March 13th, 2010
Online poker room Only Poker (www.onlypoker.com) has signed basketball
bad boy Dennis “The Worm” Rodman as a paid spokesman.
Rodman, 48, played for five National Basketball Association (NBA) teams
in a long career and won five NBA championships.
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March 10th, 2010
Police in Germany are still looking for four armed bandits who robbed a
major poker tournament in Berlin Saturday afternoon that was being
broadcast live on television.
According to media reports, four masked men wielding guns and machetes
invaded a European Poker Tour (EPT) event being held at the Berlin Grand
Hyatt hotel and made off with 240,000 euros, equal to about $328,000.
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March 9th, 2010
Annie Duke, the top female professional poker player in the world,
proved once again Sunday why she deserves that moniker–she won NBC’s
sixth annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
The event, held at the Caesars Palace casino in Las Vegas, featured 64
top poker pros in a single-elimination, one-on-one, no-limit Texas hold
‘em tournament.
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March 6th, 2010
Party Gaming PLC, the parent company of online poker room Party Poker
(www.partypoker.com), reported this week that its profits for 2009 were
down 6% from 2008.
The Gibraltar-based company, which is listed on the London Stock
Exchange, reported that its profits for the calendar year 2009 were $135
million, down from the $144 million the company reported in profits in
calendar year 2008.
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March 4th, 2010
The sixth annual NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship gets underway Friday at
the Caesars Palace casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The made-for-TV event features 64 top poker pros squaring off in a March
Madness-type, single-elimination, no-limit Texas hold ‘em tournament,
until two pros remain and play a best-of-three match for the
championship on Sunday.
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February 20th, 2010
A new movie that premiered in the USA this month features online poker.
The film, “From Paris With Love,” opened in American movie theaters on
February 5 and has a scene where an Internet poker player is playing at
online poker room Titan Poker (www.titanpoker.com).
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February 19th, 2010
Online poker room Poker Stars announced this week that it has signed an
exclusive agreement with American cable television network ESPN to
televise the new North American Poker Tour (NAPT).
The NAPT, which was created by and is sponsored by Poker Stars, will
appear on ESPN sister channel ESPN2, beginning in April of 2010.
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February 17th, 2010
British poker pro Julian “Yo-yo” Thew has been hired as an a official
representative of online poker room Poker Stars (www.pokerstars.com),
the room announced.
He had previously served as a paid flack for Internet poker site William
Hill Poker (www.williamhill.com) since 2004.
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February 17th, 2010
A contrite Phil Hellmuth Jr.?
That’s sort of like imagining an angry Mr. Rogers or a soft-spoken
Donald Trump–in an oxymoronic kind of way–but it has happened.
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February 12th, 2010
Professional poker player Bernard Lee has been hired by the Foxwoods
Resort and Casino to flack its poker room.
The Pequot Indian tribe-run casino-hotel is located in Mashantucket,
Connecticut, USA.
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February 9th, 2010
Phil “Poison” Ivey is one of the world’s greatest poker players.
When it comes to another type of gambling, however, he’s not so great.
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February 5th, 2010
A song about poker won two Grammy Awards Sunday night.
The hit song–titled “Poker Face”–by American pop singer Lady Gaga, was
nominated for five Grammies, the music industry’s top award.
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February 5th, 2010
The 2010 Borgata Winter Open is underway and one of the participants is
Olympic swimmer and wannabe poker pro Michael Phelps.
The Open is a massive annual poker tournament at the Borgata casino in
Atlantic City, N.J., USA.
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February 5th, 2010
Has MasterCard finally mastered the system?
Apparently so, at least when it comes to Internet poker.
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February 2nd, 2010
Piece of cake!
Cake Poker, which operates 55 online poker rooms, has purchased a World
Series of Poker (WSOP) championship bracelet that was once owned by T.J.
Cloutier and which was put up for sale last month on the online auction
site eBay (www.ebay.com).
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January 29th, 2010
The little state of Delaware has become a big problem for New Jersey.
At least pokerwise.
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January 29th, 2010
The chant oft heard ’round Dixie is, “The South will rise again!”
In this case, it’s a Southerner who’s risen to the top.
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January 27th, 2010
Only in America!
An American poker pro who patterns his persona after a notorious killer
has been rewarded with his own online poker room.
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January 27th, 2010
Warm beer has triumphed in the land of champagne.
Jake Cody has won the Main Event on the latest stop of the European
Poker Tour (EPT).
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January 24th, 2010
Times are tough these days, apparently even for champion professional
poker players.
Poker pro T.J. Cloutier, who has won six World Series of Poker (WSOP)
championship gold bracelets and more than $9 million playing offline
tournament poker in his career, is selling one of those bracelets on
online auction site eBay (www.ebay.com).
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January 18th, 2010
A poker player in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, has earned more than a
quarter of a million dollars–for losing a hand!
The gambler, Steve Gedney of Dover, Delaware, USA, was playing poker at
the Caesars casino in Atlantic City last Friday when he pulled four of a
kind and managed to lose the hand.
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January 18th, 2010
Aid for earthquake victims in Haiti is coming in from an unlikely
source–online poker rooms!
Several major Internet poker rooms are donating directly, making it easy
for their patrons to donate or both.
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January 10th, 2010
Professional poker player Amir Vahedi, who won a championship gold
bracelet at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP), has died.
According to media reports, Vahedi, 57, who lived in Los Angeles,
California, USA, died Saturday, January 8, 2010, in Las Vegas, Nevada,
USA, of complications from diabetes.
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January 6th, 2010
Despite the expectations of many within the poker world, there will not
be another professional poker player on the next season of the reality
television series “Celebrity Apprentice,” it was announced.
Poker pro Annie Duke appeared on the second season of the show, last
year, and finished as runnerup in the competition to become Donald
Trump’s celebrity apprentice.
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January 3rd, 2010
The Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure, the largest annual offline poker
tournament run by online poker room Poker Stars (www.pokerstars.com),
will be held this year beginning on January 4, 2010, at the Atlantis
Resort and Casino on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
The 10-day, 50-event tournament will feature poker of all types and
buy-ins of all levels, with thousands of poker players entering and
millions of dollars of prize money up for grabs.
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December 30th, 2009
The largest online poker tournament in history was held Sunday at
British online poker room Poker Stars (www.pokerstars.com).
According to the room, the record-setting tourney drew a whopping
149,196 participants.
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December 30th, 2009
As 2009 comes to a close, numerous poker publications and poker news
websites have been rehashing the year by listing the Top 10 poker
stories of 2009.
PokerHelper.com thinks they’re all missing the boat, and we don’t mean
the full kind.
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December 30th, 2009
It has again been shown–marriage and poker do not mix.
The latest casualty?
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December 27th, 2009
The folks who run the World Series of Poker (WSOP) have dodged a bullet.
A bullet of bad publicity that is–a bullet that could’ve become a
fusillade.
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December 27th, 2009
Professional poker player Phil “Poison” Ivey winning two championship
gold bracelets at the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and then making
the ‘09 WSOP Main Event final table is the top poker story of 2009, a
leading poker magazine has declared.
Well-respected poker mag Card Player (www.cardplayer.com) has listed
what it sees as the Top 10 poker news stories of the year, and Ivey is
No. 1.
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