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Day 3 sees a sixty percent whittling down of 2 044 entry field
Just after noon on Friday, "Captain" Tom Franklin, a Gulfport, Mississippi professional player for the last two decades and a World Series of Poker veteran, gave the "Shuffle Up and Deal" call, triggering Day 3 of the WSOP Main Event, and setting to work the combined fields of 2 044 players. Almost thirteen...
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Florida player has the lead as the winning players merge into Day 3
Today (Friday, July 10th) sees the first time that surviving players from the various World Series of Poker Main Event heats come together on Day 3.
Of the 6 494 original main event hopefuls going after a massive prize pool worth over $61 million, only 2 044 remain in the race. The last surviving 6...
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Almost 3 000 players take the felt for the last heat before the survivors are merged
A mammoth 4-level Day 2B at the World Series of Poker Main Event came to an end just before 11pm Vegas time Wednesday with more than half of the original 2 924 entrants eliminated in eight scorching hours of in...
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Deal with Intralot comes to fruition
Online gambling group Party Gaming's agreement with Intralot SA three months ago to provide an Italian online poker operation (see previous InfoPowa report) came to fruition this week when the gambling group announced the launch of t...
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The WSOP endurance test grinds on
Just short of 1 500 entrants started the World Series of Poker Main Event action around noon in Vegas Tuesday as Day 2B kicked off at the Rio, with many highly recognisable names among the packed tables.
By 12.45am early Wednesday morning - just short of 12 hours and five levels later...
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Possible solutions are starting to appear for Russian punters
The draconian ban on gambling actioned throughout Russia at the beginning of July 2009 (see previous InfoPowa reports) has left many high-rolling gamblers in that country with a frustrating dilemma of where to gamble...but solutions are already starting to appear, reports the Moscow Times.
A week after gambling was banned in Moscow, viewership for tele...
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Hundreds turned away as playing roster maxes out
Day 1D of the $10 000 buy-in World Series of Poker main event started badly, as hundreds of players were turned away by apologetic officials after the last minute rush for registration took entry numbers over the maximum that could be seated. Later, WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack had a meeting with disgruntled players w...
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Poker's greatest tournament passes $1 billion payouts landmark
The World Series of Poker achieved a major milestone Sunday, announcing that it had officially crossed the $1 billion mark in prize money awarded over its lifespan. Staring in 1970, the event has grown to the biggest poker competition on the planet, and this y...
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Barney makes the call and Hellmuth creates another photo opp.
True to the pre-publicity blurbs (see previous InfoPowa report), Day 1C of the World Series of Poker Main Event saw pro-poker politician Barney Frank at the Rio in Las Vegas to trigger the day's action, and a grand entrance by uber-extrovert Phil Hellmuth.
B...
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Latest 3G S model offers even more for on-the-go players
The latest iPhone 3G S offers a growing range of poker resources that includes podcasts, training videos, and other applications, along with a range of programs that enable pokerheads to pit their skills against the computer or other players in a play-for-fun format that is both entertaining and good on-the-move practice....
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25 events in thirteenth edition of popular Full Tilt Poker.com series
The thirteenth instalment of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) will kick off on August 5th this year, consisting of 25 events which culminate in a $535 buy-in $2.5 million guaranteed prize pool tournament on August 16th.
This ti...
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Moneymaker, Pham and Doyle B eliminated
Analysts were divided over the weekend on whether the relatively low turnout for Day 1 B of the World Series of Poker Main Event was caused by the July 4th holiday weekend or something more sinister - like the impact of the New York action against e-cash processors which may have tied up the Internet players' $10 000 buy-ins requir...
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Richardson finishes second
Alex 'Diesel' Bolotin, a diminutive 30-year-old poker pro from Brooklyn, New York took down this year's 'Ante Up forAfrica' charity tournament (see previous InfoPowa reports) Friday, and immediately committed himself to donating half of his $176 9 first prize to the cause.
Bolotin's win was his fifth cash at this y...
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But it's going to be a thriller, for sure!
The usual stimulating razzmatazz attendant on the start of the first day of the World Series of Poker Main Event was somewhat lacking this year, which was a pity seeing as it is the 40th Anniversary of the bi...
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$40 million guaranteed in 45 online events
This year's program for the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) - arguable online poker's biggest tournament series, has been released by Poker Stars.com with a minimum of $40 million in prizes over 45 events that will kick off on September 3rd and run through September 21st....
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