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PokerStars weekend review (02-04-13)
It's been some Monday, let alone weekend, on PokerStars. This morning saw three players pocket more than $800,000 in the 7th Anniversary Sunday Million which pulled together a prize pool of close to...
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Leo Margets joins Team PokerStars Pro
There is a scene in Lethal Weapon 2 that played over and over in our minds at the 2009 World Series of Poker. Throughout the week of the Main Event, we watched a young Spanish woman climb through the...
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Red Spade Luca Moschitta wins IPT Saint Vincent and €180,000
PokerStars Team Online's Luca Moschitta has today won IPT Saint Vincent beating a field of 358 players to win the and €180,000 first place prize. It's Moschitta's 7th IPT Main Event cash and the second...
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How reality TV got me in shape
For the last 18 months or so I've been working out six or seven days per week with ElkY and our trainer, Lincoln. I first ran into them during EPT London in October 2011, when ElkY was training for his...
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PokerStars LIVE at The Hippodrome Casino is go!
PokerStars LIVE at The Hippodrome Casino officially launched last night with a champagne reception and twin freerolls. A media charity bounty tournament started the evening off, featuring Team...
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Meet Sunday Million anniversary champion Andrius "benislovas" Bielskis
He will soon turn 33 years old. He's married with a child who is about to turn two. And he was supposed to be at work Monday morning. It was an important day on the job. He heads a department at an...
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Team PokerStars vs The Professionals headed for London
I just got off a conference call that I never really expected to take. Among the people on the line were Daniel Negreanu and Gus Hansen. They were talking about an upcoming Battleship-style poker...
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UKIPT London Day 1A: Level 1-6 updates (150-300 ante 25)
6.40pm: Dinner break That's the end of level six and the players are now on a one hour dinner break. The tournament board was showing that 108 players of the 194 who started remain. When they return...
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UKIPT London Day 1A: Level 7-11 updates (600-1,200 ante 100)
1.05am: Day 1A is done That ladies and gentleman is the end of the first of three monster Day ones at UKIPT London. According to the tournament clock just 45 of the 194 players who began today with...
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UKIPT London Day 1A: Ben Jackson blasts through opening flight
It was a long and gruelling day at UKIPT London, a fact supported by the raw stats. We started with 194 players, we played 11 levels of an hour each, and we finished with a mere 43 left. That was...
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Jason "jdtjpoker" Wheeler outlasts LI0NB0Y, both earn $95K after chop in...
After a couple of record-breaking weeks, the first Super Tuesday of March drew 580 entrants to play the $1,050 no-limit hold'em tournament -- less than last week's all-time high of 614 but still...
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Eureka! It's double guarantees this Sunday
This Sunday... no scratch that... This DOUBLE SUNDAY every Eureka qualifier has had its guarantee doubled. That's right, twice as many seats are guaranteed for the main satellites giving you some great...
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Ignore the ladies at your peril
In January I went home to Melbourne for the Aussie Millions. I have a special attachment to that tournament series. Crown Poker was where I learned to play but, for whatever reason, I've never had any...
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From Moneymoon to honeymoon on FPPs
If you've watched my Team Online feature video, then you know that my main motivation for playing poker has always been to obtain some of life's nicer things. My conventional job pays for things like...
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UKIPT London Day 1B: Level 7-11 updates (600-1,200 100 ante)
1.20am: Day 1B is in the books So the second of the three starting flights of UKIPT London is done and dusted. A total of 414 players joined the 194 who played Day 1A and with around 450 players...
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UKIPT London Day 1B: Luke Bird flies highest on Day 1B
Unlike the average poker player, tournament organisers are a risk-averse bunch. Knowing that the card room of the Victoria Casino could seat only about 430 players, they scheduled three opening flights...
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Watch benislovas win $848,589 in the Sunday Million
On Monday morning Andrius 'benislovas' Bielskis won one of the largest Sunday Millions to have played out. The Lithuanian amateur topped a field of 49,287 players to claim $848,589.33 after a three-way...
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UKIPT London Day 1C: Levels 1-6 updates (150-300 ante 25)
6.40pm: Dinner break The players are now on a one hour dinner break. You'll find level seven updates in a new post. -- NW 6.35pm: Lots of chips There's lots of chips on Liv Boeree's table,...
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London poker festival in full swing, EPT Main Event starts Sunday
The £5,300 EPT London Main Event starts this Sunday, kicking off the London poker festival in earnest. While the UKIPT has pulled in some huge numbers (608 from Days 1A & B, Day C starts today) we...
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