March 30 2011
Tuesday marked yet another milestone for the largest and most successful online poker operation in existence. Whenever there’s a major moment approaching, it is worth to play at PokerStars, more than at any other time. For the simple reason that ...
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March 30 2011
The brunt of the 6-figure pot action over the last few days at Full Tilt Poker was born by Gus Hansen and Phil Galfond, who locked horns at the $300/$600 PLO tables, battling it out for several ...
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March 30 2011
After the trouncing he was subjected to last week, many of the railbirds speculated that Daniel Negreanu would not return to the SuperStar Showdown tables for the second round. It only took Blom 1,439 hands of the planned 2,500 to take ...
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March 28 2011
Gus Hansen has been on an impressive roll lately, and he’s far from cooling off. Last week, he kicked things off with a stellar performance over the previous weekend. The momentum he’d gathered then carried over to the midweek too, as ...
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March 28 2011
Tom Dwan hasn’t exactly been doing well this year, and things don’t seem to be straightening up for him either. A couple of days ago, he returned to the durrrr Challenge tables to try to shave a bit off Daniel Cates’ ...
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March 25 2011
24 players returned to the tables of the EPT Snowfest Main Event on the 4th day of the poker tournament, set to make it to the final table. Each and every one of them had €9k guaranteed, so ...
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March 25 2011
Giacomo Maisto started the 3rd day of the EPT Snowfest Main Event second in chips, more than 100k behind leader Phillip Meulyzer. At the end of the third day of action, Giacomo was sitting at the top with ...
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March 24 2011
Day 2 of the EPT’s Snowfest stop saw the field edge tantalizingly close to the money. Of the 482 players who had entered the two day 1 flights, 268 returned to action at the beginning of the day. When the action ...
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March 24 2011
After the inexplicably long losing streak he had seen a couple of years ago, Gus Hansen is currently the hottest player at Full Tilt Poker’s nosebleed tables. Lately it seems like whenever something noteworthy happens, he is involved ...
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March 22 2011
Daniel Negreanu has been itching to lock horns with PokerStars’ newest in-house sensation, Isildur1, ever since the SuperStar Showdown kicked off, but for reasons unknown for the public, the confrontation didn’t really happen up until the other day that ...
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March 22 2011
The weekend was once again an extremely happening period for online tournament poker. Several big events rolled by, among them the Mini FTOPS’ Main Event which once again shattered the guarantee and more than doubled the size of the total prize-...
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March 21 2011
Poker players must be fed up with the winter cold because the starting field of the first day 1 flight of the EPT Snowfest stop proved to be quite disappointing. Only 180 players coughed up the €3,500 buy-...
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March 20 2011
For years, the online poker community took it for granted that the place for cash game poker was at Full Tilt’s nosebleed tables. Likewise, the best place for tournaments was over at PokerStars. Isildur1’s signing as a PokerStars pro has blurred ...
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March 20 2011
The final table of the WPT’s Bay 101 Shooting Stars event was as star-studded as ever. Mike Sexton was there, albeit on a short stack, together with Vivek Rajkumar and Mike Matusow. Having kicked off on Friday, the final table ...
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March 20 2011
Bills aimed at legalizing online wagering – more specifically online poker - seem to be introduced on a monthly basis now, as the legal system chews them up then spits them out in an unsightly pile one after another. The ...
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March 20 2011
Last week’s Monday was a pretty tough one for Gus Hansen, who saw his long-time winning streak crash in a more than awful manner. It didn’t take the Great Dane long to bounce back though. By mid-week, he was ...
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March 19 2011
The 3rd day of the WPT’s Bay 101 Shooting Star event is in the books and the official (televised) final table is set. 24 players showed up at the beginning of the day, and when the dust settled, there were only ...
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March 18 2011
Large scale online tournament action usually takes place over the weekends, but this week, things were different on account of Full Tilt Poker’s Monday Million. Player “asforr” won the event, taking home a $253k reward. Several name players ...
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March 18 2011
The second day of the WPT’s Bay 101 Shooting Star saw the field make great headway towards the eventual conclusion. Of the 415 initial starters, 170 returned to the tables on Day 2. By the end of the day, only 24 ...
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March 16 2011
The elite of the poker world is present at just about every live poker event featuring a decent-size buy-in, and thanks to the various prop bets which have become popular among these players lately, the elite shows up en-...
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March 16 2011
Since he re-appeared at Full Tilt Poker, Canadian mystery-man XWINK has pretty much hogged all the lime-light at the high stakes tables of the site. He has been riding a rollercoaster of profits and losses, ...
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March 15 2011
The live poker scene was again extremely busy during the weekend, but that didn’t prevent the massive weekend online poker guarantees to raise huge starting fields for the second week in a row.
No fewer than 12 players picked up 6-...
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March 15 2011
The WSOP-C’s Caesar’s Atlantic City Main Event saw a starting field of 442 players belly up to the tables when the action kicked off on day 1. At the end of 3 days of ferocious poker action, only one ...
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March 14 2011
The $10k ESPN Bounty Shootout featured a final table rich in ‘name’ competitors. Victor Ramdin was there, together with Joe Tehan, Jonathan Duhamel, John Smith, Alex Keating, Matt Woodward and Shane Schlegher. When the dust settled after 13 hours of exhausting ...
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March 13 2011
Ever since he returned to the nosebleed stakes games a couple of weeks ago, XWINK hasn’t taken his foot off the pedal. After an excellent start, which saw him pocket several hundreds of thousands of dollars from several Read More
March 12 2011
The Big Event’s Main Event featured a starting field of 417, of which only 8 returned to the tables of the Bicycle Casino on the last day of action. All 8 of these players had their eyes on the prize going ...
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March 11 2011
Daniel Negreanu has been spending time at the online poker tables again lately in preparation for his bout with Isildur1. That’s right. PokerStars’ most popular in-house pro will take on the site’s best online poker player in the ...
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March 10 2011
The 4th day of the Big Event’s Main Event was to be the shortest and lightest day of the poker tournament. The original starting field of 417 already reduced to 22, the objective for the day was one well within reach ...
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March 10 2011
PokerStars’ players will probably be glad to learn that the 2011 SCOOP schedule has been released and that it looks juicier than ever. Starting on May 8 and lasting all the way to May 22, the series will feature 38 events, ...
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March 10 2011
Last weekend may have been dominated by poker tournaments, but there were a few smooth operators flying under the radar at the high stakes cash game tables too. Smooth operators don’t come any smoother than Phil Ivey, who – without raising ...
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March 09 2011
The durrrr challenge – yes the one many of you have probably already started forgetting about – was revived to the tune of 348 hands late on Monday. Daniel Cates and Tom Dwan sat down to the $200/$400 tables at Read More
March 07 2011
This online poker weekend was thoroughly dominated by PokerStars’ anniversary edition of the Sunday Million. The event offered a guaranteed prize-pool of $5 million, plus a fly ride for the winner: a Lamborghini Gallardo. Needless to say, the draw was ...
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March 07 2011
Last week, the high stakes online poker action was positively rabid. Sahamies was in action again at PokerStars, together with Viktor Blom. Ivey and kagome kagome squared off at Full Tilt Poker, where a player long thought to ...
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March 07 2011
When Pokerstars have something to celebrate, they know how to do it in style. This time, the special occasion is the 5th anniversary of the site’s flagship weekend guaranteed prize-pool MTT, the Sunday Million. With a regular guarantee of ...
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March 07 2011
The final table of the LA Poker Classic featured a rather formidable lineup indeed: there were no fewer than 2 players at the table who already had a WPT title under their belt. Vivek Rajkumar had one, and Carlos Mortensen had ...
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March 05 2011
New Jersey’s much-hyped online poker bill is officially dead, and the smoking gun is in Gov. Chris Christie’s hand. The governor vetoed the bill, thus denying the opportunity for the Garden State to become the Silicon Valley of the ...
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March 04 2011
The Ultimate Bet/Absolute Poker cheating scandal took place years ago, and the whole thing ended by being pinned on Russ Hamilton, who pretty much took all the blame and the fallout in its wake. Was the Russ Hamilton theory ...
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March 03 2011
18 players returned to the Commerce Casino on Day 5 of the WPT’s LA Poker Classic. All eyes were on Carlos Mortensen, the only 3-time WPT winner left in contention. Would he score his 4th title here? He certainly did ...
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March 01 2011
The high stakes online poker action was about a couple of duels this week, one of them at Full Tilt Poker and the other one at PokerStars. At Full Tilt, Patrik Antonius took on Daniel Cates at the PLO and PL ...
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March 01 2011
The 63 players who returned to the tables on the 4th day of the WPT’s LA Poker Classic were all relaxed knowing that every one of them was guaranteed a minimum cash of $22,230. Whatever happened, they would not go home ...
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March 01 2011
The LA Poker Classic’s third day featured a major milestone: the money bubble. Set for 63rd place, there would be quite a few players eliminated before the bubble would burst. A massive starting field of 236 bellied up to the tables ...
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