August 31 2011
The WCOOP 2011 kicks off on September 4, which is just a couple of days away now. Players will be able to participate in 62 events, each and every one of which will feature a generous prize-pool. The online ...
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August 31 2011
The second day of the EPT Barcelona Main Event wasn’t exactly a long one: it only took the field 6 levels of action to reach the organizers’ objective for the day. The pace of the action was extremely ...
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August 30 2011
Full Tilt Poker have been suspiciously silent about the post Black-Friday ordeal that the site has been dragged through, and even though rumors of various kinds have surfaced over the weeks, nothing official has yet been released concerning the fate ...
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August 30 2011
The Black Friday events have definitely dealt a huge blow to the online poker industry, but their impact on those who had made a living playing online poker in the US was even more devastating. Recreational players never depend on the ...
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August 30 2011
The third day of the WPT Legends of Poker stop is in the books and the final 21 has been set. Coming into the third day of action, Ken Aldridge possessed the largest stack. He did well through the day, and ...
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August 29 2011
465 players showed up for the second day 1 flight of the EPT Barcelona Main Event. The second batch of registrants created a total starting field of 811, and a prize-pool of €4,055,000. Guillaume Darcourt finished the ...
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August 29 2011
After 4 days of action, the PokerStars APPT’s Queenstown Main Event has finally wrapped up with Marcel Schreiner’s victory. The German has led the field chips-wise for the last 3 days of the event, so in that respect, it’s ...
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August 29 2011
PokerStars player JC Tran started the second day of the 2011 WPT Legends of Poker with the largest stack of chips and he wasted little time trying to add some more to it. In the beginning, he was successful and his ...
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August 29 2011
Germany’s Marcel Schreiner started the 3rd day of the PokerStars APPT’s Queenstown Main Event with the biggest stack. The German used his chip advantage well, and at the end of the day, he was still the one all the others had ...
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August 29 2011
Day 1B of the WPT’s Legends of Poker Main Event is in the books, and the picture regarding the overall prize-pool and number of participants has become crystal-clear. The record of the most popular WPT event ever wasn’t broken. ...
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August 28 2011
Saturday saw the starting field of the first day 1 flight of the EPT Barcelona Main Event belly up to the tables of the Gran Casino. The 346 players put in 9 levels of play, at the end ...
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August 27 2011
Mexico’s drug-related violence seems to have reached the doors of gambling establishments too: on Thursday, 6-12 armed men took the Casino Royale, in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, by assault, setting it on fire and killing 52 people in the worst ...
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August 27 2011
The WPT’s 10th season has kicked off way back in May. All the anti-poker events and the generally less favorable poker atmosphere had managed to keep it out of the US until yesterday though, when the Legends of Poker Event ...
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August 27 2011
Overall online poker traffic has taken quite a bad hit after the Black Friday events. Players have disappeared from the tables, some have lost their entire bankrolls, which now lie under lock in Full Tilt Poker’s coffers, the ...
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August 27 2011
71 players returned to action on day 2 of the PokerStars APPT’s Queenstown Main Event, marking the largest single-day starting field of the event thus far. The day consisted of 6 levels of action. 21 players survived to return ...
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August 26 2011
A popular poker forum was yet again the scene of Full Tilt-related unveilings this past week. Professional poker player Harry Demetriou, one of the major victims of the Black Friday implosion at Full Tilt Poker, and one of the staunchest ...
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August 26 2011
The third day 1 flight of the PokerStars APPT’s Queenstown Main Event was without a doubt quite a letdown for pundits. Everyone expected a massive starting field to show up, eclipsing those of the previous two day 1 flights. Instead, ...
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August 26 2011
Apparently, the first concrete steps towards online poker legalization have already been taken in Nevada. The Nevada Gaming Control Board has released a set of regulatory proposals which would make legal online poker possible under the provisions of Assembly Bill 258, ...
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August 25 2011
Everyone expected more players to show up for the second Day 1 flight of the PokerStars APPT’s Queenstown Main Event than the 40 who’d turned up for day 1A. The 43 players who got going on Day 1B though made it ...
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August 24 2011
Phil Hellmuth is always looking to voice his opinion on matters, and though – according to many – most of the time he is full of hot air, when it comes to poker and online poker, one’s best off listening to ...
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August 24 2011
New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak is apparently at it again. After he had his online poker bill vetoed by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, he decided to re-write the bill here and there and to re-introduce it. The ...
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August 24 2011
The PokerStars APPT’s 2011 season moved to the Sky City Casino in Queensland, NZ for its second stop. No fewer than 3 day 1 flights are scheduled, the first of which only managed to draw a starting field of 40 ...
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August 17 2011
The ripples of the Black Friday indictments have still not settled for the online poker world. Players who had made a living playing poker online at sites like PokerStars, before the infamous DoJ moves, are still cornered, looking at a ...
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August 16 2011
The Black Friday events have undoubtedly turned the online poker world upside-down. Those who think American players were the only ones affected are wrong of course: even now, there are thousands of European players and affiliates who have millions of ...
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August 16 2011
Will Molson’s post in a popular poker forum regarding the underhanded ways in which Chino Rheem borrows money from his fellow pros never to repay them, ended up kick-starting an entire procession of Rheem’s victims who began stepping forth one ...
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August 16 2011
David “Chino” Rheem has hogged a lot of poker spotlight lately, mainly thanks to his $1 million EPL Main Event win, which is however only the latest addition to his live tournament cash tally. Rheem had amassed $4.7 million in career ...
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August 15 2011
Having battled it out at one of the toughest final tables in the history of the EPL, Chino Rheem was the one who raised his hand in victory at the end of the final stretch of action, pocketing the EPL title ...
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August 14 2011
Congress heads out on a month-long recess, which means that there will be no legal movements around any of the online poker initiatives currently pending. What it does not mean though is that players should lay back and accept the ...
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August 13 2011
Half the online poker world has money locked up at Full Tilt Poker one way or another, therefore to say that the issue of Full Tilt Poker securing an investor that would eventually make it possible for the site to begin ...
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August 13 2011
Adam Levy’s elimination in 7th place signaled the end of the 3rd day of the EPL’s Main Event. 18 players returned to the tables at the beginning of the day, with Sam Trickett leading the field into battle. His stack was ...
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August 12 2011
The second day of the EPL’s Main Event saw the field whittle down to the final 18. The players who made it past the day, all landed in the money. They have also all racked up precious points that will count ...
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August 10 2011
The WPT hasn’t yet had a Maltese stop in its 9 seasons, but that is apparently about to change. The Tour will head to Malta for its 10th season, having introduced a stop that will be hosted by the casino in ...
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August 10 2011
The EPT London stop is always one of the richest and therefore most interesting stops of the season. We now know that this season, the London stop will be the 3rd of the tour and that it will ...
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August 08 2011
The final table of the PokerStars LAPT’s Punta Del Este Main Event turned out to be a rather short affair. A winner emerged in less than 5 hours and that winner was a Uruguayan: Alex Komaromi. Komaromi had to best ...
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August 08 2011
The EPT’s Tallinn final table didn’t really produce any out-of-the-ordinary moves. The two players who started the final stretch with the two largest stacks made it to the heads-up stage, and eventually, it was the start of ...
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August 08 2011
The goal for the 4th day of the EPT’s Tallinn Main Event was to reach the official final table, and that goal was indeed handily achieved. Ronny Kaiser of Switzerland was the one who started the day with the largest stack ...
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August 07 2011
63 players returned to action on Day 3 of the EPT Tallinn stop. At the end of the day, which was comprised of 5 blind levels, only 24 players were still in contention for the €275k top prize. ...
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August 04 2011
His passion for poker may have gotten MLB player Alex Rodriguez into a little bit of hot water. Rodriguez had apparently attended high stakes illegal poker games organized by Molly Bloom at the Beverly Hills mansion of Cody Leibel, a record-...
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August 04 2011
As expected, day 1B of the EPT Tallinn stop drew a much larger field of registrants than day 1A. 190 players coughed up the buy-in, among them a young Spaniard, whose monster stack at the end of ...
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August 04 2011
Day 1A of the EPT’s Tallinn Main Event marked the beginning of the 8th season of the European Poker Tour. The first day 1 flight was a little disappointing registration-wise. Only 92 players coughed up the buy-in, among them ...
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August 02 2011
Day 4 of the 2011 APPT’s Melbourne Main Event proved to be its last one too. A champion was crowned after 9 hours of heavy green-felt hostilities. Leo Boxell was the one who walked away with the top prize and ...
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August 01 2011
Day 3 of the APPT’s Melbourne stop saw a major milestone reached: the final table. Phillip Willcocks of New Zealand was the one who started the day with the largest stack, and when the dust settled, he was still the one ...
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August 01 2011
Hardly have the ripples of the WSOP settled, poker players – especially online poker players – already have something else to look forward to. The 2011 PokerStars WCOOP’s schedule has been released, and it looks like there’s plenty of dough ...
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August 01 2011
Day 2 of the Pokerstars APPT’s Melbourne stop saw the field thinned further down and even though the money bubble was approached it wasn’t quite reached. 37 players survived the second day of action, and there are still 9 who will ...
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