December 31 2012
2011 had certainly been a bad year for online poker and although the woes of the industry in large part carried over to 2012, this year was much better in light of the fact that the Full Tilt Poker ...
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December 31 2012
With so much going on in 2012 in terms of positive poker stories, it’s easy to overlook something like Michael Mizrachi’s $50k Players Championship win in the 2012 WSOP. After all, there are ...
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December 30 2012
Offering multi-million dollar prize-pools and guaranteeing the winner a 7-figure haul for the last 4 years, the Partouche Poker Tour’s Main Event has become a staple presence on the live poker tournament calendar of every ...
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December 30 2012
The history of the WSOP is basically a year-to-year account of how prize-pools grew spurred on by increased player participation on one hand and no doubt, inflation on the other. 1991 was the first year when a ...
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December 29 2012
Before it was made public that PokerStars would take over Full Tilt Poker, most online poker players had one thing locked in the back of their minds: the funds they had in limbo at the site, which ran a ...
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December 29 2012
As the end of the year approaches, our 2012 retrospective gets more and more focused. Obviously, the WSOP Main Event winner could not be missing from our Best Poker Stories segment. After all, Greg Merson’s story was a special kind of ...
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December 28 2012
Twitter has been a blessing for many people, and there are folks out there who actually managed to put it to some sort of productive use. Most in the poker world in general though have pretty much only used it for ...
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December 28 2012
When it comes to the best poker stories of the year, we simply cannot leave out the current leader of the GPI PoY list: Dan Smith. Smith may not have taken down the single biggest poker tournament prize ...
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December 27 2012
On the first day of the Big One for One Drop - the first ever $1 million buy-in poker tournament in history - Mikhail Smirnov of Russia gave a whole new meaning to the phrase ...
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December 27 2012
While it’s always better to only remember the good moments when looking back at the past year, it’s undeniable that there have indeed been quite a few memorable events which stood out on account of their cringe-worthiness. One such moment ...
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December 27 2012
When it comes to feel-good 2012 poker stories, we just can’t leave Greg Raymer out: the 2004 WSOP Main Event winner had faded away after PokerStars dropped him, but he’s apparently ...
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December 26 2012
When it comes to the worst, most embarrassing and cringe-worthy poker moments of 2012, we simply cannot leave out Brandon Cantu and his post WSOPE 2012 tirade, which gave an entirely new meaning to the phrase “sore loser”.
Cantu has ...
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December 26 2012
While the year was definitely rich in positive poker developments, there have been quite a few truly cringe-worthy moments as well. One such moment was the rise and the fall of the ISPT idea/concept, which now appears headed for the ...
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December 26 2012
A year ago, there was much talk of Erik Seidel’s incredible 2011 run, which saw the poker pro take home $6.5 million. While that number wasn’t equaled by anyone this year, there’s plenty to talk about still. The young guns took ...
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December 25 2012
2012 was the year which saw Viktor Blom (now one of Full Tilt Poker’s in-house professionals) burst onto the live poker tournament scene. Blom had been known for years for his online cash games prowess, but he’d ...
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December 25 2012
Believe it or not, since 1995, no woman has made a WSOP Main Event final table. At the beginning of Day 7 of this year’s Big Dance, it looked like all that could ...
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December 25 2012
Yann Dion has certainly had quite an end to his 2012: about a week ago, he won the FTOPS XXI’s Main Event and he has been on a roll since. His latest caper saw him make a deep run in the ...
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December 24 2012
For years, the WSOPE’s Cannes stop was one of the major landmarks of the Series. We have recently received word though that the stop will be moved close to Paris for the 2013 season.
The new venue will be the oldest ...
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December 24 2012
Every now and then, a poker player decides to auction off one of his trophies, creating a little bit of hype in the poker community, which usually fails to comprehend how one could ever part with something the sentimental value ...
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December 24 2012
Having secured operating licenses in many of the freshly emerged and newly regulated online poker markets, PokerStars, the only online poker operator to have earned the right to offer real money cash games and poker tournaments in ...
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December 23 2012
In the wake of the FTOPS XXI, the high stakes online poker action has pretty much died off. Apparently, players took Full Tilt Poker’s freshly revived tournament series as a last hurrah before turning in for the holidays.
Despite the ...
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December 21 2012
Bodog have been off the radar for a while. According to the latest news regarding the operation, the site pulled out of the US and European markets for good and decided to focus all its efforts on the emerging ...
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December 21 2012
A couple of days ago we told you about how the New Jersey State Assembly passed an online poker bill and how it only needed to clear the hurdle of the State Senate to advance onto Gov. Chris Christie’s desk ...
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December 21 2012
Most of the big Las Vegas-based gambling operators have applied for online poker licenses within the state, and many of them have already been approved too. Still, Caesars Interactive Entertainment Inc’s move is a highly significant one. After all, the ...
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December 20 2012
With the year slowly but surely winding down and with major live poker events ever scarcer on the horizon, the crème of the poker world has set its sights on the 2013 Read More
December 20 2012
Interestingly enough, contrary to most expectations, the GPI’s Player of the Year race got plenty of attention from the poker media and the poker world in general, and as the year draws to end, the hype has flared up even more. ...
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December 20 2012
Jason Mercier has been on a quite incredible run for the last 5 years. Starting with 2008, he has managed to accumulate more than $1 million in profits each year. 2012 was a crucial year for him. Had he managed to ...
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December 19 2012
With former Full Tilt officials settling their civil cases with the DoJ one after the other, and with the site back online as if nothing had ever happened, the time for Howard Lederer - seen by many as the main ...
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December 19 2012
The Season 9 EPT Prague stop’s Main Event is in the books. Last week, we brought you updates from the thick of the action of the Main Event ...
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December 18 2012
New Jersey lawmakers have taken a major step on Monday towards putting an online poker bill back onto Gov. Chris Christie’s desk, and possibly having it signed into law, thus legalizing and regulating the game within the boundaries of the ...
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December 18 2012
Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS XXI wrapped up on Sunday with its Main Event playing down to a winner. The player who had his arm raised at the end of the last FTOPS XXI event was Yann Dion. The end of the ...
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December 17 2012
Another weekend is in the books and another batch of weekend major winners has earned its stripes at PokerStars’ tournament tables. Once again, the biggest winner of the weekend was the winner of PokerStars’ Sunday Million. A player only known ...
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December 16 2012
The final table of the EPT’s Prague Main Event reconvened on Saturday, with the goal to play down to a winner. Little did anyone know that the name of the winner and the beneficiary of the €835k prize, ...
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December 16 2012
The €10k High Roller of the EPT Prague played down to a winner the other day and that winner was poker pro Marvin Rettenmaier. The poker tournament pretty much blew away all expectations. 113 players coughed up the ...
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December 15 2012
The 5th day of the EPT’s Prague stop saw the Main Event inch closer to its finish by playing down to the final table, as the High Roller played on as well. 21 players returned to the tables ...
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December 15 2012
Daniel Cates has been known for years as an action junkie, in addition to the fact that he’s regarded as one of the best heads-up NL Holdem players in the world. Cates has the numbers to back ...
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December 15 2012
With all the recent hype and bi-partisan support, the window for the passing of an online poker bill in the US has closed for the year. According to David Krone, Harry Reid’s chief of staff, the Senate Majority Leader ...
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December 14 2012
Monday December 17 will be a decisive day for the fate of legal online poker within the State of New Jersey. The amended poker bill we told you about a couple of weeks ago, is scheduled to go before the ...
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December 14 2012
The 4th day of the Season 9 EPT Prague saw 55 players belly up to the tables, looking to play down as close to the final table as possible. After about 3 levels of action, the day was ...
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December 14 2012
The 11th day of the FTOPS XXI was a little bit less generous than the previous days when it came to the number of gold jerseys awarded: only two players earned FTOPS titles on Wednesday, as there were only 2 events ...
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December 13 2012
The 3rd day of the Season 9 EPT Prague was set to be a crucial one from the get-go: it would be the day that would decide ...
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December 13 2012
The 10th day of the FTOPS XXI went into the books on Tuesday, when no fewer than 3 players earned their gold jerseys. Once again, numerous “name” pros saw action, finishing the day with varying degrees of success.
Event #22, the ...
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December 13 2012
Poker pro Jason Senti has turned 12/12/12 into a date that may yet go down in the annals of online poker history as a far more significant one than the simple number-pattern may make it. Senti proclaimed it the “Fight ...
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December 12 2012
462 players returned to action on the second day of the EPT’s Prague Main Event. They were all aiming to at least make it past the money bubble, but after 6 levels of action, that goal fell beyond ...
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December 12 2012
The second day 1 flight of the EPT’s Prague Main Event saw 528 players belly up to the tables. Being the final day 1 flight of the poker tournament, Day 1B set the record straight ...
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December 11 2012
6 players returned to the tables of the Bellagio on Sunday to play down to a winner in the WPT’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic. Antonio Esfandiari started the day with the largest stack, and given his history in the Read More
December 11 2012
Late Sunday, the WPT’s Prague Main Event has finally arrived to a conclusion: the player who walked away with the honors and the top prize was Marcin Wydrowski, who bested Alexandr Lahov heads-up for the win.
Bodo Sbrzesny started the ...
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December 11 2012
The first day 1 flight of the EPT’s Prague Main Event kicked off on Sunday with quite a bang. The end of the day found 180 players still in contention, with Josif Beskrovnyy leading the way behind a ...
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December 10 2012
Three more poker tournaments saw action on day 7 of the FTOPS XXI and three more winners were crowned. The first of the Saturday events was the $535 NL Holdem Heads-up event. The initial ...
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December 10 2012
Antonio Esfandiari has long made the WPT’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic his favorite roaming ground, and he’s not letting up this time around either. The poker tournament has reached its 5th day with Esfandiari in the lead ...
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December 10 2012
The objective for the 4th day of the WPT’s PartyPoker sponsored Prague Main Event was to play down to the final table. 22 players showed up at the beginning of the day and when the action was called, there ...
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December 09 2012
The 4th day of the WPT’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic hosted by the Bellagio saw the field thin down to the final 22. Antonio Esfandiari started the day with the biggest stack and when the dust settled, he was still ...
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December 09 2012
PokerStars’ lawyers have always served the operation well, giving the management healthy legal advice among all the pitfalls of an extremely hazy legal environment surrounding the game on a global level. The site has been locked out of the US market ...
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December 09 2012
After the Black Friday-induced shutdown of Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars basically took over as the top cash game destination of the online poker world. As soon as the takeover deal was put in place though, PokerStars have expressed ...
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December 09 2012
The second day of the WPT’s Prague Main Event added 6 more levels of action to the tally. At the end of the grind, the player who came out on top was Marco Lang who managed to amass 694k chips to ...
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December 09 2012
Thursday marked the 3rd day of the WPT’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic, and the big guns truly did come out to play. Antonio Esfandiari, the winner of the biggest ever live poker tournament, the Big One for ...
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December 07 2012
Full Tilt Poker pros Tom Dwan and Viktor Blom have quite a history together. Back in 2010 when they were both in their primes, playing for $1 million+ pots at Full Tilt, one of them got the definite better of the ...
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December 07 2012
The second day of the WPT’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic finally set the total number of participants to 503. There was a re-entry option valid for day 2 too, and sure enough, plenty of players chose to take advantage ...
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December 07 2012
Day 4 of the 21st edition of Full Tilt Poker’s Online Poker Series created two more champions. Only two events (#8 and #9) saw action, but they both managed to exceed their guarantees (pretty much like every other FTOPS event thus ...
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December 07 2012
The 3rd day 1 flight of the WPT’s Prague Main Event saw 273 players belly up to the tables. Day 1C sealed the registrants’ field of the PartyPoker sponsored event at 567. After the day’s hostilities, a chip leader ...
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December 06 2012
William Hill’s online poker operation has been struggling for a while and it now looks like a couple of days ago it was dealt yet another blow: the company has announced that it has withdrawn from the Greece market, with immediate ...
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December 06 2012
The third day of Full Tilt Poker’s recently revived Full Tilt Online Poker Series saw three players crowned winners again.
Event #5, the PL Holdem/Omaha 6-max one, was the first one that played down to a winner. ...
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December 06 2012
The $10k Five Diamond World Poker Classic never fails to attract a large crowd of registrants peppered with “name” competitors and high rollers. This year was no exception either: no fewer than 374 players coughed up the massive buy-in on ...
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December 06 2012
The DeepStack Poker Tour’s Mohegan Sun National Championship event saw 251 players cough up the buy-in, all hoping for a chance to at least make it to the final table of the poker tournament. The initial starting ...
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December 06 2012
The PartyPoker sponsored Main Event of the WPT’s Prague stop saw 179 players belly up to its tables, taking the total size of the starting field to 294. At the end of day 1B, 100 players remained in contention. ...
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December 05 2012
New Jersey was one of the first US states where the idea of legal and regulated intra-state online poker almost resulted in a poker bill a couple of years ago. Governor Chris Christie shot down the initiative then, but ...
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December 05 2012
With most of the major live poker tournaments out of the way, the attention of the poker world has turned to Full Tilt Poker’s freshly revived Full Tilt Online Poker Series, which has reached it 21st edition. The ...
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December 05 2012
The third day of the DSPT’s National Championship event, hosted by the Mohegan Sun, is in the books and its goal has been reached: the field has played down to the final table. The player who will start the last stretch ...
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December 05 2012
On Monday, the WPT descended on Prague, with the first day 1 flight of its PartyPoker sponsored Main Event. A total of 155 players coughed up the buy-in at the beginning of the day. Of them, 55 managed ...
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December 04 2012
The 2012 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour’s London Main Event is in the books and the winner is British pro Sam Grafton, known in poker circles as “The Squid”. Grafton bested a starting field of 137 players on his way to the ...
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December 04 2012
The 21st edition of Full Tilt Poker FTOPS returned on Sunday, its first event a $216 NL Holdem Multi-Entry tournament. By all accounts, the event turned out to be a massive success: no fewer than 5,482 players ...
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December 04 2012
Kevin Iacofano is by no means a stranger to massive online poker weekend guarantees. As a matter of fact, he came close to winning the biggest one, the Sunday Million, this April, when he eventually ended up just short of ...
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December 03 2012
On Sunday, the second day of the DSPT’s Mohegan Sun $2.5k Main Event kicked off, with 121 players returning to the tables, and with the Re-buy option also still open for those who wanted to give it yet another go.
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December 03 2012
PokerStars’ Danish pro Theo Jorgensen was shot three times in the leg by three unknown assailants who broke into his home in the Danish city of Greve in order to rob him. Although according the accounts provided by the Jorgensen ...
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December 03 2012
The DSPT’s Mohegan Sun National Championship got rolling the other day, seeing 242 players cough up the $2.5k buy-in. The first day of the re-entry event was quite an action-filled affair. After 10 levels of exhausting green felt ...
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December 02 2012
The WPT’s Mazagan Main Event is finally in the books and the winner of it all is Giacomo Fundaro, who managed to outlast a starting field of 146 players, on his way to the $143.2k top prize and the $25k WPT ...
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December 01 2012
The 3rd day of the WPT’s Mazagan Main Event saw 25 players return to play down to a final table, which is pretty much what they managed to accomplish. Davidi Kitai had about 220k chips in his stack at the beginning ...
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December 01 2012
It seems like every time the Great Dane decides to spend some serious time grinding away at the nosebleed stakes online cash tables, something bad happens to him, or rather to his bankroll. Signing up as a new Full Tilt Poker ...
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