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Phil Ivey Losing in Limit Hold'emOn Saturday, Kagome Kagome won $145,000 from Phil Ivey in about 100 hands of $3,000-$6,000 limit hold’em on Full Tilt Poker. Ivey left the session with a stack of $36,000, while his German opponent, whom Ivey has said is superior at limit hold’em, sat with about $383,000 when the duel was over. The loss brings […]
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Paul 'paulgees81' Volpe Wins PokerStars Sunday Million
You can check out the final results for Sunday’s flagship events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, UB, Absolute Poker, and Bodog below: PokerStars — Sunday Million Buy-In: $200+$15 Prize Pool: $1,726,000 Entrants: 8,630 1. Paul “paulgees81” Volpe — $253,895 2. ser svensson — $185,545 3. grayzee1 — $129,450 4. BleedBlue33 — $86,300 5. Ninemil — $69,040 […]
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EPT Deauville To Start TuesdayThe PokerStars European Poker Tour is set to start its annual €5,000 main event in Deauville, France on Tuesday. Following what was a record-setting field of 768 players creating a prize pool of €3,686,400 in 2010, this year’s EPT Deauville visit will take place January 25-31 at a larger venue, inside the Casino Barriere (annexe […]
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WPT Southern Poker Championship Gets Under WayThe World Poker Tour has made its annual trip back to Biloxi, Mississippi. This year’s $10,000 buy-in WPT Southern Poker Championship event drew in a few more players than it did a year ago, with 214 players (compared to 208 in 2010) taking a seat at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino on Sunday. Together […]
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'High Stakes Hold’em' to Air in 2011This past Tuesday, Red Deck Productions announced that it will begin filming a new poker television show called High Stakes Hold’em in late March at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, NV. The weekly one-hour show will air nationwide in the middle of 2011. The broadcast schedule and air times have yet to be […]
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Aussie Millions: Main Event Day 1BDay 1B at the 2011 Aussie Millions $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event attracted 209 players who decided to take their chances on the second of three starting days in the tournament hosted at Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. Many of the pros down under appear to have preferred day 1A yesterday, but there were many […]
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Hansen Is First Poker Champ Of EMOP IIIThe first event of season III of the European Masters of Poker has been won by young, Norwegian Stefan Hansen. Hansen’s victory came after beating 212 opponents for a payday of €34,160 at the Casino Las Palmas in Gran Canaria. The final hand of the €1,100 buy-in event came when Hansen moved all in with […]
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€20 Irish Poker Open Satellite TonightTonight Monday January 24 sees the fourth installment of the PaddyPowerPoker.com €20 + €2 rebuy Irish Open satellites, which are guaranteeing one ticket to Ireland’s premier poker event. The €20 + €2 rebuy satellite takes place every Monday in January at 8 p.m. (GMT), and those who qualify via these satellites also get to participate […]
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Online Gambling Businesses To Get U.S. BoostA gambling sector note published today by analysts Daniel Stewart & Co. says Euro-facing gaming operators Playtech, PartyGaming, and 888 will be the most likely winners should the U.S. market liberalise. The report predicts licenses for online gambling will be issued in the second half of 2011 or early 2012. “Our view is that online […]
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Aussie Millions: Main Event Day 1ADay 1A at the 2011 Aussie Millions $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event featured as much pomp and circumstance as the first day of a similarly-titled event that takes place in Las Vegas each summer. The opening ceremonies included videos, live music, a few words from defending champion Tyron Krost, a declaration by the Crown Casino […]
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Sam Trickett Wins $100K ChallengeThe variance that exists in poker makes an all-encompassing dominant performance in a tournament highly unlikely. Add 37 of the best players in the world who have put up $100,000 to buy in to the tournament and that task comes close to impossible. But that is nearly what Sam Trickett accomplished to win the $100,000 […]
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European Masters of Poker Final Table SetThe first €1,100 buy in main event of season III European Masters of Poker has reached its final table at Casino De Palmas, Gran Canaria with nine players returning today from an original field of 213. The winner of the event will take home €54,310. The nine finalists are: Johan Berg — 1,254,000 Yehas Avidavi […]
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Qualify For Irish Open On Paddy Power Poker TonightThere are various ways to qualify for the PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Open 2011, and this evening, Sunday, January 23 at 8 p.m. there is a €200 + €20 buy-in satellite with an Irish Open package worth €4,600 up for grabs. The winner of this tournament qualifies for the €100,000 Sole Survivor competition also. Online players can […]
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Aussie Millions: $100k Challenge Day 1The 2011 Aussie Million $100,000 Challenge continued the trend of strong tournament attendance at high roller events to start this New Year. There were 38 players who ponied up the six figures to enter this event and the year-over-year growth was impressive at 58 percent. Attendance was so strong in fact that it prompted the […]
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Phil Ivey Favourite For Aussie Millions TitleBritish bookies 888sport and Bluesq have priced up the betting market for the Aussie Millions main event which gets underway at the Crown Casino, Melbourne tomorrow January 23. So in tune with each other are they that both have priced the markets absolutely identically making Phil Ivey favourite at 33/1, former winner Gus Hansen second […]
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David Oppenheim Wins $25,000 Shootout InvitationalDavid Oppenheim is used to playing with the best poker players in the world and winning against them in cash games in Las Vegas. He took that model of success down under and won the Aussie Millions Full Tilt Poker $25,000 Invitational Shootout on Friday at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. He defeated a […]
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FT Double Guarantees WeekOn Monday, Full Tilt Poker will kick off its $30 Million Double Guarantees Week. For one week only (Jan. 24-30) the online site is doubling the guaranteed prize money for all weekly guarantees. The week will culminate with the Sunday evening $200+$16 buy-in $750,000 guarantee becoming a $1.5 million guarantee. If you don’t have an […]
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Jungleman12 Takes On Isildur1Viktor “Isildur1” Blom continued his downswing early Friday morning after taking on Dan “jungleman12” Cates at $50-$100 no-limit hold’em on PokerStars. The duo began the day playing tables of $25-$50, but eventually moved up to stakes of $50-$100. Cates, who was down money from the $25-$50 tables, secured a net profit of about $40,000 for […]
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The Scoop: David Sands Part IIDavid “Doc Sands” Sands stops by for this week’s episode of The Scoop (sponsored by Full Tilt Poker) on Card Player TV. He continues his interview from part I last week. Check out his interview with Diego Cordovez and Adam Schoenfeld on Card Player TV, and you can hear him talk about his “organically grown” […]
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Borgata Winter Open Kicks OffThe sixth annual Borgata Winter Open got underway Wednesday at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City with a $500 deep stack no-limit hold’em event featuring a guaranteed prize pool of $300,000. The opening tournament was the first of 26 events that are on the schedule from January 19-February 4. Scheduled events include […]
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WPT Southern Poker Championship Starts SundayThe World Poker Tour is set to make its first appearance of 2011 with its $10,000 main event at the Southern Poker Championship inside the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. Beginning at noon CST this Sunday, January 23, the 5-day championship event will finish up with a televised final table playing out […]
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Chinese Take To Texas Hold'em Poker Online
A Chinese language Texas hold’em poker game is the fastest growing brand on Facebook gaining almost 1.3 million fans this week on the social networking site. The game beat out the ever popular Farmville game as well as Rihanna, Real Madrid FC, Harry Potter, and Eminem according to Famecount.com which measures the amounts of “likes,” […]
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European Deepstack Poker Championship Nears
The European Deepstack Poker Championship returns to Dublin from Feb. 1 to 6 with the centerpiece event expected to attract over 1,000 players. The three-day €550 buy in main event has attracted over 800 registrants so far, has an estimated prize pool of €500,000, a 50,000 chip starting stack and a one hour clock changing […]
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Richard “Chufty” Ashby Wins Aussie Millions EventRecent World Series of Poker bracelet winner Richard “Chufty” Ashby from the UK has won an Aussie Millions ring for his victory in the eight-game mixed event in Melbourne. The game attracted 68 participants and Ashby was trailing the final table of seven with just 59,000 in chips before grinding his way to heads up […]
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UB Online Championship 6 ContinuesThe UB Online Poker Championship is underway So far 10 of the 29 events have been completed. Tonight’s event is a $150+$12 no-limit hold’em deep stack hosted by Team UB Pro Maria Ho. The event kicks off at 8:05 p.m. EST. A $15+$1.50 Mini-UBOC no-limit hold’em deep stack will also begin at the same time. […]
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Capture the Flag: Kagome KagomeDespite German poker pro Kagome Kagome’s real name being unknown to nearly all of the poker community, he has still managed to secure a reputation as one of the best young hold’em players on the planet. The 21-year-old, who said he wants his identity to be withheld, has garnered respect from Team Full Tilt’s Patrik […]
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The Martin: A Poker Pro HavenWhether it is World Series of Poker bracelet-winning champions or those just entering the world of professional poker, The Martin is an ideal home ownership option to those in the card playing circuit who are seeking luxe, high-rise living in the heart of Las Vegas. The Martin’s proximity to the Strip provides immediate access to […]
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Microgaming To Release Android Poker App
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s announcement that bwin was launching an iPhone app, online poker network Microgaming today announced it would launch a real money mobile poker app on the rival Android platform later this quarter. The real money app would be available to all operators on the network and Lydia melton, head of […]
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bwin Launches Real Money iPhone Poker App
bwin has announced the launch of the first real money iPhone application for poker. The app is currently available only to Apple users in the UK and Austria but will be more widely available across Europe in the near future according to the company. Berthold Kao for bwin said, “Thanks to the bwin iPhone poker […]
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European Masters Of Poker Gran Canaria Starts TodaySeason III of the European Masters of Poker gets underway today in Casino Las Palmas, Gran Canaria on the Canary Islands with the £1,100 buy-in main event expected to attract several hundred runners. Last year the main event was won by Pole Maciej Lipney who beat 287 opponents and took down €66,240. Also taking place […]
