PokerStars Live Event Recap

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The Asia Pacific Poker Tour has ended their scheduled for this year with total success. The last event was scheduled to be played out at the Star City Casino in Sydney. A total of 396 players entered the tournament which created a prize pool that exceeded $2.1 million. The first place winner would take home… Read more »

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PokerStars Tournament Recap

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Sunday was another big day at PokerStars and even though players around the world are traveling and making arrangements to spend the holidays with their loved ones, they found the time to try to score some extra money in the big guarantees tournaments over the weekend. The Sunday Million had a total of 8,626 players… Read more »

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Full Tilt Poker Tournament Recap

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The Sunday Brawl on Full Tilt Poker guarantees $350K, but with the massive field of players this past Sunday, the prize pool grew in excess of $585K. The top prize was $118K but when there was only four players remaining in the tourney, the game was stopped and a deal was reached. El Spewtardo won… Read more »

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Absolute Poker UBOC Events

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The top poker rooms around the world offer their own championship events each year. PokerStars hosts the WCOOP events, Full Tilt the FTOPS, Titan Poker the ECOOP, and Absolute Poker and its sister site Ultimate Bet host the UBOC in January. The UBOC events feature a total of eighteen tournaments over a twelve day period.… Read more »

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Full Tilt Pro Tom “durrrr” Dwan Getting Back on Track

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One of the toughest challenges for a poker player is dealing with an inevitable downswing. Recently, that’s exactly what Full Tilt Pro Tom “durrrr” Dwan is going through. One of the popular topics on poker forums lately has been whether or not durrrr has what it takes to overcome multimillion dollar downswings. Despite all the… Read more »

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James Akenhead Wins Full Tilt Poker Million VIII

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Rack up another final table for Full Tilt Poker Red Pro James Akenhead. The British pro, who already final tabled both the WSOP and WSOP Europe Main Events earlier this year, not only made the crop of top six finishers in the Poker Million event, but won the whole thing. He netted $500,000 in the process. Read more »

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PartyPoker Launches Full House Promotion

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Throughout the month of December, PartyPoker will be holding the Full House promotion. The three-pronged promotion covers the worlds of cash games, sit and gos, and multi-table tournaments. PartyPoker does not accept players from the United States. Read more »

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UB.com and Absolute Poker Introduce Power Hour

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Players looking for an opportunity to rack up player points on the CEREUS Network will be happy to hear that Absolute Poker and UB.com are now offering two Power Hour sessions daily in which players can earn twice the UltimatePoints. Each session is three hours long, offering players up to six hours per day to earn double points. Read more »

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Pitbull Poker Scandal Continues Unresolved

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When we think back to the major poker headlines of 2009, one of the very first ones to pop into our heads is the Pitbull Poker scandal. It all started with a single post from a disgruntled prop player on the TwoPlusTwo forums and snowballed into one of the largest scandals the online poker industry has ever seen. Read more »

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Titan Poker ECOOP Events End This Weekend

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The ECOOP V tournaments started on Monday November 23rd at Titan Poker and each tourney has been a complete success. 80% of the guaranteed prize pools have been exceeded and competition has been fierce at the virtual felts. This weekend will mark the end of the tournaments, thus there will be more than $1.9 million… Read more »

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Cake Poker Reindeer Games

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Cake Poker has put together a promotion that will have more than $50K in cash prizes for the holidays. The ‘Reindeer Games’ will be held from December 20th to the 27th and the prizes will vary depending on the tournament. The first two tournaments will be held on December 20th, with the first one will… Read more »

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Full Tilt Poker Sit&Go Madness Starts Today

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Players who enjoy participating in Sit&Go’s will have a unique opportunity to enter the Sit&Go madness promotion that Full Tilt is starting today after 4 pm ET. To take part in the promotion, players will have to look for the Sit&Go’s highlighted in green. The tournaments will range from $1 buy-ins up to $110. The… Read more »

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PokerStars APPT Sydney Day Two

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The ladies event at the APPT Sydney brought  a total of 39 players to the felts, including some of the best female players from the region entered the tournament. At six thirty am the heads-up battle ended and Lorinda Bolus had outplayed the other 38 players in the tournament for $7,800, while Sarah Lee took… Read more »

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