February 27 2011
Full Tilt Poker has to keep up with PokerStars, regardless of the costs and regardless of whether they somehow end up looking unoriginal in the process. There’s no better proof to that than the new Challenge durrrr promotion they launched. That’s ...
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February 27 2011
Winning the EPT Copenhagen stop is always special. Often dubbed the “Scandinavian Open”, the event is known for the high level of competition it attracts year after year. This year, things weren’t different, and thus Michael Tureniec’s feat ...
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February 27 2011
Last week saw the high stakes online poker laurels divided rather equally between the two leading online poker rooms: Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars. Full Tilt Poker saw the return of Cadillac1944, who hasn’t yet played this year. At PokerStars, a ...
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February 27 2011
The first day of the LA Poker Classic kicked off on Friday at the Commerce Casino. 666 players showed up, and thanks to the late registration which allowed comers to buy-in during the first 5 blinds-levels, a $6,393,600 prize-...
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February 27 2011
The 4th day of the EPT Copenhagen stop saw a Swedish-heavy field belly up to the 3 remaining tables. Per Linde, Joel Nordkvist and Michael Tureniec were joined by Florian Langmann at the top of the chip ...
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February 27 2011
The 73 players who showed up at the Casino Copenhagen for day 3 of the EPT’s Copenhagen stop all sought to advance to the final 3 tables as that was where the action would be called at the ...
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February 24 2011
One of online poker’s biggest drawbacks when compared to live poker, consists in the fact that players are unable to see their opponents face-to-face and they therefore miss out on a wealth of possible tells that they could use ...
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February 24 2011
The 262 players who returned to the Scandinavian Ballroom of the Radisson Blu Hotel were indeed ready for action. Barely did day 2 of the EPT Copenhagen stop get rolling they were all over each-other’s throats. Obviously, ...
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February 24 2011
The second day 1 flight of the 2011 EPT Copenhagen Main Event saw a throng of 235 players belly up to the tables within the warm and cozy confines of the Radisson Blu hotel, which was in stark ...
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February 23 2011
Sorel Mizzi has apparently been caught cheating again. Having had his name dragged through the mud previously on similar accusations, this latest scandal was truly the last thing the poker pro needed. Of course, he denied the allegations again, but it’s ...
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February 23 2011
Las Vegas Sands Corp. is apparently the spearhead of a movement set to export Las Vegas style gambling resorts to various corners of the world. Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson was the person responsible for introducing Macau to Western-style glitzy and ...
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February 23 2011
The FTOPS must’ve had an adverse effect on nosebleed stakes cash games over the weekend, as they proved to be much lighter than usual, despite the fact that most of the regular were playing nonetheless. The fact however that – since ...
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February 22 2011
The first day 1 flight of the 2011 EPT Copenhagen Main Event saw a starting field of 213 belly up to the tables, safe from the snow and nasty weather that marked the waning days of winter in ...
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February 22 2011
Last weekend was a truly exceptional one for online poker railbirds and tournament players alike. There were the usual high buy-in weekend guarantees, topped off by the FTOPS’ Main Event which shattered both attendance and prize-pool records. Read More
February 22 2011
The final day of the LAPT’s Sao Paolo Main Event was one filled with partisan support on the part of the rail-birding crowd for the Brazilians still in the contest. Unfortunately for them, the first ever Brazilian LAPT title would ...
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February 20 2011
The end of the second day of the LAPT’s Sao Paolo Main Event saw Alex Manzano from Chile emerge as the chip leader. Manzano’s rise was a highly spectacular one, as it came on the back of a wave of sets ...
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February 20 2011
With the 2011 WSOP looming on the distant spring-flavored horizon, the Nevada Gaming Commission has just added another dimension to it: apparently, the commission has reviewed its stance on event betting and amended its regulations, approving this form of gambling. ...
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February 20 2011
Last week saw a huge uptick in nosebleed stakes cash game action both at PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. The number of “name” players who took to the tables was truly impressive: Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Ilari Sahamies and Scott Palmer ...
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February 20 2011
No fewer than 536 players showed up for the LAPT Sao Paulo’s Day 1, breaking all previous attendance records. Hungry for poker laurels and even hungrier for poker money, these guys ripped into each other straight out of the gate and ...
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February 19 2011
The WSOP Circuit event held at Harrah’s Tunica attracted a starting field of 480 players. Of those guys, only 9 remained for the final day of the poker tournament, and they all returned with their eyes on the $148k top prize ...
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February 18 2011
It’s not a secret to anyone involved in the online poker industry that Party Poker has long been seeking to return to the US market one way or another. The site never quite managed to recover from the hit received from ...
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February 18 2011
Whenever Patrik Antonius and Scott Palmer get together for a small $500/$1,000 PLO session, you can pretty much bet that sparks will fly. That was exactly the case last Sunday, when they locked horns at Full Tilt Poker’s tables. No fewer ...
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February 15 2011
Apparently, Tony G has an unlimited number of public relations stunts up his sleeve. If anyone knows how to create a fuss around a poker event by inflating emotions, he has to be the guy. His latest such stunt took place ...
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February 15 2011
Thanks to the FTOPS XIX, the tournament action was truly rabid over the weekend. The biggest prize of the weekend, a distinction that usually goes to the winner of PokerStars’ Sunday Million, ended up in Jason Koon’s possession this time. Koon ...
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February 14 2011
His PCA Super High Roller win must’ve made Eugene Katchalov hungrier for more because he took on Viktor Blom yesterday at the Superstar Showdown tables, at PokerStars, in the 4th round of the series. Unfortunately for him, his temerity was ...
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February 14 2011
Always looking to expand one way or the other, PokerStars have just added 15 more players to their Team PokerStars Online. Making the cut when it comes to becoming a member of any of the Team PokerStars Pro divisions is not ...
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February 13 2011
PokerStars - the online poker site responsible for the launching of numerous regional poker tours world over and for the delivering of the game of poker to the doorsteps of millions of people far off the beaten ...
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February 13 2011
The XIXth edition of the FTOPS has been a resounding success so far, as all events managed to shoot right past their guarantees by attracting more players than the organizers had counted on. As the fields grew, so did the individual ...
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February 13 2011
The WSOPE has yielded better and better quality fields every time it was held since its inception however the sheer numbers associated with the European extension of the WSOP, have repeatedly failed to impress the organizers. In 2011, it was decided ...
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February 12 2011
The nosebleed stakes action was once again rolling during the week at Full Tilt Poker. All the usual protagonists were there, including some of last week’s biggest winners. Of these guys, only Gus Hansen managed to stay on top of his ...
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February 12 2011
One of legal online poker’s staunchest opponents, Sen. Jon Kyl has announced a couple of days ago that he would not run for re-election. Kyl is best known among poker players for his support of the 2006 UIGEA, and for ...
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February 12 2011
With the balance of power slowly shifting in favor of PokerStars in the battle of the biggest online poker rooms, Full Tilt poker has scored a home run last Thursday, by hiring Sam Chauhan as their newest ...
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February 11 2011
If you’re a poker professional like Ashton Griffin, apparently you do not have to worry about your luck running out at the poker table. All you need to do to replenish that bankroll is to run 70 miles in 24 hours ...
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February 11 2011
High stakes prop bets between well-bankrolled poker pros are extremely common, everyone knows that. Still, when actual details of such a prop bet emerge, people are keen to sink their fangs into it, as it’s not every day we get ...
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February 11 2011
The Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Mashantucket played host to a truly unique event the other day: a $15k freeroll, to which all the 2010 WSOP November Nine members were invited. The tournament wasn’t just a November Nine Reunion: no ...
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February 10 2011
The WPT’s Venice stop proved to be rather successful in attracting registrants: 523 players showed up $4,512 in hand, hoping to make it all the way to the top to grab the lion’s share of the $2,081,132 prize-pool. When the ...
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February 10 2011
In January, the poker world was treated to a bit of a shocker during the Aussie Millions: a $250k buy-in event. That’s right folks: this event featured a bigger buy-in than the money some – not even stingy – ...
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February 10 2011
During the weekend, the online poker tournament action is always hot. Last weekend however, stood out by virtue of the intense cash game action at Full Tilt Poker. Phil Galfond was at the center of this action, ...
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February 09 2011
As online poker continues its struggles in the good old US of A, it seems to find prolific breeding grounds elsewhere. Italy is one of the locations which have seen a bona-fide poker explosion over the last year. Italy has ...
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February 08 2011
The Super Bowl slowed pretty much everything down around the country and the world over the weekend, but it didn’t quite manage to quench online regulars’ thirst for high buy-in tournament action. All major online poker rooms managed to cover ...
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February 07 2011
If there is a newsworthy online poker promotion out there, this one has to be it. Party Poker’s Snowballing again, and guess who’s the main beneficiary of all the freeroll entries, tournament buy-ins and cash prizes? The players of course. ...
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February 06 2011
Lately, all nosebleed stakes online action and most of the live poker action has been taken over by a new generation: the online poker generation. Hall of Famers have a hard time showing up at a final table here and ...
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February 06 2011
10 players showed up at the Borgata on Day 5 of the $3,500 Borgata Winter Open, all of them with their eyes on the prize. The top prize that is. Vadm Shlez from NJ started the day with the largest stack ...
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February 05 2011
The midweek saw some pretty solid poker action yet again, with the big guns spending time at the tables both at Full Tilt Poker and Pokerstars. Viktor Blom was yet again among the winners, after he managed to ...
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February 05 2011
If you were having doubts about how serious social game developer Zynga truly was about its involvement with poker, toss those doubts out the window. On March 18-19, Zynga will host a convention known as the PokerCon. The Palms ...
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February 05 2011
37 players returned to the tables of the Borgata Winter Open with one goal in mind: to play down to the final table and preferably to survive to the final table too. That goal was indeed accomplished and for 10 of ...
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February 04 2011
Last Sunday, the 6th edition of Ultimate Bet’s response to various online poker championships held by PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, the UBOC, wrapped up. Having awarded $5,139,125 over 28 events, the UBOC attracted large starting fields ...
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February 04 2011
The National Heads-up Poker Championship’s starting field is now pretty much complete. Justin Young managed to grab the seat awarded by Caesar’s in a special live qualifying event, by defeating Eric Baldwin heads-up. The $230 buy-in event attracted ...
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February 04 2011
The 3rd day of action of the Borgata Winter Open is in the books. 37 players are left in contention, as Or Abramov leads the surviving pack into day 4 on a stack of 1.68 million chips.
The most important milestone ...
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February 03 2011
The issue of legal online poker was brought into the attention of federal legislators once again this week, through a letter that Michael Waxman of the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative submitted to Congressman Darrell Issa, chairman of the House ...
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February 03 2011
Those who were rooting for Viktor Blom aka Isildur1 to fail as an in-house PokerStars pro will probably be disappointed to learn that despite all his January losses, the no-longer-mystery Swede managed to rebound nicely. During the ...
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February 03 2011
With all the online action, the EPT and the Aussie Millions on the table, we paid little attention to the Borgata Winter open which is also in full swing in Atlantic City. The event is a truly large ...
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February 02 2011
Those who routinely navigate PokerStars’ website to see what changes have been implemented, got a little bit of a surprise the other day: looking at the PokerStars pros list, these ultra radical railbirds may have noticed something missing: Greg “the ...
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February 02 2011
Nowadays, there’s little shortage of live and online poker events and the first part of this week was a perfect illustration of the bustle that has become the everyday pace of the world of poker.
David Gorr, winner of the Aussie ...
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February 02 2011
Gus Hansen, once known among his nosebleed stakes peers as the Full Tilt Poker ATM, has closed the month of January on the receiving end of the second largest cash game profit, second only to the pile of money scraped together ...
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February 01 2011
891 players registered for the EPT 2011 Deauville stop. Over half of these guys were from France. That kind of overwhelming presence meant little when the going got tough and when things boiled down to the heads-up ...
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