February 28 2013
The lineup of PartyPoker’s Premier League VI has been shaping up nicely over the last few weeks and now two new big names have just joined the roster: Marvin Rettenmaier and Dan Shak. None of these two players need ...
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February 28 2013
Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars used to do battle for the hearts and minds of online poker players everywhere back in the days. Under the same management now, the rivalry seems to have carried over nonetheless only ...
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February 28 2013
The 4th day of the WPT’s LA Poker Classic saw 63 players return to the green felt in order to play down as close to the final table as possible. A total of 4 levels of action went into the day, ...
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February 27 2013
Baseball player Alex Rodriguez is known as quite a poker buff, and he has been involved in several poker related charity events over the years. In 2006, he hosted a charity poker tournament which drew quite an illustrious ...
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February 27 2013
The New Jersey State Legislature and Governor Chris Christie both promised they would move fast on the online poker bill Garden State lawmakers have been mulling for quite a few years now, and they did indeed deliver. On Tuesday, a ...
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February 27 2013
The third day of the WPT’s LA Poker Classic carried special significance: it was the day the money bubble would be reached and the winners would be separated from the losers. A total of 162 players returned to the tables at ...
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February 26 2013
Last week was shaping up to be a pretty disastrous one for Phil Galfond, especially after he dropped some $630k at Full Tilt Poker’s tables. The skilled pro managed to turn a potential disaster into a victory-lap ...
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February 26 2013
This weekend was business as usual in the various online poker majors offered by the top online poker rooms. Things mostly stayed on the usual track in the sense that the biggest winner of the weekend was yet again the ...
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February 26 2013
The second day of the WPT’s LA Poker Classic saw the final total on the starting field set to 517 players. Given that the buy-in was a $10k one, the resulting prize-pool almost reached the $5 million mark. With ...
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February 25 2013
Sunday was the last day of the WPT’s Baden Main Event. The €3.3k poker tournament saw an initial starting field of 254 players belly up to its tables. By Sunday though, only 6 of them were left standing, ...
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February 25 2013
PartyPoker’s Premier League VI is slowly but surely filling up its available spots. The latest “name” player to join the lineup is Jonathan Duhamel, 2010 WSOP Main Event Champion. For Duhamel, this showing will be his first in ...
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February 25 2013
Barely has the WPT’s Baden Main Event wrapped up, a new major WPT event kicked off on the other side of the globe, in LA’s famous Commerce Casino. Featuring a $10k buy-in, the poker tournament saw 505 ...
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February 24 2013
The beginning of the final day of ANZPT’s Perth Main Event saw a heavily segmented field belly up to the tables. Four of the players were quite severely short-stacked, while the others enjoyed a more than handy advantage. Thankfully, the ...
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February 24 2013
The final day of the WPT’s Baden Main Event was set on day 4 of the poker tournament. Given the pro-heavy nature of the field, it wasn’t much of a surprise that no fewer than 2 high ...
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February 24 2013
The second day of the ANZPT’s Perth Main Event saw 108 players return to the tables, looking to secure a seat for Day 3 of the poker tournament. At the end of the day, only 33 players were ...
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February 23 2013
75 players returned to the tables on the second day of the WPT’s Baden stop. At the end of the day, only 44 were still standing, as PartyPoker’s Bodo Sbrzesny clinched the top spot.
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February 23 2013
It is now official: online poker has been legalized in Nevada as Gov. Brian Sandoval signed the long-hyped interstate online poker bill into law the other day. Not only has the bill made online poker legal within the borders of ...
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February 22 2013
The second day 1 flight of the ANZPT’s Season 5 Perth stop saw 151 players belly up to the tables of the Crown Perth. The end of the day saw local player Jesse McKenzie bag the largest stack of chips, finishing ...
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February 22 2013
The second Day 1 flight of the WPT’s Baden Main Event registered 150 buy-ins, of which 24 were re-buys. Everything taken into account, the event has generated a $1,031,041 prize-pool, which guarantees the eventual winner a $271.2k share.
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February 21 2013
Lately, all the headlines have been stolen by individual states’ legalization efforts as the federal-level drive to legalize online poker has taken a back seat after repeated setbacks. It now looks like the issue may jump to the front ...
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February 21 2013
The 5th season of the PokerStars-sponsored ANZPT saw its Perth Main Event kick off on Wednesday. The first day 1 flight of the poker tournament saw 67 players belly up to the tables of the Crown ...
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February 21 2013
The 11th season of the WPT saw its Baden Main Event kick off on Tuesday, with 104 players coughing up the €3.3k buy-in in the first day 1 flight of the re-entry tournament. A total of 8 levels of ...
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February 20 2013
Tony G has stayed away from the high stakes tables for a while, but the PartyPoker pro and successful online poker investor is back in the limelight. One has got to give it to Guoga, he certainly knows ...
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February 20 2013
Ex Full Tilt Poker pro Chris Ferguson has apparently taken his first step towards reconciliation with the US authorities. After several of his fellow Full Tilt Poker executives have reached settlement deals with the Department of Justice, according ...
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February 20 2013
15 players returned on the final day of the WSOP-C’s Caesars Palace Main Event, looking to play down to a winner. Jeff Fielder was the player who started the day with the biggest stack. The first one to be ...
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February 19 2013
PartyPoker’s Premier League has always been the playground of high-profile poker royalty, but this year, it’s shaping up to be bigger and better than ever. After the additions of Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Hellmuth (a first-time Premier ...
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February 19 2013
The cause of legal poker may catch an unexpected break in the state of Maine tomorrow February 20, 2013. State legislatures will apparently convene to discuss a bill aimed at making it legal for nonprofit organizations to hire third parties ...
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February 19 2013
During the weekend, the online majors came to the forefront of the poker action yet again. Once again, the biggest tournament of the weekend was PokerStars’ Sunday Million, which drew a starting field of 8,024 players, generating a prize-pool ...
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February 19 2013
The second day of the WSOP-C’s Caesars Palace Main Event saw the surviving field convene under the same roof for the first time. After a tough day’s action, only 15 players were left in contention, with Jeff Fielder in ...
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February 18 2013
There are several kinds of Triple Crowns in poker/online poker, and some of the more easily attainable ones are about winning three different online poker tournaments at three different online poker rooms. Of course, there’s ...
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February 18 2013
Full Tilt Poker have made quite a number of headlines lately for various reasons and fortunately – from the point of view of the online poker community – all those reasons have been positive ones. It’s been ...
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February 18 2013
The starting field of the second Day 1 flight of the WSOP-C’s Caesars Palace Main Event easily eclipsed that of the previous day: no fewer than 433 players bellied up to the tables, which means that the total on ...
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February 18 2013
The WSOP-C’s Caesars Palace stop is doubtlessly one of the most prestigious and pro-laden stops of the circuit. This year’s edition of the event kicked off on Friday, when 311 players showed up for the first day 1 flight. ...
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February 16 2013
PokerStars are set to unleash the mother of all online poker promotions on March 3, 2013. The biggest and most popular online poker site certainly has the funds to offer outlandish guarantees and through them to generate prize pools that will ...
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February 16 2013
Open Face Chinese Poker has been all the rage in high stakes poker circles lately. Various professional players have been grinding away at the Chinese Poker tables, but also discussing it in social media and tweeting about it. The popularity ...
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February 16 2013
There is no denying that Tom Dwan had a tough start to his 2013. He dragged his feet showing up at the tables and even when he did, he pretty much only lost money. At one point, he was $531.3k in ...
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February 15 2013
PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu has long been an active supporter of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, organizing various charity drives to raise funds. His latest such initiative was aimed at raising $100k in seven days. In order to accomplish the feat, ...
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February 15 2013
It’s never too early to start making plans for the WSOP, and this year, players will be able to start their preparations early indeed: on Thursday, Caesars Interactive Entertainment has made public the schedule of the 2013 World Series of ...
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February 15 2013
While the days of hiding aces in one’s sleeves/hat/boots are long gone, cheating is apparently still as popular in live poker as ever and it’s relatively easy to pull off too in the form of collusion. Thanks to the ever-present ...
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February 14 2013
With legal online poker inching closer and closer to reality in the state of Nevada, another major legal step may have been undertaken the other day: Gaming Control Board Chairman AG Burnett submitted Nevada Senate Bill 9 to the Senate ...
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February 14 2013
PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier is a true headliner: he is usually present wherever anything significant goes down poker-wise, and he is usually among those who are still around as the final table approaches. Naturally one would assume that he is ...
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February 14 2013
The WPT’s Lucky Hearts Open played down to a winner on Tuesday in Hollywood, Florida. The player who walked away with the title and the first place prize of $323.8k was Matt Giannetti, who thusly scored his second career WPT title. ...
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February 13 2013
As legal online poker seems more and more like a certainty in Nevada, one after the other, all the big players jump on board to secure their presence on the stage which may well prove to be the most profitable gambling ...
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February 13 2013
PartyPoker have recently made the announcement that poker pros Phil Hellmuth and Antonio Esfandiari have confirmed their participation in the PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker VI, a $125k buy-in event, which will take place in London next month. The ...
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February 12 2013
A few days ago, Full Tilt Poker made an announcement regarding the launching of a new .eu site to which all the online poker room’s European players would eventually be transferred. According to the announcement, the new site ...
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February 12 2013
This weekend, the online poker majors drew thousands upon thousands of players to their tables again. The high profile crowd had quite a field day on Sunday, when Kyle Julius led the charge in PokerStars’ Sunday Million.
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February 11 2013
Poker is a swingy game by nature, and high rollers who thrive on aggression are more exposed to up- and downswings than any of the regular players. 23-year old poker pro Dave Nicholson could probably talk/write more about that ...
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February 11 2013
With the EPT's Deauville Main Event already in the books and with the stop pretty much wrapped up, it is time now to look ahead and take a glance at the recently released schedule of the Read More
February 11 2013
Earlier this week, news broke of the success of an amended online poker and gambling bill submitted by the state legislature, which has gained a conditional veto from Gov. Chris Christie in New Jersey, thus essentially securing recognition and a post-...
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February 10 2013
It may have taken the starting field of 782 players close to a week to play down to a winner in the EPT Deauville Main Event, but for ...
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February 10 2013
The Casino Barriere saw 6 players return to its tables on the final day of the EPT’s Deauville €10k High Roller. With the money bubble firmly behind them, each and every one of the survivors had his eyes ...
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February 10 2013
The second day of the EPT Deauville’s €10k High Roller saw the field play down to the official final table. Although it would have been theoretically possible to ...
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February 09 2013
The penultimate day of the EPT’s Deauville Main Event saw 23 players return to the tables with the objective of playing right down to the final table. Indeed, ...
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February 09 2013
Unlike Gus Hansen and Viktor Blom, who have both logged tens of thousands of hands at Full Tilt Poker’s tables this year, Tom Dwan, another member of The Professionals, hasn’t really put in as much effort. Perhaps sensing some pressure on ...
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February 09 2013
In the high stakes world of online poker cash games there is true substance in the saying: what goes around, comes around. A week ago, Alex Kostritsyn was the hero: he was by far the biggest winner, pocketing almost twice ...
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February 08 2013
The EPT Deauville’s €10k High Roller is definitely among the main attractions of the stop. The poker tournament features deep stacks and a blinds structure ...
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February 08 2013
Online poker scored a major victory yesterday when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie used his conditional veto option on a bill which will eventually make the game legal within the Garden State. The staunchest supporters of the bill had obviously ...
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February 08 2013
Out of the 51 players who returned to the tables of the Casino Barriere for the 4th day of the EPT’s Deauville Main Event, only 23 were left standing at the final whistle. The player who clinched the ...
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February 08 2013
The 3rd day of the EPT Deauville Main Event saw 154 players return to the tables of the Casino Barriere. A total of 5 levels of action were ...
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February 07 2013
The fate of legal online poker in New Jersey is now squarely in the hands of Gov. Chris Christie who has until 12 PM on Thursday to sign the bill delivered by New Jersey lawmakers onto his desk more than a ...
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February 07 2013
Ding! Ding! Bring it on! - Patrik Antonius and Rui Cao have apparently developed something of a poker grudge at Full Tilt Poker’s tables during these last few days. Such feuds are always entertaining for at least one of the ...
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February 06 2013
Social gaming company Zynga has been under assault for quite a while now, and PokerStars have just made a move that may well put the final nail into the coffin of Zynga, at least on the social gambling/poker front. The other ...
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February 06 2013
The State of Delaware has long been sniping live casino customers away from New Jersey, and recently it has surpassed the Garden State as the second biggest gambling destination in the country, after Nevada. The competition between the two states in ...
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February 05 2013
Viktor Blom and Gus Hansen have been spotted playing at the micro limits tables at Full Tilt Poker the other day. Does this mean that two members of the professionals are both broke? While Hanson did indeed have a rather tough ...
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February 05 2013
Annie Duke, Howard Lederer’s sister, has been on quite a hiatus from poker for the last couple of years. As a matter of fact, her last live poker antics happened way back in 2010. Much like her brother Howard, she has ...
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February 05 2013
Things have pretty much returned to normal over the last weekend as far as the poker tournament action was concerned. The biggest prize-pool of the weekend was yet again delivered by PokerStars Sunday Million, which is ...
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February 04 2013
Phil Ivey hasn't exactly been doing well lately at the live poker tables. He took part in the Aussie Millions main event, and he busted out in 30th place, which isn't exactly a stellar accomplishment for a player of his caliber. ...
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February 04 2013
Only 5 players were left alive for the final day of the Aussie Millions’ $25k high roller. While in high rollers, making the final table doesn’t even always guarantee a cash finish, this time around, everyone who returned for the last ...
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February 04 2013
Despite the many legally adverse moves that online poker and online gambling have had to deal with the last few years, it appears that Internet based wagering is slowly but surely rolling ahead and conquering new markets. According to a report ...
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February 03 2013
The 8th day of the 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event, saw seven players return out of an initial starting field of 629. Dan Shak was the player who held a massive chip lead at the beginning of the final table hostilities, ...
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February 03 2013
The 2013 Aussie Millions saw a total of 27 players belly up to the tables of its $25,000 High Roller, on the first day of the action. The 27 players contributed 30 buy-ins, including the three re-buys that three ...
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February 03 2013
Despite the fact that the ongoing Aussie Millions have had most of the “name” players tied up at the live tables these days, there was some online poker action as several players experienced 6 and even 7-figure swings. The ...
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February 02 2013
As the $250k Challenge unfolded Down Under, the Main Event played on as well, reaching its 7-handed final table on Friday. The player who took the chip lead going into the final stretch is Dan Shak, who has thus far ...
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February 02 2013
The $250k Challenge of the 2013 Aussie Millions started out with just 18 participants, but they all represented the crème of the professional poker world. After just two days of action, the field played down to a winner: Sam Trickett, the ...
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February 01 2013
Online Poker’s Black Friday affected a whole range of interests above and beyond those directly linked to Full Tilt Poker. Exactly what sort of repercussions the Black Friday events had on Joe Cada is hard to tell, suffice to say though ...
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February 01 2013
As high rollers go, the Aussie Millions’ $250k Challenge didn’t turn out to be a particularly popular event this year. Although the AU$250k buy-in isn’t indeed something many players can just toss into the middle at a moment’s notice, still, ...
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