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Travel Diary: Barcelona
Having traveled to an eclectic collection of places for my job, many people ask me what my favorite city is. My answer: Barcelona. So when I was given the opportunity to return for the kickoff stop for...
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Hazel Chui wins MPCC Event 2
The weather in Hong Kong reads HOT and that's exactly how it's been so far at the Macau Poker Cup Championship 2012 (MPCC). One day after HK resident David Steicke captured the opening $8,800 NLH...
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UKIPT3 Newcastle: Day 4 level 29 & 30 updates (blinds 50,000 - 100,000)
7.45pm: Chris Ferguson wins UKIPT Newcastle (£87,640); Alex Jobling eliminated in second place (£82,120) And we have a winner here in Newcastle. In the final hand Chris Ferguson opened to 200,000 on...
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WCOOP 2012: Exiled Team Online member finds gold
In fate's Rube Goldberg machine that dictates the life of a professional poker player, there is no predicting which gear will turn next. One minute Clayton Newman was a successful online poker player....
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UKIPT3 Newcastle: Chris Ferguson wins UKIPT Newcastle and £87,640
For the second year in a row a Scotsman has won UKIPT Newcastle, but Chris Ferguson was far from the Scottish reputation of tight, for the most part shoving his way to a £87,640 victory. Sometimes...
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WCOOP 2012: mrw8419 makes a little magic in Event 21, $215 NLHE
With 20 previous events already in the books during this latest edition of the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker, there's been a lot of prize money awarded. But only two of those 20 events...
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WCOOP 2012: darrenelias hauls in the high roller in event #22 ($10,300 NLHE)
It was the big one. Event #22 was one of biggest buy-in tournaments on the internet and managed to draw a crowd of 297 players. Some bought in directly, others came through satellites, a few players...
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WCOOP 2012: Déjà vu; mikal12345 returns to the winner's circle! (Event #26,...
Four days ago, 555 players registered for the first Omaha Hi/Lo event of the 2012 WCOOP (Event #12). It was played short-handed, and it culminated in a heads-up duel between Poland and Norway for all...
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WCOOP 2012: osten is awesome winning Event #25 ($320 Stud)
Ever watch someone who just could not lose? Four-team parlay and a 10/1 on the card? Winner! Finds a quarter on the ground and throws it into a slot machine that someone just lost $500 on? Jackpot! No...
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WCOOP 2012: Boeree runs deep, majus26 takes the win in Event #24 ($215 NLHE...
On a day where Andy Murray fought off exhaustion to become the first British man to win a Grand Slam tennis tournament since 1936, our friends from the motherland had another enormous sweat on their...
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WCOOP 2012: hronik81 collects one for Russia in Event 23 ($700 NLHE)
Having fallen short of winning a major in the past can forever haunt a player, especially when you never get a chance to compete on the final table due to an elimination on the final table bubble that...
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WCOOP 2012: Northern lights shining on Norway
With a full week of the 2012 World Championship of Online Poker in the books, it looks like the people of Norway got together and decided to gang up on the rest of the world. A nation of of only five...
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Behind the scenes with Rafa Nadal
Last night Andy Murray won his first tennis Grand Slam. Congratulations to him, just another ten until he's drawn level with Team PokerStars SportStar Rafa Nadal. While we can't show you how Murray...
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WCOOP 2012: Perspective among new champions
Daniel Kind wanted to be a pro footballer. He was good. He was damned close to a try out with Middlesbrough. That's how good he was when he was young. It was a dream in the making, one snapped in two...
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WCOOP 2012: Duhamel looking to become the 'complete player'
Jonathan Duhamel has won the World Series of Poker Main Event for $8,944,310, finished in the top four of three big money side events at the PCA, including runner-up to Alex Bilokur in the $25,000 High...
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As the Stars Tweet: The Cute Battle, macaroons, and more
We've made it through another week, and we have plenty of tweets to go through. We know you're just as busy as we are, so sometimes it's hard to keep up with all of Team PokerStars' tweets and that's...
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WCOOP 2012: Superstars and shadow champions
There was this moment a few years ago (January 12, 2010 to be exact) when PokerStars' head tournament guru Bryan Slick pulled me aside at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. It was a busy day at the...
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WCOOP 2012: Alexx Porter snares Event #51; INSHALA82 chops ($215 NLHE 1R1A)
There has been plenty of drama through the first 50 events of this year's World Championship of Online Poker at PokerStars. Of course, one place where there hasn't been too much drama has been over the...
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WCOOP 2012: Move over for moukari6, winner of Event 50 ($1,050 NLHE)
It was one of the toughest final tables of the WCOOP. Big names with big chip leads made it seem as though it would be a 1,2,3 knockout. But players like moukari6 never gave up. The great structure...
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