June 30 2012
The biggest poker tournament ever to be held, the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop is only days away now, and as its kick-off date draws near, players are scrambling to get their finances ...
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June 29 2012
A total of five events saw action on day 33 of the 2012 WSOP, of which no fewer than 3 played down to their respective bracelets. The day was definitely an outstanding one for several reasons: first of all, the ...
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June 29 2012
A little more than a day ago, the Delaware Senate approved the Gaming Competitiveness Act, which has essentially opened the way up for legal online poker. Not even a full 24 hours afterwards, Gov. Jack Markell signed the bill into law, ...
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June 29 2012
Day 32 of the 2012 WSOP saw the final table set in the $50k Poker Players Championship event. There was plenty of action in other events too: event #46, the $2.5k NL Holdem one, played right down to a winner, ...
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June 29 2012
This February, Shuffle Master announced that they were going to buy the OnGame Network from bwin.party for the sum of €19.5 million. A couple of days ago the company has announced that they were backing out of the deal, mainly for ...
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June 29 2012
John Campos, one of the top defendants of the Black Friday affair, has been sentenced, and it is now set: he will spend three months in a federal prison for the role he played in the processing of various funds to ...
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June 29 2012
The 31st day of the 2012 WSOP was a busy one: no fewer than 6 events saw action, but there was only one bracelet awarded. The sole winner of the day was Rocco Palumbo, who won event #44, the $1k ...
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June 27 2012
Hollywood Poker had been a rather decent online poker destination since 2004, when the site opened with the blessings and endorsements of James Woods and the WPT’s Vince Van Patten. Although things looked good for the operation in the beginning, ...
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June 27 2012
As usual, Day 30 of the WSOP saw 5 events play out. Two bracelets were awarded this time around, one of them going to Greg Ostrander, the winner of event #41, the $3k NL Holdem one, and one ending ...
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June 27 2012
Day 29 of the 2012 WSOP had 5 events see action, but only one bracelet found its way to the pockets of a deserving winner. The reason for the bracelet shortage was the fact that event #41, the $3k Read More
June 27 2012
The online tournament action over the weekend was rather intense, despite the ongoing WSOP hostilities which always tend to suck the life out of the online scene. No fewer than 3 players earned six-figure cashes, among them ...
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June 25 2012
Day 28 of the 2012 WSOP saw 5 events roll on, of which two ended up in bracelets. Event #39, he $10k PLO one, was the first one to play down to a winner. Jan-Peter Jachtmann was the winner ...
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June 25 2012
Friday saw the 27th day of the 2012 WSOP go into the books. Two bracelets were awarded that day too, one of them ending up in David Baker’s possession, while the other one went to Dung Nguyen, the winner of the ...
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June 23 2012
Day 26 of the 2012 WSOP was an especially stingy one bracelets-wise: it awarded a single bracelet, in the $3k NL Holdem Shootout, which managed to play down to a winner. Antonio Esfandiari played in the event and all ...
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June 22 2012
The 25th day of the 2012 WSOP was yet again a day which saw records fall. Japan’s Naoya Kihara won his first WSOP bracelet, becoming the first ever native Japanese to take down one of the coveted jewelry-pieces.
The ...
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June 22 2012
The biggest online poker news of the last few days was about Rafael Nadal, the tennis player who just joined Team PokerStars. Besides the fact that this says quite a lot about the intensity of the online poker scene ...
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June 22 2012
Phil Ivey’s WSOP 2012 antics haven’t gone unnoticed by the poker community and by the various authorities in charge of creating all sorts of rankings, player of the year lists and awards. The Global Poker Index is quite possibly the most ...
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June 21 2012
Phil Ivey isn’t considered the best poker player in the world for nothing. Although thus far he’s failed to take down a bracelet at this year’s Series, he has certainly delivered more than his fair share of evidence that he is ...
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June 20 2012
Just as there are more ways to skin a cat, there are more ways to make money on the WSOP Main Event too. Those who cannot afford to cough up the $10k buy-...
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June 20 2012
Monday was a truly busy day at the 2012 WSOP: 6 events rolled on, of which 3 managed to play down to their respective winners. One of the winners was Allyn Jaffrey Schulman, who became only the second woman since 2008 ...
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June 20 2012
It’s not a secret for anyone that Daniel Negreanu hasn’t exactly stolen what one would consider his fair share of WSOP headlines thus far in the Series. He had a decent start by finishing 5th in a PL ...
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June 19 2012
Day 22 of the 2012 WSOP saw 5 events roll on, among them the record-setting Seniors’ $1k NL Holdem event. 33 players returned to the tables of event #29, looking to play down all the way ...
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June 18 2012
It was obvious from the get-go that day 21 of the 2012 WSOP would make up for the bracelet-drought of the previous day, which made no one a fresh bracelet owner. Indeed, Day 21 saw 2 bracelets awarded, ...
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June 18 2012
The WSOP usually brings about quite a lull in the volume and intensity of the high stakes online poker action, but this year, it took a while for the lull to set in. Last week’s numbers have officially proved ...
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June 18 2012
The 20th day of the 2012 WSOP marked a slowdown in action. While the previous day had awarded 3 bracelets, day 20 was a winner-less day. Four events rolled on, but none of them played down to a winner. ...
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June 17 2012
About a week ago, the WSOP has made the announcement that 42 of the available 48 spots in the Big One for One Drop event had filled up. Since then, a handful of other pros have made their intentions clear about ...
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June 17 2012
Day 19 of the 2012 WSOP was an especially prolific one in terms of awarded bracelets. There were 5 events running, three of which managed to play down to their respective winners.
Event #24, the $5k Omaha Hi/Lo split 8 ...
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June 15 2012
Bernard Tapie may have slipped off the online poker map after it became clear that the French conglomerate wasn’t going to acquire Full Tilt Poker after all, and many thought that whatever poker endeavors GBT were rumored to be involved ...
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June 15 2012
While it was supposed to award two bracelets like the majority of days thus far, Day 18 of the 2012 WSOP fell short of the mark. The reason was a simple one: in the event in which Phil Ivey was ...
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June 14 2012
Phil Ivey has had his fair share of problems (some personal, some otherwise) in recent years, and these problems have definitely taken a toll on his green felt performance. Thus far though, it appears that 2012 is the year when he ...
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June 14 2012
The 17th day of the 2012 WSOP saw two more bracelets awarded and a total of 6 events roll on. The first bracelet-awarding event was event #21, the $1k NL Holdem one, which had 17 players return to its tables ...
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June 13 2012
The $1 million Big One for One Drop has already generated more buzz than all the other WSOP events combined (including the Big Dance) and it hasn’t even kicked off yet. A couple of days ago, WPT host and PartyPoker in-...
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June 13 2012
Andy Frankenberger has proved once and for all that his style of poker – as unconventional as it’s considered by many – is in fact quite effective, not only through his latest WSOP win but also through a lifetime worth of ...
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June 12 2012
Two more bracelets found their owners on day 16 of the 2012 WSOP. There was plenty of action outside the two bracelet-awarding events too though: two other events played down to their respective final tables and two new events kicked ...
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June 12 2012
Day 15 of the 2012 WSOP was a truly historic one, the kind of day that may well end up in the annals of poker history as the day when the Poker Brat broke his own bracelet record by winning ...
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June 11 2012
Five events saw action on the 14th day of the 2012 WSOP, of which one ended up awarding a bracelet. The event was event #16, the $1.5k NL Holdem Six-handed one, which ...
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June 11 2012
Being the largest ever WSOP event, and featuring a buy-in of $1 million, the Big One for One Drop has always carried the potential for failure. After all, the event is treading ...
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June 11 2012
Day 13 of the 2012 WSOP was a productive one: two players earned bracelets and Phil Hellmuth made it past the first day of the $2.5k Seven Card Stud event. The Brat may be the bracelet record holder, but he ...
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June 10 2012
The 12th day of the 2012 WSOP was a generous one bracelets-wise: two players earned their WSOP jewelry: Brian Hastings, the online poker specialist who was responsible for stopping Isildur1 back when no one knew he was in fact ...
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June 08 2012
The high-stakes live poker world has been rocked by several thievery scandals lately, as a number of players stepped forth pointing an accusing finger to a high-profile player who’d allegedly stolen money from them. That player may have been ...
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June 08 2012
Day 11 of the 2012 WSOP has finally managed to break the one bracelet a day pattern into which things seemed to have settled lately. 6 tournaments rolled on, of which 2 have successfully awarded their bracelets. Event #9, the ...
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June 08 2012
North Carolina has just joined the list of states which have made huge strides towards the legalization and regulation of the game of poker. The legal measure which gained the approval of the Senate on Wednesday is about live poker games ...
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June 08 2012
There were 5 events ongoing on day 10 of the 2012 WSOP, of which only one managed to play down to a winner, although two others have reached their respective final tables. The event which ended up awarding the gold ...
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June 06 2012
Day 9 of the 2012 WSOP saw one player pick up his gold bracelet, although this time, the winner was quite possibly more deserving than any of the 2012 winners thus far, on account of the amount of heads-up ...
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June 06 2012
The weekend majors didn’t fail to attract massive starting fields at PokerStars despite the ongoing WSOP. Players showed up in droves and several of them walked away with massive 6-figure poker tournament profits. As usual, the Sunday ...
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June 05 2012
Although it seemed like event #6, the $5k NL Holdem Mix Maxed one would play down to a winner without much of an effort on Day 8, things took an unexpected turn once it got down to the Aubin Cazals – ...
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June 05 2012
The 7th day of the 2012 WSOP was a busy one despite the fact that only one player saw his efforts crowned with a gold bracelet. The grind continued in several events as event #7, the $1.5k Seven Card Stud ...
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June 04 2012
Day 6 of the 2012 WSOP was a little bit stingy bracelets-wise: only one player earned his WSOP stripes: the winner of event #5, the $1.5k PL Holdem one, Nick Jivkov. Event #6, the $5k NL Holdem Mix Maxed ...
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June 02 2012
With the WSOP in full swing, one would’ve expected the high stakes online poker tables to go action-less for a while, but that was obviously not the case. Several high stakes regulars used to lull to their advantage, turning ...
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June 02 2012
Day 5 of the 2012 WSOP was definitely a busy one. No fewer than 5 events rolled on during the day, as two players picked up their WSOP bracelets. The two winners of the day were Leif Force, who won ...
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June 02 2012
It appears that high profile online/live poker players aren’t more immune to petty theft than regular people. Various cases of theft/swindling have apparently been going on in the high stakes poker world for quite a while. PokerStars’ Daniel Negreanu has been ...
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