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GUKPT Grand Final Seeing Stars on Day 1b
Day 1b of BlueSquarePoker.com‘s Grosvenor UK Poker Tour grand final main event kicked off at 2 p.m. (BST) today. The £3,000 + £150 buy-in event which is taking place in the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London, saw 87 players hammered down to 23 during day 1a yesterday. Today, 97 players including alternates turned up to […]
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Progressive Movements for Online Gaming in Switzerland
The president of the Swiss Gaming Board, Benno Schneider has announced his wishes to further investigate the lifting of the ban on online gaming in Switzerland, according to Gaming Intelligence Group. Such steps would not have their complications and would not be without cost, but Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reported that Mr.Scneider felt it would be […]
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European Championship of Online Poker Heats Up
The $4,150,000 guaranteed European Championship of Online Poker III (ECOOP) presented by iPoker began on Nov. 24 and will run for 14 days with 14 fantastic events. The opening no-limit hold’em tournament was a good start to the championship with 1,420 participants. The total prize pool — $284,000 — was actually $34,000 more than what […]
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Bodog Dressing Up Thanksgiving Weekend Tourney Schedule
Bodog Poker is giving online poker players reason to be thankful this weekend with a series of special Thanksgiving online tournaments. Starting Thanksgiving Thursday, there will be a different tournament each day of the weekend featuring a different format and buy-in level, including a special qualifier for the Sunday $100,000-guaranteed tournament and the massive overlay […]
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GUKPT Grand Final Main Event Kicks Off Today
The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour grand final main event sponsored by BlueSquarePoker.com began today at 2 p.m. (BST). The £3,000 + £150 buy-in four-day event is taking place in the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London, where last year’s champion Mike Ellis will attempt to defend his title. The event has two starting days of 200 […]
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Sportingbet's Poker Rake Takes a Downward Turn
Online sports betting, casino, and gaming group, Sportingbet Plc, announced its first quarter results for the three months ended Oct. 31, 2008. The generated poker rake for that period in the European region is £5.1m before bonus deductions. That figure is down 7.3 percent year on year. Amounts wagered for the quarter were £364.9m, a […]
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PartyPoker.com Premier League Heat Results: Day 3
Day 3 of PartyPoker.com Premier League III heats saw Peter Eastgate and Phil Hellmuth take revenge for their previous results by slaughtering the competition and taking down 10 points each. Heat 5 got down to the nitty gritty in no time, and J.C. Tran and Eastgate found themselves heads up with the blinds only at […]
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All Africa Poker Tournament Announced
From Feb. 26 to Mar. 1, 2009, the R3,500,000 (South African Rand) All Africa Poker Tournament (AAPT) will play out at Piggs Peak Hotel and Casino, Swaziland, South Africa. This event will see five packages to the 2009 World Series of Poker on offer, valued at R150,000. The first nine places will be paid with […]
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Play This Sunday to Win a $2,500 Satellite Seat to a 2009 Bellagio Event
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 is giving its Exclusive members a chance to play for a $25,000 seat in the 2009 Five-Star World Poker Classic WPT Championship event […]
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Tournament Trail Q and A — Will Failla
Will "The Thrill" Failla has been one of the most colorful characters on the tournament trail since he began posting consistent results in 2005. He now holds over $1 million in career tournament winnings. During his poker career, he has made apperances at a dozen final tables, and he has won four poker tournaments. Despite […]
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Casinos Cut Costs for Hotel Reservations
Try to imagine a bunch of elderly, gray-haired hotel owners doing the limbo. Now picture yourself in the room, eagerly and excitedly goading them on: “How loooow can you go?” Scary image? Perhaps. But you might feel better if you were planning on booking a room on the Las Vegas Strip in the next couple […]
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Poker Industry May Be Coming to Texas
Texas State Rep. Jose Menendez is again trying to convince his lawmaking colleagues that people have the right to play poker in a safe and protected way by introducing a bill that would bring cardrooms to the state. His bill, H.B. 222 (and also called the Poker Gaming Act of 2009), would create a poker […]
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JC Tran Sees Double in PartyPoker.com Premier League
J.C. Tran has done it again in his second successive PartyPoker.com Premier League III heat after taking down Vicky Coren heads up. The final hand that did the damage saw Tran raise with A-6 and Coren shove with K-K. An ace hit the flop and it was all over. Ten more points are now added […]
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Kevin Allen Wins Seat in Ladbrokes Poker Million
When 29-year-old Kevin Allen from Romford won the LEOCOP pot-limit event recently, he didn’t realise he also won a ticket to the invitation-only LEOCOP IV Masters on Nov. 22, and ultimately the chance to take down the Poker Million VII. This guarantees him the opportunity to play in the live final on Dec. 12 where […]
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Partouche Makes Plans for French Online Poker
French casino group Partouche is going ahead with its plans for the launch of its Gibraltar-licensed online poker site aimed at French players, according to Gaming Intelligence Group. What makes this interesting is that online poker is still classified as illegal gambling in France. The move comes at a time of much talk about the […]
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Countdown to CelebPoker.com €1 Million Guaranteed
The €1,000 + €50 CelebPoker.com tournament is due to take place on Dec. 14. This €1 million guaranteed event will see a tidy sum of €250,000 go to the winner. Current CEO of Irish football club Galway United, Nick Leeson, is the latest notable character to sign up. Leeson is more commonly known as the […]
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Bellagio Five-Diamond World Poker Classic Begins Friday
The last major poker tournament series of the year begins on Friday, Nov. 28, when things kick off at the Bellagio Five-Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas. The first event will be a $500 SpadeClub no-limit hold’em tournament, which begins at 2 p.m. on Friday. The tournament series will feature a total of 13 […]
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Absolute Poker and UltimateBet Are Now Cereus
Tokwiro Enterprises, the owner of both Absolute Poker and UltimateBet, has combined the two networks on a single new poker network named Cereus. According to a company announcement, the Cereus network has been a year in the making and brings the player pools from both sites together, even though the “skins” of Absolute Poker and […]
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Dani Stern Hosts This Week's Free Poker Video Training Clip
Dani “ansky” Stern is the featured host in this week’s free poker video training clip. Stern is playing four tables of six-handed $10-$20 no-limit hold’em in the video, but the clip is mainly focused on talking about moving up and down in stakes. This video, as well as three additional free clips by other instructors, […]
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Borgata Winter Open Officially Removed From WPT Schedule
The rumors have been circulating for months that the Borgata Winter Open would not be participating in the second half of the World Poker Tour’s Season VII schedule. In a recent press update from the WPT, it has been confirmed that the popular $10,000 tournament will indeed not be taking place, at least under the […]
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Ron Rogers Wins Heartland Poker Tour Championship Open
Ron Rogers won the Heartland Poker Tour Championship Open at the Majestic Star Casino in Gary, Indiana, on Monday, Nov. 24. He took home $136,495 in prize money for his victory in the $2,000 no-limit hold’em main event. The main event attracted 239 entrants, including professionals Bernard Lee, David Peters, and Tim Vance (pictured at […]
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Excalibur Debuts Pot-Limit Omaha Poker
Last summer, Lyle Berman was playing against some of the best pros in the world at the $50,000-to-enter H.O.R.S.E. final table. Last week, he was playing the $0.50-$1 pot-limit Omaha (PLO) cash game at the Excalibur. Berman, the chairman of the board of the World Poker Tour, played at the low-stakes cash game on Thursday […]
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World Poker Tour China Debuts on TV
Perhaps you’re sick of all of the poker reruns on TV. Maybe you’ve simply surpassed your quota of cards. Well, probably not, if you’re spending your time reading this poker article. However, for the 1.3 billion people of China, their TV poker explosion is just getting started. This month, the World Poker Tour made its […]
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Sijbrand Maal Wins Belgium Poker Championship
The fourth annual Belgium Poker Championship took place at Casino de Namur, Belgium from Nov. 15 to 23. The €1,500 + €150 main event attracted 843 players, breaking all records for the largest field in Europe at a €1000 plus event. It bumped the previous record — last year’s EPT Monte Carlo — off the […]
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Dusk Till Dawn's Greek Poker Championship Success
The Greek Poker Championship which kicked off on Nov. 14 in Dusk Till Dawn was a complete success. Sixty-two of the players who travelled over for the event (two coach loads) arrived at the club to play in the £200 no-limit event after only a few hours sleep. For many of the players, this was […]
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PartyPoker Premier League First Day Heats Results
The winner of the first PartyPoker.com Premier League Heat was Asian Poker Tour ambassador J.C. Tran. Tran, who is representing PKR for the event, beat newly crowned World Series champion Peter Eastgate heads up to take the maximum of 10 points. Eastgate began the heads up battle with almost 200,000 more chips than Tran but […]
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Daniel Negreanu Wins the B.C. Poker Championships
Canada’s favorite poker son won the second-largest Canadian poker tournament of the year yesterday when Daniel Negreanu took home $371,910 for winning the fourth-annual British Columbia Poker Championships. Negreanu outlasted 689 other players at the $2,500 no-limit hold’em main event that ended on Sunday, Nov. 23. In a press release put out by the British […]
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Online Poker — Danny 'THE__D__RY' Ryan Wins Sunday Million
Sunday saw a lot of action from the diehards of the poker community, grinding out tournament after tournament in an effort to collect that elusive big-figure score. None did that better than Danny "THE__D__RY" Ryan, who not only took down the PokerStars Sunday Million, but also made a deep run in the Full Tilt $750,000 […]
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Great British Poker Tour Grand Final Coming Soon
The Gala Casinos Great British Poker Tour champion of 2008 will soon be crowned at the grand final in Bristol. The £1,500 + £100 deepstack event takes place from Dec. 1 to 7 with the winner set to receive a first prize worth up to £100,000. The total prize pool on offer is an attractive […]
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PartyPoker Premier League Draw Announced
PartyPoker.com‘s Premier League III heats have been announced and the first begins early today. Matchroom Sport devised a unique tournament format, which sees 12 players play six times in the league before the top four progress to the final table, and the four runners-up play heads up for the remaining two places. Last year the […]
