January 31 2012
In what may well go down as the most significant online poker news of the first month of 2012, Full Tilt Poker has announced that its owners had agreed to the terms of the forfeiture of the operation’s assets ...
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January 31 2012
When one thinks about Patrik Antonius, chances are he/she won’t associate the Finn poker pro with junk food on any level. After all, Antonius looks healthy and fit and he obviously has an image to uphold which he’s quite adept at. ...
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January 31 2012
The 2012 Aussie Millions has finally wrapped up after the 19th day of green felt hostilities wound down. The series included no fewer than 26 events, which produced some highlight-reel worthy moments, like Phil Ivey’s deep Main Event run, his ...
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January 30 2012
Experts have repeatedly stated after the December flip-flop of the DoJ in regards to the 1961 Wire Act, that federal legislators would have to move fast legalizing online gambling and online poker in order to provide a framework in ...
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January 30 2012
Chris Ferguson was one of the most respected and highly thought-of poker professionals before Full Tilt Poker’s Black Friday fiasco, which uncovered quite a bit of dirty laundry behind the stages of the world’s second most popular on line ...
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January 30 2012
Day 18 of the 2012 Aussie Millions was quite a day indeed. The $10k Main Event has finally played down to a winner and it possibly set a new record as the shortest final table of a major live Read More
January 29 2012
The 2012 Aussie Millions’ $250k (yes, you read that right) Super High Roller event attracted a starting field of 16 players, which - given the size of the buy-in -was a pretty hefty one indeed. The $2 million ...
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January 29 2012
The 2012 Aussie Millions is slowly but surely entering its final stretch. Day 17 of the series saw the $10k Main Event reach its final table and with Phil Ivey still in the mix, all eyes were on the 5th day’s ...
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January 28 2012
Online poker and online gambling became legal in the District of Columbia in April 2011, making it the first US jurisdiction to legalize the above said online activities. The way the law was passed was reminiscent of the way lawmakers ...
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January 27 2012
His first major live poker title in his pocket, Viktor Blom returned to the online poker tables at PokerStars with a vengeance, and sure enough, he broke another record: he took down his biggest ever PokerStars pot.
Despite the hot ...
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January 27 2012
Day 16 of the Aussie Millions saw the 4th day of the $10k Main Event complete. 26 players returned to the tables at the beginning of the day and all eyes were on Phil Ivey. He did not disappoint. The field ...
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January 26 2012
Proceedings at the 2012 Aussie Millions $10k Main Event were slower than organizers had initially anticipated, thus they were forced to compensate, making two major announcements on Day 15 of the Series. The first one was about the $10k Main Event’s ...
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January 26 2012
The DoJ’s new position regarding the provisions of the 1961 Wire Act and the possible consequences of that on the legal status of on line poker and gambling have certainly set the stage for something big this year. Already, something ...
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January 26 2012
The 14th day of the 2012 Aussie Millions saw the $10k Main Event roll on with its second day. The final day 1 flight of the poker tournament had seen scores of “name” pros belly up to the ...
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January 25 2012
The Playtech network may not be the biggest of on line poker operators, but it’s certainly up there with the best of them and they’re by no means resting on their laurels when it comes to aggressive marketing. The network ...
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January 25 2012
The 13th day of the 2012 Aussie Millions saw the third flight of the $10k Main Event belly up to the tables. The true cream of the crop of the poker world yet again waited out the last opportunity to swing ...
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January 25 2012
Daniel Cates, known to his online peers as “Jungleman”, has issued a €100k challenge a while ago but thus far no takers emerged. The challenge may have been based by and large on the infamous durrrr Challenge (which fizzled out in ...
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January 25 2012
The $100k Challenge of the 2012 Aussie Millions is in the books. Day 12 of the Series also saw the second day 1 flight of the Main Event complete.
The $100k Challenge rolled to a finish as Dan Smith grabbed the ...
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January 24 2012
The on line poker weekend was yet again on track as far as player numbers were concerned, despite the fact that the Aussie Millions have drawn quite a few players away from the virtual tables. James Akenhead was the biggest ...
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January 23 2012
Several high profile events kicked off or rolled on at the 2012 Aussie Millions on day 11 of the Series. The start of the $10k Main Event stole the limelight, but the $100k Challenge also kicked off, a nice addition to ...
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January 23 2012
Ira Rubin, the payment processor who had helped online poker companies Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker and PokerStars disguise their financial transfers in order to elude the grasp of US authorities before the Black Friday events, has apparently pleaded guilty ...
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January 23 2012
With the more significant events of the 2012 Aussie Millions just around the corner, the cream of the crop of the poker world showed up on Day 10 of the series. In preparation for the $10k Main Event, the $250k Super ...
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January 22 2012
The Megaupload and Megavideo takedowns as well as the arrests made in the case have been all over the news for the last couple of days. What is surprising for the online poker community is though that PartyGaming (the parent company ...
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January 22 2012
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has popped up as possibly one of legal online poker’s biggest supporters in 2011. He hadn’t talked a lot about the subject before his move to push through a bill, nor has he become known as ...
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January 22 2012
Despite all the Aussie Millions hype and the ongoing action, the live tournament series failed to compel players to stay away from the virtual green felt. As a matter of fact, several players who are currently in Melbourne for the Aussie ...
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January 20 2012
The 9th day of the 2012 Aussie Millions saw another winner added to the tally. Tom Middleton was the one who added his name to the winner’s list, by working his way to triumph in the $1.1k NL Holdem 6-Max ...
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January 20 2012
Day 8 of the 2012 Aussie Millions was about the final table of event #4, the $1.1k NLH/Pot Limit Omaha mixed event. Aaron Lim was the one who managed to clinch the title in this one, taking out Ali Ghezelbash heads-...
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January 20 2012
The 2012 Aussie Millions have barely kicked off and thus far the events weren’t overly impressive. There are two winners in the books already, but the massive exodus of high profile professionals towards the Aussie Millions’ tables hasn’t happened yet. With ...
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January 18 2012
The about-face on the interpretation of the provisions of the Wire Act by the DoJ essentially gave fuel to the legal online poker movement in more ways than one could’ve imagined when the announcement was made. Shortly afterwards though, experts ...
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January 18 2012
The second event of the 2012 Aussie Millions, the $1.1k PLO one, went into the books on Monday. The event drew a relatively feeble starting field of 129 players, taking the prize-pool to $129k. The first prize was AUD$33.4k and ...
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January 17 2012
The infamous high stakes poker action in Macau is apparently as hot as ever. The StarWorld Hotel and Casino is the scene and non-stop poker is the name of the game. When we say non-stop we truly mean non-...
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January 17 2012
The Aussie Millions have recently kicked off, and live action is therefore plentiful Down Under, but that doesn’t mean the insatiable appetite of some of the young Aussie on line poker pros can be satisfied. Despite all the live action ...
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January 17 2012
Leonid Bilokur, the eventual winner of the 2012 PCA’s $25k High Roller event started the final table 4th in chips. He made the wise choice to stay out of harm’s way early on, letting the short-...
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January 16 2012
The first event of the 2012 Aussie Millions is in the books and Brandon Rubie is the one who took the top prize after three days of grueling action. The opening event featured no fewer than 3 day 1 flights, drawing ...
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January 15 2012
The 2012 PCA’s $25k High Roller event drew a starting field of 141 players – an impressive feat indeed, considering the size of the buy-in. Of these players, 56 survived the day, as Nick Yunis ...
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January 15 2012
There are several high profile live poker events running in various areas of the world, which take up much of the fire-power of the high stakes online regulars. One would expect the on line poker action to take a ...
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January 15 2012
After a week of hard-hitting tournament action, the fate of the 2012 PCA Main Event’s top prize has finally been decided: the $1.77 million came to rest in John Dibella’s pockets after he fought his way up from 5th place ...
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January 15 2012
For James Murren, CEO of MGM Resorts International, the problem of regulated and legalized online gambling in the US is a simple one: he knows it will pass this year. The only thing he isn’t certain of is whether or not ...
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January 13 2012
24 players bellied up to the tables on Day 5 of the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure’s Main Event. Faraz Jaka had a massive lead over the rest of the field at the beginning of the day ...
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January 13 2012
64 players returned to the tables on day 4 of the PCA’s 2012 Main Event. The objective was to play down to the final 24, and that’s exactly what the field accomplished in one of the shortest but most action packed ...
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January 13 2012
A few days ago we featured a piece on Randy Nanonoko Lew going for a Guinness World record at the 2012 PCA and we can now tell you his attempt was crowned with success. He was going to put as many ...
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January 11 2012
The 3rd day of the 2012 PCA’s Main Event turned out to be a rather short one. 183 players returned to action and in a little over 4 levels, they played down to the final 8 ...
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January 11 2012
544 players returned to the tables on the second day of the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event. Six levels of action went into the day, at the end of which only 184 players were still standing. Faraz Jaka played ...
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January 10 2012
The second day 1 flight of the 2012 PCA Main Event surpassed expectations by drawing a starting field of 654 players. Together with those who had registered the previous day, that took the total number of participants to 1,072. The prize-...
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January 10 2012
8 players returned to action on the last day of the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure’s Super High Roller event. The $100k tournament drew a starting field of 30, and 2 players re-bought, so the prize-...
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January 10 2012
The first day 1 flight of the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event was a 9-level long affair. Having attracted a starting field of 418 players, Day 1A played into the organizers expectations. Alexey Repik ...
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January 08 2012
The Citywest Hotel in Dublin, which hosts the first ever WPT Ireland stop, saw 195 players return to the tables out of the original 338, on day 2 of the event. The most significant point of the day was the bursting ...
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January 08 2012
14 players bit the dust on day 1 of the 2012 PCA’s $100k Super high roller event. 32 buy-ins had been originally registered, which meant that 18 players returned to the tables on day 2. The objective of Day 2 ...
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January 08 2012
All veteran online poker players remember Pokerroom.com with nostalgia. The site, which had been a mainstay of the online poker landscape, went under about 3 years ago. It has apparently been revived now though by the Ongame network, which re-launched ...
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January 08 2012
Records are meant to be broken, and what better scene is there for a record attempt than the 2012 PCA? Randy Lew, known by the online moniker nanonoko, is widely known as an extremely fast poker player. Is he the world’s ...
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January 08 2012
The battle for the biggest online poker winner of 2011 went right down to the wire in December. Ilari Sahamies and Rafi Amit were the two main protagonists of the battle, but Isildur1 made a late run too and he ...
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January 07 2012
Having entered its 9th year, the PCA has yet again kicked off at the Atlantis Resort and Casino the other day and what a start it was. The organizers cut right to the chase by pushing ...
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January 05 2012
Ever since the 2006 enactment of the UIGEA, the poker world has been in a continuous struggle to repel the infamous bill and to make the game legal. Every year brought new hopes and eventually new disappointments. Never were the hopes ...
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January 05 2012
As various European countries regulate and legalize their online poker markets, Spain has made the out-of-step move to delay regulation by 6 months, till June 30. The reason is a simple one: although the gambling law has been introduced ...
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January 04 2012
Belgium has been working on its own online poker legislation too, and a while ago it was made clear that Belgian poker players would be forbidden from playing at unauthorized online poker sites. The law went into effect as 3 sites ...
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January 04 2012
About a year ago, New Jersey was on the verge of becoming the first US state to legalize online poker and gambling. Had it not been for Governor Chris Christie’s last minute veto, the Garden State might well have had legal ...
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January 04 2012
Full Tilt Poker’s post Black Friday woes and struggles were among the most important online poker developments of 2011. Still, there are tens of thousands of players who are hoping to see at least some of the monies they had ...
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January 03 2012
Just as 2006 was made memorable for every online poker player and industry member on account of the infamous anti-poker law passed then, 2011 is pretty much guaranteed to go down in poker history as the year of Black Friday. ...
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January 03 2012
Most people would agree that April 15 was quite positively the lowest point of the old year for the online poker industry. It is arguable however that there was one thing which sucked even worse than Black Friday, and that thing ...
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January 02 2012
Ask any online poker player where he was when he first heard about the Black Friday indictments, chances are people will remember quite accurately – such was the significance of the event. On April 15, 2011, the DoJ unveiled a legal ...
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