February 28 2014
It is now official: the repayment process of Full Tilt Poker’s US players has begun. Funds have actually begun landing in player’s accounts, as a number of Automated Clearing House deposits have already been made.
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February 28 2014
The second Day 1 flight of the ANZPT’s Perth Main Event drew a much larger starting field than Day 1A. A total of 171 players bellied up to the tables, looking to have their Day 2 tickets punched. At the end ...
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February 28 2014
A couple of weeks ago we ran a piece on Chan Pelton, who had just won event #9 of the WSOP-C’s Palm Beach Kennel Club stop, taking down a $47k prize, the title and apparently pocketing a T25k chip after ...
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February 28 2014
The first day 1 flight of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour’s Perth stop saw some 85 players belly up to the tables, of whom 54 were left standing at the end of the day. The player who finished Day 1A ...
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February 28 2014
The GPI’s Player of the Year race looks more and more stable with less and less movement each passing week. Not only did Mike McDonald manage to hang on to his top spot yet again, everyone stayed put within the top ...
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February 28 2014
With all the eyes on Full Tilt Poker’s upcoming FTOPS XXV, it’s easy to overlook the fact that before March 30, when the above said online series kicks off, there’s plenty more action in store. PokerStars’ MicroMillions are set ...
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February 27 2014
With the 25th edition of Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS kicking off on March 30, there’s still a ways to go before the actual action commences, but the online poker world is already excited about the prospects offered by several new twists ...
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February 26 2014
The state-by-state legalization of online poker in the US has always had a Damocles’ sword hanging over its head: liquidity-related issues. Shortly after legalization and regulation in Nevada, it has become obvious that not even a state as ...
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February 26 2014
The use of counterfeit chips at various casinos and poker rooms across the nation has apparently become quite fashionable lately. Whether the crooks perpetrating such schemes learn from each-other or whether the various incidents involving fake chips aren’t linked in ...
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February 26 2014
Due to the fragmentation which came with the emergence of regulated online poker markets in Europe, the online poker industry has apparently suffered a blow it has failed to recover from ever since. What’s even worse, instead of recovery, things ...
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February 26 2014
The last day of the Main Event of the 2014 WPT Fallsview Poker Classic saw 10 players return to the tables to play down to a winner, which is exactly what they did. At the end of it all, Matthew Lapossie ...
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February 26 2014
It seems quite incredible, but 1,050 days after US players’ monies got stuck at Full Tilt Poker in the wake of the Black Friday revelations, payments will finally start flowing on February 28, hopefully marking the beginning ...
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February 25 2014
This week, the Sunday Million turned out to be a special tournament indeed. With around 7k players bellying up to its tables every weekend, it is not often that “name” competitors make it to the top, despite the fact that there ...
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February 24 2014
Mike Leah, one of Phil Ivey’s IveyPoker.com pros, has had a great start to his 2014. Unlike some of the high stakes online cash game regulars, who wage a continuous battle with variance, Mike Leah has managed to ride his 2014 ...
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February 24 2014
Well, given that the 25th edition of Full Tilt Poker’s Full Tilt Online Poker Series kicks off on March 30, we can’t really say it is around the corner, but for the savvy online player who likes to save money through ...
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February 24 2014
Over the last few months, there have been lots of poker/gambling-related changes happening in Atlantic City in particular and in New Jersey in general. Online poker and online gambling have been legalized and regulated in the Garden State, and the ...
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February 23 2014
Nevada has always been an angler’s paradise besides being the gambling and entertainment capital of the world, and apparently these days, crooks and anglers come in all shapes and sizes. The owners of the Peppermill Casino in Reno have apparently decided ...
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February 23 2014
Viktor Blom has been dominating the nosebleed stakes online poker tables at Full Tilt Poker lately, despite being away, looking for live poker glory at the 2014 Aussie Millions. Following his official full-time return to the virtual tables though, he ...
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February 22 2014
Whenever PokerStars decide to celebrate something, it usually means tons of extra value for their players, and this March 2, they celebrate the 8th anniversary of the biggest and richest weekend major of online poker industry, the Sunday Million. Indeed, ...
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February 21 2014
Sheldon Adelson’s anti-online gambling and online poker crusade has stirred up the pot quite a bit and now all sorts of lawmakers in the most unexpected places are looking to get something done, even if that something turns out to ...
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February 21 2014
The Player of the Year list of the Global Poker Index remained unchanged within its top 5, but there were plenty of changes from 5th place to 10th. Mike McDonald remained in 1st place with 496.1k points to his name. Dominik ...
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February 21 2014
The US Supreme Court is going to undertake an unprecedented move on Friday, when it’ll review the legal status of home poker games. If the Supreme Court takes the case – and an announcement in this respect is expected for Monday ...
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February 20 2014
Nevada was the first US state to legalize and regulate online poker, and although it has since been overshadowed somewhat by New Jersey, it will still always be a trail-blazer in this respect. Despite the head start, until not so ...
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February 19 2014
The 2014 WSOP schedule has been released and the time to nibble a bit on some of its ins and outs is here. The festival kicks off with the traditional Casino Employees event and it wraps up with the $10k Main ...
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February 18 2014
The weekend tournament action was hot again as several “name” players managed to sneak their names onto the winners’ list. The notable with the biggest weekend tournament profit was Maria Ho, who won the Sunday 500. The biggest winner of the ...
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February 18 2014
US players are apparently finally getting their monies from the Garden City Group, and this time it does indeed look like things are on the right track. The Garden City Group, the claims-administrator hired by the Department of Justice to ...
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February 17 2014
In a poker tournament, he who controls the chips controls the flow of the action. Chips are indeed lifeblood for tournament players, and as such, they represent a great entry-point for all sorts of fraud. Not even a month ago, ...
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February 17 2014
The second and last day of the WPT’s Alpha 8 Johannesburg event saw 7 players return to the tables, with the goal to play down to the winner. Daniel Cates was the one who had the biggest stack and the best ...
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February 16 2014
The 2014 Aussie Millions – which has kept a large percentage of the high stakes online poker cash game regulars from Full Tilt Poker tied up for quite a number of days – has finally wrapped up, but apparently many of ...
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February 15 2014
It’s never too early to start preparing for the big one, and poker players can now draw up plans knowing exactly what to expect come this summer: the official schedule of the 2014 WSOP has been made public this Tuesday. ...
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February 12 2014
Christian Lusardi, the poker player charged with having introduced fake chips into event #1 of the 2014 Borgata Poker Open, is apparently a genuine jack of all trades when it comes to making money in various illicit, and often borderline hilarious ...
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February 11 2014
A couple of days ago we featured a piece around Joe Hachem’s rant regarding the way recent WSOP Main Event champions have handled the obligations which – according to many – came with the title and the massive financial windfall. While ...
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February 11 2014
Despite all the live action going down over the weekend at the Aussie Millions, the weekend majors were big yet again. The Sunday Million for instance, PokerStars’ flagship weekend major, saw 8,072 players belly up to the tables. The ...
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February 11 2014
The $250k Challenge of the 2014 Aussie Millions is in the books and we have a two-time winner on our hands: Phil Ivey was the one who bested the record-breaking starting field of the poker tournament, ...
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February 10 2014
The 2014 Aussie Millions shattered one record after another, through many of its various high rollers and even through its Main Event. The $250k Challenge, the biggest of the high rollers, was ahead of the pack in this respect too: a ...
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February 10 2014
On Sunday, the Main Event of the Aussie Millions saw 7 players return to the tables of the Crown Melbourne to play down to a winner. Ami Barer was the one who had the largest stack at the beginning of the ...
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February 10 2014
The Aussie Millions are obviously a great source of high stakes poker action, and apparently, of controversial statements as well. Joe Hachem, Australia’s very own WSOP champion, had a few choice words in an interview for Jerry Yang and Jamie Gold, ...
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February 10 2014
The Aussie Millions’ high rollers are breaking one record after the other, and the $250k challenge kept within that trend. Its first day of action saw no fewer than 37 buy-ins go into the middle. A total of 18 players ...
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February 09 2014
This year, the Aussie Millions’ $100k Challenge high roller was a massive success: a total of 39 players took part in it, contributing no fewer than 76 entries. Considering that last year that number was 22, things did indeed look good ...
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February 09 2014
Doug Polk and Viktor Blom have both made the trip to Melbourne to play in some of the biggest poker tournaments of the beginning of the year, and to rack up some green felt glory and Aussie dollars ...
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February 09 2014
The 4th and penultimate day of the Aussie Millions’ Main Event saw 36 players return to the tables of the Crown Melbourne, with the objective of playing down to the final table. That objective was indeed accomplished: the end of the ...
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February 08 2014
The first day of the $100k Challenge event of the 2014 Aussie Millions was a superb poker spectacular, complete with just about everything that makes such tournaments awesome. The buy-in was massive, yet several players quite literally abused the re-...
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February 08 2014
The Global Poker Index’s Player of the Year rankings, which saw little movement after Vanessa Selbst’s PokerStars Caribbean Adventure performance propelled her right to the top, were finally shaken up last week. Indeed, even within the top 10, which had been ...
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February 07 2014
The third day of the 2014 Aussie Millions Main Event was hard on large stack Gareth Dwyer, who at one point had even held the chip lead in the poker tournament. Dwyer’s Main Event run got cut short ...
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February 07 2014
No one even slightly versed in the ways of the online poker world has to be introduced to Viktor Blom’s wild, variance-ridden type of approach to high stakes cash game action. For the last few weeks, Blom has been on ...
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February 07 2014
The second day of the 2014 Aussie Millions saw the field convene under the same roof for the first time. The three Day 1 flights generated a starting field of 355 players for Day 2. After 9 levels of green felt ...
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February 05 2014
The third and final Day 1 flight of the 2014 Aussie Millions Main Event saw 328 players belly up to the tables. That means the actual size of the starting field is currently 657 players, which is already bigger than last ...
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February 04 2014
The Full Tilt Poker payment ordeal for US players has been ongoing for quite a while now, but for some players, the light at the end of the tunnel is already visible. Last month, the announcement was made that some $82 ...
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February 04 2014
A few days ago, poker pro Chris Moorman announced that he was going to publish a poker strategy book. Yesterday, he made the headlines again, for a different, albeit not entirely unrelated reason: he managed to complete his 20th online poker ...
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February 04 2014
The second day 1 flight of the 2014 Aussie Millions Main Event saw 153 players belly up to the tables. Uncharacteristically, there were fewer participants on Day 1B than on Day 1A, a fact which can be explained by its overlapping ...
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February 04 2014
The second and final day of the Aussie Millions’ $25k Challenge event saw 30 players return to the tables, set to play all the way down to a winner. The player holding the largest stack at the beginning of the day ...
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February 02 2014
The final table of the EPT’s Deauville Main Event brought together quite a motley crew of competitors. Sotirios Koutoupas, one of the most experienced of the bunch, had already racked up a second place finish in an EPT ...
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February 02 2014
The EPT Deauville’s High Roller went into the books on Saturday, its winner Dominik Panka, the player who won the Main Event of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure back in January. ...
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February 02 2014
The $3 million Main Event of the Borgata Winter Poker Open wrapped up on Friday, with Anthony Merulla’s victory. Merulla picked up $842.3k after he defeated David Paredes, the start of the day chip leader, heads-up. The runner-up picked ...
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February 02 2014
The online poker cash game action flared up again this past week and for the third time in third weeks, Full Tilt Poker’s Viktor Blom finished with the largest profit, firmly ascending what is now shaping up to be one of ...
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February 01 2014
Greece’s Sotirios Koutoupas had the largest stack when the 5th day of the EPT’s Deauville Main Event kicked off, and he felt so comfortable as the chip leader that he didn’t relinquish the position all day. When the action was called, ...
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