March 30 2012
The 3rd day of the EPT’s Campione Main Event saw 99 players return to the tables of the Casino di Campione. By the end of the day, the field had successfully played down to the final 24. The third day ...
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March 29 2012
The second day of the EPT’s Campione Main Event saw 325 players return to the tables of the Casino di Campione. 6 levels of play were logged on day 2, at the end of which only 99 players remained in contention. ...
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March 29 2012
As expected, the second day 1 flight of the EPT’s Campione Main Event drew a starting field of 392 players, blowing away the 178-big day 1A field. Most of the ‘name’ players chose to wait till Day ...
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March 27 2012
The first day 1 flight of the EPT’s Campione Main Event saw 178 players belly up to the tables of the Casino di Campione, on the shores of Lake Lugano. The player turn-out was relatively out of ...
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March 27 2012
On Sunday, the state of Illinois made online gambling history by becoming the first US state ever to sell lottery tickets online. Sale of the tickets began Sunday morning and by the end of the day, around $15k worth of tickets ...
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March 26 2012
This past weekend saw Tom Grigg catch fire at the online poker tables at PokerStars. The pro made the final table of the Sunday Warm-Up and he also reached the final stretch of the Sunday 500. He made ...
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March 26 2012
Last week, Utah became the first state to opt out of online gambling and online poker in all shapes and forms, when Gov. Gary Herbert signed into a law a bill known as HB108. The legal move is the first of ...
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March 24 2012
Not much came to light last week regarding the Full Tilt Poker – Groupe Bernard Tapie deal, but the besieged online poker operation’s name made headlines yet again on account of a related but slightly different matter: the US Attorney for ...
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March 23 2012
The first event of the ANZPT’s 4th season got going with the first day 1 flight of the Sydney Main Event. 214 players coughed up the buy-in on the first day of action, an extremely impressive turn-out by ANZPT ...
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March 23 2012
The UK has thus far overlooked offshore online gambling operators’ profits made from UK-based customers, a legal stance which resulted in the migration of large online betting and gambling companies like William Hill and Ladbrokes to places like Gibraltar. The ...
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March 21 2012
The majority of online poker players learned about Daniel Tzvetkoff’s existence under rather dire auspices about a year ago. Tzvetkoff, the Australian online payment processor who had allegedly processed around $1 billion in illegal money transfers to and from online poker ...
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March 20 2012
It only took about 5 days for PokerStars pro Viktor Blom to regroup after he lost the second SuperStar Showdown match he had against Isaac Haxton. To add insult to injury, Haxton bounced back from a massive handicap, defeating the ...
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March 19 2012
Last weekend, the online poker action was hot despite the fact that there weren’t as many players taking part in the Sunday guarantees as the weekend before, when the 6th anniversary promotions were in full swing at PokerStars. Still, the ...
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March 19 2012
The final table of the EPT’s Madrid Main Event featured quite a motley collection of players: there were well established pros among them, amateur first-timers, online qualifiers and pretty much everything else in-between.
Ricardo Ibanez of ...
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March 19 2012
New Jersey has been one of the US states pondering the legalization of online gambling and online poker for quite a while. Had it not been for Gov. Chris Christie’s last minute change of heart, the Garden State would have ...
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March 17 2012
A couple of days ago we broke news that the Iowa Senate had passed a poker bill which would allow brick and mortar casinos and racetracks to offer real money online poker to the residents of the state of Iowa. ...
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March 17 2012
It’s official: high volume online poker grinders no longer have to wishfully dream about the day when they could play Rush Poker over at Full Tilt: on Friday, PokerStars have launched the real money beta version of their new Zoom Poker, ...
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March 17 2012
24 players reconvened for the 4th day of the EPT’s Madrid final table, the goal of which was an obvious and cruelly straightforward one: to play down to the 8-handed final table. Although numerous ‘name’ pros fell by the side ...
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March 17 2012
The third day of the €5.3k Main Event of the EPT Madrid saw 112 players return to the tables out of a total of 477 initial starters. The goal for the day was to play past the money bubble ...
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March 16 2012
Online poker players world over were greeted with great news on Tuesday, regarding the Groupe Bernard Tapie – Full Tilt Poker deal. It now appears that after countless weeks of negotiations and limbo marred by all sorts of rumors and pessimistic ...
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March 16 2012
Day 2 of the EPT’s Madrid Main Event saw 264 players belly up to the tables and 5 levels of 75 minutes each logged before the final whistle. The 5-level day meant an early finish for the ...
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March 15 2012
Isaac Haxton was Isildur1’s only opponent who managed to actually take money from him in the PokerStars SuperStar Showdown. Sure, there were other players who managed to log a profit against the Swedish pro, but they gave all of it ...
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March 15 2012
The state of Mississippi was one of the many US states considering legalizing and regulating online poker, until the Ways and Means Committee as well as the Gaming Committee tossed aside a legal proposal aimed at achieving just that. The bill ...
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March 14 2012
The second day 1 flight of the EPT’s Madrid stop attracted an astonishing number of players, especially in light of the relatively modest day 1A turn-out of 125. No fewer than 352 players flocked to the tables, ...
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March 14 2012
16 players returned to the tables on the third and final day of the APPT’s Seoul Main Event, bent on playing right down to a winner. It took them about 3 hours to play down to nine, thus setting the official ...
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March 13 2012
Last season, Madrid played host to the EPT’s Grand Final. This time around, the Madrid event got kind of sidetracked and shoved among the regular events, as the Grand Final was moved back to Monte Carlo. Due to the flare-up ...
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March 11 2012
On Friday, 6 players returned to decide the fate of the WPT’s Bay 101 Shooting Star title, 6 of an initial starting field of 364 players. The battle would be a pitched one, after all, there was a top prize of ...
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March 11 2012
At the beginning of the second day of action at the APPT’s Seoul stop, no fewer than 109 players bellied up to the tables. That rather respectably-sized field suffered great attrition through the day though, so when the action was ...
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March 11 2012
Last week saw Phil Galfond and Viktor Blom duke it out in a heavyweight battle at the nosebleed stakes tables at PokerStars. When the line was drawn at the end of it all, Galfond was the clear winner, having registered ...
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March 10 2012
About a month ago, the Everleaf network was one of the last online poker operators to keep accepting US players and things were looking up for the company. It then all went haywire, beginning with a threat they received from the ...
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March 10 2012
Ty Stewart, Executive Director of the WSOP, has recently granted an interview to one of the largest online poker portals, in which he discussed the prospects of legal online poker in the US and its potential impact on the WSOP.
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March 10 2012
The goal for the 3rd day of the WPT’s Bay 101 Shooting Star event was for the remaining field to play down to the final table. Given the fact that only 20 players out of an initial field of 364 starters ...
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March 10 2012
The second day 1 flight of the APPT’s Seoul Main Event saw 139 players belly up to the tables. That number, added to the 129 who had registered on Day 1A made a total starting field of 268.
53 players survived ...
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March 08 2012
Full Tilt Poker have been negotiating a takeover with French conglomerate Groupe Bernard Tapie for a while, and there are signs that cracks may be appearing in the deal which at one point was pretty much sold to the public as ...
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March 08 2012
The great thing about PokerStars is that they always seem to be celebrating some sort of an anniversary and they usually do it in a way that players find most pleasing: by upping the guaranteed prize-pools on their weekend flagship ...
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March 07 2012
Bodog had been one of the last bastions of online poker play for US-based players before December 2011, when the brand finally decided to follow most of the other major operators and previous US poker sites, and ...
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March 07 2012
Full Tilt Poker CEO Raymond Bitar’s voice has been conspicuously absent through the scandal that ripped his company clean off the online poker map and got it locked into a legal quagmire that has thrown the online funds of tens ...
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March 07 2012
Bwin.party have been looking to unload the OnGame network for a while and it looks like they may have already found a taker: on Monday, the announcement was made that ShuffleMaster, a company well-known world-over for manufacturing card shufflers ...
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March 06 2012
A few weeks ago, news of PokerStars’ planned alternative to Rush Poker emerged. The online poker operation which now solely dominates the online poker industry has apparently been busy devising a new form of “poker on crack” that would get ...
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March 05 2012
Most poker training websites disseminate poker knowledge for money: players have to purchase memberships or they have to pay for the individual courses in order to better themselves and to further their green-felt cause. PokerSchoolOnline, PokerStars’ poker training website and ...
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March 05 2012
Online gaming company Zynga have long been looking for a way to launch a real-money gaming platform, which would generate independent revenues for the company. Last week, they may have taken a decisive step in that direction: a company spokesperson ...
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March 03 2012
Jens Kyllonen has been one of the most dominating players at the nosebleed stakes at PokerStars in the last few weeks. Last week was definitely one of his most lucrative ones: he logged a $500k+ profit, his biggest one of ...
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March 03 2012
The issue of federally legalized online poker has come up in several congressional hearings since the DoJ’s about-face decision regarding the 1961 Wire Act in December. The general position of everyone concerned is that federal regulation carries more than a ...
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March 03 2012
Starting with March 1, Chilipoker has melted into Poker770, players, funds and everything. Chilipoker has long been looking for a way to break into the US market – if and when it gets regulated of course – as well ...
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