Full Tilt Poker MiniFTOPS and Guaranteed Prize Pools

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The popular MiniFTOPS events have just kicked off and have already been a great success so far. Event #1 exceeded the guaranteed prize pool by more than 50%. The second event started yesterday and the guaranteed prize pool was exceeded by 29%. There were a total of 1,296 players battling for the $38,880 prize pool.… Read more »

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Two Months, Two Million Moves to Wednesdays

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After four weeks in its Sunday 9PM time slot, the G4 reality show "Two Months, Two Million" will be changing nights, moving to Wednesdays at 8PM for the remainder of its ten episode season. There will be no new episode on Sunday and the network will instead air a two hour marathon of the first four episodes from 9PM-11PM ET. Read more »

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Cake Poker Announces the Restart of their Tournaments

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Cake Poker has been experiencing connectivity problems over the past few days, and although they have since identified the problem, it has taken them several days to come up with a proper solution. A new version of their software was released and new hardware was implemented as part of the resolution. Due to the fact… Read more »

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Full Tilt Poker MiniFTOPS started on the right track

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The FTOPS events at Full Tilt Poker are highly anticipated tournaments that online poker players dream of winning. But the FTOPS events have buy-ins that not everyone can afford, thus Full Tilt created the MiniFTOPS which have large prize pools and small buy-ins so all their players can participate and win big cash prizes. Event… Read more »

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Face the Ace to Return Saturday Afternoon

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After a month-long absence from the airwaves, the NBC game show "Face the Ace" will return to the networks line-up this Saturday. Several changes are in store for the program, which struggled in the ratings when it first debuted back in August. Read more »

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American Carter Phillips Wins EPT Barcelona

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It was a nearly wire to wire performance for 20-year old Carter Phillips at the final table of the European Poker Tour's (EPT) recent tournament in Barcelona. Phillips came into the last day of play on Wednesday atop the chip counts and stayed there, briefly relinquishing his chip lead only once the entire day. Read more »

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PokerStars Pros not doing well in the WCOOP Event Series

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The World Championship of Online Poker events started on September the 3rd and seventeen out of the total forty five events have been played. The outstanding part is the fact that only four out of the seventeen events have not exceed the guaranteed prize pool, with the other thirteen events easily reaching the guarantee, and… Read more »

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Cake Poker Giving out Gold Cards at Triple Speed

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Cake Poker is well known for their rewards program, and now they have added even more benefits for players by giving out Gold Cards at an accelerated pace! Gold Cards are awarded to players independently of the amount wagered, their account balance, or even the amount of sessions logged. They are given out based on… Read more »

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Bernard Lee Recaps the 2009 WSOP, ESPN Inside Deal Launch

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With the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the midst of a four month hiatus, the members of the November Nine are currently engaged in the inevitable media onslaught. Of course, these players are also mentally preparing to return to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino to battle for the coveted WSOP Main Event bracelet, the $8.5 million first prize, and instant poker stardom. Read more »

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Ultimate Bet Signs Tiffany Michelle Again

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Ultimate Bet has recently been busy with the planning of their 10th anniversary party which will culminate with the Aruba Poker Classic main event tournament. The Aruba Poker Classic has millions of dollars in guaranteed prize money up for grabs, and to make sure they get a solid attendance, Ultimate Bet is currently hosting weekly… Read more »

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PokerStars – EPT Barcelona has a New Champion

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The European Poker Tour event in Barcelona was a wonderful event, and the newly implemented structure allowed for much deeper play, which obviously favored more skilled players. The starting field in the tournament was outstanding, with poker pros like Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Thierry van den Berg, Noah Boeken, Roland de Wolfe and many others looking… Read more »

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Party Poker Super Wednesday

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Party Poker will be hosting one of their popular Super Wednesday tournaments tonight in the form of a $162 $30K guarantee event. Late registration will be available and, as always on Party, the deal-making tool will appear at the final table. There are satellite events offered with buy-ins in the $44 dollar range. Party will… Read more »

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Cake Poker Tournaments Status Unknown

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Cake Poker announced this past Friday that their players had been having connection problems, and that their technicians discovered that disconnection problems were caused by an external factor that was definitely affecting the connection between their software platform and their players. They recently released a new software update that will most likely help to fix… Read more »

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WSOP Coverage on ESPN Spotlights Hellmuth and Ivey

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Last night's episodes of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) on ESPN spotlighted the two most recognizable Phils in poker: Phil Hellmuth and November Nine member Phil Ivey. Hellmuth was seated at the feature table for the coverage of Day 2B while the secondary feature table boasted a strong line up of Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi and PokerStars Pros Dennis Phillips and Maria "Maridu" Mayrinck. Read more »

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2009 Poker Hall of Fame Finalists Announced

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The final list of nominees for the 2009 Poker Hall of Fame was announced on Tuesday and the ballot is loaded with the game's biggest names. It is now up to the 15 living Hall of Fame members and the 15-member Media Panel to cast their votes before the inductees are revealed on Saturday, November 7. Read more »

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PokerStars EPT Final Table will be Played Today

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The European Poker Tour Barcelona which is sponsored by PokerStars started with 478 players, and after six days the final table has been reached, which means a champion will soon be crowned! The chip leader is Greek player Georgios Kapalas, who started playing poker in 2006 and has quickly become one of Greece’s best players.… Read more »

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