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January, 2009
26th of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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Doyle's goes to Cake Poker, and Playboy sends its players to Intercasino
Recently rumoured changes in poker room networks for Do...
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26th of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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Australian player victorious over a field of 680
The spectacular main event in the 2009 Aussie Millions poker championships in Melbourne has ended after an epic few days of intense poker action in which a field of 680 hopefuls was narrowed down to just one...
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26th of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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Euro 851 400 payday for Kranich
The triumphal return of the Poker Stars European Poker Tour to Deauville, France this year after a three year absence has seen a German player, Moritz Kranich, take the trophy, the respect and the Euro 85...
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26th of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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Cake Poker proposal published - and a worrying hacking attempt
The owner of the Gambling Portal Webmaster's Association, Michael Corfman, fired his latest meticulously annotated broadside this week against competitor Affiliate Media/ CAP/ PAP and the Effective Media Group, a company apparently owned separately by Affiliate Media top brass Lo...
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26th of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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Emmy award winning talkshow host Montel Williams behind new venture
Top US talkshow host and television producer Montel Williams has announced his latest venture, a new format television show titled "International Team Poker League" that will combine online qualifiers with bricks and mortar casinos.
The show, starting with satellite tou...
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23rd of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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PokerStars has big plans for Australian and New Zealand poker action
With this year's Aussie Millions still attracting the attention of players to the region, PokerStars.net has announced the launch of a major new poker tour which will be played across Au...
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23rd of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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Marketing differences apparently at the root of dispute
The NBC televised poker program "Poker After Dark" took a hit this week with the announcement that the world's largest online poker operation, PokerStars, hs withdrawn its team from the event.
Online poker information portal WickedChopsPoker reports that PokerStars recently informed it...
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23rd of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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Seinfeld star a competent player
PokerStars has signed up poker playing actor Jason Alexander - perhaps best known for his comedy appearances in the long-running television hit show "Seinfeld" - to play as one of its celebrity team members, reports CardPlayer.com.
As a member of the team Alexander will promote the PokerStars brand in online...
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23rd of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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The last few weeks have seen a slew of network changes
Noone can doubt the dynamic nature of the online gambling scene following network moves in recent weeks.
Internet poker sites have chopped and changed, sometimes with bewildering speed among the main networks, changing the balance of play...
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23rd of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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Million dollar win in tough company amateur player
A poker player who had previously only cashed in two tournaments scored a dream win that paid out a million dollars in the WPT Southern Poker Championship in Biloxi's Beau Rivage Casino this week.
Allen Carter triumphed in an epic 8 hour final table that featured highly experienced poker ve...
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23rd of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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Familiar names in roll of honour
The eighth edition of the prestigious annual European Poker Awards took place at the Aviation Club in Paris last week, celebrating 2008's poker peaks in the region and featuring several well known names.
Among the awards was the Player of the Year, which this year went to the respected French online and land...
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23rd of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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"Integration issue" at the root of delayed payment, reports online poker room
With the controversy over affiliate commercial relationships and no-slow payments to affiliates still swirling around both affiliate management consultants Affiliate Media Inc. and Effective Media Group, the online poker room at the centre of the controversy, CardSpik...
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19th of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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Texas Hold 'Em gains a legal advantage in Pennsylvania
The Poker Players Alliance has reported an important positive U.S. decision
in the "skill vs. luck" poker debate.
Apparently last Friday Pennsylvania Judge Thomas A. James Jr. of Columbia
County ruled that p...
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18th of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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Aussie Millions main event cards fly this Sunday
The poker action centres on Australia this weekend as the A$10 500 buy-in NLHE main event of the Aussie Millions live poker championship gets started Sunday.
Last year's entry field of 780 is expected to be surpassed in the 2009 edition of this popular event, attracting players from around th...
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18th of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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40 000 registrations in 11 days....and a new concurrent players benchmark reached
The UK based 3D online poker site PKR.com continued to set new company records going into the new year, according t...
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17th of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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The Jman heads list of instructors
Some of the brightest 'young gun' Internet and land poker pros combined under Phil (Jman and OMGClayAiken) Galfond to launch a new poker training website branded Blue Fire Poker.com last month.
Galfond is the lead pro in an all star poker educational team that includes Niman (Samoleus) Kenkre, Jason (PBJax...
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17th of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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A chance to add some cream to the income
PayNoRake.com has launched a competition designed to incentivise marketing affiliates to send it more players. The vehicle for the initiative is "The Race to $10 000" - a prize pool offered by PayNoRake to reward its most successful affiliate partners.
To qualify for a share of the $10 000 prize pool...
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17th of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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Times may be tough, but this poker site is thriving
PurePlay, the largest legal U.S. play-for-cash online poker destination, announced this week that it has achieved record growth through 2008, doubling its player base to 1.7 million, which it claims is an order of magnitude larger than its nearest competitor.
"Our membership base remains u...
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17th of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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Revenue sharing agreement inked for legal online poker operation in the United States
The considerable digital media weight of Players Network will be deployed to further a new revenue sharing partnership between the company and the subscription based National League of Poker, through which a Players Network branded US-legal online poker site w...
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17th of January 2009 - latestpokerbonuses.com
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Last weekend an average of 10 186 players were on the cash games
The world's second largest online poker website, Full Tilt Poker.com, achieved a new milestone in player liquidity over the weekend when it attracted an average of 10 186 poker players to its cash games on Sunday - a new traffic record for the site, according to independent inform...
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