February 29 2012
Nowadays it seems like every decently prize-pooled event features a massive buy-in that recreational players and small-stakes grinders just cannot afford to cough up. Thus far, these player categories have pretty much been left out in the cold ...
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February 29 2012
The 5th day of the WPT’s LA Poker Classic saw 18 players return to the tables of the Commerce Casino. The goal for the day was for the remaining field to play down to the final table, and that’s exactly what ...
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February 28 2012
Bodog.com founder Calvin Ayre has long been a thorn in the side of US authorities and apparently the time has finally come for actual legal steps to be taken against the billionaire who set up the Bodog brand in the early-...
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February 28 2012
The Main Event of the WSOP Africa is in the books and Joe-Boy Rahme is the one who had his hands raised in victory at the end of the $3.3k affair. Rahme was one of the home players. Based in ...
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February 28 2012
As many an expert has predicted, on line poker is already well on its way towards state-by-state legalization. Regardless of the possible advantages of federally legalized online poker, many states out there can’t wait for the Washington lawmakers ...
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February 26 2012
It took 6 days for the 299 players to play down to a winner in the Main Event of the EPT’s Copenhagen stop. Eventually, it was Mickey Petersen who picked up the laurels, together with the €338.k1 top ...
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February 26 2012
As far as the Full Tilt Poker issue is concerned, poker pro Matt Glantz hadn’t always been a pessimist. In the immediate wake of Black Friday, Glantz was among the few who defended Full Tilt Poker, but now his position seems ...
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February 26 2012
Following a week of relatively slow high stakes action, last week exploded into 3 $500k+ winners and plenty of commotion at a wide range of games at PokerStars. Players who logged more than half a million dollars in profits were ...
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February 25 2012
The 4th day of the EPT’s Copenhagen Main Event saw 24 players return to the tables. The goal was to have the field play down to the 8-handed final table, and that goal was indeed handily achieved: the day 4 ...
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February 22 2012
The state of Iowa has indeed taken a major step towards legalizing on line poker the other day, when a 3-member legislative subcommittee has approved Senate Study Bill 3164, which would essentially legalize online poker. The move means that ...
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February 22 2012
The second day 1 flight of the EPT’s Copenhagen Main Event saw 216 players belly up to the tables, far overshadowing the flimsy Day 1A yield of 83 entrants. 7 one-hour levels were crammed into the day, ...
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February 20 2012
24 players returned to action on the 3rd day of the LAPT’s Brazilian Grand Final. The starting field included PokerStars’ Humberto Brenes, who came into the 3rd day as the shortest stack. He did survive the first two eliminations, but he ...
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February 20 2012
PokerStars have launched a mobile app last week, obviously aimed at riding the trend of bringing online poker to as many mobile customers as possible. The new mobile client allows players in the UK to engage in play money and ...
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February 19 2012
The prospects of federally legalized online poker were rather bright at the beginning of the year, but after barely a month and a half, they may have received a fatal blow: according to the Las Vegas Review Journal, federal level online ...
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February 19 2012
Drew McIlvain was playing in the WSOP-C’s Harrah’s Tunica Main Event when a floorman tapped his shoulder and took him out of the poker tournament for suspicions of collusion. McIlvain had apparently ‘colluded’ with a player he ...
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February 17 2012
Playing in freerolls is usually an attractive proposition for rookies who need to hone their skills and don’t care much about coughing up tuition money at the real money tables. They also make great bankroll builders, but more serious poker players ...
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February 16 2012
Doyle Brunson may not be the greatest world-traveler and one probably won’t run into him at every other European and Asian live event. A short while ago, the 78-year old has admitted that traveling around trying to keep up ...
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February 14 2012
A little while ago we announced that PokerStars have successfully obtained a Maltese operating license, and that they would soon launch PokerStars.eu, where eventually all their European players would be moved. Well, pokerstars.eu has been launched the other day and ...
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February 12 2012
The DoJ’s sudden and unexpected change of heart regarding the interpretation of the 1961Wire Act has prompted concern among the Indian Tribes, the smaller ones of which risk to be shoved aside from the online poker/online gambling table once things ...
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February 12 2012
The WPT is in overdrive these days: barely has the Venice Grand Prix wrapped up, a new event is already underway. The Seminole Hard Rock Casino and Hotel in Florida is the host of the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open, Day ...
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February 12 2012
Last week was a great week for high stakes online poker action – at least for some. PokerStars’ Ville Wahlbeck will definitely remember the week fondly: he logged 3,822 hands, generating a $190,810 profit, which made him the biggest winner ...
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February 11 2012
The Everleaf poker network, the host of 100+ online poker skins, has withdrawn from the US and French markets. The network terms of service were changed the other day, and US as well as French and Maltese players were announced that ...
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February 11 2012
Friday was the final day of the WPT’s Venice Grand Prix at the end of which the winner emerged: Rinat Bogdanov was the one who managed to best an initial starting field of 155 players, to pocket the $302k top prize. ...
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February 10 2012
PokerStars have managed to break into the otherwise quite hermetically sealed-up Belgian on line poker market. In order to achieve the feat, the online poker site has teamed up with local gambling big-dog Circus Groupe. The two partners ...
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February 09 2012
Rush Poker, Full Tilt Poker’s last major contribution to the game of online poker was depicted as “poker on crack” by players and it got extremely popular extremely fast, only to completely disappear off the online poker scene after Black Friday. ...
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February 08 2012
These days, with the exception of Nevada, the cause of legal and regulated on line poker seems to take two steps back for every forward step. The reasons are difficult to pinpoint, although the myriad of interests and interest groups ...
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February 08 2012
Russian poker pro and WSOP cash-finish record holder Nikolay Evdakov has passed away at the age of 47. Evdakov’s wife, Nataliya posted the sad news in a Russian online poker forum.
Evdakov still holds the record for the most ...
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February 08 2012
Although for many online poker affiliates, business has never been quite as slow as it is these days when the entire industry seems to be holding its breath awaiting US regulation, it’s not all gloom and doom on the profits ...
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February 08 2012
The EPT’s Deauville Main Event went into the books on Monday evening as Vadzim Kursevich, start of the day second in chips, rose to the top grabbing the bragging rights, the trophy and the €875k top prize.
The first victim of ...
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February 07 2012
Day 5 of the EPT’s Deauville Main event was a relatively short affair: it lasted a little over 6 hours, as the field played down from the final 24 to the 8-handed final table. Paul Guichard emerged as the chip ...
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February 06 2012
Poker players nation-wide have long doubted the intentions of Las Vegas based mega brick and mortar gambling operations’ true intentions when it came to online poker and online gambling. It has long been believed that legal online poker would ...
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February 06 2012
54 players returned to the tables of the EPT’s Deauville Main Event on Day 4 of the poker tournament. Team PokerStars pro Luca Pagano stole all the limelight for the day: he started off in an unimpressive 36th ...
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February 06 2012
Day 3 of the PokerStars EPT’s Deauville Main event was all about the money bubble. The breakneck-paced action which characterized the event thus far continued on day 3 too: the starting field of 178 played down to 54, shooting ...
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February 04 2012
Day 2 of the EPT’s Deauville Main Event saw the returning players trying to battle their way up the ranks. No longer concerned with mere survival, players tossed their chips around in an attempt to get something going. A whole bunch ...
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February 03 2012
With the Aussie Millions stealing the show and with several of the nosebleed stakes online poker regulars on an apparent hiatus, the online poker tables barely saw any noteworthy high stakes action last week. That is not to say though ...
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February 02 2012
About a week ago we got word that ex-Full Tilt pro and owner, Chris Ferguson had allegedly threatened to block the Groupe Bernard Tapie deal, which would make it possible for Full Tilt’s players to recover the monies they had ...
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February 01 2012
When it comes to the WSOP, it’s never too early to start thinking about the action. There are online poker rooms out there which already feature 2012 WSOP qualifiers, and although it may seem early to ...
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