Melbourne man wins the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event

In the run-up to the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event final table most of the talk centered around Phil Ivey (who eventually finished in 12th place) with any remaining scraps of coverage going to 2006 Aussie Millions Champion Lee Nelson (who finished in 9th place). Not to toot my own horn, but I also mentioned that Aussie poker pro Oliver Speidel was a playerRead Full Article
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February 2, 2012 in Poker
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Phil Ivey wins $250k Challenge at Aussie Millions

Phil Ivey is back! Since last April the world’s best poker player in many people’s minds has been MIA in the poker world, but after being spotted at the APT Macau tournament he showed up for the 2012 Aussie Millions , and it’s safe to say that he made his return to poker a very memorable one! Ivey nearly made the final table ofRead Full Article
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February 2, 2012 in Poker
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Tournament poker week in review: Aussies and the WSOPC

The Aussie Millions is officially over, and the big winners were Dan Smith (who captured the $100k Challenge title, Phil Ivey (who not only won the $250k Challenge tournament but also finished 12th in the Aussie Millions main Event), and Australian poker pro Oliver Speidel (who captured the Aussie Millions Main Event crown). Ivey won the biggest prize of the tournament series in anRead Full Article
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February 1, 2012 in Poker
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RealMoneyPoker.org analyzes current legality of online poker

In one of the most in-depth articles available on the subject, RealMoneyPoker.org has broken down the current state of online poker in the United Sates, as well as offering up a detailed forecast for what poker players can expect on the legislative front in the coming months and years. Less than a year after Black Friday turned the poker world in the United StatesRead Full Article
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February 1, 2012 in Poker
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Poker news and notes: Isildur1, Poker Bots and more

A lot of stories can fall through the cracks over the course of a week, and this past week was no exception. With eyes focused on Phil Ivey and the Aussie Millions, Super-High-Roller tournaments, and the European Poker Awards there were plenty of smaller stories that you have may have overlooked. Isildur1 wins his largest pot on PokerStars This past week Viktor “Isildur1” Blom,Read Full Article
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February 1, 2012 in Poker
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Breaking News: Full Tilt Poker forfeits assets to DOJ

Earlier this week it was reported, originally by Subject: Poker, that Chris Ferguson could have been single-handedly responsible for holding up the forfeiture of Full Tilt Poker’s assets to the US Department of Justice (and therefore holding up the eventual sale of the company’s assets by the DOJ to Groupe Bernard Tapie) but on Tuesday we learned that the Full Tilt forfeiture to theRead Full Article
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February 1, 2012 in Poker
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Week in tournament poker: Deeb wins and Aussie Millions

The past week’s headlines have been dominated by the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) but there were plenty of other tournaments taking place around the globe, including the inaugural stop at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California for the World Series of Poker Circuit Series, as well as the vaunted Aussie Millions tournament series getting underway at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, AustraliaRead Full Article
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January 22, 2012 in Poker
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Martin Finger and Jonathan Duhamel fight at PCA party

I suppose if I was beaten and tied-up in my house, and over the course of the next few weeks won over $1.2 million I might go out looking for trouble –trying to replicate my beat-down run-good—which is precisely what Jonathan Duhamel seems to have done after a second place finish in the PCA High-Roller tournament – although we still haven’t gotten Duhamel’s versionRead Full Article
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January 22, 2012 in Poker
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Players finally strike back at UB Poker

Three years after the doors were completely blown off the Super-User scandals taking place at Ultimate Bet Poker a group of eight players has decided to file RICO charges against the site’s parent company Exscapa Software. The eight players were some of the biggest players at the site during the Super-User days, including well known UB players like Brad Booth, Tom Koral, Dustin Woolf,Read Full Article
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January 22, 2012 in Poker
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$10 million up for grabs at PokerStars TCOOP

Thursday, January 19, 2012 marks the start of the inaugural Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) at the world’s #1 poker site, PokerStars. The tournament series will run for a total of 11 days, featuring a mind-numbing 50 tournaments with at least $10 million scheduled to be awarded. PokerStars has guaranteed $10 million in prize money over the course of the tournament series, butRead Full Article
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January 22, 2012 in Poker
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MA Casinos could change the face of East Coast Poker

After Governor Deval Patrick vetoed a casino bill passed by the state legislature in 2010, it looked like Massachusetts residents were going to have to continue making the long trek to Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, or head to their northern neighbor New Hampshire to play in that state’s charity poker rooms for the foreseeable future. But all that changed when a casinoRead Full Article
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January 21, 2012 in Poker
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Seidel reclaims #1 spot on GPI Duhamel surges

With the first major tournament series of 2012 now in the books I figured it was time to take a look at the Global Poker Index (GPI) rankings for the first time in 2012. The GPI was created in conjunction with the Epic Poker League in order to give the eligible EPL players a ranking system. Unlike Player of the Year leader-boards at someRead Full Article
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January 21, 2012 in Poker
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PokerStars modifies Rake and VIP Program for 2012

Players at PokerStars will find several changes beginning on January 1, 2012 as the site announced a major change to their rake calculations, which in turn will have a severe impact on the site’s VIP Loyalty Program, according to a 2+2 forum post by PokerStars Steve. Beginning January 1st, PokerStars will make the move to the “weighted” model when determining precisely how much aRead Full Article
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January 6, 2012 in Poker
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Eugene Katchalov named 2011 BLUFF Magazine POY

Despite Black Friday laying waste to the online poker community in the United States, as well as its backlash causing worldwide drama for poker players, it was still a good year for a number of poker players, but few had the amount of success of Eugene Katchalov, who is now the official BLUFF Magazine Player of the Year for 2011. BLUFF Magazine began presentingRead Full Article
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January 6, 2012 in Poker
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The 10 most intriguing people in poker

There are plenty of poker players whose lives are an open book, thanks to their stardom as well as their propensity to make use of social media. These players, like Daniel Negreanu, Tony G, and Phil Hellmuth catalogue most of their daily activities, and although they are very interesting their lives do not hold the secrets that people love to uncover. But there isRead Full Article
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January 6, 2012 in Poker
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Is Phil Ivey playing on PokerStars?

After a return to the online poker tables following a significant absence, the identity of a particular online poker player at PokerStars is coming under scrutiny, with many people believing it is Phil Ivey. The 2+2 Poker Forum has long held the belief that the anonymous high-stakes player on PokerStars, known only as “RaiseOnce”, is none other than poker superstar Phil Ivey, and it seemsRead Full Article
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January 6, 2012 in Poker
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Ilari Sahamies is biggest online poker winner in 2011

With the assault on the online poker industry from the US Department of Justice in April (forever to be known as Black Friday in the annals of poker history) the online poker action came to a screeching halt, and just as things started to pick back up again Full Tilt Poker went black, leaving the game’s high-stakes players without a home, and many deprivedRead Full Article
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January 6, 2012 in Poker
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2012 tournament year ready to kick-off Thursday

There hasn’t been a major live poker tournament since before the Christmas weekend, when the World Poker Tour wrapped-up their 2011 schedule with the WPT Venice and the Epic Poker League hosted their 3rd Main Event of the year. Now that the holidays and festivities of ringing in the New Year are over, the poker world is ready to get back at it, andRead Full Article
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January 6, 2012 in Poker
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European Poker Tour founder steps down as CEO

When we first heard the news earlier this week that John Duthie would no longer be a member of Team PokerStars Pro, we wondered aloud what implications this might have for his relationship with the PokerStars controlled European Poker Tour (EPT) where Duthie –the founder of the EPT—still acted as the CEO. On Wednesday we found out, as Duthie announced he would be resigningRead Full Article
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January 6, 2012 in Poker
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UK poker stars turn out for Inaugural WPT Ireland

The first stop on the 2012 World Poker Tour (WPT) schedule marks the tour’s first foray into the Emerald Isle, as the inaugural WPT Ireland Main Event began on Thursday. Despite running concurrently with the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) many of the top UK and European poker players decided to skip the Bahamian island’s first few tournaments –including the $100k Super-High-Roller tournament—in favor ofRead Full Article
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January 6, 2012 in Poker
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PokerStars PCA Super-High-Roller draws 32 entrants

It seems like the Super-High-Roller tournaments may be here to stay as the $100k buy-in tournament that kicked off the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) came very close to last year’s mark of 38 entrants on Thursday, with a total of 34 players registering for the event. As would be expected for a tournament with a six-figure buy-in the participants in the event wereRead Full Article
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January 6, 2012 in Poker
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Chris Klodnicki wins Epic Poker League Main Event

Despite a five-handed final table, it took nearly 15 hours of play on Sunday for the Epic Poker League to crown its third champion of Season 1, and in the end it came down to two poker pros searching for their first major tournament title of their career. The final table began with a lineup of Scott Clements, Mike “The Grinder” Mizrachi, Chris Klodnicki,Read Full Article
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December 23, 2011 in Poker
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PokerStars 10th Anniversary Sunday Million sets record

One of the first promotions PokerStars started hyping for its 10th Anniversary was the Sunday Million tournament scheduled for December 18th, 2011. Yesterday’s tournament touted an impressive $10 million guarantee as well as a $2 million guaranteed prize for the winner of the historic event. The undertaking was considered extraordinary in the current online poker market (US players are barred from playing at PokerStars)Read Full Article
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December 23, 2011 in Poker
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AP co-founder pleads guilty to Black Friday charges

While it’s not the first domino to fall in the Black Friday scandal, the recent guilty plea by Absolute Poker co-founder Brent Beckley could very well prove to be one of the most important. According to an AP article that hit the Internet today, Beckley, who is 31 years-old, entered his guilty plea in the US District Court in Manhattan as part of aRead Full Article
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December 23, 2011 in Poker
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PPA condemns I. Nelson Rose for Joe Barton comments

Dating back to October, and most recently In an article in Poker Players Magazine, gaming law expert I. Nelson Rose has been pointing out that the current darling of the poker world, Representative Joe Barton (R-TX), has somewhat of a history for being a political opportunist, with Rose basically concluding that he is not sold on Barton’s commitment to legalizing and regulating online poker.Read Full Article
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December 23, 2011 in Poker
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