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Friday Night Fights at FullTilt Start Tonight
FullTiltPoker.com introduces its Friday Night Fights event tonight with Andy Bloch and Gus Hansen playing a winner takes all heads up game while players can choose a Friday Night Fights Main Event $5,000 Sweat Tournament in support of their favoured pro. The winner of the 20:05 ET Sweat Tournament named after the winning pro will […]
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Bay 101 Shooting Star — Day 3
Day 3 at the 2009 Bay 101 Shooting Star $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship event began with 36 players. The tables were seated six-handed to start the day, which made for a lot of action. Levels were increased to two hours in length to ensure that the remaining players could play deep-stack poker, as well. The […]
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DevilfishPoker.com Opens 14 New Payment Methods
DevilfishPoker.com today launches 14 new withdrawal and deposit methods using Moneybookers.com. The payment options, for European and international regions, are aimed at making life more convenient for players and building on the site’s safe and secure payment methods. The list of new payment options includes: Australia – POLi Austria – EPS (Netpay) Denmark – Dankort […]
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WSOP Circuit — Harrah's Rincon Stop Begins Today
The World Series of Poker Circuit tour pulled into Harrah’s Rincon near San Diego, California, today and kicked things off with a bang. Event No. 1 ($200 no-limit hold’em) attracted 646 players, which ties a record set on Feb. 11, 2007 for the largest WSOP Circuit event ever. The tournament series will feature 22 events […]
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Run it Twice — Niman Kenkre
Niman Kenkre, known as “Samoleus” online, is a professional cash game player who turned $25 into millions. After college, Kenkre took a high-paying job at MIT but soon found that his income from playing part-time online poker quickly overshadowed his salary. In 2006, Kenkre quit to pursue poker and has become well known for analytical […]
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Online Poker — The $1K Roundup, Week of Mar. 15
Read the recaps for the $1K events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, and Absolute Poker below. Full Tilt Poker — $1K Monday The $1K Monday on Full Tilt this week attracted 356 entrants, down 16 from the week prior. Still, the prize pool of $356,000 was more than enough to clear the $300,000 guarantee. The tournament […]
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Online Poker Website Blacklist Leaked in Australia
A leaked blacklist of banned websites drawn up by the Australian Communications and Media Authority contains a “slew of online poker websites” according to report in today’s Sydney Morning Herald. However subsequent reports, including one from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation claim the list is not the official government list. The list, seen by the newspaper, […]
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Card Player Media Goes Live with CardPlayerBulgaria.com
Card Player Media continues to expand with its latest endeavour — CardPlayerBulgaria.com. The new site will feature poker news, strategy, video, tournament information, player of the year competitions, CardPlayer.tv, plus blogs from poker pros such as Daniel Negreanu. It will also include Bulgarian poker news stories, a Bulgarian Player of the Year leader board, tournament […]
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Praz Bansi Finishes Eighth in $10,000 Wynn Classic
World Series of Poker bracelet winner and member of the Hitsquad poker team, Praz Bansi from London, finished 8th yesterday in the $10,000 buy in Wynn Classic main event. He started the final two tables of 12 players joint 8th in chips. Bansi moved all in for his last 30,500 and Alex Melnikow made the […]
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First Cake Network Poker Room Launches Mac Client
LockPoker.com today annouced the launch of its online poker client for Apple Mac computers. It is the first room on the Cake Network to open its doors to Mac users. Features include play and real money games, single table tournaments, multi-table tournaments, and satellites to some of the world’s biggest live events. Players can use […]
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PaddyPowerPoker.com Announces ECOOP IV
PaddyPowerPoker.com has announced its European Championship of Online Poker IV (ECOOP IV), which will begin on May 25 and run until Jun. 7. The $1,500 + $80 main event concludes the festival of events on Jun. 7., and features a $1.5 million guaranteed prize pool. There are 14 tournaments to pick and choose from including […]
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Keith Ferrera Wins 2009 Wynn Classic Championship
It was scheduled to be a four-day tournament, but the field played down so fast that tournament officials decided to shave off the last day and crown a champion on day three. By making trip aces on the final hand, Keith Ferrera won the 2009 Wynn Classic Poker Championship. This was Ferrera’s third final table […]
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Bay 101 Shooting Star — Day 2
Day 2 at the Bay 101 Shooting Star World Poker Tour $10,000 no-limit hold’em event saw the field shrink from 145 players down to the final 36. The money bubble burst as well today, and every player remaining will take home at least $15,000 in prize money tomorrow. Here is a look at the players […]
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This Week's Free Poker Video Training Clip Now Posted
Noah “NoahSD” Stephens-Davidowitz hosts this week’s free poker video training clip from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus). In this video, NoahSD analyzes hands submitted by a Card Player Pro member playing at a $1-$2 no-limit hold’em. This video, as well as three additional free clips by other instructors, is currently available on the […]
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Poker Stars Launches New Live Poker Room in Macau
March 19 will mark a significant milestone for poker in Macau as PokerStars launches its new live poker room at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. The room, with 22 tournament and cash tables, will be the largest poker room in continental Asia. “PokerStars is committed to the development of poker across Asia, and this […]
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Venetian Will Host 89 Poker Tables for Deep Stack III
The Venetian recently announced the schedule of its third Deep Stack Extravaganza (DSE) tournament series of the year, and it is obvious that the casino expects the summer poker series to do very well. In a fact-sheet accompanying the new schedule, The Venetian stated, “We will be expanding to 89 tables to better accommodate our […]
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Boss Media Takes Over Six CryptoLogic Poker Rooms
Boss Media, a subsidiary of GTECH Corporation and owner of the IPN poker network, today announced it has taken over six online poker rooms previously on the CryptoLogic network. Yesterday, March 17 saw the migration of Extreme Poker, today March 18 sees Classic Poker, DTD Poker, and Betjacks join IPN, and tomorrow March 19 will […]
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Praz Bansi in Final 12 of $10,000 Wynn Classic
Londoner Praz Bansi, member of the Hitsquad poker team, has made the final 12 of the $10,000 buy in Wynn Classic main event. The Las Vegas event attracted 104 players and Bansi is now guaranteed $12,610 but will be shooting for first prize of $348,036. The final two tables consist of: Keith Fererra — 113,200 […]
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Marty Smyth Wins Special Boylepoker Omaha Game
How many times does World Series of Poker bracelet holder Marty Smyth have to prove just why he rates among poker chart toppers? Boylepoker.com’s latest Omaha event, Be Our Sponsored Pro, was no different, as it saw host Smyth wreaking havoc and ultimately destroying 46 other players. His victory would normally mean he would join […]
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Heads Up Event Kicks off GUKPT Tomorrow
The 2009 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour’s third leg kicks off at London’s Grosvenor Victoria tomorrow and will run for 11 days. Side events with a wide range of buy-ins will be on offer, as will be an exclusive £2,500 heads up tournament, to complement the main event which will run from Mar. 26-29. Twenty-three-year-old Sunny […]
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PokerStars Launches Largest Asian Poker Room Tomorrow
PokerStars.com is launching its exciting new live poker room at the Gran Lisboa Casino tomorrow, Mar. 19. PokerStars Macau will be the largest poker room in continental Asia, featuring 24-hour cash games, weekly tournaments, the annual Asia Pacific Poker Tour, and freeroll tournaments. The opening coincides with the return of the Macau Poker Cup, known […]
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Wynn Classic Main Event — Day Two
A total of 54 players returned on day 2 of the Wynn Classic Main Event, all hoping to make the money and possibly put themselves in position to make a run at the title. Although the schedule originally stated that the field would play until the final 27, the tournament was moving so fast that […]
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Bay 101 Shooting Star — Day 1B
Day 1B at the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star event took place today in San Jose, California. There were 256 players in today’s field, which almost doubled the amount (135) that jumped into the ring yesterday. That made the total size of the field 391 players, topping the 376 that entered last year. […]
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Poker Pro Freddy Deeb Featured in High Stakes Living
“When you have a good wife, it’s really easy,” Freddy Deeb says, when asked how difficult it is to balance a life of high-stakes poker with his family obligations. Deeb welcomed Card Player TV into his Southern California home recently for the newest episode of High Stakes Living. The two-time bracelet winner gives viewers a […]
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Full Tilt Poker Starts 2009 WSOP Satellites
It’s that time of year. The weather begins to get warmer, the sun stays up late into the evening, and online poker players finally start seeing those World Series of Poker satellites that they’ve been craving for months. Full Tilt has begun running qualifiers for the 2009 WSOP, and not just into the main event. […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle has played at the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship for the past three years. Twice he has defeated a very tough opponent in the first round to advance. In 2007 he defeated Phil Ivey, and this year he defeated David "The Dragon" Pham. Cheadle brings a calm demeanor to the table that allows […]
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Bay 101 Shooting Star — Day 1A
Day 1A at the 2009 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship event featured 23 professional players with $5,000 bounties on their heads. Shawn Buchanan was not one of the bounty players today, but that didn’t stop him from becoming the first player in the tournament to profit from his trip […]
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Qualify for European Masters of Poker at DevilfishPoker
DevilfishPoker.com is now running satellites for the €1,000 + €100 buy in European Masters of Poker taking place at the Golden Sands Resort, Varna, Bulgaria from April 15 to 18. Online poker players can qualify for a €1,800 package from as little as €2 with nine daily qualifiers feeding into the €100 Sunday Main Qualifier […]
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World Series of Poker Qualification on FullTilt Now
FullTiltPoker.com has announced its World Series of Poker qualification schedule which includs 50 free seats for the main event and a $10 million bonus to any FullTilt qualifier who goes on to win the main event. Among the numerous ways to play in the greatest poker show on earth in Las Vegas this year are […]
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Neil Channing Launches Black Belt Poker
Reigning Irish Open champion Neil Channing has launched BlackBeltPoker.com an online staking proposition which will see 50 invited players participate in a grading process with one progressing to black belt level and becoming the ambassador for the site. As part of the grading players start at green belt and after a minimum six hours daily […]
