August 31 2012
Josh Hale was the chip leader coming into the final day of the WPT’s Legends of Poker Main Event, by a pretty large margin too, so he was obviously the mathematical favorite for the title. That didn’t mean though that he ...
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August 31 2012
UK pro Sam Trickett has made quite a few headlines recently. First, he announced that he has signed with the ISPT, and that he would be the official representative of the brand in the UK, for the upcoming May 31 Wembley ...
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August 31 2012
High rollers have grown extremely popular lately, as more and more well-bankrolled pros realize the potential in these generously prize-pooled events. Those savvy enough can take down the equivalent of a big WSOP side event win by besting only ...
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August 31 2012
While it’s the GPI’s Player of the Year list that we pay most attention to (since that’s where most of the climbing and dropping happens), in order to gain a more or less accurate idea about whom the hottest player currently ...
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August 31 2012
About a week ago, Federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein has delivered a historic ruling in the case of the United States vs Lawrence DiCristina, the essence of which was basically that poker couldn’t be considered a game of chance and it ...
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August 31 2012
Those who have had enough of Tony G’s antics can now exact some sweet revenge by robbing the guy’s house at Party Poker. OK, it’s not an actual robbery we’re talking about, but rather a promotion which gives away ...
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August 30 2012
The first day 1 flight of the APPT’s Melbourne Main Event saw 98 players belly up to its tables. The first event of the APPT’s 6th season had thus got off to a great start. 7 levels of dog-eat-dog ...
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August 30 2012
Sitting at the top of the GPI Player of the Year Ranking is no small accomplishment and even those who manage to reach first place have a truly tough time hanging on to the top spot. Dan Smith, the current leader, ...
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August 30 2012
This weekend, PokerStars’ WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) will return to action and in honor of the series, building its previous success, PokerStars will re-launch the WCOOP Radio. The radio will offer a live coverage of the Series ...
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August 30 2012
Although some Republicans had here and there crossed party lines and expressed their support for legal online poker in the past, the RNC (Republican National Convention) currently taking place in Tampa, Florida, has made the overall position of the GOP ...
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August 29 2012
The objectives for the surviving 18 players for Day 4 of the WPT’s Legends of Poker Main Event were pretty clear: to play down to the official, televised, 6-handed final table. Given that the field only had to lose 12 ...
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August 29 2012
As individual states continue to at least attempt to expand gambling within their jurisdictions in the US, some pretty clear lines regarding where gambling and poker can possibly expect to gain some ground are drawn up. Illinois for instance is not ...
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August 29 2012
The International Stadiums Poker Tour (henceforth referred to as ISPT) has been quietly gathering momentum under the radar for a while now. Even though some poker tournament experts have expressed skepticism regarding the feasibility of a project as large as ...
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August 29 2012
Day 3 of the WPT’s Legends of Poker Main Event carried special significance: the money bubble was scheduled to burst on Day 3. Needless to say, all 84 players who bellied up to the tables at the beginning of the day ...
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August 28 2012
Most online poker pros are true fanatics, like Viktor Blom and Ilari Sahamies, who love the game so much they find it extremely difficult to get away from it even for short spans of time. Such players usually re-invest all ...
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August 28 2012
Various high and low buy-in weekend guarantees have yet again made quite a few people significantly richer over the weekend. PokerStars’ Sunday Million was obviously the one awarding the highest prizes yet again. No fewer than 3 players walked ...
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August 27 2012
3 full days of action went into the EPT Barcelona’s €10k High Roller, but at the end of it all, a winner did emerge. Laurent Pulito of France survived a starting field of 111 players to strike a 2-way deal ...
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August 27 2012
On Sunday, 8 players returned to the tables of the EPT’s Barcelona Main Event to battle down to a winner. The stakes were indeed high, since the eventual winner would take down a prize of more than €1 million. Ilari Sahamies, ...
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August 27 2012
24 players returned to the tables of the EPT’s Barcelona Main Event on Friday, with one goal in mind: to play down to the final table of the poker tournament. Indeed, after about 6 levels of play, the ...
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August 25 2012
This week, the EPT’s first season 9 stop, the Barcelona one, was set to keep some of the high stakes regulars away from the online poker tables. Indeed, a few of these guys did show up in the EPT events ...
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August 24 2012
The objective for Day 4 of the EPT’s Barcelona Main Event was pretty clear: the 61 returning players wouldn’t call it the day until they played down to the final 24. It took them a little over three levels to get ...
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August 24 2012
Thus far we have only focused on the €50k Super High Roller and the Main Event of the EPT’s Barcelona stop, but there were plenty of other events which played down to winners and awarded sizable prizes. It is now time ...
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August 23 2012
The success of Full Tilt Poker’s Rush Poker has been undeniable ever since it first hit the market. Even PokerStars, Full Tilt’s arch-rival was caught off-guard by the move. Of course, since then, PokerStars have debuted their own brand ...
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August 23 2012
The iPoker network has always been one focused on performance and whenever needed, drastic, often painful changes were made at the top to keep things competitive. Owned by Playtech, the iPoker network is preparing to implement another set of sweeping changes ...
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August 23 2012
The third day of the EPT’s Barcelona Main Event saw 207 players return to the tables of the Casino Barcelona to play down as close to the title as possible. The money bubble was set to burst on Day 3 so ...
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August 22 2012
The dispute whether poker is a game of skill or luck has been raging since 2006 when the UIGEA rolled a massive hurdle into the path of legal online poker in the US. Over the years, there were several court ...
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August 22 2012
The EPT’s Barcelona Main Event broke all records this year, drawing a starting field of 1,082 players and becoming the biggest EPT event ever held in Spain. Through two day 1 flights the field had played down to 600 players who ...
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August 21 2012
As the organizers had expected, the second Day 1 flight of the EPT’s Barcelona Main Event yielded a starting field of more than 600 players. To be precise, 670 players bellied up to the tables of the event, taking the poker ...
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August 21 2012
Most of Full Tilt Poker’s in-house pros and elite online poker players have kept mum on the whole issue of locked player funds through the months since Black Friday. The reason why most of these people had nothing to say ...
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August 21 2012
The first day 1 flight of the first EPT Main Event of season 9 kicked off with 403 players bellying up to the tables. More players are obviously expected to join the fray on Day 1B, which means that organizers are ...
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August 20 2012
The first EPT title of the 9th season has found an owner on Sunday, when Dan Smith parlayed his massive final table chip lead into victory in the €50k Super High Roller Event in Barcelona. Smith’s victory netted him a €962,925 ...
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August 20 2012
Not many may know about this, but back in 2009, PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu embarked on a rather peculiar challenge, apparently inspired by Chris Ferguson’s $0 to $10k Challenge which the Full Tilt pro had apparently successfully completed. Negreanu, who ...
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August 19 2012
The second day of the 2012 EPT Barcelona Super High Roller had quite a lofty objective: playing down to the final table. At the end of eight levels of action, that objective was indeed achieved at the end of the day. ...
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August 19 2012
The 9th season of the EPT got quite a start the other day: the green felt hostilities kicked into high gear with the €50k Super High Roller event at the EPT’s Barcelona stop. 54 players showed up for the event, coughing ...
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August 19 2012
Ever since the waves caused by the 2012 WSOP settled, the high stakes cash game action at PokerStars flared up in a rather impressive manner. High 6-figure profits and losses are logged every week and there’s always a standout ...
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August 17 2012
PokerStars haven’t really grieved much following the loss of Viktor Blom’s endorsement. Life moves on and the online poker room has already set its sights on a different kind of representation. Word has gotten out that PokerStars have secured the ...
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August 17 2012
Anthony Gregg has been the stepson of high profile live poker tournaments for quite a while now, in the sense that while he was always right there at the top, he never really managed to win one, until ...
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August 16 2012
Tuesday night, the issue of legal poker earned another jolt from Maryland lawmakers, who passed a measure that will allow real money poker and various table games in casinos across the state. The bill made it through the House of Delegates ...
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August 14 2012
It is now official: one of the most hyped online poker players, Viktor Blom, also known by the online moniker ‘Isildur1’ is no longer a member of Team PokerStars Pro. Back in 2011, when he became a member of the PokerStars ...
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August 13 2012
The online poker action saw no slowing down since the end of the WSOP gave it a truly massive jolt. Last week, most of the regulars were in action yet again and the sums that changed hands weren’t small at ...
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August 12 2012
PartyPoker’s own Marvin Rettenmaier has a definite knack for taking down WPT titles. The German won the WPT World Championship at the Bellagio in May and now he followed that up with a victory in the WPT’s Merit Cyprus ...
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August 10 2012
After months of rumors, good intentions and failed plans, the Full Tilt Poker ordeal is finally officially over. PokerStars have just confirmed that the $731 million deal with the US DoJ has been closed and that the Full Tilt Poker brand ...
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August 09 2012
Games like PokerStars’ Zoom Poker and the now defunct Rush Poker from Full Tilt created something of a small-scale revolution in online poker. These fast folding games are some grinders’ wet dreams, while others just enjoy them for the ...
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August 09 2012
Day 4 of the WPT’s Merit Cyprus Classic saw the final table reached. Only 18 players returned to action at the beginning of the day, so the organizers reasonably expected the field to play right down to the final table. While ...
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August 09 2012
The Kahnawake Gaming Commission was the licensing entity unlucky enough to find itself neck deep in trouble when evidence regarding blatant insider cheating at Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet surfaced. The KGC tried to save face back then through a string ...
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August 09 2012
53 players returned to the tables on the 3rd day of the WPT’s Merit Cyprus Classic. A total of four levels of action went into the day, each of them 90 minutes long. At the end of it all, 18 players ...
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August 07 2012
The move that the gambling community has long anticipated has finally happened today: by launching a real money online bingo application, Facebook has effectively gone into real money gambling in the UK.
The bingo app is called Bingo Friendzy and it ...
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August 07 2012
The second day of the WPT’s Merit Cyprus Classic saw 131 players return to the tables. David ‘Chino’ Rheem had the largest stack at the beginning of the hostilities and he was seated right next to some of the other large ...
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August 07 2012
With the weekend behind us yet again, it’s time to take a look back at some of the winners of the Sunday majors. Again, the ‘name’ crowd was out in large numbers, looking to grab some of that sweet guaranteed money ...
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August 07 2012
The second day 1 flight of the WPT’s Merit Cyprus Classic wrapped up after 10 massive 1-hour levels. 164 players coughed up the $4.4k buy-in on Day 1B, and by the end of the day, only 65 were still ...
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August 06 2012
The first event of the WPT’s 11th season kicked off with a Day 1A flight consisting of 163 players. The Merit Cyprus Classic – which is what we’re talking about – is currently underway in Kyrenia, Cyprus. Around half the players ...
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August 05 2012
The takeover of Full Tilt Poker by former rival PokerStars, which earned the blessings of the US DoJ, was definitely a big deal. The news soon spilled over the confines of the niche media, right into mainstream as scores of ...
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August 04 2012
During the Groupe Bernard Tapie – Full Tilt Poker – DoJ negotiations, it has become clear that in addition to all the other problems plaguing the operation, Full Tilt had some monies lent to some of its pros, among them Barry ...
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August 04 2012
This week, the high stakes online cash game action was kicked into high gear as there were no major live tournaments running anywhere. There were quite a handful of big winners, the biggest one of them all Joeri Van Der ...
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August 04 2012
There’s no secret about the fact that most of the ‘name’ pros who take part in the various WSOP events, do so not drawn by the prize-pool but by much more generous potential winnings off side-bets they have ...
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August 03 2012
The poker community was shocked to learn about the passing of Ryan Young, a 28 year old poker professional from Torrance, CA on Monday. While information on exactly how Young died remains scarce, it appears that he had had a car ...
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August 02 2012
Things have really sped up in the Full Tilt Poker/ PokerStars/ DoJ case in the last couple of days. First, the announcement was made that PokerStars have reached a settlement with the DoJ and that Full Tilt’s players would finally ...
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August 01 2012
Players received the news of PokerStars’ settlement with the DoJ with joy yesterday, as it became clear for the first time in the last 15 months that they would actually get to cash out the monies they had stuck at Full ...
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