May 31 2012
Day 4 saw the 2012 WSOP finally gather proper momentum: the Rio was packed as no fewer than 4 events were ongoing and at the end of it, the first open-event bracelet of this year’s Series has finally found ...
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May 31 2012
California has been on the list of states considering the legalization and the regulation of online poker for a while. Thus far, it has been quite unclear though exactly how the electorate felt about the issue. USC Dornsife have therefore conducted ...
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May 31 2012
Event #2, the $1.5k NL Holdem one continued on Day 3 of the 2012 WSOP. 240 players returned to the green felt with the immediate goal being to battle down to the money bubble. After that goal was handily covered, the ...
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May 31 2012
The WSOP is apparently a world-wide stage no longer reserved for online and live poker interests. The advertising potential of the world’s largest yearly poker festival has drawn attention from other sources too: Matchbook.com, one of the leading online ...
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May 29 2012
The first red-blooded, open WSOP event of the 2012 edition of the Series kicked off on Day 2 (Monday). The first WSOP bracelet of the year was also awarded on day 2.
Chiab Saechao was the player who started ...
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May 29 2012
The first day of the 2012 WSOP is in the books and the first event is well on its way. The $500 Casino Employees NL Holdem event was the opening event – as ...
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May 28 2012
If the latest rumors from Down Under are true indeed, Australia may be the next country (or rather continent) to legalize and regulate online poker. According to the Daily Telegraph, the Australian Government has made it clear that it was ...
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May 27 2012
The final table of the 2012 WPT World Championship event was put on hold on Friday, on account of the High Roller event, the top prize of which ended up in Tom Marchese’s possession. On Saturday, the final table reconvened though ...
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May 26 2012
With the WSOP drawing ever closer, the high stakes online poker action doesn’t seem to lose any momentum these days. It’s as if the nosebleed stakes protagonists are keen on getting in some more action before they head out ...
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May 24 2012
The race to secure licenses in newly regulated online poker and online gambling markets is truly on in Europe. The biggest online gambling operators are desperately clinging to their last patch of market share in countries where online gambling is ...
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May 24 2012
Daniel Cates, known online as ‘Jungleman’ is one of the most successful high stakes online poker players and apparently he’s a generous person too. Not forgetting where he started off, Cates is buying a lucky player into the WSOP Main ...
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May 22 2012
Securing a Spanish operating license is apparently quite a big deal for some operators out there. bwin.party have just agreed to give in to a demand of the Spanish authorities to pay back-taxes in order to be able to apply ...
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May 22 2012
Day 15 of the 2012 PokerStars SCOOP was the last day when new events got started. A whole bunch of ongoing events came to an end, having played down to their respective winners.
The Main Event kicked off with all ...
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May 21 2012
The WPT’s World Championship is definitely not a low-profile event. The $25k buy-in is quite a deterrent for everyone who is not dead-serious about his/her poker, so the starting fields are pretty much always made up of top-...
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May 21 2012
The 14th day of the 2012 SCOOP offered yet another stage for ‘name’ players to flaunt their skills and to assert their domination. Several of these guys made final tables, and a handful of them walked away with victories yet again. ...
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May 20 2012
Day 13 of the 2012 PokerStars SCOOP was as productive as any other day as far as ‘name’ player performances were concerned. Several of these high profile professionals had excellent days. Ami Barer for instance made two final tables, of ...
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May 19 2012
With the WSOP appearing ever more menacing on the horizon, something new regarding the Big Dance surfaces every day. Last week for instance, the WSOP unveiled the new bracelets which will adorn the wrists of all the 2012 winners. The new ...
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May 19 2012
With so many live distractions currently underway or looming on the horizon, online poker action was definitely supposed to take a back seat over the last few weeks, but that was not what happened. Despite the ongoing SCOOP and the ...
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May 19 2012
The online petition initiative launched at the site of the White House quite a while ago in support of online poker and gambling, which earned the signature of thousands of online poker players, didn’t go unnoticed. Just when the whole thing ...
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May 18 2012
Boyd Gaming have apparently quite a bit of appetite for gambling on a corporate level: the company has just announced that it has purchased one of its main rivals: Peninsula Gaming LLC. The deal is far from a clear black and ...
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May 18 2012
Day 11 of the 2012 SCOOP was a pretty happening one as well. The action lasted for nearly 20 hours, and 9 events went into the books, crowning 9 winners. ‘Name’ players were yet again out in force, and three of ...
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May 17 2012
Facebook shares have been priced at $38 in the company’s initial public offering, hitting the higher end of the prediction scale and turning several Silicon Valley residents into millionaires and billionaires in a heartbeat. The online gambling and online poker industry ...
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May 17 2012
Bradley Ruderman had rubbed shoulders with the right type of A-listers when he set up his poker-trap, conning investors out of an estimated $5.2 million with the apparent ‘help’ of a bunch of Hollywood celebrities, who can breathe a ...
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May 16 2012
Shaun Deeb and Viktor Blom have been getting increasingly desperate to take down a third SCOOP title at this year’s series and they have been hitting closer and closer to that goal. Eventually, it was Deeb who succeeded, winning his third ...
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May 16 2012
PokerStars’ Zoom Poker, featuring a style of play based on the defunct Full Tilt Rush Poker, saw a successful beta-testing period, during which scores of players flocked to the site to take the new game for a test-spin. As ...
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May 15 2012
Day 9 was definitely a big day for the 2012 SCOOP. Due to a fortunate turn of scheduling, no fewer than 15 players would earn their SCOOP titles this day. Several ‘name’ players were well-positioned to grab titles and indeed, ...
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May 15 2012
The ongoing Spring Championship of Online Poker meant that the two most prominent Sunday Majors, the Sunday Million and the Sunday Warm-up were on break last weekend, but even so, there were quite a few major guaranteed prize-pools ...
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May 15 2012
The 8th day of the 2012 SCOOP at PokerStars saw Viktor Blom position himself for yet another potential title run. Day 8 was basically a set-the-stage day, as it set up no fewer than 15 winners to be ...
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May 14 2012
Lock Poker is gearing up to introduce some rather radical changes in the upcoming few weeks. The site has made an announcement regarding its plans to leave the Merge Network and to establish an online poker network of its own under ...
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May 14 2012
Date mining has long been the plague of online poker rooms. There are sites out there specialized in online poker data mining which provide details on just about every online poker player who’s ever played a hand in ...
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May 14 2012
The 6th day of the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker saw the action kick into high gear at PokerStars. There were no fewer than 15 events running, and the ‘name’ pros were yet again out in force. No fewer ...
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May 13 2012
The last few weeks saw plenty of dog-eat-dog online poker action at PokerStars’ high stakes tables. Two players emerged as clear contenders in the biggest winner of the year race, but given that it’s only spring, there’s still ...
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May 13 2012
Thus far this year, Isildur1 has had a great time at the PokerStars SCOOP. He already has two titles under his belt and he’s busy trying to rack up another one. Day 5 of the series saw 2 events kick ...
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May 11 2012
This year’s SCOOP has thus far drawn tens if not hundreds of high profile poker professionals to PokerStars’ tables, but there have been a few noteworthy absences, among which Tom Dwan’s stands out by a head and a shoulder. Dwan – ...
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May 11 2012
Bad news for New Jersey-based online poker players who may have been looking forward to the online gambling/poker bill pushed by State Sen. Raymond Lesniak and supposedly supported by Gov. Chris Christie: politics may yet again be getting in the ...
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May 11 2012
Thus far, every single day of the 2012 SCOOP, there was some high-profile player rising to the top, giving poker news portals something to write about. Day 4 was no different. This time, it was Shaun Deeb’s turn to shine: ...
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May 10 2012
Isildur1 may have found his new calling: crushing online poker tournaments left and right and generally dominating series like this year’s Spring Championship of Online Poker at PokerStars.
After his Day 2 event win, Viktor Blom scored yet ...
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May 09 2012
With the 2012 WSOP looming ever more menacingly on the horizon, ESPN have unveiled their WSOP coverage schedule, dropping one more variable into place before the Big Dance commences. This year, no fewer than 3 WSOP events will be covered, ...
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May 09 2012
The second day of the 2012 PokerStars SCOOP kicked off on Monday and what a day it was. Several notables made deep runs in various events and PokerStars’ Isildur1 led the charge with a win in the $1 million guaranteed $200 ...
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May 09 2012
PokerStars’ Daniel Negreanu may have jokingly said before his heads-up Limit Holdem challenge against Germany-based online LH specialist rUaBot that his primary goal was to avoid getting crushed. Alas, that’s exactly what he failed to achieve. ...
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May 06 2012
If anybody deserves to take down a SCOOP title, Mickey Petersen must be the man. After all, he has finished runner-up in two SCOOP events already, having come so tantalizingly close to his ultimate goal yet falling short every time.
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May 06 2012
Daniel Negreanu has always been known as a good FL Holdem player. As a matter of fact, 4 of his 5 WSOP bracelets came in various fixed-limit events, a telltale clue regarding his fixed limit abilities. Although ...
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May 05 2012
Every major online poker operator seems to celebrate the onset of summer in style, and PartyPoker is no exception. While PokerStars are busy with their 80 billionth hand festivities and promotions, as well as the freeroll assault they have unleashed in ...
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May 05 2012
This week saw plenty of high stakes online poker action yet again. The one who stole the headlines this time was Ben Sulsky, who finished the week with a $138.1k profit, which may not have been particularly impressive on its ...
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May 05 2012
PokerStars’ race to the 100 billionth had dealt at the site has been rolling for quite a while. This week, the promotion is back in the spotlight though as the 80 billionth hand is now on the horizon. Experts predict that ...
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May 05 2012
The Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) may be the biggest poker tour most of the online and live poker players outside of the US have never heard about. The Heartland Poker Tour has been airing its final tables to more than 100 ...
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May 04 2012
The EPT Monte Carlo’s €25k High Roller event wrapped up on Tuesday yielding a winner in Igor Kurganov. Kurganov bested the high-quality starting field to take home the top prize of €1.08 million and the coveted title. Kurganov’s win was ...
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May 01 2012
The latest edition of the EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand Final is in the books as another page has been jotted down in the poker history books. After 5 days of action, the starting field of 665 players, which ...
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