Category: WSOP
Phil Taylor is a man who knows how to throw darts for profit, winning £100,000 by defeating all comers to hold on to his darts crown via the Premier League in Cardiff...
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Category: Tournaments
The first Asia Pacific Poker Tour has come and gone, and the event’s sponsor, PokerStars, has announced the second go...
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Category: Poker and the Law
The very first charity Texas Holdem poker tournament was held recently under the new gaming laws in New Brunswick, and among the 81 poker players was the justice minister for the province...
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Category: Tournaments
The biggest poker tournament ever to be held in the state of Florida will was held over the weekend, adding to the poker fever sweeping the USA while the World Series of Poker ramps up across the country in Las Vegas, Nevada...
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Category: WSOP
The 2008 World Series of Poker is just getting underway and already new records are being set in attendance, which is good news for the organizers of the event and the players themselves...
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Category: Online poker rooms
One of the most interesting and popular European poker players in the world today is David Ulliott of the UK, better known as the Devilfish...
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Category: Poker Players
With the World Series of Poker for 2008 underway some of the bigger names in the business have found early success, going deep in the $10k Pot Limit Holdem event...
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Category: Poker and the Law
The online poker bill in the US state of California has moved another step forward in its journey to become a law...
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Category: Tournaments
The winner of the 2008 Asian Poker Tour is one David Saab. Saab, an Australian, took on over 300 players to win the event, culminating a six day run on Sunday at the Dusit Thani Manila Hotel in Makati City...
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Category: Poker Fun
While the high rollers and poker dreamers head for Las Vegas this summer, the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Lodge #41 will be headed for the highway as they hold their very first poker run...
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Category: Poker Fun
The state of Florida has a lot that people want: sunshine, beaches, Disney, and now a $30 million poker room in Daytona Beach...
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Category: WSOP
Today is the fifth day of the 39th World Series of Poker, and also the opening day of the first $10,000 mixed game event for the venerable series...
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Category: World Poker Tour
The very first Spanish Championship held as part of the World Poker Tour has wrapped up and declared the first winner, and his name is Hansen...
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Category: Poker Players
It is a story that is becoming familiar, a poker pro does well in a major tournament, and he gets a contract to represent an online poker room...
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Category: Tournaments
All around the world live poker events are cropping up in countries that never held them before, and in those nations where poker was already popular, the guaranteed prize pools keep going up and up...
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Category: WSOP
The first golden bracelet to ring the wrist of Erick Lindgren has arrived. The 31 year old poker pro, playing for almost ten years, finally got his first World Series of Poker victory this year in Event #4...
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Category: Online poker rooms
An online poker room is the next venture for a global financial services company’s gaming affiliate, Cantor Gaming...
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Category: Tournaments
Nottingham is the latest spot for the Virgin Poker Festival, following the success of other Virgin Poker Festivals in Newcastle and Birmingham...
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Category: WSOP
Michael Banducci has won the latest bracelet at the 39th annual World Series of Poker, beating out a tough field and a final table that included power house newcomer Michael Binger...
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Category: WSOP
The first week of the 39th annual World Series of Poker will have to go on without one of the star players. Annie Duke has had to sit out the opening events due to an injury sustained while running...
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Category: Tournaments
Ray Rahme was the oldest player at the final table of last year’s World Series of Poker, and while this year’s WSOP goes on he is winning again, but not in Las Vegas...
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Category: Poker Fun
When a poker player wants to save some important information from their computer, now all they have to do is pull out a poker chip - as long as that chip is made by Dane Elec...
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Category: Poker Fun
While the World Series of Poker is running strong at the Rio, the Golden Nugget Casino and TV personality Montel Williams are putting on a poker show of their own...
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Category: Poker and the Law
The judge presiding over the case of the mother who left her three kids sleeping in her car at nigth while she played at a charity poker event has decided to give her a second chance to clear her record...
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Category: Tournaments
Online poker room Everest Poker has had a number of recurring Avalanches, the name they give their biggest poker tournament. The event starts online, with qualifying players competing to be in the top ten...
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Category: Poker Fun
The name of the place is Old Town, but the poker game they were playing there wasn’t much like Old World Poker: they didn’t even use a table...
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Category: World Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour was partially responsible for the poker boom but it looks like they may be looking for a hand out before long...
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Category: Poker Fun
The first Annual Celebrity Poker Tournament hosted by Century Casino & Hotel in Edmonton, Canada has been announced via press release and the benefits of the poker event will go to supporting the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Alberta...
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Category: WSOP
The World Series of Poker has always been a draw for celebrities, especially now that poker has become such a fashionable game. This year quite a few celebrities turned out to play in the Ladies No Limit Texas Holdem event and quickly were shown the door...
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Category: Poker Books
According to a recent press release the new eBook from Internet Poker Coach was timed to help players get ready to compete in the 39th annual World Series of Poker, currently running at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas...
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Category: WSOP
The latest champ at the 2008 World Series of Poker is Duncan Bell, who rung out the competition in the $2,500 buy in No Limit Holdem event, Event #13...
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Category: Poker and the Law
According to the Herald Sun two big operators are struggling to control the state gaming industry, with potential revenues and profits in the billions...
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Category: Poker and the Law
Last March two 18 year old poker players were robbed of almost $25k they won in a poker tournament at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, and recently three 18 year olds were arrested and accused with the crime...
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Category: WSOP
The winner of one of the more interesting events at the 2008 World Series of Poker, Event 17, $1,500 NL Shootout, is Jason Young...
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Category: Poker Fun
Last time it was pro player Phil "The Unabomber" Laak and Ali Eslami taking on Polaris, the poker playing Artificial Intelligence machine. This time it will be a group of online poker pros taking on Polaris 2...
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Category: Poker Fun
The poker industry has created many small businesses like the one that recently announced via press release poker tables available for sale that differ from the norm...
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Category: Poker and the Law
Five months in jail is the sentence for Michael Waguespack the owner of Funtime Amusements, a Cumberland County business, who was sentenced thanks to his role in what the US Attorney’s office in Raleigh calls an illegal poker operation...
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Category: World Poker Tour
While the news is out that the Games and Sports Network, better known as GSN, had decided not to renew the contract with the World Poker Tour for another season, they still are showing the current season and back episodes...
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Category: Poker Fun
There are big pots in poker, and at the Seminole Hard Rock’s Poker Room recently two men hit the largest poker pot in Florida history...
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Category: Poker and the Law
The two presidential candidates are going to be rated in a number of ways in the coming months, but one way they might not have expected was based on their support for online poker...
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Category: WSOP
Mike "The Mouth" Matusow has picked up his third World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2008 WSOP, taking down a small field in Event 18 that was comprised mostly of pros...
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Category: Poker Fun
Atlantic City, often called the Las Vegas of the East Coast, has been waiting to launch poker with no poker dealers, possible thanks to the special tables provided by PokerTek, Inc...
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Category: WSOP
Daniel Negreanu, the poker player from Canada they call the "Poker Kid", has recently won his fourth World Series of Poker bracelet...
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Category: Poker Fun
Southern Arizona has poker rooms in operation that the state says are illegal but their owner, a retried judge, says are not...
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Category: Movies
As in poker, sometimes movie music albums can be different than what they appear to be. Such is the case with the Lucky You soundtrack, which actually has little of the music from the movie on the CD...
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Category: WSOP
Italian poker pro Max Pescatori is the latest of the pro players sweeping the World Series of Poker with a victory...
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Category: Poker Fun
It may not seem like it at first, but the World Series of Golf has a lot more in common with poker than the name and the fact that a large percentage of the players are poker pros...
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Category: Poker Fun
The wives of the Dallas Cowboys, an American Football team, have come together to put on a charity poker tournament to support the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...
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Category: Online poker rooms
They call it Reality TV, even if it’s broadcast over the internet - that is going to be the case for "Poker Island", the new reality program that will be put on by online poker room PokerRoom.com...
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Category: WSOP
Barry Greenstein, known as the Robin Hood of Poker thanks to his very giving nature, dominated a 453 player field to win Event #26, the $1,500 Razz event...
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Category: WSOP
The latest poker champ at the 39th annual World Series of Poker is one Vitaly Lunkin, one of the few amateur players to win during this season...
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Category: Poker Fun
A leading content provider for iPhones and other online distributions in Canada is MoboVivo, which will be providing poker to poker fans on the go and at their PC’s...
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Category: Online poker rooms
The international entertainment company World Poker Store has announced that online poker room Everest Poker will become the official online sponsor of the Bar Poker League in Germany...
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Category: Poker and the Law
On June 17 Comptroller Franchot made an announcement concerning video poker machines at Maryland bars, commenting that a broad crackdown was about to begin...
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Category: Poker Fun
While he is chasing World Series of Poker gold in Las Vegas, poker pro Phil Ivey is also planning to host eight surety tournaments at the Golden Nugget casino, the largest hotel casino in the Las Vegas area...
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Category: Poker Players
Recently Barry Greenstein, known as the Robin Hood of Poker, won a World Series of Poker event but he isn’t the only one donating his winnings this year...
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Category: Poker and the Law
Some two dozen plaintiffs in a sports betting ring that took place in the poker room of an Atlantic City casino have had their day in court, the first of many, and have plead not guilty...
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Category: Tournaments
At the beginning of October the Ladbrokes Killarney Irish Poker Festival will kick off, and players will have a chance to play in the €250,000 guaranteed Main Event...
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Category: WSOP
Poker pro John Phan has joined the ranks of fellow pro poker players running rings around the amateurs at the 2008 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas...
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Category: WSOP
Former World Series of Poker champion Chris "Jesus" Ferguson very nearly added yet another WSOP bracelet to his collection, thanks to his second place finish in Event 33 - World Championship Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split 8 or Better...
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Category: Tournaments
Las Vegas is the scene for the 39th annual World Series of Poker currently running but there are more reasons to play poker in Sin City than gambling...
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Category: Poker and the Law
A Mobile County jury took the case under consideration and came out with a not guilty verdict...
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Category: Poker Players
Mike Matusow is known as "the Mouth" because it seems like sometimes he can’t keep his mouth shut. But Mike has gone through a number of evolutions from his early days as a poker pro, including getting healthier...
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Category: WSOP
Last year one of the more colorful characters at the WSOP was Italian poker pro Dario Minieri, who wore a bright yellow and red scarf. This along with his small size earned him the nickname Harry Potter, and he did work some magic at the games. This year he completed the spell by picking up a WSOP victory...
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Category: Psychology
According to a recent press report online poker site Think Like A Poker Pro.com has released a challenge that deals with hypnosis...
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Category: Tournaments
The World Series of Poker is in full swing in Las Vegas and one charity organization in North Carolina wants to send a player there free of cost...
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Category: Tournaments
Yet another Ante Up for Africa charity poker tournament is set to go in Las Vegas this year during the World Series of Poker, thanks to the efforts of actor Don Cheadle and poker pro Annie Duke...
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Category: WSOP
Poker pro David Benyamine continues the domination of pros at the 39th annual World Series of Poker, playing now at the Rio casino in Las Vegas. The Frenchman took down a field of 253 players in Event #37...
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Category: Tournaments
Heads Up Entertainment recently acquired the Canadian Poker Tour, which has announced they are joining with the World Poker Showdown in order to promote events...
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Category: Poker and the Law
The Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Okalahoma held a poker event at their southern New Mexico casino, but the goal of the tournament was more than just offering poker players a chance to do what they love best...
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Category: WSOP
The last Pot Limit Omaha event held at the 39th World Series of Poker goes to Davidi Kitai, just narrowly avoiding yet another pro player taking down a bracelet...
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Category: WSOP
A poker professional from Stone Mountain, GA made a sizeable profit this week by taking down the field in Event 39, the $1,500 No Limit Holdem tournament at the 39th annual World Series of Poker...
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Category: WSOP
This year during the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event the first ever musical based on poker will debut...
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