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2014 Macau Millions: Orange relief
Stacks were getting large, a little too large. The floor came and started switching out fortresses of stacks for orange T25,000 chips. While their size diminished, their value and intimidation factor...
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2014 Macau Millions: Pop pop
We almost burst the bubble without having to go hand-for-hand. When we got down to 33 players, the floor told everyone to stop. There was a brief moment of celebration as some players thought they'd...
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2014 Macau Millions: Fan leads Day 1E, Yung survives again
Day 1E was obscenely massive. Yesterday, tournament staff was hoping we'd get more than 300 entries. We got 454. Today was, by far, the largest starting flight in Macau Millions history. During the...
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MicroMillions 7: Ukaszz kicks off the series with a win in Event #1, $0.11+R...
After a few months off, MicroMillions launched back into action today with what has become the standard opening event: a $0.11+R Hyper-Active No-Limit Hold'em tournament. With unlimited re-buys during...
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From Russia, on Ukraine and Vienna
I am in Moscow at the moment, where I have been for about the last month or so taking care of various business having to do with documents and visas. Not too much to report from here -- same big city,...
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PokerStars LIVE crowns new champ, adds leaderboard
The magic of The Hippodrome and the Spring Classic brought the sun out, and it certainly shined bright for first place finisher Alan Pike. With 161 entries and 23 re-entries, the prize pool once again...
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2014 Macau Millions: Largest ever
Registration is closed and the numbers are in. Day 1F saw 582 entries, bringing the official number of entries at the 2014 Macau Millions up to 1,804. Players are now participating in the largest poker...
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Opinion: Give credit where credit's due
We writers at the PokerStars Blog usually keep our opinions to ourselves. We're here to document events, celebrate winners and, we hope, inform and entertain by uncovering stories by interviewing...
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2014 Macau Millions: Back to the cutting board
Action has picked back up and the field has been reduced to about 200 players. Multiple Day 1 survivor Alexandre Chieng and Team PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang have both been helping reduce the field....
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MicroMillions 7: zhll74 zooms to Event #7 win, nearly $5K ($5.50 NLHE)
Eye-popping ROI's of 1000x are routine when it comes to the MicroMillions, and MicroMillions 7 Event #7 nearly produced a couple of players enjoying such good fortune. A no-limit hold'em tournament...
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PokerSchoolOnline Podcast Show returns with a MicroMillions Tyler Frost special
The PokerSchoolOnline Podcast Show returns with a very special MicroMillions episode, which features some great guests and cool giveaways that you can win. On the show we chat to Team PokerStars...
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The Bonus Cut: Victoria Coren Mitchell off tour
International readers of PokerStars Blog will know Victoria Coren Mitchell primarily for her poker. She won EPT London back in Season 3, sits 10th on the all-time money list with $1.75m in live...
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2014 Macau Millions: Countries and leaders
There will be no repeat champion this Macau Millions. After getting chipped down to 10,000, reigning champion Shaq Lin managed to get back up to average before getting eliminated. Faced with a raise to...
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2014 Macau Millions: Fluid lead
The lead in this tournament is like sand, it's impossible to hold on to. Taiming Ou had it a few levels ago and continued to chip up to about 210,000. Then Dennis Kow -- who's seated at Ou's table --...
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MicroMillions 7: lynskey99 begins weekend with win in Event #8 ($4.40 NLH, 2x...
Day 2 of MicroMillions 7 kicked off the weekend with nine new tournaments on the schedule including Event #8. Players were presented with a $4.40 No Limit Hold'em tournament with one rebuy available...
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2014 Macau Millions: Final bubble
Day 1F was the longest day but had the quickest bubble. It was no surprise considering we had five tables, several short stacks and massive blinds. When we got down to 50 players the short stacks...
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MicroMillions 7: RI1111 rallies to win Triple Turbo Event #10 [$1+R NL Hold'em]
Timing is everything in battle. Sounds like a bit of advice Sun Tzu might dispatch about the keys to waging a successful campaign in warfare. With four remaining, short-stacked RI1111 was being hunted...
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2014 Macau Millions: Huang survives again, Tan leads overall
No more starting flights. After six Day 1s, a record-breaking field of 1,804 entrants was reduced to just 121. Those survivors will be disproportionately splitting the HKD $3,499,760 prize pool...
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MicroMillions 7: facemy123 finds a way to win in Event #9, $8.80 PL Omaha
Game variety is one of the many great things about the MicroMillions, and this latest installment of the series carried on that fine tradition today with the first of 20 non-hold'em tournaments on the...
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2014 Macau Millions: Day 2 is underway
They 7 percent are back. After a week of re-buy and re-entry madness, a record-breaking field of 1,804 entries has been reduced to just 121. The 2014 Macau Millions featured a unique format. There were...
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