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Battle of Malta Day 1a Wraps with Records Broken, Guarantee Smashed
A total of 1,200 players are now registered across Days 1a and 1b with room for that number to jump even higher. As it sits now the prize pool has topped €550k but will swell even more as a full...
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Philip Hilm: "One Day I'll Go Back to Vegas and Try to Win It Again”
As they also remember Hilm went from the top to the bottom in dramatic fashion, busting in ninth place while Jerry Yang went on to win the championship. Since then, Hilm doesn't have a single entry in...
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KA-BOM! 2014 Battle of Malta Hits 1,447 Entries, Crushes Guarantee
A record-smashing 926 entries poured through the doors of the Portomaso Casino today to not just break our own record of 888 total entries last year but set a new record for single-day poker...
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Censori Piles Up Chips, Records Shattered at Battle of Malta Day 1b
After 13.5 hours of play Censori bagged up a field-leading 427,500 to head into Day 2 tomorrow with the overall chip lead. Censori will lead a combined field of 261 players towards the real prize...
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888poker Qualifier Brendan Doogan Won Battle of Malta Package for 1¢
Rarely, of course, do you end up running your mini stack all the way back up to a title-contending one. But, you know, it does happen. And almost every poker player can vouch for a time it has....
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€140,000 Up Top, Lemaire Crushing w/ 35 Left in BOM Main Event
Standing tall above the crowd? French pro Hugo Lemaire who bagged up 2.4 million to lead the way towards the final table tomorrow. "I ran good today," Lemaire said. "I cracked AA + AK with KTo." "I...
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2014 WSOP November Nine Preview: The Underdogs
Bruno Politano, aka “Bruno Foster,” is the short-stacked Brazilian who might inspire half a nation to pick up poker and bring the roof of the Penn and Teller Theater down in the process. Billy Pappas,...
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Siege of Malta Second Chance Event - Day 2 Chip Counts
An impressive 593 players stepped up for a second shot at making some money and 114 survived to see Day 2. Among the notables to make the cut is Friend of PokerStars Gaëlle Garcia Diaz who moved onto...
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2014 Battle of Malta Biggest Standalone Poker Tournament in Europe
A total of 1,447 entries generated a prize pool of €701,795 to smash our own record for biggest poker tournament ever held in Malta. In fact, there has never been a €550 buy-in poker event in Europe...
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Truce! 2014 Battle of Malta Title and €122k Goes to Antoan Katsarov!
Facing a hard 5 am stop imposed by the Portomaso Casino our two heads-up combatants - Bulgaria's Antoan Katsarov and Malta's Alan James Brincat - played to a virtual stalemate. The clock was forced to...
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Van Hoof, Newhouse Lead $10m Chase as WSOP Main Event Resumes
Exactly how big could that score be? A guaranteed $10 million and a place in the history books as the 45th WSOP World Champion. Leading the favorites in the remaining group of nine are two calm and...
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Newhouse Out in 9th (Again), van Hoof Dominant w/ 5 Left in Main Event
He did. Newhouse was the first player eliminated tonight as the World Series of Poker Main Event final table got underway. Cruising along with a solid chip stack of around 24 million Newhouse got into...
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Hand of the Week: Fortune Swings Its Scales in Favor of Phil Ivey
As the poker world dreaded the "end" of online high-stakes poker after Viktor Blom and Gus Hansen left Full Tilt, Ivey has made sure there's still plenty of action to talk about. The man known as...
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Europe Rules: Van Hoof, Stephensen, Jacobson Final 3 in Main Event
The Netherland’s Jorryt Van Hoof, Norway’s Felix Stephensen and Martin Jacobson of Sweden are all that remain at the final table after a marathon session. For a complete breakdown of play check out...
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Martin Jacobson Wins the 2014 WSOP Main Event and $10m!
But Swedish poker pro Martin Jacobson did just that and won $10,000,000 and the title of 2014 WSOP Main Event champion in the process. Somehow, Jacobson knew that this was going to be the outcome. “It...
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World Series of Poker Europe Moves to Berlin for 2015
The World Series of Poker Europe is making its first appearance in Germany next year. Just as the last hands of the 2014 WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas played out an announcement was made that, at first...
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Sweden's Martin Jacobson Crowned Newest World Champion of Poker
The World Series of Poker Main Event is over, and the three top spots have gone to Europe. The triumphant victor is Martin Jacobson, the last man standing out of a field of 6683 players from all over...
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High-Stakes Report: "TheCortster" Reaches $3 Million Mark
Luneau proved to be the biggest “investor” last week and nobody profited more from that than Cort Kibler-Melby. With almost $700k winnings last week the German-American player is now up to almost $3m...
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Hundreds of Thousands to be Won in Ongoing PartyPoker WPT Montreal
The massive festival began on Sunday (Nov. 9) but this weekend marks the start of the huge $200k-GTD $250 buy-in Frenzy Event. With a total of six starting days, the Frenzy tournament will run all the...
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Kyle Hendry: Son of Scottish Football Icon Forges Own Path in Poker
Trying to forge a career in online poker while taking the occasional shot at a big live event, Hendry's still looking for the breakthrough win that might push his game to the next level. He is the...
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