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Events 2 and 3 of the FTOPS VIII Surpass Guarantees
Those hungry for action didn’t have to look any further than last night’s two Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) events. Both events easily surpassed their respected guarantees as yet another two FTOPS winners were crowned. Event No. 2 – Pot Limit Omaha The first event of the day was a $240 +$16 pot limit […]
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Khloe Kardashian and Jamie Gold to Host Playboy Tourney
Khloe Kardashian from the hit show on E! Keeping Up with the Kardashians and 2006 World Series of Poker main event winner Jamie Gold have signed on to host the Third-Annual Urban Health Institute Celebrity Poker Tournament Fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion on Saturday, May 17. The buy-in for the tournament is $1,500 and general […]
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Jack Hinchey Wins 888.com $3 Million World Poker Crown
After outgunning over 2,200 players a couple of weeks ago online, Jack Hinchey finished off the job in some style in the early hours of this morning’s 888.com World Poker Crown. In the amazing historical locale of Peralada Castle, Spain, Hinchey moved away from the computer to defeat seven other finalists and take down the […]
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Scandinavian Poker Site Chooses CryptoLogic Platform
A group of Scandinavia’s leading internet poker executives are launching a new online poker site OPoker.com on the CryptoLogic network it was announced today. The three-year licensing deal will see the software provider offer the online poker room customer support services, e-cash management and business service support. Brian Hadfield, ceo and president of publicly-traded CryptoLogic, […]
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PKR Launches Summer Poker Festival
PKR.com, the 3-D online poker room, today announced details of the second annual PKR Super Series taking place from Jun. 14 to Jul. 6. The festival has buy-ins to suit all pockets with tournaments ranging from Deep and Steep to the Team PKR Bounty. The main event is the Deep Stack Masters with a $100,000 […]
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Wash. State Governor Dino Rossi Candidate Talks About Poker Law
Washington Republican politician Dino Rossi lost the closest race in the history of governor’s races in the United States when he came just 133 votes from beating current governor Christine Gregoire in 2004. Poker players at the time couldn’t imagine what that defeat meant for them there. In 2006, Gregoire signed a Senate bill that […]
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Iron Man Challenge on Full Tilt Poker Rewards for Play
Full Tilt Poker’s popular Iron Man promotion challenges players to play a ton of hands, win freeroll tournaments, and best three elite poker pros, all in a quest to snag boatloads of free cash. No, Full Tilt Poker’s Iron Man Challenge isn’t based on the recently released, comic-book inspired movie. The Iron Man Challege has been […]
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WSOP Academy Ladies-Only Event Set for June
The World Series of Poker Academy is bringing back its ladies edition June 6-7 in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace, and Annie Duke is returning as host. The entry fee for the two-day event is $1,699, but attendees will get priceless training from Duke as well as Alex “The Insider” Outhred and former FBI agent […]
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Isaac 'the guru 11' Baron Wins First Event in FTOPS VIII
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series VIII (FTOPS) kicked off in style last night when the first event of the series easily surpassed its guarantee and also featured an online poker superstar as its winner. The first event was a $200 buy-in six-max no-limit hold’em event with a $750,000 guarantee. The tournament found 4,158 entrants, […]
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European Poker Tour Grand Final Podcast Now Available
Edition nine of poker podcast On the Rail with Kara Scott and Nick Wealthall is available on iTunes now, featuring interviews with Team PokerStars Pros Vicky Coren and Barry Greenstein from the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final, Monte Carlo last month. Nick Wealthall said, “We were lucky enough to speak to a very buoyant […]
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PartyPoker Million VI Final Table Under Way
The final table of the PartyPoker.com Million VI cruise has just started with nine players remaining from the 171 runners in the $8,200 buy-in event taking place on the MSC Poesia cruiseliner in the Mediterranean. The remaining participants are: Kenneth Gregersen (Denmark) — 44,000 Raymond Estall (UK) — 187,000 Johannes Strassmann (Germany) — 182,000 Alexander […]
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World Poker Crown Final Table Webcast Today
The final table of the $3 million 888.com World Poker Crown is to be broadcast live on the Internet today, Thursday, May 8 at 3:30 p.m. CET (9:30 a.m. ET). The online tournament, which played down to the final eight last week, reconvenes in Peralada Castle, Spain, to play out for the $1 million first […]
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Party at the Playboy Mansion with SpadeClub
SpadeClub is giving you the opportunity to Party at the Playboy Mansion. Sign up to become an Exclusive member at SpadeClub.com between May 7-13 and you will automatically be entered into a drawing for one of two tickets to play in the Vegas at the Playboy Mansion celebrity poker tournament May 17. Now is the […]
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Win a Seat in Playboy Charity Tourney on Cake Poker
On May 17, celebrities and poker pros will converge at The Mansion to play in the third-annual Playboy Celebrity Poker Tournament to raise money for charity, and there are only two more opportunities for players to win event packages on CakePoker. This Thursday and next Thursday night at 8 p.m. ET, a $55 buy-in tournament […]
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New Tournament Schedule Now Live at UltimateBet
The new tournament schedule that was created by Annie Duke for UltimateBet is now in service. Duke rejoined the company as the cardroom consultant and helped develop a new schedule of tournaments that give UltimateBet’s players more options. The schedule includes: Sniper tournaments with guarantees (essentially bounty tournaments) $1.2 million in weekly guarantees in all […]
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Schuyler Twaddle Wins Borgata $500,000-Guaranteed Event
Schuyler Twaddle is $396,095 richer after winding up with the more than 23 million in chips that were in play during the Borgata’s $2,000 no-limit deep-stack event, which carried a $500,000 guarantee. The event attracted 775 entrants and generated a prize pool of $1.55 million. When play started on Sunday, each player sat with 30,000 […]
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Revenues Up But Losses Mount at World Poker Tour
World Poker Tour Enterprises, producer of the World Poker Tour series of
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Interwetten Poker Raises €100,000 for Amnesty International
Frenchman Julien Meurisse won the inaugural Interwetten Poker 2008 charity tournament, which raised €100,000 for human-rights organisation Amnesty International. He was inducted into the Interwetten Poker Academy and won a seat at the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo for his win. There was a touch of Hollywood glamour about the event, which […]
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Pacific Poker Revenue up 5 Percent in First Quarter
Online gaming giant 888.com, which owns and operates Pacific Poker, has seen poker net gaming revenues grow 5 percent to $22 million in the first quarter of 2008 from $21 million in the same period of 2007. Growth also expanded by 2 percent on the fourth quarter of 2007. The number of active customers in […]
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Liv Boeree is New Ladbrokes European Ladies Champ
The $2,000 buy-in LadbrokesPoker.com European Ladies Championship has been won by Liv Boeree. The Absolute Poker-sponsored pro won $30,000 and a seat into the main event of the World Series of Poker main event by topping the field of 52 runners, which included Annette Obrestad, Beverly Pace, Katherine Hartree, and Shelley Rubenstein. An excited Boeree, […]
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Kentucky Derby Poker Championship Raises $60K
Just after the 134th-Annual Kentucky Derby, Phil Hellmuth and Robert Williamson III hosted the Kentucky Derby of Poker Championship at Caesars Indiana, which raised $60,000 for charity. The $2,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em poker tournament was won by World Series of Poker bracelet winner Layne Flack. He received $13,000 and a $10,000 seat into the WSOP […]
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Three FTOPS VIII Mystery Tournaments Revealed
The original schedule for the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VIII listed three so-called “mystery” tournaments, which Full Tilt promised would be “unlike anything FTOPS has ever seen before.” Well, Full Tilt finally revealed the information for the three events, and they include two shootout tournaments and one heads-up tournament. The newly announced events are […]
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Poker Tourneys to be Held for Urban Health Institute
The Urban Health Institute (UHI) is a non-profit organization that was founded to provide medical treatment and care for those in need from natural and man-made disasters, and the poker community is coming together in two special events to help ensure that the UHI has what it needs to do so. The first event is […]
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Bodog Offering $12,000 Players Choice Packages
Bodog Poker is now offering satellites for $12,000 prize packages that can be used to enter most major land-based poker tournaments, whichever the package-winner wants. Feeders for the $270 (plus rebuys) Players Choice qualifiers, wherein the $12,000 packages are awarded, start for as little as $1. Players can use the packages for any tournament with […]
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Julien Nuijten Wins Latin American Poker Tour Rio
While on vacation from his home in Amsterdam, 19-year-old Julien Nuijten competed in the first-ever PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and outlasted 314 runners to win the largest poker tournament ever to be hosted in the continent. Nuijten entered the final table as a significant chip leader, having Vitaly […]
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Borgata $500,000 Guarantee Ends Today
The $2,000 Borgata Deep Stack tournament with a $500,000 guarantee will conclude today. The event attracted a whopping 775 entrants, building a prize pool of $1.55 million. The winner will receive $395,095. Play resumes at 11 a.m. ET. Players started with 30,000 in chips, and the structure was based on that of the World Poker […]
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APAT Crowns Scottish Amateur Champion 2008
The fifth event on the APAT Poker Association and Tour, held in the Gala Maybury Casino, Edinburgh, Scotland, has been won by Welshman Jason Jones. The £75 freezeout tournament attracted 132 entrants, with sponsor BlueSquare.com adding a Grosvenor UK Poker Tour event seat worth $3,000 to the winner. Jones demolished the final table, knocking out […]
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Two More Resign at Swedish National Gaming Operator
Gaming industry legal research group Gambling Compliance has reported that two more senior employees at Swedish gambling monopoly Svenska Spel have resigned in what appears to be a protest against a move away from competitiveness towards a more restrictive gaming model. The move comes on the heels of the abdication of CEO Jesper Kärrbrink over […]
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iPoker Network Revenues up 161 Percent Since March '07
Playtech, the publicly-quoted gaming company based in Israel, today announced its revenues rose 97 percent in the first quarter of 2008 to $39 million from the same period last year. iPoker, the poker network operated by the company, was a significant driver of growth, expanding by 161 percent in the same period to $11 million. […]
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Marty Smyth Wins PartyPoker World Open
Marty Smyth from Belfast, Northern Ireland, has won the PartyPoker.com World Open VI for $250,000, beating a field of 72 in the $8,000 buy-in event at the weekend. Smyth, who last year won the Irish Open and made the final of the Poker Millions, beat the in-form current Irish Open champion Neil Channing heads up. […]
