Face the Ace: Brian Twitty Wins $40,000

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We had a chance to catch last weekend's installment of the NBC poker franchise "Face the Ace." In the end, Brian Twitty, a real estate appraiser and band member, walked away with $40,000 after defeating Jennifer Harman. Read more »

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CNBC Illegal Gambling Feature to Air on Wednesday

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On Wednesday night at 9:00pm ET, CNBC will air a one-hour exposé entitled, "The Big Business of Illegal Gambling." The report from CNBC's Melissa Francis will put the multi-billion dollar industry into focus and include a segment on internet gambling. Read more »

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PokerStars IPT San Remo 4

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The Italian Poker Tour has ended for the year after hosting six successful tournaments. The last tournament on schedule was the San Remo Four which began on December 10th and concluded this past Sunday. After several days at the tables the field of players narrowed down and the competition got even tougher. The final table… Read more »

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PokerStars UKIPT Title Stays in Ireland

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After several days of play the two hundred and fifty nine player field was narrowed down to just nine players. Four of those players were locals, so the title had a legitimate shot at staying in the country. The British player Paul Marrow started the final table with a very aggressive style of play, as… Read more »

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Isildur1 Returns to the High Stakes Tables

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Isildur1 returned to the tables several days after taking a complete beating from Brian Hastings, a session that saw him drop over $4 million. In his brief appearance on Sunday, he managed to leave the tables down only $240K, which is not bad for the limits he was grinding. He has experienced bigger swings at… Read more »

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PokerStars UKIPT Galway Final Table

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The two hundred and fifty-nine player field was reduced to just nine after three days of intense play. The total prize pool at stake was $690K. In seat one is Irishman Michael Graydon, who despite his young age of 24, is well known in the online poker world for being a feared SitNGo player. The… Read more »

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PokerStars Weekend Recap

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It’s no surprise that the biggest weekly online guaranteed tournament brought thousand of players to the PokerStars virtual felts. A total of 8,358 players registered, pushing the prize pool to $1,671,600. A total of 1,260 players left the tables with extra money in their accounts, and the top prize was $245,897.13. It took less than… Read more »

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Bwin Downplays Party Gaming Merger Talks

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Party Gaming and Austria-based gambling group Bwin are allegedly involved in merger discussions, according to stories published in The Times and Sunday Times over the weekend. The move would potentially create a £2 billion online poker, casino, and sports betting company. Read more »

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2009 World Poker Tour Year in Review

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For the World Poker Tour (WPT), 2009 was a year of incredible highs, but the organization was also faced with issues away from the felt that had to be overcome for the company to remain viable in other arenas. Read more »

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PokerStars Launches Team Pro Tuesdays

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This week marks the second installment of Team Pro Tuesdays on PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site. Every Tuesday through December 29th, PokerStars sponsored pros will be hitting the virtual felts in earnest. Read more »

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Three Ps Approach to Playing a Maniac

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You've settled into your chair at your favorite poker room or online and are ready to play some world-class, A-game poker. After a short time, however, a player comes to the table who starts to get, for lack of a better term, "crazy." Read more »

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2009 WSOP Year in Review

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When the late gaming legend Benny Binion brought the World Series of Poker (WSOP) on the world, little did he know what it would become. What began 40 years ago as a gathering of Texas road gamblers in a quaint Las Vegas hotel has grown to become a behemoth that now spans an entire calendar year. Read more »

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Phil Hellmuth Joins UB.com Poker2Nite

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The fourth installment of the UB.com-sponsored poker news show "Poker2Nite" aired on Wednesday night on Fox Sports Net. The series stars PokerRoad personalities Joe Sebok and Scott Huff. This week, UB.com poker pro Phil Hellmuth joined the show. Read more »

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Full Tilt High Stakes Action is becoming more Conservative

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With the terrible downswings that Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Gus Hansen, and Isildur1 have experienced, they have opted to take a few days off from poker to re-think their entire strategy. Afterall, a player’s bankroll can be completely destroyed in just a few hours of play at the nosebleed table limits. But durrrr is a very… Read more »

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