Sangeeth Mohan was the one who held the largest stack when the hostilities commenced, but at the end of it all, it was Team ...
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November 27 2011
PokerStars’ 10th Anniversary celebrations get better and better by the day for players. There’s more and more free money involved and there’s more and more player interest too. Don’t get us wrong, the events organized by the site to celebrate ...
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November 27 2011
Day 2 of the WPT’s Marrakech Main Event saw the field successfully play down to the final 50. The end of the day chip lead went to Ian Marmion of Ireland, but several high-profile professionals remained in contention. Marmion’s field-...
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November 27 2011
The 3rd day of the PokerStars APPT’s Macau Main Event saw 96 players return to the tables. Their goal: to finish in the money. There were plenty of notables still in the running, and while some of them did make it ...
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November 26 2011
304 players showed up for the second day of the APPT’s Macau Main Event, among them notables like Phil Ivey, Bryan Huang and Terrence Chan. When the noise of battle subsided, only around 100 were still standing and Phil Ivey was ...
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November 25 2011
Several live tournament series have wrapped up in various parts of the country in recent days. Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Jacksonville all saw the winners scoop up the spoils and the whole congregation of money-hungry green –felt warriors pack ...
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November 25 2011
The second and last day 1 flight of the APPT’s Macau Main Event drew an impressive starting field of 306 players. Like the previous day 1 flight, day 1B was comprised of 8 full 60-minute levels, at the end of ...
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November 25 2011
The first of the two day 1 flights of the PokerStars APPT’s Macau Main Event is in the books. 269 players showed up at the beginning of the day, putting in 8 full levels before the action was called. Chieh ...
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November 24 2011
The fact that a German has won the WSOP Main Event this year hasn’t gone unnoticed at PokerStars: the team responsible for bringing online pros aboard has selected a German player as the latest PokerStars sponsored pro. The German online poker ...
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November 23 2011
PokerStars Mobile Poker has just been launched according to many of the online poker news outlets. These same sources hail the launch as that of the very first PokerStars mobile client, but word has it that there already is a ...
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November 22 2011
Last week, on Capitol Hill two much-hyped hearings have taken place concerning the legal position of online poker. According to reports both of these hearings hit a positive note regarding the game.
Although breaking open the champagne is definitely premature, ...
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November 22 2011
The Pokertars EPT Loutraki Main Event is in the books, and Zimnan Ziyard is the winner. The Brit took down the €347k top prize, besting Hauke Heseding heads-up.
8 players returned on the final day ...
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November 21 2011
Every year, the WSOP final table participants (November Niners) are the envy of the poker world, and of just about everyone who hears/reads about the fabulous prizes awarded to these players. People seldom even consider the ...
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November 21 2011
38 players returned on the 4th day of the PokerStars EPT’s Loutraki Main Event to play down to the final table. By the end of the day, 30 of them were on the rail, leaving ...
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November 21 2011
100 players returned on day 3 of the EPT’s Loutraki’s Main Event with one thing on their mind: to make it past the money bubble. PokerStars’ Toni Judet was the one who started the day with the chip lead, but ...
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November 20 2011
The inaugural edition of the International Poker Federation’s Nations Cup wrapped up on Friday, with the victory of the German team. The event was quite a unique one indeed. There were 12 teams participating, made up of some of the world’s ...
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November 19 2011
!P0krparty¡ has been a regular at the high stakes online poker tables for a while but he hasn’t exactly been a regular in the weekly winners’ circle. As a matter of fact, he made headlines by dropping phenomenal amounts of ...
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November 18 2011
The second day of the EPT’s Loutraki Main Event saw PokerStars’ own Toni Judet shoot to the top. Judet started the day second in chips and he put in a truly impressive effort to bag 288,200 chips at the end ...
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November 18 2011
The long harrowing wait for Full Tilt poker’s ex-players is apparently over: the crippled online poker site has almost been purchased by the French Group Bernard Tapie, for $80 million. The deal is a pretty intricate yet relatively smooth ...
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November 18 2011
The issue of legal online poker is more burning than ever these days as there’s a general feeling out there that something major is about to transpire regarding the matter soon. Land based casino companies are securing online partnerships and with ...
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November 16 2011
Playing Fifty50 (double or nothing) SNGs at PokerStars is one of the best ways to build a bankroll on account of the low variance. In these SNG’s all one needs to do to win is to survive half of the ...
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November 14 2011
PokerStars marks its 10th anniversary with a series of special events, each of which represents yet another opportunity for players to grab extra value. The site will play host to the biggest ever Sunday Million, in addition to which, it will ...
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November 14 2011
Poker Pro Matt Glantz has launched a website and apparently, he’s short on members right now, so he decided to try to recruit some, in a rather unconventional manner. He’s offering people the chance to get a percentage of his action ...
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November 13 2011
The online poker action intensified last week as the waves created by the November Nine slowly but surely subsided. High stakes players turned their attention to the online tables yet again, and Phil D’Auteuil was among them too. D’Auteuil took ...
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November 12 2011
John Campos and Chad Elie were two of the people indicted on Black Friday for their role in the facilitation of money transfers to and from illegally operating online poker sites Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars. The two ...
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November 12 2011
Pius Heinz, the newest WSOP Main Event Champion found time to sit down with the press the very next day after his win. He was asked a bunch of questions, mainly about the way he felt at the various stages ...
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November 11 2011
WSOP Main Event winners like to party, and with good reason. After all, they’re people who have just found out that provided they manage their newly acquired wealth wisely, they won’t ever meet any kind of financial difficulties in their lifetimes. ...
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November 11 2011
Ex-PokerStars pro Greg Raymer was called on as witness by the Poker Players Alliance, in a circuit courtroom the other day, in a case which sought to make poker halls legal in the state of Virginia. The case was ...
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November 11 2011
The poker world is about to lose a lively speck of color in Jennifer Tilly. While she may not have been one of the best poker pros out there, Tilly has always been a pleasant presence and her attitude towards the ...
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November 09 2011
Poker fans, it’s official: Pius Heinz is the 2011 WSOP Main Event Champion, the proud owner of a bracelet and $8.72 million richer.
On Tuesday, 3 players returned to the Penn and Teller Theatre to finally play down to a winner. ...
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November 09 2011
The optimism regarding the eventual passing of an online poker bill in the US is on the up as the mess created by the Black Friday developments is slowly but certainly being mopped up. Initially discouraged by the Black Friday ordeal, ...
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November 08 2011
The 5th and final day of the WPT’s Amneville stop saw 6 players return to the final table. Scott Baumstein was the one who held the largest stack at the beginning of the action. He led the field by a massive ...
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November 07 2011
After the elimination of the first three contestants (Sam Holden, Anton Makiievskyi and Bob Bounahra) on Sunday, it was Phil Collins’ turn to start struggling with a short stack. By the time the 73rd hand of the November Nine showdown was ...
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November 07 2011
The first day of the 2011 November Nine is in the books and those who bet on Ben Lamb’s early elimination were proven wrong. Those who predicted that Phil Collins would walk away with the largest pile of money and the ...
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November 06 2011
Back in 2006, shortly after the passing of the infamous UIGEA, Party Poker decided to exit the US online poker market. One of the Party Poker founders (Anurag Dikshit) even struck a deal with the DoJ, paying out hundreds of millions ...
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November 06 2011
19 players returned to action on the 4th day of the WPT’s Amneville Main Event. The objective of the day was for the field to play down to the 6-handed final table, and that objective was indeed handily accomplished.
Ovidiu ...
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November 06 2011
The 3rd day of the WPT’s Amneville stop saw 76 players return to the tables, each of them aiming to survive the money bubble. Scott Baumstein was the one who had the largest stack at the beginning of the day and ...
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November 05 2011
PokerStars have reached a major milestone on Tuesday, dealing out their 70 billionth hand and rewarding one lucky player with a $70k prize. Over the course of a few days leading up to the said hand, the site handed out several ...
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November 05 2011
Pius Heinz is definitely one of the biggest wildcards at the 2011 WSOP final table. Nobody really knows anything about the young German from Euskirchen, except for the fact that he’s the first German ever to make a WSOP Main Event ...
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November 05 2011
The 2011 WSOP’s November Nine is on the horizon and the poker world is boiling: various experts cast predictions and everyone is looking to chime in one way or another, throwing his/her 50 cents into the middle. What everyone is hoping ...
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November 04 2011
The agreement between the DoJ and representatives of the Bernard Tapie Group was great news for online poker players world over. Some of these guys didn’t quite have time to celebrate though: they were busy grinding away at the high stakes ...
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November 04 2011
Ben Lamb is beyond doubt one of the most capable and dangerous players from this year’s November Nine. Let’s face it though, before the 2011 WSOP no one had really heard about the player who goes by the online moniker ‘Benba’. ...
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November 03 2011
The final 6 players reconvened on Tuesday at the Foxwoods at the official World Poker Finals final table, to play down to a winner. After about 8 hours of green felt hostilities and 200 hands, the winner was crowned, and the ...
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November 02 2011
It’s been months now since we last heard of the acquisition deal signed by the French conglomerate Groupe Bernard Tapie and Full Tilt Poker, a prolonged hiatus punctuated by ominous rumors here and there that never failed to incite tension among ...
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November 02 2011
The 5th day of the WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals was an extremely short affair: 8 players returned to action and the goal for the day was to play down to the 6-handed televised final table. All the pressure was ...
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November 01 2011
In the wake of the Black Friday events, PokerStars have made a deal with the DoJ and it was a part of that deal that they would not allow US players to engage in real money poker at the site. Sure ...
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November 01 2011
'Name’ players had a field day online last Sunday at PokerStars, as two of them, Jude Ainsworth and Ryan Hall managed to win events. Ainsworth won the Bigger $55, taking home $45.9k. Hall took down the $109 Sunday Rebuy.
The Sunday ...
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