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Week 6 of the 2010 WSOP and the countdown to the final of the Main Event game, a $10,000 buy-in No Limit Hold ‘em tournament, has begun. As in other recent years the actual champion won’t be known until November as, once again, that is when the final table of 9 poker players will reconvene [...]
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The poker talk this week is centering on just one thing – is ‘Isildur1’ talented or just a chancer at poker? Only just a few weeks ago Isildur1 seemed to be a veritable online poker enigma – taking top professional players for millions and yet managing to remain the mystery player of the moment at [...]
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For many poker players one of the reasons they play the game is for the social interaction they get with, and against, the other players. Indeed for many non-professional poker players, getting dressed up and going out in the evening to a casino has become their favorite way to socialize. However, is it possible to [...]
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If any of you online poker fans fancy winning big this month then, with just a few days to go now, a European poker website, Titan Poker, could be the site to go to. Until the end of the month Titan Poker is running a ‘turbo’ poker tournament totaling $50,000 and this week-end is your last [...]
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Despite the 2009 WSOP Main Event only having just been completed last week it appears that a ‘night of the long knives’ has erupted over the way it was handled, resulting in the resignation of commissioner Jeffrey Pollock. Describing his departure as “bittersweet” all that Jeffrey would say was that he had “great memories” and [...]
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After waiting months for the 2009 WSOP Main Event to begin in just a few days it was all over and Joe Cada emerged as the 2009 WSOP Main Event winner. Apart from the prestige of winning this event Joe walks away with a winners check for $8.5 million and that all important WSOP winners [...]
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Published this week is the list of candidates to be added to the Poker Hall of Fame in 2009. Based at the famous Horseshoe Casino, in Las Vegas, the Poker Hall of Fame is in its thirtieth year, not bad going for something devised by the casino’s owner, Benny Binion, as a way of attracting [...]
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Good news for anyone living in the Chicago area – WSOP are bringing their advanced poker lessons to Chicago as their Poker Academy takes its first venture around the Great Lakes. August 29th – 30th at the Horseshoe Casino will be the place to go for anyone looking to hone their poker skills, picking up [...]
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Scott Ian , the renowned guitarist with Anthrax, is repeating last year’s success with another performance in 2009. Only it won’t be on an arena stage or in a rock club – but in the online poker website – UltimateBet. Scheduled for August 19th, Scott Ian’s Home Game online poker tournament is bound to be [...]
On the day that the Masters Golf tournament begins in Augusta, Georgia – on the other side of the pond a Masters Poker tournament also begins. The Monte Carlo Poker Masters will attract all of the top Texas Hold ‘em players, to this ‘no limit‘ competition for up to 200 players a day at the [...]