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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December 27th, 2009
A New York City police officer who was severely injured in the 9/11
terrorist attacks has won a million dollars playing poker on a TV game
show.
The officer, Mike Kosowski, 53, of Staten Island, New York, USA, won the
money on the “PokerStars.net Million-Dollar Challenge,” which airs on
the FOX Network.
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December 21st, 2009
Las Vegas poker pro Daniel Alaei on Saturday won the Doyle Brunson Five
Diamond World Poker Classic–and $1,428,430.
The event, officially a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT), was a
no-limit Texas hold ‘em tourament with a $15,000 buy-in and a prize
pool of almost $5 million.
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December 19th, 2009
The 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) will commence on May 27, 2010, in
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, with two major changes slated for the 41st
annual rendition of professional poker’s signature event.
WSOP officials made the announcement Thursday in Vegas.
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December 18th, 2009
Internet poker this week was once again in the international spotlight
as an American television network that airs worldwide broadcast a
special program on gambling.
The Consumer News and Business Channel–CNBC for short–an American
cable television network, on Wednesday night presented “CNBC
Investigates: The Big Business of Illegal Gambling.”
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December 16th, 2009
The initial event of a new poker tour has won by Irish poker pro Padraig
Parkinson.
The new tour, called the United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour or UKIPT,
kicked off on December 11, 2009, with a three-day tournament at the
Radisson Hotel in Galway, Ireland.
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December 15th, 2009
The only poker tournament in the world named after a professional poker
player is underway in Las Vegas.
The event, the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Classic, began today at the
Bellagio casino in Vegas and runs through Saturday.
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December 10th, 2009
Aaron Benton has won the final stop on this year’s Asia Pacific Poker
Tour (APPT).
Benton, from Australia, won APPT Sydney, which concluded this week and
was held at the Star Casino in Sydney, Australia.
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December 9th, 2009
The lobbying group looking to get online poker legalized and regulated
in the USA has blasted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for
saying online poker is too crooked to make legal.
In fact, the group said, that’s precisely the reason online poker should
be legalized and regulated.
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December 8th, 2009
Czech-mate!
Jan Skampa of the Czech Republic has won the Main Event at the Czech
stop on the European Poker Tour (EPT).
The stop, officially called EPT Prague, concluded this week at the
Prague Hilton in Prague, the Czech Republic, in Eastern Europe.
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December 4th, 2009
America’s top law enforcement agency, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), has told the U.S. Congress that online poker is
easy to cheat.
In a letter to U.S. Congressman Spencer Bachus, the FBI’s cyber division
assistant director, Shawn Henry, said Internet poker is rife with
cheating and manipulation.
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November 30th, 2009
The 2009 European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) is underway.
Sponsored by several online poker rooms, the fifth annual ECOOP is a
massive online poker tournament open to the public that runs from
November 23, 2009, through December 6, 2009.
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