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Phil Laak’s World Record To Come Under Fire

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

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February 2, 2012 in Poker
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Mirek78 Becomes Two-Time Winner of Grrrinders WSOP Seats

Miroslav Zamrzla, aka Mirek78, recently became a two-time winner of Grrrinders Monday Night Live $1,000 WSOP seat giveaways, becoming the sites first multiple seat winner.

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January 22, 2012 in Poker
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Gabi Campos to Step Down as PokerStars CEO

According several reports, the first of which was published Monday by Poker Player Newspaper , Gabriel “Gabi” Campos Woslovsky is leaving his post as Chief Executive Officer of PokerStars .  No replacement has been named. Wendeen Eolis first wrote in  Poker Player Newspaper that the initial word of the change surfaced last Friday at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure , the latest stop on the European Poker Tour (EPT) .  The publication verified the rumor with a PokerStars “insider” later in the day.  PokerNews has also corroborated the story, receiving a statement from “top officials” at the world’s largest poker room which read: “PokerStars announced today that Gabi Campos has decided to step down from his position as Chief Executive Officer, effective Feb

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January 22, 2012 in Poker
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WPT Jacksonville exceeds all expectations

As a new stop on the World Poker Tour –not to mention having the dubious honor of being the first WPT Main Event in the US that will not air on TV—the WPT treated the Jacksonville Championship with very low expectations, pinning a mere $500k guarantee to the tournament. Well, the $500k guarantee was eclipsed on Day 1a of the tournament as 188 players Read Full Article Related posts: Matt Jarvis leads WPT Jacksonville on Day 1a Partouche Poker Tour draws 579 entrants Shaun Deeb gunning for WSOP bracelet in 10-Game Mix

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November 21, 2011 in Poker
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Phil Ivey’s ex-wife files Judicial Bias petition

It looks like Phil Ivey’s divorce is about to get as messy as his contentious relationship with Full Tilt Poker. Carri Geer Thevenot of the Las Vegas Review-Journal is reporting that Ivey’s ex-wife (the couple was officially divorced in late 2009) has filed a petition to the court over concerns of Judicial Bias stemming from campaign contributions made to Family Court Judge Bill Gonzalez Read Full Article Related posts: Phil Ivey borrowed $11 million from Full Tilt Poker Full Tilt Poker fires back at Phil Ivey Phil Ivey suing Full Tilt, boycotts 2011 WSOP

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November 18, 2011 in Poker
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Suggestions for the 2012 World Series of Poker

The 2011 Worlds Series of Poker concluded last week with Pius Heinz taking down the Main Event crown.  Now, everyone is beginning to look forward to the 2012 WSOP.  Jack Effel recently announced on twitter that the schedule was in the works, but would not be ready before the end of the year.  Thinking ahead to next year, here are a few changes I Read Full Article Related posts: Suggestions for Future WSOP Events 2011 World Series of Poker inside the numbers World Poker Tour adds PA stop for 2012

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November 18, 2011 in Poker
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PKR Poker announces new Team PKR Pro

After a week of build-up PKR Poker has finally let the cat out of the bag as to the identity of their newest Team PKR Poker Pro: Jake Cody. With the signing of the youngest Triple Crown winner in poker history (Cody is all of 23 years old) PKR Poker was not simply overstating that their new Team PKR Pro member was one of Read Full Article Related posts: A look at poker’s Triple Crown winners: Jake Cody Jake Cody wins WSOP $25k Heads-Up and Triple Crown Woods Makes It Bracelet Number Three For Team GB

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November 18, 2011 in Poker
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PokerStars 70 Billionth Hand Promotion scrutinized

It seems like online poker simply cannot catch a break, even when a site is offering thousands of dollars in cash and prizes for a milestone promotion.

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November 7, 2011 in Poker
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Phil Hellmuth

If you think the World Series of Poker record for most WSOP bracelets (11), are the most cashes (68) and most final tables (41) and a member of the Poker Hall of Fame, then you have you the state law deserves a little bit. Because of his behavior, but Phil Hellmuth has the nickname “The [...]

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August 25, 2009 in Poker
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Chris Ferguson

Christopher Philip Ferguson began at the age of 10 years with the poker games and improved his game by playing online for play money. Chris was on 11 April, 1963 in Los Angeles, California, born and now one of the best and most famous poker players worldwide.

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August 25, 2009 in Poker
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