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After what turned out to be the shortest day of play yet at the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event , Matt Turk holds the lead over Day Two leader Tim O’Shea and a host of top professionals, including Phil Ivey , with Day Three in the books.
Englishman Barry ‘Jack 8 Potato’ Denson is aiming to break the Longest Marathon Playing Poker By An Individual world record when he sits down at midnight on Sunday, July 1, this year at the G Casino in his home town of Manchester for what will be five gruelling days. Denson plays the majority of his live poker in The Nuts Poker League – which is a British-based pub tournament – and has teamed up with Help For Heroes, which is a charity that was set up to assist the servicemen and women wounded in Britain’s recent conflicts, to raise funds while hopefully setting a new Guinness World Record
Englishman Sam Trickett has seen off the challenges from Jake Cody, Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Pius Heinz, Eugene Katchalov and Andrey Pateychuk to be crowned Player of the Year at the 2012 European Poker Awards. Titan Poker-sponsored Sam Trickett , who is a high stakes cash games specialist from Nottinghamshire, couldn’t make the ceremony – which was hosted by former European Poker Players Association (EPPA) secretary Nic Szeremeta – at the Aviation Club de France in Paris last night, so sent friend and PokerStrategy blogger Barry Carter to collect his award
In what might be viewed as a slight upset, the United Kingdom’s Sam Trickett was voted Player of the Year at the 2012 European Poker Awards over poker Triple Crown winner and countryman Jake Cody during awards ceremonies held last night. The 2012 EPAs, held at the famous Aviation Club de Paris in France, honored the best players in the European poker arena for their performance over the 2011 calendar year
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 of Read Full Article Related posts: Aussie Millions down to 12: Phil Ivey still alive After four full days of play the 2012 Aussie Millions…
Party Poker’s fifth staging of their Premier League Poker is to be included on the World Poker Tour (WPT) as a special tournament that promoters believe will attract “ the strongest field ever ” when the pros arrive in Austria in early April. Officially known as the WPT Premier League V presented by Party Poker, the event will take place at the Montesino Casino from April 4 to 10 – essentially as a warm-up to the WPT Vienna, although it will offer a $125,000 buy-in event, so can most certainly be considered a super high roller tournament for the 16-player line-up
According to a report from one of the most reliable sources of information regarding the ongoing Full Tilt Poker fiasco, poker professional Chris “Jesus” Ferguson could potentially be holding up the deal between the site and Groupe Bernard Tapie , a deal that may bring the beleaguered online site back online. Subject: Poker , who has provided many of the details regarding the GBT/FTP deal, reports that Ferguson is allegedly holding up any further movement over the deal because of money that he put towards the site following “ Black Friday .” According to S:P, the former World Champion accepted just under $60 million from Full Tilt since 2007, which he put into different bank accounts under the Pocket Kings, Ltd
The New York Giants have a lot of believers, which is why Nevada casinos could wind up losing big if they manage to upset the New England Patriots next Sunday …
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 an Read Full Article Related posts: Tournament Poker week in review: Pros keep winning There is a lot going on in the world of..
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Despite not being on the agenda, online gaming had a presence at Thursday’s Nevada Gaming Commission hearing. Last month the state’s top gaming body made history by unanimously approving rules …
After a dominant performance over seven hours of final table play, hometown favorite Oliver Speidel crushed the opposition to take down the championship of the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event . When the seven man final table reported for work on Sunday afternoon in the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia , Bjorn Li held a 1.3 million chip lead over Speidel, but the chip counts of all the players were close enough together that any slight miscalculation would drop the leaders to the bottom of the pack
It took almost a week to complete, but home favourite Oliver Speidel triumphed at the $10,600 buy-in Aussie Millions main event at the Crown Casino in Melbourne for what completed an incredible few weeks for the Aussie. The poker pro outlasted 658 other players to leave with $1,647,158 – his biggest cash prize ever – and title, while second placed Ken Wong, of Hong Kong, picked up $1,029,474 for his runner-up spot
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.
Ben “NeverScaredB” Wilinofsky wasn’t long in the poker business when he hit it big in Berlin. Having already raked in plenty of healthy online scores, the Canadian then earned his …
The 2012 Aussie Millions Poker Championship Main Event was a global affair, with a field of 659 entrants from all around the world turning up at the Crown Casino in …
American poker superstar Phil Ivey looks destined to enjoy a double celebration over the next few days as his 36th birthday on Wednesday should also see his imminent return to the Global Poker Index (GPI) 300 after four months in the wilderness. The Californian already has much to celebrate with his spectacular start to 2012 after enjoying a highly profitable Aussie Millions – his first major event since November’s Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Macau – in Melbourne, where he took the top prize of $2,058,948 for winning the AUD$250,000 buy-in Super High Roller not long after being knocked out in 12th place during the AUD$10,000 buy-in main event for $102,947.
The 2012 LA Poker Classic kicked off at the Commerce Casino with two small buy-in events that produced sizable prizepools as a result of absolutely massive turnouts. Both tournaments featured …
Starting February 1st and running through the rest of the month, PartyPoker will be holding its Card Rush promotion, giving real money players a chance to win cash and freeroll entries just for playing poker like they normally would. Card Rush is a very simple promotion
Nevada-based slot and gaming manufacturer International Game Technology (IGT) has announced that the recently acquired Entraction will be renamed the IGT Poker Network. IGT acquired the Swedish online poker network …
February 1, 2012 in Poker
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There are countless extremely kind-hearted professional poker players out there – but it might be hard to match the generosity shown by music magnate and high stakes regular Alan Meltzer…from beyond the grave.
A New York federal judge has dismissed the RICO class action suit against the members of Team Full Tilt. The complaint, which was filed last June, alleged that the defendants, …