Poker News
Veteran warriors badly hurt in the service of their country to benefit from celebrity poker tournament
Celebrities, professional poker pros and politicians will gather in Washington DC tonight (Wednesday) to play in a poker tournament designed to raise funds for the Paralyzed Veterans...
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$425 334 payday for poker pro
Scott Seiver, a 24-year-old poker pro from Cold Harbor, New York, is having a profitable year. Just five days after earning $215 000 for a fourth placing in the Pokerstars NAPT on Feb. 23rd he has triumphed in the $25 000 buy-in LA Cl...
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Jose 'Nacho' Barbero bests a field of 306 in Punta del Este tourney
Jose 'Nacho' Barbero, a Team PokerStars.net Pro who hails from Argentina, is the new Latin American Poker Tour Punta del Este champ after besting a field of 306 players over the weekend.
Pokerstars hailed the event as a success which generated...
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Pokerstars marketers have been busy developing two new promos
Pokerstars marketers are putting a uniquely Internet poker spin on Tourism Australia's winning campaign concept The Best Job in the World.
The idea is to send a wi...
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Dubious accusations on a top poker message board
Adding a frisson of intrigue and curiousity to the twoplustwo poker message board this week was a series of posts concerning allegations that the recent winner of the Full Til...
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Playmates, sweetmeats and an open bar as new poker sites kicks off.
The merged Everleaf Gaming and Universal Poker Networks have a major new member following the glitzy launch this week of Victory Poker.com.
Victory Poker officially launched in style with ‘Team Victory’, Hollywood and poker celebrities, and a ch...
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Marchese lives up to his 'handle' in taking down the NAPT main event
Despite his ambitious nickname, Tom 'kingofcards' Marchese had yet to cash in a big live competition, but he remedied that in style this week as he took down the inaugural main event of the Pokerstars North Ame...
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Pokerstars releases information on its 2010 Spring Championship Of Online Poker
Online poker provider Pokerstars has released details of the next SCOOP (Spring Championship Of Online Poker) tournament, which is scheduled for May 3 and is to run for two weeks with gu...
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Online poker companies present record events
Last Sunday saw the fourth anniversary of the Pokerstars Sunday Million regular tournaments, and the world's la...
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22-year-old bests a field of 422
It took 22-year-old Anton Wigg of Sweden a tough four hours to beat his final opponent in the heads up of the PokerStars.com EPT Copenhagen in Denmark this week, but it was worth the effort....he took home Euro 494 000, a seat in the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo and the respect of 422 other players who entered the tourney....
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Message board allegations of FBI enquiries
As yet unconfirmed reports circulating on the popular poker message board twoplustwo suggest that FBI agents may be probing the activities of the Full Tilt Poker...
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872 sign on for inaugural North American Poker Tour event
The well planned launch of Pokerstar.net's inaugural North American Poker Tour at the Venetian in Las Vegas got off to a good start with its $5 000 buy-in NLHE tournament over the weekend, with 872 players registering, many of them well known names in international poker.
Although the registrations fell short of the 890 pla...
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Party Poker singes the Australian government beard
Whilst it is true that the Australian government has not been exactly ferocious in enforced its laws against online gambling, the fact remains that the Interactive Gaming Act 2001 does make it an offence for any company in Australia or overseas to pr...
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A new discussion on poker as a skill game
Last year’s attempts to bring the legalisation of poker on to the ballot in Massachusetts may have failed but fans of the game have not given up on lobbying for a more sensible classification of poker as a game of skill.
Tuesday next week will see a hearing in the Economic Development and Emerging Technologies Committee of the east coast s...
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One lucky player won $24 000 for being there
Last week’s speculation on when Pokerstars.com would deliver its forty billionth hand of online poker was answered this week when the milestone event took place on the table Naef III.
The biggest beneficiary was a player using the handle Senecady, who took home $24...
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