September 30 2011
The World Series of Poker Europe has a nice surprise in store for poker lovers everywhere: the Caesars Cup. The two team rosters have apparently been set, all that we need to see now is whether or not the Americans ...
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September 30 2011
Hot on the trail of the news regarding the revocation of its license by the AGCC, Full Tilt Poker released a statement in which it said that the AGCC’s move that showed cleared disregard for the slighted players, ...
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September 30 2011
The Global Poker Index is an attempt to rank tournament players according to the results they log in live and online poker tournaments. The GPI is basically a list of the 300 top tournament players. No one under 300 is tracked ...
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September 29 2011
Full Tilt Poker’s woes seem never-ending these days as more bad news follow in the immediate wake of other bad news all the time. After the DoJ had amended its allegations against Full Tilt Poker about a ...
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September 29 2011
The online poker petition launched a few days ago on the “We The People” section of the White House website, managed to accumulate the 5,000 signatures needed for consideration in a mere 3 days, instead of the 30 put forth in ...
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September 28 2011
We realize that as a serious poker news portal we should probably not contribute to the spreading of various unverified rumors, but if this one turns out to be true, it may be the biggest headliner since Black Friday.
Apparently, Adam ...
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September 28 2011
The 2011 PokerStars WCOOP is in the books and it’s time to count the prizes, the bracelets and the various other honors doled out by the 63 WCOOP events. Noah Boeken was one of the PokerStars pros who have managed ...
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September 27 2011
On Monday, Full Tilt Poker has issued another statement in regards to the newest DoJ allegations, according to which the online poker site – once one of the two biggest in the world – was conceived and run as a global ...
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September 27 2011
The WCOOP was again in full swing over the weekend, so the major weekend guarantees were on break yet again. There was no shortage of online action though. The biggest winner of the weekend was djalminha, who won the $109 Sunday ...
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September 27 2011
The 21st day of the 2011 WCOOP saw no bracelets awarded. There was plenty of action regardless though as several events rolled towards their conclusions as the Series wound down.
Event #58, the $500 PLO Heads-up two–day event was still ...
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September 26 2011
The 2011 WPT Malta was supposed to wrap up on its 4th day and that’s exactly what happened. The one walking away with the title and the $273.2k top prize was Matt Giannetti, a player who has managed to make the ...
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September 26 2011
30 players returned to action on the 3rd day of the WPT’s Malta stop and with the money bubble set for 27th place, the action was bound to sizzle from the get go.
Cecilia Pescaglini was the one who started the ...
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September 26 2011
6 players returned to the tables of the Borgata for the final rush of the WPT’s Borgata Poker Open. With a $922k top prize on the line, none of them was willing to bust out early. In the end, it only ...
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September 25 2011
With the Main Event looming on the horizon, Day 18 of the 2011 WCOOP returned to its generous ways as far as the number of awarded bracelets was concerned: no fewer than 4 players picked up their WCOOP bling on day ...
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September 24 2011
The “We The People” petition section has gone online at the website of the White House and online poker fans have already created a petition regarding the legalization and regulation of the game in the US. The petition is about the ...
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September 24 2011
A few days ago, the US DoJ managed to shake the online poker world’s foundations yet again, this time by adding Rafe Furst, Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson’s names to the Black Friday complaint. The DoJ has also alleged that Read More
September 24 2011
154 players made their way back to the tables on the second day of the WPT’s Malta event. With the money bubble set for 27th place, the field managed to play down to the final 30, as Cecilia Pescaglini clinched the ...
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September 24 2011
The Borgata Poker Open’s 4th day saw 27 survivors belly up to the tables of the Borgata, with Will Failla leading the way. At the end of the hostilities, the final table of 6 would be set, and the protagonists would ...
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September 24 2011
Day 3 of the WPT’s 2011 Borgata Poker Open carried special significance, because the money bubble was supposed to burst that day. 170 players returned to the tables at the beginning of the day, and when the dust settled - ...
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September 24 2011
Day 17 of the 2011 WCOOP almost saw the WCOOP bracelet record broken once again, by the same Anders Berg who had held it: Berg came tantalizingly close to scoring his 4th WCOOP bling, but he was thwarted heads-up by ...
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September 22 2011
Full Tilt Poker’s already tarnished image took a nasty hit the other day, when US Attorney Preet Bharara, the same official responsible for the Black Friday indictments, characterized the operation as a “global Ponzi scheme” in light of the new evidence ...
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September 22 2011
With the two Day 1 flights out of the way, 786 survivors bellied up to the tables on the second day of the WPT’s Borgata Poker Open. Abe Korotki was the one leading the field with a stack of 260.1k chips. ...
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September 21 2011
Day 16 of the 2011 WCOOP was an extremely productive one in terms of bracelets. No fewer than 5 people have earned their stripes, as numerous ‘name’ players made deep runs in various events, among them Daniel Negreanu and Ryan Daut.
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September 21 2011
The depths of the troubles that plague Full Tilt Poker seem to increase by the day. It was only about half a day ago that we published a piece about the Hendon Mob, one of the most important online poker affiliates, ...
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September 21 2011
The second Day 1 flight of the WPT’s Borgata Poker Open set a record for participation. No fewer than 853 players bellied up to the tables on Day 1B, rounding the total starting field up to 1,313 players.
143 of the ...
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September 20 2011
As weeks go by and there’s still little to no solid information about the direction in which Full Tilt Poker is headed, more and more of their collaborators choose to distance themselves from the company. The latest group to ditch Full ...
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September 20 2011
The online poker weekend once again went down under the mark of the ongoing WCOOP. With so many different events running, the most prestigious Sunday majors are currently on a break. Regardless, there was no shortage of action at. PokerStars. ...
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September 20 2011
One of the most popular stops of the WPT’s 10th season, the Borgata Poker Open kicked off the other day, with its first day 1 flight attracting an impressive starting field of 460 players. 8 levels of play were squeezed into ...
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September 19 2011
The Partouche Poker Tour has reached its 4th day, and 47 of the initial 579 entrants returned to the tables to battle it out for the right to move on to Day 5 . Juan Maceiras was the one who began ...
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September 17 2011
So far, pretty much every WCOOP 2011 day saw at least a ‘name’ player win one of its events. The pros have been out in force indeed, and even members of Team PokerStars Pro have tasted victory a couple of times. ...
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September 17 2011
Over the last few weeks, the high stakes online cash-game scene has shown remarkable signs of returning to normal, after the Black Friday events have pretty much closed down the action for a while. The million dollar swings and the ...
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September 17 2011
Legal online poker has taken a step forward the other day as the German Land of Schleswig-Holstein has just legalized the game, together with betting exchange, sportbooks, and casino games with the exception of roulette, blackjack and baccarat. The move ...
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September 16 2011
The 11th day of the 2011 WCOOP marked the halfway point of the Series. Three more players earned their WCOOP stripes on Day 11, among them two pros yet again. Alexander Debus and Vincent Van Der Fluit were the two pros ...
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September 15 2011
Full Tilt Poker has released another statement regarding the precarious financial and legal position in which the company currently is. This time, the statement details the measures taken by the company to streamline its operation, optimizing it for activity outside the ...
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September 15 2011
The 10th day of the 2011 WCOOP saw plenty of action: no fewer than 3 WCOOP bracelets have found their rightful and not to mention deserving owners. ‘Name’ players were once again present in great numbers, and of the 3 winners, ...
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September 15 2011
Real money online poker may be illegal in the US right now, but that doesn’t stop land-based casinos from starting up all sorts of play-money sites, as they’re jostling for position for when real money poker is legalized too. ...
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September 14 2011
The WPT’s Paris stop featured a €15k High Roller event too, and it created quite a bit of buzz when the two players who had battled it out heads-up last year made the heads-up stage yet again.
36 players ...
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September 13 2011
The WCOOP has definitely had a benefic effect on the weekend online poker traffic. The numbers were up at PokerStars for the second consecutive week and the prize-pools were extremely impressive yet again. Several ‘name’ pros saw action over the ...
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September 13 2011
The WPT’s Grand Prix de Paris event saw only 6 players belly up to the tables on its 5th day. The official final table was led by Byron Kaverman. At the end of the day though, it was American Matt Waxman ...
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September 13 2011
Full Tilt Poker have long been in hot water and there’s no apparent end to their woes. Several class-action lawsuits have been filed against the company, by disgruntled players who have had their monies stuck at the site. The other ...
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September 12 2011
The Epic Poker League’s second Main Event saw its final table convene on its last day of action. The 8-handed official final table was quite an impressive sight indeed. Besides Mike McDonald, the eventual winner, a whole slew of ‘name’ ...
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September 11 2011
The 6th day of the 2011 WCOOP is in the books and familiar faces have popped up among the winners during that day.
One such repeat-winner was Anders Berg, who took down his 3rd overall WCOOP bracelet, equaling Ryan Golfa’s ...
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September 09 2011
For online poker players and industry members, something has long been suspicious about the 2010 Lottery Modernization Amendment Act. It was passed extremely fast, and with seemingly no opposition from any angle. The bill barely spent any time in the press ...
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September 09 2011
PokerStars may have been the online poker room which best weathered the Black Friday storm, but apparently it too has been forced to make certain cuts. The team PokerStars pro list at their site is a rather up-to-date way ...
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September 08 2011
The second day of the 2011 WCOOP went down as quite probably the busiest one of the entire Series. No fewer than 5 players earned their championship stripes on Day 2. The reason why there were so many champions crowned, was ...
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September 08 2011
The EPL’s Pro/Am event – which turned out to be more of a pros only event than anything else – played down to its final table, awarding $20k seats in the Main Event to a whole bunch of name players, among ...
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September 07 2011
Day 1B of the EPL Pro/Am Event saw 53 players belly up to the tables. After 12 levels of action, only 11 players remained alive, 2 more than on the previous Day 1 flight. Among the day 1B participants were a ...
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September 06 2011
The EPL’s Pro/Am Event kicked off last Friday with the first of its two day 1 flights. The $1,500 buy-in event was supposed to come to a halt with 6 players remaining, but eventually, organizers decided to call it the ...
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September 06 2011
A few days ago, PokerStars have announced another stop to their EPT’s 8th season. Originally not featured on the season 8 schedule, the stop will be hosted by the Casino Hotel Loutraki in Greece and if will run between November 15 ...
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September 06 2011
In the absence of the US player base, Europeans have stepped up to the plate nicely, igniting a more than welcome resurgence of the high stakes cash games at PokerStars. PokerStars’ resident pro Isildur1 was at the forefront of this ...
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September 04 2011
Today, the 10th annual WCOP kicks off, and despite the restrictions brought about by the Black Friday events, most poker pros will be ready to delve into the 62-event online poker extravaganza. Daniel Negreanu was one of the pros who ...
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September 04 2011
Will Failla was the chip leader at the start of the final day of action at the WPT Legends of Poker event. He took full advantage of his position and when the final hand of the event was in the books, ...
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September 04 2011
The final day of EPT Barcelona action saw only 8 players return to the felt from the initial starting field of 811. The day was by no means an easy stroll through the park for the eventual winner. The battle was ...
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September 01 2011
There have been all sorts of speculations and even unauthorized statements regarding Full Tilt Poker’s woes and the likelihood of its players ever seeing their monies again, through various online and offline channels over the last few weeks. What we didn’t ...
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September 01 2011
Day 3 of the EPT Barcelona Main Event was an extremely long one as the organizers had clear objectives and there were quite a few players looking to advance at the beginning of the day. After a marathon ...
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September 01 2011
The 4th day of the WPT’s Legends of Poker event was a rather long and grueling affair: the action wrapped up only on Tuesday morning, when the objective for the day, the reaching of the final table, was achieved.
Jeff Vertes ...
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