April 30 2011
Day 1B of the EPT’s San Remo Main event saw 549 players cough up the €5k buy-in. After 9 levels of action, around half the starting field was disposed of, the other half led by PokerStars Ruben Visser into ...
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April 29 2011
The 1st Day 1 flight of the EPT San Remo Main Event attracted a starting field of 438 players. Some of these guys were late to register and with the fuss surrounding the seating, the official start of ...
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April 28 2011
One of the 11 people indicted on various counts tied to Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and Absolute Poker on April 15 has been arrested in Guatemala on Monday. Ira Rubin faces a litany of charges, being ...
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April 28 2011
The online poker world may have been hit hard by the Black Friday ordeal, and because many of the high stakes pros were from the US, the nosebleed stakes scene has taken quite a hit too, but while many of the ...
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April 27 2011
Rumors have it - and mind you: this is not verified news – that after three of the biggest online poker operations: Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and Absolute Poker have been ejected from the US market, several other companies, ...
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April 26 2011
Stunned and intimidated into submission on Black Friday, the online poker industry took a while to rebound and to begin fighting back. As soon as the various online poker rooms realized that the sky hadn’t caved in on them though, their ...
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April 26 2011
With Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars back in business and looking to return to as normal a day-to-day existence as possible, the past weekend saw a relatively decent number of players hit the guaranteed tournament tables. ...
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April 22 2011
In the wake of the April 15 indictments of some of the top online poker executives, several of the concerned operations have issued statements regarding the matter. Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars were both quick to re-assure their players, ...
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April 22 2011
Full Tilt Poker and Pokerstars have apparently struck a deal with the DoJ over their .com domain names that were seized on April 15. As a result of that, the two sites seem to have regained their original URLs. Read More
April 21 2011
Like its high profile competitor (PokerStars), Full Tilt Poker is looking to rebound in style. The site was offline immediately after the Black Friday court order regarding the seizure of its domain name by the US government, but it soon popped ...
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April 20 2011
In the wake of online poker’s “Black Friday”, both top industry players, Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars were briefly gone, raising fears among players that they would never be able to recover the monies they had left in their accounts. Their ...
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April 18 2011
Full Tilt Poker, much like the other sites concerned, were a bit late to issue official reactions about the DoJ’s Friday move against them. They didn’t know what hit them so to speak, and for a while there, poker players – ...
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April 18 2011
The player balances of those who played at PokerStars and Full Tilt poker are safe. In the wake of Black Friday, many players – even those outside the US – were worried about their online balances. What we can tell you ...
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April 17 2011
This is probably our last online poker report dominated by the nosebleed stakes action from PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. As you probably already know, last Friday, both sites stopped accepting US players, therefore the cream of the crop of the ...
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April 15 2011
Breaking News: Major Online Poker Sites - fulltiltpoker.com, PokerStars.com, UB.com - have been shut down by the FBI, which mainly affects US players who cannot enter the site and download the poker software. US players are recommended to ...
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April 13 2011
In the wake of the latest developments online gambling-wise, it is quite safe to affirm that the Silver State may become the trail-blazer in internet-poker and gambling legislation, despite the fact that several other states appeared to be ...
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April 13 2011
Gus Hansen was one of the main protagonists of the high stakes cash game action at Full Tilt Poker in recent days. The Great Dane had experienced something of a steep slide lately and he was hell-bent ...
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April 13 2011
Viktor Blom took on Scott Palmer in the second round of their SuperStar Showdown bout on Sunday. The first round had gone to Palmer, who scored a $5,425 profit to barely inch ahead of his opponent in the final stages of ...
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April 12 2011
9 players returned to the tables of the Berlin Spielbank on the final day of the EPT’s Main Event to battle it out for the title, and what a lineup it was. The chip leader was pretty much the dullest player ...
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April 12 2011
Daniel Pidun returned with the biggest stack of chips on Day 4 of the EPT Berlin Main Event. He led the field of 24 survivors into the penultimate day of action, followed by Max Heinzelmann and Ben Wilinofsky. ...
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April 09 2011
119 players returned to the tables of the Spielbank Berlin on the third day of the EPT Berlin stop, comfortable in the knowledge that they would not go home empty handed, and all hoping to make it as ...
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April 09 2011
Day 2 of the EPT Berlin Main Event was a rather short one in terms of levels completed, but it saw the field sail past a few extremely significant milestones, like the money bubble. 353 players showed up ...
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April 09 2011
Last week, the online poker action at Full Tilt Poker’s nosebleed stakes tables was rather tame. There were few monster pots and few players put large chunks of their rolls into harm’s way. Gus Hansen was one of ...
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April 07 2011
As expected, Day 1B of the EPT Berlin stop yielded a starting field next to which the Day 1A turnout faded into the background. No fewer than 458 players showed up, €5k in hand and hope in their ...
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April 07 2011
The first day 1 flight of the EPT Berlin Main Event wasn’t overly pro-heavy, which was just OK with the participants. Despite the fact that according to German law, buying into the event online was illegal and ...
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April 07 2011
Online poker player Cadillac1944 had been dropping money at Full Tilt Poker’s nosebleed tables at an alarming rate, before he disappeared off the radar a few weeks ago. The other day, he resurfaced, probably to exact some revenge and to recoup ...
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April 05 2011
The SuperStar Showdown has already proven to be several times more efficient and thus more spectacular too than its said rival, the durrrr Challenge. There’s a SuperStar Showdown match almost every week and more importantly, we see a conclusion every time. ...
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April 05 2011
Lately, it seems like there’s something special in the books every weekend as far as the online poker tournament scene is concerned. Last weekend, there was a guaranteed prize-pool frenzy at Full Tilt Poker. The biggest winner ...
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April 04 2011
If there’s one guy in the poker world who would qualify as an expert hellraiser, it has to be Tony G. Guoga certainly knows how to create a ruckus while remaining on the right side of poker history, and he’s also ...
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April 03 2011
Last Sunday, PokerStars’ quarter million guaranteed was turned into the Sunday Storm. The $10 buy-in event featured a $1 million guarantee for the first time ever thus guaranteeing the eventual winner a single haul of $200k. Needless to say, the ...
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April 03 2011
April Fools’ Day is a major catalyst for all sorts of hoaxes each year and this time around it wasn’t any different. Some of this year’s poker hoaxes however, overshot the mark by quite a bit, so much so that not ...
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April 02 2011
In this day and age, pretty much everybody who’s anybody has some sort of an online presence. The wild proliferation of social networking means that everyone has – or at least has the illusion of having – his/her own corner of ...
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April 01 2011
The midweek high stakes action finally saw Gus Hansen’s heater hit a nasty old snag. For a coupe, of days there, it looked like his legendary bad luck had returned. The effects of his downswing were quite impressive indeed: he dropped ...
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April 01 2011
The State of Wisconsin has seen more than its fair share of legal bickering lately. Although much of the ruckus has been about “more important” legal issues than gaming, it seems like poker, precisely ePoker has found its way into the ...
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April 01 2011
9 players showed up on the 4th day of the WSOP-C’s Western Regional Championship, to battle it out for the top prize and the title. It took Ali Eslami a massive 10 hours to best the other players and to ...
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April 01 2011
After a slaughter of a durrrr Challenge session, in which Cates added a few hundred thousand buckskins to his overall lead, the two players met at the Challenge tables again a couple of days ago. This latest session has made one ...
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