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Online Poker Bills Will Be Reintroduced to New Congress
Soon, the 111th Congress will gather in Washington, D.C., to begin its work, and that means that all of the bills that were introduced to the 110th Congress will have to be reintroduced all over again. Several bills that were introduced that, if passed, would have changed the landscape of Internet poker in the […]
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Casinos Struggle, But Poker Rooms Stay Strong
"We are looking at the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, and the biggest economic crisis we have had in the United States since the early 1980s." That’s what Scott Brown, the chief economist with Raymond James and Associates, told a reporter from Reuters earlier this month. The recession is hitting everyone, but especially […]
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Mike Matusow Hosts New Free Poker Video Training Clip
Poker superstar Mike “The Mouth” Matusow is the featured host of the newest free poker training video from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus). The footage and analysis is from an eight-handed $500-$1,000 H.O.R.S.E. game, and his fellow Team Full Tilt member Jennifer Harman is also at the table. This video clip, as well […]
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Adrian Lambe Wins CircusPoker's Poker Classic
CircusPoker.co.uk is celebrating the success of its first ever £100,000 Second Chance Poker Classic. The unique tournament format meant that players who did not qualify live at a participating casino got a second shot at the final, online. The main event took place at the Circus Casino at Star City, Birmingham, from October 30 to […]
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Seats Added to Dusk Till Dawn Anniversary Cup
Dusk Till Dawn’s £100,000 guaranteed Anniversary Cup will kick off on Dec. 3 and run until Dec. 7, and now there are even more ways to win seats before this big event debuts. 25 seats have now been added to the event and can be won via three special satellites taking place on the following […]
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Devilfish and Tony G Join PartyPoker Premier League
PartyPoker.com Premier League III has added two new faces to its line up — Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott and Tony G. The two well-known characters of the poker world will join Annette Obrestad, Roland de Wolfe, Andy Black, Juha Helppi, JC Tran, Nenad Medic, and Victoria Coren in the $75,000 buy-in event. With this increased buy-in, […]
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WSOP Finalists Sit Down with Card Player TV
Of breaking Phil Hellmuth’s record to become the youngest player to ever win the main event, 2008 champion Peter Eastgate told Card Player TV, “It was like the sugar on the top.” Now, we know the Dane is trying to improve his English, so we’ll cut him a little slack. He probably meant “cherry,” but […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — 2008 World Champion Peter Eastgate
Peter Eastgate became the youngest world champion in the history of poker on Monday night at 22 years of age, breaking a record that had stood for 19 years and belonged to Phil Hellmuth. Eastgate topped 6,844 players to win the 39th-annual World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event, and he is now […]
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APPT — Manila Stop Begins Tomorrow
The fourth stop during season two on the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour will begin tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. PHT. There will be two day-one flights, and the three-day event will crown a champion on Sunday, Nov. 16. Players who have registered so far include Team PokerStars pro Lee Nelson and Taiwan-born J.J. Liu. The […]
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UIGEA is Finalized — Rules Can Be Implemented By Dec. 2009
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) had until Nov. 19 to sign off on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) to ensure that the mandatory 60-day-review period that started upon approval would be completed before President George W. Bush left office. They beat out their deadline by seven days. In a move that […]
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Peter Eastgate Signs with Poker Royalty
Peter Eastgate, the 22-year-old World Series of Poker main event champion, has become a client of the poker player representation agency Poker Royalty. The Denmark native is now the newest “name” poker player thanks to his WSOP championship win, and Poker Royalty, the poker player representation firm with a who’s-who list of clients, plans on […]
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SpadeClub Poker Recently Updated Its Features
SpadeClub.com, the total poker experience, offers more than 2,500 tournaments and $100,000 awarded every month, all for just $19.99 a month. No entry fees, no deposits, no risk. Find out more. SpadeClub has recently launched new and exciting updates to the site that give members the opportunity to win more cash, more often. SpadeClub implemented […]
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Excalibur's Electronic Poker Tables Wrap Up Beta Test
On a lonely Tuesday afternoon in the city of sin, two dozen poker players have stepped out of their comfort zones to delve into the new and the unknown. There is no shuffling of chips to break up the silence or monotony, no cards to play with or to throw into the muck, no dealers […]
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DevilfishPoker.com Launches Two New Poker Games
DevilfishPoker.com has announced the addition of two new poker games to its site. The first, 32-card draw, is popular among the Italian market and looks set to take flight across the rest of the online poker world. The game itself is similar to 5-card draw but with the lower cards stripped from the deck. Solely […]
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English Invade Belgium for Annual Poker Championship
The upcoming main event at the Belgium Poker Championship, being held at the Casino de Namur in Belgium from Nov. 15 to 23 is expected to see 1,000 players take to the felt to vie for an estimated €1.5 million. A trio of big guns from England ― James Akenhead, Jeff Kimber, and Paul “Actionjack” […]
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European Poker Open Hits Dublin This Christmas
Leprechaun Poker today announced details of its European Poker Open which takes place in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dublin from December 27 to 29. The 500 capacity event has a buy in of $250 + $25 and offers a guaranteed prize pool of €50,000. This is a deep stack event with 15,000 starting stacks and […]
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Neil Channing and Great Britain Win Poker Nations Cup
Team Great Britain, captained by Roland De Wolfe and featuring Irish Open winner Neil Channing, has won 2008 PartyPoker.com Poker Nations Cup. The team, featuring de Wolfe and Channing, as well as Surinder Sunar, Joe Beevers, Ian Frazer and PartyPoker.com VIP online qualifier Charlie Durbin beat Ireland heads-up to lift the prestigious title and $100,000 […]
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Boss Media and CryptoLogic Merge Poker Players
CryptoLogic, the publicly-quoted online gaming software provider, announced today it had entered into a strategic partnership with Boss Media which will see its poker customers merged with Boss’ International Poker Network (IPN) and expected savings of $12-15 million. The move comes in the aftermath of CryptoLogic’s recent announcement that its strategic focus would shift to […]
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WPT: Jonathan Little Wins the 2008 Foxwoods World Poker Fina
It took hours longer than anybody could have imagined, but the mounting blinds and antes finally put an end to a marathon heads-up session that saw numerous lead changes, huge hands, and even bigger bluffs. When all was said and done, PokerCoaching founder Jonathan Little bested Jonathan Jaffe for his second WPT title and nearly […]
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2008 Master Classics of Poker Begins Today
Fresh on the heels of the crowning of a new world champion from Europe comes one of the continent’s most prestigious poker tournaments of the year, the Master Classics of Poker in the Netherlands. Today marks the first day of the Lido Poker €6,000 no-limit hold’em main event. The tournament began at 3 p.m. CET […]
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Ratings Rebound for 2008 World Series of Poker
After seeing a decline in viewership numbers in 2007, ESPN’s broadcasts of this year’s World Series of Poker attracted some of the biggest audiences it has seen in more than two years. “The viewership and interest we’ve seen this season tells us that the World Series of Poker still has a very strong following,” said […]
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Step Aside, Neo — Full Tilt Poker Redefines the Matrix
“You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember — all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.” – Morpheus, The Matrix […]
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WSOP — Peter Eastgate Wins the 2008 Main Event
The final night at the 2008 World Series of Poker main event was a record-setting affair. New heights were reached for the longest $10,000 no-limit hold’em world championship final table ever, as well as the largest big blind (1 million) in the history of the event. At the end of play, another record fell when […]
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Peter Eastgate Wins WSOP Main Event 2008
For some it seems like yesterday, but for others the wait has been long and nerve-wracking. Day 1A of the $10,000 World Series of Poker main event kicked off way back on July 3, when 1,297 from a total 6,844 players took to the felt at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — William Fry
William Fry grinded it out professionally for years, although it must be noted, primarily in the online world. Cashing here and there in live tournaments, it took the first ever EPT to be held in Hungary before the red-haired Brit would make it to the final table of a major event. His happy-go-lucky demeanour was […]
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iPoker Revenue Up 88 Percent So Far This Year
The iPoker network, owned by Israeli online gaming operator Playtech, saw revenue expand 60 percent in the third quarter of 2008 (to end Sept.) to €7.6 million from €7 million in the same period last year. Revenue grew by 9 percent on the second quarter of 2008. Overall in the first nine months of 2008 […]
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PKR.Com Live Poker Festival This Weekend
PKR.com, the 3-D online poker room, hosts its first live festival this weekend in London with $100,000 guaranteed in prize money for up to 150 online qualifiers. The three-day festival includes a $60 freezeout on Friday, the $500 freezeout main event on Saturday with $75,000 guaranteed, and a $10,000 bounty freeroll on Sunday. The weekend […]
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Poker Nations Cup Final Airs Tonight in UK
The PartyPoker.com Poker Nations Cup reaches its climax tonight on Channel 4 in the UK and Ireland at 00.10 with Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, the U.S., and Holland chasing the $100,000 top prize. Among those representing their countries are team captains Roland De Wolfe (Britain), Michael Keiner (Germany), Marcel Luske (Holland), Padraig Parkinson (Ireland), Bo […]
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ESPN Near-Live Broadcast of WSOP Main Event Tuesday
At 10 p.m. PT tonight, Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov return to the Rio to finish what they started this summer. By early morning tomorrow, maybe even by midnight tonight, one will be the World Series of Poker main event champion (and will pocket the $9.1 million that comes with the bracelet). The other will […]
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Poker Goes Global with Another International Final Table
Poker has come a long way since the half-empty, smoke-filled rooms that the nostalgic players refer to as “the good ol’ days.” Once considered a lucky game that the degenerates of society played, people now recognize it as a full-fledged sport that requires skill, patience, and courage. While the essence of the game is unchanged, […]
