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EPT10 Deauville: Need to learn German? Nein. You already know it
There's nothing original about this post. We've done exactly the same thing before. But if you don't follow the Team PokerStars Pro Jan Heitmann on Twitter, you really should. And it goes double if you...
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EPT10 Deauville: Dario Sammartino leads Zimnan Ziyard heading into Day 3
In four days' time we find out who will be crowned the eighth EPT Deauville champion winning €614,000, a Slyde watch, and a huge trophy in the process. The player leading that race is Dario Sammartino,...
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TCOOP 2014: Unsurprisingly, DonOmaha wins in Omaha in Event #24 ($109 PLO H/L...
With a name like DonOmaha, it was no surprise to see this player in the tournament or at the final table. But an initial bad run at said final table put DonOmaha in last chip position when it came time...
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EPT10 Deauville: Fish in a big pond
Bahram Chobineh is playing his very first EPT event. In fact, he's never played for more than a couple hundred dollars before in his life. He's participating in the EPT Deauville Main Event as the...
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More Main Events, more Rational players
We are poker. It's not only our business, it's a passion too. But those of us who work at PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker are in a bit of a netherworld. We provide the most online poker games of any...
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Learning from the Best: Vanessa Rousso
In my quest to become a better poker player, I have been studying female Team PokerStars Pros and their playing styles to see what I can learn from them. Recently, Vanessa Rousso has captured my...
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EPT10 Deauville: Why poker will never be an action movie (aka: The Bubble,...
Staring at the clock at a poker tournament is like watching the denouement of two very, very boring action thrillers. There are two countdowns on the screen--digital figures ticking progressively...
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Another lesson from Dad
A lot of people probably remember seeing my Dad on ESPN's coverage of the 2003 WSOP and so know that we're pretty tight. People ask me about him all the time, thanks to those shows. Unfortunately he's...
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EPT10 Deauville: Brécard battling
There are 73 players remaining as Level 18 begins. Just under a third of them are from the home country of France, all of whom hope to join their countrymen Lucien Cohen (EPT7) and Remi Castaignon...
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TCOOP 2014: Turner, Petersen, Smith and Silverman chase jonaj10 in Player of...
The Turbo Championship of Online Poker has ticked over the halfway point with 27 of 50 events played out. Millions of dollars have been won, the winners of which you can read out about below, but...
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EPT10 Deauville: How to spot a new player at the felt
Knowing how to spot a new player can be really beneficial to your tournament fortunes. From the way players dress to the manner in which they handle their chips, there are several giveaway signs. The...
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Last week of qualifiers for ESPT Madrid
The Estrellas Poker Tour will start in February and you can even qualify for free using your PokerStars Frequent Player Points. Online satellites are running on PokerStars - go to "Events > More...
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EPT10 Deauville: Welcome to Ekrem Sanioglu's Parisian party
A new chip leader has emerged in Deauville -- and his name is not Eugene Katchalov. Ekrem Sanioglu first came to our attention this afternoon when a colleague referenced our earlier cheeky toying with...
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TCOOP 2014: AlexKP's dinner and championship dessert
At 27 years old, PokerStars player AlexKP (you can just call him Alexander) needed dinner, and nothing (like, you know, winning a Turbo Championship of Online Poker event) was going to stop him from...
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EPT10 Deauville: Von Perger fought Law and Law won
Earlier in the week we were noting during the first Day 1 flight an imbalance between the men and women in the field. Indeed, just one woman entered on Sunday, while many more joined the large crowd...
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EPT10 Deauville: Location, location, location: Estate agent Sanioglu leads...
Day Three on the European Poker Tour is now Bubble Day. At every event since the beginning of Season 9, the most loathed metaphorical globular vacuum in poker bobs into view during the second level of...
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TCOOP 2014: Popiedejopie pops a win in Event #29 ($215 NLHE Shootout Super-KO)
Erik van den Berg, who is known as Popiedejopie online, is no stranger to the big tournaments on PokerStars. With a Sunday Million win to his name, among many other accomplishments, a COOP title had...
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TCOOP 2014: OutPlayD_77 dashes way to PLO victory in Event #30 [$11+R PLO 6-Max]
Sleep-deprived OutPlayD_77 agreed to a deal with five players remaining. It was 8 A.M. for the Australian. At that juncture, OLD TIME GIN held over 50% of the chips in play, but by the time action...
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EPT10 Deauville: Chips (and reporters) flying to the feature table
If we were birds and thus really did look at a roomful of poker tables from a "bird's eye view," with a knowledge of the Day 4 table draw we might have imagined one table in particular -- Table 11 --...
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EPT10 Deauville: Ole Schemion and Toby Lewis win big at the European Poker...
The glitterati of European poker gathered last night to applaud the brightest and best in the game at the Global Poker Index European Poker Awards, sponsored by PokerStars. The event, which took place...
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