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Patrick Leonard: “There is So Much Ego in These High Rollers”
You don’t reach the summit of that particular mountain by luck. Leonard knows what he’s doing and, fortunately for the poker community, he's not shy when it comes to sharing it. A former journalist...
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Natasha Barbour Looks to Become First Female WSOP Champ of the Year
After playing five-handed for nearly four hours, tournament staff called it a day and the remaining players will come back to play to winner tomorrow at 1pm. While Barbour’s count is near the top, she...
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Watch SpinandGoStrategy's Sentin, CaptnKrnch Play Golf, Talk Poker
Both these guys live and grind in Vancouver, Canada and they both believe Spin and Gos on PokerStars are one of the best new things happening in online poker. That's why Yaniv “Sentin” Ronen, along...
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WSOP 3-Bet: Five Alaei, Hachem Incoming, #SummeroftheGoat
Have a tip from in and around the Rio? Let us know in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find Daniel Alaei quietly continuing his WSOP dominance, a decade after his big win Joe Hachem rides again and...
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Hand of the Week: Jason Mercier Opens the Throttle on Cal42688
Many poker fans have asked themselves this question, and to find the answer it’s essential to watch closely how the top pros play. In this week's hand we witnessed a battle between two undeniably...
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WSOP 3-Bet: Topless Victory, Accidental Bracelet, Sketchy Hellmuth
Got a hot tip from in and around the Rio? Drop us a note in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find the naked joy of World Series of Poker victory, an accidental poker tourist feel-good story and a...
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It's Hard to Put Me On Tilt But Some People are Naturals
How it started so well, and how it all went downhill from there. You've probably experienced it, too. Nobody wants to listen, and nobody wants to hear, so why do people keep on telling bad beat...
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Christian Pham Accidentally Registers for 2-7, Wins WSOP Bracelet
Pham had accidentally registered for a No-Limit 2-7 tournament, a game he didn't even know existed. Two days later, Pham won the event, his first World Series of Poker bracelet and $81,314. “I sat at...
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Brian Hastings Wins $10K Stud, Collects More Than $480K in Side Bets
Earlier this summer, Hastings challenged the poker world's best to beat him. Hastings offered even money on himself and proposed using Daniel Negreanu’s $25K Fantasy Draft points system to determine...
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888 Pro Nitsche Narrowly Misses Bracelet #4, Takes 3rd for $220k
Playing the $5k No-Limit Hold'em 8-max event, #25 on the schedule, Nitsche had to navigate one of the toughest fields of the Series. As Jason Somerville put it, he had “to deal with some of the best...
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The Inevitable Future for Online Poker is Closing In
They called it poker but it was really just text like "flop QhTs5s." The first online poker room offering real-money play was Planet Poker. The first hand was dealt on January 1, 1998. It had Mike...
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WSOP 3-Bet: HS Coach Wins $567k, Courtside Hellmuth, Busquet Nitpick
You can always make suggestions for future WSOP 3-Bet pieces in the comments section below. In today’s WSOP 3-Bet we’ll take a look at an amazing victory by a high-school coach, Phil Hellmuth having...
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Phil Galfond Denies Nick Schulman Third $10K No-Limit 2-7 Bracelet
While there were only 77 entrants, they were 77 of the world’s best poker players. George Danzer, Brian Hastings, Jason Mercier, Antonio Esfandiari, John Monnette and Paul Volpe were a few of the...
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Poker Pro Vanessa Rousso in Cast of CBS' Big Brother 17
Rousso was announced among the cast for Big Brother 17 today along with a CBS all-access exclusive to meet the next houseguests at 8 am PT. The new season will debut on Wed. June 24 with a cast of 14...
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WSOP 3-Bet: Trump Poker, Poker DD Wanted, Hoyt Corkins Blazing
Feel free to hit us up with suggestions for future 3-Bet pieces in the comments section below. In today’s WSOP 3-Bet we’ll take a look at new Presidential-hopeful Donald Trump’s poker past, Dan Smith...
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In the Money, Near the Lead: Jennifer Tilly Hunts Second WSOP Bracelet
Back in 2005, Tilly won the $1,000 NLHE Ladies Event and has been chasing another World Series of Poker bracelet since. “I always get that caveat like, ‘Well, that's a ladies bracelet,’” said Tilly....
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Howard Lederer Gave Me Some Words of Wisdom About Money
Are we not bigger than that? Is the poker world so small that we have to read about how Phil Hellmuth got tickets to a basketball game? Didn't it used to be the other way around? Wasn't it the...
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WSOP 2015 At The Half: A Look at Numbers from First 35 Events
From the glory days of the 8,000-player+ 2006 Main Event to the swingy years post-Black Friday attendance at the WSOP has always been used a sort of barometer for the health of the poker industry as a...
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WSOP 3-Bet: Brazil Rising, Negreanu Rides Kingsycle, Lindgren Busto Again
You can make suggestions for future WSOP 3-Bet pieces below in the comments section. In today’s WSOP 3-Bet we’ll take a look at Brazil on the brink of a third WSOP bracelet, Daniel Negreanu getting...
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Matt Marafioti Defends Himself Against Negative Public Opinion
Now playing at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Marafioti says he doesn't understand why people have such a negative opinion of him. In this candid interview Marafioti concedes that while there...
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