November 30 2013
While poker players are all quite aware of the EPT Prague’s approach, few of them are aware that this year, the EPT’s Czech stop will be but a small part of a massive series of mind sports and poker tournaments, called ...
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November 30 2013
Week after week, it seems like it’s been years now that we’ve been reporting about the large sums of money Gus Hansen drops at the nosebleed stakes online poker tables at Full Tilt Poker. Indeed, even as you’re reading this, the ...
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November 30 2013
Having prepared their return to the US for years, PartyPoker have made it clear that they weren’t about to lollygag waiting for their New Jersey player base to build up the economical and old-fashioned way. A couple of days ago, ...
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November 30 2013
Some of the high-profile poker celebrities have had good years and some have had bad runs in 2013, because wherever there are winners, there have to be losers as well and although the actual end of the year is still ...
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November 30 2013
Season 8 of the European Poker Tour was one where German domination became evident. Up until the Prague stop of the tour, two Germans had finished with wins in two of the Main Events of the season, and in Prague, a ...
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November 30 2013
In our last piece, we took a look at the EPT Prague’s Season 4 and Season 5 champions, Arnaud Mattern of France and Salvatore Bonavena of Italy, both of whom went on to register prolific careers in poker after their Read More
November 29 2013
The EPT’s Prague stop has been one of the most popular of the Series’ for quite a few years now. Having reached its 10th season, the European Poker Tour is about to return to Central Europe, to the ...
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November 28 2013
On Monday, legal and real money online poker and gambling have officially been launched in the Garden State, making it the first US jurisdiction with a major live gambling establishment to legalize and regulate both online poker and online casino ...
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November 28 2013
The GPI’s Player of the Year and Top 300 Rankings saw a few minor tweaks this week again, although PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu has successfully retained his top spot on both of those lists and it now appears increasingly ...
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November 28 2013
On November 26, PokerStars announced its December Festival, a series of promotions which add an extra value of $27 million for those playing at the site during the promotional period. Indeed, despite the massive promotions it usually runs and despite the ...
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November 27 2013
The Playground Poker Club in Montreal, as of late one of the hottest destinations for live poker high-rollers, saw the 7th edition of the PartyPoker-sponsored Premier League wrap up the other day, with the victory of ...
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November 27 2013
On Sunday, the tournament action was much hotter than usually at PokerStars, thanks to the $22 Main Event of the MicroMillions 6. With it, the 6th edition of the popular tournament series came to an end. Scheduled as the ...
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November 27 2013
This December will apparently be an extremely busy month for high stakes live poker players world-over. The WPT for instance has never ventured into Korea, but that is about to change soon, as the island of Jeju is set to ...
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November 26 2013
PartyPoker have been vying to return to the US online poker market ever since they agreed to withdraw following the 2006 UIGEA, and one of their founders settled with the DoJ, forfeiting large sums of money to the US government. Back ...
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November 26 2013
The first ever edition of the WSOP-APAC was a major success, despite the cries of detractors that it would do nothing but further dilute the value of the gold bracelet, and WSOP are obviously looking to build on that success. ...
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November 26 2013
Monday was a day that may well end up going down in the history of online gambling and online poker as the first day of the return of the games to the US market. On Monday, New Jersey Division of ...
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November 26 2013
The final day of the GUKPT’s Grand Final saw 13 players belly up to the tables looking to play down to a winner. The interesting thing was that Kevin Allen, the player who would walk away with the title in the ...
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November 25 2013
The marketing team over at PokerStars never sleeps and given their probable budget, there are few things they cook up that aren’t put into practice. On Monday, PokerStars announced their Shark Cage promotion, a TV show which will offer nameless players ...
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November 25 2013
The WPT’s Caribbean Main Event wrapped up on Sunday on St Maarten, having played down to its winner. The player who walked away with the top prize of $145k was Tony Dust, one of the notables who had made their way ...
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November 25 2013
The SKYCITY Auckland Casino played host to the first stop of the PokerStars-sponsored ANZPT’s 6th season and the first Main Event is already in the books. The first winner of Season 6 is thus David Lim, who took ...
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November 25 2013
The poker and the online poker world is a highly competitive one perpetually set to break new ground. Indeed, it looks like everyone with a bankroll out there is out to set a record of some sort these days and the ...
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November 24 2013
The objective for the 4th day of the WPT’s $3.2k Main Event was a simple one: the remaining 11 players had to play down to the 6-handed final table, and that’s exactly what they did, in just two levels. Only ...
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November 24 2013
The third day of the WPT’s $3.2k Caribbean Main Event saw 32 players return to the tables on the beautiful Caribbean island of St Maarten, with the goal of playing down to the final table. 5 more levels of play went ...
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November 24 2013
Re-entry tournaments – seemingly more and more popular with organizers each passing day – have long been the targets of critique in regards to the ill effect that they exert on the poker tournament industry, and ultimately, on the entire ...
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November 24 2013
The last couple of months have been truly favorable for German poker professionals, and Niklas Heinecker has been a top exponent of this trend: the German managed to finish with the biggest profit of the week yet again, for the third ...
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November 23 2013
The second day of the WPT’s $3.2k Caribbean Main Event on St Maarten kicked off with 107 players returning to the tables. During Day 1, the field had played down from 191 to 107, and Day 2 saw that field thin ...
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November 23 2013
New Jersey’s iGaming launch test-phase began on November 21, at 6 PM. The moment which may yet turn out to be one to remember in the history of online poker/gambling, came and went without causing too many ripples, although ...
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November 22 2013
New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak, the main promoter of the currently rolled-out online poker/gambling regulations, never rests when it comes to fulfilling his dream and goal of turning the Garden State into a global online gaming hotspot: he has ...
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November 22 2013
The flamboyant owner of Bodog was blacklisted by US authorities years ago, yet for a while there he continued to defy everyone, offering real money online poker to Americans as well as to other people from world over. All that came ...
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November 21 2013
While the last time we took a look at the GPI’s Player of the year and Top 300 rankings, there were very few movers and shakers, this time around, there’s been quite a bit more bustle at the top of both ...
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November 21 2013
As the date of the official full launch of real money online gambling and poker draws near in New Jersey, the last of the licenses are handed out and the last touches are added by those already licensed.
The final round ...
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November 21 2013
According to Newton’s third law, in the world of physics, every action force elicits an equal-size reaction force in the opposite direction, and since the real world is governed by the laws of physics, it doesn’t really come as a ...
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November 20 2013
The WPT’s Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble is finally in the books and its winner is Jared Jaffee, the pro who started the final table with the largest stack. Although he’d already had two WPT final table presences under his belt before ...
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November 20 2013
PokerStars have not been granted a temporary waiver to start offering online poker in New Jersey yet, and by the looks of things, they may in fact end up being shut out of the New Jersey market for good.
According to ...
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November 20 2013
Technology buffs will tell you that no complex online system has even been rolled out without glitches, and it now looks like New Jersey’s recently legalized online gaming will fit that trend spot-on. New Jersey lawmakers in general and the ...
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November 20 2013
PartyPoker’s invitation-only Premier League is indeed one of the highest profile live poker events of the year, at least from a television-perspective. With all the big names hacking away at each-others’ stacks, the event is indeed a highly ...
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November 20 2013
The third day of the WPT’s Jacksonville Main Event saw 26 players return to the action, each and every one of them guaranteed an $8.36k share of the prize-pool. The main objective of the day was the reaching of the ...
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November 19 2013
For a true poker fan, there are few things more enjoyable than finding out a few hard-to-come-by and doubtlessly hilarious details on some of their favorite green felt heroes. This is why AMA (Ask Me Anything) sessions involving ...
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November 19 2013
This weekend was dominated by PokerStars’ MicroMillions 6 tournament-wise. The micro buy-in series saw massive starting fields belly up to the virtual tables of each and every one of its events, and after about 20 MicroMillions tournaments, top prizes ...
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November 19 2013
Indeed, if there were one only person out there fit to parade around as an anti-online gaming crusader, it would have to be billionaire and casino mogul Sheldon Adelson: he has live casino interests to protect, he is anchored in ...
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November 18 2013
The second day of the WPT’s Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble saw 123 players return to the tables with the immediate goal of playing past the money bubble and down as close to the final table as possible.
The one who finished ...
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November 18 2013
Winning a WPT Alpha 8 title is no small feat, even for some of the best professionals out there. Winning two such titles in a row borders on physical impossibility, but that’s exactly what Philipp Gruissem managed to accomplish the other ...
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November 18 2013
The first event of the 2013 edition of the Borgata Fall Poker Open was a truly massive affair: featuring a $560 buy-in, the poker tournament had 4 Day 1 flights, unfolding over a rather unusual structure: everyone ...
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November 17 2013
On April 15, 2011, the US DoJ descended upon the online poker operators illegally peddling their offers in the US. As a result of that legal move, thousands of US-based players had their monies locked up at one of the ...
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November 17 2013
The Master Classics of Poker – a stop on the live tournament circuit many may not have heard about – has been one of the Netherlands’ top tournament destinations for high buy-in tournament players since 1993. The scene of the ...
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November 17 2013
The winning of the WSOP’s Main Event comes with responsibilities for certain types of players, while for others it’s nothing more than a winning lottery ticket. Indeed, some players seem to take it to heart to become ambassadors of the game, ...
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November 17 2013
Even as state-by-state regulation is slowly but surely becoming reality for online poker, some of the advocates of federally legalized online poker and gambling are still pushing their envelope. The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative has revealed the ...
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November 16 2013
Niklas Heinecker of Germany has stolen quite a few headlines through his poker playing career, but over the last couple of weeks, he made the news on account of the sensational run he managed to put together at the high stakes ...
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November 16 2013
Although New Jersey was hardly mentioned during the recent talks between the Governors of Nevada and Delaware regarding the setting up of an inter-state compact, the Garden City doesn’t plan to rely solely on its own flimsy online poker/gambling ...
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November 15 2013
The GPI’s Player of the Year race took a bit of a not-too-surprising turn a while ago, when, following a string of truly impressive performances among which the addition of another WSOP bracelet to his trophy-case took center ...
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November 15 2013
Indeed, the need to shake up the heads-up cash game scene has been quite acute for a while now, and PokerStars’ players had apparently pleaded for the introduction of heads-up Zoom poker cash game tables, to weed out fish-...
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November 15 2013
New Jersey is getting serious about ironing out all the final details before the official launch of their full online gambling and online poker, and apparently the various regulations regarding the bonuses and promotions the online operators can offer, fall ...
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November 14 2013
That didn’t take long…analysts have long said that state-by-state legalization of online gambling and poker would inevitably be followed with the setting up of multi-state compacts in order to expand the players-base, and today it did indeed ...
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November 13 2013
One has got to give it to Full Tilt Poker’s Professionals: when it comes to pushing the site’s interests by taking part in various promotions, they sure are busy. Barely has Viktor Blom wrapped up a challenge involving the members of ...
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November 13 2013
Viktor Blom is without a doubt one of the best online and live poker players out there these days, and for a second there – back when the Blom 100 challenge was announced at Full Tilt Poker ...
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November 12 2013
After 4 days of green felt action, the WPT’s Emperors Palace Poker Classic played down to its winner, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The winner was not the start of the day chip leader - Eugen du Plessis - neither ...
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November 12 2013
He may not have been the biggest tournament winner of the weekend, but Poorya Nazari of Canada, who doesn’t even consider himself a full-time poker pro, hogged all the online poker limelight over the weekend by winning his second ...
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November 12 2013
The WPT’s Emperors Palace Poker Classic played down to its final table on its 3rd day. Six players remained standing at the end of the Day 3 hostilities, among them reigning champion Dominik Nitsche from Germany, who took home $206.1k after ...
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November 11 2013
PokerStars’ MicroMillions, the online poker series aimed at low bankroll, everyday players, has reached its 6th edition. Set to kick off on November 14, the MicroMillions have been giving small-timers a shot at big time online poker glory for ...
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November 11 2013
PartyPoker have always been known for their cutting edge promotions, but this time around they may have truly set a new record in this respect. Their November PS4 promotion is actually peddling a device which hasn’t even been launched yet. Regardless ...
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November 11 2013
The second day of the WPT’s Emperors Palace Poker Classic was the scene of some pretty interesting developments: as the field played down to the final 27, Germany’s Dominik Nitsche emerged with the chip lead. The interesting thing about Nitsche is ...
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November 10 2013
PokerStars haven’t made a secret about their intention to re-join the US market as the first opportunity arises, and indeed, they have already attempted to establish a foothold by acquiring a brick and mortar Atlantic City-based gambling operation. Those ...
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November 10 2013
The second day 1 flight of the WPT’s Emperor Poker Classic, currently underway in Johannesburg, South Africa, saw a total of 91 buy-ins go into the prize-pool, in the wake of Day 1A’s 85-entry yield. The numbers are ...
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November 10 2013
A lot happened last week at the nosebleed stakes online poker tables even though the action itself wasn’t anywhere near the flow it’d spoiled us with through weeks past. The biggest winner of the week took home “only” $411.7k – ...
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November 09 2013
It is official: New Jersey has missed the opportunity to become the first US state to offer full-scale real money online gambling and poker. That title went to Delaware the other day when the state has officially launched real money ...
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November 09 2013
Having paid out their US players in the wake of the Black Friday indictments, PokerStars have made it clear that they had every intention to return to the US market sometime. Before they could begin offering full real-money ...
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November 08 2013
Playing at PokerStars always makes sense for a savvy poker player and the action is never boring, but the world’s largest site will never rest on its laurels, in its ongoing quest to offer the best possible experience to its players. ...
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November 07 2013
Hindsight is always 20/20, they say, but everyone who kept an eye on the November Niners before the final table showdown could tell you that Ryan Riess, the eventual winner, had indeed been the odd one out. Unlike most of the ...
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November 07 2013
It was predictable, and now it has happened indeed: WSOP.com is officially the most popular real money online poker site in the US, its traffic numbers having soared past those of its sole Nevada-based competitor, Ultimate Poker. Earlier this week, ...
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November 06 2013
At only 23, Ryan Riess is the newest WSOP Main Event bracelet owner. He defeated Jay Farber heads-up on Tuesday, to grab the title and the $8.36 million top prize. Riess was a bit like a loveable and skilled underdog ...
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November 06 2013
Multi tabling has been the rage in the online poker industry for quite a few years now. Enterprising minds never cease to explore the various depths and heights to which the concept can be taken though, and on Sunday, Scott Clements ...
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November 06 2013
On Tuesday, the historic 45th edition of the World Series of Poker Main Event has finally been etched into the poker history books. The one who secured poker immortality, together with the top prize of $8.36 million and the champion’s ...
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November 05 2013
On Monday, the final table of the 2013 WSOP Main Event, known as the November Nine, finally reconvened with one immediate objective in mind: to play down to the heads-up stage. The two players who emerged with their tournament ...
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November 04 2013
The APPT’s ACOP HK$250k High Roller wrapped up on Sunday, together with the ACOP Main Event which lasted a day longer than initially planned. The second winner to emerge in a day at the PokerStars LIVE at the City of Dreams ...
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November 04 2013
The APPT’s Macau ACOP Main Event may have lasted longer than the organizers had anticipated, but in the end a winner did emerge – after nearly a week of action. That winner was Korea’s Sunny Jung, who bested Hong Kong’s Devan ...
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November 03 2013
The 5th day of the APPT’s Macau ACOP Main Event was supposed to be its last, but the organizers had to review their plans and re-schedule things after the field failed to play down to a winner.
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November 03 2013
Viktor Blom’s 2013 online poker ride hasn’t been one for the faint of heart. He started out on the right foot, stitching together a few massive winnings streaks, but he then got hit by variance and at one point he found ...
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November 01 2013
The state of Delaware has long emerged as a serious competitor for New Jersey’s Atlantic City and Delaware lawmakers have never made a secret of the fact that they were looking to turn their jurisdiction into a top online gambling/poker destination ...
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