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Online Poker Player Uses VIP Points for Honeymoon
PartyPoker.com has unwittingly helped a 35 year-old Canadian and his new wife take the first steps in their marriage by providing the honeymoon for the couple through their VIP programme. Gary Scharkov from Toronto found the holiday to St. Lucia in the VIP store and the Palladium Lounge Elite member used 55,000 Party Points to […]
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WPT — Borgata Poker Open Day 3
Day 3 at the World Poker Tour $3,500 no-limit hold’em championship at the Borgata Poker Open once again saw a huge chunk of the remaining field hit the rail. Yesterday, over 500 players made their exit to take the field down to 169, and today play charged right through the money bubble when 100 players […]
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European Masters of Poker Malta Final Starts TodayThe European Masters of Poker grand final gets underway in Vittoriosa in Malta today (Sept. 23) where it will stay for four days. Up to 500 players will sit down to a starting stack of 15,000 in chips rather than the usual 10,000 for the €1,500 + €150 buy-in finale. Barcelona, the penultimate stop, was […]
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Bodog Celebrates Its 15-Year Anniversary with Poker Series
In a decade that has seen an explosion of online gaming and millions of new customers testing their skills on the virtual felts, many new companies have set up shop to accommodate the masses. But as most companies try to gain their footing, one veteran business is celebrating an impressive milestone. Bodog is celebrating its […]
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Jeff Shulman Chooses Hellmuth as WSOP CoachOne of the biggest names at the final table just got an even bigger name to coach him. Jeff Shulman, the president of Card Player Media, has selected 11-time bracelet-winner and 1989 World Champion Phil Hellmuth to serve as his poker coach for the main-event final table in November. “The simplest reason why I’m doing […]
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World Series of Poker Europe Event 2 — Day 1
Event No. 2 of the World Series of Poker Europe got off to a cracking start yesterday as a total of 158 entrants was depleted to just 22. The £2,500 pot-limit hold’em/pot-limit Omaha event is a new addition to the WSOPE and sees nine hands of hold’em and Omaha played in rotation, with 7,500 in […]
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WSOP Europe — J.P. Kelly Wins Event No. 1Nine players from a total field of 608 began day 3 of the £1,000 no-limit hold’em event, the first event of this year’s World Series of Poker Europe. Fabien Dunlop was the clear chip leader, but there was plenty of room for maneuver on the score board, and with many short-stacks in the mix, the […]
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Summer Sizzler Freeroll Tonight at DevilfishPoker.comDevilfishPoker.com’s Summer Sizzlers — a series of online poker freerolls with more than €10,000 in prizes — continues tonight at 8 p.m. (BST). The tournament is capped at 2,000 players. The tournaments are free to enter with a guaranteed prize pool of €666, and the players receive 1,500 chips to start, but to add a […]
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Online Poker — Yevgeniy Timoshenko Wins WCOOP M.E.The second and final day of the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) came and went, but not without its share of fireworks. A total of 178 players returned to the virtual felt, all with their eyes on the $1,715,200 first-place prize. Day 1 chip leader Jason “TheMasterJ33” Dewitt had a tough situation on […]
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Heads-Up Poker Record Attempt UnderwaySome of the biggest names in poker stared down Paul Zimbler at the World Series of Poker Europe yesterday as he attempts to raise £50,000 for Sparks Children’s Charity and create a new heads-up world record. Zimbler will try to play 200 consecutive heads up matches over 80 hours without any sleep. First up was […]
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WPT — Borgata Poker Open Day 2
Day 2 at the $3,500 no-limit hold’em World Poker Tour championship event at the Borgata Poker Open began with 570 players. By the end of eight levels of play just 169 remained as a huge chunk of the field hit the rail with the blinds and antes escalating. Here is a look at the notable […]
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South Carolina Poker Players Win Their Appeal
By the way he was jumping up and down and screaming outside of his house, Bob Chimento’s neighbor thought he had stepped on a nail. But, in reality, Chimento was just letting out his emotions after a three-and-a-half-year legal battle finally gave him the result he was fighting for. “I couldn’t stop hooting and hollering,” […]
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New Poker After Dark to Feature Ivey, Negreanu
The original winner-take-all six-player $20,000 buy-in is back after two weeks of high-stakes cash games on Poker After Dark, and the biggest names in poker have assembled to duke it out for the $120,000 first-place prize. Taking to the felt this week are Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Phil Hellmuth, and Doyle […]
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A Poker Life — Eugene KatchalovOn Aug. 20, 1991, through the dark and stillness that only the midnight hour can produce, a 10-year-old Eugene Katchalov and his mother navigated through Kiev, Ukraine, on back roads on their way to the international airport, passing war tanks that surrounded the city. With the country in turmoil from the effects of the Cold […]
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Online Poker — Day 1 of the WCOOP Main EventThe WSOP Europe has kicked off in London and the WPT is currently underway in Atlantic City, but that didn’t stop 2,144 players from entering the $5,000 main event in the 2009 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Despite the tournament’s “virtual” status, the champion of this event will take home more than both […]
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Online Poker — Daniel Kelly Wins His Second WCOOP Event
Not only did Daniel “djk123” Kelly win his second World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) bracelet on Sunday, but he did it in outstanding fashion, coming from behind to win the $10,000 High-Roller H.O.R.S.E. championship. The Villanova student won his first bracelet in event no. 2 and banked $53,410, in what was a razz tournament. […]
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Online Poker — Grospellier Wins His Second WCOOP Event
Team PokerStars Pro has certainly had a great World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) series. First German pro George Danzer wins event no. 19 and then Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier takes down his first bracelet in event no. 38. Amazingly, the Frenchman followed that performance up with his second bracelet just days later. In what amounted […]
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World Heads Up Championship Set for London Next MonthDetails of the ninth World Heads Up Championship were announced today with the event, sponsored by LittlewoodsPoker.com, moving from Barcelona to the Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London from October 27 to 31, 2009. The £3,000 buy in no-limit hold’em event will have a maximum of 128 players and a first prize of £200,000. It will be […]
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Online Poker — Brian Mintz Final Tables Two Sunday Majors
You can check out the final results for Sunday’s flagship events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, UltimateBet, Bodog and Cake below: PokerStars — WCOOP Event No. 43 Buy-In: $200+$15 Prize Pool: $1,844,000 Entrants: 9,220 Places Paid: 1,350 Final Table Results: 1. Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier — $263,323 (pictured right) 2. jektiss — $193,620 3. chilipepp — $137,285 […]
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Online Poker — David Williams, Justin Young Win WCOOP Titles
The circus that is the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) continues to perform nightly and the pros are just having their way with the various games offered in the series. In 2008, Justin “robert07” Young had a breakout year on the live circuit, eventually finishing in 19th place in the Card Player Player […]
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World Series of Poker Europe Event 1 — Day 2
Day 2 of the World Series of Poker Europe £1,000 no-limit hold’em event saw a long road ahead of it with two bubble-shaped obstacles along the way. The field had to try and make it to the money and then indeed the final table, but only nine would go through to day 3. With 63 […]
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WPT — Borgata Poker Open Day 1BDay 1B of the World Poker Tour $3,500 no-limit hold’em championship event at the Borgata Poker Open attracted 692 players. The low buy-in for the event was a success as 1,018 players bought in during the two day-one flights to make it the largest WPT field in history. The prediction made by Roy Winston (pictured […]
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Live and Online Poker -- Who's the Best Tournament Player?If you talk enough about poker, you eventually get around to one of the most debated subjects in the game: Who is the best? It’s a simple question with an impossible answer. Because variance plays such a big part in the outcome, it would take a sample size much larger than a lifetime even to […]
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Deal Me In — Poker Pro Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson
In its pages are never-before-revealed details of the lives of some of the biggest names in poker. Phil Hellmuth’s new book profiles 20 of the biggest poker players in the world, giving the reader an intimate look at the game’s biggest celebrities. Deal Me In, a collection of autobiographical accounts from many of poker’s elite, […]
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World Series of Poker Europe Event 1 — Day 1B
Day 1b of the first event of the WSOPE, the £1,000 + £75 no-limit hold’em event, attracted 314 players. This added to yesterday’s figure equals a total of 608 entries, meaning that the tournament is now the largest ever held in London. There is a drastic difference in comparison to last year’s total for the […]
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Durrrr Makes History in Million Dollar Cash Game
As reported here this week, FullTilt Poker’s Million Dollar Cash Game was filmed over a 24-hour period across Sept. 16 and 17. Big name players included Andrew Feldman, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, Gus Hansen, Patrik Antonius, and of course, online sensation Tom “Durrrr” Dwan. Early session, online enemies Antonius and Dwan were all in, Dwan […]
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Current Poker Epicentre Meets The Poker ShowAt the moment, all the poker action you could want is going on in London, but if you can’t be there, then how about hearing from those who are, and most importantly, those who are at the centre of it. The Poker Show, sponsored by Boylepoker.com, is bringing its listeners all the key figures and […]
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WPT — Borgata Poker Open Day 1AThe first day of play at the World Poker Tour $3,500 no-limit hold’em championship event at the Borgata Poker Open attracted 326 players today in Atlantic City. By the end of the night that original field had shrunk to 168 players, and those survivors will be back in action for day 2 on Monday, September […]
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Online Poker — Terrence Chan, ElkY Win WCOOP Events
If Friday was any indication as to the excitement this weekend will provide at the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), then the main event will be a real show-stopper. Events no. 36-40 provided some of the highest profile winners of the series. One of the more consistent online players is Brent “Astrolux85” Roberts. The […]
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World Series of Poker Europe Event 1 — Day 1A
Day 1a of the first World Series of Poker Europe tournament, the £1,000 + £75 no-limit hold’em event, kicked off yesterday at the Casino at the Empire in London with 295 players. This first tournament of the European side of the Series is the first WSOP gold bracelet event played in 64 days. Notable players […]
