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Daily 3-Bet: Ivey v. durrrr, Kogan’s Zeroes, Idle Hands
Any suggestions for a future 3-Bet, feel free to drop a note in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey signing on for a new Super High Roller event, Australian...
View Article£1 Million Guaranteed UKIPT Nottingham Begins
Last month PokerStars bumped the guarantee to £1 million and added an extra Day 1 to accommodate extra players. Midway through Day 1a there are already over 500 runners including noted pros Pieter de...
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How to Mentally Prepare for the WSOP with Jared Tendler
Seven weeks, 61 events and millions of dollars in prizes all put enormous pressure on players and if you don’t know how to hack it you might as well stay at home and watch the 2012 WSOP on TV. Tendler...
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Daily 3-Bet: Laak Attack, Selbst Jack, Ivey Greatness
Any suggestions for a future 3-bet, feel free to drop a note in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find Phil Laak laying a beatdown on the Party Poker Big Game, Vanessa Selbst getting felted in Vienna...
View ArticleBen86 Busts Out Another $221k Win
The U.S.-born pro played a relatively short 445-hand session last night but managed to take down an impressive $221k at the various Pot-Limit Omaha tables he played. Ben86 did most of his damage on a...
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$30 Million Guaranteed for PokerStars SCOOP
Running May 6-20, the 2012 SCOOP will feature 40 events each with three buy-in levels - low, medium and high. The capper of the entire series will be a No-Limit Hold’em Main Event on May 20 with...
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Thirty Players, Biggest Prize Ever Confirmed for WSOP Big One
With 30 players the first-place prize has already swelled to an estimated $12,266,668, besting the $12M record set when Jamie Gold won the WSOP Main Event in 2006. The winner will also receive the...
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Daily 3-Bet: Max Laak, Gus Back, Inside NY Poker Clubs
Any suggestions for a future 3-Bet, feel free to drop a note in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find Phil Laak absolutely trouncing the Party Poker Big Game, Gus Hansen Hinting at an imminent...
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Daily 3-Bet: Muck Fuss, Tilly Gush, The Other Lederer
Any suggestions for a future 3-Bet, feel free to drop a note in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find a big muck drawing a fuss at the Party Poker Big Game, Jennifer Tilly blustering about her poker...
View ArticleFreeroll Spotlight: $5k GSP Tourney on 888poker
The $5,000 freeroll takes place at 7:30 p.m. ET today but is only open to Canadian new depositors. Georges “Rush” St-Pierre officially joined the 888poker team on a one-year contract earlier this week....
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Ben86 Hits $631k: Weekly Top 10 Online Winners/Losers
Tollerene has always flown somewhat under the radar in the high-stakes games on PokerStars but he’s turning into a veritable monster this year. Meanwhile some of even bigger name online pros like Ilari...
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Poker’s In and Out List: Timberlake Stars, Police Raid Scars
Today’s In List features a new movie about online gambling from the writers of Rounders starring Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck, the first Two Plus Two post ever plus another lucrative spring for...
View ArticleChristensen Scoops WPT Vienna Title
Christensen, a 27-year-old with just three previous live cashes, turned his online satellite qualification for the WPT Vienna main event into €313,390 with an impressive performance. He took over the...
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Sunday Scoop: Black Friday Birthday Party
No less than six six-figure scores were recorded in the week’s biggest online poker tournaments with plenty of big names getting a piece of the cash. In total over $3.92 million was awarded across...
View ArticlePhil Galfond Pummeled for $301k
The Maryland-native played 2,175 hands of high stakes PLO on PokerStars against usual suspects like Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, LuckyGump and Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky. Galfond simply couldn’t get anything...
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Who’s Thriving One Year after Black Friday
In 2010 an estimated 1.8 million Americans played online poker and wagered roughly $16 billion mostly on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, according to PokerScout.com. On April 15, 2011 those 1.8 million...
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Daily 3-Bet: Retiree Rocks UKIPT Nottingham, New PPA Drive, Full Tilt Alive
Any suggestions for a future 3-Bet (or tips for playing Ace-Jack), feel free to drop a note in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find Robert Baguley taking down the massive Nottingham stop on the...
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Former EPT Champ Geshkenbein Leads EPT Berlin
EPT Berlin has been a huge stop for the European Poker Tour with 945 entries playing the inaugural tournament in 2010. Today just 243 registered to play, falling far short of expectations judging by...
View ArticleSwingy Sahamies Wins $324k on PokerStars
The swingy Finn blazed through 1,592 hands of $50/$100 to $100/$200 PLO and smoked his opponents for a total of $324k. It was no easy task for Sahamies as a murderer’s row of online pros were on hand...
View ArticleTapie Funds New Full Tilt Poker Company
The news further fuels speculation that the defunct online poker room will soon be operational. Alongside Tapie at the helm of New Full Tilt Poker is Prosper Jerémy Masquelier, named as the company’s...
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