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LAPT announces Season 6 schedule to start in Chile
In less than two months, the Latin American Poker Tour will return for its sixth season. The biggest and richest poker tour in the region plans to kickstart the year with a full festival at the Enjoy...
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TCOOP 2013: Winning better than dealing for Pookezz in Event 32 ($7.50+R NLHE)
Players like to do final-table deals in turbo tournaments. The rationale - a pretty solid one - is that the shallow stacks and quick blinds make the last few hands an exercise in luck. In the 2013...
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TCOOP 2013: jarmari jets to Event #33 title, $10K in 4 hrs. ($27 Razz)
The one and only Razz tournament on this year's Turbo Championship of Online Poker played out today, sporting an inexpensive $27 buy-in and cool $25K guarantee. A total of 2,886 decided to accept the...
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TCOOP 2013: From Zero to Hero, Risco Zero wins Event #34 ($215 NLHE 2x Chance)
In poker, there's no such thing as zero risk. Everything involves some gamble and some element of chance. But that didn't stop Brazil's "Risco Zero" from taking down today's TCOOP title in impressive...
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TCOOP 2013: Ph4N flies away with $21K in Event #35 ($82 PLO 4-max)
Hearts, Spades, Euchre, and the latest rage Open-Faced Chinese are perfect games when only four like-minded individuals can be found to sling cards. Most of the time only the fourth game of the list...
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Duhamel uses three-way pressure to topple Mercier and Katchalov
Jonathan Duhamel wasn't crowned World Champion for nothing. The French Canadian proved he owed the stones to make some big bluffs on The Big Game and owned a couple of other tournament greats in doing...
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Whiteout
It's not often that I travel without thinking about poker. Maybe I'll go see some tourist attraction or go out for dinner or for drinks or whatever else people do when they travel, but at some point...
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Borderline Gambling: Lima, Peru
I landed in Lima without forethought or reservation. I had been here before, after all. The officer at immigration's first question was "when are you leaving Peru?" I answered truthfully - March 12th,...
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Estrellas Madrid sees biggest field in its history
The Estrellas Poker Tour's main event in Madrid has crushed its previous attendance records. Prior to this week, the biggest field the ESPT had ever seen in Madrid was 498 players. When registration...
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TCOOP 2013: Main event looms as leaderboard tightens
The 2013 Turbo Championship of Online Poker is heading into its final weekend and the race for the Player of the Series continues to tighten up. As of this moment, Norway's Tinas21 holds a 15-point...
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TCOOP 2013: Champions leading charge to main event
As you look forward to the final three days of the 2013 Turbo Championship of Online Poker, you might do well to look to the people who have already won a title this year. Their lives and games are as...
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Eureka Poker Tour ready for Season 3
It's called Rozvadov, and despite its small size, the town is about to become one of the biggest things in Eastern European poker. It's a city that's home to only 700 people. Rozvadov and the Pizen...
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TCOOP 2013: Nicoji83 leads, loses lead, then leads again to win Event #36...
If the TCOOP demonstrates one thing it's the capricious nature of a game turned up to full speed. One minute you're three-handed, riding high with a massive chip lead, turning down deals and bullying...
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TCOOP 2013: All hail robinho, winner of Event 37 ($27 PLO 6-Max 2R1A)
Players sometimes surprise even the most experienced online poker minds. When setting up the 2013 Turbo Championship of Online Poker, they looked at this Friday tournament - a Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max -...
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TCOOP 2013: outlaw523 outlucks AznTiltU for Event #38 title ($215 NLHE Ante-Up)
Five all-ins and a call in the last ten hands of this tournament made for one of the more exciting finishes of a -COOP tournament. The turbo aspect of the Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP)...
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TCOOP 2013: Total domination by LCFG-NPDA in Event 39 ($82 FLHE 6-max)
No talk of deals. No debates about ICM chop or chip-count chops. Just utter silence and total domination, letting the chips fall where they may (as it were). In the 2013 Turbo Championship of Online...
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TCOOP 2013: Smertin smokes field in Event #40 $215 H.O.R.S.E. victory
Slow and steady wins the race. That's a nugget of gamblers' wisdom imparted to me by an uncle who spent more time at the race track than he should have. A horse that exploded out of the gate and led...
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TCOOP 2013: Assad91 takes 97 minutes to win $23K and title ($109 NLO8 6-max HT)
On the front page of the PokerStarsBlog in the revolving window of recent story highlights the TCOOP 2013 symbol came up with a slogan "Play fast, win big". Well, today's 1,360 entries into the $109...
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TCOOP 2013: Belabacsi takes Event #42, Team Pro Marcel Luske third ($27+R...
Event #42 presented TCOOP players with another fast-paced, action-filled challenge with a small buy-in and large field. A $27 no-limit hold'em event with an extended ("2x") re-buy period, the tourney...
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TCOOP 2013: ongggg goes 10-0 to win Event #41 ($215 PLO Heads-Up, Super KO)
Win one heads-up match, get half your buy-in back. Win two, and you're freerolling. Win three, you're in the black, and win ten, you're a TCOOP champion! One of the longer events on the schedule, TCOOP...
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