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Isildur1 Wins $10 in Latest SuperStar Showdown
Isildur1 continued his SuperStar Showdown winning streak yesterday, but just barely. His latest challenge was surrounded with the usual hype and also its fair share of criticism after it was announced that he would be following his exciting bout against...
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Seidel Supercedes Ivey On All-Time Winnings List
For years it’s seemed like the lifetime poker earnings leaderboard was just a two-man race as Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu jockeyed back and forth at the top. A key win for recent Hall of Famer Erik Seidel did the unthinkable – it put him in...
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Mortensen Chases WPT Record In L.A. Poker Classic Main Event
As if Erik Seidel’s ongoing high roller winning streak wasn’t enough excitement for the L.A. Poker Classic crowds, another WPT competitor is on the precipice of setting an important record. Juan Carlos Mortensen – better known as simply...
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Brooks Surprises And Surpasses All At WPT LA Poker Classic Main Event
A large section of the crowd may have been rooting for Carlos Mortensen when the final table of the L.A. Poker Classic’s Main Event finally commenced yesterday, and there’s no denying that Mortensen did them proud, but ultimately last night...
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Mixed News On All Poker Fronts – NJ, IA, WPT and NBC
Today was a big day for poker news in every form. Definitive decisions were made on pending poker legislation in both Iowa and New Jersey. The WPT’s Celebrity Invitational was decided only the day before the L.A. Poker Classic’s Main Event...
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NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship Hits Bittersweet 16
We’re now two days into the 7th Annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship which is being hosted at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. As usual, the tournament has had its fair share of both obvious victories (like Liv Boeree over Jason Alexander and...
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National Heads-Up Poker Championship Goes From Elite Eight To The Last Two
Today featured more tense stand-offs between the last sixteen (then eight, then four) NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship competitors. The obvious result was a handful of worthy victors and a whole roomful of equally worthy losers. In the beginning...
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Historic PokerStars Sunday Million And Other Online Action News
With the live tournament schedule in full swing once again, it’s easy to get distracted by all the high profile events and to forget that plenty is still going down online. We’re a bit late reporting last weekend’s online poker action,...
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Erik Seidel Finally Wins The National Heads-Up Poker Championship
Last year longtime pro Erik Seidel was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, but fans that thought Seidel’s best years were behind him have another think coming. The last few months – since Seidel officially became a living legend – have been...
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Nevada Pursues Online Poker Legislation
Only days after New Jersey’s online poker hopes were dashed by Governor Chris Christie, and even as Iowa’s legislature rushes to pass their own intrastate online poker legislation, another state is moving toward legalizing online poker....
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Two Poker Tours Hit London While The Big Event Continues In L.A.
Today we’ve got live tournament news from both sides of the pond as both the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour and UK & Ireland Poker Tour hit London and as The Big Event at the famous Bicycle Casino poker room (aka the Bike) in Los Angeles continues on...
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What Ivey, Negreanu, Dwan and Isildur1 Are Doing Online
Between the big live tournaments, the world’s most recognizable poker pros like to pad their bankrolls with online action. Case in point, this week has seen high stakes online action from Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Tom Dwan and Viktor Blom, among...
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Victor Ramdin Rules The Big Event
The Big Event Main Event – formerly known as the NAPT LA Event – drew to an exciting close this week with a heads-up match between two big guns. The players in question were none other than 2005 WSOP Champion Joe Hachem and 2006 WPT Foxwoods...
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Full Tilt Poker Announces New ONYX Cup Online High Roller Series
While the rest of the world continues to tighten its belt in these unsure economic times, poker players continue – sometimes inexplicably – to chase life-changing pots via nosebleed ring games and the small handful of live high roller events on offer.
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NY Times Rehashes Recent Poker Bot Issues
That poker bots continue to be an issue for poker rooms both large and small is not new news to online players. Back in the summer and fall of 2010, we reported on both PokerStars’ and Full Tilt’s poker bot woes. While both sites claim to...
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ESPN Bounty Shootout, UKIPT Manchester And The XWINK Watch
It may only be Tuesday, but there’s been plenty of good poker to talk about both live and online this week. In fact, there’s been so much action that we’re going to have to cover a few notable events in one go. When it comes to live...
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WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Moves Toward Day 2
The World Poker Tour‘s Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship in San Jose wrapped on the second of its two starting days yesterday with some pretty significant numbers. Overall, 415 players turned out to compete in the $10,000 buy-in event. That...
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WPT Shooting Star Final Table Set
Day 2 and Day 3 of the Bay 101′s annual Shooting Star championship have been exciting to say the least. Day 2 reduced the field to a mere 24 players. Probably the hardest hit contingent was the Shooting Star pros whose bounties made them obvious...
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The Ultimate SuperStar Showdown: Daniel Negreanu vs Isildur1
Last year, Isildur1 (later revealed to be Viktor Blom) issued an open challenge via PokerStars’ SuperStar Showdown. The challenge’s considerably lower stakes and smaller session size have made it a more popular endeavor than Tom Dwan of Full...
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New Federal Online Gambling Legislation Proposal
After months – if not years – of indecision in regards to online gambling legislation in the United States, this week has been full of huge developments. At the forefront of the online poker news has been the new federal bill proposed by...
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