April 30 2013
The weekend saw quite a bit of online poker tournament action go into the books. The highlight of the weekend was yet again the Sunday Million, which – yet again – gave birth to the biggest tournament winner ...
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April 30 2013
On Saturday, the EPT’s Season 9 Berlin stop came to an end with Griffin Benger’s win in the High Roller and Daniel Pidun’s in the Main Event. We have given you a decent coverage of the more important ...
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April 30 2013
129 players returned to the tables on the second day of the WPT’s Jacksonville Open, looking to play down to the money-bubble and then to somehow wiggle past it. Set for 37th place, the bubble was a rather illusive target ...
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April 30 2013
The State of Nevada has formally legalized real money online poker quite a while ago. For over a year, the race has been on to determine the first online poker operator to begin offering legal online poker in the United ...
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April 30 2013
The Macau Poker Cup’s Red Dragon Main event wrapped up the other day, putting an end to what turned out to be the largest and most successful Main Event of the Series ever. Terry Fan from the Chinese Taipei, walked away ...
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April 30 2013
The two day 1 flights of the WPT’s latest Jacksonville stop are in the books and the numbers are more than encouraging thus far: on Day 1A, 146 players showed up for the poker tournament, tossing their $3.5k ...
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April 28 2013
It took the EPT Berlin Main Event participants around 6 hours to burst the final table bubble but once they did it, they pretty much opened the floodgates. ...
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April 28 2013
Griffin Benger has given himself quite a 28th birthday gift on Saturday: he won the EPT Berlin’s High Roller, taking down the largest live poker score of his ...
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April 28 2013
The 2013 Main Event of the Venetian’s Deep Stack Extravaganza played down to a winner on Thursday. The player who grabbed the top spot and the $121.8k top prize was Jeremy Ausmus, he of October Nine fame.
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April 27 2013
45 players returned to the tables of the EPT Berlin High Roller on Friday, looking to play down to the final table. That objective has indeed been accomplished ...
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April 27 2013
With 17 players returning to the tables, Day 5 of the EPT’s Berlin Main Event looked like it was going to be over in a flash. Indeed, 8 players were bounced from the poker tournament ...
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April 27 2013
The online poker community witnessed a historic achievement go into the books this week: Phil Galfond became only the third player to win more than $10 million at Full Tilt Poker going back to 2007. The identities ...
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April 27 2013
The first day of the €10k High Roller of the EPT’s Berlin stop didn’t start out in a promising way: only 22 players showed up to cough up the steep buy-in, but as the day wore on, ...
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April 26 2013
The 4th day of the EPT’s Berlin Main Event kicked off on Monday with 55 players returning to the green felt. A total of 5 levels of action ...
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April 26 2013
The third day of the EPT’s Berlin Main Event is in the books and the field has been thinned down to 55. Aku Joentausta started the day with ...
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April 26 2013
The Global Poker Index’s Player of the Year race is hot all year long and hanging on to the top spot for more than a week is a rather impossible feat for those who manage to get to the top in ...
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April 24 2013
The second day of the EPT’s Berlin Main Event saw some pretty fast paced and torrid action from the get-go. 168 players remained standing at the end ...
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April 24 2013
There has been a lot of media-coverage of the online poker legalization process in Nevada, and inevitably, a lot of hype as well, however, residents of the State looking to actually get their monies into the middle are yet ...
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April 24 2013
The state of Pennsylvania has long been poaching customers away from new Jersey’s Atlantic City – one of the reasons why Garden State lawmakers decided to turn to online gambling/poker a couple of months ago. Apparently however, Pennsylvania is now considering ...
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April 23 2013
The second Day 1 flight of the EPT’s Berlin Main Event wrapped up on Monday with 565 players coughing up the buy-in and bellying up to the ...
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April 23 2013
Connecticut’s Foxwoods Casino has taken a major step on Monday, officially securing a partnership with the GameAccount Network, a partnership which will allow it to eventually start offering online gaming within the US.
The move is the all-too-familiar jostling ...
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April 23 2013
The online poker tournament action was yet again hot over the weekend. Scores of players showed up for the weekend majors at PokerStars as well as at Full Tilt Poker and several “name” competitors managed ...
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April 22 2013
The first Day 1 flight of the EPT’s season 9 Berlin Main Event went into the books on Sunday.
347 players bellied up to the tables at the start of the poker tournament, putting in 8 levels of ...
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April 22 2013
The EPT’s Berlin stop got going on Wednesday, with the first event, the Berlin Cup, which featured a €1.1k buy-in and a guarantee of €500k. Eventually, no ...
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April 22 2013
Titan Poker hasn’t really managed to shine an appropriate amount of limelight on its various spring promotions, which is a shame indeed, because lots of players who never find out about them miss out on a lot of extra ...
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April 22 2013
Atlantic City saw some serious poker action on Friday, when the Borgata Spring Poker Open played down to its 2013 winner at the Borgata Hotel Casino. Originally, 502 players decided to cough up the $2.7k buy-in, giving birth to ...
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April 21 2013
The pros have been busy at the high stakes online poker cash game tables lately, registering million dollar swings up and down and generally creating a lot of mayhem every step of the way. This week, there has been a ...
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April 21 2013
Friday saw the second and last day of the Manila Millions wrap up, with the 7-handed final table playing down to a winner. Given the small size of the starting field and the peculiar payout structure, only 4 places were ...
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April 19 2013
The GPI is keeping its eyes on the tournament scene and since Daniel Negreanu is the hottest poker tournament commodity right now, he’s seen a rather spectacular rise through the ranks this week. He still hasn’t managed to ...
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April 18 2013
Full Tilt Poker have always been innovators software-wise (remember Rush Poker?), and they are apparently sticking to that time-honored tradition. While providing various new ways for high-volume players to put their skills to the use ...
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April 18 2013
The tournament action never stops at PokerStars, as a matter of fact, it never even slows down. Barely has the last successful series wrapped up at the site, the schedule of the upcoming SCOOP 2013 has been made public on ...
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April 18 2013
The links between gambling and organized crime are in a sense quite traditional, so it doesn’t really surprise anyone when every now and then Federal investigators bust a gambling ring which generates or launders money for the Russian mob for instance. ...
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April 17 2013
The implications of the recently concluded WSOP APAC were deep and far reaching, not only in terms of the bracelets and the prizes awarded, but in regards to WSOP Player of the Year leader board points too. It turns out that ...
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April 17 2013
Full Tilt Poker's ex-CEO Raymond Bitar has grabbed a few headlines recently. About a week ago, around the second anniversary of the Black Friday events which exposed his online poker operation as an international Ponzi scheme, Bitar has finally ...
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April 16 2013
The Main Event of the WSOP APAC is in the books and Daniel Negreanu is the one who can brag about having won it. The PokerStars pro took down an AUD$1,038,825 top prize, not to mention the WSOP bracelet, ...
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April 15 2013
Despite all the WSOP action going on Down Under, the online poker majors registered massive starting fields yet again. Although “name” players always hit the tables of the biggest major of all, PokerStars’ Sunday Million, it is not exactly ...
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April 15 2013
On Sunday, the $50k High Roller of the WSOP APAC played down to its conclusion. When all was said and done, German pro Phillipp Gruissem was the one with all the chips piled up in front of him. He took ...
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April 14 2013
Day 4 of the WSOP APAC’s Main Event was a short but interesting one. Only 15 players returned to the tables of the Crown Casino, with the objective to play down to the final table. It took the field about 30 ...
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April 14 2013
While it was the only WSOP APAC event not to offer a bracelet to its winner, the $50k High Roller was extremely popular with the railbirds in the Crown Casino thanks to the sheer amount of money one had to ...
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April 14 2013
Day 3 of the WSOP APAC’s Main Event was to be an extremely interesting one: with the money bubble set for 41st place and with 94 players returning to the tables, the early part of the day would be a ...
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April 13 2013
The second day of the WSOP APAC’s Main Event drew the bottom line on the number of participants and the prize-pool. A total of 405 buy-ins were registered, which created a prize-pool of AUD$3.84 million. 40 places ...
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April 13 2013
Viktor Blom has got to be the streakiest online poker professional out there. While most of his peers “only” experience 6-figure swings on a regular basis, going down or up $1.5 million doesn’t seem to be a big deal ...
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April 12 2013
Australia has been a premier poker and online poker destination for quite a few years now. Melbourne's famous Crown Casino, the host of many a high profile live poker tournament series has become the scene of the ...
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April 12 2013
Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu have drawn quite a bit of attention at the 2013 WSOP APAC, where the two friends even made a final table: in event #3, they were both there during the final stretch. Ivey went on ...
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April 12 2013
The GPI’s ranking of the top 300 poker tournament players in the world went through quite a few changes this week, although the name at the top remained the same: Marvin Rettenmaier hung on to his lead, still ...
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April 11 2013
A couple of days ago, poker and online poker legend Phil Ivey has secured his 9th WSOP bracelet, winning event #3 of the WSOP APAC at Melbourne’s famed Crown Casino. Although the historical significance of the accomplishment wasn’t lost on ...
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April 11 2013
The Crown Casino in Melbourne saw the 4th event of the 2013 WSOP APAC wrap up with local player Aaron Lim’s victory. The interesting thing about the event was that it was the very first one to award a bracelet ...
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April 11 2013
The WPT’s Season XI Barcelona Main Event has gone into the books on Wednesday, when the last 6 survivors of an initial starting field of 249 returned to the tables to play down to a winner. When everything had been said ...
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April 10 2013
Wednesday proved to be a historic day for the WSOP: Phil Ivey took down his ninth WSOP bracelet, tying Johnny Moss in 4th place on the all-time WSOP bracelet winners’ list. Ivey won the event after he bested Brandon ...
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April 10 2013
The first day of the 4th event of the WSOP APAC, the $5k NL Holdem 6-max event, saw a starting field of 170 players belly up to the tables. Although the first day went into the ...
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April 10 2013
The third day of the WPT’s Barcelona Main Event saw 42 players return to the tables, looking to play down as close to the final table as possible. Before the end of the day, that objective had nearly been completed: 13 ...
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April 09 2013
The second ever player to win a WSOP bracelet in Australia has been crowned the other day: Jim Collopy won the second event of the WSOP APAC, the $1,650 PLO event, taking home the AUD$69.6k top prize. The third day ...
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April 09 2013
The various high profile live poker events taking place all over the world (the WPT’s Barcelona event is in full swing, not to mention the WSOP APAC in Melbourne, which has tied down most of the bracelet-hungry high-profile ...
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April 09 2013
As the first ever WSOP event hosted in Australia gathers momentum, more and more people get involved the bracelet-awarding events. Phil Ivey may have been booted from event #2, but he returned ...
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April 08 2013
The first event of the WSOP APAC is in the books and the first WSOP bracelet ever awarded Down Under has found its proud owner: the $1.1k NL Holdem accumulator event, which proved to be extremely popular, ...
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April 08 2013
Sunday saw the second bracelet-awarding event of the WSOP APAC kick off. Event #2 was the AUD$1,650 PLO one, which saw 172 players hit its tables on its first and only day 1 flight. The field combined buy-ins ...
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April 08 2013
The second day of the WSOP APAC’s first event at the Crown Casino in Melbourne saw 144 players return to the tables. After no fewer than 3 day 1 flights, during which players got several opportunities to build their stacks, ...
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April 07 2013
The third day 1 flight of the WSOP APAC’s popular NL Holdem Accumulator event drew 419 players to the tables of the famous Crown Casino. Everything accounted for, the first day of the event saw 1,085 buy-ins ...
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April 07 2013
Viktor Blom’s 2013 high stakes cash game rollercoaster ride continued this week. The Swede had been dropping money by the handful over the last few weeks, but he obviously knew something that kept him from panicking like any normal person would: ...
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April 05 2013
The second day 1 flight of the $1.1k NL Holdem accumulator event of the WSOP APAC is in the books too, and French pro Antoine Saout emerged with the largest stack, although he did in fact miss ...
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April 05 2013
The first event of the inaugural edition of the WSOP APAC kicked off the other day. The $1.1k NL Holdem Accumulator saw a starting field of 329 players belly up to its tables on the first of ...
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April 05 2013
The GPI is best known for its intriguing Player of the Year race, but there’s much more to it. The Global Poker Index ranks the best tournament players as well, and getting to the top of the pops on this list ...
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April 04 2013
Greg Merson will obviously play in the WSOP APAC, an opportunity too sweet to miss for the reigning WSOP Main Event champion. Those who follow him on Twitter were presented with a rather ...
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April 04 2013
Paul Volpe has secured an iron grasp on the top position of the GPI’s Player of the Year race. Over the last week, the top 100 remained largely unchanged, with Volpe retaining his lead for the 3rd straight week. Volpe has ...
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April 04 2013
Social gaming buff Zynga has been struggling to gain traction for some of its creations lately, but that did not deter them from following through on their promise to begin offering real money online poker games. The company has just ...
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April 03 2013
Mike Caro has always been known as the father of modern poker strategy. He is indeed one of the best poker minds and the books that he has published have become a sort of bible for players of the ...
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April 03 2013
Poker pro Antonio Esfandiari, who is a grateful and proud Las Vegas resident, and the most profitable poker tournament player ever having amassed more than $24 million in tournament winnings, has signed up to represent Ultimate Poker, an ...
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April 03 2013
The Monte Carlo Grand Final of the EPT’s 9th season is set to run between May 6 and May 15 officially wrapping up the season. The week-long affair will feature no fewer than 50 events, among which ...
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April 02 2013
Although many of the online tournament players set up shop at Full Tilt Poker over the weekend, PokerStars saw quite a bit of tournament traffic as well.
The Sunday Million drew a starting field of ...
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April 02 2013
The 15th day of Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS XXII was the last one of the series. It was the day that saw the Main Event wrap up and crown a winner. A total of 3 events wound down ...
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April 01 2013
The WSOP has always been a solid brand, one that has successfully weathered the post UIGEA storm which put many online and live poker operations square out of business. With that in mind it is at least a little surprising ...
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