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ESPN Remains Pleased with November Nine Poker ConceptESPN couldn’t have asked for a bigger poker star at the final table of the main event. There sat Phil Ivey, one of the greatest in the game, competing for poker’s most prestigious title. And yet, when the ratings for the final table came in, they were nearly identical to 2008’s, when nine unknowns graced […]
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PokerStars European Poker Tour Vilamoura — Day 1B Recap
An exciting day of poker took place yesterday at the Vilamoura Casino with day 1B of Portugal’s first PokerStars.com European Poker Tour. The tournament floor was riddled with stars of the live and virtual felts, in total making up a field of 186. This, added to day 1A’s 136, means the official figure for this […]
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Bo Sehlstedt Wins Euro City Poker Tour MaltaSwede Bo Sehlstedt won the €1,500+150 buy-in Euro City Poker Tour main event at Casino De Venezia, Valetta, Malta last weekend heading the field of 126 players and taking home the top prize of €51,382 at the Titan Poker sponsored event. The final table results were: 1: Bo Sehlstedt – €51,382 2: John Van Der […]
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Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final Festival Starts
The final Grosvenor UK Poker Tour festival of 2009 gets underway today at London’s Victoria Casino as the Grand Final Festival gets into full swing straight away with the £5,000 buy-in heads up UK championship. The full line up of events for the festival is: Nov. 19 — £5,000 UK heads up championship Nov. 19 […]
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Online Poker — UltimateBet Gets Facelift, Changes NameUltimateBet players were greeted with a software update recently, and the end result is a sleeker look for the site’s lobby, along with new table views and improved navigation and usability. The most glaring change is the site’s name itself, which is now just simply “UB.” UltimateBet had been known in the poker community as […]
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New Poker Show Poker2Nite Premieres on FSN TonightPoker has infiltrated television in the form of tournament coverage, cash games, and game shows, and tonight, one more genre will launch. The poker news show Poker2Nite is premiering this evening on Fox Sports Net. The half-hour program is hosted by UltimateBet pro Joe Sebok and Scott Huff, both former hosts of Card Player’s The […]
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Poker Strategy — Lex Veldhuis Talks About Game FlowLex Veldhuis, of the Netherlands, travels the world tournament circuit and recently made the final table of the World Series of Poker $40,000 no-limit hold’em event, but he spends most of his time playing cash games online under the screen name “RaSZi.” His main game is $25-$50 no-limit hold’em, but lately he’s been frequenting the […]
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PokerStars European Poker Tour Vilamoura — Day 1A Recap
The very first PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Vilamoura kicked off yesterday at the Vilamoura Casino in the sunny and quaint Portuguese resort. Although Vilamoura is one of the largest tourist beach resorts in Europe, the attraction this time was more of the green and felt-like variety. PokerStars pros and familiar names turned out for the […]
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Italian Beats Durrrr in First Live Million Dollar Poker ChallengeThe Full Tilt Durrrr Live Million Dollar Challenge got underway at Les Ambassadeurs in Mayfair, London yesterday with the titular Tom Dwan taking on Italian sports bettor Marcello “Luckexpress” Marigliano. The players started the game with $250,000 while Durrrr upped this to $500,000 later in the game. Despite getting the upper hand in early play […]
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Irishman wins Full Tilt Series of Poker Event 24Derek Murray from Claregalway in Ireland has followed in the footsteps of his friend Jude “j.thaddeus” Ainsworth and taken down a major online poker event. Murray, who has been knocking on the door of a major victory for quite a while, won $125,959 in FTOPS event 24, the No-Limit Hold’em Knockout ($800,000 Guarantee), on “Full […]
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Austrian Bookmaker Pulls Out of Online Poker
Interwetten, the Austrian online bookmaker, has closed its online poker site and will refund all player balances as it looks to concentrate on its sports betting, casino, and skill games offerings. Interwetten operated its poker room on the Ongame network which the statement blamed for its discontinuation of poker saying the closure was, “…due to […]
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WSOP Circuit – Matt Keikoan Wins Lake Tahoe Main Event
The $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship event at the World Series of Poker Circuit stop at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe attracted 64 entrants who created a total prize pool of $299,400. The tournament took place during two days of poker action, and the final table welcomed back the final 10 at 6 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 16. […]
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Joseph Cada Will Appear on David Letterman Tonight
To the victor go the spoils. The 2009 World Series of Poker main event champion Joseph Cada will appear on The Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 11:30 p.m. on CBS. Cada defeated a field of 6,493 other players in the 2009 WSOP main event to take home the world championship […]
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Online Poker — Patrik Antonius Wins Largest Ever Online PotIt seems our previous story on Isildur1 was a bit premature. The action was back up and running late Monday night on Full Tilt, only this time, Tom “durrrr” Dwan wasn’t the story. Instead, Patrik Antonius sat down with the mysterious player from Sweden, and before the night was over, two online cash-game records were […]
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Online Poker — Cake Introduces Synchronized Breaks
Much like anti-lock brakes on a car, synchronized breaks are quickly becoming a standardized feature for many of the top online sites on the market. Today at 10 a.m. ET, Cake Poker officially launched the new software update allowing players to take their breaks at 55 minutes past the hour for nearly every multi-table tournament […]
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Dragonfish Expands with Linden Lab Agreement
888’s business-to-business white-label enterprise, Dragonfish has today announced an agreement with Linden Lab, the creator of the popular virtual world Second Life. According to this aggreement, Dragonfish will provide services to Linden Lab such as e-Payments, fraud management services including anti-money laundering, plus 24/7 multi-lingual customer operations to assist deposits and withdrawals. Second Life opened […]
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PokerStars Purchases Cecure Gaming
Cavendish Corporate Finance today announced that it has successfully managed the sale of mobile gaming software development company, Cecure Gaming, to PokerStars. Since 2000, Cecure Gaming has operated secure and efficient mobile poker gaming technology, and its partners previously included UK mobile networks Orange, T-Mobile, 3 Mobile, and Vodafone. It also operated its own gaming […]
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Live Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge Starts TodayTom “Durrrr” Dwan takes his highly anticipated Million Dollar Challenge to the live arena when he sits down to play Sammy “Any Two” George today. He will play 500 hands of no-limit hold’em against George at blind levels of $500/$1,000 with both players sitting down with $500,000 before moving on to play Marcello “Luckexpress” Marigliano […]
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Card Player Cruises Feature Poker and a Whole Lot More
It is the newest and largest ship in the world. At 220,000 tons, it can accommodate 5,400 people. The amenities are unprecedented — from a skating rink to a miniature golf course to an aqua park to a rock climbing facility to a Broadway musical to a casino to an arcade … It basically is […]
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European Poker Tour — Vilamoura Main Event Begins Tue
The PokerStars European Poker Tour added three new tournament stops to its season-six schedule, and one of these stops will start tomorrow. Cards are scheduled to get into the air at noon local time on Tuesday, Nov. 17 (4 a.m. PST) at the Casino Vilamoura in Portugal. The €5,000 no-limit hold’em tournament will feature two […]
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Online Poker – Isildur1 Defeats Durrrr, Others in Big GamesFor the past few weeks, the high-stakes online cash games have been running at a rapid clip, and many railbirds are finding the swings from player to player to be unprecedented. The culprit creating the most hype and doing the vast majority of the damage is unknown Swedish sensation “Isildur1,” who some sites are saying […]
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APPT — Dong-bin Han Wins Philippines Main Event
The final day of the 2009 PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour stop in Cebu, Philippines, started on Sunday when the final nine players took their seats at the final table. These players were all who remained from the field of 319 players after three days of poker. Two well-known professionals cashed in the event. Nam […]
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Online Poker — Zadman5311 Wins Sunday Million
You can check out the final results for Sunday’s flagship events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, UltimateBet, Bodog and Cake below: PokerStars — Sunday Million Buy-In: $200+$15 Prize Pool: $3,656,600 Entrants: 18,283 Places Paid: 2,700 Final Table Results: 1. Zadman5311 — $282,662* 2. m8765309a — $200,844* 3. call110 — $250,037* 4. ZyeD3 — $144,353* 5. waWe […]
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Online Poker — Obiedman, Zhivago2 Win Huge at FTOPS
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) XIV is now officially in the books, and Sunday’s monster slate of tournaments ensured huge paydays all around. In event No. 24, Christina Lindley was involved in a three-way chop before ultimately settling for a runner-up finish, good for $106,460. In the main event, both Adam Junglen and […]
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A Poker Life — Tommy VedesThe saying “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” is much easier said than done, especially at the poker table. If you are handed a basket of lemons in the form of a bad beat in a tournament, oftentimes it’s not a matter of choice whether or not you can persevere and make a comeback. […]
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Priyan de Mel Wins Grosvenor UK Poker Tour BlackpoolThirty-six year old Priyan de Mel yesterday won the penultimate leg of the 2009 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, heading the field of 287 players to take down the £84,900 first prize and a seat in the £100,000 guaranteed Champion of Champions tournament in London later this month. De Mel beat 23-year-old James Williams from Swindon […]
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iPhone Poker Tournament Clock App Released
bwin Games, a subsidiary of European sportsbook and poker operator bwin, has launched a poker tournament clock application for the iPhone. The clock, specifically designed for home poker games, can be used in “quick mode” which allows players to run a straightforward tournament immediately, or “expert mode” which allows players to set such parameters as […]
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Online Poker — Greg Mueller Wins FTOPS EventThe Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) XIV is now in its final weekend, with just three more events to wrap up. Getting to that point, however, produced some exciting results and big payouts for some of the online community’s best. Scoring the second overall victory for the men in red was Greg “FBT” Mueller. […]
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Online Poker Player Runs Over PKR Masters
Online poker player “PatIvey” from Norkopping, Sweden has achieve a remarkable feat, making the final table of the monthly PKR Masters online poker tournament three months in a row — winning the event twice and finishing third on his third attempt. The player has netted $60,000 playing the PKR Masters as well as chalking up […]
