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Read MoreWPT World Championship Day 2 – Linster Takes Control
The World Poker Tour World Championship rumbled on last night as Day 2 was completed after another five ninety minute levels. The 93 survivors from Day 1 were joined by another 53 registrations into the event which meant we had a total of 146 players competing for this title. This brought us a prize pool of $3,540,500 which will be shared amongst the top 15 players at the end of the event. The minimum...
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Read MoreOregon Lawmakers Discuss Sensitive Poker Room Bill
With three months before the end of the current legislature, lawmakers need to decide whether they will pass a bill sponsored by Julie Parrish. The Republican Party Representative suggested that all poker rooms in the state of Oregon should be shut down, claiming that they are operating outside the legal framework. Ms. Parrish said that by charging special fees and allowing players to use the poker chips...
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Read MoreFBI Brings Illegal High Stakes Gambling Network Down
A few weeks ago the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed the fact that after a lengthy investigation and active surveillance, they’ve brought down an illegal high stakes gambling network. Located mostly in New York, it is allegedly connected to the Russian mafia and most of the money earned by the organisers was wired out of the country. The content of some of the tapes were made public and provided...
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Read MoreThe Carnivale Of Poker Is Back – Schedule Released
With the WSOP getting prepared to get underway at the end of this month, the events officials recently released their conference call which is held with selected members of the media on a yearly basis. During this conference call they announced that they would be bringing back the WSOP Carnivale of Poker during this year’s World Series of Poker. Well, just yesterday they released the full schedule of that...
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Read More“OMGClayAiken” Claims Profits Of $615k
Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond may have suffered a big loss a few days back to Viktor “Isildur1” Blom but he has come back in true style with profits of $615.5k over the past couple of days. This was done after a long session at the Fixed Limit Omaha Hi/Lo tables against a whole host of players such as “Gus Hansen”, Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius, “Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, “KPR16” and “PostFlopAction”....
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Read MoreWPT World Championship Day 1 – Failla Takes Early Lead
The final event on the World Poker Tour got underway last night with Day 1 of the WPT World Championship attracting a field of 113 players. The stubborn field only saw twenty of those players eliminated, though those twenty have a single re-buy option for Day 2 if they so wish to use it. By the time the five ninety minute levels were completed it was Will Failla who stood at the top of the chip counts,...
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Read MoreAchilleas Kallakis AKA “The Don” Sentenced to Jail
Achilleas Kallakis is known by poker players as “The Don”, but the Texas hold’em community shouldn’t hold its breath for his next appearance at the poker tables. He was sentenced to serve an additional four years in jail after another court convicted him to seven years for committing a mortgage fraud. The proportions of his scam were of unprecedented magnitude and a British government called...
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Read MoreNew Jersey Online Poker Proposal into the Public Eye
New Jersey’s draft proposal for wagering bets online has come into full swing as of Friday in a bid to join other US states in the race to give their citizens online gambling rights through controlled measures. It is expected to come into the public eye on June 3 this year at a time when the public will get a chance to make comments on the new draft over a specified time period. The plan is to allow...
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