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NAPT Adds New Stop in Los Angeles
According to Pokerstarsblog.com (link below), the NAPT (North American Poker Tour) will make its next stop at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles.
The main event of the "NAPT Los Angeles" will run fr...
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Pokerstars Hits Another Home Run With The 2010 SCOOP
The 2010 SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker) on Pokerstars ended up exceeding even the most optimistic of expectations, as the series ended up finishing with a staggering total of nearly $64 m...
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A Rough Week for PartyGaming Shares
It was a rough week for PartyGaming shareholders this past week as shares in the company fell over 15%, capped off by a 6% loss on Friday.
Shares in the company were slowly trending down throughou...
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PartyGaming Continues To "Gear Up" Towards Possible Return To United States
According to PartyGaming CEO Jim Ryan, the company would "move quickly" towards re-establishing its presence in the United States if and when online poker is finally regulated and licensed in the coun...
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40 Billionth Hand is Dealt on Pokerstars
The 40 billionth hand in the history of Pokerstars was dealt about an hour ago, with "Senecady" from Stockholm, Sweden walking away as the big winner of the "F40" promotion.
The big hand was dealt...
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Pokerstars To Run $4 Million Guaranteed Sunday Million Against FTOPS XV Main Event
As you are likely already aware, FTOPS XV will be starting later tonight with the $200+$16 NLHE, $1 Million Guaranteed event.
FTOPS XV will wrap up on February 21st with the $500+$35 NLHE main eve...
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Cake Poker Awards Pot to Wrong Player
Cake Poker committed an embarrassing (and worrying) error earlier today when they awarded a pot to the wrong player in a low-limit cash game.
The major malfunction occurred in a $0.02/$0.04 No Lim...
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Players at Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker Donate Over a Million Dollars Towards Haitian Relief Efforts
On January 12th, 2010, a massive 7.0 earthquake struck the country of Haiti.
The results were catastrophic, as many buildings were either completely destroyed or significantly damaged. There have ...
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Hoyt Wins, T.J. Cloutier Will Get His Bracelet Back and More
1. Hoyt Corkins Wins 2010 Southern Poker Championship.
Hoyt Corkins must really, really like playing in World Poker Tour events.
Just a few minutes ago, Hoyt Corkins defeated Jonathan Kantor t...
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Party Poker is Making Some Big Moves
It wasn't all that long ago when Party Poker was the 800 pound gorilla of the online poker industry.
It's hard to believe that there was a time in which Pokerstars wasn't the largest online poker ...
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Full Tilt Poker Launches "Rush Poker"
Full Tilt Poker has had some pretty bad ideas in the past (such as Matrix SNGs), but "Rush Poker" is looking like it will be a big hit.
"Rush Poker" will appeal to anyone who doesn't like to sit a...
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Pokerstars Shatters Record for "Largest Online Poker Tournament"
149,196 players turned out for Pokerstars' "World Record" $300k Guaranteed tournament today, furthering tightening their stranglehold on the record for "largest online poker tournament".
The previ...
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Brian Townsend Has His "Red Pro" Status Suspended on Full Tilt Poker - Again
In a recent blog post on Cardrunners.com titled "Allegations", Brian Townsend revealed that he has had his "red pro" status suspended by Full Tilt Poker for one month.
Townsend revealed that he wa...
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$25k Heads-Up PLO Championship Returns To Full Tilt Poker Next Weekend
The $25,000 Heads-Up Pot Limit Omaha Championship will take place on Full Tilt Poker next weekend, with names such as Patrik Antonius and Gus Hansen expected to participate.
The tournament will be...
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UFC Launches Its Own Poker Room, Dikshit Dumps His Shares
The UFC has tossed its hat into the online poker ring by launching the "UFC Poker Room" (link below).
According to the site, the "UFC Poker Room" will be awarding $100,000 in cash and prizes every...
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WCOOP Total Prize Pool Ends Up Topping $50 Million Dollars
Just a few short years after the UIGEA threatened to ruin online poker (at least for American players), Pokerstars managed to put on an online poker tournament series that ended up with a total prize ...
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The 2009 WCOOP Gets Underway In Less Than 24 Hours
The best online poker tournament series of the year, the WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker), gets underway in less than 24 hours.
The $215 NLHE 6-Max event will kick off the 2009 WCOOP at 1...
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Pokerstars Introduces WCOOP Extreme Satellites
Pokerstars is pulling out all the stops to make sure that the 2009 WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) is the biggest online poker tournament series ever.
The 2009 WCOOP is going to have a t...
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Poker World Record Attempt: Pokerstars vs Full Tilt Poker
In December of 2008, Pokerstars set the record for "Largest Online Poker Tournament" ever.
35,000 players took part in the $11 buy-in tournament on December 28th, 2008.
The 35,000 player field e...
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Full Tilt Poker Elects to Run MiniFTOPS XIII at Same Time as WCOOP
Full Tilt Poker recently released details regarding the 13th installment of their FTOPS (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) and MiniFTOPS events.
The company continues to tweak the format of the event,...
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Bodog Finally Opening Its Doors to Canadian Players?
You may or may not already know this, but Canadians are unable to play on Bodog.
The official reason that Canadians can't currently play on Bodog? "Jurisdictional issues".
The unofficial reason?...
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Don't Miss The Turbo Takedown on Pokerstars This Sunday
Normally I don't write posts like this, but I really don't want any of the readers of this site to miss out on the special edition of the "Turbo Takedown" on Pokerstars this Sunday.
To celebrate th...
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Bodog.com is Back
According to multiple sources, the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group and 1st Technology, LLC have reached a resolution in regards to 1st Technology's long-standing lawsuit against one of Bodog's associated c...
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SCOOP Final Notes and Statistics
The Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) series on Pokerstars was a resounding success.
I'm positive that the SCOOP will become a regular annual event, as I'm sure that the overall turnout e...
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UFC Officially Inks Deal With Ultimatebet For UFC 97
The UFC and Ultimatebet announced earlier today that the two companies had officially inked a deal for UFC 97, which will take place later this month in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
There will be a nu...
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Justin "Zeejustin" Bonomo No Longer Banned on Pokerstars
After a "serious consideration of the issues", Pokerstars have decided to lift their lifetime ban of Justin "Zeejustin" Bonomo.
If you remember, "Zeejustin" was banned from Pokerstars over three ye...
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Pokerstars Releases Schedule For Spring Tournament Series
The WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) is by far the most successful single online poker tournament series in the world.
Many players have been asking the management at Pokerstars to run th...
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Busiest Weekend Ever for Pokerstars
If you thought that the biggest online poker room in the world would be stung by the recession - think again.
According to Pokerscout.com (link below), Pokerstars.com is set to turn in its busiest ...
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Pokerstars Offering A 25% Reload Bonus Until February 18th
Normally we don't do these types of posts on this blog, but I would hate for anybody to miss out on any free money.
As part of their "25 Billion Bash", Pokerstars is offering their "biggest ever re...
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Pokerstars Continues To Grow Despite Global Recession
When the global economic crisis started to set in last year, many people began to fret about the impact on the online poker industry. The industry had survived the UIGEA and multiple scandals, but cou...
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A Big Weekend Coming Up on Pokerstars
If you are going to be anywhere near a computer this weekend, then I would suggest heading on over to Pokerstars and taking advantage of some of the tournaments / promotions that they have running thi...
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Ultimatebet Publishes Statement Regarding Doubleballer / PhilHellmuth Hand
Ultimatebet published a statement yesterday regarding the DOUBLEBALLER / PHILHELLMUTH situation.
In case you haven't been following along, "DOUBLEBALLER" was playing $200/$400 Limit Hold'em against...
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Papa Ninja, Hansen Hangout, Anurag Dikshit and More
1. Who is Papa Ninja? We've received dozens of emails over the past few days, asking us if we know who the mysterious "Papa Ninja" is on Full Tilt Poker.
Papa Ninja popped up a few...
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What Recession? Pokerstars Continues to Grow
Despite the fact that there is currently a crippling global economic meltdown underway, Pokerstars continues to break records.
According to Pokerscout.com (link below), Pokerstars.com had over 30,0...
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Clonie Gowen Is Suing Full Tilt Poker
Clonie Gowen (aka Cycalona Gowen) has launched a lawsuit against Full Tilt Poker and the various people/companies associated with FTP. The suit, "Gowen vs Tiltware LLC, et al.", was filed yesterday in...
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Ultimatebet Launches New Tiffany Michelle Promo
Fresh off of her disastrous (to put it mildly) World Series of Poker Main Event appearance on ESPN, Tiffany Michelle has launched a new promo with her sponsor, Ultimatebet.
The promotion is called ...
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Sharkscope and Pokerstars Don't Mix
Do you like to check up your opponents using Sharkscope while playing on Pokerstars?
If this is the case, consider yourself warned - Pokerstars will no longer be allowing their players to access Sh...
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Johnny Lodden Signs with Pokerstars
Pokerstars announced earlier this week that they had inked Johnny Lodden to a sponsorship deal that runs to the end of the year. Lodden will play as a Pokerstars sponsored player at the EPT Budapest a...
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Pokerstars Launches Pokerstars.it, Partygaming Continues to Plummet and More
A few interesting pieces of news as we close out this week:
1. Pokerstars announced earlier this week that they had been granted a license from the AAMS (Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di St...
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Pokerstars Releases 2009 PCA (Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure) Details
The details for the 2009 edition of the PCA (Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure) have just been released by Pokerstars. Since the event is so popular with online poker players, we thought that we'd devote...
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The Real Winner of the WCOOP .. Pokerstars
Right now there are currently just over 200 people battling it out for the 2008 WCOOP Main Event Championship. The winner will earn $1.775 million dollars, while the second place finisher will make ju...
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Party Poker To Unveil "Ground-Breaking" New Software Next Week
Party Poker recently offered their customers an "exclusive first look" at their new software, which is due to be released next week.
According to the company, rumors have been "swirling around cybe...
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Partygaming's Stock Hits All-Time Low
Many North American and European publicly traded stocks have been hammered over the past couple of months, and PartyGaming is no different. The stock of PartyGaming (PRTY) closed at 173.50 today, whic...
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$25k Pot Limit Omaha Heads-Up Championship Coming to Full Tilt Poker in September
Railbirds might want to mark September 7th, 2008 down on their calendars.
Not only will you have the conclusion of the $25k Heads-Up Pot Limit Omaha championship on F...
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Natalie "TheV0id" Teltscher Withdraws Lawsuit Against Pokerstars, Will Pay Some of Their Legal Fees
Natalie "TheV0id" Teltscher withdrew her lawsuit against Pokerstars after "admitting that she hadn't played" on the account, according to a Pokerstars press release. She has also "agreed to contribute...
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Pokerstars Permanently Increasing Guarantees On a Number of Tournaments
Pokerstars will be permanently increasing the guarantees for a number of their tournaments starting next week.
If you pull up some of the tournaments that start in e...
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Saturday Night News and Notes - FTP Heads-Up, Cash Games, Turbo Takedown, "The Grinder"
1. FTP Heads-Up Championship. The tournament is currently paused and will resume on Sunday afternoon. There are four players currently left in the tournament: Andy Bloch, Emil "whitelime" Patel, David...
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Mitch Garber Has Made How Much As CEO of Partygaming??
What do Mitch Garber, Howard Lederer, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson and Isai Scheinberg all have in common?
They all prove the theory that the real money in poker is made a...
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"Sunday Hundred Grand" On Pokerstars Continues to Grow in Size
The beast that is the "Sunday Hundred Grand" on Pokerstars continues to grow in size.
The tournament, which has a $10 + $1 buy-in, started out with a 10,000 player cap. It has regularly filled to c...
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Full Tilt Poker Makes Policy Change After Inking Deal with Cardrunners
The Cardrunners - Full Tilt Poker deal that was announced a few days ago has generated a great deal of buzz within the online poker community.
The deal, which was apparently months in the making, w...
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Ultimatebet Makes Public Statement Regarding "NioNio" Allegations
Ultimatebet released a public statement today regarding the allegations that UB player "NioNio", and possibly others on the site, may have had some sort of an unfair advantage while playing on Ultimat...
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Pokerstars Launches Their WSOP 2008 Qualifiers
Sometime late last week, Pokerstars' arch-rival Full Tilt Poker kicked off their 2008 World Series of Poker promotion. At the time, I decided to fire off an email to Pokerstars, asking when they were ...
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"Bodog Poker Open" to Take Place in Early March
Bodog has announced that the first installment of the "Bodog Poker Open" will begin on March 3rd and run until March 9th. According to their web site, this is the "biggest tournament in Bodog history"...
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World Series of Poker Qualifiers Have Begun at Bodog Poker
Bodog Poker got a jump on their competition by launching their World Series of Poker qualifiers on February 4th.
According to Bodog, they will be sending over 100 players to the World Series of Pok...
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Betfair to Those Who Profited From Software Glitch: Pay Us Back or Else
A few weeks ago, rumors started circulating that there was a glitch in the Betfair poker software package.
The glitch involved Betfair's "six-pack" Sit and Go's. Basically, if everyone at the table...
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Oops! Betfair Temporarily Loses "Millions" Due to Software Glitch
I didn't witness any of this happen myself, but early Saturday morning my inbox was filled with reports of a software glitch on Betfair Poker.
Here is how the story was related to me:
1. Betfair...
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So How Much Money Does Pokerstars Make Per Day?
One of the questions that I see posted online quite a bit is: how much money does Pokerstars make in a day? Or, how much money do they make over the course of an entire year?
Since Pokerstars is a ...
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High Stakes Action Has Returned to Full Tilt Poker
For a month or two, the high stakes games on Full Tilt Poker were practically dead. You would have a number of top players simply sitting alone on a heads-up table, waiting for someone to move up and ...
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Bodog Poker Announces New 110% Bonus for New Depositors
Bodog Poker has finally stepped up and offered a more alluring bonus for new players at their site.
Previously Bodog had offered their new players a 10% bonus up to $1000 for their first deposit on...
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"TheCleaner11" Wins First Ever $5200 Freezeout on Pokerstars
"TheCleaner11" overcame some very tough competition to take down the first ever $5200, Winner-Take-All Freezeout on Pokerstars on Sunday.
This was the first week that the tournament ran on Pokersta...
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Pokerstars Finally Releases Mac-compatible Software for Real Money Players
Click Here To Download The Pokerstars Mac Software
Pokerstars has delivered an early Christmas present to all of the...
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Ultimatebet Online Championship 2 (UBOC 2) Gets Underway This Friday
Ultimatebet.com's answer to the WCOOP and the FTOPS gets underway this Friday, as the second edition of the Ultimatebet Online Championship gets underway.
Ultimatebet is guaranteeing $2 million dol...
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Bodog Continues to Fight for Its Domains
You have to give Bodog credit.
When they had their domain names stolen away from them in June (yes, I used the word stolen) they could have easily capitulated to the demands of 1st Technology LLC a...
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Boris Becker Joins Team Pokerstars
When it comes to signing people to be a part of "Team Pokerstars", Pokerstars clearly has a strategy of targeting certain countries in which they would like added exposure. They do this by signing nam...
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First Event of FTOPS Paused After Site Crash
Not exactly the best way for Full Tilt Poker to kick off their newest installment of the FTOPS.
Their site went down last night, just as the 6-max No Limit Hold'em tournament was about to conclude....
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This Has Been Pretty Much the Worst Year Ever for Online Poker
Let's look at all of the negative things that gone down in the world of online poker over the last year or so.
First off, the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) was snuck into the S...
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Calvin Ayre to Scott Lewis: I Want To Hit You
Calvin Ayre, founder of "Bodog", has issued this statement to 1st Tech's Scott Lewis: I want to smash your face. Repeatedly.
Don't know what we are talking about? As you probably know, Calvin Ayre ...
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Judge Makes Ruling in Bodog Domain Dispute
A few months after Bodog lost their most valuable domain names to 1st Technology LLC and effectively had their business temporarily shut down, a judge ruled that the default judgment against Bodog wou...
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Pokerstars Making the Right Move by Changing Policy Regarding Ranking Sites
In case you haven't heard, Pokerstars announced recently that they were going to be making changes regarding the use of player information on ranking sites such as thepokerdb.com and sharkscope.com.
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NoiQPoker - One of Europe's Largest Poker Rooms
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NoiQPoker (http://www.noiqpoker.com/) - On...
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Are Bodog and Calvin Ayre Totally Screwed?
In case you haven't heard already, Bodog has been dealt a crippling blow, as they have at least temporarily lost ownership of several of their domain names, including Bodog.com. If you are wondering w...
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What Kind of Deal Do Pros Get At Full Tilt Poker?
Did you ever wonder what kind of deals the pros get at Full Tilt Poker? Here you go:
For starters, most of the pros get a monthly "salary", which is deposited into their Full Tilt Poker accounts. O...
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Daniel Negreanu About to Sign with PokerStars?
Daniel Negreanu is currently a free agent right now, as his agent has stated that Negreanu's contract with Full Contact Poker is about to or has already expired, and he is looking to promote a differe...
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The Affiliate Report: Party Poker Discontinues The "Free $50" Promotions
There was quite a change instituted recently by Party Poker regarding the way that it handles its affiliate business. In the past, Party Poker has been all about volume, and getting as many players as...
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Kristian "Kris85" Kjondal Signs Sponsorship Deal with BetOnBet
Kristian "Kris85" Kjondal, quite possibly one of the best young online poker players in the world today, has just inked a sponsorship deal with BetonBet. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed to t...
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Ultimatebet Adds $100 Rebuy with $20,000 Guarantee to Its Schedule
To say that people have been less than pleased lately with Ultimatebet would be an understatement. From major software snafus to poor customer service to completely re-organizing their tournament sche...
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Pokerstars Checks Bouncing?
There is a lot of speculation making the rounds about people receiving checks from Pokerstars, only to have the banks reverse the transactions a number of days later, citing "insufficient funds" as th...
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Ultimatebet / Absolute Poker Fires Mizrachi, Esfandiari and Others
Rumor has it that Ultimatebet has made the decision to distance themselves from professional poker players and no longer feature "endorsements" from such top-notch players as Antonio Esfandiari, Mi...
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Greatest Single Day of Tournaments on Pokerstars Ever?
I was having a debate with someone the other day. What was the single greatest day of tournament play that one player has ever put up on Pokerstars? I have my thoughts, he has his thoughts; these w...
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Full Tilt Poker Updates Its Software
Full Tilt Poker is definitely trying to do its best to catch up on Poker Stars in the race to be the biggest poker room on the Internet. They are constantly improving, and today released some new c...
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Mansion Poker's $250,000 Added Tournament Series Starts Today
From December 4th 2006 until January 1st, 2007, Mansion Poker is offering a special promotion in order to drive traffic to its site. Every day, from now until the New Year, Mansion Poker is adding ...
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Is Party Poker Planning a Move Back Into the US Market?
Back when the Republicans shadily introduced anti-gambling legislation into the Port Security bill, Party Poker was one of the first sites to announce their unconditional surrender. Because Party Poke...
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Full Tilt Poker Becomes Number Two Poker Room
I often said that because of numerous factors, Full Tilt Poker was slated to overtake Party Poker eventually to become the number two online poker room in the world (no one will overtake PokerStars, I...
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World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Schedule
The biggest online poker championship in the world is slated to start September 16th. The event will last 2 1/2 weeks, and will be hosted at the world's largest online poker room, PokerStars.com. Ther...
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Full Tilt Poker: Rookie of the Year
Everyone knows that the behemoths in the online poker industry are Party Poker and Poker Stars. These two companies have been around the longest, and are both multi-billion dollar operations with almo...
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Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi Joins Absolute Poker
In a bit of surprising news, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, one of the best poker players in the world, announced that he has signed a deal to represent Absolute Poker. Absolute Poker, which has alwa...
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Ultimatebet Down for Over 24 Hours
The question is: how much money has Ultimatebet lost over the last 24 hours? I believe Ultimatebet is doing some sort of a major software upgrade, and after their site being completely down last night...
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Full Tilt Poker Announces Their World Series of Poker Promotions
Full Tilt Poker, the poker room which features such prominent names as Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson and Erick Lindgren, just recently announced their World Series of Poker promotions. Here is a quick bre...
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