January 31 2014
The first day of the EPT Deauville’s High Roller saw a record number of buy-ins go into the middle. A total of 113 buy-ins were registered, and with registration still open till the beginning of Day 2, that number ...
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January 31 2014
41 players returned to the tables on the 4th day of the EPT’s Season 10 Deauville Main Event. According to the schedule of the poker tournament, the goal for day 4 was for the field to play down ...
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January 31 2014
The Global Poker Index’s Player of the Year top 10 remained unchanged this week, despite the fact that there were plenty of high buy-in tournaments rolling on in various areas of the globe, most prominently in New Jersey’s Atlantic City. ...
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January 31 2014
Day 16 of the Borgata Winter Poker Open, which went into the books on Wednesday, saw a single event play down to a winner, but this event – the $100k Deep Stack NL Holdem Re-entry one, turned ...
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January 31 2014
A total of 118 players returned to the tables of the Borgata for the 3rd day of the 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship Event. The story of the day was basically that of a marathon grind, which lasted for 15 ...
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January 31 2014
The third day of the EPT’s Season 10 Deauville stop saw a relatively unknown local player shoot to the top of the chip counts. Ekrem Sanioglu finished with 1.3 million chips to his name, topping the field of survivors. Sanioglu was ...
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January 30 2014
The second official day of the 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship saw 642 players return to the tables - the survivors of two Day 1 flights. The player with the largest stack of chips at the beginning of the ...
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January 29 2014
Registration for the EPT’s Season 10 Deauville Main Event closed when the second day of action kicked off, so the actual numbers concerning the participants and the resulting prize-pool were finally announced. Through two day 1 flights, ...
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January 29 2014
While the Main Event obviously stole all the limelight at the EPT’s Season 10 Deauville stop, there were other events rolling on in the background, even as the Main Event just getting going. The €2,250 French Poker Series High Roller was ...
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January 29 2014
The $3.5k Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship event, the one offering a $3 million guarantee, saw 807 players register during its second day 1 flight. There was indeed a lot of interest for the poker tournament, fuelled by ...
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January 29 2014
The second Day 1 flight of the EPT’s Deauville Main Event was expected to be much larger than the first one, and indeed, that’s exactly how it turned out to be. Although the exact number of participants is quite impossible to ...
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January 27 2014
The first Day 1 flight of the EPT’s Deauville Main Event saw 234 players belly up to the tables, to battle their way through 8 levels of action with one goal in mind: to have their Day 2 tickets punched. When ...
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January 27 2014
The Borgata has been in the headlines lately for a whole bunch of different reasons. First of all, the Borgata Winter Poker Open kicked off there, and a major cheating scandal immediately ensued, the perpetrator of which has already been arrested. ...
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January 27 2014
On Saturday, the 12th day of the Borgata Winter Poker open rolled on, seeing no fewer than three side events play down to their respective winners. Of the three poker tournaments, event #15, the NL Holdem 6-max ...
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January 27 2014
The 11th day of the Borgata Winter Poker Open saw two poker tournaments play down to their respective winners: the $1.6k Heads-Up NL Holdem tournament (#14 of the Series) and the $500 Deep Stack PLO one (#16).
Event #15 saw ...
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January 25 2014
A couple of days ago, news broke courtesy of the Poker Players’ Alliance, regarding the repayment process of US players in the Full Tilt Poker case. According to the PPA report, some $82 million would be returned through the first leg ...
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January 25 2014
Viktor Blom’s insane online poker swings are well-documented and they have grown into a staple of the online poker cash game scene over the years, the same way Gus Hansen has become the perennial loser. The Swede kicked off 2014 ...
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January 24 2014
The Global Poker Index’s Player of the Year race registered no changes whatsoever this week. Vanessa Selbst is still on top, with 383.1 points, which she earned thanks to her phenomenal 2014 PCA showing, which saw her take home tons of ...
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January 24 2014
There’s always something going on in the world of poker/online poker that may not be directly related to the green felt action, yet it’s still just as part of the big picture as various big live and online tournaments and their ...
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January 24 2014
The 9th day of the 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open saw two more events go into the books. Event #10 was one of the tournaments that played down to a winner. The other one was event #99, so peculiarly numbered on ...
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January 23 2014
Full Tilt Poker’s US players have been awaiting the reimbursement of the monies they had left in their Full Tilt Poker accounts following Black Friday for what seems like an eternity now. After a tedious and intricate beginning to the funds-...
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January 23 2014
Unlike Day 7 of the Borgata Winter Poker Open, Day 8 of the Series saw 3 events hit the tables, of which two managed to crown their respective winners. One of the winners was Nicolas Immekus, the winner of the $250k ...
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January 23 2014
PartyPoker have been on an offensive lately on several fronts, and while focusing on all sorts of newly regulated markets, they did not forget to do a little bit of a cleanup in their own back yard too. That cleanup consisted ...
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January 22 2014
The story of Bitcoin has been one of great financial success and that of a major step taken right into the future, through the introduction of the world’s first widely accepted virtual currency. Good news continue to befall Bitcoin these days, ...
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January 22 2014
Unlike the previous days of the Borgata Winter Poker Open, Day 7 only served up one event: event #8, which saw two of its Day 1 flights go into the books. The Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa played host to Day ...
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January 22 2014
Billionaire Richard Branson and his Virgin Group represent the latest variable added to New Jersey’s regulated online gambling/online poker market. Despite the underwhelming revenue numbers published by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement in regards to the state’s online ...
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January 22 2014
PokerStars’ Turbo Championship of Online Poker is set to start tomorrow, and the schedule does indeed look extremely promising. Kicking off on January 23, the 2014 TCOOP features no fewer than 50 events, covering a wide range of buy-in levels ...
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January 21 2014
The 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open may have gotten started on the wrong foot, but the bustle surrounding the fake chip cheating in the first event has finally subsided for good. The 6th day of the Series saw three more players ...
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January 21 2014
On Monday, the UKIPT’s Edinburgh Main Event went into the books, as Dean Hutchison managed to get the better of PokerStars’ Liv Boeree heads-up. Boeree was among the chip leaders at the start of the day, second in chips only ...
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January 21 2014
Having just come back from the 2014 PCA, PokerStars pro Mickey Petersen hit the virtual green felt, looking for serious money to take down and indeed, he managed to do just that this past weekend, although his jackpot came not from ...
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January 20 2014
Selling a piece of one’s poker action has long been standard practice among high stakes professional players. This way, they can minimize risks to their bankrolls while still playing in massive events and they can let others win some money too ...
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January 20 2014
Gaming regulators from several European countries got together in Rome, Italy, on January 16-17, in an apparent bid to improve international cooperation in this matter. Representatives from the UK, Germany, Spain, France and Portugal were there, for discussions with Italy’s ...
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January 20 2014
The Borgata Winter Poker open has thus far been dominated by event #1, the $2 million opener of the series, which was cancelled on Friday due to chip fraud. Even though the cancellation of the event was definitely a hard blow ...
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January 19 2014
Everyone knows that Phil Hellmuth considers himself the best poker player in the world, second to no other. What the public at large thinks of him is different though. Most people consider him simply lucky, having an uncanny ability of being ...
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January 19 2014
The first event of the Borgata Winter Poker Open, the one offering a $2 million guarantee, has been beset with scandal and confusion every step of the way. Its second and third day 1 flights held on the same day, the ...
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January 18 2014
Phil Ivey has spent a lot of time and money building up his own poker brand and hiring various pros to represent it all over the world, and he has made it clear from the get go that it was his ...
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January 18 2014
Viktor Blom, Full Tilt Poker’s notorious Swede, kicked off the New Year with a string of losses, the latest of which was a $587.5k pill which he had to swallow last week. This week though, he finally managed to get on ...
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January 18 2014
The first event of the Borgata Winter Poker Open was an up and down, tumultuous and often chaotic affair, which has finally managed to clear the waters a little, on its 3rd day as the field played down to the final ...
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January 17 2014
With the start of the New Year, the GPI’s Player of the Year race has been obviously reset, allowing a completely new cast of characters to shoot into the lime-light. The top 300 remained of course, because that list doesn’t ...
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January 17 2014
What long has been foretold and anticipated by online poker experts, has finally come to fruition the other day: Zynga, the once-hip social online gaming company, has launched a Facebook application aimed at UK residents, which supports real money online ...
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January 17 2014
PokerStars have pretty much always been the kings of the micro buy-in online tournament series, but PartyPoker have been on a roll lately, managing to pull off feats PokerStars were unable to duplicate (like breaking into the US online poker ...
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January 17 2014
Event #1 of the Borgata Winter Poker Open continued with its second and third day 1 flights on Wednesday. The player who finished the day with the largest stack was Christian Lusardi, who had 519k chips bagged. Lusardi picked up a ...
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January 17 2014
Billionaire and casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is a well-known opponent of online poker, and his concern for the financial well-being of the gambling public knows absolutely no limits apparently. A while ago, Adelson, who owns numerous casinos all over ...
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January 16 2014
Sure, it seemed like a good idea at the time: lock all the unlicensed online poker companies out of the country, lock everyone else out too and let the French duke it out among themselves at the virtual green felt of ...
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January 15 2014
On Tuesday, the first day 1flight of the Borgata Winter Poker Open’s first event went into the books at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa. The $500 NL Holdem event – which offers a $2 million guarantee -...
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January 15 2014
Back in November, New Jersey became the largest US state to legalize and regulate online gambling and online poker. Understandably, the move generated quite a bit of anticipation, and some rather optimistic forecasts, mostly coming from lawmakers who had thrown their ...
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January 15 2014
Sometimes, all that’s needed to get a poker professional into the right gear is a bit of a change of scenery, and Ben Jones will definitely attest to that, following a truly crazy start of the year for him. For Christmas, ...
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January 14 2014
The final day of the PCA’s Main Event was a truly spectacular affair, which saw the player who had all the eyes of the press on him at the beginning of the final table, make it all the way to the ...
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January 14 2014
The wildly popular $25k High Roller of the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure went into the books yesterday, after Jake Schindler defeated Greg Merson heads-up for the title and the $1.19 million top prize. Merson himself ended up with a pretty ...
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January 14 2014
The great thing about online poker is that people can take their favorite games with them wherever they go, and as two poker pros, Griffin Benger and Michael Tureniec learned it this weekend, that cliché advantage can translate into quite substantial ...
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January 13 2014
Sunday saw the second day of the 2014 PCA’s $25k High Roller go into the books, and there were few surprises in regards to how the event has thus far unfolded. At the end of the second day of action, the ...
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January 13 2014
The 5th and penultimate day of the 2014 PCA’s Main Event saw 20 players return to the tables, looking to play down to the official final table. Given that only 12 players needed to go before that objective was reached, Day ...
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January 13 2014
Even as the $25k High Roller was set to kick off, the Main Event of the 2014 PCA rolled on with its 4th day of action. At the end of the day, the one sitting with the largest stack was Estonia’s ...
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January 13 2014
The first day of the $25k High Roller of the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean adventure went into the books on Saturday and the one who grabbed the provisional chip lead was Jonathan Jaffe. Jaffe finished with 422k chips to his name, well ...
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January 11 2014
The third day of the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event went into the books on Friday, when the field managed to play past the money bubble, right down to the final 72. The player who had the most chips bagged ...
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January 11 2014
2013 was a superb year for online poker for some people, then again, depending on whom one asks, there are guaranteed to be people out there who will proclaim it downright abysmal. One of these people would definitely be Gus Hansen, ...
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January 10 2014
The second day of the 2014 PCA’s Main Event finally saw the numbers settled for good. The official starting field was 1,031-player strong, which meant that the prize-pool was set to $10,070,000. A total of 151 players will be ...
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January 10 2014
If one had any doubts about just how thorough a root online poker/online gaming would sprout in New Jersey, the time to toss those doubts out the window is probably now. PartyPoker have been busy bringing about the second golden age ...
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January 10 2014
Open-Face Chinese Poker has been gathering a lot of following – especially among the top poker professionals – lately, therefore it’s not exactly a surprise that a Series as high-profile as the Read More
January 10 2014
The second day 1 flight of the 2014 PCA Main Event drew a much larger starting field than Day 1A. A total of 710 players bellied up to the tables, and when the day was called, there were still 475 players ...
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January 10 2014
PokerStars’ Turbo Championship of Online Poker has reached its third edition, and the site has finally made its schedule public the other day. Kicking off on January 23, the TCOOP will feature 50 events and it will hand out guaranteed prizes ...
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January 09 2014
Full Tilt Poker, the original inventors of Rush Poker and of fast-folding poker in general, have done it again: the site has just launched a new and even faster form of Rush Poker called Adrenaline Rush. The novelty that Adrenaline ...
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January 09 2014
Even as the final table of the $100k Super High Roller was winding down, the 2014 PCA’s Main Event kicked off with the first of its Day 1 flights. While not particularly impressive, the Day 1A turn-out was more than ...
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January 08 2014
Germans have dominated the high stakes tournament action last year and during the opening stages of the 2014 PCA’s $100k Super High Roller, it looked like their domination would extend into the New Year without problems. The German chip leaders then ...
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January 08 2014
As lines are drawn at the end of the year, some online poker players obviously have a lot more to brag about than others, and for 371 of PokerStars’ players, this has been exceptionally true for 2013. These players have reached ...
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January 07 2014
The second day of the PCA’s $100k High Roller saw the field make great progress, playing right down to the final table. Lots of milestones were put in the rearview mirror on Day 2 indeed: the money bubble burst, a whole ...
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January 07 2014
The first online poker weekend of 2014 is in the books and the Sunday Majors once again delivered in their usual way across the board. The biggest tournament winner of the weekend came once again from PokerStars’ Sunday Million as ...
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January 07 2014
With the Old Year behind us, and with a number of retrospectives now in the archives, it is finally time to leave the past be – lessons learned of course – and to take a look into the future, or rather, ...
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January 07 2014
With the PCA upon us, it was indeed high-time for the EPT to finally announce the official schedule of its Deauville stop, the next one on the Season 10 calendar. As it has lately grown to be the norm, the ...
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January 07 2014
Back in March, Full Tilt Poker launched an attractive sponsorship program known as the Black Card Sponsorship, and it has awarded no fewer than 11 Black Card deals to 11 players, the winners of various disciplines set forth by the site ...
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January 07 2014
Gus Hansen finished 2013 with a monster-loss of $8.4 million, so with that in mind, it’s quite understandable that he’s a bit jumpy and tilt-prone these days, even though he’s actually up about $115.1k for 2014. Shortly before New ...
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January 06 2014
Jumping into online poker these days is a much more difficult stunt to pull off properly than say 5-6 years ago. Indeed, the average level of skill at the tables these days is much higher than in the past, and ...
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January 06 2014
2013 ended up dominated by German players, at least as far as the high buy-in, live tournament action was concerned, and 2014 seems to have picked up just where 2013 left off in this respect. The first event of the ...
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January 05 2014
The New Year has barely been rung in and the poker world is already looking ahead to its first major live event of 2014: the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. In fact, ...
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January 05 2014
One of the most accurate measures of a poker player’s success over a one-year period is his year-end balance of course. While organizations such as the GPI use intricate algorithms to ranks players by performance, for a layman, just ...
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January 04 2014
For the last week or so, the GPI’s Eric Danis has been busy keeping the cogs and gears of a massive and infinitely complicated algorithm in motion, aimed at determining the best poker player of the last decade, and on Friday, ...
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January 04 2014
Most high stakes poker players are avid prop bettors, and even among this bunch, PokerStars’ Jason Mercier stands out quite a bit. Apparently, the beginning of each year prompts Mercier to make some sort of a lofty resolution or ...
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January 04 2014
PokerStars know how to make a month -the outlook of which is rather dull otherwise - look good. Indeed, January doesn’t seem like prime poker/online poker season, but PokerStars have long turned it into just that by virtue of ...
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January 03 2014
A couple of days ago we told you about the ambitious Player of the Decade project the Global Poker Index has embarked on, and we released the names of the first three players from the top 9 countdown. Phil Ivey, JC ...
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January 02 2014
Having covered some of the best moments of 2013, it is now time to take off the rose-tinted glasses and to take a walk on the dark side again. Just as some of the good moments were bigger and most ...
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January 02 2014
Arguably, the biggest poker moment of 2013 was the launch of legal and regulated online poker (and casino gaming) in the US. For years, lawmakers had bickered over federal legalization and regulation, with not much to show for it at the ...
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January 02 2014
It has lately developed into something of a trend that every year, one of the legendary top pros turns in a breakout performance. The pros have been taking turns at it too: last year, Phil Hellmuth was the one who surprised ...
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January 01 2014
The GPI has been keeping track of how various players are doing at the green felt for quite a while now, and Player of the Year races have become extremely popular lately too. The Global Poker Index decided to one-up ...
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