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pokernewsdaily.com - 14 hours ago
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On Monday night, Week 12 of the National
Football League (NFL) will conclude with the 7-3 New...
England Patriots visiting Louisiana to take on the undefeated New Orleans Saints . Featured during the game will be 2009 World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) Main Event runner-up Darvin Moon . Kickoff is scheduled for 8:30pm ET and the contest will air on cable station ESPN in the United States. It was believed that Moon would be present for the on-field coin toss, when teams choose whether to kick or ...
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WSOP Main Event Runner-Up Darvin Moon to be Featured ...
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uk.pokernews.com - 14 hours ago
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You can not only grind your way to
the share of a $155,000 prize pool, you can...
also become a mega star and win the $1.5 Million Premier League - courtesy of PartyPoker.
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Race to the $1.5 Million PartyPoker Premier League
pokernewsdaily.com - 15 hours ago
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If you hail from the United States, this
weekend is a time for family, food, shopping, and...
some nice downtime from the stresses of life. If you’re a poker player, it is also time to squeeze in a tournament, be it in Costa Rica, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, or Los Angeles and put in some extra time at the tables in between bites of turkey. Players like Jean-Robert Bellande, Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg, David “Bakes” Baker, and Team PokerStars Pro Maria “Maridu” Mayrinck decided to escape the cold ...
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Poker Community Celebrates Thanksgiving
pokernews.com - 16 hours ago
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The most exclusive tournament in the Southern Hemisphere
is fast approaching. Join PokerNews as we show you...
how to qualify for the 2010 Aussie Millions...
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2010 Aussie Millions - How To Qualify
uk.pokernews.com - 21 hours ago
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GUKPT Luton Champion Richard Gryko has defeated Martin
Silke in the UK Heads Up Final and in...
doing so, leapfrogged him to the top of the Player of the Year standings. Also all the other results so far from the Vic.
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Richard Gryko Wins GUKPT UK Heads Up Championship
pokerandmisc.blogspot.com - 28 hours ago
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At least US residents and transplants that celebrate
in other countries. Otherwise have a great weekend. I...
am signed up for TaoPoker's Turkey Cup . I'm not sure if I'll make it home in time but have my chips if I don't! What the hell else are you going to do on Tryptophan and booze induced haze?
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Happy Thanksgiving to all.....or Turkey Day if you ...
pokernews.com - 29 hours ago
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It's a short week for us at PokerNews
HQ. Thanksgiving is tomorrow and then we're taking tomorrow...
off because we'll probably be so stuffed with turkey and dressing that we won't be able to move. But neither will you, so we're doing you a favor. Since...
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The Nightly Turbo: Women Arrested for Home Games in ...
pokernews.com - 29 hours ago
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Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is expected to make
a statement Friday that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner...
granted the Poker Players Alliance's petition to delay the compliance date for the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. The...
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UIGEA Delayed
carbonpoker.com - 30 hours ago
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Have you gotten your fix of Thanksgiving treats
yet? Celebrate the most relaxed holiday of the year...
with some turkey, stuffing and poker. How about some freerolls? CarbonPoker is proud to announce 12 freerolls tomorrow for a total of over $5K in free cash! Win coupons, cash and seats in the ...
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Gobble Gobble – More Thanksgiving Freerolls at Carbon
pokernewsdaily.com - 33 hours ago
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The regulations of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement
Act ( UIGEA ) have been delayed six months...
from December 1st, according to Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) Chairman Joe Brennan . Neither U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner nor Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke had made any official comment regarding a six-month delay at press time. The two government officials received petitions to stay the UIGEA’s regulations by one year in letters filed ...
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Report: UIGEA Regulations Postponed Six Months
pokernews.com - 34 hours ago
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A star isn’t born every day in poker,
but 2009 surely saw its share of previously unknown...
players exploding onto the world stage by winning some of the year’s most prestigious titles. One is still a college student, two won World Series of...
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The Top Five Breakout Performances of 2009
pokernewsdaily.com - 34 hours ago
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Poker News Daily: Tell us about the feedback
you received from the first episode of the UB.com-sponsored...
poker news show “ Poker2Nite ” on Fox Sports Net. Scott Huff : People in the poker world seem to be excited about the show and hope that we can do a good enough job with it to last beyond our 13-episode run. The majority of people enjoyed it and sensed our nerves. Everyone felt like it moved quickly and was paced well. They felt like we needed to be the team we once were with PokerRoad and be ...
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Poker2Nite Host Scott Huff Interview with Poker News Daily
pokernewsdaily.com - 35 hours ago
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Last week, heralded online poker grinder Shaun Deeb
announced that he was retiring from tournaments. In addition,...
it appears that his future in the online poker world may be up in the air. On the TwoPlusTwo forums, Deeb posted, “yah Im burntout I hate them I’m done with them. I cant win live everyone was always right I cant win online I just ran good everyone was always right. I’m gunna take rest of year off hopefully and go do something else yah poker was good for a while but **** ...
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Poker Community Reacts to Shaun Deeb Retiring from ...
pokernewsdaily.com - 37 hours ago
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On Tuesday night, it was revealed that a
hearing will occur next Thursday, December 3rd in the...
House Financial Services Committee . Taking center stage are two bills related to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act ( UIGEA ). Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Executive Director John Pappas told Poker News Daily that no markup will occur at the hearing, which will be purely informational in nature: “It’s just an informational hearing. I don’t think the witnesses have been set yet and ...
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No Markup Planned for December 3rd Internet Gambling Hearing
pokerplayernewspaper.com - 37 hours ago
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A few months ago, John Vorhaus, who coauthored
Killer Poker Shorthanded with me, and I hit Hawaiian...
Gardens for a quick session. Other than that, I can't remember the last time I played live poker. LA has great poker rooms and I've spent plenty of time in them, but one table of 9-handed action is now brutally slow for my taste. Competition online is tougher than it is in live card rooms, but small edges accumulate quickly when playing over 1,000 hands per hour. Furthermore, I don't like driving ...
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Good Bet
pokerplayernewspaper.com - 37 hours ago
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If you flop a monster hand in hold
'em, and it happens in such a way that...
you hold the very cards any opponent would need to make a good hand, in technical terms it's known as crippling the deck. In practical terms, it means that your fabulous hand is unlikely to get any action from the other players, because nobody can possibly have much of a hand. So usually you will be compelled to slow-play-by giving away free or cheap cards in the hopes that at least one of your opponents will catch something ...
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Card-Wreck
pokerplayernewspaper.com - 37 hours ago
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A staggering $51,652,800 was up for grabs at
PokerStars' 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). The...
annual event expanded to 45 tournaments in which 44,000 different players from 140 different countries competed. Americans dominated the field, winning 25 bracelets, with other champions hailing from the UK, Germany, Canada, Spain, Finland, Sweden, Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, and Slovakia. Yevgeniy 'Jovial Gent' Timoshenko won the main event championship for a $1.7 million score. ...
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Timoshenko Wins $1.7 Million in the WCOOP
pokerplayernewspaper.com - 37 hours ago
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Returning to raisin' 'n' chasin', in this column
we examine your situation when you hit a pair....
You will recall our previous column where we raised in late position with the 6d-5d and with three limpers. The Big Blind called, and the three limpers also called (as usual). Of course, with suited connectors you always hope to hit at least a 15-out flop. Dame Fortune doesn't smile so broadly very often: about 26 percent of the time you'll flop a measly pair. Suppose you raised in late position as ...
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Raise 'n' Chase, Part 4
pokerplayernewspaper.com - 37 hours ago
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Texas hold 'em poker is similar to many
games in the sense that the basic rules and...
procedures governing its play are fairly simple to learn. This enables neophytes to be able to actually play the game quickly. I said, 'quickly'... not well. Mike Sexton, professional poker player and co-host of the World Poker Tour, is fond of describing hold 'em as a card game that 'takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master.' While true, a conundrum exists because there are many who don't recognize the ...
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Part 151: The Hold' em Conundrum
pokernews.com - 38 hours ago
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We've been collecting your questions sent to editor@pokernews.com
for about a month now and decided that instead...
of just sitting on the mountain of wisdom here at PokerNews, we better share it. Ok, it's probably not a whole mountain of wisdom...
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The PokerNews Mailbag: Pollack Leaving, Who is Isildur, ...
uk.pokernews.com - 41 hours ago
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Once again UK pro Ben Grundy has demonstrated
why he is one of the top Pot Limit...
Omaha specialists in the world by posting a jaw dropping lifetime earnings graph.
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Ben Grundy Up $7.8 Million at PLO, Irish Open Venue ...
pokerplayer.co.uk - 41 hours ago
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Full Tilt pros Eli Elezra and Erik Seidel
line up to argue their side of the fence...
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Is Televised Poker Good For The Game? - The Big Debate | ...
uk.pokernews.com - 46 hours ago
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You really couldn't have scripted how the GUKPT
player of the year race was going to climax,...
with the two top contenders meeting each other today in the GUKPT heads up final.
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GUKPT Player of the Year Race Heats Up
pokernewsdaily.com - 2 days ago
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In breaking news from the House Financial Services
Committee , a hearing to discuss two pieces of...
legislation related to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act ( UIGEA ) will be held on Thursday, December 3rd at 10:00am ET. Interested online poker players can check out the hearing via a webcast found on the official website of the Committee . The hearing, which will be held in Room 2128 of the Rayburn House Office Building, will cover two pieces of legislation introduced by Committee ...
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UIGEA Hearing Scheduled for December 3rd in Financial ...
pokernews.com - 2 days ago
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You should be playing poker, not searching for
news. That's why we're here. If it's going on...
in poker, we'll probably be telling you about it. In Case You Missed It A lot can be learned at the poker table and on the tournament trail. Some...
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The Nightly Turbo: Charity Poker, Absolute Poker's New ...
pokernews.com - 2 days ago
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With poker at the center of our universe
here at PokerNews, it's often easy to overlook everything...
else going on in the gaming industry. If you're as interested in all things gaming and casino as we are, you'll enjoy the fruits of our research by...
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Inside Gaming: A Whale Sues Harrah's and Carl Icahn ...
pokerplayer.co.uk - 2 days ago
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pokerplayer.co.uk —
After final-tabling both the WSOP $40k NLHE and
the WPT Bellagio Alec ‘traheho’ Torelli paints the town...
red, partying with Snoop Dogg, durrrr and some strippers
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Girls And Candy - Living The Dream | Alec 'Traheho' Torelli
pokernewsdaily.com - 2 days ago
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pokernewsdaily.com —
The fifth European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP)
has gotten off to an excellent start on Monday,...
with “ thanasis1982 ” becoming its first tournament winner. In its fifth year, the ECOOP has become the top tournament schedule on the iPoker Network , which is comprised of such rooms as Titan Poker , Celeb Poker, and Paddy Power Poker. This year’s tournament series, which started on Monday and lasts until December 6th, runs the gamut in a test of poker skills and boasts guaranteed prize ...
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ECOOP V Kicks Off, thanasis1982 Event #1 Champion
sports.espn.go.com - 2 days ago
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Doyle Brunson recounts the day he won his
first WSOP main event title....
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Doyle Brunson on winning his first main event title
pokernewsdaily.com - 2 days ago
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Poland ’s Senate approved a measure limiting gambling
to casinos, stunting access to poker and other games...
outside of a structured establishment. The bill cleared the Senate by a 48 to 3 margin, with 30 lawmakers not voting. The Krakow Post noted that the new crackdown on gambling outside of licensed casinos may also spell trouble for internet gambling and online poker : “The legislation also affects Internet gambling, which will no longer be allowed under Polish law. However, the enforcement of ...
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Poland Limits Gambling, Poker to Brick and Mortar Casinos
pokernews.com - 2 days ago
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pokernews.com —
Off the Felt is interviewing your favorite poker
players to find out a little bit about their...
lives — you got it, off the felt. We sat down with Annette Obrestad recently and talked fashion, a little poker, and who she would love to bust out of...
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Off the Felt with Annette Obrestad
pokernewsdaily.com - 2 days ago
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pokernewsdaily.com —
On Monday, Team PokerStars Pro member Daniel Negreanu
posted a blog entry on Full Contact Poker entitled...
“ Mommy is Gone .” The funeral is scheduled for Thursday at 11:00am at the Jerett Funeral Home in Toronto. Negreanu revealed that his mother passed away in her sleep around 3:30am early Monday morning in a hospital, where she had been since February. The four-time World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) bracelet winner explained, “10 months of the most brutal torture. Just no way to live, and ...
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Poker Player Daniel Negreanu’s Mother Passes Away
pokernews.com - 2 days ago
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PokerNews hostess Gloria Balding is back. Last month
she brought you the "Top Five Things You Won't...
Find on the Tournament Trail," and this month she is back at it with five things you never thought you'd learn by playing poker. 5. How...
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Top Five Things You Never Thought You'd Learn From ...
pokerplayer.co.uk - 2 days ago
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pokerplayer.co.uk —
Portuguese native Antonio Matias wins PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura
for $603,169...
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EPT Vilamoura Results - Home win At EPT Vilamoura
pokerplayer.co.uk - 2 days ago
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Two $1,000,000+ pots as Ivey, Antonius and Isildur1
smash all online records...
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Antonius Breaks Record Again - Patrik Antonius Wins ...
uk.pokernews.com - 2 days ago
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uk.pokernews.com —
Two more big results from the weekend as
Stuart Ward wins the other big APAT event in...
Luton and Vincent Diver wins the biggest PKR Live event yet. Also can you help find a missing London poker player?
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Stuart Ward Wins APAT European Title, Vincent Diver Wins ...
pokernews.com - 3 days ago
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pokernews.com —
Another weekend down, and another Monday in the
books. We hope you didn't miss us too much...
over the weekend, but if you did, you have nothing to worry about, we're back at it, doing our thing. We scour the web searching for the day's top poker news...
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The Nightly Turbo: Deeb is Done, New PokerStars Pro, and ...
pokernews.com - 3 days ago
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pokernews.com —
The Poker Players Alliance's petition to delay the
fast-approaching compliance date for the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement...
Act received a boost Monday when all six Kentucky congressmen submitted a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy...
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Six Kentucky Congressmen Support Pushing UIGEA Deadline ...
pokernewsdaily.com - 3 days ago
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pokernewsdaily.com —
The ongoing clash between Isildur1 and the game’s
most vaunted high-stakes cash game players reached new levels...
over the weekend, as the cagey Swede played record-setting sessions with Full Tilt Pros Patrik Antonius , Phil Ivey , and Tom “ durrrr ” Dwan . The online poker world watched in awe as Isildur1 got involved in multiple $1 million pots at the $500/$1,000 Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) tables. The biggest pot ever played on the internet came on Saturday between Isildur1 ...
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Patrik Antonius Takes Record-Setting $1.3 Million Pot ...
pokernews.com - 3 days ago
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pokernews.com —
The "PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge" returned to the
air this past Sunday with two new contestants taking...
their shots in the $1 million heads-up match with the show's star, Daniel Negreanu. First up was Oluwasegun "Big Mike" Odumuyiwa, a...
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Negreanu Shines on Pokerstars.net Million Dollar Challenge
pokernewsdaily.com - 3 days ago
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Swedish newcomer Isildur1 has dominated the action on
Full Tilt Poker in recent weeks, helping grow the...
eight largest pots in online poker history. One of his opponents, CardRunners instructor Haseeb “INTERNET POKERS” Qureshi , sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss Isildur1’s recent dominance. Isildur1 has largely competed in Pot Limit Omaha against high-stakes Full Tilt regulars like 2009 World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) November Nine member Phil Ivey , Durrrr Challenge namesake Tom ...
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Haseeb Qureshi Comments on Isildur1 and High-Stakes Poker
pokernewsdaily.com - 3 days ago
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The poker media industry is an interesting beast.
It spends a lot of time covering tournaments because,...
well, tournaments are fairly straightforward to cover and people like to know who’s winning what. You have a starting day and an ending day and the tournament promoters have an interest in providing information to the media. You can show chip counts, the big winners and losers for each day, and more. There’s a lot more to poker than tournaments and one of the reasons that I’m writing for Poker ...
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Taking the Underground by Lee Jones
uk.pokernews.com - 3 days ago
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Team Poland fought off competition from France and
England to capture the APAT European Team Championships in...
Luton over the weekend. Plus the latest winners at Dusk Till Dawn and more.
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Poland win APAT European Team Championships, DTD ...
pokernewsdaily.com - 3 days ago
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pokernewsdaily.com —
Travel agency owner Antonio Matias took down the
European Poker Tour’s (EPT) Vilamoura Main Event in the...
roving tournament series’ first ever trip to Portugal. Matias took home a €404,793 top prize. The EPT Vilamoura stop had a buy-in of €5,300 and marked the richest tournament ever held in Portugal, according to PokerStars officials. Matias, a Portuguese businessman, was playing in his backyard and became the first native to take down an EPT tournament since Sandra Naujoks tasted victory ...
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Antonio Matias Wins EPT Vilamoura
sports.espn.go.com - 3 days ago
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Last week I wrote about the fact that
the largest pot in online poker history had just...
taken place. At $878,958.50, Patrik Antonius defeated "Isildur1" to make history and at the same time, become even richer. About the time I finished last week's article I said to myself that it might not last. Given the volatility of the last few weeks in the high stakes realm, it was really no shock that the first million dollar pot would take place. Once again, Antonius defeated "Isildur1", but this time the...
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$1.3 million dollar pot claimed by Patrik Antonius
pokerplayernewspaper.com - 3 days ago
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LAST-DITCH EFFORTS TO BLOCK UIGEA IMPLEMENTATION CONTINUE More
behind-the-scenes maneuvering marks the approaching December 1, 2009 compliance...
date to implement the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). The surreptitiously passed and unpopular UIGEA continues to be assaulted from all quarters. The latest challenge comes from Rep. James McDermott (D-WA), who released a study from the Joint Committee on Taxation that UIGEA implementation will cost the U.S. roughly $42 billion in ...
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Poker News: UIGEA Efforts, WSOP Circuit Begins, High ...
pokerplayernewspaper.com - 3 days ago
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'Thanks to my reading, I have never been
caught flat-footed by any situation ... It doesn't give...
me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.' -Major General James N. Mattis, USMC CG, 1stMarDiv Marine Corps Gazette, February 2004 When I first started playing professional poker, I ran into a group of railbirds-long-time players who had gone broke, and never seemed to improve their game-who swore on their first-born children that I'd never play winning poker by reading ...
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Reading to Improve Your Game, Part 1
pokerplayernewspaper.com - 3 days ago
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pokerplayernewspaper.com —
Casino Arizona and Saint Mary's Team Up. Help
Saint Mary's food bank raise money on Saturday, November...
21 at 9 a.m. Every $25 of your $50 buy-in will be donated to Saint Mary's turkey drive. The no-limit event is limited to 400 players and has a $12,500 guaranteed prize pool. Registration begins on Monday, November 16 at noon. For more information see their ad in this issue of Poker Player Newspaper. Sandia Presents the Headhunter Series. Thursday nights at 7 p.m. are reserved for progressive ...
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Debbie Does Poker
pokerplayernewspaper.com - 3 days ago
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I think the word 'key' is overused. Too
many things have been labeled as 'the key to...
success' or 'the key to finding your soul mate.' What is usually meant is: 'Well, gosh, here's something that might help. I'm not sure how important it is, but it might be pretty useful sometimes, so I'll call it a key.' Usually, when I say something is a key, it genuinely unlocks doors. Without it, you can't get where you need to go. To me a key isn't just a bonus poker tip; it's a piece of advice that, if unused, ...
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Today's Word Is... Keys
pokerplayernewspaper.com - 3 days ago
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pokerplayernewspaper.com —
In the first article, we focused on the
two relative youngsters in the running for the Poker...
Hall of Fame, Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu, for whom the 'test of time' criterion proved to be a stumbling block this year, although their talent and contributions to the game of poker will likely someday guarantee them a place. The remaining seven certainly played long enough, but the question remained whether they did enough to justify induction in 2009. Mike Sexton has made as big a splash away from ...
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WSOP Hall of Fame, Part 2
