July 31 2011
With the WSOP out of the way, high stakes professionals can now focus on the online games again. For some, that simply means firing up the computer again and logging in, for others, it’s a tad more complicated. PokerStars’ ...
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July 31 2011
The 5th season of the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour kicked off with a newly introduced stop: the Melbourne, Australia one. Although the Tour hadn’t ever organized an event in Melbourne before, it became obvious from the get-go that ...
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July 30 2011
Ever since poker hit the World Wide Web big time in 2003-2004, fans and industry members have developed the need for some sort of a ranking system that would let everyone know who the best player is, based on factual ...
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July 29 2011
The 2011 WSOP is in the books for pretty much everyone except for the November Nine, and as the hype dies off, the realities of everyday life catch up: those who made a living playing poker online are now out ...
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July 29 2011
New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak is well known to supporters of legal online poker. Last year, the Senator managed to pen legislation and to push it through the legislative channels, which would have legalized intra-state online poker and ...
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July 27 2011
Poker players who have money at Full Tilt Poker have certainly been looking forward to the day of the Alderney Gambling Control Commission hearing, ever since the poker site’s operations ground to a halt on June 29, if for no other ...
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July 27 2011
Tournament action over the weekend showed a definite uptick, marking the 4th straight week when player numbers shoot upward. With players running out of other options, PokerStars is slowly but surely becoming the last refuge for many of the high stakes ...
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July 27 2011
Bodog, one of the last online poker sites still open to US traffic will withdraw from the US market at the end of the year. According to CalvinAyre.com, Bodog was granted a UK license, which gives it more ...
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July 25 2011
The bulk of the 2011 WSOP is behind us, and looking back one can barely believe that the nearly two months of action and drama that we’ve pretty much gotten used to, will be missing from our lives. The 42nd edition ...
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July 25 2011
For most online poker players and industry interests, Senators John Kyl and Harry Reid have always represented the opposite ends of the spectrum. Kyl – a Republican - has been legal online poker’s most notorious opponent ever since the 2006 ...
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July 23 2011
Konstantinos Mamaliadis started the 8th day of the 2011 WSOP Main Event on a decent stack and he made decent progress in the beginning, but as the ever-increasing blinds poured on the pressure, he soon found himself with just ...
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July 23 2011
Day 8 of the 2011 WSOP’s Main Event marked the last WSOP bout this summer. The final table (aka November Nine) has been set and the remaining players will only return in November to play down to the title.
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July 22 2011
Pokerstars’ Erick Lindgren had sure put together a promising run to complete a spectacular comeback on Day 6 of the Main Event, and pundits were obviously expecting him to dole out more of the same medicine on day 7. He did ...
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July 22 2011
Day 7 of the 2011 WSOP Main Event saw the field put in 5 levels of action, during which the November Nine had been looming on the horizon. 5 levels provided plenty of opportunities for many of the participants to ...
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July 20 2011
Day 6 of the 2011 WSOP Main Event had plenty of stories to go around. The female contingent had been thinned out quite a bit on previous days, so there were only 3 women left at the start of day ...
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July 19 2011
With the money bubble far behind, the gloves flew off on day 6 of the 2011 WSOP Main Event. No longer aiming to just slip into the money, the primary goal of all participants was to chip up. When some ...
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July 19 2011
David Bach may have had one hell of a ride on day 5 of the 2011 WSOP Main Event, but his lead over second place man Pius Heinz was still only a meager one at the end of the day. ...
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July 18 2011
The goals for the 378 players who returned to the tables of the Amazon Room on Day 5 of the 2011 WSOP were quite simple indeed. All of them were in the money, so they didn’t have to worry about ...
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July 18 2011
Patrick Poirier and Daryl Jace started the 4th day of the 2011 WSOP Main Event with the largest stacks.
Poirier started out on the wrong foot though. He lost a coin-flip with an A,K to a Q,Q to drop ...
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July 18 2011
Day 45 of the 2011 WSOP, which was day 4 of the Main Event, saw an important milestone reached: the money bubble. 852 players returned to the tables of the Main Event with one immediate goal in mind: to make ...
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July 16 2011
Ben Lamb had dominated Day 1D and Day 2B, but his day 3 at the 2011 WSOP Main Event was an entirely different story. He began with a stack of more than 500k chips. His day turned out to be ...
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July 15 2011
The 3rd day of the 2011 WSOP Main Event saw a field of 1,866 return to the tables: the survivors of the two day 2 flights. Everyone was keen on advancing thus taking a huge step towards the money bubble. ...
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July 14 2011
While ex-PokerStars player Kevin Saul and Ben Lamb didn’t really lock horns directly on Day 2B of the 2011 WSOP Main Event, they were the two players who dueled it out for the overall chip lead.
Ryan D’Angelo had ...
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July 13 2011
Day 1D’s chip leader, Ben Lamb re-emerged on Day 2b of the WSOP’s Main Event, never letting up the pressure and never missing a single opportunity to add to his stack. By the day’s end, he had a stack of ...
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July 13 2011
Day 1b of the 2011 WSOP Main Event saw the survivors of the first 3 day 1 flights reconvene to play further down towards the money bubble. 2,031 players bellied up to the tables, among them Phil Hellmuth, Shaun Deeb and ...
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July 13 2011
While the first two day 1 flights of the 2011 WSOP Main Event were indeed rather disappointing, the last two flights, including Day 1D, delivered handsomely. There were more than 2,200 players who had registered for the event before access to ...
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July 11 2011
Day 40 of the 2011 WSOP was the first one that being side-event free, allowed players to focus exclusively on the task at hand: the Main Event. The first two day 1 flights of the 2011 Big Dance were downright ...
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July 11 2011
Day 1b of the 2011 WSOP Main Event was a bit disappointing for industry pundits: only 985 players showed up, 504 less than for day 1b of the 2010 Main Event. The starting field only managed to surpass the Day ...
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July 11 2011
The second bracelet winner of the 39th day of the 2011 WSOP (and the last one of the Series this summer), was Nick Binger, who rose to glory in the $5k PLO hi/lo split event, the last side-event of the ...
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July 11 2011
Both of the last 2011 WSOP side events played down to a winner on day 39 of the Series. Hasan Anter was the winner of the last NL Holdem side event. Nick Binger won the $5k PLO Hi/Lo split event to ...
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July 09 2011
Day 38 of the 2011 WSOP almost saw the last two side events wrap up. The highlight of the day was the first day 1 flight of the Main Event though, which kicked off with Doyle Brunson’s ‘shuffle up and deal’ ...
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July 09 2011
The 38th day of the 2011 WSOP saw two side-events play down to their respective final tables: the $1,500 NL Holdem event reached its final stretch and so did the $5k PLO Hi/Lo event. What everyone has been waiting for ...
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July 08 2011
Event #54 of the 2011 WSOP, the $1k NL Holdem one, reconvened on day 37 of the 2011 WSOP with its final table. Team PokerStars Russia member Maxim Lykov led the field into the final stretch, with a stack of ...
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July 08 2011
Nine players returned to the tables of the $50k Players’ Championship event on the final day of the tournament. Among them was Phil Hellmuth, the ex-UB pro, who was looking for his 12th career bracelet, and who had a ...
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July 08 2011
Day 36 of the 2011 WSOP did not award any bracelets, but there was plenty of action nonetheless. The $50k Players’ Championship event played down to its unofficial final table. Phil Hellmuth – although a sure mark for the bust at ...
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July 08 2011
Day 36 of the 2011 WSOP saw quite a few significant deeds unfold: the $1k NL Holdem Event played down to its final table. The $50k Players’ Championship event reached its unofficial final table too, and – you’ve guessed that ...
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July 06 2011
Day 35 of the 2011 WSOP was supposed to be an off day, an opportunity for players to take a well-deserved break while celebrating the 4th of July and taking in the spectacle of fireworks in the sky above ...
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July 06 2011
Day 34 of the 2011 WSOP awarded a single bracelet. Marsha Wolak was the only one to go home with some gold jewelry, after winning the $1k Ladies’ Championship Event. There were other events on the day 34 schedule too though. ...
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July 06 2011
The 34th day of the 2011 WSOP was responsible for a single bracelet: the one awarded by the $1k Ladies’ Championship event, which landed in Marsha Wolak’s possession. Besides the awarding of the bracelet, the highlight of the day was the ...
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July 06 2011
The third bracelet awarded on Day 33 of the 2011 WSOP went to Matt Matros, the winner of the $2.5k Mixed Holdem event. The final day of the tournament saw only the final table reconvene, with the goal of playing down ...
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July 05 2011
David Sands – winner of several high stakes PokerStars events in the past - started the final day of the $1,500 PLO Hi/Lo event with a massive chip lead: he had a 2-1 advantage on the second-place ...
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July 04 2011
Day 33 of the 2011 WSOP was again a prolific one bracelet-wise. No fewer than 3 of the coveted jewelry-pieces have found owners on this day. The first one of them went to Antonin Teisseire, the winner of ...
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July 04 2011
Day 32 of the 2011 WSOP awarded a bracelet. Also, it saw several events roll on and new ones get started.
Event #50, the $5k Triple Chance NL Holdem one, saw 34 players return for its Day 3. The goal ...
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July 04 2011
Day 32 of the 2011 WSOP hosted the Ladies’ $1k NL Holdem Championship. The true highlight of the day was the $1,500 NL Holdem event though, which played down to a winner: Athanasios Polychronopoulos was the one who picked up the ...
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July 02 2011
Day 31 of the 2011 WSOP was more prolific bracelet-wise than the previous day. It awarded two bracelets: to the winners of the $10k NL Holdem Six-handed World Championship event and the $2,500 Limit Triple Draw ...
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July 02 2011
The 30th day of the 2011 WSOP awarded a bracelet to the winner of the $2,500 Omaha 8/ Stud 8 event, Owais Ahmed. It also saw a Championship event reach its final table. Two other events burst through their money ...
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July 01 2011
Full Tilt Poker has been offline for two days now as the online poker community grows ever worried about where and how this fiasco will end. In such periods of tension, rumors surface with an amazing regularity as people try to ...
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