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FullTilt Hosts World Heads-Up Championship Saturday
This Saturday sees the Heads-Up World Poker Championship take place at FullTiltPoker.com. With a $25,000 buy-in the event is the largest event of its kind to take place in either an online or live environment. Hosted by National Heads-Up champion and Team Full Tilt member Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, the event kicks off at 7 p.m. […]
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Tournament Trail Q & A: Orel Hershiser
Every year at the NBC National Heads-up Poker Championship, a Cinderella story emerges and an underdog makes an upset run deep into the tournament. Last year, Don Cheadle upset Phil Ivey in the first round, while Shannon Elizabeth made a run all the way to the final four. This year, the celebrity athlete wearing the […]
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UltimateBet Runs Bounty Poker Tournaments
Phil Hellmuth says he knows how to "doge bullets," and UltimateBet is giving players the chance to show that they can, too. In the site’s new sniper (bounty) tournaments, players are rewarded for eliminating players not only by collecting a cash bounty, but also with tournament entries. There are daily sniper tournaments that each have […]
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Devin Porter's Charity Poker Tournament Begins Tonight
Professional poker player Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter will be holding a charity tournament tonight at 20:30 EST on PokerStars. The tournament is a $30 + $3 buy-in no-limit hold’em event and can be found in the private tab under P5’s Charity. The password is pocketfives. Proceeds will go toward the cancer treatment of Devin’s father, Dean […]
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Free Poker Training Video by Jimmy 'gobboboy' Fricke
Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke is the instructor for this week’s free poker training clip from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus). The video features Fricke playing two $1-$2 pot-limit Omaha tables simultaneously. This video clip and three free video clips by other instructors that are currently available on the Card Player Pro preview page. In […]
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Bonuses Offered for Asian Poker Tour Preregistration
Preregistration for the Asian Poker Tour is now taking place, and those who now register will join a handful of pros who have already signed up for the event, which takes place in Manila May 27-June 1. They include Layne Flack, Nam Le, Steve Sung, Quinn Do, Evelyn Ng, Chip and Karina Jett, Roy Winston, […]
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Online Poker: Cheesemonster Wins FTOPS Main Event
FTOPS VIII Event No. 24: No-Limit Hold’em Main Event Unsurprisingly, the behemoth of the weekend was the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VIII (FTOPS) main event. The tournament, which featured a $500 buy-in, lured 4,750 entrants to build a prize pool of $2,375,000, well above the $2 million guarantee. Plenty of red-named, Full Tilt-sponsored pros […]
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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 […]
