October 31 2013
The WPT’s 2013 Grand Prix de Paris has finally wrapped up, after 5 grueling days of poker, and the player who picked up the prize and the massive trophy was Mohsin Charania. The well-known poker pro may have started the ...
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October 30 2013
Germans have been dominating the live tournament high roller scene this year, and Philipp Gruissem’s recent win in the WPT’s £100k Alpha8 London only came to confirm that trend. The scene of the action was the Palm Beach on Mayfair, and ...
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October 30 2013
On Tuesday, the 4th day of the WPT’s Grand Prix de Paris went into the books. 24 players showed up at the beginning of the day to play down to the final table, which is exactly what they did. Start of ...
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October 29 2013
Neteller and the company behind it, Optimal Payments Plc, have been among the top online gambling and online poker payment solutions providers for around two decades now. With that in mind, it doesn’t really come as a surprise that Optimal Payments ...
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October 29 2013
The first day 1 flight of the APPT’s Asia Championship of Poker Main Event kicked off on Monday. The HK$100k buy-in (which is around $12k) was a pretty restrictive one, which meant that only 93 players bellied up to the ...
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October 29 2013
Weekends are always busy at the virtual green felts, and this past weekend was by no means an exception. Indeed, there was a lot of action to go around, as all the majors at the biggest online poker rooms (and by ...
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October 28 2013
There was a lot of high profile live poker tournament action taking place on Sunday but the WPT’s Grand Prix de Paris stood out nonetheless, putting its second day of action into the books. Day 3 made the numbers game behind ...
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October 28 2013
After the Warm-up event of the Asia Championship of Poker, a second one went into the books on Sunday: the HK$8k Ladies Asia Championship, which saw Jay Tan of Hong Kong walk away with the title and the HK$65.2k prize.
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October 28 2013
Macau, one of the hotspots of the global live poker world is on fire again this week, hosting the PokerStars-sponsored Asia Pacific Poker Tour. The Series is an intricate affair indeed, as it includes ACOP (Asia Championship of ...
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October 27 2013
The Aviation Club de France saw 92 players cough up the €7.5k buy-in and belly up to the tables on the second day of the WPT’s Main Event. A total of 5 levels of action went into the day, at ...
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October 27 2013
Poker players are apparently quite adept at getting themselves involved in all sorts of illegal money-making scams. Following in Masa Kagawa’s footsteps, Australian poker pro Billy Jordanou is now in hot legal waters, involved in an alleged Ponzi scheme and ...
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October 26 2013
The final day of the 2013 WSOP Europe’s Main Event saw 6 players return to the action, looking to play down to a winner. When it was all said and done, the one sitting with all the chips in play ...
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October 26 2013
Doug Polk and Ben Sulsky have been involved in a $100k Challenge bout tailored after the infamous durrrr Challenge. The two players kicked off their heads-up competition not long ago, and as Polk jumped out to a massive lead, people ...
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October 26 2013
To say that Viktor Blom, Full Tilt Poker’s Swedish professional, kicked off 2013 on the right foot would probably be an understatement. He earned more in January alone than most online poker players do throughout their entire ...
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October 26 2013
To say that PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu has had a great 2013 WSOP-E run at this point would probably be a massive understatement. Having clinched the 2013 WSOP Player of the Year title upon making the final table of ...
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October 25 2013
It’s official: PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu is the WSOP’s 2013 Player of the Year. Apparently, making the final table of the WSOPE’s €25.6k High Roller gave him enough points to finally secure the honors. He later went on to ...
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October 24 2013
If there’s a poker player out there keen on taking on a challenge to test his green felt skills, poker pro Daniel Cates has to be it. Cates has been cruising for a bruising for years at the high stakes cash ...
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October 24 2013
The 6-handed final table of the WSOP Europe’s 2013 edition has been set on Wednesday, and the player going into the final stretch of the poker tournament with the largest stack and thus the best odds ...
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October 24 2013
The Caribbean has always been a popular destination for poker, especially in the winter, when – for many poker players from the Northern Hemisphere – it represents an opportunity to put in a nice, warm tropical vacation away from the cold ...
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October 23 2013
Full Tilt Poker pro Viktor Blom has never been one to shy away from an online poker challenge. He has apparently had enough of taking on players of his caliber at Full Tilt Poker though, and he’s ...
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October 23 2013
The 3rd day of the 2013 WSOPE’s Main Event saw the field play down to the final 24. The player whose elimination in 25th place signaled the end of the day was none other than PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu. ...
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October 23 2013
Bloomberg Television’s “Poker Night on Wall Street”, a poker show hosted by Trish Regan, featuring some of the biggest Wall Street tycoons tangling at the green felt, can only be good for the game. After all, it gives it another jolt ...
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October 22 2013
The second day of the WSOP-E’s Main Event was an action-packed one, which claimed the tournament life of many a “name” player and at the end of which 69 players remained standing. The one who finished the day ...
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October 22 2013
PokerStars’ Carnival of Tournaments celebrations wrapped up with a bang on Saturday, when the special 800 millionth tournament played down to its winner. The milestone event featured a $100 buy-in and it offered a $1 million guarantee. The turn-out ...
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October 22 2013
The bustle and the back and forth surrounding the 2013 Poker Hall of Fame inductions kicked off in September. 34 people voted on who should be inducted this time around, among them the living Hall of Fame members and a special ...
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October 21 2013
Scotty Nguyen has been kept out of the poker Hall of Fame for a while now and to many people – especially to those who know the guy better – that has been an absurd situation.
One of the players who ...
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October 21 2013
French player Ludovic Lacay may have been edged out by Noah Schwartz of the US on Saturday in one of the preliminary 2013 WSOP-E events, but on Sunday, he went right back to work, on Day 1B of the ...
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October 21 2013
Despite the paltry traffic numbers posted by the site in its first few weeks of existence, the backing behind WSOP.com is strong, and the operation forges ahead taking on various challenges which are part of the daily norm for well-established, ...
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October 20 2013
Event #6 of the 2013 WSOPE, the €3,250 Mixed Max PLO one, played down to its winner on Saturday. The one who walked away with the top prize and the gold bracelet in the end was PokerStars pro Noah ...
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October 20 2013
Friday may have been a good day for millions of people world-over, but it’s safe to say that few had it as good as Roger Hairabedian, the winner of event #5 of the World Series of Poker Europe. First ...
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October 20 2013
The list of the biggest online poker winners of the year has suffered a little bit of a shakeup and it has lost a bit of its legitimacy last week, for reasons obviously well above and beyond the control of the ...
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October 20 2013
High stakes live tournament poker fans will probably be glad to learn that the $1 million Big One for One Drop, the largest ever poker tournament on the face of the planet, which first made waves at the 2012 WSOP, but ...
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October 18 2013
On Thursday, Phil Hellmuth, the Poker Brat, wrote poker history again, by logging his 100th cash finish in a WSOP bracelet event. The deed was done at the 2013 WSOP-E, in event #5, the €2.2k NL Holdem ...
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October 18 2013
Following in the Borgata’s footsteps, several other Atlantic City-based live gambling operators have picked up Internet Gambling Permits from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement the other day. The newly licensed operators are the Golden Nugget, the Trump Taj ...
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October 18 2013
The 7th day of the 2013 WSOP-E was bustling with action. No fewer than 4 events rolled on, and two of them ended up playing down to their respective winners. One of them was event #3, which saw only two ...
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October 16 2013
The 5th day of the World Series of Poker Europe saw event #2 of the 2013 Series play down to a winner, as Event #3 played down to its final 16. Event #4, the €1,650 PLO one, kicked off.
Event #2, ...
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October 16 2013
The world’s largest online poker site, PokerStars has seen its first attempt to return to the US market via Atlantic City nipped in the bud as it became obvious that there were plenty of interests in the Garden City vehemently opposed ...
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October 15 2013
The 4th day of the World Series of Poker Europe had two events see action: Event #2, which rolled into its second day and Event #3, the €5.3k Mixed Max NL Holdem one, which kicked off.
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October 14 2013
Day 2 of the World Series of Poker Europe was the day when all the high profile players attending the Series decided to make their presence felt. We are specifically talking about the Poker Brat, Phil Hellmuth, and Phil Ivey, who ...
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October 14 2013
The third day of the World Series of Poker Europe, currently taking place in France, saw the second day 1 flight of the €1.1k NL Holdem Re-entry event go into the books. The player who finished Day ...
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October 13 2013
The first event of the 2013 WSOP Europe is in the books, and its winner is Jackie Glazier. Glazier started the final day of the Ladies Event (the first ever in the history of the WSOP-E) with the largest stack ...
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October 13 2013
The EPT’s London stop created quite a few champions over the last week, none of them more celebrated and better rewarded though than Robin Ylitalo, the winner of ...
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October 13 2013
Saturday was a busy day for the live poker world: the EPT’s London stop yielded no fewer than two winners and the WSOP-E saw its first winner walk away with a title as well. The first of the Read More
October 12 2013
On Friday, the 2013 edition of the World Series of Poker Europe got going with the €1.1k Ladies Event, which is the first one ever in the history of the Series. Given the fact that the event does indeed offer a ...
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October 12 2013
The 5th day of the EPT’s London Main Event saw the field play down to the final table. 16 players returned to the tables at the beginning of ...
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October 12 2013
There’s been so much bustle on the live poker circuit lately, with the EPT London winding down and the WSOP Europe just getting fired up, that one ...
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October 11 2013
The first day of the £10,300 High Roller of the EPT’s Season 10 London stop was a major success registrations-wise: 148 players coughed up the buy-in and bellied up to the tables of the Grand Connaught ...
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October 11 2013
The GPI (Global Poker Index)’s Player of the Year rankings saw no changes within the top 10. Ole Schemion hung on to the lead, with 892.4 points. Paul Volpe is still second, followed by PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu in 3rd. The ...
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October 11 2013
The objective for the 4th day of the EPT’s London Main Event was to play down to the final 16, and that objective has indeed been handily accomplished within just four levels of action. The player who finished the day with ...
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October 11 2013
The EPT’s season 10 London stop crowned another winner the other day, when Martin Jacobson of Sweden took down the top prize of the £2k NL Holdem side-event. This way, Jacobson joined the illustrious club Read More
October 10 2013
The third day of the EPT’s London Main Event saw 106 players return to the tables, looking to play down past the money bubble before anything else. Set ...
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October 10 2013
The first internet gambling permit to be issued by the State of New Jersey under the umbrella of the new local online poker and gambling laws has been awarded on October 9, 2013, a date which will go down in ...
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October 10 2013
PartyPoker’s Premier League VII will definitely not be short on “name” competitors come November 20, not that it was ever at risk of being forsaken by the top pros. The latest high profile competitor to add her name to the lineup ...
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October 09 2013
The second day of the EPT’s London Main Event made the numbers-game behind the poker tournament clear: a total of 604 players registered and bought in, creating ...
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October 09 2013
German players have been dominating high profile live events lately, and the PPC Aruba World Championship’s $2.5k Main Event only came to confirm that apparent trend. Having waded through a large starting field and a tough final table in the end, ...
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October 09 2013
Having the sort of player liquidity that it has, PokerStars - the largest online poker operator in the world – cuts through the various billionth and trillionth hands dealt and tournaments hosted milestones like a hot knife through ...
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October 08 2013
The first day 1 flight of the EPT’s London Main Event saw a predictably shabby starting field of 209 players belly up to the tables, but – again, quite predictably – Day 1B more than made up for ...
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October 08 2013
The second day of the PPC Aruba World Championship Main Event saw the final table set in rather dramatic fashion: RJ Sullivan was the one who basically set the final table by bouncing Arun C. Arun had the chips in the ...
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October 08 2013
The WCOOP may have generated plenty of action and buzz, but with it finally out of the way, PokerStars were able to revert to their regular weekend schedule which meant that the Sunday Million was back on. Having been ...
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October 08 2013
Sunday was definitely a busy day for poker in London. The EPT got going and in fact its first official event, the £50k Super High Roller, went into the books as Germany’s Martin Finger picked up the title. ...
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October 07 2013
German players have been dominating the high stakes tournaments online as well as at the live poker tables lately. The £50k Super High Roller of the EPT’s London Stop wrapped up a day ago, featuring an all-German ...
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October 07 2013
This season, the Main Event of the EPT’s London stop was moved to a new venue to accommodate more participants, and indeed, the first day 1 flight of ...
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October 07 2013
The third day of the EPT’s London £50k Super High Roller turned out to be the last of it too: the field played down to a winner and that winner was start of the day chip leader Martin ...
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October 07 2013
The £50k Super High Roller of the EPT’s Season 10 London stop saw its second day of action go into the books on Saturday. At the beginning of the first day, 38 players had bellied up to the ...
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October 05 2013
The cause of legal and regulated online gambling and poker has found a staunch albeit oft-over-enthusiastic and optimistic supporter in New Jersey State Sen. Raymond Lesniak. Indeed, over the course of the legal war fought for the right of ...
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October 05 2013
For a few weeks, the high stakes cash game action at Full Tilt Poker (and even at PokerStars) was soaring high. The biggest winners/losers posted close to million dollar swings, and Full Tilt’s Viktor Blom was ...
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October 05 2013
On Friday, the London stop of the EPT 10, the second one of the current season, kicked off with the first day of the £50k Super High Roller. Needless to say, the prestige of the event as well ...
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October 04 2013
The 5th day of the Full Tilt Poker Montreal Main Event was dedicated in its entirety to the 9-handed final table. Despite the fact that some dug-in trench warfare – which would’ve been entirely plausible ...
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October 04 2013
To many, it may seem surprising how much importance some of the poker pros give to global rankings, but they do indeed. Rankings like the GPI (Global Poker Index) also add a layer of legitimacy to the game, so they’re absolutely ...
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October 04 2013
Phil Laak has probably never seen a televised poker table he didn’t like. In fact, he has probably never seen anything involving television cameras he did not want to be a part of. That may explain his eagerness to cough up ...
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October 03 2013
The 4th day of Full Tilt Poker’s Montreal Main Event saw 25 players return to action with the goal of playing down to the final table. A total of 6 levels went into the day, before the ...
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October 03 2013
WSOP.com has been launched about 2 weeks ago as only the second fully regulated and legally operating real money online poker site in Nevada. A lot of things can be said about the operation, which functions under the WSOP ...
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October 03 2013
Yes indeed, it looks like following a hiatus of nearly three years, the none-too-reputable online poker challenge is back on track. It was indeed three years ago that the two pros kicked off their durrrr challenge II, and ...
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October 02 2013
84 players returned to the tables on the 3rd day of the Full Tilt Poker Montreal Main Event and after another full day of action, only 25 remained standing. The organizers had planned to have the field ...
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October 02 2013
On Tuesday, the WCOOP’s massive Main Event – which had kicked off on Sunday – finally played down to a winner. After a 3-way deal at the top of the pops, the top prize of $1.49 million went to Germany’s ...
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October 02 2013
The Horseshoe Cincinnati played host to the main event of the WSOP-C’s third 2013 stop. The $1,675 tournament drew a starting field of 740 players to the tables, and it took three days for that field to play down ...
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October 01 2013
The second day of Full Tilt Poker’s Montreal Main Event saw the field play down to fewer than 100 players. Jeremie Trepanier was the one who finished with the largest stack: he had 1.78 million chips bagged, largely due to a ...
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October 01 2013
This Sunday saw massive crowds log into their PokerStars accounts to play in one of the richest and most notorious online poker events of the year: the Main Event of the World Championship of Online Poker. The $5.2k ...
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