July 31 2012
The online poker world let out a huge collective sigh of relief today: PokerStars have announced that they got the green light from the US DoJ to acquire Full Tilt Poker. The agreement is a far-reaching one, which was obviously ...
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July 31 2012
Those who haven’t created an account at PokerStars for the MicroMillions II haven’t yet missed out on low buy-in, high-reward online poker tournaments. Hit that ‘register’ or ‘sign up’ link right now because PokerStars have something ...
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July 31 2012
Online bad beat jackpots which serve up fabulous amounts of money are pretty much a thing of the past these days. While there still are a few online poker operators which can afford to run such promotions, the post Black ...
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July 31 2012
Popular poker forums are great for the community. They’re like the marketplace in the ancient Roman Empire, where everyone could voice his opinion, to earn the scorn or the respect of the community or to simply incite flaming and verbal ...
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July 31 2012
The online tournament action flared up quite a bit over the weekend again. The ‘name’ crowd was once again well represented at the tables, and several of the high profile players managed deep runs in various events. The ...
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July 30 2012
The International Stadiums Poker Tour has been a rather controversial concept from its very beginnings. Industry specialists and poker pros have expressed skepticism regarding the scope and the scale of the planned event series from the very beginning. About a week ...
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July 30 2012
Sunday was the final day of the ANZPT Queensland Snowfest Main Event. Nine players returned to the tables at the beginning of the day, looking to play right down to a winner, which is exactly what they did.
With everyone ...
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July 30 2012
It has apparently become clear to the Alderney Gambling Control Commission that in the wake of the Full Tilt Poker scandal, which – let’s face it – has largely discredited them, they had to do something to regain any sort of ...
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July 29 2012
31 players returned to the tables on the 3rd day of the ANZPT’s Queensland Snowfest Main Event. The goal was nothing more and nothing less than play down to the final table and by the end of the day, that goal ...
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July 29 2012
California has long been rumored to be one of the states seriously considering legal intrastate online poker and gambling. While little has materialized legislation-wise thus far, California-based companies are already partnering up, jostling for position for when eventually ...
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July 29 2012
A couple of days ago we featured a piece about the goings-on in the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, where the tribes were preparing to create a draft of a bill that would reflect their position on the upcoming legalization ...
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July 29 2012
The high stakes online cash games are finally rolling like they did before the WSOP. All the regulars are there, firing on all cylinders and winning and losing money by the hundreds of thousands. Last week, the biggest ...
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July 29 2012
After 3 separate day 1 flights, the ANZPT’s Queensland Snowfest Main Event had two day 2 flights scheduled. While only 87 players survived the first days’ hostilities, still two separate flights were held on day 2. The first one saw 43 ...
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July 27 2012
It appears that as more and more people get sentenced in connection with online poker’s Black Friday, the harsher the sentences get. Ira Rubin was one of the payment processors directly involved with the illegal transfer and the concealing of the ...
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July 27 2012
The final day 1 flight of the ANZPT’s Queensland Snowfest Main Event drew a starting field of 49 players, thus setting the final number of participants to 149. Day 1C finally revealed the size of the prize-pool, which exceeded NZD$402k ...
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July 27 2012
The second day 1 flight of the PokerStars ANZPT’s Queensland Snowfest Main Event drew a starting field of 49 players. At the end of the day, 31 were still standing. The provisional chip lead went to Ken Demlakian, who managed ...
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July 26 2012
Patrik Antonius, he of Full Tilt fame, signed a sponsorship deal with iGame a while ago, thus becoming the first Full Tilt pro to officially abandon the failing brand. His iGame sponsorship deal included a challenge, in which Antonius would have ...
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July 26 2012
These days, it seems like the issue of legalized and regulated online poker is never off the table when it comes to politics and law. While the elections this year have pretty much sidelined the deal at least until November, ...
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July 26 2012
In an interview granted to a popular poker portal during the 2012 WSOP, Daniel Negreanu has given the world a piece of his mind regarding the Full Tilt Poker issue and the level of involvement of various Full Tilt ...
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July 25 2012
The first of three day 1 flights scheduled for the ANZPT’s Queensland Snowfest Main Event saw a record-breaking starting field of 51 players belly up to its tables. As a matter of fact, the starting field was capped at 51, ...
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July 24 2012
Online gaming giant Zynga has for years stuck to a policy of free gaming and revenue-generation through ads and in-game micro-transactions of virtual goods. Their position has changed when it became clear that the legalization of real money ...
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July 24 2012
Although it may seem like the US legal system and its prosecutors have stopped pursuing the Black Friday indictments as they wait for a solution in the Full Tilt Poker case, nothing could be further from the truth. None of those ...
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July 24 2012
Last weekend saw not only the intensification of the online tournament action, but also, the second Main Event of the Deutsch Poker tour kicked off. The event took place in the Czech Republic, and it drew a record-...
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July 24 2012
With the 2012 WSOP finally a distant memory, players are beginning to file back to the online poker tables for tournament action. Last week, player participation in the major weekend guarantees at PokerStars was up. Several name players – among ...
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July 23 2012
The poker media has been full of rumors regarding Full Tilt Poker’s takeover by some kind of online gambling entity, ever since the Black Friday events. First, it was French conglomerate Groupe Bernard Tapie that looked like it was going to ...
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July 22 2012
In our series of news dedicated to the October Nine, we’ve thus far failed to cover the players making up the bulk of the field: those with middling stacks. With a little over 13 million chips to his name, Jacob Balsiger ...
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July 22 2012
However unlikely, it looks like legal, real money online poker in the US may be much closer than one would think: the South Point Casino appears to be the entity to first push its online poker system through the legal ...
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July 21 2012
Ilari Sahamies didn’t travel to Las Vegas for the WSOP this year. While many of his peers were busy grinding away at the live tournament tables, he kept busy online, carrying the high stakes action at PokerStars, together with a ...
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July 21 2012
PartyPoker have just made the announcement that they have removed all their ‘super high stakes’ cash game tables. Exactly what the move is meant to achieve is unclear, what is certain is that those looking to play higher than $10/$20 NL ...
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July 20 2012
The WSOP always represents a great opportunity for players to turn the GPI rankings upside down. After all, that’s when most of the live tournament heroics happen, and that’s when new faces surface each year.
This year, it was David Baker’s ...
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July 20 2012
The October Nine has finally been reached and the Americans have secured a truly dominating presence at the final table of the biggest live poker tournament of the year: save for a lone Hungarian currently in second place, ...
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July 19 2012
The 2012 WSOP Main Event successfully played down to its final table. Dubbed the ‘November Nine’, the surviving 9 players will only return to play down to a winner in the fall. As we’ve discussed in one of our past articles, ...
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July 19 2012
The November Nine has been set and nine lucky and skilled players will now have to wait till fall to decide the eventual winner. Here’s a closer look at some of the people who will be the protagonists of the final ...
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July 18 2012
The 2012 WSOP has reached its last day (at least until November). Day 7 of the Main Event saw the final table set. Jesse Sylvia was the one who clinched the chip lead at the end of the hostilities: he built ...
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July 17 2012
Day 6 of the 2012 WSOP Main Event was about playing down as close to the final table as possible. 97 players showed up at the tables at the beginning of the day, ...
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July 17 2012
Day 39 of the 2012 WSOP was a rather efficient one in terms of players sent to the rail. 282 players bellied up to the tables at the beginning of the day, among them start of the day chip leader Paul ...
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July 15 2012
With all other distractions out of the way, day 48 of the 2012 WSOP could focus solely on the 720 players returning to the tables of the Main Event for the 4th day of action. With the money bubble just ...
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July 15 2012
Thursday saw the second edition of the popular MicroMillions kick off at PokerStars. No fewer than 6 events saw action on the first day of the Series and a massive 172,000 players registered for a shot at the prize-pools on ...
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July 14 2012
As the 2012 WSOP is slowly but surely nearing its final stretch, the high stakes online poker action should gather some momentum at least in theory. Well that theory didn’t seem to be working in this instance. Last week, the ...
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July 14 2012
Day 47 of the 2012 WSOP marked the first time that all the Main Event survivors were able to play under the same roof in the same tournament basically. By the end of the day – which consisted of five 2-...
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July 13 2012
Las Vegas’ live gambling revenues have been in a freefall for a while and as data regarding the newest results emerged, it became clear that the downturn was far from slowing down. What is also clear is that revenues off the ...
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July 13 2012
Day 46 of the 2012 WSOP saw the World Series of Poker National Championship play down to a winner. The Main Event rolled on as well with its third Day 2 flight.
8 players returned to the tables of the World ...
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July 13 2012
Phil Ivey and his now ex-wife Luciaetta divorced relatively quietly in 2009, but the case soon boomed into quite a no-holds-barred battle over money, at one point threatening to completely derail the focus of the man many have ...
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July 12 2012
Due to the fact that they have more or less promptly repaid their US customers in the wake of the Black Friday indictments and that they haven’t really been involved in any kind of legal scandals since, people tend to forget ...
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July 12 2012
The 45th day of the 2012 WSOP unfolded on Tuesday, with 2,004 players returning to the Main Event tables for Day 2A and Day 2B. The players were the survivors of the first two day 1 flights and they did ...
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July 11 2012
The 2012 WSOP has thus far broken several records, and apparently it was meant for the last day 1 flight of the Main Event to break yet another one. The 3,418 players who showed up for the event, created the largest ...
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July 10 2012
The latest news about Full Tilt Poker CEO Raymond Bitar comes courtesy of Forbes: Bitar’s attorneys have apparently struck a deal with the prosecutors and he is going to be released in order to return to his home in Glendora, California. ...
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July 10 2012
The 2012 WSOP may have broken several records, and attendance – despite the positively abysmal poker economy – has thus far been much better than expected. Unfortunately, another record shall fall shortly, and this one won’t have a positive twist to ...
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July 10 2012
Day 43 of the 2012 WSOP saw the second Day 1 flight of the $10k Main Event kick off. The number of registrants far surpassed that of day 1A: a total of 2,144 ...
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July 09 2012
Day 42 of the 2012 WSOP carried special significance: the Main Event kicked off. For Nick Schulman, the significance of the day was an entirely different one though: he managed to take down his second WSOP bracelet, by winning the $10k ...
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July 09 2012
Day 41 of the 2012 WSOP was a really busy one: two players picked up their WSOP jewelry and two other events managed to play down to their respective final tables. The 5th event of the day played down to its ...
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July 08 2012
Ilari Sahamies can’t keep away from the online poker tables. Regardless of whether there’s a WSOP going on or not, Sahamies is grinding away, and there are others like him too. Rui Cao was in action together with the Finn ...
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July 08 2012
On Day 40 of the 2012 WSOP, the pace of the action slowed down a little bit as only 4 events played out instead of the usual 5-6. Two events were scheduled to play down to their respective winners, ...
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July 06 2012
Sam Trickett may not have won the Big One for One Drop but he came pretty close, and when we’re talking about an event of the Big One’s caliber, coming close means a $10 million+ reward. Shortly after it became official ...
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July 06 2012
Day 39 of the 2012 WSOP awarded two bracelets and saw plenty of action in various other events. The first bracelet of the day went to the winner of event #54, the $1k NL Holdem one. Two players returned to ...
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July 05 2012
Day 38 of the 2012 WSOP was a memorable one indeed, for one simple reason: it was the day that shattered all records regarding the size of a single prize ever awarded by any sports event anywhere on earth. Antonio ...
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July 05 2012
Antonio Esfandiari wrote poker history on Tuesday: the $18 million he picked up for winning the Big One for One Drop qualified as not only the biggest single prize awarded by a poker tournament ever, it also became the biggest single ...
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July 05 2012
Day 37 of the 2012 WSOP was a stingy one bracelets-wise. While there wasn’t any jewelry handed out, there was plenty of action nonetheless. Event #53, the $1.5k NL Holdem one, saw its field play right down to the ...
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July 03 2012
Various online poker interests have long been jostling for a spot on the Nevada online poker map once licensing and regulation is finalized and the system actually starts up. Towards that end, various partnerships have been set up, between local brick ...
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July 03 2012
Raymond Bitar, the man behind Full Tilt Poker, the CEO who has been indicted on Black Friday together with 10 other people, has apparently given himself up to US authorities on Monday. He was reportedly arrested at JFK soon after he ...
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July 03 2012
Day 36 of the 2012 WSOP was a truly historic one for several reasons. First of all, Vanessa Selbst made poker history by winning her second bracelet in the $2.5k 10-Game Mix 6-Handed event. The interesting thing about ...
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July 02 2012
Phil Hellmuth really wanted to play in the Big One for One Drop, after all, he who considers himself the best poker player of all time can’t possibly put up with not playing in the greatest poker tournament ...
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July 02 2012
Day 35 of the 2012 WSOP saw five events roll on. Four of these were regular WSOP events while the fifth was a super satellite for the Big One for One Drop. The interesting thing about Day 35 was that ...
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July 02 2012
The Big One for one Drop is a record setting poker tournament: never before in the history of the game did 40+ players cough up $1 million in buy-ins to play down to a winner and never before have some ...
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July 01 2012
Day 34 of the 2012 WSOP saw only 4 events roll on, and a single bracelet awarded: the one who picked it up was the winner of event #49, Greg Hobson. Event #49, the $1.5k Ante only NL Holdem one, ...
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July 01 2012
For Michael Mizrachi, winning the prestigious $50k Poker Players Championship is apparently turning into routine. After all, he is the only player who has thus far managed to win the poker tournament twice. He has also found a ...
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July 01 2012
The WSOP and various other summer-related activities kept most of the high-profile online poker regulars away from the virtual green felt over the last couple of weeks. Ilari Sahamies and Rui Cao could no longer stay away though. ...
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