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Asian Poker Tour Hits Philippines Today
The Asian Poker Tour has stopped off at the Dusit Thani Hotel, Manila with the centerpiece main event, the $2,500 + $200, starting today. Last year the event was won by David Saab who picked up $280,000 for his victory. Among those participating next week are the “Poker Pack” — Nam Le, David ‘Chino’ Rheem, […]
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Bodog Poker Features Super Bowl Tournament
Bodog will host two special tournaments this weekend, one in celebration of Super Bowl XVIII and another for a seat in the Latin American Poker Tour event in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. The LAPT seat will be up for grabs on Saturday in a $135 tournament at 4 p.m. EST. For every 48 players in […]
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Matusow to Discuss Poker and the Super Bowl Tomorrow
Poker. Football. Mike Matusow. Card Player TV’s The Mouthpiece, the popular weekly TV show featuring the brash poker pro, will film its third episode of the new year tomorrow (Thursday) at 3 p.m. Matusow will undoubtedly discuss who he likes in Super Bowl XLIII between the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers, and what his […]
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APT — Philippines Stop Begins Thursday
The second stop for the Asian Poker Tour in the Philippines has come to Manila. The Dusit Thani Manila hotel in Makati plays host to the $2,500 no-limit hold’em main event. Players will begin with 10,000 in tournament chips. The tournament begins on Thursday, Jan. 29 at noon local time and continues until the conclusion […]
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Borgata Winter Poker Open Day 2
The $3,000 Winter Poker Open Championship is down to the final 172 players over at Borgata, just 72 spots from the money. A total of 710 had survived both starting days and despite the extremely deep stacks (50,000) and long, slow structures (75-minutes) in play, the field managed to whittle itself down to a manageable […]
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Online Poker Gets Boost from U.S. Legal Rulings
The beleaguered poker industry in the U.S. has received a significant boost over the last couple of weeks with a series of court rulings finding in favour of poker players and online operators. Last week a Pennsylvania judge dismissed a case against a resident who ran a small-stakes home poker ruling that poker is a […]
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Ladbrokes Poker Begins "Vegas Dream" Journey
Ladbrokespoker.com today launched its World Series of Poker Vegas Dream promotion which will see the focus shift from qualifying for the main event in Las Vegas to embracing the experience of the trip itself. The package will see successful players win seven nights accommodation in Caesars Palace, $2,000 expenses, buy ins to three WSOP main […]
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World Series of Poker Changes Spark Excitement, Debate
The 2009 World Series of Poker schedule was released Monday morning, and, as has become an annual tradition, it was the subject of much speculation and debate. The three major storylines that developed from the announcement concerned the addition of a $40,000 no-limit holdem event, the removal of rebuy events from the Series, and the […]
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DoylesRoom Confirms Move to Cake Poker Network
DoylesRoom.com, the online poker site fronted by poker veteran Doyle Brunson, yesterday confirmed in had launched its online poker room on the Cake Poker Network. The move will come as a blow to the Microgaming network (formerly Prima Network) which recently signed up Carlos Poker. Last year Microgaming restricted access to the U.S. market by […]
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SpadeClub Poker's 2008 Player of the Year
SpadeClub.com, the total poker experience, offers unlimited poker play and more than $100,000 in cash prizes every month, all for just $19.99* a month. No entry fees, no deposits, no risk. Find out more. SpadeClub’s 2008 Player of the Year race came to a finish on Dec. 31, 2008, and Exclusive member Kevin “CHILLSHOT” Williams […]
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Kentucky Won't Quit Trying to Grab Domain Names
Kentucky officials will appeal a Court of Appeals decision to stop Commonwealth attorneys from attempting to seize 141 Internet domains related to gambling and poker. The Court of Appeals sided with lawyers representing the Interactive Gaming Council (IGC) and the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) — two trade groups representing dozens of the […]
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Dennis Phillips and Ylon Schwartz Become Team PokerStars Pro
PokerStars has signed World Series of Poker November Nine members Dennis Phillips and Ylon Schwartz to its team of pros. Both players will promote the PokerStars brand in online and live events and will represent the site at various global poker tour circuits. Phillips, an accountant for a trucking company in St. Louis, Missouri, finished […]
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Venetian Releases April's Deep Stack Poker Schedule
Before its February Deep Stack Extravaganza series has even kicked off, the Venetian has released the schedule of its April version of the popular tournament series. Deep Stack Extravaganza II will run April 1-25, with 24 events ranging from $330 to $2,500. Like previous series, the vast majority of the events will be $330 no-limit […]
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Borgata Winter Poker Open Day 1B
Tournament officials predicted a small increase in turnout for day 1B of the Borgata Winter Poker Open, but instead they got a field much larger than anyone anticipated. A total of 579 players showed up for the second starting day, bringing the overall field number to 1,017. In all, the final prize pool came to […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — Stewart Scott
At the beginning of the 2009 Aussie Millions Poker Championship $10,500 no-limit hold’em main event Joe Hachem issued a challenge. The challenge went out to all of his fellow Aussies in attendance for one of them to win the tournament, seeing as no Australian had ever accomplished the feat. One player in the room took […]
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New Online "Poker Controller" Launched
Poker Controls, a UK based developer and manufacturer of dedicated online poker tools is today launching its new Poker Controller at the ICE Gaming Exposition in London. The slick new wireless gizmo is designed to help players play faster, more accurately, and more efficiently with function-specific and customisable buttons for multi-tabling. Poker Controls says the […]
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European Masters of Poker at DevilfishPoker.com
DevilfishPoker.com today launched its satellites to the new European Masters of Poker tour where players can win €1,600 packages and shoot for estimated €100,000 top prizes in Estonia, Cyprus, Spain, Czech Republic, and Malta this year. The first stop is Tallin, Estonia from Feb. 22 to 26 which hosts the €1,000+100 main event which will […]
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Play Darts Legend Phil Taylor at Boylepoker.com
Boylepoker.com is holding a $10 bounty tomorrow night Wednesday Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. GMT to kick off its parent company, Boylesports.com sponsorship of the Whyte & Mackay Premier League Darts. The impressive line-up of bounties, each with $100 on their heads, features some of the biggest names ever to take to the oche including […]
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American Poker Players Can Now Play at DoylesRoom
DoylesRoom e-mailed its customers two weeks ago telling them that “big changes” were just around the corner. Today, the poker site has announced that it has moved to the Cake Poker Network and that it will start accepting American players again. DoylesRoom used to cater to American players when it was part of the MicroGaming […]
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Online Poker — Jordan Morgan Goes Deep at Full Tilt
It was a huge Sunday for online poker, and many tournaments that normally require overlays were able to dig themselves out of the hole. While the big guarantees continued to do their thing, it was the smaller tournaments and venues that really benefitted and were able to thrive with larger-than-normal payouts and prize pools. Among […]
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Tom 'LearnedfromTV' Chambers Hosts Free Poker Training Video
Tom “LearnedfromTV” Chambers is the host of this week’s free poker video training clip from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus). In this video, Chambers plays four tables of $2-$4 pot-limit Omaha and analyzes his play as he goes. This video, as well as three additional free clips by other instructors, is currently available […]
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2009 World Series of Poker Schedule Released
The final-table delay is back. There will be no rebuys. There will be a $40,000-to-enter no-limit holdem event. There will be more bracelet events than ever. Those are the highlighted cliff notes for the 2009 World Series of Poker schedule, which was released this morning. There will be 57 gold bracelets awarded this summer — […]
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Borgata Winter Poker Open Day 1A
The World Poker Tour may have abandoned the Borgata and this year’s Winter Poker Open, but the players certainly have not. With the down economy, Tournament Director Tab Duchateau and his staff made the decision to lower the main event buy-in to $3,000. So far, with day 1A in the books, the players have responded […]
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Ladbrokes Poker Hosts Easter Poker Festival, Brighton
Ladbrokespoker.com today announced its Easter Rendezvous Festival taking place at the Rendezvous Casino, Brighton Marina from April 6 to 13, 2009, the centerpiece of which will be the estimated £100,000 prize pool main event. The online poker site is bringing significant value to the festival with £20,000 added: five $5,000 Las Vegas packages added to […]
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Chat Show Titan Launches International Team Poker
Legendary U.S. talk show host and poker lover Montel Williams is developing a new TV show — International Team Poker League — which will be broadcast around the globe from November 2009. The new format will be a mixture of poker and reality TV show and satellites are set to begin in March 2009 though […]
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Microgaming Poker Network Loses Doyle's Room
Doyle’s Room, the well-know online poker room fronted by living legend Doyle Brunson, is leaving the Microgaming Poker Network and moving to the Cake Poker Network which allows U.S. players. Microgaming, to which Doyle’s Room moved in 2007 after the Tribeca network was wound up, stopped accepting U.S. players from 13 states last year and […]
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Aussie Millions — Million Dollar Cash Game Recap
There are only a few people in the world who have enough money in their bankroll to support a cash-game buy-in of $1 million. In Australia on Sunday, Jan. 25, there were just two such players. Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius faced off in the Million Dollar Cash Game at the 2009 Aussie Millions […]
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German Wins €851,400 at European Poker Tour Deauville
Moritz Kranich took down the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Deauville yesterday topping the field of 645 players in the €5,000 buy in main event to collect the top prize of €851,400. The young German qualified on PokerStars.com and his largest victory previously was a $77,000 third place in the $1,050 World Championship of Online Poker […]
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Moritz Kranich Wins European Poker Tour Deauville
Moritz Kranich has won the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Deauville, beating 644 opponents in the €5,000 buy-in main event to collect the top prize of €851,400. The 28-year-old qualified on PokerStars.com, and his previous best result was a $77,000 third-place finish in the $1,050 World Championship of Online Poker Second Chance event. At the start […]
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Online Poker — Interview With Steve 'gboro780' Gross
Steve "gboro780" Gross is the consummate online tournament grinder. His success is directly associated with the time and volume he puts into playing, and ultimately winning. Until recently, he had yet to add a six-figure score to his résumé, so when it is pointed out that he has over $2 million in online winnings, you […]
