August 31 2013
The River Poker Series may be one of the largest and richest live poker Series you haven’t yet heard of: it has kicked off about 2 weeks ago and it has been running since, producing a few notable results. One such ...
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August 31 2013
The 10th season of the European Poker Tour is officially underway: the €50k Super High Roller of the Barcelona stop of the poker tour got going on Friday. 39 players coughed up the massive buy-in on the ...
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August 31 2013
The high stakes online poker player known as “Call_911” was the biggest loser last week. He dropped an astonishing $815.8k, but this week, he more than made up for those losses. This time around, he finished the biggest winner, $930.2k above ...
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August 31 2013
The 12th season of the WPT kicked off its first US stop with the Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California. 142 players thought it worth-while to buy into the event, and the first Day 1A ...
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August 31 2013
With the 2013 WCOOP looming on the horizon, the time has never been better to take a look back at last year’s World Championship of Online Poker, the Main Event of which saw the historic victory of one Russian cab driver ...
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August 31 2013
Online poker may have taken a massive hit in the US following Black Friday, but the interest for the game is apparently alive and well. Indubitable proof to that has been delivered on Wednesday, when a brand new poker room opened ...
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August 30 2013
Tom Dwan, Viktor Blom and Gus Hansen are the current faces of Full Tilt Poker and it’s safe to assume that when they signed with the recently re-launched operation, they didn’t do so to personally finance ...
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August 30 2013
The GPI’s Player of the Year list is one of the most prestigious ranking systems out there for poker players, professional or otherwise. Indeed, making it into the top 10 of the PoY list has developed into a sort of a ...
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August 30 2013
Although the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open and its various high prize-pool tournaments stole all the headlines last week, another major live poker event was unfolding in Council Bluffs, Iowa: the Horseshoe Poker Classic, which featured 5 ...
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August 29 2013
“Runner Runner” starring Benn Affleck and Justin Timberlake is a movie due this fall and it marks Ben Affleck’s first ever role as a villain. For the online poker industry though, it carries a much further reaching significance, and it is ...
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August 29 2013
Blair Hinkle started the final table of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open’s $10 million Championship Event with the largest stack, and when everything was said and done, he still had the largest stack, even as no one else had any ...
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August 29 2013
Ever since Nevada and New Jersey have made concrete moves towards the legalization and actual implementation of real money online poker, there have been a handful of states looking to follow suit. One of these states was Delaware, lawmakers of ...
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August 29 2013
As the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open’s Championship Event played down to its final table, another - potentially much more interesting – event unfolded as well: the $100k buy-in WPT Alpha8 tournament. 21 players bought in initially, and nine ...
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August 28 2013
The 4th day of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open’s $10 million Championship Event has achieved its objective: there are only 6 players left standing, set to return for the official final table. Start of the day chip leader Justin Bonomo ...
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August 27 2013
The third day of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10 Million Championship Event fulfilled its objectives by driving the field down to the last 21 players. When the action wrapped up, the player with the largest stack was Mukul Pahuja, ...
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August 27 2013
November Niners always represent a hot commodity in the online poker world as all the big sites are looking to have their colors flown for them at the final table of the largest poker tournament in the universe. ...
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August 27 2013
Viktor Blom, the protagonist of many a 6-figure swing at the high stakes online poker tables, had been largely absent from the action last week, that is before he decided to stage a quick comeback on Thursday. Indeed, it ...
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August 26 2013
Everyone knows that PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu is friends with Phil Ivey off the green felt too, and indeed, the two apparently like to party together as well. What do they do when the rain busts their pool party? Apparently, they ...
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August 26 2013
The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open drew enormous player interest by offering a guarantee of $10 million for its Championship Event. Indeed, the starting field was so large that it took them several Day 1 flights and an entire Day 2 ...
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August 25 2013
Every time the WCOOP draws near, PokerStars aim to boost their players’ bankrolls in various ways. The goal is obvious; they need as many topped-up bankrolls in the lineup as possible and they’re going to achieve it partly ...
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August 25 2013
888Poker are looking to expand their player base to include players who use non-Windows platforms as well. They have set up the beta-testing phase of a downloadable, real-money client destined for Mac users, and indeed, the testing is ...
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August 24 2013
When it comes to $1 million+ swings, it is usually Full Tilt Poker pro Viktor Blom who steals the majority of the headlines, but this week, it was Niklas Heinecker’s turn to step up to the plate. ...
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August 23 2013
The 10th season of the European Poker Tour is set to kick off on August 26, which is just three days away, in Barcelona, which is the very place where the first ever EPT event took place way back in 2004. ...
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August 22 2013
The 6th and final day of the WPT Merit Cyprus Classic’s Main Event saw a winner emerge. Start of the day chip leader Alexey Rybin took advantage of his large stack-status to bully his way into the top spot. For ...
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August 21 2013
BetFred’s Social Leagues are the site’s take on poker tournament leader board races. For the last few months, the Social Leagues have run and created several winners. The August Social Leagues have kicked off on August 1, but ...
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August 20 2013
Last weekend carried special significance for online poker players: the 23rd edition of Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS came to an end with the Main Event playing down to its winner. No fewer than 3,327 players coughed ...
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August 20 2013
After a positively crazy Day 2, which saw around 70% of the field bite the dust over just 5 levels of action, Day 3 brought some sanity back into the poker tournament, as the 31 survivors who returned ...
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August 19 2013
On Sunday, the third edition of the Macau Poker Cup’s Red Dragon Main Event, a poker tournament offering a HK$1 million guarantee, went into the books. The player who walked away with the lion’s share of the goods ...
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August 19 2013
Under their new management, Full Tilt Poker have swiftly repaid their non-US players in order to be able to re-launch as soon as possible in various markets world-over. The fact that they would not be allowed back into ...
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August 17 2013
Even though the poker world seems to be taking a bit of a break these days - something quite normal for the peak of the vacation-season - there are players out there duking it out with their fellow ...
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August 16 2013
The Global Poker Index has been generating more and more interest lately, as people actually seem to care about the weekly top 300 tournament players lists they release, and even players like Daniel Negreanu have expressed their desire to be featured ...
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August 16 2013
Anybody who has ever had anything to do with poker and online poker, knows Andrew Lichtenberger as one of the most accomplished pros the game has ever seen. He has countless live tournament deep runs to his name, culminating in ...
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August 16 2013
For most of the poker world, Kristen Bicknell’s name didn’t mean a whole lot before the 2013 WSOP. Bicknell may have earned her fame by winning her first WSOP gold and collecting a $173.9k prize in the process, but that ...
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August 15 2013
The 10th season of the European Poker Tour has already generated a bit of hype among the high-profile crowd, and that according to some, was one of the reasons why so few such players showed up in Galway for Read More
August 15 2013
Even as some online poker operators struggle to carve themselves a small slice of the US online poker market, the legalization and regulation of which is forever delayed, other operators are looking for ways around the legal quagmire.
LiveAce Poker ...
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August 15 2013
The 4th stop of the UKIPT’s 4th season, the Galway Poker Festival sponsored by Full Tilt Poker, was intended to be the most successful stop of the tour, and in some respects it did indeed deliver. In ...
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August 13 2013
Alan Gold won the UKIPT’s Galway Main Event and what a win it was for the Scotsman: not only did he pick up the fancy Full Tilt Poker trophy together with the €187.5k prize, he also earned ...
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August 13 2013
Needless to say, the online poker tournament scene was dominated by the FTOPS over the weekend. 21 events of the Series were already in the books by Sunday night and with 18 more left, it is safe to ...
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August 13 2013
The Macau Poker Cup kicked off over the weekend and its opening event is already in the books. The winner of this event was PokerStars’ own Celina Lin, who took down her 4th Macau Poker Cup title this way. ...
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August 12 2013
One of the most attractive things about being a poker pro for many players is the fact that – the way they see it – poker pros make a living out of having fun basically. Nothing could be further from the ...
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August 12 2013
Full Tilt Poker have been busy adding professionals lately with the goal of securing proper representation in various segments of the European online poker market. Their latest additions are three eastern European poker players whose task will be to carry ...
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August 12 2013
The 3rd day of the UKIPT’s Galway Main Event saw 51 players return to its tables, with the objective being the final table. Indeed, after about 8 levels of green felt hostilities, that objective was reached as the field had played ...
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August 11 2013
Major live poker events always generate a lot of economic motion wherever they take place, and it is always up to the local community to “milk” them to their full potential in this respect.
According to Padraig Conneely, the mayor of ...
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August 11 2013
Gus Hansen, one of the most charismatic pros on the live poker circuit, has been hitting extremely taxing losing streaks for the last few years, and even though he does go through a major upswing every now and then too, the ...
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August 11 2013
The UKIPT’s Galway Poker festival, sponsored by Full Tilt Poker roared on, on Saturday, even as bad news hit the wire: the €10k Super High Roller was cancelled, quite possibly because of the rather small number of ...
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August 10 2013
The Full Tilt Poker-sponsored UKIPT Galway Main Event gave its organizers the jitters at the beginning of its second day 1 flight. Featuring a €1 million guarantee, the event was supposed to attract a starting field of 769 players just ...
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August 10 2013
The high stakes online poker action has been alive and well at Full Tilt Poker’s tables for the last couple of weeks, despite the multitude of different things going on around the Full Tilt Poker household.
The ...
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August 09 2013
Thursday was the second and final day of the UKIPT Galway Poker Festival’s €2.2k High Roller. The event managed to play down to a winner as scheduled and the one who walked away with the top prize of €24.4k was Sergio ...
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August 09 2013
Barely does one major online tournament Series subside at PokerStars, another one is already on the horizon, barely giving players time to regroup and to get their bankroll ready again. This time, what we’re looking at is the upcoming ...
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August 08 2013
The Full Tilt Poker-sponsored UKIPT Galway Poker Festival’s €2.2k NL Holdem High Roller has played down to its final table today. The event is an 8-handed one, featuring a single re-buy option.
There were 35 ...
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August 08 2013
The WPT’s Bwin.com Merit Cyprus Classic kicks off on August 15, and indeed, there’s already a lot of anticipation in the air, with players trading and buying packages on various poker forums online, looking to make the WPT ...
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August 07 2013
The cause of poker being recognized as a legitimate game of skill suffered something of a blow the other day, when the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the famous Lawrence DiCristina ruling, on which supporters of legal online ...
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August 07 2013
The WPT’s 12th season is indeed just around the corner. Scheduled to kick off on August 12, at the Merit Crystal Cove and Casino, the first stop of the new season features 35 events and plenty of guaranteed money to ...
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August 07 2013
Phil Ivey may have been hit hard by the post-Black Friday woes bestowed upon Full Tilt Poker, but he was hurt even more by the divorce fiasco he went through about the same time. At first, ...
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August 06 2013
Martins Adeniya may not be a universally known player yet, but among the pros added by Full Tilt Poker over the last couple of weeks, he is arguably the highest-profile one. He was named a Full ...
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August 06 2013
There are still 5 months to go before the 2014 Aussie Millions, but apparently, it’s never too early to release a schedule and to generate some additional buzz in regards to the Series. The Crown Casino, the venue which hosts the ...
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August 05 2013
Full Tilt Poker have been adding pros left and right the last couple of weeks, but apparently they weren’t the only online poker room expanding their roster. 888Poker have made two rather significant additions as well: those of Brazilian poker professionals ...
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August 05 2013
The ANZPT’s Queenstown Snowfest main event played down to its winner yesterday but much more importantly than churning out a winner from the initial cauldron of 126 players, it created the sort of story that seemed like it was ripped straight ...
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August 04 2013
Viktor Blom has been consumed by the high stakes action at Full Tilt Poker for a last few days, and since he was forced to give up his most profitable cash game player of the year status ...
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August 04 2013
In May, we ran a piece on Jamie Gold’s move to auction off his 2006 WSOP Main Event bracelet and now we can tell you that the bidding war has apparently come to an end ...
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August 03 2013
Casino gambling has gotten a boost this Tuesday, when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law called the Upstate New York Gambling Development Act, the aim of which is the expansion of casino gambling in areas of the state hit ...
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August 02 2013
The second day of the ANZPT’s Queenstown Snowfest Main Event saw the field play down to the final 23. The one who finished with the largest stack – quite a genuine monster in fact – was Jonathan Bredin, who had 212.4k ...
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August 02 2013
Intra-state, fully legalized and regulated real money online poker is apparently a viable proposition after all: the other day, the first ever real money online poker operator to act completely within the law, Ultimate Poker, has reached a major ...
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August 02 2013
The much-hyped Full Tilt Poker Galway Poker Festival has kicked off the other day, though the highlights of the Series everyone is looking forward to, the €2k High Roller, the €10k Super High Roller and the ...
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August 01 2013
Michiel Brummelhuis is the first ever poker player from the Netherlands to make the final table of the largest poker event in the world. As such, it is only natural that his fellow countrymen be extremely hyped about the prospects of ...
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August 01 2013
Jason Mercier has made a pledge at the beginning of the year, setting some rather lofty goals for himself to accomplish on the live poker circuit. He seemed to do well for a while, well on track towards his proposed goals, ...
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August 01 2013
Daniel Cates, one of the most respected online poker professionals has been cruising around lately, looking to stir up high profile drama and to get some sort of nosebleed stakes heads-up action going. First, he slammed Ben Grundy around ...
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