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Event 25 of the WSOP in Las Vegas brought 212 of the big poker game players to the tables for the $10,000 buy-in Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better World Championship. Out of an original field of 212 the final pair came down to Brit James ‘Flushy’ Dempsey and Sam Farha of America, Yueqi Zhu being [...]
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You know I’ve never really been much of a one for acronyms but – 2010 WSOP PPC is the only way to put the 2010 World Series of Poker Players Championship as a blog headline. Begun on Friday 28th May, this $50,000 buy-in championship got to its final day on Tuesday June 1st. As you’d [...]
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The well known sports betting and poker website Bodog has already made a commitment on its website this year to enter a strong women’s contingent to the 2010 WSOP – a commitment backed-up this week with the announcement that up and coming women’s poker pro Amanda Musumeci is to join Team Bodog for the tournament.
Amanda [...]
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Hands up if you love your iPhone. Now hands up if you’ve got any iPhone Poker Apps on it? Quite frankly if you are an iPhone user and profess yourself to be a poker fan, then it really does beggar belief that you won’t already have some poker apps loaded on to it. Unfortunately we [...]
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In an attempt to re-ignite the medias appetite for poker, beyond the world of poker blogs and poker websites, a new competition and format is to be launched in mid May – World Team Poker. Looking like the nearest thing yet to a world cup for poker, WTP will feature 8 international teams of five [...]
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Poker fans will be relieved to hear that all’s well on the World Poker Tour at present with the latest tournament, the WPT Classic, taking place at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles. 72 players started out and on day 5 we’re down to 6, battling it out for the $1.8 million 1st prize – [...]
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February 14th could just pose a problem for some of you St Valentine’s Day lovers out there this year, the question is quite simple really – who do you love more your partner or your poker? OK, so why might you have to decide between your poker and your partner this year, after all St [...]
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We all know it’s been some time now since you needed to be sat at home in front of your PC to play an online poker game, so long was you had a web enabled cell phone – you could be playing internet poker anywhere and anytime. The great news at the start of this [...]
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It is a well established fact that most if the top professional poker players, at some time or other, show up at the PokerStars online poker tables to play cash games and tournaments. Most often they’re only interested in playing the really high stakes games and will usually end up in games against themselves or [...]
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Rather disappointingly we will be entering the New Year without a final resolution to the on-going problem just how legal is online poker in the USA. Until the decision from Congress is made all of us internet poker players are still pretty well in a state of limbo, whereby we can continue to play online [...]