May 31 2011
Before shifting their focus onto the upcoming 2011 WSOP, poker pros descended in great numbers to play in the various high prize-pool guaranteed tournaments over the last weekend. The biggest winner of the weekend at PokerStars was none other ...
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May 31 2011
The 42nd annual WSOP gets rolling on Tuesday at the Convention Center at the Rio, featuring 58 gold bracelet events, which beats last year’s yield by one. Whether participation will measure up to last year’s though remains to be seen. The ...
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May 30 2011
Daniel Tzvetkoff may have thought he bought his way out of the squeezer by ratting out online poker operators Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and the Cereus network members prior to the Black Friday indictments. Boy, was he wrong. While good-old ...
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May 30 2011
Per the agreement it has reached with Full Tilt poker in the wake of the Black Friday events, the DoJ has unfrozen a Bank of Ireland account belonging to the company, where allegedly around one third of the US players’ funds ...
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May 28 2011
Last week, the action at the high stakes cash tables saw quite a bit of a flare-up, both at Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars. At Full Tilt, the story was basically the battle between Patrick Antonius and ...
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May 27 2011
Black Friday was sure to leave a huge void in the online poker industry, one concerning the US market. Given the stakes involved, some of the more suspicious minds out there went even as far as to say that the whole ...
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May 26 2011
On Tuesday, Capitol Hill witnessed a rather out of the ordinary event: a rally in favor of taxation. Online poker players gathered outside the US Capitol, flown in from all over the country by the PPA to voice their discontent ...
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May 26 2011
Online poker has suffered a series of withering setbacks lately, in the shape of various online poker URL seizures, bank account seizures and indictments directed at some of the top online poker executives. To make a long story short: the storm ...
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May 26 2011
Bodog have long been at odds with the US authorities and they have definitely learned a couple of things from their past confrontations, one of which is: if you mess with the bull, you get the horns. The latest developments, dubbed ...
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May 25 2011
Gus Hansen has been at the center of pretty much every noteworthy nosebleed stakes cash game at Full Tilt Poker lately. Over the last weekend, he scored a $600k+ profit, which put him back on top of the 2011 biggest winners’ ...
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May 24 2011
The ripples in the wake of online poker’s Black Friday just can’t seem to set as more and more pebbles get tossed into the pond by various entities. On Monday, it was the turn of the US Attorney of Maryland to ...
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May 24 2011
As the post Black Friday situation is slowly but surely being sorted out, poker news headlines are also re-conquered by actual news about who won where and how much. Last week was an excellent week for high stakes online poker ...
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May 24 2011
Galen Hall began the last day of the WPT World Championship’s Main Event with the largest stack, but in the end it was Scott Seiver who mustered enough stamina and prowess to close all the other competitors out, grabbing the $1.6 ...
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May 23 2011
The WPT’s Super High Roller Event, the entry to which cost players $100k apiece, was supposed to last 2 days. Eventually, it ended up running for 3, thanks to the prolonged heads-up battle that the final two participants, Erik Seidel ...
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May 20 2011
A super high roller event is one featuring an out-of-this-world buy-in, thus restricting the starting field to some of the world’s best and wealthiest poker players, giving each of them excellent individual odds for winning. The WPT ...
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May 20 2011
Only 15 players returned to the penultimate day of the WPT’s World Championship event. Galen Hall led the survivors into this significant portion of the final stretch and he was still sitting comfortably on top when the day was called. The ...
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May 20 2011
The 4th day of the WPT’s World Championship event saw the field whittle down to 15 over 5 levels of action. When the day was called, Galen Hall, a former PCA Champion, had the largest stack, weighing in at 3.4 million ...
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May 18 2011
It’s not a secret to anyone that after a myriad of punitive measures taken by authorities in various areas of the globe against online poker, player numbers have been dropping steadily for a while. One doesn’t have to be a rocket ...
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May 17 2011
116 players returned to action on Monday, on the 3rd day of the WPT’s World Championship event. When the day ended, only 52 of them were still in contention. Sam El Sayed was the one who finished the day with the ...
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May 17 2011
After PokerStars have given around 100 million dollars back to their US customers, Full Tilt Poker, the other major online poker operator directly impacted by the Black Friday indictments, decided to make an announcement on the 1 month anniversary of the ...
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May 17 2011
The SCOOP messed up the weekend schedule a little bit for the major guaranteed prize-pool events at PokerStars, but there was still plenty of action at Full Tilt Poker. The biggest winner of the weekend, PreshaDroppa, who ...
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May 16 2011
Day 1 had already put 5 levels of action in the history books at the WPT World Championship, but players still had a chance to register for 3 more levels at the beginning of day 2. The extra time meant that ...
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May 16 2011
The WPT’s World Championship, which kicked off on Saturday in the Bellagio in Las Vegas, is quite possibly the biggest and most prestigious live event of the year, especially in light of the fact that Black Friday has cast an unsightly ...
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May 14 2011
PokerStars was the first Black Friday victim that undertook definitive moves to return US players’ funds that remained stuck at the site in the wake of the indictments. The site announced on Friday that over $100 million in player monies have ...
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May 14 2011
The nosebleed stakes online poker action entered another period of lull last week. There wasn’t a whole lot of significant action, the pots that were played for were small compared to what usually went down before Black Friday, and the ...
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May 14 2011
The American Gaming Association (AGA), an organization well known for supporting the interests of the American gambling and poker industry, as well as for its supportive stance regarding the DoJ’s Black Friday actions against Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and ...
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May 13 2011
8 players returned to the tables to battle it out for the EPT’s Grand Final title and the €1.5 million top prize on the last day of the event. Each of the final table participants was guaranteed an ...
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May 12 2011
The 4th day of the EPT’s Grand Final was a truly wild affair. No fewer than 5 chip leaders handed the reins of the action to one another during the day. Three tablefuls of players returned to action ...
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May 12 2011
After Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars have reached separate agreements with the DoJ regarding the Black Friday indictments, it now looks like Absolute Poker and UB have struck their own deals with the US authorities too. Of course, the DoJ ...
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May 11 2011
The events of Black Friday have stirred up all sorts of problems for the major players of the online poker industry. While Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars seemed able to absorb the hit, AP and UB, the ...
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May 08 2011
Friday, the online poker world went through another post-Black-Friday scare, as the Costa Rican offices of PokerStars were raided by the Costa Rican equivalent of the FBI, the OIJ. The most interesting thing about the whole affair was the ...
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May 05 2011
Liv Boeree won the EPT’s San Remo Main Event for Britain last year. Though this year she was eliminated from contention well short of the ultimate goal, the cause wasn’t all lost for Britain. Rupert Elder stepped up, bulldozing his way ...
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May 05 2011
Apparently, when it comes to leaving players high and dry, one can count on UB and AP. Rumors have been afloat for a few days in poker circles regarding Blanca Gaming’s potential bankruptcy file. Based in Antigua, Blanca Gaming is the ...
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May 03 2011
Poker may have just taken another huge step towards being recognized as a legitimate sport: today, the Federated Sports + Gaming announced the lineup for the very first season of its Professional Poker League. The move sent a strong message in ...
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May 03 2011
Nicolas Yunis started the 5th day of the EPT’s San Remo stop with the largest stack of chips. 24 players reconvened to battle it out for the final table, and when the objective was reached, Yunis was long ...
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May 03 2011
The 3rd day of the EPT San Remo Main Event was an extremely short one. It took the 60 survivors only four and a half levels to play down to the last 3 tables. Nicolas Yunis clinched the ...
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May 01 2011
Day 3 of the EPT San Remo Main Event carried special significance because the money bubble was set to burst that day. 164 players returned to action, each and every single one of them hoping that they would ...
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May 01 2011
460 players returned to action within the confines of the Casino San Remo on the 2nd day of the EPT Main Event. Ruben Visser led the survivors chips-wise and there were plenty of other “name” players lurking ...
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May 01 2011
The reality of the post Black Friday is slowly but surely beginning to sink in with the online poker world: last week, the action at the nosebleed stakes tables slowed down quite a bit. The biggest winner of the period was ...
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