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The $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event made its debut in 2006. Top professional players wanted a tournament that would test their skills across a variety of disciplines, with a buy-in to ensure that only the most skilled players could afford to enter. The inaugural event was won by mixed game specialist and poker legend Chip Reese. After [continue]

SEVEN PLAYERS HAVE WON A WSOP MAIN EVENT SEAT!
On July 1st, seven players won their own Ladbrokes WSOP dream packages to play in the WSOP main event in true Ladbrokes Style. Last year’s winner Peter Eastgate was also a Ladbrokes WSOP dream player, before he betrayed Ladbrokes and signed up with PokerStars.
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The stars will be out tonight as celebrities descend on the Rio to take part in the 3rd annual Ante Up for Africa tournament. The impending main event is sure to draw in some well known faces among the unknown hordes, but many of them will be lost in the crowds. Tonight, on the other [continue]

The APT (Asian Poker Tour) Macau is the biggest poker event on the world’s biggest continent. This will be the Bwin Team’s first event in Asia and gives players the chance to rub shoulders with some of the biggest names in poker and take a shot at Asia’s top prize.
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It should be no surprise that with only a few events still to be finalized in this year’s World Series of Poker, Jeff Lisandro holds on to the top spot for Player of the Year honors.  He has won 3 bracelets this year after all. What more could he do?
Lisandro has 355 points in the [continue]

Internet poker players in the U.S. and online gambling companies around the world are recovering from the news that Barney Frank’s anti-UIGEA bill has been delayed. The worsening financial situation in the U.S. has meant that Frank, as head of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, needs to focus his attentions away from online gambling. [continue]

Isle of Man, UK – JUNE 30, 2009 – PokerStars.com, the world’s largest online poker site, has welcomed Jason Mercier, a 22-year-old poker pro from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, into the elite Team PokerStars Pro.
Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier, already a PokerStars SuperNova Elite, has proved he’s a force to be reckoned with on the live poker circuit [continue]

Isle of Man, UK – JUNE 30, 2009: PokerStars the world’s largest online poker site, has announced a new addition to Team PokerStars Pro after signing Marcel ‘The Flying Dutchman’ Luske. The highly experienced Dutch poker pro, who won the European Poker Awards ‘Life Time Achievement Award’ in 2008, has had a long and successful [continue]

PokerStars was looking to find a way to bolster their tournament attendance during the world series.  What they came up with was a special VPP Promotion getting 4x the amount of VPPs to those playing in their Sunday Majors.  Most regulars were skeptical whether or not the promotion would be a success.  However, once the [continue]

Over the next few months Full Tilt Poker will be awarding a select group of skillful players seats into two of Europe’s most prestigious TV tournaments. Late Night Poker and Poker Million are offering combined prize pools of almost $2 million, and seats for these events are on offer for free at Full Tilt.
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