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Online Poker: Halfrek Wins Second FTOPS Event of Series
The primary focus of the weekend may have been on the big Sunday tournaments, but there were still four Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) events that took place over the weekend, including an epic two-day affair that saw one of the online community’s best rise up to take his second title of the Series. […]
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New Commentators Week on Poker After Dark
This week on Poker After Dark, new episodes will premiere as Commentator’s Week commences on Tuesday at 2:05 a.m. on NBC. Players who spend a lot of time behind the scenes will take the spotlight and compete for the $120,000 winner-take-all first-place prize. The following are the featured players on Commentator’s Week with bios provided […]
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Strip Poker: Andy Johnson Wins World Series of Golf
The second-annual World Series of Golf began Monday at the Paiute Golf Resort in Las Vegas, and amateur Andy Johnson won the $250,000 first-place prize. The event was a mix of golf and poker rules. Eighty competitors, including many poker pros, put up the $10,000 buy-in to play. Players had to compete in fours until […]
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Doctor Wins Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Newcastle
Ganesh Rao won the BlueSqPoker.com-sponsored Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Newcastle at the weekend, topping a field of 189 to lift the first prize of £57,175. The doctor, originally from Sheffield, had previously finished ninth in the Walsall leg of the tour. He snatched the title from Ian Farrell when his J-J picked off Farrell’s 5-2 […]
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South Africa Set to Legalise Online Gaming
South African news organisation ITWeb today reported that the long-debated National Gambling Amendment Bill could be passed by the National Assembly this week. The bill, which was introduced by parliament last year, was approved by the Trade and Industry Portfolio Committee earlier this month, and can now go before the National Assembly to be enacted […]
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Online Poker: Interview with Mark 'xqsays' Radoja
Mark “xqsays” Radoja went from building fences to building his poker bankroll, and not many would argue against that being a definite upgrade. Radoja himself couldn’t argue, since he earned more than $260,000 in just four days from recent events in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VIII (FTOPS). Despite his success, the winnings may […]
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Home Poker and the Law in America
All across America, people are playing poker in their homes, fire halls, and even community centers that also house local police headquarters. Those playing include politicians, attorneys, law enforcement agents, and citizens from all walks of life. In many states, thanks to antiquated and often confusing gambling laws, these citizens are breaking the law and […]
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Win WSOP Seat By Sharing On Cake Poker
Parents always remind their children that it is nice to share, and in CakePoker’s ABC (Always Be Caking promotion, players could be rewarded with a 2008 World Series of Poker $10,000 seat for doing just that. All players have to do is refer friends to the site. Each “lead,” or new depositing player, referred is […]
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Devin Porter Holds Charity Tournament to Benefit Father
The world of tournament poker is certainly full of more than its fair share of shady characters with less than perfect moral compasses. But, as in poker, the cream often rises to top. This is most apparent when the community rallies around one of its own in support. Dean Porter has cancer. B-cell Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, […]
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SpadeClub Poker Winner: Lance 'scrubbydogg' Malmberg
SpadeClub.com, the innovative online poker community, offers a risk-free way to win at poker with no deposits and no buy-ins. Click here to find out more. SpadeClub has a new $5,000 weekly winner, Lance “scrubbydog” Malmberg. Malmberg has been playing poker for a little more than three months and has found SpadeClub to be a […]
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Deep Stack Tournament Series Starts Sunday at the Bike
The Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California, is running a Deep Stack Tournament Series with low buy-ins and guaranteed prize pools. The first event starts on Sunday. All tournaments are no-limit hold’em and begin at 7 p.m., except for the Deep Stack Championship, which begins at 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 25. The following is […]
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Online Poker: FTOPS VIII Events No. 17 and 18
Two new champions were crowned in last night’s action in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VIII (FTOPS). Both tournaments had prize pools that went beyond the posted guarantees, and one event’s final table featured two red-named, Full Tilt-sponsored pros. FTOPS VIII Event No. 17 — Shorthanded No-Limit Hold’em Shootout The $200 buy-in sixhanded no-limit […]
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Bodog Poker Sending More Than 100 to World Series
Bodog Poker is offering its players a chance to get in on the biggest poker tournament of the year, the World Series of Poker main event. The site plans to award more than 100 seats in the main event, and at least five seats can be earned each week through June. Along with the $12,000 […]
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PaddyPower Betting On World Series of Poker
PaddyPower.com today launched a slew of betting markets on the World Series of Poker main event being held in Las Vegas from July 3, 2008. The Irish bookmaker has made Daniel Negreanu and Allen Cunningham among the joint 100/1 favourites to make the final table at the event, while Doyle Brunson is a 150/1 shot […]
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Bwin Poker Revenues Up, Ladbrokes Down
Bwin, the publicly-quoted Austrian online bookmaker and poker room, today announced revenue from its poker operations up 12.6 percent in the first quarter of 2008 year-on-year to €20.3 million. This was an increase of 6.8 percent on the fourth quarter of 2007. Overall, in 2007, bwin had revenues of €74.6 million from poker operations. The […]
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PKR Starts TV Broadcasts Across Europe
PKR.com today announced it is to begin broadcasting in-game footage of tournaments to 15 million homes across Europe. The nightly shows, which will initially feature Thursday’s $100 buy-in $10,000 guaranteed and Saturday’s $60 buy-in $20,000 guaranteed TV showdown, will be hosted by Colin Morris with commentary from Dan Grant and James Bach. The list […]
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PartyGaming Appoints New Chief Executive Officer
PartyGaming has announced the appointment of Jim Ryan as chief executive officer. Ryan, a 46-year-old Canadian, takes over from Mitch Garber in the next few weeks. He was formerly chief executive officer of St. Minver and Excapsa Software, as well as chief financial officer of CryptoLogic, having trained as a chartered accountant at Deloitte Haskins […]
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Ladbrokes Poker Set to Deal Billionth Hand
LadbrokesPoker.com has announced it will run a special billionth-hand freeroll to celebrate the landmark event with 20 $14,000 trips to Las Vegas up for grabs for the top 20 finishers. The managing director of Ladbrokes Poker said, “The billionth hand is likely to be dealt sometime during June, just before we and 110 Ladbrokes players […]
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Travel Link Unlimited Offers Luxury WSOP Packages
Travel Link Unlimited’s motto is that it is “the missing link between you and the world,” and poker players know that during the chaos of the World Series of Poker, it is easy to lose focus on everything else outside of the game. That is why the company is offering specials for WSOP poker players […]
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Hooters Holding Poker Tournament for Charity
Hooters Casino in Las Vegas is holding a charity poker tournament Saturday wherein a portion of the proceeds will go to the Nashville Chapter of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. The tournament, called the Music Row Open Charity Poker Tournament, is being hosted by actor and musician Christian Kane. The game will begin […]
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Judge Denies Dismissal of Wash. State Online Poker Law
A Washington State judge today sided with state attorneys who successfully defended a law that makes online gambling a Class C felony there. Lee Rousso, the attorney who sued the state in an effort to have the law declared unconstitutional, said he will appeal. “Even though it was a loss today, I still think some […]
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NBC Heads-Up Championship Airs Final Episode Sunday
Poker fans need to set the TiVo, DVR, or, for those who are a little behind on technology, the VCR for Sunday at Noon ET on NBC. The final episode of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship is being aired, and viewers don’t want to miss the Final Four play down to the $500,000 winner. The […]
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Online Poker: FTOPS Events No. 15 and 16
As of now, 16 winners have been crowned in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VIII, and two of those were freshly minted from last night’s two tournaments, a H.A. event and a sixhanded no-limit hold’em (with rebuys) event. Both tourneys went above and beyond their guarantees to make combined prize pools of more than […]
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Review of Gus Hansen Book Every Hand Revealed
The CardPlayer.com poker store is pleased to offer Card Player columnist and blogger Gus Hansen’s new book, Every Hand Revealed. Hansen reveals the true method to the madness that has won him more than $5.6 million from taking down four World Poker Tour titles and the Aussie Millions main event. Here is a sneak-peak of […]
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Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Newcastle Starts Today
The fifth leg of the 2008 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, sponsored by BlueSquarePoker.com, kicks off this afternoon at the Grosvenor Casino in Newcastle, and runs through until Sunday. Marc Goodwin will be looking to follow up his win in Manchester with another strong showing, while runner-up Nik Persaud will be looking to become the first […]
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GSN Has Yet to Order more High Stakes Poker Episodes
High Stakes Poker, which once spent four seasons as the top-rated show on GSN, has yet to put in an order for more episodes. Although President and CEO of Poker PROductions Mori Eskandani confirmed that GSN has not yet contacted his production company for new shows, he wouldn’t rule out that GSN would never buy […]
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Tournament Trail Q & A: Johnathan 'UFPokerStar' Westra
It has been a slow and steady rise to the top for Johnathan Westra. Since turning pro in 2006, Westra has earned nearly $430,000 in live tournament winnings, much more in satellites, and is one of the top online players on Bodog, all while going to school and working toward his degree. Westra has shown […]
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Strip Poker: World Series of Golf Begins
It seems that golf, poker, and gambling continue to cross paths, and the World Series of Golf is a product of that. The second-annual event began Monday at the Paiute Golf Resort in Las Vegas, and the original 80 players are now down to 20. A few poker pros who have already been sent packing […]
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Roy Winston and Michael Binger Team Up to Coach Poker
Professional poker players Roy Winston and Michael Binger have more than $7.9 million in tournament earning between the two of them, and they have both proven themselves as widely respected tournament professionals. Now, the two are bringing their collective poker talents to the masses with a poker consulting and training company. The company — called […]
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Party and Play Poker at the Playboy Mansion Saturday
The Card Player-sponsored third-annual Celebrity Poker Tournament and Casino Night is Saturday, May 17, and players still have time to register to play poker for charity and party with celebrities at the legendary Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, all with a chance to walk away with a seat in this year’s World Series main event. […]
