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Duhamel Charging as WPT Bay 101 Hits Final 20
Baumstein, a veteran tourney pro with three-quarters of a million in career earnings, bagged up 1.3 million in chips to take the outright lead into Day 3 in San Jose, just ahead of Andrew Badecker with...
View ArticleIlari FIN Dominates Jeans89, Rafi Amit
Sahamies, who is trying to fight his way out of a massive hole he dug earlier this year, took on Sander “Berndsen12” Berndsen, Jens “Jeans89” Kyllonen, Rafi Amit and RaiseOnce in rapid succession last...
View Article2012 WSOP Europe Schedule Released
The European leg of the world’s biggest poker tournament series will play out over two weeks at the Hôtel Majestic Barrière in Cannes, starting September 21. Due to French gaming law only Hold’em and...
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Daily 3-Bet: Women FTW, Poker Renegade, Mizzi Theatrics
Any suggestion for a future 3-Bet, feel free to drop a note in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we salute women in poker, find an amazing piece on poetry teacher and poker grinder DJ Renegade and catch...
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Cajelais in Command at WPT Bay 101 Final Table
Starting the day playing second fiddle to fellow French Canadian and Shooting Star Jonathan Duhamel, the talk was all about Cajelais by the end as he bagged up a massive 3.65 million in chips. He’ll...
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Galfond Strikes Back: Top 10 Weekly Winners/Losers
Galfond was nearly unstoppable as he played huge sessions against online killers Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, Jens “Jeans89” Kyllonen and Ilari Sahamies. After going on a nearly $1 million downswing in late...
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Daily 3-Bet: Srsly Suspicious, No Lambo, The Better All-In
Any suggestions for a future 3-Bet, feel free to drop a note in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find something fishy with a new non-poker rap song from SrslySirius, PokerStars’ questionable...
View ArticleBwin.Party Seeks Nevada Gaming License
The company joins a growing list of online poker sites that have applied for Nevada licenses including 888 Holdings, St. Minver and Boss Media. There is a growing sentiment in the poker community that...
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Amateur Moon Kim Wins WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star
A local San Jose player who won his way into the event in a $1,000 satellite, Kim walked away with almost a million dollars. This year’s Shooting Star attracted 364 players and boasted a prize pool of...
View ArticleFreeroll Spotlight: $100k Depositor Freerolls on PokerStars
The idea behind the promotion is very simple: sign up for a new account and you get to enter up to four $1,000 freerolls a day for 31 days. It’s one of the biggest series of freerolls ever offered in...
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Poker’s In and Out List: Blom Showdown, T-Chan Throwdown
Whether it be the water cooler or your weekly home game, we’ll let you know who to boo and who to woohoo this week in poker. Today’s In List features another MMA win for Terrence Chan plus Liv Boeree’s...
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Sunday Scoop: 33,000 Play PokerStars Sunday Million
Perhaps spurred on by the Sunday Million birthday celebration players flocked to PokerStars’ other regularly-scheduled Sunday majors, posting huge numbers across the board. We’ve got the rundown on the...
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Isildur1 Goes Nuclear, Wins $522k
Blom was scheduled to play Isaac Haxton for 2,500 hands as part of the SuperStar Showdown but Haxton was having trouble with the Internet in Malta and had to call the session short with the Swede ahead...
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Daily 3-Bet: Galfond Warning, Nevada Pushing, Isildur Brag
Any suggestions for a future 3-Bet, feel free to drop a note in the comments, Today in the 3-Bet we find Phil Galfond warning the online generation about shady poker characters, the Nevada Gaming Board...
View ArticleBaranov, Ionel Big Stacks on EPT Madrid Day 1a
With a Sixth Anniversary Sunday Million hangover likely keeping the field small, just 125 players hit the tables at the Casino Gran Madrid with Baranov leading the way at day’s end with 152k in chips....
View ArticleIsildur1 Stays Hot, Wins $270k
Coming off a $522k-winning Sunday, Blom played another 889 hands of $100/$200 Pot-Limit Omaha. The majority of Blom’s profit came from a 6-Max table that included Alexey “LuckyGump” Makarov, Terken89,...
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Daily 3-Bet: Little Helps, WSOP Deals, Mercier Begins
Any suggestions for a future 3-Bet, feel free to drop a note in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find Jonathan Little helping grinders of all bankroll levels, a backdoor in to a summer at the World...
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Benyamine, Jaka Among Leaders at EPT Madrid
The second Day 1 flight in the Spanish capital was packed to the rafters as 350 players hit the felt, close to three times as many as Day 1A. 477 in total kicked in their €5,300 buy-ins to put...
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Haxton Edges Isildur1 in Epic Showdown Rematch
The two No-Limit Hold'em heads-up heavyweights squared off for the 2,500-hand match on Sunday only to have it end prematurely after about 700 hands due to a massive storm on Malta that knocked out...
View ArticleIsildur1 Stopped Cold with $500k Loss
Blom had been on a serious tear over the last few days on the site and had won over $700k. He saw the majority of that profit disappear last night and is suddenly down $200k overall in 2012. The young...
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