December 31 2011
A true poker fanatic always has poker on his mind. While others may be busy planning New Year’s Eve celebrations, two of the nosebleed stakes regulars, Viktor Blom and a new online poker phenomenon known by the cumbersome moniker 1ll| ...
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December 31 2011
Every year, the European Poker Awards offer prizes and recognition to the previous year’s poker overachievers. Awards are handed out in no fewer than 9 different categories, covering everything from the best player of the year all the way to the ...
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December 31 2011
To many in the online poker community, David Benefield, known by his online moniker “Raptor”, is one of Tom Dwan’s best friends. Benefield is also known for his high stakes online antics, which are quite impressive indeed, even if they fail ...
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December 30 2011
April 15, 2011 – a day forever etched into the annals of online poker history under the name Black Friday. Black Friday was indeed a major turning point for the online poker industry. It was the move that has forever ...
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December 30 2011
A little more than a week ago, 2010 WSOP Main Event Champion Jonathan Duhamel had a nasty surprise answering his doorbell when two men decided it would be an awesome idea to hit the champ in his house and to relieve ...
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December 30 2011
While some players enjoyed massively successful times through 2011, for Phil Ivey, they year will probably go down as one that’s best forgotten fast. The Tiger Woods of poker struggled through the year, although he kicked it off on the right ...
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December 29 2011
Because of the online poker regulations passed by the Nevada Gambling Commission, legal online poker is now certain to make its debut in the US in 2012. The regulations will definitely represent a solid starting point for any such future ...
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December 29 2011
Erik Seidel was one of those old-school poker pros who – although respected and thought highly of by all his peers – was slowly beginning to enter the class of poker players rendered obsolete by the onslaught of the Read More
December 28 2011
Ben Lamb really did make things happen in 2011. It’s quite safe to say that no other poker player enjoyed a breakout year as intense as Benba, who crushed the WSOP, dominating various events to a rather unprecedented extent. Despite the ...
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December 27 2011
The last online poker weekend of the year is in the books and last 6-figure winners have taken home their prizes. The biggest winner of the weekend was the winner of PokerStars’ Sunday Million, llBurkeeee!, who pocketed $196.5k.
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December 26 2011
While the significance of the DoJ announcement made public a couple of days ago regarding the 1961 Wire Act’s applicability to online poker and gambling is far from clear, many news outlets hail the move as a major push to ...
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December 26 2011
We haven’t even seen 2011 off yet and online poker rooms are already preparing to get 2012 going in style. PartyPoker is one of the poker rooms looking to get their players involved in a massive guaranteed MTT in early 2012. ...
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December 26 2011
For years, Phil Hellmuth, the WSOP bracelet record holder, the Poker Brat and one of the top tournament players in the world – whether you like him or not - has been in a ...
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December 25 2011
The DoJ came forth with an announcement the other day, the significance of which cannot yet be fully assessed for the online poker industry. It may indeed be something major, but given the caution the DoJ has expressed in the same ...
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December 23 2011
The EPT has just announced the addition of no fewer than 3 new stops to its 8th season. The three new destinations are nothing to scoff at either: Madrid, Spain is the first one, followed by Campione, Italy ...
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December 23 2011
A major breakthrough has been achieved the other day concerning the legal status of online poker in the State of Nevada: the Nevada Gambling Commission has approved intrastate online poker regulations, making it legal for people to play online poker ...
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December 23 2011
The high stakes online poker action saw a bit of a lull in anticipation of the upcoming Holidays, as many players have apparently more important things to tend to then feeding the grind monster. The “race” for the biggest online ...
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December 21 2011
The Aussie Millions rock the poker world every year, and now the series is but a month away. The Crown Casino in Melbourne has announced a series of changes to the registration process, in order to facilitate bigger participation and bigger ...
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December 21 2011
The ripples generated by the Black Friday indictments haven’t yet settled: on December 20, AP cofounder Brent Beckley caved in and pleaded guilty to the criminal charges brought forth in the said indictments. The charges included conspiracy to commit bank fraud ...
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December 19 2011
Many thought that PokerStars took a huge gamble by upping the guarantee of the weekly Sunday Million from $1.5 million to a massive $10 million to mark the 10th anniversary of the online poker room. That may indeed have ...
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December 18 2011
PokerStars’ $10 Million Sunday Million is currently in full swing. Taking advantage of a 3 hour late registration, players are still coughing up buy-ins and adding to the prize-pool. While the size of the prize-pool is not ...
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December 18 2011
15 players returned to the tables of the WPT’s Venice Main Event, looking to play down to the 6-handed final table. When the day was called, indeed, there were only 6 players left with poker tournament hopes, ...
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December 18 2011
The 3rd day of the WPT’s Venice stop saw 40 players return to the tables. Wanny Piazza had the largest stack at the beginning of the day. When the day was called, only 15 players remained. Marvin Rettenmaier emerged as the ...
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December 18 2011
Notorious online poker maniac Viktor Blom was missing from the online poker tables for the last couple of months, a hiatus which was at least a little weird, given the extreme level of commitment he had shown for the game ...
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December 18 2011
BetOnline poker has been one of the major online sports-betting players since 2001. The site is therefore regarded as one of the most trustworthy destinations for those seeking to wager money on sports and that may soon be complemented by ...
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December 16 2011
The deal long awaited by tens of thousands of poker players world over with fingers crossed, appears to be going ahead as planned. Apparently, an agreement allowing the transfer of assets from Full Tilt Poker to Groupe Bernard Tapie has been ...
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December 15 2011
Bodog Poker has quit the US market earlier this year, probably prompted by the Black Friday developments which dealt on line poker a near fatal blow in the US. The move came as a surprise for many, who knew about ...
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December 14 2011
Phil Hellmuth is one sly old fox for sure, so when he says something, one had better pay attention. The good news is that what he’s just said may have huge repercussions for the online poker industry. In an interview ...
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December 13 2011
Given the ongoing 10th anniversary celebrations at PokerStars, the site’s 72 billionth hand promotion awarded an outstandingly large prize to those dealt into the milestone hand. A massive $100k would be distributed among the winners, with the lion’s share of $25k ...
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December 13 2011
The 2011 edition of the WPT’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic is in the books and James Dempsey is the winner. Antonio Esfandiari, the previous winner of the event was still in contention at the beginning of the day, and quite ...
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December 13 2011
The 6-handed final table of the Doyle Brunson Five Diamonds World Poker Classic has been reached on Day 5 of the event. Antonio Esfandiari, the reigning champion of the poker tournament is among the final 6 too, ...
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December 11 2011
8 players returned to the final table of the PokerStars EPT Prague Main Event. Each end every one of these players wanted to be the last one standing, feeling the reassuring touch of the first place prize in ...
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December 11 2011
The 4th day of the WPT’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic is in the books and the final table still hasn’t been reached. 49 players showed up at the tables at the beginning of the day, with the objective of playing ...
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December 11 2011
The goal of the surviving field on day 4 of the EPT Prague Main Event was to play down to the final table and that goal was indeed reached. Martin Finger will lead the survivors into ...
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December 11 2011
Day 3 of the WPT’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic carried special significance for the field: the money bubble, set for 100th place, was going to burst. In the end, 49 players survived the day, the money bubble woes a distant ...
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December 11 2011
Most online poker players will agree that Jamie Gold is quite probably not one of the best poker players ever to walk the face of the earth, despite his still standing record WSOP Main Event win in 2006.
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December 10 2011
As 2011 winds down, the battle at the top of the year’s biggest online poker winners’ list intensifies. Ilari Sahamies and Rafi Amit are two players who look poised to make it as far up on that list as possible. The ...
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December 09 2011
The 3rd day of the Pokerstars EPT’s Prague Main Event saw a surviving field of 136 players return to the tables. Garri Tesorov had the chip lead at the beginning of the day. With the money bubble set to 104th place, ...
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December 09 2011
Poker players are usually a charitable bunch, despite the prop betting and binge-gambling tendencies some of them exhibit. Whenever it’s for a good cause though, the more respectable representatives of the poker world never shy away from landing a hand. ...
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December 09 2011
The second day of the WPT’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic offered players the possibility to register late. 48 players took advantage of late registration, among them Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Jason Mercier, Eli Elezra and Ben Lamb. The reason these ...
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December 09 2011
High Stakes Poker, the iconic GSN show which entertained the poker playing public for quite a few years, has become another victim of Black Friday. GSN has apparently pulled the show off its 2012 schedule, after the quality of the lineup ...
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December 08 2011
The second day of the PokerStars EPT Prague Main Event featured 6 75-minute levels, during which the returning field of 407 players successfully played down to 136. Garri Tevosov was the one who clinched the ...
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December 07 2011
The second day 1 flight of the EPT Prague Main Event drew a larger starting field than day 1A: 488 players bellied up to the tables, taking the total number of registrants to 722 – a new record for the event. ...
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December 07 2011
About a week ago we announced that Bodog have introduced anonymous poker tables in a bid to prevent sharks from gaining an unfair edge over recreational players. The move appeared to be an inspired one indeed, after all, fish need to ...
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December 07 2011
The WPT’s Prague Main Event is history and the winner is Andrey Pateychuk, the Russian who took down the EPT’s San Remo Main Event a couple of months ago and who finished 15th in the WSOP’s Main Event. Pateychuk took down ...
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December 07 2011
The on line poker world has indeed been changed quite a bit by the Black Friday events and the various ordeals which followed. That would explain why no one took Daniel Cates up on his heads-up challenge: the days ...
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December 07 2011
The first day 1 flight of the EPT’s Prague Main Event saw 234 players belly up to the tables, including Bryn Kenney, who was just eliminated from the WPT’s Prague Main Event. 140 players survived the day, among them chip leader ...
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December 07 2011
It now looks like the Big One for One Drop event of the 2012 WSOP will in fact take place, given that 22 players have already announced that they would take part. The event will feature ...
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December 06 2011
PokerStars’ 10th anniversary celebrations kicked off at the beginning of the month and player traffic has been up ever since. Last weekend, plenty of players took to the felt to take advantage of the various guaranteed prize-pools offered at ...
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December 06 2011
The objective of the starting field of 63 players on Day 3 of the WPT’s Prague Main Event was to play down to the 6-handed final table and that objective was indeed accomplished. Martins Adeniya of Britain led the pack ...
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December 06 2011
The second day of the WPT’s Prague Main Event saw 124 players return from the original, record-setting starting field of 571. Prior to this event, the largest ever WPT event had been the WPT Vienna from season nine.v
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December 04 2011
You may not have heard of Bet24 Poker yet, but now you have no choice: the on line poker site has just hired Danish Poker pro Jesper Hougaard to represent the site and to play online there. Bet24 is a ...
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December 04 2011
The last two weeks of November saw quite a bit of high stakes online poker action at PokerStars. Ilari Sahamies was the one who finished with the biggest profit over this period: he booked $800k, off 73 sessions, having logged ...
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December 03 2011
The first Day 1flight of the WPT’s Prague Main Event saw 231 players belly up to the tables of the Corinthia Casino in Prague. When the dust settled after the day’s green felt battles, 93 players were still standing, local player ...
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December 02 2011
December is here and with it, PokerStars’ hotly anticipated 10th anniversary celebrations. To kick things off in style, this Sunday, there will be a $1 buy-in MTT, which is aimed at breaking the record for the biggest online poker ...
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December 01 2011
Let’s face it, ever since it began hosting the Zynga Poker client and drawing thousands upon thousands of players to its play money tables, Facebook has been considered a potentially major real money online poker contender. It now looks like the ...
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December 01 2011
Raymond Bitar was among the people indicted on Black Friday, and that’s when most people in the on line poker world first heard of him. Bitar was the one responsible for the success of the Full Tilt brand which – ...
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December 01 2011
Under the deal agreed upon with representatives of French conglomerate Groupe Bernard Tapie, the US DoJ would give its blessings for the acquisition of Full Tilt Poker by the above said group, provided it repaid Full Tilt’s international players in full. ...
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