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Despite the virtual flop of NBC’s “Face the Ace” poker TV show earlier this year another new poker show will be hitting our screens in the New Year. Provisionally titled “Shuffle up and deal” the new poker TV show will be airing in 2010 through MyNetworkTV, which is part of the Fox Entertainment Group, which [...]
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his week-end, Saturday November 7th, sees the return of the 2009 World Series of Poker tournament – along with the usual cast of stellar poker players. Top of the list at present is Darvin Moon with his record stack of 58,930,000 chips; however, and as we all know, starting off with the biggest chip stack [...]
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Everyone loves a tweet – and poker players are no different to anyone else. So it should come as little surprise that there are now several great poker tweets available for you to both enjoy and keep abreast of all the latest poker news. With a maximum of 140 characters per message twitter is fast [...]
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Whilst looking around at the poker news this week it struck me that perhaps some of the pundits who have been saying there’s too much poker in the media at present might just be right. Whilst we’re all waiting for the WPT to resume in the USA in November, the attention in terms of poker [...]
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Started back on September 3rd – the 2009 World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) was a 45 event series with prize money totaling, in the end, over $50 million. The series finished with a two day main event, culminating with a final $5200 buy-in no limit hold ‘em game, with a mouth-watering $10 million in [...]
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You might well want to pinch yourself at this piece of news but a province in Canada is about to actively encourage people to play online poker and other online gambling activities! With immediate effect adults in the Canadian province of British Columbia can create and deposit up to $9,999 in an eGambling account – [...]
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Day three of the current European Tour event at the Casino Barcelona, Spain, saw an element of controversy between Roland de Wolfe and Tobbias Reinkemeier. The day started quietly enough with Canadian Matt Lapossie leading the then 72 tournament poker players with 700,300 chips, well over 100,000 up on his nearest rival. With Roland de [...]
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If you’ve ever wondered just how much money you could make by playing online poker, just take a look at some of the following results showing some big online winnings for just one week-ends play. The Full Tilt Online Poker Series is just one of the many great online poker games you can sign up [...]
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If you’re the sort of person that puts off taking their vacation until the schools and colleges are all back and you’re a serious poker player too – then you might just fancy a few days in the Bahamas. Of course a few days in the Bahamas is a great idea whether you’re a poker [...]
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Two reports published this week indicate the continuing rise in online poker profits with gaming house 888 reporting a 7% sales rise, whilst in a rather surprising move WPT Enterprises has agreed to sell its assets to Gamynia Limited.
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888 Holdings, more familiar in the States for the brands Pacific Poker and Betmate, said that [...]