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The PartyGaming And bwin Saga Continues
At the end of last month, PartyGaming and bwin’s respective shareholders approved their merger, paving the way for what will no doubt become one of online gambling’s greatest partnerships. That merger will now officially take place by April...
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Peter Eastgate Unretires After Eight Month Break
Peter Eastgate became a household name among poker fans when he won the game’s most prestigious tournament – the World Series of Poker Main Event – back in 2008. He was only 22, making him the youngest WSOP Champion in history (Joe Cada would...
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WSOPE, WPT Venice and NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
This week saw big live poker tournaments coming and going as well as a significant move for one of the largest poker championships in the world. Of course we’re talking about the end of the WPT Venice Main Event, the beginning of NBC‘s...
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Con Artist Gets Taken At High Stakes Poker
In a rare but comforting example of karmic justice, it was reported late this week that a con artist believed to have scammed consumers out of as much as $275 million lost a good chunk of his ill-gotten fortune in high stakes poker games. The man in...
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Gus Hansen’s Million Dollar Hot Streak
Gus Hansen spent much of 2010 deflecting criticism for several horrible online performances, and while he managed to net some pretty significant live wins and even to end the year with an impressive high stakes comeback, it’s hard to say 2010 was...
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Isildur1 Slays Eugene Katchalov In Latest SuperStar Showdown
Things are looking up for PokerStars’ young heads-up specialist Viktor Blom, better known by many as Isildur1. The Team PokerStars pro had a rocky start to his new position when relative unknown Isaac Haxton beat him soundly in his first much...
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Sam Trickett At It Again At WPT Paris
Sam Trickett posted his first significant live poker tournament cash back in 2008, and while 2009 proved to be pretty unimpressive for the new pro, his several sizable 2010 cashes showed that he was a real contender. Having only played two tournaments...
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FTOPS XIX Setting Records
The latest edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series has been well underway for more than a week now, and the past weekend offered up the tournament’s most exciting turnouts and payouts yet. As we previously noted, the FTOPS has been growing...
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Nikitina Takes Down WPT National Series Paris
Despite entering the day at the back of the pack, many poker fans felt English pro Sam Trickett was poised to take yet another big title at the WPT National Series Paris final table. As it turned out, Trickett did little to improve his position,...
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WPT Celebrity Invitational Starts Saturday
In the ever-expanding poker world, pros have become their own kind of celebrities, but in the real world few if any players have gained such a status among non-poker fans. That’s why events like the World Poker Tour’s Celebrity Invitational...
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FS+G Poker League Schedule Released
Federated Sports and Gaming has finally released more concrete details on their new poker league. While it’s as yet unclear if FS+G has officially settled on a name for the league, many sources are surmising that they will simply name it after...
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FTOPS XIX Main Event Begins Tomorrow
As we’ve already reported, the 19th Full Tilt Online Poker Series has been setting records right and left. Their Team Full Tilt players have performed consistently well across a number of the series’ 45 events while the site has...
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Zynga Poker Capitalizes On Facebook Popularity
Zynga, the game company best known for bestowing Farmville on millions of bored Facebook users, is also gaining recognition for their Facebook poker game, Texas Hold’em Poker. This game also boasts a player count that’s in the millions, and...
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FTOPS XIX Main Event and WPT Celebrity Invitational
This weekend saw the completion of another history-making Full Tilt Online Poker Series and also saw the always popular WPT Celebrity Invitational whittle its way down to a final table. One tournament – the FTOPS XIX – took place entirely online and...
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Sorel Mizzi Accused Of Cheating Again
Sorel Mizzi has always been a controversial player, but that hasn’t stopped him from succeeding as a pro. Despite being banned from the two largest online poker rooms in the world, Mizzi has dominated at both live and online poker tables. His...
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National Heads-Up Championship Contenders Announced
Today a press release was issued announcing the official field of 64 competitors for this year’s National Heads-Up Championship. Considering that NBC will be broadcasting the event and that GoDaddy.com is sponsoring it, it should come as no...
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More Rise And Fall For Isildur1
Isildur1 was the player to beat in 2009 and fared reasonably well through 2010 too, but since signing with PokerStars and revealing his true identity in January 2011, Viktor Blom has really struggled to remain consistent in the spotlight. His sponsoring...
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The Latest U.S. Online Poker Legislation News
All hope of the United States passing blanket federal legislation for online gaming in any form may be lost this year, but there’s still hope on the state level. If you happen to be one of those poker fans that is holding out hope of just that,...
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EPT Copenhagen and WPT LA Main Events
The European Poker Tour’s annual stop in Copenhagen concluded tonight with another big win for a Swedish pro; in fact the Swedes have been dominant across most of the tournament’s events this year. Meanwhile, the World Poker Tour’s...
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Full Tilt Poker Invites Amateurs to Challenge durrrr
Full Tilt Poker players and Tom Dwan fans alike have been watching the online superstar slowly work his way through his first two 50,000-hand $1 million challenges against Patrik Antonius and Daniel Cates. Though the challenge has been in place since...
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