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European Poker Tour Prague Day 2 Update
Day 2 at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Prague saw 177 players take to the felt in the €5,000 + €250 main event at the Hilton Hotel Casino in the Czech Republic. Players busted at a dizzying pace through the day and the tournament breezed through the bubble at 56 players and motored along until […]
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European Poker Tour Prague Day 2 Recap
Day 2 at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Prague saw 177 players take to the felt in the €5,000 + €250 main event at the Hilton Hotel Casino in the Czech Republic. Players busted at a dizzying pace through the day and the tournament breezed through the bubble at 56 players and motored along until […]
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WPT — $15,000 Doyle Brunson Classic Championship Begins Saturday
The poker world will converge on Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, Dec. 13 for the last major poker tournament of 2008. The World Poker Tour $15,000 Doyle Brunson Classic Championship is the marquee event at the Bellagio Five Diamond Poker Classic tournament series, which featured 14 events in all. This is the last opportunity of […]
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Andrew 'Foucault' Brokos Hosts This Week's Free Poker Video
Andrew “Foucault” Brokos is the host of this week’s free poker video training clip. Brokos takes the viewer through the beginning stages of his recent Sunday Million tournament, showing his hand-selection range as well as his thought process in big hands. This video, as well as three additional free clips by other instructors, is currently […]
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Recession Continues to Batter Nevada Casinos
Oh, the difference one year makes. After a record month of success for the Nevada gaming industry in October 2007, the Gaming Control Board announced on Wednesday that Nevada had its single worst gaming revenue drop in state history. Revenue was down more than $260 million, or 22.3 percent, in October 2008. “In October, we […]
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Details of Irish Poker Championship Announced
PartyPoker.com has announced qualifiers for the Irish Poker Championship taking place in Galway from Jan. 2 to 5, 2009. The first major tournament of 2009, being held in the Radisson SAS Hotel, Galway, has a €2,000 buy-in (9% withheld) and is set to attract some big guns in the form of Mike Sexton, Kenna James, […]
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Marty Smyth $50,000 Poker Million Freeroll Tonight
Registration for the Boylepoker.com Marty Smyth $50,000 Freeroll is open and the event takes place on Boylepoker.com tonight at 8 p.m. (GMT). The $1,000 minimum freeroll offers online players the chance to win five percent of whatever Smyth takes home from the Poker Million VII. This means that the top prize could be anything up […]
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Annette_15 Wins $100,000 Guaranteed on UB
Young Norwegian poker star Annette Obrestad took down the Ultimate Bet $100,000 guaranteed on Sunday collecting $31,000 for her victory. Obrestad, who took down the £1 million first prize in the World Series of Poker Europe 2007, won the tournament in its second week on the new network CEREUS which comprises UB and Absolute Poker. […]
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O'Leary, Flood, and Allen Make Poker Million Final
Irishmen Ciaran O’Leary and Liam Flood, will be joined by Kevin Allen in the Ladbrokes Poker Million VII final this Friday. The three qualified from their semi-final yesterday, getting the better of Ross and Barny Boatman, Ryan Fronda, Jonas Danielsson, and Kenneth Sorenson. O’Leary takes 339,000 chips into the final while Flood and Allen take […]
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European Poker Tour Prague Day 1B Recap
World Champion Peter Eastgate had the honour of announcing, “shuffle up and deal,” before he took to his seat alongside a 297 other in day 1b of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Prague. Combined with the 272 from day 1A the total field numbered 570 (up from last year’s 555) in the Hilton Hotel Casino […]
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European Poker Tour Prague Day 1B Update
World Champion Peter Eastgate had the honour of announcing, “shuffle up and deal,” before he took to his seat alongside 297 others in day 1B of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Prague. Combined with the 272 from day 1A, the total field numbered 570 (up from last year’s 555) in the Hilton Hotel Casino in […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — Hafiz 'Hafizzle' Khan
Tournament pro Hafiz "hafizzle" Khan got started with poker six years ago after a friend got him hooked with a home game. He spent a few years working for a software company but ultimately felt he could do better in the cardrooms. After spending a year in isolation to study his growing obsession, Khan ventured […]
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PartyPoker.com Gets Substantial Overhaul
PartyPoker.com has been undergoing significant changes in recent months and another swathe of these upgrades have been released. The new rewards programme no longer requires players to meet weekly points targets and does away with the vesting of points. It is a much simpler, more straightforward concept now — players just earn points and can […]
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Ladbrokes Poker Million Semi-Final Tonight
The highly-anticipated Ladbrokes Poker Million VII first semi-final is broadcast tonight on SKY Sports 2 at 9 p.m. The top three players from Hendon Mobsters Ross and Barny Boatman, Liam Flood, Ryan Fronda, Liam Flood, Ciaran O’Leary, Jonas Danielsson , Ryan Fronda, Kenneth Sorenson, and Kevin Allen will go into Friday’s live final where they […]
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European Poker Tour Prague Day 1A Recap
Day 1a of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Prague attracted 272 players paying €5,000 + €250 but by the end of the day over two-thirds of the field would have fallen on their swords. Some of the notables who took to the felt were Alain Roy, Luca Pagano, Marcin Horecki, Christoffer Hansen, Johannes Strassmann, Gino […]
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European Poker Tour Prague Day 1A Update
Day 1a of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Prague attracted 272 players paying €5,000 + €250 but by the end of the day over two-thirds of the field would have fallen on their swords. Some of the notables who took to the felt were Alain Roy, Luca Pagano, Marcin Horecki, Christoffer Hansen, Johannes Strassmann, Gino […]
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World Series of Poker Might Not Have Rebuy Events in 2009
Rebuy events at the World Series of Poker might be on their way out. WSOP Communications Director Seth Palanksy has confirmed that organizers of the World Series are considering the possibility of getting rid of rebuy events in 2009 based on some concerns voiced by players. “There is a movement to not have any rebuy […]
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High Stakes Poker Announces Lineup
High Stakes Poker has just announced its lineup of stars and professionals for its fifth season, and it’s sure to generate excitement as the list includes some of the most well-known poker players in the world, as well as the top two finishers of the 2008 main event. World champions Phil Hellmuth and Doyle Brunson […]
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Poker Players Alliance Spreading Word Through Ad Campaign
The Poker Players Alliance is launching an ad campaign directed at those who work on Capitol Hill to encourage federal online poker regulation. This week, ads will appear in the three Capitol Hill publications Roll Call, The Politico, and The Hill urging readers to look at online poker regulation as a solution to the problems […]
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SpadeClub Poker's Biggest Winner to Date
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. Ken “Handbone” Meyer is SpadeClub’s biggest winner of prizes and promotions to date after winning a $12,000 World Series prize package and the first […]
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LAPT — Nuevo Vallarta Event Will Continue on PokerStars.net
PokerStars announced today that they will hold a freeroll for the final 89 players who still had chips remaining when Mexican gaming officials shut down the $2,500 no-limit hold’em Latin American Poker Tour main event in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico, on Saturday, Dec. 6. The freeroll will be held on PokerStars.net, and the players will begin […]
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A Poker Life — November Nine's Craig Marquis
Under the bright lights in Rio’s famed Penn & Teller Theater, 23-year-old Craig Marquis sits at the final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker main event. Leading up to this point, Marquis played seven grueling days to wade through the 6,844-player field to get down to the November Nine and had endured 117 […]
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Grosvenor UK Poker Tour 2009 Schedule Released
The BlueSqPoker.com Grosvenor UK Poker Tour has announced the dates and venues of the tour for its third season starting January 2009. The sponsor is adding £150,000 to the tour next year which will see the return of the Cardiff leg, the first Scottish leg (Aberdeen), two online festivals, a mini-GUKPT summer series for those […]
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PartyPoker Women's World Open on TV Tomorrow Night
The PartyPoker.com Women’s World Open II begins its broadcast run on Channel 5 in the UK tomorrow night (Wed. Dec.10/Thurs. Dec. 11) at 00:05 a.m. The event saw 36 players stump up the $3,000 buy in with the eventual winner taking $50,000 from the $108,000 prize pool. Notable participants include defending champion Beverly Pace, Card […]
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European Poker Tour Prague Starts Today
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Prague main event starts today in the Hilton Hotel Casino in the Czech capital. The €5,000 + €250 freezout main event runs until Dec. 13 including two starting days, with each day officially starting at 12 p.m. (local time). Blinds begin at 25/50 and players start out with 10,000 chips. […]
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Win Your Way In Cheap With Bellagio Satellites
One of the many reasons why poker tournaments are so endearing to the general public is because anybody, regardless of skill level, can be a part of it. You can’t walk onto the court with Kobe, or line up along side Peyton, but as long as you can come up with the buy-in, you can […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — Allen Bari
Allen Bari has cashed 17 times playing tournament poker this year, including a big tournament win at the 2008 Borgata Summer Open, where he defeated Vinny Pahuja heads-up in the $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship event to win $500,000 in prize money. He has appeared at four final tables and won two tournaments during his successful […]
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European Poker Tour Prague Stop Begins Tomorrow
The second stop ever in the Czech Republic capital city of Prague on the PokerStars European Poker Tour begins tomorrow at noon CET (3 a.m. PST). The €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event will play down to one champion over the course of four tournament days that will take place from Dec. 9-13. The Prague stop […]
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APPT — Martin Rowe Wins Sydney Grand Final
The final event on season two of the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour ended on Sunday, Dec. 7, when Martin Rowe won the $6,000 AUD APPT Grand Final in Sydney, Australia. The local Aussie topped a field of 477 players during four days of poker, and he walked away with a first-place prize worth $1 […]
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Hard Rock Hosts Mindy Trinidad Memorial Poker Tournament
Mindy Trinidad strolled to the poker table, poker chips in one hand, a martini in the other. She sat down and starting quizzing the other players at the table, wanting to know where everyone was from and what they did. Jo Ann Bryan remembers being one of those players who was trying to focus on […]
