January 31 2013
68 players returned to the tables of the 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event on the third day of action. Among them were heavy hitters like Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey, two players who had actually shared a table for a while ...
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January 31 2013
Like the other high-profile Full Tilt Poker executives, Chris Ferguson has been working on ironing out a settlement with the US DoJ, but unlike some of his fellow perpetrators, he is yet to achieve anything concrete in this sense. His ...
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January 31 2013
The second day of the 2013 Aussie Millions’ Main Event saw 312 players belly up to the tables. When the action was called, 68 of them were left standing, with James Obst leading the way into Day 3. Obst managed to ...
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January 30 2013
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has until Feb 4 to sign the online poker/gambling bill delivered by the State legislature onto his table into law. The Governor will go down one of three possible paths: he can sign the bill ...
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January 30 2013
The horrific nightclub fire incident which killed more than 230 people in Brazil has made headlines world-over and its horrors continue to amplify as more and more details are uncovered. The tragedy has apparently touched the poker world too, as ...
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January 30 2013
The third Day 1 flight of the Aussie Millions Main Event drew the largest field of participants – as expected. The first day 1 flight’s yield was 157 players, to which the second day added 196. Day 1C saw 269 players ...
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January 29 2013
The second day 1 flight of the Aussie Millions Main Event saw 196 players belly up to the tables. Frank Rusnak was the player who clinched the chip lead on Day 1B, having accumulated 165.1k chips. When the action was called, ...
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January 29 2013
The issue of online poker seems to be an especially interesting one for the states these days. With New Jersey just a gubernatorial signature away from legalizing the activity (although that may yet prove to be way too far indeed) and ...
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January 29 2013
This weekend was a special one for online poker tournament players because in addition to the regular Sunday majors, there were quite a few other possibilities to do battle for massive prizes. In light of that fact, it ...
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January 28 2013
Things weren’t looking particularly bright for Andrew Robl a couple of days ago: he had just become the week’s biggest online poker cash game loser, and he got bounced from the Aussie Millions’ $100k Challenge relatively early. He then made ...
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January 28 2013
Tennis star Rafael Nadal was hired by PokerStars in a blockbuster move a few months ago, a move that ended up generating quite a bit of publicity from the get go. PokerStars have long had a history of hiring sports ...
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January 28 2013
The first day 1 flight of the 2013 Aussie Millions’ Main Event saw 157 players belly up to the tables. At the end of a productive and action-filled day, only 70 of these players were left standing, with Brian Payne ...
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January 27 2013
The 2013 edition of the Aussie Millions’ $100k Challenge drew a starting field of 22 players, equaling last year’s event in this respect. The field combined buy-ins to generate a prize-pool of AUD$1.9 million. Needless to say, the attendees ...
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January 27 2013
After Scott Seiver defeated Daniel Cates, Mike Matusow did away with John Hennigan, Joe Serock got rid of Brian Hastings and Phil Hellmuth bested Eugene Katchalov, an extremely intriguing final 4 developed, pitting two major representatives of the old poker school ...
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January 27 2013
Scheduled to last 3 days, the NBC’s National Heads-up Poker Championship has made quite a bit of progress during its first couple of days. After the first day of action, half the starting field was gone. After the second day, ...
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January 26 2013
To the delight of the poker world, the NBC’s National heads-up Poker Championship kicked off on Thursday, featuring 64 specially invited players. The competitors who were paired up against one another in 32 round one heads-up bouts, each ...
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January 26 2013
So far this year, the online poker cash game action has hit a note which harkens back to the glory days of the game: during the past couple of weeks, Viktor Blom and Phil Galfond have ridden some pretty extreme ...
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January 26 2013
New Jersey’s legislative machine has churned out a second online poker/gambling bill a few weeks ago, which we have covered thoroughly on the pages of this site. Sen. Raymond Lesniak’s newest legal initiative has since been resting on Gov. Chris ...
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January 25 2013
As the poker world is busy focusing on all sorts of online capers and various live events taking place on the northern hemisphere, Down Under, the Aussie Millions roar on, handing out titles, rings and massive prizes left and right.
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January 25 2013
Although we’re not usually fond of various systems ranking players according to who knows what kind of factors, we have to admit that we got caught up in the end of the year rush at the top of the GPI’s list. ...
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January 24 2013
PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu has announced through a tweet that he wouldn’t take part in the NBC’s National Heads-up Poker Championship. He also specified that he loved and respected the event though, thus clearing any potential suspicion that the ...
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January 24 2013
The WSOP-C’s Choctaw Main Event played down to a winner the other day. Jeff Fielder was the one who managed to finish the final day of the poker tournament with all the chips in play piled ...
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January 24 2013
PokerStars’ TCOOP rolled on during the weekend and no fewer than 15 events (of the scheduled 50) played down to their respective winners. Given that it’s the Turbo Championship of Online Poker we’re talking about, the action was indeed ...
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January 22 2013
The online poker weekend was an eventful one yet again. No fewer than 9 players picked up 6-figure prizes in the various weekend majors at PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. The biggest winner of the weekend was yet ...
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January 22 2013
The Aussie Millions’ opening event was the AU$1.1k NL Holdem tournament which featured a structure that allowed re-buys, so the eventual number of buy-ins reached the impressive 1,338 mark. There were only 708 actual players though, ...
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January 22 2013
The second day of the third largest WSOP-C event ever, the Series’ Choctaw Durant Main Event, saw 163 players return to the tables. Day 2 marked the first time that all those with still a chance for winning the ...
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January 21 2013
About a week ago we featured a piece about Roberto Romanello and his invention: the Multi Prize-Pool poker tournament, which was going to be put to the test shortly. Well, the first ever MPP event is in ...
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January 21 2013
The WSOP-C’s Choctaw Main Event saw 574 players belly up to the tables on its second day 1 flight, bringing the overall number of participants to 1,140, which means the event turned out the be the third largest one ...
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January 21 2013
The 2013 PCA may have stolen all the live tournament lime-light for the first month of the year, and with the Aussie Millions hot on its ...
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January 19 2013
With the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship drawing near, the list of 64 poker pros who will take part in the prestigious event has been set. Obviously, the organizers will never be able to satisfy all those who would want ...
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January 19 2013
For a good few years now, New Jersey lawmakers have been ringing the alarm bell regarding the way neighboring states were poaching clients from Atlantic City casinos. The numbers have finally come in and they indeed prove the above said officials, ...
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January 19 2013
High stakes cash game players have been filing back to Full Tilt Poker for a few months now. Thus far however, one notable absence was that of Patrik Antonius, who used to be in the middle of the nosebleed stakes commotion ...
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January 18 2013
The 2013 edition of the Aussie Millions got going the other day, with the first event drawing crowds to Melbourne’s Crown Casino. There will be a total of 26 events, the first one of which – the one already underway – ...
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January 18 2013
A few days ago news broke that the company behind PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker operator, Rational Group, was getting more and more serious about acquiring the Atlantic Club Casino, a brick and mortar gambling operator, which could give ...
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January 18 2013
With all the attention of the poker press and poker world focused on the PCA Main Event and its various high-rollers, a lot of interesting action, taking place in some of the side events, was simply overlooked. One of the ...
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January 17 2013
Every red-blooded online poker player has forever dreamt about playing in a prestigious poker series like the World Series of Poker. Well apparently to millions of players worldwide that the dream will come true this summer, when Microsoft's ...
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January 17 2013
About a month ago, the poker community latched onto rumors regarding PokerStars’ potential purchase of an Atlantic City brick-and-mortar gambling establishment. The news was considered significant indeed, in light of the fact that such a purchase could ...
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January 17 2013
Those who want to face The Grinder at the live tables no longer have to cough up tens of thousands of dollars in travel expenses and poker tournament buy-ins. Michael Mizrachi – known in poker circles as ...
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January 17 2013
The World Series of Poker will apparently head to Melbourne Australia for the first time in its history, looking to kick-start the first ever World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific series.
The WSOP has made its schedule public the ...
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January 15 2013
The home stretch of the 2013 PCA’s $25k High Roller was quite an interesting rundown to a winner. PokerStars pro Vanessa Selbst emerged with the title, ...
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January 15 2013
About a week ago, we featured a piece about Viktor Blom’s sick $4 million run at Full Tilt Poker’s tables, quite possibly one of the most impressive such performances in a long time. To put things into perspective, we should note ...
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January 15 2013
The second day of the 2013 PCA’s $25k High Roller was an extremely productive one: 79 players showed up at the tables in the beginning of the ...
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January 15 2013
Despite the ongoing PCA, many “name” competitors found the time and energy to take part in the Sunday Majors over the past weekend. Some of them are ...
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January 14 2013
The Main Event of the PCA's 2013 edition is finally in the books, and the winner is Dimitar Danchev of Bulgaria, who defeated American poker player Joel ...
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January 14 2013
A few short years ago, poker professional Erick Lindgren was one of the best-known and most successful players on the live circuit. After online poker's Black Friday however, it quickly became obvious that Lindgren had a bunch of serious problems, ...
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January 14 2013
The first day of the PCA’s $25,000 high roller saw 198 players belly up to the tables. The initial turnout was truly impressive indeed and it may yet get higher given the fact that registration is open until the beginning of ...
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January 14 2013
Twenty one players returned to the tables of the PCA’s Main Event on Day 5 of the poker tournament, with one goal in mind: ...
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January 12 2013
56 players returned to the tables of the PCA’s 2013 Main Event on day 4 of the poker tournament, looking to play down as close to the final table as possible. Indeed, after about 6 hours of green ...
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January 12 2013
Whatever Phil Ivey’s plans are with his IveyPoker.com, they must be big plans, because the number of poker pros hired to represent the brand is slowly but surely nearing those of well-established online poker sites. The operation hasn’t even ...
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January 12 2013
The International Stadiums Poker Tour has gone through quite a few changes in 2012, even though the event has never really left the plane of theory yet. Its format was molded and shaped to the point that some of the experts ...
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January 11 2013
Patrick Kelly was the player who rose to the top on Day 3 of the PCA’s Main Event. Kelly got kind of lucky in two major hands, ...
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January 11 2013
A reality TV show about singles and marriage…check. An eligible bachelor with piles of money in the bank? Check. An outgoing personality which is practically always begging for attention and prime-time? Check . It would appear that PokerStars pro Daniel ...
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January 10 2013
The second day of action saw the field come together under the same roof for the first time in the $10k Main Event of the 2013 PCA. ...
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January 10 2013
Full Tilt Poker’s relatively new in-house pro, Viktor Blom, has raised quite a few eyebrows the other week, when he simply didn’t show up to defend his 2012 Read More
January 10 2013
The GPI Player of the Year race has stolen quite a few headlines last year, and we’re relieved to say it’s finally over. Dan Smith is the man. Having just edged out Marvin Rettenmaier over the home stretch, he has been ...
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January 09 2013
The second (and last) day 1 flight of the 2013 PCA made up for the relatively shallow player-pool of Day 1A. A massive 649 player starting ...
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January 09 2013
On Monday, the first major online poker industry announcement of 2013 came from Betfair. According to the said announcement, Betfair will leave the Ongame Poker network and move to iPoker in a two-step process, which will see the site ...
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January 09 2013
On January 6, Full Tilt Poker’s MiniFTOPS XXI kicked off. Players were obviously starved for action, because they flooded Full Tilt Poker’s online tables, putting the $300k guarantee of the first MiniFTOPS XXI event to shame. A total of 23,739 players ...
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January 09 2013
With all the attention focused on high-profile events like the $100k Super High Roller and the $10k Main Event, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that the 2013 PCA is in fact a 10-day poker festival, hosting ...
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January 08 2013
The first event of the 2013 PCA, the $100k Super High Roller, is in the books and its winner is Scott Seiver, who defeated start of the day chip leader David Sands heads-up.
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January 08 2013
While the $100k Super High Roller stole most of the lime-light at the start of the PCA’s 2013 edition, the Main Event got rolling quietly in the background too, its first day 1 flight seeing a starting field of 320 ...
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January 08 2013
Of the 47 initial registrants, 37 players returned to the tables of the PCA’s $100k Super High Roller on the second day of action. The goal was nothing less than to play down to the 8-handed final table, and indeed, ...
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January 07 2013
The 2013 PCA, the opener of the poker season, has kicked off the other day with its $100k Super High Roller. The event drew a record number ...
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January 07 2013
For those who may not have heard of Alex Wice yet: he’s one of the most radical online poker grinders at PokerStars, who measures volume and thus success not by the thousands of hands logged, but rather by the Supernova ...
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January 07 2013
With the old year behind us, the time is right to look back and evaluate, while making resolutions and plans for the upcoming year. No one is more vocal about his/her resolutions and plans than PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu, who ...
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January 06 2013
Roberto Romanello may mostly be known for his EPT exploits, but the poker pro is much more than a simple player: he’s apparently a true innovator. The game of poker has largely been the same from its beginnings. ...
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January 06 2013
The PCA’s 2013 edition kicks off today and crème of the poker world is already on Paradise Island. The 10-day poker festival is expected to beat all attendance records. The events to keep an eye on are the obvious ...
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January 06 2013
It’s no secret to anyone versed in the ways of the poker and online poker world that Gus Hansen hasn’t really ever done well online. The Great Dane’s high variance style no longer seems to cut it at the virtual ...
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January 04 2013
2012 is in the bag and don’t worry: we’re done recapping the best and the worst moments of the old year. It is now time to look into the future, and even though predicting is nowhere near as accurate as hindsight, ...
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January 04 2013
The biggest online poker winner of the year race was not a boring affair, although in the end it did turn out to be extremely one-sided indeed. Ben Sulsky had the lead in the race for several months as ...
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January 03 2013
With 2012 safely behind us and tucked away, it is now time to take a look at the upcoming year, the first major event of which – the Read More
January 03 2013
Some online poker players spent most of 2011 and 2012 worrying about their poker bankrolls locked up at Full Tilt Poker, the company the fraudulent ways of which were uncovered through the Black Friday indictments by the DoJ’s Southern District ...
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January 03 2013
Without a doubt, one of the biggest disappointments and thus lowest points of 2012 was the Epic Poker League’s failure to make good on its promise and actually have its $1 million guaranteed freeroll, and that is just at first glance. ...
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January 02 2013
2011 has definitely been a break-out year for Phil Hellmuth, the WSOP bracelet record holder who had for years seen dropping profit numbers and a less and less prominent poker profile, getting to the stage of being labeled a ...
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January 01 2013
While most people were busy with their New Year’s Eve preparations, true poker fanatics were busy hacking away at each others’ virtual stacks at PokerStars’ tournament tables. The weekend yielded no fewer than four 6-figure winners as ...
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