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APPT7 Macau: Day 1B to start, stronger and more committed than ever
Yesterday evening, a 184-strong field for Day 1A of APPT Macau was hacked back to 81 players. But like the hydra of mythology, day one fields at major poker tournaments only grow more powerful the more...
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APPT7 Macau: Hitting the ground running
Action is under way on Day 1B in Macau. It's past 3.01pm so of course it is. (They run a tight ship here.) But in truth, action has been under way for quite some time as a last-chance turbo satellite...
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World Series 2013: The Pro story so far
The 2013 World Series is barely two weeks old and so far it's been a case of 'almost but not quite' for the guys and gals of Team PokerStars. As the starting stacks are laid out for Event #24, the...
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microulis69 wins PokerStars 100 Billionth Hand for $103,800
The 100 Billionth Hand has hit! microulis69 from Greece was sat on table Euryalos XI playing some microstakes $0.02/$0.05 action, just another kid with a dream (and probably several tables open). That...
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PokerStars Marbella Festival: Day 1B level 9 & 10 updates (600-1200 ante 100)
11.42pm: Boehler leads Day 1b and the field at the PokerStars Marbella Festival Sell-out would be an understatement. The second day 1 flight at this joint UKIPT/ESPT stop was brimming with players...
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APPT7 Macau: Day two seat draw
It's day two of APPT7 Macau and the 186 players who survived the wreckage of their respective day ones now merge to play down close to the money. The tournament administrators will announce shortly...
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APPT7 Macau: Poker meets Happy Families
For those of us of a childish disposition -- or, more specifically, a childish western disposition -- some of the names you find in this part of the world are endlessly amusing. Several years ago in...
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APPT7 Macau: Wu departs, Im clings on, but Carter picks up speed
As anyone who has played or witnessed a major poker tournament will know, there is nothing so chaotic as the opening levels of day two. In the late stages of the opening flights, players cling on to...
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PokerStars Marbella Festival: Day 2, level 11-14 updates (1,500-3,000, ante 300)
4.28pm: End of level 14 The fourth level of the day has ended - the players are well drilled in the routine of streaming out into the sunshine every two hours and have just done so. We'll be back in 15...
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APPT7 Macau: Ivan Zalac: More than just your usual internet punk
"Tell these Aussies not to leave me carrying the flag by myself, my shoulder hurts." This was Ivan Zalac, from Sydney, who has made a bit of a name for himself over the past couple of years as a...
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Recipe for success
Things have been going well for me over the last year. Poker has been going well, but I've also had a great time pursuing a course in culinary studies which included an internship in a restaurant. I...
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APPT7 Macau: Matt Carter dodges Yip and evades reporter's death knock
Reporting on a poker tournament is not exactly front-line journalism. We're not in parliament or a war-zone; no one will lose their job or their life. But all things are relative, of course, and...
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APPT7 Macau: Day two ends on the stone bubble, with Yan Cui out front
Danny McDonagh of PokerStars Macau has an uncanny ability to predict the course a tournament will take. Getting things started this afternoon, McDonagh said that we would play seven levels and get...
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PokerStars Marbella Festival: Day 2 level 17 updates (blinds 3,000-6,000 ante...
8.18pm: Hero call halves Shubin's stack The man who finished atop the chip counts at the end of day 1a, Andrey Vladimirovich Shubin, just made a call he may later come to regret. The hand in question...
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Join our World Record attempt, play for free and win $25,000!
The 100 Billion Hands Celebration just refuses to stop. This Sunday, PokerStars is juicing an enormous tournament - scratch that - the most enormous tournament to have ever taken place by guaranteeing...
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APPT7 Macau: Day three seat draw
Here's the seat draw for day three at APPT7 Macau. We start with 49 players, one off the money, which means the day will begin with hand-for-hand play. Click through to see full list of payouts....
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6-COOP man Dan 'djk123' Kelly chasing down Negreanu at WSOP
Dan 'djk123' Kelly should think about renaming himself 'ATM123' because the 6-COOP winner has been a human cash machine this World Series of Poker. While 400,000 of you battled away for $1,000,000 on...
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APPT7 Macau: Thrilling finish to day two means tension spills over
We knew the bubble was approaching when we entered the final level of play last night, on day two of APPT7 Macau. There were 52 players still involved, each of whom knew the money kicked in at 48. The...
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APPT7 Macau: Lost coupons, bubble creepers and a harsh exit for Blaschke (aka...
It has been very well established over the past few days, months, years that they do things very quickly in the card rooms over here. But ever the contrarians, the poker players of APPT7 Macau just...
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PokerStars Marbella Festival: Day 3, level 19- 22 updates (10,000-20,000,...
4.40pm: Level 22 complete; break Another two levels have passed and so a fifteen minute hiatus is due. See you shortly. -- RS 4.35pm: Abellan spikes McDonald With two minutes left on the tournament...
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