April 30 2012
The EPT’s Monte Carlo stop is about much more than the Main Event. Those who can afford it, stand to win fabulous prizes in events like the €25k High Roller. The above said event kicked off on Sunday. Its first day ...
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April 30 2012
The APPT’s Cebu Main Event saw 28 players return to the tables on its 3rd and penultimate day. The stakes were quite obvious: with everyone in the money, the goal was to play down to the final table of 9. Amit ...
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April 30 2012
Day 4 of the EPT’s Monte Carlo Main Event saw a major milestone reached: the final table. 8 players survived the day’s attrition to return for the final day of the event with hopes of taking home the ...
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April 29 2012
130 players returned to action on the third day of the EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand Final. The day was mostly about the bursting of the money bubble. Set for 96th place, the early action was a tight mess ...
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April 29 2012
128 players returned to the tables on the second day of the APPT’s Cebu Main Event, with the goal of playing down as close to the final table as possible. Indeed, at the end of the day only 28 remained, among ...
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April 28 2012
Offering a mobile online poker platform is pretty much a top priority for most of the big operators out there. After all, ever since mobile technology has come of age online gaming-wise, it makes more sense than anything else ...
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April 28 2012
Despite all the interesting live poker action going on in various corners of the world, last week did not disappoint online poker-wise either. Most of the nosebleed stakes regulars saw action and three of them finished the stretch $300k ...
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April 28 2012
The second official day of EPT hostilities went into the book as players reconvened and then battled down to 130 the other day. The provisional chip lead went to Max Martinez, who had a hell of a ride ...
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April 28 2012
As expected, Day 1C of the APPT’s Cebu Main Event yielded a much larger starting field than any of the previous two day 1 flights. No fewer than 119 players bellied up to the tables, rounding the overall starting field up ...
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April 27 2012
The second day 1 flight of the EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand Final drew a massive starting field of 394 players, taking the total number of participants to 665. Nicolas Yunis was the one who finished the day with ...
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April 27 2012
76 players showed up for the second day 1 flight of the APPT’s Cebu Main Event, rounding up the total starting field to 128. When the action was called, 42 players were still alive. Antonio Martins was the one who managed ...
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April 26 2012
The Grand Final of the European Poker Tour has returned to its rightful home this season: Monte Carlo. While the Madrid outing last year wasn’t bad at all, Monte Carlo is the right place for an event of ...
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April 26 2012
While several officially backed announcements have surfaced in the wake of the rumors launched a couple of days ago regarding the possibility (or rather the certainty) of PokerStars acquiring Full Tilt Poker and repaying all its players – US and international ...
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April 25 2012
Unibet Casino have recently launched their new Scarface slots and to celebrate, they’ve unleashed a host of high-value promotions on their players. The game itself is well worth signing up for: if features bonus games, nudge spins, free spin rounds ...
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April 24 2012
We happen to know from a reliable inside source that after months of bickering with GBT (Groupe Bernard Tapie) trying to settle various issues of the Full Tilt poker takeover, the DoJ has apparently made up its mind about the deal ...
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April 23 2012
Having Full Tilt Poker’s operating license reinstated by the end of the month may have been a bit of wishful thinking on the part of Groupe Bernard Tapie, but that doesn’t mean representatives of the French conglomerate are not hard at ...
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April 23 2012
As anticipated, Andrew Chen, who started the final day of the EPT’s Berlin Main Event with a large stack, proved to be a dangerous presence at the final table indeed. He made his way through the opposition all ...
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April 22 2012
The 4th day of the EPT’s Berlin Main Event saw 24 players return to the tables with the goal of playing right down to the final table. Four and a half levels and 16 eliminated players later, the goal had been ...
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April 20 2012
The third day of the EPT’s Berlin stop saw the field play down to the final 24. Marc Wright was the one who finished the day with the provisional chip lead, having amassed a stack of 2.4 million ...
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April 19 2012
The second day of the EPT’s Berlin Main Event had 329 players belly up to the tables. After 6 levels of action, only 102 of those players were still standing, when the day was called. The still-provisional ...
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April 19 2012
Online poker’s biggest supporter in the US Congress, Barney Frank has announced the other day that he wasn’t at all optimistic about the chances of online poker legislation being passed in 2012. Given the fact that he has announced his ...
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April 18 2012
The first day 1 flight of the EPT Berlin stop was a mere distraction in comparison to the massive field that day 1B drew. No fewer than 502 players showed up for the second day 1 flight, spilling ...
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April 17 2012
6 players returned on the final day of the WPT’s Vienna Main Event to play down to a winner on Sunday. Ognjen Sekularac started the day with the largest stack, however, the winner who emerged in the end was Denmark’s Morten ...
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April 15 2012
Exactly a year ago, the legal boom was lowered on online poker when the DoJ indicted the three biggest online poker operators: Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and the Cereus network sites: Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet. The result of Black Friday ...
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April 15 2012
The state of Utah has been one of only two US states without any form of legal gambling, and the state has made its position clear regarding the possible federal legalization of online poker and online gambling too, a while ...
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April 15 2012
Ben Tollerene had a massively successful week at the online poker tables last week: he finished with a profit of $631.8k, topping the winners’ list. He played a massive 10,524 hands to reach that mark. There were other big winners ...
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April 14 2012
The third day of the WPT’s Vienna Main Event saw 67 players return to the tables of the Montesino. With the money bubble set for 45th place, the stakes were high on day 3. About 4 levels of action went into ...
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April 14 2012
The Big One for One Drop will be the WSOP event with the largest ever buy-in this year. Costing a massive $1 million to enter, the poker tournament may rightfully create some jitters for the organizers, after ...
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April 12 2012
The WPT’s Vienna Main Event kicked off on Tuesday with 163 players bellying up to the tables. The attrition rate was decent during the first Day 1 flight, and only 73 players were still in contention when the action was called. ...
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April 12 2012
Tuesday evening saw the 8 remaining players belly up to the final table of the Party Poker Premier League V in Vienna. Scott Seiver was the one who managed to walk away with the title and the top prize ...
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April 10 2012
Monday saw the PaddyPower.com Irish Poker Open play down to a winner. It took the starting field of 502 players 3 days to reach the end. When it was all said and done, Belgium’s Kevin Vandersmissen took home the top prize ...
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April 07 2012
The Canadian Government has never been a vocal opponent of online poker, but going from not opposing something into taking part in it is quite a move indeed, which is exactly what the government of Manitoba pulled off: the state ...
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April 07 2012
Ilari Sahamies’ name graced the list of top losers several times this year. The Finn had struggled quite a bit indeed, but over the last couple of weeks he has recovered most of his losses. Two weeks ago, he managed to ...
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April 04 2012
New Jersey has officially become the second US state to take concrete steps towards legalizing online gambling and online poker after Nevada. On Tuesday, a New Jersey Senate Committee passed a bill that would allow online real money wagering on ...
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April 04 2012
Isaac Haxton, Viktor Blom’s first SuperStar Showdown opponent, was the only player in the lineup who managed to take money from PokerStars’ Swede pro. What’s more, Haxton even managed to win a March rematch, taking a mere $5k+ from his ...
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April 02 2012
The final table of the EPT’s Campione Main Event was a marathon affair: it took the 8 returning players 8 hours to play down to a winner. Eventually, it was Jannick Wrang who managed to best the rest ...
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