March 31 2013
The 14th day of Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS XXII crowned two more champions and it saw a third event kick off. The event which didn’t play down to a winner was event #34, the $2.1k Read More
March 31 2013
After witnessing 173 players belly up to its tables on the first two day 1 flights, and a grandiose entry from Phil Hellmuth, followed by a quick bust, the WPT’s Venice Grand Prix finally played down to a winner the other ...
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March 31 2013
Day 13 of the FTOPS XXII at Full Tilt Poker didn’t pick up the pace from the previous day: only two players earned their gold jerseys on Day 13 too. The headlines were stolen by John Leathart, who finally managed to ...
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March 30 2013
Only 18 players remained of the initial starting field of 173 for the beginning of the 4th day of the WPT’s Venice Grand Prix. The objective was to play down to the 6-handed final table, an objective which was indeed ...
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March 30 2013
The 12th day of Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS XXII featured only two events and consequently, it crowned only two winners too.
The first event of the day was the $216 NL Holdem one (#30) which ...
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March 30 2013
Phil Ivey has been doing well at the nosebleed stakes online poker tables since the beginning of the week, but over the last couple of days, he really let loose. Over the course of only 48 hours, he recorded profits ...
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March 29 2013
After an initial 2013 run, Viktor Blom faded into the field, hitting a nasty losing streak. As if to provide a case-study on the streaky nature of online poker, he then went on a massive winning spree again, which ...
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March 29 2013
The 11th day of Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS XXII saw 3 more events added to the tally, and consequently, 3 more champions crowned.
Event #27, the $322 PLO Heads-up one, was the first of the day. It drew ...
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March 29 2013
Day 2 of the WPT’s Venice Grand Prix saw the survivors of the two day 1 flights return to the tables of the Casino di Venezia. The objective for the day was a pretty clear one: make it past the money-...
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March 28 2013
PokerStars are indeed well known for their various anniversary events which usually carry some pretty sweet extra value for players. Their latest anniversary promotion barely behind them, they are already looking ahead. On April 7, 2013 a special anniversary Sunday ...
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March 28 2013
The recently released traffic numbers which illustrated Full Tilt Poker’s steep decline in active cash game players obviously rang an alarm bell for the site’s executives who – in light of the unfavorable data – decided to revive ...
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March 28 2013
The 10th day of Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS XXII saw the 26th event of the series go into the books, which leaves 12 more events to go and around $5 million in guaranteed prizes.
Event #24 was the ...
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March 27 2013
Phil Hellmuth is definitely no stranger to grand entrances, but one would think that by now he has learned his lesson: whenever he makes a grand entrance, he always seems to make a really quick exit afterwards. It’s like he pours ...
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March 27 2013
PokerStars have made public their planned SCOOP 2013 schedule on Monday, tossing another tasty bone to the online poker community keen to analyze and to dissect. The SCOOP seems to follow the general pattern of growth at PokerStars: this ...
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March 27 2013
On Monday, things were back to normal as far as the number of gold jerseys awarded by the FTOPS XXII went. Three more players earned their stripes at Full Tilt Poker’s online tournament tables, one more than on ...
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March 26 2013
The Venice Grand Prix of the WPT’s 11th season kicked off the other day with its first day 1 flight in the Casino Di Venezia, the oldest such establishment in the world. The first day 1 flight didn’t exactly attract an ...
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March 26 2013
While most of the other poker major tours have kicked off their 2013 seasons much earlier, the 3rd season of the Eureka Poker Tour only got going last week, with its first main event taking place in the Czech Republic. The ...
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March 26 2013
Sunday marked the halfway point of Full Tilt Poker’s 22nd FTOPS. On Sunday, only two players earned their gold jerseys, as it was a more laid-back kind of day. The first event which yielded a champion was ...
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March 25 2013
The WPT’s London stop didn’t turn out to be what some in the poker industry would’ve wanted it to be: it was downgraded to a National event, even though the EPT’s stop clearly showed that there was plenty ...
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March 25 2013
Daniel Negreanu isn’t the player to lose his cool often and to throw tantrums at the green felt but the Premier League VI got to him. It isn’t a secret that the PokerStars pro didn’t do too well at PartyPoker’s ...
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March 25 2013
Day 3 of the ANZPT’s Sydney Main Event – which proved to be the last one of the poker tournament – saw 22 players return to the tables. Trung Tran was the first victim of the day: he ...
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March 24 2013
The PartyPoker Premier League VI went into the history books on Saturday, and the player who picked up the top prize and the honors was Dan Shak, who thusly continued his so far quite incredible 2013 run. Shak picked ...
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March 24 2013
The 7th day of Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS XXII delivered its usual yield: 3 more champions added to the tally.
Event #16, the $535 NL Holdem heads-up event, offered a guarantee of $100k. 263 players bellied up ...
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March 24 2013
The FTOPS’s 22nd edition has been a resounding success thus far at Full Tilt Poker, but fortunately for the cash game regulars, it did little to draw attention away from the high stakes cash games last week. Most ...
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March 22 2013
In Group A of the PartyPoker Premier League VI, Antonio Esfandiari managed to gain some much-needed redemption after the rather mellow performances he logged in the first two heats: he managed to win the third heat hands-down, ...
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March 22 2013
The 4th day of Full Tilt Poker’s immensely popular FTOPS XII yielded three more champions. The first event to crown a winner on day 4 was the $256 PLO Knockout event, which offered a $75k guarantee. The 531 ...
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March 21 2013
PartyPoker’s Premier League VI has just seen the second heat of its Group A wrap up, and the player who ended up winning it was online poker buff Daniel Cates. Cates had quite a comeback to pull off, ...
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March 21 2013
The 3rd day of the 22nd FTOPS saw 3 more events go into the books, as planned. Event #6, the $216 PLO H/L Six-Max event, featured a guarantee of $75k. It almost goes without saying that the resulting prize-pool ...
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March 21 2013
The Isla Casino Pompano Park in Pompano Beach, Florida played host to the $3.3k Main Event of the 2013 edition of the Battles at the Beach. The winner of the poker tournament was Stephen Bokor. Bokor walked away ...
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March 20 2013
Immediately after its re-launch, Full Tilt Poker, with its new management at the steering wheel, reclaimed its second most trafficked online poker room title. It looked like it was going to weather the Black Friday storm as ...
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March 20 2013
The second day of the FTOPS’ 22nd edition saw 3 more events go into the books: Event #3, the $216 PLO one, event #4, the $1,060 NL Holdem 6-max one and event #5, the $216 NL Holdem ...
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March 19 2013
The LAPT’s Chile stop doubled as the Chile National Poker Championship Main Event this Wednesday in Vina del Mar. The $1k buy-in event saw a total of 756 players belly up to the tables, of whom 259 decided to take ...
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March 19 2013
This weekend turned out to be quite a bonanza for online poker tournament action junkies: Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS XXII got going in addition to the usual majors featured at PokerStars.
The biggest prize ...
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March 19 2013
On Sunday, the 22nd edition of Full Tilt Poker’s extremely popular FTOPS kicked off, and its first event is already in the books. A total of 2 events went into the first day of the series, the first ...
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March 18 2013
Luke Schwartz has quite a history with the Victoria Grosvenor Casino, the host of the Season 9 London stop of the Read More
March 18 2013
21 players returned to the tables of the APPT’s Seoul Main Event on the final day of the poker tournament. Although the final table was mostly made up of relative unknowns, one “name” player managed to sneak into the final stretch ...
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March 17 2013
8 players returned to the tables of the Victoria Grosvenor Casino on the last day of the EPT’s London Main Event, with the goal to ...
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March 17 2013
75 players returned to the tables of the EPT London’s £10k High Roller event. By the end of the day, the 9-handed final table had been reached ...
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March 17 2013
Talal Sakerchi started the last day of the EPT London’s £10k High Roller with the largest stack, thanks to his masterful handling of the money-bubble created tightness on Day 2 of the poker tournament. ...
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March 16 2013
The 5th day of the EPT’s London Main Event saw the final table set. 15 players returned to the tables of the Victoria Grosvenor Casino, and after about ...
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March 16 2013
Tony G, the owner of many a fine online poker enterprise and not so long ago one of PartyPoker’s in-house professional players, has decided to put an end to his relationship with the third largest online poker site in ...
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March 16 2013
On Thursday, the 4th edition of PokerStars’ popular MicroMillions series kicked off, with more than 223k players bellying up to the virtual tables. The massive starting fields pushed past the guarantees in pretty much every one of the 6 events ...
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March 15 2013
The second Day 1 flight of the APPT’s Seoul Main Event saw 100 players belly up to the tables, looking to earn a coveted seat for Day 2. At the end of the day, only 35 of those 100 players were ...
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March 15 2013
On Thursday, the EPT’s London £10k High Roller kicked off, with 127 buy-ins tossed into the prize-pool. Given the unexpectedly large starting field, the organizers were forced to make the High Roller a 3-day tournament, ...
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March 15 2013
32 players returned to the Victoria Grosvenor Casino on Day 4 of the EPT’s Main Event. The goal was to play down to the final 16, so the day turned out to be a rather short one. ...
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March 14 2013
113 players returned to the tables of the Victoria Grosvenor Casino, looking to play past the money bubble on Day 3 of the Season 9 EPT’s London Main Event. Only 5 levels of action went into the day ...
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March 14 2013
Even though European players have long recovered the funds stuck at Full Tilt Poker after Black Friday, US-based players, who had made up the vast majority of the operator’s player-base, still haven't seen a single cent ...
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March 14 2013
Political tensions may be running high on the Korean peninsula, but for poker players, that means little to nothing. The first day 1 flight of the PokerStars APPT’s Seoul Main Event kicked off on Thursday, drawing a starting field ...
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March 14 2013
The second day of the EPT’s London Main Event saw more than 240 players belly up to the tables. By the end of the day, only 114 were ...
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March 13 2013
Jerry Yang’s 2007 WSOP Main Event championship reign didn’t exactly start off on the right foot: as soon as he got the money and the bracelet, he melted off into the sunset, prompting ...
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March 13 2013
Ladbrokes, one of the top land-based and online sportsbooks and online gaming operators have announced the other day that they would move their poker operation from the MPN network to iPoker.
Although the exact time-table of the move hasn’t ...
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March 12 2013
The second day 1 flight of the Season 9 EPT London Main Event saw 411 more players belly up to the tables of the Grosvenor Victoria casino. Like ...
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March 12 2013
Sunday didn’t start well for Full Tilt Poker pro Viktor Blom: he lost a heads-up match against PokerStars’ Bertrand Grospellier, a bout which was part of the Full Tilt vs PokerStars series initiated a couple of ...
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March 12 2013
The first day 1 flight of the European Poker Tour’s London Main Event kicked off on Monday, with 236 players bellying up to the tables of the Grosvenor Victoria Casino. The buy-in was a massive €5,250 one, ...
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March 11 2013
The WSOP-C’s Caesars Atlantic City event squeezed both its first day 1 flights into a single day on Saturday. It took the field 9 levels of action to play down to the end of the day. When the action ...
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March 11 2013
Last week, the high stakes online poker action raged on at PokerStars as well as at Full Tilt Poker, and the two players who reaped the biggest advantages off the storm were Ben Tollerene and Viktor Blom, ...
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March 11 2013
6 players returned to the green felt on the last day of the WPT’s Bay 101 Shooting Star, looking to eliminate the last shooting star left in contention, Erik Seidel, and of course to win it all. The start of the ...
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March 10 2013
44 players returned to the tables of the Bay 101 for the WPT’s Shooting Star on Day 3 of the poker tournament. Paul Volpe started the day with the largest stack, and at the end of the day, ...
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March 09 2013
As predicted by many an expert, without a federal initiative in place in regards to online poker, more and more individual states are exploring the possibility of legalizing the game and possibly even online gambling in order to augment tax revenues ...
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March 09 2013
255 players returned to the tables on the second day of the WPT’s Bay 101 Shooting Star. The main objective of the day was of course the reaching of the money-bubble. Set for 63rd place, quite a few players ...
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March 07 2013
The UKIPT’s London stop kicked off on Tuesday, and while it normally wouldn’t really be a truly “high-caliber” event, this time around it carried some special significance, because it basically marked the start of the PokerStars EPT ...
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March 07 2013
Full Tilt Poker’s Viktor Blom has long been considered a NL Holdem buff and he’s grown into quite a force at the PLO tables as well. Unfortunately, fame didn’t exactly help the Swedish pro get ...
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March 07 2013
360 players bellied up to the tables on the second day 1 flight of the WPT’s Bay 101 Shooting Star. Among the starters, there were no fewer than 25 “shooting stars”, professional players with a bounty of $2.5k on their heads. ...
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March 06 2013
The Bay 101 Shooting Star has been one of the WPT’s most popular events for years. Taking place in San Jose, the poker tournament features a rather enticing format: every table has a “shooting star” of its own, ...
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March 06 2013
Proponents of legal online poker in New Jersey have long hailed PokerStars’ intention to purchase a live casino operation in Atlantic City as a potentially important development for the state’s beleaguered casino industry, and a move which could prepare the ...
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March 06 2013
These days it seems like extremely attractive promotions never end at PokerStars. As soon as one wraps up (like the 95 billionth hand promotion we’ve covered here) another one seems to ...
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March 05 2013
A couple of days ago we told you PokerStars’ milestone 95 billionth hand was likely to hit soon. The other day, players at a $0.08/$0.16 NL Holdem table saw an announcement pop up in the middle of ...
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March 05 2013
Since PokerStars have transferred the bulk of the cash games to Full Tilt Poker, the action has been intensifying with more and more of the nosebleed stakes regulars setting up shop at Full Tilt. One of the first ...
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March 05 2013
This weekend was a special one for PokerStars and for online poker tournament players everywhere, who were treated to a special anniversary edition of the Sunday Million, the event which marked its 7th birthday. As usual, the ...
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March 04 2013
On Thursday, the stage was set for yet another skill versus chance confrontation on the issue of poker at the Virginia Supreme Court. The state has implemented a set of anti-gambling laws and measures in 2010, as a result of ...
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March 04 2013
From a positively idealistic poker utopia, the inaugural event of the International Stadiums Poker Tour has slowly but surely morphed into a much more down to earth version of itself, undergoing quite a few radical changes in the process. Gone ...
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March 03 2013
About a week ago we ran a piece about Gus Hansen and Daniel Negreanu’s agreement to pit Full Tilt Poker’s Professionals against Negreanu and two PokerStars pros chosen by him.
Apparently, since then, the Challenge has taken shape. Dwan and Blom ...
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March 03 2013
PokerStars’ Road to the 100 Billionth Hand promotion has players going into a frenzy every few months or so. The last major milestone hand was the 90 billionth one, which fell last November, making quite a few players at a $1/$2 ...
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March 03 2013
Over the last week, the bulk of the high stakes cash game action was focused on Full Tilt Poker’s tables. The biggest winner of the week was Alex Konstritsyn, who finished $1.1 million in the black.
Kostritsyn played 7,002 hands, spread ...
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March 02 2013
On Thursday, the WPT’s LA Poker Classic wrapped up with Paul Klann’s victory. Klann was rewarded with a $1,004,090 prize for his efforts, after he bested start of the day chip leader Paul Volpe heads-up.
Only 6 players returned to ...
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March 02 2013
The objective on the 5th day of the WPT’s LA Poker Classic was for the remaining field of 18 players to play down to the final table.
The field of 18 which returned on day 5 did not include any of ...
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March 01 2013
With their mind firmly set on growth and expansion, William Hill have acquired online poker and gambling technology and service provider Playtech in a block-buster deal worth around £424 million. William Hill have now made two ...
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