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Sunday Tournament Report 7/11/2010
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RedKings’ Points per Day Promotion is Back!
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PaddyPowerPoker.com Launches ‘All Roads Lead To The Irish Winter Festival’ Promotion
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Huck Seed Crowned Champion of Champions
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Sunday Tournament Report 7/4/2010
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Ante up for Africa Event a Great Success
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Ryan Welch Takes Home First Bracelet
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Two Major Signings at Two Online Poker Giants
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FlopTurnRiver Kicks off July with Exciting Exclusive Events
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Shawn Busse Takes Down $1,000 NLHE Event
Shawn Busse joined the ranks of the poker elite today, securing his first gold bracelet at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. The young player bested a large field to emerge the victor of a $1,000 No Limit Hold'Em event, earning him over $450,000 in prize money....
Mike Linn Wins $1,500 NLHE WSOP Event #49
Poker Players Compete for Chance to Represent TitanPoker.com at ECPokerTour Vienna
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Hot July Promotions at Poker Heaven
Poker Heaven is heating up July with a few angelic promotions! First, Poker Heaven is giving away some fantastic prizes via their WSOP giveaway. The Main Event is fast approaching so Poker Heaven will test your knowledge with daily trivia questions. Answer the...
Bodog Offers $11 Seats in Mini Poker Series
Negreanu’s Luckbox Sends Loose Cannon Packing During Week 2 of PokerStars.net “Big Game”
Week 2 of the "Big Game", sponsored by PokerStars.net, is in the book! The "Big Game" is a high stakes cash game boasting a minimum buy-in of $100,000. Every week, an amateur Loose Cannon, staked $100,000 by PokerStars, vies to profit versus 5 poker sharks. The Loose...
Gavin Smith and Scott Montgomery Each Score Long-Awaited Bracelet
The good news keeps flooding in for Full Tilt Poker, with two more of the site's FTP Red Pros winning bracelets at the World Series of Poker over the last week. Scott Montgomery and Gavin Smith won the $1,000 No Limit Hold'Em and the $2,500 Mixed Hold'Em events...
Sunday Tournament Report 6/27/2010
The presence of the 2010 WSOP has put a big dent in online poker tournaments lately. PokerStars and FullTilt have both felt the effects of the world's biggest tournament series and yesterday was no exception. With the $1,000 NL Hold'em Event #47 running alongside the...
THE POKERSTARS.NET BIG GAME WEEK 3 PREVIEW
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FlopTurnRiver Celebrates 1 Million Posts with Team PokerStars!
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Steven Kelly Captures WSOP Event #29
Valdemar Kwaysser Ships Third Hungarian WSOP Bracelet
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New Zealand Court Upholds Poker Advertising
Ayaz Mahmood Wins First WSOP Bracelet in $10k Heads Up
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Loose Cannon Blows Away Competition in Week 1 of PokerStars.net “Big Game”
Week 1 of the "Big Game" is over! The "Big Game" is a high-stakes cash game that pits an amateur Loose Cannon versus 5 seasoned professionals. During the first week, Ernest Wiggins, the Loose Cannon, took on Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Phill Laak, Daniel Negreanu,...
José Luis Velador Lands Second WSOP Bracelet
It was an exciting Monday at the World Series of Poker for José Luis Velador, who took down the $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'Em/Pot-Limit Omaha split event, netting himself the princely sum of $260,552 and his second World Series of Poker bracelet. The Full Tilt Poker Red...
Phil Ivey Wins 8th WSOP Bracelet
Early Tuesday morning the world's best poker player took down another World Series of Poker title in Event #37: $3,000 HORSE. Phil Ivey defeated a stacked final table full of mixed-game specialists as well as a large chip deficit once heads-up play began. Ivey is a...
Sunday Tournament Report 6/20/2010
With the World Series of Poker in full swing the world's two largest poker sites turned their attention to the WSOP Main Event which starts July 5th. The Sunday Million on PokerStars and the $750k on FullTilt were both replaced by WSOP Main Event satellites which in...
FlopTurnRiver’s Upcoming Freeroll to the PokerStars Turbo Takedown
PokerStars hosts their Turbo Takedown Tournament on the last Sunday of every month, with a guaranteed prize pool of $1,000,000. If that figure isn't enough to get your heart racing, there are also bonuses for knocking out Team PokerStars Pros, bonuses for consecutive...
Harold Angle, 78, takes down his first WSOP Event
The $1,000 Seniors No Limit Hold'Em event concluded at the World Series of Poker today with Harold Angle destroying the competition at the final table and taking down the tournament. At 78 years of age, Angle has been playing poker for nearly sixty years and is still...
The High Stakes Rail – 6/13/10-6/19/10
With the World Series of Poker in full swing, the online high stakes action is certainly beginning to settle down. However, this does not mean that it is totally non-existent. Everybody’s favorite high stakes player, Isildur1, is back. Ziigmund and he were playing at...
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THE POKERSTARS.NET NAPT ANNOUNCES AN EXCITING NEW STOP FOR SEASON 1
The PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour (NAPT) today announced the addition of a new stop to its Season 1 schedule. The NAPT will visit beautiful sunny Southern California for NAPT Los Angeles, a festival scheduled for November 12 – 17, 2010 at one of the largest...
The Biggest Bad Beat in Borgata’s History
The most popular poker room in Atlantic City is located at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. There is always a ton of action at these tables, especially during the Borgata Summer Poker Open. However, until earlier this morning, there was $332,544 to be won at the...
Everest Poker Launches Inaugural 3 Länder Poker Tour
PaddyPowerPoker.com World Cup Cash and Shirt Giveaways Continue
Unlimited Cash Prizes in Cashpoint II Promotion and Free Soccer Shirts in Win The Shirt Off Paddy’s Back throughout June and July. (June 16th, 2010) PaddyPowerPoker.com’s great World Cup giveaways continue this month with the Cashpoint II promotion, which runs...
Brunson Goes Busto in PokerStars.net “Big Game” Premiere
Episode one of the PokerStars.net "Big Game" saw Texas Dolly go belly-up. In addition to Doyle Brunson, the show featured poker legends Daniel Negreanu and 11 time bracelet winner Phill Hellmuth. Don't worry about remembering how many bracelets Hellmuth has won, he...
GaShooter and 14lupino Earn WSOP Satellite Seats from FTR and Bodog
RedKings Pro Ramzi Jelassi Takes Down Midnight Sun
12 June 2010 – RedKings Poker Team Pro Ramzi Jelassi showcased his awesome live poker talent yesterday by winning the Main Event of the 2010 Helsinki Midnight Sun in Finland. The 2850€ buy-in tournament drew a field of 139 players with Jelassi taking down an...
Sunday Tournament Report 6/13/2010
The 2010 World Series of Poker continues to hit online poker tournaments hard as for the third consecutive week attendance was down in the majority of Sunday's biggest events. Over the past week a few big names made deep runs in the smaller events including Men...
Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Poker
Baseball has been on the forefront of the sports world when the notion of “performance-enhancing drugs” comes to mind. Giant players like Mark McGwire and Jose Conseco are the poster boys for the Steroid Era in baseball. Baseball players, however, are not the only...
WSOP Notes: Men in Drag and Lifetime Bans
PokerStars.net Big Game Begins June 14
The world premiere of the PokerStars.net Big Game is set to premiere on Monday, June 14. The show will air in one hour segments on FOX. You can catch the first episode on PokerStars.tv starting June 15. The Big Game is a televised high-stakes cash game, similar to...
Men Wins, Captures Seventh WSOP Bracelet
Celebrate St-Jean-Baptiste Day at PokerStars
PokerStars is going to make this St-Jean-Baptiste one that you will never forget. June 9 and 10 are the last days for players in Quebec to qualify for a free, all expenses paid trip for them and three friends. To be eligible, you must play freeroll or 10 FPP...
Phil Laak in the Guinness Book of World Records?
It's official: the world is ending soon. Phil Laak gave it his best effort to have a record to his name, in this case the "Longest Poker Game", which was previously officially in the hands of Larry Olmsted. Larry Olmsted's official time was 72 hours and 22 minutes,...
Two FlopTurnRiver.com Members Come Close to WSOP Bracelets
Two veteran members of FlopTurnRiver.com nearly clenched WSOP titles this past weekend. First, Max Steinberg finished runner-up in WSOP Event 8, $1500 No Limit Hold 'Em. Max is a prolific member and can be found posting under the name Numbr2intheWorld. Throughout his...
Sunday Tournament Report 6/6/2010
With the 2010 World Series of Poker in full swing out in Las Vegas, online tournaments have seen a lot of their participants leave the virtual felt for the real deal at the Rio Casino. This blog is typically reserved for online poker talk only, but while many of the...
Phil Laak Shatters World Record
Phil Laak, a popular poker player that is a regular on television shows like High Stakes Poker and Poker After Dark, has shattered the world record for continuous poker play. Phil Laak sat at the $10/$20 No Limit Holdem tables on June 2nd, 2010 at the Bellagio and set...
WSOP 2010 with PokerStars
For my last article about WSOP satellites, I will write about the promotions happening at PokerStars. Every year PokerStars sends a ton of people to Vegas to play in the World Series Main Event, and this year should be no different. Like UB and Full Tilt, they have a...
Sunday: The ECOOP Main Event
High stakes online play has dried up during the World Series of Poker - everywhere but on the iPoker Network that is. On Sunday, June 6th, the best online players will compete in the final event of the European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP). The game is a...
New Tournament Promotion from PokerStars Twitter League
For a site typically known for its huge prize pools, the new PokerStars Twitter League promotion is ideal for small bankrolls. For only $1.10, players can compete in a big tournament and stand to win lots of money. The Twitter Poker League has also added a bonus of...
Quick Hits: Laak nears world record, Bracelet talk, and others
WSOP Player Caught Stealing, Banned for Life
There are two ways to steal money at a poker tournament: with guns, like in the recent German poker heist, or with sleight of hand, like this week in the World Series of Poker. Instead of prison, the thief now faces a humiliating lifetime ban. In the third level of...
Poker Pro Joran van der Sloot Wanted in Connection to Murder
It is as if Joran van der Sloot enjoys the negative spotlight. Most of you may remember the poker professional, van der Sloot, as the chief suspect in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway in 2005. He is now the prime suspect in the murder of another...
Switzerland Dubs Poker a Game of Chance
As they say in Vegas, the house always wins. Such was the case today in Switzerland, where a lawsuit brought to the Supreme Court by the Swiss casino industry declared poker a game of chance. As a result of the ruling, the only legal way to play poker in Switzerland...
Prepaid Gift Cards Fall Victim to UIGEA
MasterCard and Visa have decided to abide by the regulations set forth by the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). NetSpend customers who had deposited at an online poker room received the following email: Our records show that you may have used your...
Bodog Rolls Out Software Updates
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Members of the website FlopTurnRiver.com make up one of the most knowledgeable and luckiest poker communities on the web today! With vast amounts of poker strategy articles , up-to-date poker news, exclusive freerolls and tournaments, and a large poker forum, it's no...
State of California Posed to Legalize Online Poker
California has introduced legislation that would legalize the creation of an intrastate online poker network. In the face of mounting debt, Senator Rod Wright introduced the bill that could generate millions in tax revenue. California's massive debt is projected to be...
Sunday Tournament Report 5/30/2010
This past weekend was not kind to online poker tournaments. Between being a national holiday, the WSOP starting in Las Vegas, and coming off the heels of SCOOP and FTOPS events the online poker world took a bit of a breather. Tournament attendance was way down across...
WSOP 2010 with Full Tilt Poker
Last week I talked about the various UB satellites for the WSOP Main Event, as well as the bonuses you get for representing them during the big tournament in Vegas. Today I will do the same thing for Full Tilt Poker, one of the biggest online poker sites in the world...