July 31 2013
The second day 1 flight of the last stop of the 5th season of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour saw 39 players belly up to the tables. The day turned out to be a relatively short one, leaving 22 players ...
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July 31 2013
Sitting in seat #9 at the 2013 WSOP’s November Nine showdown is Jay Farber, the wildcard of the final table. Unlike pretty much all the other final table participants, Farber is not a poker professional, nor does he have a ...
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July 31 2013
Ever since it became obvious that New Jersey would join the first handful of US states to legalize online gambling and online poker, it was only a matter of time till a genuine gold-rush like chase to pick up ...
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July 31 2013
Full Tilt Poker had been getting along on a handful of in-house pros for quite a few months after they returned to the online poker world last year. During the last few weeks however, they’ve added a promising number of ...
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July 30 2013
David Benefield may not be among the players with the most impressive live poker accomplishments at the 2013 WSOP final table, but for the online poker crowd, his may be the best-known name of all the November Niners. ...
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July 30 2013
Seat #7 of the 2013 November Nine belongs to JC Tran, quite possibly the most accomplished player at the final table. The 36-year old has tasted WSOP victory 2 times already. His first bracelet came in 2008, in Event ...
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July 29 2013
The high stakes online poker world is a place where emotions run high and tempers often flare, so to say it’s not void of drama would be a massive understatement indeed. There is plenty of drama, and most of it ...
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July 29 2013
Seat #6 of the November Nine belongs to Marc McLaughlin, the 25-year-old from Brossard, Quebec, whose presence at the final table as the only Canadian isn’t the least bit surprising, considering the results Canadians have attained at this year’s ...
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July 29 2013
Amir Lehavot is the player sitting in seat #5 of the 2013 WSOP November Nine final table. The 38-year-old will be the oldest player in action, come November. Born in Israel, Lehavot has been living in the US ...
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July 28 2013
In the wake of the 2013 WSOP, Full Tilt Poker pro Viktor Blom has had a rather tough stretch at the high stakes tables, losing money left and right and eventually giving up the biggest online ...
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July 26 2013
Who said that poker players were a generally honest and fair bunch? These are guys who deceive their opponents for a living, and like every segment of society, they have elements among them who won’t think twice about breaking actual laws. ...
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July 26 2013
Having flown under the radar live events-wise for the last few months, Full Tilt Poker have stepped forth aggressively with their UKIPT Full Tilt Poker Galway Festival. They first hired four red pros to represent the ...
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July 26 2013
Having covered players sitting in seats #1,# 2 and #3 at the 2013 WSOP’s November Nine showdown, it is now time to take a second look at Ryan Riess, he who will be sitting in #4.
The East Lansing, Michigan ...
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July 25 2013
A couple of days ago, we filled you in on how Victor Blom dropped more than $1.4 million at the high stakes online tables at Full Tilt Poker. On Tuesday, he was obviously on the warpath to ...
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July 25 2013
Having already covered the players sitting in seats #1 and #2 at the 2013 November Nine, it is now time to take a look at the occupant of seat #3, Mark Newhouse. Newhouse is 28-years-old and he is by ...
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July 25 2013
Full Tilt Poker’s “The Professionals” have been a formidable election of characters from the get-go, but that didn’t change the fact that the site’s roster of in-house pros has also always appeared to be a ...
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July 24 2013
With the 2013 WSOP November Nine set and with our countdown of the November Niners in full swing, it is now time to take a look at the player who will be sitting in seat #2 come showdown-time: Michiel ...
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July 24 2013
With the 2013 WSOP in the books, most of the pros involved in the action returned to their homes. Daniel Negreanu was one of them: he returned to Toronto and after a bit of rest, he fired out one of ...
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July 22 2013
The November Nine are obviously among the hottest commodities in the poker/online poker world these days. These guys have battled their way through a massive starting field to be able to return in November and play down to a winner ...
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July 22 2013
The Sunday Majors drew starting field rife with high profile pros again this past weekend. Several of the “name” players like Yann Dion, Francis Anderson and Joao Barbosa, scored wins in various events. The biggest online poker tournament was yet ...
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July 21 2013
The 12th edition of the World Poker Tour is set to kick off an August 12, just in time to give players something to think about and something to be excited about as the 2013 WSOP buzz slowly dies off. ...
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July 21 2013
The 2013 WSOP largely kept the high-profile players away from the online tables during the duration of the Series, but with the November Nine set and the Series largely wrapped up, the majority of the pros returned to their online ...
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July 20 2013
PokerStars gives its players the unique opportunity to win serious prizes during the month of July simply by playing at the online poker room through a mobile device. Those who play through PokerStars Mobile in July and fulfill a ...
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July 18 2013
Jason Alexander has been a staple presence at the tables of the WSOP Main Events for the last few years. The Seinfeld actor, whose on-screen character George Costanza seems to follow him everywhere – yes even the poker tables – ...
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July 18 2013
While most of the November Niners finished Day 7 of the 2013 WSOP Main Event with relatively deep stacks, David Benefield was one of the players who barely snuck in on a short-stack. Indeed, ...
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July 18 2013
As JC Tran pointed out in his post-Day 7 interview, with the exception of a couple of short-stacks (those would be Mark Newhouse, who has 7.35k chips to his name, and David Benefield who will start with 6.37 million) ...
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July 17 2013
The November Nine has been set yesterday as the Main Event played down to its final table. The makeup of the November Nine turned out to be a rather accurate reflection of the overall WSOP status quo. Of the 9 ...
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July 16 2013
The 7th day of the 2013 WSOP Main Event turned out to be its last one, at least for this summer: the November Nine has been reached with the elimination of Carlos Mortensen in 10th ...
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July 16 2013
With the 2013 WSOP just about over as far as the general poker-playing public is concerned, over the weekend, the Sunday majors saw the usual mix of starters return to their tables. No longer tied down anywhere else, Read More
July 15 2013
A couple of hours ago, the 6th day of the 2013 WSOP Main Event went into the books, leaving 27 players standing. The one who finished the day with the largest stack was Anton Morgenstern, who had 21.95 million chips ...
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July 15 2013
Taking place in Las Vegas, the gambling capitol of the US and the World, the WSOP is a truly international affair. The 2012 edition of the Series saw 101 countries represented at the tables, and this year, that number climbed ...
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July 15 2013
As the WSOP’s Main Event is slowly but surely playing through its last few stages, a better time for a retrospective of the most entertaining and most surprising moments of the 2013 WSOP has never existed.
Obviously, there wasn’t a ...
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July 14 2013
239 players returned to the tables on the 5th day of the 2013 WSOP Main Event. Again, 5 two-hour levels went into the day, at the end of which only 68 were left standing. ...
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July 13 2013
5 levels of action went into the 4th day of the 2013 WSOP Main Event too, but what 5 levels they were…There was so much going on today at the Main Event, representatives of the poker press barely knew where ...
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July 13 2013
With all the Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 flights of the 2013 WSOP Main Event in the books, it is about time that we took a look back on how some of the most hyped “name” competitors have ...
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July 12 2013
The third day of the 2013 WSOP Main Event marked the first time that the entire surviving field convened under the same roof to play down further toward the money. After 5 more levels of ...
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July 12 2013
With the 2013 World Series of Poker in full swing, it is easy to get distracted and not keep an eye on the general picture, but lawmakers seeking to legalize and regulate online poker in the US are apparently not ...
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July 12 2013
They say that hindsight is always 20/20, so with all the Day 1 and Day 2 flights of the 2013 WSOP Main Event behind us, the time is right to take a look back and analyze the numbers involved a ...
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July 11 2013
A couple of hours ago, the second day 2 flight of the 2013 WSOP Main Event – officially known as Day 2C – went into the books. Mark Kroon has thus far had a rather ...
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July 11 2013
It became obvious as soon as the registration wrapped up that this year’s Ladies Event would be a resounding success at the 2013 WSOP. Indeed, out of the total of 954 players who registered, there wasn’t a single male entrant ...
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July 11 2013
On Monday, all the first Day 1 flights of the 2013 WSOP Main Event wrapped up, and since, the two Day 2 flights have gone into the books as well, which means the time has never been better to take ...
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July 10 2013
About an hour ago, the first day 2 flight of the 2013 WSOP Main Event, the one which saw the survivors from Day 1A and Day 1B return to the tables, went into the books. ...
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July 10 2013
With the 2013 WSOP Main Event slowly playing down towards it closing stages, the eyes of the poker world will snap back to the online poker tables within a few days and when they ...
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July 09 2013
Even though the 2013 WSOP has reached its closing stages as its Main Event kicked off this weekend, there was still plenty of action in the various online majors over the weekend, at Full Tilt Poker ...
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July 09 2013
The 3rd day 1 flight of the 2013 WSOP Main Event went into the books earlier today and it was indeed all the organizers expected it to be: having drawn a starting field of 3,467 ...
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July 08 2013
The third day of event#61, the $10k PLO one of the 2013 WSOP, was supposed to see the field play down to a winner. Indeed, while that’s exactly what was supposed to happen, it nearly didn’t happen, because the heads-...
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July 08 2013
Although the 2013 WSOP Main Event hasn’t even gotten through all of its Day 1 flights yet, we can already proclaim this year’s Series that of the female poker player. Indeed, since 2007, Vanessa Selbst was the only woman who ...
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July 08 2013
The second Day 1 flight of the 2013 WSOP Main Event wrapped up today, and the going was yet again tough and spectacular. Day 1B truly eclipsed Day 1A in just about every respect: 1,942 ...
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July 08 2013
Day 4 of event #58, the $1,111 Little One for One Drop, was an extremely short affair: it only took the field 3 hours to play down to a winner, and that winner was Brian Yoon, who took down the bracelet ...
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July 07 2013
The first day 1 flight of the 2013 WSOP Main Event went into the books earlier today. Day 1A saw a starting field of almost 1,000 players belly up to its tables. Only around 200 ...
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July 07 2013
Earlier today, just as the $10k Main Event got around to its first Day 1 flight, another $10k tournament was playing through its second day of action. The $10k PLO event, which had 386 players ...
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July 07 2013
The second day of event #60, another $1.5k NL Holdem tournament of the 2013 WSOP, saw its field play down to the final 15, setting up Day 3 as the likely last one of the event. A total of 297 ...
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July 07 2013
The third day of the $1,111 Little One for One Drop (event #58 of the 2013 WSOP) saw 67 players return to its tables. The goal for the day was for the field to play down to the final table ...
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July 06 2013
Event #59, the $2.5k Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball event of the 2013 WSOP has made quite a point this year: apparently, 2-7 Triple Draw is the new game of the pros. What else would explain the outstanding ...
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July 06 2013
Featuring a $1,111 buy-in, the Little One for One Drop was set to be one of the most popular events of this year’s Series. Indeed, no fewer than 1,016 players returned to the tables on the second day of the ...
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July 06 2013
Another event which required a Day 4 to play down to a winner was event #57, the $5k NL Holdem one of the 2013 WSOP. Day 4 wasn’t the sort of brief return of the last two remaining players like ...
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July 05 2013
The 4th day of event #56, the $2.5k NL Holdem one of the 2013 WSOP, finally crowned a winner: Nikolaus Teichert walked away with the title and the $730.7k top prize, after he disposed of Vincent Maglio heads-up in ...
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July 05 2013
The $50k Poker Players’ Championship has finally played down to its winner earlier today. Matthew Ashton was the one who took down the prestigious title and the $1.8 million that came with it. He bested Don Nguyen heads-up. Nguyen had ...
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July 04 2013
The beginning of the second day of the $5k NL Holdem event - #57 of the 2013 WSOP - saw 235 players belly up to its tables. By the end of the day, that number had been reduced ...
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July 04 2013
Another event which failed to play down to its winner today was event #56, the $2.5k NL Holdem one, but this one came pretty close indeed. The action was already 25 hands into the heads-up stage when ...
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July 04 2013
The 4th day of the $50k Poker Players’ Championship went into the books today and a winner is still yet to be determined. At least today, the money bubble was put in the rearview mirror. 26 players returned to the tables ...
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July 03 2013
Event #55, the $50k Poker Players’ Championship saw its 3rd day go into the books a few hours ago. Unlike the other events thus far, event #55 didn’t wrap up on its 3rd day. As a matter of fact, it didn’t ...
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July 03 2013
Dana Castaneda finished 94th in the Ladies $10k NL Holdem Championship event a few days ago and took down some money for her efforts. The success prompted her to buy into event #54, a $1k NL Holdem affair ...
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July 03 2013
The third day of event #53, another $1.5k NL Holdem tournament of the 2013 WSOP, was something of a fiasco in regards to determining a winner: the field failed to play down even to the heads-up stage during the ...
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July 02 2013
The second day of the $50k Poker Players’ Championship (#55 of the 2013 WSOP) was at least as interesting as the first one. The beginning of the day saw no fewer than 9 players take advantage of the late registration ...
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July 02 2013
Event #54, another $1k NL Holdem affair, saw its second day go into the books earlier today. The day was indeed an action-filled one from the get-go, even though in the beginning, there was a little ...
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July 02 2013
Day 3 of event #53, another $1.5k NL Holdem event of the 2013 WSOP, was supposed to see the field play down to a winner, but the objective proved unattainable for the participants. Even though the final table got off ...
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July 01 2013
Another $1.5k NL Holdem event, #53 of the 2013 WSOP saw its second day go into the books today. The beginning of the day saw 320 players belly up to the tables. By the end of the green felt hostilities, ...
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July 01 2013
Today, another major event of the 2013 WSOP played down to its winner. Event #52, the $25k NL Holdem 6-handed one, was something of a high roller, as the massive buy-in had a rather prohibitive effect on the ...
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