September 30 2013
Archie Karas (whose real name is Anargyros Karabourniotis) is a renowned poker professional, best known in poker and online poker circles for his 1992-1995 “The Run”, which saw him pull off an unprecedented feat in the history of gambling: ...
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September 30 2013
Tom Dwan was one of the poster-children of Full Tilt Poker’s Golden Age (the period leading up to Black Friday), when his name was all over the headlines pretty much every day, on account of the massive pots he played ...
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September 30 2013
Even though Full Tilt Poker’s Sin Melin played on Day 1B of the FTP Montreal Main event, finishing in 7th place with a stack of 249.8k chips to her name, the majority of the female competitors had apparently waited until the ...
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September 30 2013
As it most often happens, it was the third and final Day 1 flight of Full Tilt Poker’s Montreal Main Event that drew the largest staring field. With the C$1 million guarantee already covered by the Day ...
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September 29 2013
The officials behind Full Tilt Poker’s Montreal Main Event didn’t have to wait till the third and last day 1 flight of the event to see whether the C$1million guarantee would be covered. Day 1B of the poker ...
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September 29 2013
A couple of days ago, we ran a story about UK poker pro Chris Moorman’s efforts to cross the $10 million mark in lifetime online poker tournament winnings, and we’re already back with what can only be described ...
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September 29 2013
Full Tilt Poker may have been “re-launched” after picking up its new license from the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission last October, and the site may indeed look just like it did before: boasting the best online poker ...
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September 28 2013
It is indeed difficult to believe that a person could amass $10 million in profits playing online poker, yet that’s exactly what Chris Moorman of the UK is about to achieve. Moorman has always been known as a major online poker ...
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September 28 2013
Hosted by the Playground Poker Club in Montreal and offering a C$1 million guarantee, the Full Tilt Poker Montreal Main event got going on the right foot, with its first day 1 flight. 491 players bellied up ...
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September 28 2013
The GPI’s Player of the Year list saw few changes this week, but these changes were quite significant nonetheless. Ole Schemion maintained his top spot, with 892.4 points, but the second place man is a new one: Paul Volpe managed to ...
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September 28 2013
Phil Ivey is thus far among the biggest losers of the year at the high stakes cash game tables at Full Tilt Poker, but his past two weeks were great for him, as he managed to finish ...
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September 27 2013
The online gambling and online poker industries have been through a lot over the last few years. The market has fragmented as various smaller regulated markets were born, limiting free access for most operators, except the biggest ones. In light ...
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September 27 2013
According to a poll conducted by eGaming Review Magazine, online poker may be in trouble in Europe. The fragmentation of the regulated markets and that of the player liquidity has certainly had an adverse effect on the online poker industry in ...
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September 27 2013
PartyPoker’s Premier League VI was a huge success, as it managed to draw quite a few new names to the tables, to join the already established roster. One of the new players was Antonio Esfandiari, who had a great time in ...
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September 26 2013
Every year, one or two new players are induced into the Poker Hall of Fame by a special Governing Council, which has already determined the 10 players to be considered for this year’s honors.
The panel that will eventually make the ...
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September 26 2013
Wynn Resorts Ltd. Have never been friends of the idea of legal and regulated online poker and gambling, but with the new vert of the industry springing up all around them, they have been forced to make a move. Two online ...
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September 26 2013
Last week, there was no shortage of WPT headlines, most of which were generated by the Borgata Poker Open. As the big one rolled forward on the East Coast though drawing scores of pros to its tables, there were other – ...
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September 26 2013
WSOP.com’s launch this Thursday was one of the highlights of the week as far as online poker news went. The site, which is operated by Caesars’ Interactive Entertainment under the WSOP brand, using the 888Poker platform, was the ...
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September 25 2013
The PCA (PokerStars Caribbean Adventure) is the biggest live poker Series the entire poker world is looking forward to at the beginning of each year. Taking place in January, the PCA isn’t just one of the EPT’s stops, ...
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September 24 2013
Even though the majority of the headlines this weekend were stolen by the launch of WSOP.com, the second fully legal real money online poker site in Nevada, and probably the first one to bring world-class action and promotions to ...
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September 24 2013
The European Union has long taken a firm stand against market fragmentation and protectionism in the case of online gambling and a recent ruling of the Court of Justice of the EU in the case of Biaschi et al vs Italy ...
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September 23 2013
According to Boston Rob, it is “really” hard indeed. Rob Mariano may be known for his success in Survivor, but he has been known to play poker occasionally too, and success at the green felt often decided to side with him ...
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September 22 2013
Six players returned to the tables of the Borgata Poker Open on the last day of the poker tournament, looking the play down to a winner. At the end of the day, there was only one left standing ...
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September 22 2013
The MiniFTOPS has been rolling on for the last few weeks and this weekend it’s finally time for the Series to wrap up. Full Tilt Poker offers no less than $1.3 million in guaranteed prizes through the MiniFTOPS just this weekend.
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September 21 2013
Full Tilt Poker have been keen on pushing various live event promotions lately, and the Montreal Festival they’re sponsoring and which is set to kick off on Saturday, fits that mould nicely. The Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival is scheduled to ...
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September 21 2013
Viktor Blom’s major swings are well known through the online poker industry, so seeing the Swede drop more than $1 million over a week doesn’t exactly surprise anyone. Seeing him finish as the biggest loser of the week, for several ...
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September 21 2013
For poker players already loathing the approach of the Northern hemisphere winter, the Caribbean Poker Tour appears to be the perfect getaway excuse. Taking place in a tropical paradise, the tour’s first stop is slated to kick off in less than ...
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September 21 2013
The 4th day of the WPT’s Borgata Poker Open was that of the final table: when the green felt hostilities were stopped at the end of the day, only 6 players were left standing, among them Day 1A chip leader Cong ...
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September 19 2013
The 3rd day of the WPT’s Borgata Poker Open saw 174 players belly up to the tables. The money bubble was set to burst during the day, so players had their immediate priorities clear. Indeed, the bubble was shoved out of ...
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September 19 2013
US online poker players with funds stuck at Full Tilt Poker have long been treated like a stepchild by the DoJ and the funds administrators tasked with returning the due monies: as European players and those from ...
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September 19 2013
The second day of the WPT’s Borgata Poker Open is in the books and the field has been thinned down to 174. Florida’s Raj Vohra finished Day 2 with the biggest stack, having had 580.7k chips bagged at the final whistle. ...
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September 18 2013
Being a Team PokerStars pro does not guarantee one special treatment at the Canadian border. That is the lesson PokerStars’ Shane Schleger learned at the US-Canada border this week, the hard way. The poker pro got stopped, and ...
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September 18 2013
Although WSOP.com, the first ever real money online poker operation under the WSOP brand and the first one ever in which Caesars Interactive Entertainment are also involved, was originally scheduled to launch on September 19, and the majority of Nevada-...
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September 18 2013
The ongoing Borgata Poker Open represented a great opportunity for WPT officials to make a major announcement concerning the venue and their $25k World Championship Event. Set for May, 2014, the event will be moved from the Bellagio, in Las Vegas, ...
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September 17 2013
Having teamed up with Caesars Interactive Entertainment, the WSOP has made it clear a long time ago that it would aim to carve out its own share of the newly legalized and regulated Nevada online poker market, and the other ...
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September 17 2013
Even as the durrrr challenge continues to not make any headlines and to not see any action at all, two other players have kicked off a similar-format challenge at Full Tilt Poker, looking to generate some ...
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September 17 2013
Amir Lehavot has been peddling pieces of his 2013 WSOP Main Event action. He apparently has 30% of his total up for grabs, in a move which is hardly a surprising one coming from a player who is something of ...
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September 16 2013
A little over a year ago, Phil Ivey showed up at London’s Crockfords Casino with a Chinese associate of his, to play high stakes Punto Banco. The two of them did what they did and after two nights of action, they ...
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September 16 2013
According to most online poker experts, recreational players represent the backbone of the industry, still, in this day and age, these guys seem to be trampled upon both online and offline. The phenomenon isn’t exactly a new one either. Phil Galfond ...
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September 16 2013
On Sunday, the WPT’s Borgata Poker open kicked off with it first day 1 flight, which saw a massive starting field of 376 players belly up to the tables. A total of 8 levels of action went into the day, at ...
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September 15 2013
The online gambling world is abuzz with rumors regarding Google’s interest in Bwin.Party. The rumors – which are indeed just that at this stage – were sparked by an article penned by reporter Geoff Foster, in which he discussed the current ...
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September 15 2013
Poker professional Abe Mosseri isn’t in a particularly enviable spot right now. Involved in a massive money-laundering case, Mosseri is currently out on bail. He is being accused of having taken part in an organized crime ring, which had two ...
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September 14 2013
Ever since he opened an Instagram account, Phil Ivey, one of the most reclusive high-profile poker professionals, has been giving the world an increasing number of peeks into his private life. Needless to say, poker fans love that, as they ...
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September 14 2013
Full Tilt Poker pro Viktor Blom has been getting acquainted with the top of the biggest weekly losers’ list lately, and this week, his woes continued. Shortly after the line was drawn on last week’s high stakes action, Blom returned to ...
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September 14 2013
With proof on the table that real money online poker is possible in Nevada indeed (albeit we’re yet to see if the activity is viable for the operators), offshore online poker platform providers like 888 are still lining up to secure ...
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September 13 2013
To say that Will Failla has been something of a regular in the Borgata Poker Open events would probably be something of an understatement at this stage. He is now the absolute record-holder, with 5 titles to his name, his ...
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September 13 2013
The GPI’s various poker player ranking lists saw quite a few changes this week: both the Player of the Year list as well as the GPI 300 saw new leaders emerge. Although he doesn’t currently lead any of the above said ...
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September 13 2013
Runner Runner hasn’t even hit the big screen yet (it is scheduled to premiere on September 18 in Las Vegas) but there has been so much positive vibe in the poker community about the movie already that it’s bound to ...
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September 12 2013
After the massive software overhaul and re-branding effort which PartyPoker have undertaken over the last week or so, news broke the other day that the site was planning to get something additional accomplished on the live poker scene too.
Under ...
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September 11 2013
Justin Bonomo may be one of the higher profiler poker professionals out there, but when it comes to the second durrrr challenge between Tom Dwan and Daniel Cates, he’s just as frustrated as your garden-variety online poker player/fan. In ...
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September 11 2013
With the WCOOP in full swing at PokerStars, and with scores of high profile pros lining up to play, it was indeed only a question of time till one of these pros managed to make it all the way ...
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September 10 2013
This weekend was a bit different from the norm as far as the major weekend guarantees offered by PokerStars went: there was no Sunday Million and the Sunday Warm-Up was gone from the lineup as well. Instead though, the ...
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September 09 2013
The 5th day of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s Melbourne Main Event saw the final table play down to a winner. The one left standing with all the chips in the game piled up in front of him was well-known ...
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September 09 2013
Besides the top poker action, there were apparently other – much less savory – things going on at the EPT Barcelona in the background too. Jens Kyllonen was the player who alerted the poker community through one of ...
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September 09 2013
The third day of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s Melbourne Main Event saw 42 players belly up to the tables of the Crown Casino, with the goal of playing down to the final table. By the end of the day, that ...
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September 08 2013
The last day of the EPT’s Season 10 Barcelona Main Event saw 8 players return to the tables, to play down to a winner. Five levels of action went into the day, before a winner emerged. Tom Middleton, the player who’d ...
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September 08 2013
The €10k High Roller of the EPT’s Season 10 Barcelona stop is finally in the books and its winner is Thomas Muhlocker. Muhlocker made his way to the top cutting through a “name” pro-laden final table and defeating none other ...
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September 08 2013
Viktor Blom and Alex Millar had both had superb runs before deciding to lock horns on Thursday and Friday, at the $400/$800 NL Holdem tables at Full Tilt Poker, and when two go heads-up, only one ...
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September 06 2013
The 4th day of the EPT’s Barcelona Main Event saw 79 players return to the tables. A total of 5 levels of action went into the day, at the end of which, 24 players remained standing. The one to finish day ...
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September 06 2013
The WPT’s Legends of Poker event is finally in the books and the winner is Jordan Cristos. Cristos bested Dan Heimiller heads-up, for the bragging rights and for the $613.3k top prize. On his way to the top, Cristos survived ...
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September 06 2013
A few days ago, we were telling you that PartyPoker were preparing for a major software overhaul, and indeed, earlier today the new software/brand went online. We are glad to see that all the rumors we had heard about the software ...
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September 05 2013
The third day of the EPT’s Season 10 Barcelona Main Event saw 235 players return to the tables, hell bent on at least making it past the money-bubble. Indeed, one of the biggest landmarks of the tournament, ...
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September 05 2013
The Super High Roller and the currently ongoing Main Event may have hogged all the lime-light at the EPT’s Season 10 Barcelona stop, but there were other things going on at the stop too, even if they ...
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September 05 2013
The 4th day of the WPT’s Legends of Poker event saw the field play down to the final table. 15 players returned at the beginning of the day, looking to make the 6-handed home dash of the Read More
September 04 2013
Back in the days following the 2006 UIGEA and their fall from the top of the online poker world, PartyPoker were reluctant to overhaul their software. Thus, for quite a while there, theirs was one of the most ...
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September 04 2013
The poker world had to wait until the official beginning of the second day of the EPT’s Barcelona Main Event to find out the final numbers behind the competition. As the 697 survivors of the first two day 1 flights were ...
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September 04 2013
Apparently, the second Annual Asia Championship of Poker is a go and PokerStars LIVE Macau have just announced the schedule for it. The ACOP is the top stop of the APPT (Asia Pacific Poker Tour) and it is scheduled ...
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September 04 2013
The second and last say 1 flight of the EPT’s Barcelona Main Event saw a massive starting field of 708 players pour into the casino. After 8 levels of action, only 440 of them remained standing. The player ...
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September 03 2013
The third day of the WPT’s Legends of Poker event saw the field thin down to the final 15 players. The one who finished the day with a massive chip lead was Patrick Karschamroon, who had 4.1 million chips bagged. At ...
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September 02 2013
The €5.3k Main Event of the EPT’s Season 10 Barcelona stop kicked off on Sunday. The first day 1 flight of the poker tournament saw a massive starting field of 518 belly up to the ...
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September 02 2013
On Sunday, the €50k Super High Roller of the EPT’s Barcelona stop wrapped up with Vitaly Lunkin’s victory. Lunkin picked up the Shamballa bracelet together with the €771.3k top prize. Only 8 players were in contention at the ...
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September 02 2013
The third Day 1 flight of the WPT’s Legends of Poker drew a starting field of 328 players. Being the last of the three day 1 flights, Day 1C made the numbers-game clear: a total of 669 players bought into ...
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September 01 2013
The second day 1 flight of the WPT’s Legends of Poker saw 199 players belly up to the tables. At the end of the day, only 81 were left standing. The player with the largest stack at the end of the ...
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