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TCOOP 2013: Sex Shop owner inspires TCOOP winner
This is a story about Christian "iPUNI$H" Bauer, a German man who won TCOOP event #19 for nearly $47,000, a player who uses Sesame Street's Cookie Monster as his PokerStars avatar, and a dreamer who...
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2013 TCOOP: PSMozak obliterates the final table and wins Event #24 ($109...
With ten players remaining in Event #24 $109 PLO Hi/Lo (6-max), Bulgaria's PSMozak seized the chip lead and proceeded to decimate the rest of the field. When the final table began, PSMozak sitting on a...
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TCOOP 2013: Something to believe in for cynicalfish in Event 25, $215 NLHE
Deal-making is a funny thing. There are some players who won't ever make a deal, no matter how good it is. Others want to start talking about ways to chop when the tournament reaches the money. Even...
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2013 TCOOP: recusant_89 lays down the law in Event 26 ($27 Stud)
Chop-blocking is an art form in poker - a risky art form. Sometimes the blocks extract a few extra dollars out of a deal. Sometimes they fail, and both the blocker and the rest of the table are left to...
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TCOOP 2013: jonesbn rides to the top in Event 27 ($27+R NLHE, 2x-Turbo)
Turbo events can drive one crazy, what with all the roller coaster swings that happen due to the speed that the blinds are going. For jonesbn that roller coaster continued all the way through the final...
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eisenhower1 rises above record-setting 1/22/13 Super Tuesday field, wins...
It was a record-setting night for this week's Super Tuesday, the weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em tournament at PokerStars. A whopping 597 played the tourney -- an even 50 more than the previous...
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ESPT Madrid starts in earnest today
Today the sun rises on the first main event of the brand new season of the Estrellas Poker Tour, a five day €1,100 tournament with a €400,000 guarantee attached. It's big, it's bold and it's taking...
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Deuces in the booth
Over the last five years I've been taking music classes online. I studied sound design, music theory and composition, digital production and lyrics and songwriting. At this point, I consider myself a...
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TCOOP 2013: Day 7 review, PSMozak making a mark
The TCOOP motor is in full spin with 27 of the 50 events played out and a staggering $11,265,986.55 won, but that elusive Triple COOP and Grand Slam is yet to be claimed. Among those putting pedal to...
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EPT Barcelona wins big at the GPI European Poker Awards
EPT Barcelona last night won the coveted Best Tournament of the Year category at the GPI European Poker Awards. When you look back at the event it comes as little surprise that the event took the...
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Rafa Nadal wins first poker tournament
There are some people who simply have winning in their blood. Tennis legend Rafa Nadal is one of those people, and he proved it again today as he won his very first PokerStars tournament. Nadal beat...
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TCOOP 2013: khanrava cashes top prize in Event #28 ($82 NLHE 2X-Chance)
Second chances, we all want them, but we don't always get them. Event #28 was one of the few opportunities when players were given one. The $82 buy-in event was a 2X-Chance tournament, and out of all...
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TCOOP 2013: Pappe_Ruk puts away Event 29 ($215 NLHE Shootout, Super-Knockout)
One of the things we don't see a lot of in the later stages of TCOOP hold'em events is post-flop play. The turbo structures move so quickly that by the time you get down to the end of a tournament the...
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2013 TCOOP: Kolbi111 clobbers PLO field en route to victory in Event #30...
Germany's Kolbi111 began the final table third overall in chips and sat back until it got three-handed before launching an full-out assault on the other two players. They never saw it coming. In...
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TCOOP 2013: Dr dakon has prescription for Event 31 win ($27 Stud H/L)
A day like Wednesday is stuck, not exactly the beginning of a week but not terribly close to the weekend. What can Wednesday do to change its image? Hosting a low buy-in Stud tournament in the Turbo...
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TCOOP 2013: Day 8 review, Joep van den Bijgaart among the turbo champs
If you've ever played on the European Poker Tour you'd probably recognise Joep van den Bijgaart. Those big glasses and even bigger hair are hard to miss up close. Van den Bijgaart finished seventh at...
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California dreamin'
Last summer I went to the States to play in the World Series of Poker. I was supposed to stay for a month and a half, but I decided to extend my trip after the WSOP was over. I was in need of business...
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Shaun "The Dealer" Harris: From Urkel to Hulk, and getting better
Between 1989 and 1997, the American sitcom Family Matters ran for nine seasons. It starred a young Jaleel White as the gangly, bespectacled Steve Urkel, the consummate nerd. He became an icon, one...
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The race to Supernova Elite gets dirty
There's a stink hanging around this Herculean race to Supernova Elite. It's an acrid yet musty, Gallic smell. It's.. mouldy onions. Yes, MouldyOnions aka Ryan Bell, is well out in front in the 2013...
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