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EPT9 Prague: Where are they now?
Regular readers of our live coverage will be familiar with our fascination of the EPT5 Prague final table. It's was a ground breaking event for various reasons, not least the emergence of a new...
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EPT9 Prague: A part of Prague that will always be Lebanese
In recent years, the European Poker Tour has grown to be so much more than a handful of isolated events spread out through a nine-month season. These days, there's a certain continuity of buy-in and...
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EPT9 Prague: Evgenia Lozovaya takes the women's crown
The women's events at EPTs may not gather the brightest spotlight but that's not to say they're not hotly contested. This time round it was Russian Evgenia Lozovaya who claimed the title beating Anna...
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EPT9 Prague: Iosif Beskrovnyy takes early Day 1A lead
In the first level of play today the unstoppable Dan Smith, winner of six major titles this year, turned to the player next to him and offered him €100 if he could guess the number he'd written down...
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Lady Luck gave lucky lukyyy December 9 Women's Sunday win
Only a few more weeks left in 2012 meant that not much time remained to shop for gifts and send holiday cards. But almost as important, time was running out to win a seat to the PS Women Live event at...
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Sunday Warm-Up: Chaz D 87 up top for the weekly title, Koon near miss in fourth
As Kristin Bihr reported a few weeks ago, Jason Koon crushed 2012 for over a half million dollars on the live poker circuit along with several online victories here at PokerStars. One of those victory...
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EPT9 Prague: Soccer hot-shot Sergej Barbarez takes his chances at the tables
There is a well-trodden path from sports stadium to poker table, with the likes of Rafa Nadal, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Boris Becker and Shane Warne only four of the stars to trade early mornings and...
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EPT9 Prague: Kirill Telezhkin returns to winning ways in Event #1
It's been a good two years since Kirill Telezhkin won the PokerStars Russian Poker Series Main Event in Kiev for $171,350. He's scored several deep runs since; 65th here at Prague in Season 7 and a...
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Women's Poker League: End of an era, new promotion for 2013
PokerStars Women has created many opportunities to bring women together in the poker community and encourage more women to play the game. The Women's Poker League was an exciting part of the evolution...
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EPT9 Prague: Kayvan Payman wins Event #5 (€2k PLO) for €36,475
Kayvan Payman isn't the kind of name you forget. You might not be able to place it too easily; American football player? Actor? Founder of new-wave yoga practice? No, he's the poker player that final...
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EPT9 Prague: Record breakers and champions
Registration has now officially closed on EPT9 Prague, but it will still be an hour or so before we know the official number of players. Every now and again we get an email or a Skype message with a...
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EPT9 Prague: Legendary Luca Pagano will win one (sooner or later)
"Otherwise there is Deauville. Otherwise there is PCA. Otherwise there is... wherever. Sooner or later I'll take it down, at least one." So says Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano about finally winning an...
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EPT9 Prague: Qualifier of the Day: Paul Porter
It's the oft told story but it explains the easiest, or let's say most cost effective way of playing a European Poker Tour event - qualify online on PokerStars. One man who did just that is Englishman...
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PokerStars weekend review 12-9-12
What you need to know is this: you simply don't have time to read this post. EPT Prague is underway in a winter wonderland. The Eureka Poker Tour just broke a ton of its own records in its main event...
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Expedition: Robinson
Recently, I had the exciting opportunity to participate in a TV show called Expedition: Robinson. It's essentially a Belgian/Dutch version of the American program Survivor, and I was selected as a...
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EPT9 Prague: Keep fit with Kristy Arnett
Kristy Arnett dropped in on the free cardio kickboxing session this morning (10am in the Hilton Gym, and it's on again tomorrow morning) and found a few tips and tricks that can be used at the table....
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EPT9 Prague: Life through a lens
No matter how many posts we manage to farm out carefully compose over the course of an EPT day, we will never get to use all of the photographs that our snapper Neil Stoddart farms out carefully...
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EPT9 Prague: The Daily Strategy with Jonathan Duhamel
Jonathan Duhamel is perhaps best known for his victory in the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event, when he outlasted a field of 7,319 players to claim a first prize of $8,944,310. Since then the Team...
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EPT9 Prague: The kaleidoscope wheel of nationalities
Once registration is closed and the beans have been counted properly, the analysis begins on the make-up of the field. It's often a fascinating business to see where all the players come from,...
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EPT9 Prague: Va-Va-Vadim Belov, Day 1B chip-leader
You can usually sense a Day 1B field about 12 hours before you can see it. As the first flight plays out in relative calm, you can spot crowds of players clutching buy-in receipts or greeting friends,...
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