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Estrellas Poker Tour Madrid Starts TodayPokerStars launches season three of its Estrellas Poker Tour today at the Gran Casino, Madrid. The €1,000 + €100 buy in main event starts Wednesday with a €165 buy in satellite to the main event taking place tonight at 9 p.m. local time and a €220 buy in freezeout tomorrow evening. Up to 500 players […]
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Zynga Poker Eyes Possible Move To Real-Money PlayFacebook’s immensely popular Zynga Poker is now looking into partnerships to offer real-money play, AllThingsD reported Friday. A spokesman for the publicly traded company told the website that Zynga Poker boasts more than 30 million players each month and wants to "explore this new opportunity.” In fact, the company has been contemplating the venture for […]
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Gus Hansen Leads Aussie Millions $100k After Day 1The seventh running of the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge got underway yesterday at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, with 22 of the world’s top players posting the six-figure buy-in, building a $2,200,000 AUD prize pool. Four players will make the money, with the eventual champion winning $1,012,000 AUD. After ten hours of play, 2007 Aussie […]
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Three Irish Poker Open Packages To Be Won TonightThis evening at 8 p.m. on PaddyPowerPoker.com three Irish Open packages will be given away in a €200 + €15 no-limit hold’em freezeout. The packages are worth €4,600 each and include the €3,200 + €300 main event buy-in, €395 for five nights accommodation and breakfast at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, €50 for handling ipoker […]
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Report: No Misconduct in D.C. iPoker LegalizationThe Washington Post reported Friday that the D.C. inspector general found “insufficient evidence” to suggest that any council members engaged in ethical misconduct when approving intranet poker and a lottery contract under one piece of legislation in Dec. 2010. The jurisdiction was the first in the nation to legalize online gaming, but since then has […]
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EMOP Freeroll At Bet Victor Poker This SundayBet Victor Poker is ramping up for another season of the European Masters of Poker and as a premium EMOP partner is the best place to qualify for the upcoming Prague event. Sunday January 22 at 20:15 CET sees the seventh in a series of eight VIP point freerolls at BetVictor.com. Sign up for just […]
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Vienna To Host Premier League V and Big Game VIPartyPoker today announced the fifth renewal of the $125,000 buy in Premier League which will take place, and be filmed for TV, at the World Poker Tour Vienna from April 4 to 10. Already confirmed invitees for the $200,000 added event include Andy Frankenberger, Sam Trickett, Vanessa Selbst, Tony G, and Luke ‘FullFlush’ Schwartz. Sixteen […]
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Turbo Championship of Online Poker UnderwayThe Turbo Championship of Online Poker got underway yesterday at PokerStars. The online festival of speed poker, the first of its kind, will see 50 events and a total of $10 million in guaranteed prize pools until January 29. There are events to suit all pockets from a $5.5o rebuy event right up to a […]
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Battle for Online Poker Sweeping the CountryAfter a stunning flip-flop by the Department of Justice right before Christmas, Internet-gaming fever has been spreading across the nation to many in positions of power in state governments. While Nevada has brazenly taken a big lead in efforts to establish the first intrastate web-gaming industry — poker-only at first in its case — other […]
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William Hill Poker Revenue DeclinesWilliam Hill, the publicly-quoted bookmaker with an online poker business, today issued a trading update which indicated online poker revenue shrank in the fourth quarter of 2011. The company, which did not give a figure for the rate of decline, said, “Online net revenues grew strongly in the quarter, with year-on-year Sportsbook amounts wagered growth […]
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Northern Irish Poker Lobby Meets Govt. TodayRepresentatives from the Legalise Poker in Northern Ireland campaign today get a chance to put their case to the Department of Social Development committee which is reviewing gambling law. The group has been collecting signatures on a petition to present to the committee and said on its Facebook page yesterday, “Signatures printed: 873 was the […]
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Noah Schwartz Breaks Down PCA PLO HandNoah Schwartz thinks this is going to be his breakout year. That’s bad news for the rest of the players on the tournament circuit, because he already has over $2.3 million in lifetime earnings. Not bad for a 28 year old. Schwartz has been running hot lately. The two-time World Poker Tour final tablist has […]
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High-Stakes Poker: Phil Galfond Wins $400K in Past Week
Phil “MrSweets28” Galfond has won $400,000 over the past seven days at the high-stakes pot-limit Omaha tables on PokerStars. Galfond returned to online poker in July after a long hiatus resulting from April’s Black Friday. The high-stakes pro, who is one of the top earners in online poker history, relocated to Canada. Galfond, better known […]
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Ira Rubin Enters Plea Agreement in Poker CasePoker payment processor Ira Rubin has pleaded guilty and signed a plea deal in a in U.S. District Court in New York that will likely see him serve less than two years in prison for crimes named in April’s Black Friday, the Associated Press reported. According to the DOJ, Rubin tricked banks into accepting funds […]
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Paradise Poker Tour Rolls Into PragueSeason three of the Paradise Poker Tour continues this week as latest stop pitches up at the Corinthia Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic. The €500 buy in main event starts Friday and has a guaranteed prize pool of €125,000. Players start with 20,000 in chips and have a one hour clock. Elsewhere players can avail of […]
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Microgaming Appoints Management Board ChairmanMicrogaming Poker Network has unveiled Dominic Harrison as the new chairman of its Network Management Board, the collective of operators and network representatives that develops strategies and rules for the network. Harrison, a former chief executive officer of Gala Coral, said of his appointment, “When I was first approached by Microgaming about being the independent, […]
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Iowa to Take Another Look at Online PokerThe Des Moines Register reported Tuesday that state Sen. Jeff Danielson (D-Cedar Falls) said he plans to soon draft legislation for Internet poker in Iowa. In December, Iowa gaming regulators published a report on the potential regulatory framework for intrastate web poker. The development this week comes not long after the Department of Justice clarified […]
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Monarch Gaming Applies to Operate Online PokerMonarch Gaming is the latest company to seek entry into an upcoming intrastate poker industry in Nevada, according to a source at the Gaming Control Board. The company is seeking to be an operator of online poker — an opportunity limited to already existing brick-and-mortar licensees in the Silver State. Service providers — companies in […]
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Sequel to 'Rounders' Remains a GambleIt appears poker fans are going to have to keep grinding out the wait for a potential sequel to “Rounders.” About 13 months ago Miramax and The Weinstein Company announced an agreement that would facilitate the production of a followup to the 1998 poker cult classic — a film cited by many poker pros as […]
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Poker Pros File Complaint Against UB's ExcapsaOn January 13th, a group of eight high-stakes poker pros filed a complaint with the Regulated Industries Complaints Office in the U.S. Central District Court of California against 6356095 Canada, Inc, formerly known as Excapsa Software, the Canadian parent company of UB. The eight pros, who include lead plaintiff Daniel Ashman, Brad Booth, Dustin Woolf, […]
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WSOP Circuit Caesars Palace PreviewThe World Series of Poker Circuit is keeping busy early in 2012, with its third stop of the year already set to begin on January 19th at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The series will play host to a total of 12 WSOP Circuit gold-ring events, with the festivities wrapping up on January 30th. Headlining […]
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Poker Helps Olympic Fencing Hopeful
Fencer Jamie Kenber looks set to compete for Britan at the 2012 London Olympics and the 25-year-old Londoner told the BBC he supplements his income through online poker. The 25-year-old Oxford graduate explained to the online news site that as well as tutoring maths he also puts in the hours grinding at poker. "I’ve had […]
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The Poker Ten: Obscure Hand NicknamesPoker hands have many names. Depending on who you ask, Ace-King can be called Big Slick, Anna Kournikova or, if you’re old enough, Walking Back To Houston. (Google it.) Even professional poker players have staked their claim to certain hands. Doyle Brunson owns the 10-2, Phil Hellmuth always plays two black nines and Robert Varkonyi […]
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PokerStars CEO Gabi Campos Steps DownThe exodus of high profile people from the world’s largest online poker site continues with the news today that chief executive officer Gabi Campos will leave the company on February 1. Campos, who joined PokerStars from 888 in June 2010, follows the recent departure of highly respected European Poker Tour founder, John Duthie as well […]
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Irish Poker Open Online Payment Gateway Now LiveThe Irish Open 2012 online payment gateway is now up and running at PaddyPowerPoker.com for all those wishing to buy in to the main event or any side events of one of the oldest and most prestigious tournaments in the world. The online payment gateway will be available until Mar. 30 and accepts credit card, […]
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Latest Issue Of Card Player Magazine Now Available OnlineThe latest editions of Card Player Magazine and Card Player Europe Magazine are now available online and feature Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson, the 2011 Poker Hall of Fame inductees, as well as Pius Heinz, winner of the 2011 World Series of Poker main event. Other features in these issues include in-depth strategic analysis on […]
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Yatahay Poker Now The Winning Poker NetworkIn a move reflective of its industry-leading product offering and proven dedication to the online poker community in the United States, the Yatahay Poker Network has announced a name change. Effective January 12, 2012, the Yatahay Poker Network has been renamed The Winning Poker Network. “It’s more than a name, it’s a mantra,” stated a […]
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A Poker Life: Veteran Bryan DevonshireIn some ways, Bryan Devonshire is much like many other young professional poker players. He dropped out of college and went on to cash for millions in poker tournaments (more than $2.2 million over the last five years). Unlike many of his peers, however, Devonshire has little desire to make money for its own sake […]
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Bet Victor Poker Celebrates New Name In StyleTo celebrate its name change, Bet Victor Poker is doing some early spring cleaning and giving its players the chance to win some limited edition and collectable merchandise featuring the site’s former brand name, Victor Chandler Poker. A variety of online freerolls called the Great Merchandise Giveaway will celebrate the makeover from today, Jan. 16, […]
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bwin.party To Sell Payment Processing BusinessA weekend news report in UK broadsheet The Telegraph says PartyPoker owner bwin.party will float its payment processing business, CQR, on the stockmarket in order to realize value for shareholders. CQR is believed to handle around US$2 billion in payment transactions per year for the likes of PartyPoker and Foxy Bingo and it also recently […]
