October 31 2012
The long three and a half month wait over, the poker world has finally learned the name of the player who will rule as the WSOP Main Event Champion until about this time ...
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October 31 2012
The Big One for One Drop was obviously a huge success at the 2012 WSOP. Organizers weren’t disappointed by the number of players who managed to pony up the buy-in and they were definitely not disappointed in the buzz ...
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October 31 2012
The 2012 October Nine is over: Jesse Sylvia and Jake Balsinger were at each other’s throats for much of the final day of action and – as it often happens in such cases – Greg Merson stepped in, in the end ...
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October 31 2012
The last three survivors of the October Nine race returned to the table today, but they have thus far failed to play down to the heads-up stage. The three contestants are Greg Merson, Jake Balsinger and Jesse Sylvia, and the ...
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October 30 2012
The October Niners aren’t wasting any time getting their chips into the middle apparently. It was only a few hours ago that we checked in, to report the elimination of no fewer than four of the nine contestants, and here we ...
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October 30 2012
The October Nine is in full swing, as a matter of fact, the circle of candidates for the title is already down to the final 5.
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October 30 2012
Today is a special day for the poker world, given that the most important poker event of 2012, the final table of the WSOP Main Event kicks off today. Nine finalists have made ...
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October 30 2012
The final table stage of the ANZPT’s Melbourne Main Event started out slowly and cautiously as players jostled for position for the first two levels. Soon however, patience running thin, they were all ready to jump into the fray, thus the ...
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October 29 2012
The Sunday Million, PokerStars’ flagship weekend guarantee, is generally the scene of bitter rivalry weekend after weekend. It isn’t often that deals are struck among the top finishers, and when there are such deals, they’re usually 2-3-way ones. ...
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October 29 2012
With so much going on online and with the WSOP’s October Nine showdown just around the corner, it’s not easy to take a focused look at some of the other live poker tournaments currently underway half a world ...
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October 29 2012
With the October Nine showdown ready to kick off, the time has never been better to take a look at some of the moments which defined the shape and makeup of the final table. Andras Koroknai, is the experienced Hungarian pro ...
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October 28 2012
On Tuesday, the online poker world let out a collective roar of anger as ex-Full Tilt executive Howard Lederer, the businessman/player most consider guilty for Full Tilt Poker’s post-Black Friday meltdown, bought into the WPT’s $10k Festa al ...
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October 28 2012
When PokerStars acquired Full Tilt Poker, it was a part of the deal struck with the US DoJ that they would repay Full Tilt players the monies stuck in their accounts after Black Friday. While the site has repeatedly said ...
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October 28 2012
Although PokerStars’ high stakes cash game tables are soon to be replaced with Full Tilt’s as the world’s most popular online poker showdown scene, this week saw a massive flare-up in action, as if the world best tournament ...
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October 28 2012
With all the fuss surrounding the imminent start of the October Nine showdown, several relatively large-scale poker events went relatively “unnoticed” in the poker media last week. One of them was the WPT’s South Africa stop, a 5-day event ...
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October 28 2012
Although at first glance, much of the poker world would find it good news that Senators Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and Jon Kyl (R-Arizona) are working on a bi-partisan effort to legalize online poker, those in the know ...
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October 26 2012
Full Tilt Poker’s re-launch has been hyped ever since it became a certainty that the site would indeed be re-launched and that players would recover their monies locked up at the site since Black Friday. On November 6, 2012, ...
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October 25 2012
With the 2012 WSOP final table showdown just over the horizon, the various final table participants are already making plans to invest their winnings and to preferably change their life-style. Russell Thomas, the 24 year old amateur player from ...
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October 25 2012
Barely has Isaac Haxton been hired as a member of team PokerStars online, he already has his work cut out for him: starting October 7, he will play in PokerStars’ All-Star Showdown, a Series consisting of several heads-up ...
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October 24 2012
The final day of the WSOP-C’s Horseshoe Hammond Main Event saw 29 players return to the tables. Although the action started off relatively fast, it soon became clear that day 3 of the event would be an extremely lengthy affair. ...
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October 24 2012
It was only a couple of weeks ago that we told you about the success that WSOP Main Event champion and ex-PokerStars pro Greg Raymer, known as the “Fossilman”, has found on the Heartland Poker Tour. We are now ...
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October 23 2012
This weekend, the biggest tournament winner turned out to be a high-profile pro at the online poker tables. Dan Smith was the one who took home the biggest haul, having won the biggest Sunday major: PokerStars’ Sunday Million. ...
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October 23 2012
The second day of the WSOP-C’s Horseshoe Hammond Main Event saw the survivors of the two day 1 flights return to the tables. They were joined by several late registrants who were allowed to buy into (or back into) the ...
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October 22 2012
PokerStars have always been right on top of the marketing game and a few days ago they proved they were still as creative and as cunning when it comes to marketing tricks as ever. They have basically taken several photos of ...
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October 22 2012
The second day 1 flight of the WSOP-C’s Horseshoe Hammond Main Event saw another massive starting field belly up to the tables: 677 players showed up for this round of the battle. The action was much slower this time around, ...
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October 22 2012
As the October Nine showdown approaches, the anticipation and the tension build, exerting pressure not only on the participants, but on their supporters and on the wider online poker industry as well. What exactly was the purpose of the October/November Nine ...
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October 21 2012
After several days of side events and smaller prize-pools, the WSOP-C’s Horseshoe Hammond Main Event finally kicked off on Friday. 835 players paid out the $1,675 buy-in. After a long and hard Day 1A flight, Mike Leah was ...
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October 21 2012
The WSOP-C may be a much lower-profile event than regular WSOP or even WSOP-E events, but that’s where many ex-online players find their favorite stomping grounds these days. Ari Engel used to be one of the hottest ...
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October 21 2012
The race for the biggest online poker winner of the year is definitely heating up as Full Tilt Poker’s re-launch date draws near. Ben Tollerene and Ben Sulsky are the two players jockeying for the top spot right now, ...
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October 19 2012
For years, the online poker status quo was a stable one: Full Tilt Poker was the home of high stakes cash game action, and PokerStars was where players went to duke it out in massive, guaranteed prize-pool Read More
October 19 2012
The intricate 2012 Poker Hall of Fame process has finally worked down to what will amount to the “Class of 2012”. After the public had nominated a number of players and after a special panel – one consisting of actual HoF ...
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October 19 2012
There has been a lot of hype surrounding the identity of the newest PokerStars pro. The online poker room has even launched a promotion which rewarded those who managed to guess who the new pro was. On Thursday, the announcement ...
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October 18 2012
Online poker has been legalized in the State of Nevada for a while, but thus far no actual intra-state operations have been started up. The company which was set to become the first one to offer legal, real money ...
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October 17 2012
PokerStars are keen on taking every opportunity to come up with some sort of promotion that delivers extra value to their players while potentially hooking a few new players while at it too. Their latest brain-child is a rather unique ...
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October 17 2012
The very first (alpha) version of PokerStars’ much-hyped new software known as PokerStars 7 has been presented to the public at the EPT’s San Remo stop a couple of weeks ago. The update represents the 7th iteration of the PokerStars ...
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October 17 2012
A little more than a week ago we told you about how Bodog made up their mind to leave the European online poker market and to begin focusing their efforts on Asia. The site has already teamed up with several ...
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October 16 2012
The more Full Tilt Poker renews, the more it stays the same apparently. On Monday, the site has made another major announcement regarding the addition of new in-house professionals to their team henceforth known only as The Professionals. The team ...
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October 16 2012
This past weekend, the online tournament action was yet again hot at PokerStars. It was a relatively standard weekend in terms of 6-figure tournament winners: 4 players earned such massive prizes. The “name” crowd was yet again active too: ...
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October 15 2012
Most of the rank and file online poker players are in awe of the pros, who play in some of the largest buy-in live poker events world over, while crushing the nosebleed stakes tables online and turning over what ...
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October 13 2012
Many have speculated on the motivations behind Howard Lederer’s “Lederer Files” move, but at least one of those motivations was crystal clear from the beginning: to whitewash his image a little, in preparation for an eventual comeback. We’re not even speculating ...
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October 13 2012
As its re-launch date draws near, Full Tilt Poker is keen on building up the hype through various announcements and details regarding diverse aspects of its operation. The latest news from the Full Tilt camp came through one of the ...
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October 13 2012
As the EPT San Remo Main Event wrapped up, many high profile professionals hit the online tables again. Victor Blom was among the returnees. Together with Phil Galfond, the Swede logged an extremely profitable week, finishing $212.2k ...
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October 12 2012
As its re-launch draws near, Full Tilt Poker is getting increasingly active and vocal on several fronts. The latest official communication from the company came on Thursday, via a mass-email addressed to US customers, in which Full Tilt made ...
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October 12 2012
After seven days of torrid action, the EPT’s 2012 San Remo Main Event came to an end. The one defiantly flicking his cards across the final table in celebration, with all the chips in play piled up ...
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October 12 2012
The penultimate day of the EPT’s 2012 San Remo Main Event was a short one: the 24 players who returned to the tables at the beginning of the day managed to play down to the final 8 in less than 8 ...
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October 10 2012
66 players returned to the tables on the 4th day of the EPT’s San Remo Main Event. The goal for the day was a clear one: to play down to the last 24. After about five levels of action, the objective ...
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October 10 2012
With the October Nine showdown looming on the horizon, it is time to take a look at how some of the contestants decided to spend the months running up to what will no doubt amount to the event with the biggest ...
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October 10 2012
Those who know a thing or two about Phil Ivey know that besides being one of the most successful poker players in the world, he’s also an avid gambler, one who – unlike most of his counterparts – is apparently ...
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October 10 2012
Even though the live tournament action has been red-hot in recent weeks, the online majors didn’t disappoint over the weekend either. No fewer than 4 players walked away with 6-figure prizes, among them the winner of the Sunday Million, ...
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October 09 2012
The third day of the EPT’s San Remo Main Event was a relatively short one. It took the field only 7 hours to reach its Day 3 objectives. Inge Forsmo was the one who started the day with the largest stack, ...
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October 08 2012
430 players returned on the second day of the EPT’s San Remo Main Event. 6 levels of action went into the day, at the end of which, Inge Forsmo emerged with the chip lead. Forsmo will lead 162 survivors into day ...
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October 08 2012
The live tournament calendar has been quite eventful lately. As a matter of fact, barely had the WSOPE wrapped up in Cannes, the EPT’s San Remo stop kicked off about 180 kilometers away. Needless to say that most of the players ...
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October 07 2012
The second Day 1 flight of the EPT’s San Remo Main Event did not disappoint. While Day 1A saw 320 players belly up to the tables, the organizers were certain the day 1B yield would dwarf that number. Sure enough, no ...
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October 07 2012
The first day 1 flight of the EPT’s 2012 San Remo stop was a massive, 8-level long slugfest, at the end of which Erion Islamay emerged with the chip lead. He finished the day with a stack of 162.3k chips.
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October 05 2012
Day 14 of the 2012 WSOPE carried a special significance: it was the day that saw both the €10,450 NL Holdem Main Event and the €50k Majestic High Roller play down to their winners.
Everything considered, Phil Hellmuth ...
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October 05 2012
Barely has the WSOPE wrapped up, high stakes live tournament players already have a new destination to head to: the EPT’s San Remo Stop. The latest stop on the Season 9 schedule of the EPT kicks off on ...
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October 05 2012
Day 4 of the 2012 WSOPE’s Main Event and 13th of the Series, saw Phil Hellmuth take full control as the field successfully played down to the final table.
Day 4 of the €10,450 NL Holdem Main Event ...
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October 03 2012
The 2012 WSOPE Main Event entered its 3rd day of action on Day 12 of the Series. 77 players bellied up to the tables of the Majestic Barriere Casino at the beginning of the day, all of them aiming to make ...
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October 03 2012
Ever since he got dropped from/got out of the PokerStars fold, Greg Raymer hasn’t really made any waves in any major live events. He appears to have found his comfort-zone though, which is the Heartland Poker Tour, where he won ...
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October 03 2012
PokerStars have been preparing to re-launch the Full Tilt Poker brand for a while and now that an actual re-launch date has been floated (November 6 2012), Full Tilt has completed another significant move: it has hired its ...
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October 02 2012
Day 11 of the 2012 WSOPE saw an event wrap up and another one – the Main Event – take a few decisive strides towards its conclusion. First on the Day 11 menu was the final heads-up stage of event ...
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October 02 2012
On Day 11 of the 2012 WSOPE, the €10,450 Mix Max NL Holdem event finally played down to a winner. Jonathan Aguiar was the one who picked up the top prize and the title, at the expense of ...
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October 02 2012
With the WCOOP all wrapped up and out of the way, things returned to normal this weekend as far as the major guarantees were concerned at PokerStars. The Sunday Million was on, in all its glory, together with the Sunday ...
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October 01 2012
Reality TV star Trishelle Cannatella, she of the “The Real World: Las Vegas” fame, isn’t done with her reality TV career. As a matter of fact, she is in the middle of filming a new show, called “Living the Life” which ...
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October 01 2012
Day 10 of the 2012 WSOPE was an unusually quiet one. There was only one event on the schedule, but that one was an important one indeed: the second day 1 flight of the Main Event.
205 players bellied up to ...
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