by Dan Cypra
Amid the fanfare of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in Las Vegas, Costigan Media, the parent company of Gambling911, has filed suit to open warrants in the case involving the seizure of $30 million in online poker player funds by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District. It is the first legal action brought after the Southern District acted in June.
With the release of the new iPhone 3G S, poker players are more excited than ever about the robust hardware and internet features of this amazing device. There are many poker resources available with the iPhone, including podcasts, training videos, and other applications.
As thousands of poker players await their fate at this year’s $10,000 Main Event, which starts in a couple of hours, Matt Hawrilenko can enter into the tournament with the satisfaction of having won a World Series of Poker bracelet in Event #56, the $5000 Short Handed No Limit Hold’em tournament.
The 2009 installment of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Ante Up for Africa charity tournament brought out Hollywood’s elite and poker’s biggest names. In the end, Alex “Diesel” Boloton emerged victorious, winning $176,000 and donating half of his earnings to the ENOUGH Project and International Rescue Committee.
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NBC and Full Tilt announced their joint effort to produce Face the Ace, a new concept for a poker show where players who qualify online get to play heads-up against three Full Tilt pros for a $1,000,000 prize.
The preliminary events of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) are winding down and with the completion of Events #54 and #55 Wednesday there is only one more bracelet to give out before the Main Event kicks off on Friday.
The largest online poker site around keeps adding to its all-star stable of pros, and they seem to be shopping both ends of the poker world this time, as they add beloved veteran Marcel Luske and hot discovery Jason Mercier.
Besides the Marathon H.O.R.S.E. event, there were two other final tables on Tuesday that didn’t take twenty hours to complete: the $3,000 buy-in Triple Chance tournament and a $1,500 buy-in Stud Hi/Lo event.
At a final table populated with former bracelet winners like Erik Seidel, Vitaly Lunkin, Ville Wahlbeck, Huck Seed and Chau Giang it was ultimately a player with an impressive resume but no bracelet to his credit that would take the title. Georgia native David Bach defeated John Hanson after a seven hour heads-up match to win his first bracelet, the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy and $1,276,802.
The dream of many poker players is to play on the famous final table stage of the World Poker Tour. ClubWPT, the subscription based online poker room operated by the WPT, will be offering its members that very chance through a special series of tournaments at the online poker room.
Professional poker player Carsten Joh gave Germany its first World Series of Poker champion since Sebastian Ruthenberg’s 2008 win, when he won the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Event (#51) Monday evening.
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I walked into the Amazon Room at the Rio Hotel and Casino at 11:59am to play in the $1,500 buy-in Omaha/8 event at the 40th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). I’ve participated in 28 out of the 40 years that the WSOP has been in existence, and, as usual, I was filled with excitement at the prospect of winning another gold bracelet.
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It isn’t often you hear that a young 20-something is semi-retired, but Leo “Pechorin” Wolpert is just that. Wolpert went from being a full-time online poker player to a law school student at the University of Virginia.
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I know you may find this hard to believe, particularly after all the sage advice I have doled out on this website, but I have never won a World Series of Poker bracelet. I came close to a bracelet when I watched a final table from the bleachers, but never have been named the rightful owner of one.
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