December 31 2013
2013 has definitely been the year of the high-stakes German player. Indeed, players from Germany have dominated some of the biggest live poker tournaments through the year, and members of what grew to be dubbed as “Team ...
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December 31 2013
With the state-by–state legalization and regulation of online poker effectively taking over the nation (despite the efforts of those bent on pushing through a Federal bill in this respect), more and more states are considering joining the slowly but surely ...
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December 31 2013
In New Jersey, online gamblers and poker players have been busy opening accounts at the various operators since the start of legal online gambling/poker in the state, and apparently, the trend is not about to slow down. More and more accounts ...
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December 31 2013
A few days ago a story broke about a Las Vegas taxi driver named Gerardo Gamboa, who woke up with a brown paper bag in the back seat of his car, containing $300k. The Filipino driver, who said his dignity was ...
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December 30 2013
After a brief stroll on the dark side, it is now time to get back into the light, continuing our countdown of the best poker moments of 2013.
Phil Ivey taking down his 9th WSOP gold was definitely one of the ...
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December 30 2013
Having covered some of the more positive poker moments of the year, it is now time to return to the dark side and re-live some of the less auspicious events of the year, which either underwhelmed, frustrated or flat-out ...
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December 30 2013
The biggest question on the minds of poker players from the US, who had funds stuck at Full Tilt Poker following the Black Friday indictments of April 2011, was: when am I going to see my money returned? Although it has ...
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December 29 2013
In the third and last part of our “Champions in a pickle” segment, we take a look at Jamie Gold and Joe Cada, both of whom landed in legal trouble in 2013.
Like Jerry Yang – whose woes we’ve discussed in ...
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December 29 2013
This part of our 2013 retrospective may as well bear the sub-title “more champs in the pickle” as it’s the second part of a mini-series in which we take a look back at some of the former WSOP ...
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December 29 2013
2013 as a whole hasn’t been too kind to some of the high-profile poker professionals, and among them, former WSOP Main Event Champions took up a special place. Despite his great WSOP-C run, Greg Raymer, the former Read More
December 29 2013
Like every year, the online poker industry has been through lots of ups and downs through 2013. There were cringe-worthy moments bordering on the embarrassing, there were moments of elation, and moments of frustration as well. One of the ...
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December 28 2013
The end of the year is the perfect time to announce one’s plans for the New Year, and that apparently includes the organizers of the world’s top live poker tours. Indeed, it was only a few days ago that PokerStars announced ...
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December 28 2013
Las Vegas is widely known as Sin City, but that designation may have to be changed – at least as far as the city’s taxi drivers are concerned – after a Christmas story worthy of a movie or a short novel.
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December 27 2013
The PokerStars-sponsored UKIPT (UK and Ireland Poker Tour) may not be the biggest live poker series out there, but it is extremely attractive for the rank-and-file players, because it features low buy-ins, pro-rich starting ...
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December 27 2013
We continue our countdown of the best poker/online poker moments of 2013 with the WSOP-C. Indeed, the World Series of Poker Circuit has come a long way in its last two seasons, and it is now looking better than ...
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December 26 2013
Having taken a look at some of the most cringe-worthy and embarrassingly negative poker and online poker moments of 2013, the time has finally come to shift the focus of our retrospective towards the more positive realm of big ...
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December 26 2013
Taking a look at some of the low-points of the year the poker/online poker industry has put behind it isn’t a particularly pleasant or positive experience, but the exercise will put the positives into an entirely new perspective, so here ...
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December 24 2013
Time to bring a little more negativity to the table in the second part of our 2013 poker retrospective, going over the most cringe-worthy moments of the year first, but looking ahead to some of the good stuff in later ...
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December 24 2013
With the end of the year fast approaching, the time for retrospectives is once again upon us. In this first part of what we’re looking to make into a comprehensive and all-encompassing 2013 poker retrospective series, we take a look ...
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December 24 2013
Having recently celebrated his 40th birthday, former PartyPoker in-house pro, Tony G, gave himself quite a birthday present: he launched TonyBet, the first real money open-face Chinese poker site. Always the entrepreneur, Tony G saw a ...
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December 23 2013
Some poker players are known to be hopeless gamblers too, in the sense that there isn’t anything they wouldn’t wager massive amounts of money on. The other day, Phil Ivey – who is known to be one of these ultimate gamblers ...
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December 23 2013
The WPT’ Prague Main Event has finally played down to a winner on Saturday. The player who walked away with the title and the $283.8k top prize was Julian Thomas, who bested start of the day chip leader Vasili Firsau heads-...
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December 22 2013
The 4th day of the WPT’s bwin-sponsored Prague Main Event saw 21 players return to the tables, looking to play down to the official final table. That objective was indeed reached, and at the end of the ...
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December 21 2013
According to a site specialized in online poker traffic-tracking, 888poker has overtaken Full Tilt Poker as the second largest online poker operation in existence. Full Tilt Poker’s traffic woes were obviously a part of the equation as ...
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December 21 2013
Following some bumpy 2013 spots, high stakes online poker pro “samrostan” gained wings over the last few weeks: for the second time in a row, he finished as the biggest winner of the week, having amassed some $912.1k in profits this ...
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December 21 2013
Atlantic City’s Atlantic Club Casino Hotel has officially filed for bankruptcy. The establishment, best known as the operation PokerStars were first interested in when planning their – now tabled – return to the US market via New Jersey, will be chopped ...
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December 20 2013
They say it’s never too early to start preparing for something as big as the World Series of Poker and this year, those who want to spend their hot summer days at the poker tables battling it out for gold ...
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December 20 2013
On Wednesday, the European Poker Tour’s Season 10 Prague Main Event finally wrapped up, and the one who walked away with the title and the record-setting top ...
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December 20 2013
The final day of the EPT Prague’s €10k High Roller saw 10 players return to the tables. The goal was obviously to play down to a winner, and it was handily achieved, within less than 6 levels of ...
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December 19 2013
With the Holidays upon us, all the major online poker rooms have broken out their fancy promotions, spreading Christmas cheer and handing out extra value to their players by the handful. Every year, around Christmas there’s quite a bit of competition ...
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December 18 2013
The second day of the EPT Prague’s Season 10 €10k High Roller saw 84 players return to the tables. Unlike the Main Event, which made incredible progress on ...
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December 18 2013
The 5th day of the EPT’s Prague Main Event saw 22 players return to the action, looking to make the final table. Day 5 turned out to be an extremely short affair, because it took the field only ...
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December 18 2013
Contrary to what the headlines and the general public perception of the industry dictates, the bread and butter of every online poker operation resides in the recreational, smaller-to-medium stakes players, who have to show up in large numbers in ...
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December 17 2013
It hasn’t been a secret for anyone that once online poker’s Wunderkind, Tom Dwan has been having various problems lately. We cannot say if these problems were of a financial nature, but that too may have been a factor, given how ...
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December 17 2013
With the Main Event of the 2013 EPT Prague in full swing, the €10k High Roller drew a little bit of attention away from its tables as it ...
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December 17 2013
61 players returned to the green felt at the beginning of the 4th day of the EPT’s Season 10 Prague Main Event. The initial goal of the day ...
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December 16 2013
This past online poker weekend was yet again a busy one, despite the fact that the guarantees in the weekend majors were much smaller than during the previous weekend. PokerStars’ Sunday Million for instance, only offered a $1 million guarantee ...
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December 16 2013
The third day of the EPT’s Prague Main Event saw 189 players return to the tables, looking to make the money. That objective was indeed reached during the ...
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December 16 2013
On Saturday, the remaining players reconvened for the start of the second day of the EPT’s Season 10 Prague Main Event. Only 9 players chose to take advantage ...
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December 14 2013
The first day 1 flight of the EPT’s Prague Main Event saw the capacity of the Hilton Prague’s Congress Hall put to a serious test. If the 389 Day 1 participants made the organizers jump through a few hoops, the 609-...
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December 14 2013
Although the online action slowed down a bit over the last few days on account of the EPT’s Prague Stop, there was still enough money going around to make a few players really big winners. Niklas Heinecker has definitely dominated the ...
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December 14 2013
Only about a day after New Jersey’s Department of Gaming Enforcement announced that the review of PokerStars’ license application would be delayed at least 2 years, another announcement was made, this time in regards to the other operator looking to begin ...
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December 14 2013
Even as the EPT’s Season 10 Prague Main Event got going, the Eureka Poker Tour’s top tournament came to an end, having played down to a winner. That winner was Dmitry Holdeev of Germany, who bested Canada’s Ami ...
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December 14 2013
The first Day 1 flight of the EPT’s Prague Main Event went into the books on Thursday. The first day of the long-anticipated Main Event saw 389 players belly up to the tables. A total of 8 ...
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December 13 2013
The EPT Prague’s Charity Challenge was the scene of tennis pro and PokerStars representative Rafael Nadal’s live poker tournament debut, and what a debut it was: Nadal ended up with the win, having disposed of opponents like soccer ...
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December 13 2013
The final day of the WPT’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic saw 6 players return to the tables. Every one of these players was guaranteed a 6-figure payout, and given that they were all notables and skilled pros, ...
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December 13 2013
PokerStars’ attempts to return to the US market via New Jersey have thus far been fraught with disaster every step of the way. A day ago however, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement finally put the last nail into the ...
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December 13 2013
With all the limelight focused on the WPT’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event, it was easy to miss the $100k High Roller, which saw a starting field of only 22 players belly up to its tables. On ...
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December 11 2013
The objective for the 5th day of the WPT’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic was a clear one: to play down to the 6-handed final table. When the dust settled at the end of the day, that was ...
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December 11 2013
A while ago, casino gambling tycoon Sheldon Adelson announced a crusade against online gaming, saying that he would spare no resources rustling up lobbyists and making a solid case against internet poker and gambling, which – in his opinion – ...
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December 11 2013
A while ago, Titan Poker had announced that they were set to leave the Canadian market, further restricting the markets in which the iPoker site would operate. In an interesting turn on Tuesday though, it was announced that the above said ...
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December 10 2013
The 4th day of the WPT’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamonds World Poker Classic saw the field play down to the final 21, successfully leaving the money-bubble behind. Set for 45th place, the bubble was indeed the highlight and the main ...
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December 10 2013
One of PokerStars’ biggest ever Sunday Millions is in the books, together with a bunch of other Sunday majors, which together created a massive online tournament frenzy this past weekend. With so much action going down, some of the pros ...
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December 10 2013
Ever since online poker/gambling has been legalized and launched in New Jersey and Delaware, there has been a lot of fretting about whether or not the industry would prove viable over the long-run and about whether or not it would ...
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December 10 2013
Dutch poker pro Rens Feenstra’s year may not have started off in a particularly promising manner, but over the last few weeks, he has definitely turned things around and it is now certain he will finish it off with some massive ...
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December 10 2013
The third day of the WPT’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic saw 5 more levels of action go into the books. At the end of it all, Don Nguyen was the one who rose to the top of the ...
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December 08 2013
As part of PokerStars’ $27 million December Festival – about which we ran a piece a while ago – this Sunday, the flagship guarantee of the site, the Sunday Million will feature quite a bit of added juice. In fact, the ...
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December 08 2013
Saturday saw 5 more levels of the WPT’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic go into the books. Jeff Madsen was one of the players who started the second day of the poker tournament with a large ...
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December 08 2013
The 2013 edition of the WPT’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic kicked off on Friday, with a star-laden starting field of 322 players bellying up to the tables. The player who finished the day with the largest stack ...
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December 07 2013
Over the last couple of weeks, the online poker action raged on without respite, featuring some of the usual protagonists, in their usual roles. Germany’s Niklas Heinecker has been on a serious roll lately. He had amassed several million dollars ...
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December 07 2013
Although Caesars Entertainment was one of the companies that gained early access to the freshly legalized and regulated New Jersey online gambling market, through its land-based operations Caesars Atlantic City, Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City, Bally’s Atlantic City and the Showboat ...
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December 07 2013
The WPT’s Montreal Main event is in the books and the player who walked out the door of the Playground Poker Club with the title was Derrick Rosenbarger, who ended up $500.8k richer. Rosenbarger isn’t exactly new to the game, but ...
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December 06 2013
It appears that not a single day goes by these weeks without some piece of good news dropping in regards to the player numbers the Garden City’s freshly legalized and regulated online poker and online gambling industry produces. A couple ...
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December 05 2013
The second day of the WPT’s PartyPoker-sponsored Main Event saw 59 players belly up to the tables, the survivors of an initial starting field of 862. A total of four levels of action went into the day, ...
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December 05 2013
On Tuesday, it became clear that the newest poker room to leave the Microgaming (MPN) poker network would be Unibet Poker. Officials of the operation announced that they may begin pursuing their own proprietary platform as early as next month. The ...
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December 04 2013
Optimal Payments Plc, the company behind Neteller, exited the US market in 2007, in the wake of the 2006 UIGEA, joining a drove of online poker and gambling sites, which included PartyPoker. Perhaps it doesn’t come as a ...
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December 04 2013
The second day of the WPT’s Montreal Main Event sponsored by PartyPoker, saw 357 players return to its tables, the survivors of three day 1 flights and an initial starting field of 862. Given that the money-bubble ...
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December 04 2013
Online gambling and online poker have officially been launched in the Garden State a little more than a week ago, and that was about as much as it took New Jersey to cut to the head of the pack, drawing twice ...
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December 03 2013
PokerStars’ Double Vision Sunday – an extremely popular weekend majors-related promotion, which runs two Sunday Millions and two Sunday Warm-Ups instead of one of each – returned to the biggest online poker room this Sunday, to the delight of ...
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December 03 2013
There is no doubt about it now: 2013 has definitely been Philipp Gruissem’s year as far as live (and online) tournament action is concerned. Thus far, Gruissem has amassed winnings totaling $4.6 million, the 4th biggest haul of the year, only ...
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December 02 2013
The third day of PartyPoker’s WPT Montreal Main Event saw 339 players belly up to the tables. With the last of the buy-ins in the middle, the bottom line was finally drawn on the poker tournament: a ...
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December 02 2013
Poker pro Eric Reily wasn’t the definition of a headliner. Sure, he has been a profitable player, but he’s never really quit his job to play full time, and his career earnings – while impressive – are nowhere near the top ...
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December 01 2013
With the EPT’s 10th season slowly but surely unfolding before our eyes, tour officials have decided to move the Sanremo stop of the Series a few days back, thus adding a tweak to the schedule they doubtlessly found important for one ...
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December 01 2013
Thursday was the final day of the Borgata Fall Poker Open’s $1Million Guaranteed Championship Event, which managed to play down to a winner after three days of intense green felt battles. The player who walked away with the top prize was ...
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December 01 2013
Bad Beat Jackpots do not hit often, especially at the live poker tables where there are far fewer hands played per hour than in online poker. The rules associated with these jackpots are usually so demanding that it takes an ...
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