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EPT9 London Day 3: Looking at the contenders
Yesterday the first murmurs of the same old story began. Then today EPT Live presenters James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton talked about it a little more. The subject was the number of notable players,...
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LAPT6 Chile: A window on Chile
I've spent a substantial portion of my life looking out of windows. Family road trips as a child turned into commuter train trips as a university student. For each my focus was always on points of...
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EPT9 London Day 3: Ode to Salvatore Bonavena
As the clock ticks down on another day of the EPT London main event, it struck me that it must be good to be Salvatore Bonavena. The Italian pro dresses well, is never far from his trademark hat, and...
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LAPT6 Chile: No record... yet
377 entries is not a single-day record for the Latin American Poker Tour. That high-water mark is still held by the initial event of Season 4, a whopper held in São Paulo, Brazil that attracted 536...
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EPT9 London: Daniel Negreanu first out of £10k 8-Game Championship
This is one that Daniel Negreanu would have really fancied. It was a big buy-in deep-stacked tournament taking in loads of those classic mixed games. He should have been thriving, but as we know best...
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EPT9 London Day 3: A day of champions in London, but a Finn named Sormunen...
Nothing surprises seasoned EPT watchers. We've seen massive chip leaders knocked out within an orbit and short stacks cling on and take the whole thing down. We've seen peanut stands and heard rubber...
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LAPT6 Chile: The smile
Humor me with a thought exercise, if you would. I'd like you to imagine a table of nine poker players who are playing in an $1,100 no-limit hold'em tournament. Got your image? It probably involves...
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LAPT6 Chile: Numbers don't favor the Team Pros
In many ways, poker is a game of numbers. Chips, big blinds, bets, players, levels, average stack, players remaining - they're all about numbers. As the field slims down towards about a quarter of the...
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APPT7 Seoul: Shuffle up and deal
The Walkerhill casino has been overcome by a wave of red and black. Dealers in black polos with red trimmings and small red spades are rushing around the tournament floor, dropping off books, card...
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LAPT6 Chile: Quezada "enjoys" Day 1a
Poker tournaments have rhythms to them. At the start of the day, a bubble of energy fills the room as players file in, all hopeful of being the next champion. Little by little, the bubble deflates over...
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LAPT6 Chile: Five stars on Brazil's kit
No picture of Latin American poker, in general, or the LAPT in particular would ever be complete without several Brazilian figures sprinkled liberally across it. It's hard to understate Brazil's impact...
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MicroMillions 4: Swarm255 stings all, wins Event #2 ($1+R NLHE 3x-Turbo)
The lead at the start of the final table belonged solely to * WRL *, as several hundred million chips separated the chip leader from the pack. But Swarm255 took it in stride, doubling up early to jump...
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LAPT6 Chile: Here comes the Red Spade Brigade
Late registration has been closed for three full levels now. There are no more chances to re-enter. It's do or die. More than half of the field has already taken the "die" route, but almost all of the...
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LAPT6 Chile: The price of parenthood
On the LAPT spectating is a way of life. The staff do the best they can to enforce the rail but as tournaments rooms are often large and players look exactly like spectators, the policy of "spectators...
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MicroMillions 4: yana-11K has 10,000 reasons to celebrate after Event #4...
At last, tournament players are able to discover what their cash game brethren have long known-- the speedy little miracle that is Zoom Poker. Following a successful test run last night, Zoom MTTs had...
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APPT7 Seoul: Matching Days
"All the dealers," said Kim Song, the Paradise Casino poker manager. "Shuffle up and deal." It was noon, just like yesterday; and just like yesterday, the dealers won't stop shuffling until about 9pm...
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LAPT6 Chile: Saho leads record-setting Day 1b
Today was a record-setting day for the PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour. Although we have yet to get final confirmation from the registration desk, the Big Board claims that there were 629...
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MicroMillions 4: Leadankoning leads all, king of Event #3 ($3.30 NLHE 6-max.)
The first day of MicroMillions 4 kicked off with the first six of the scheduled 100 events, with more than 220,000 entrants participating! From that total 41,496 played Event #3, a $3.30 six-handed...
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APPT7 Seoul: Korean flavor
Every tour has its own feel. Every stop has its own flavor. APPT Seoul tastes a lot like soju. While the stop has a few similarities to poker tournaments across the world, it's distinctly Korean. There...
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MicroMillions 4: Patience rewarded for botaro666 in Event #5 ($3.30 NLHE)
The fourth edition of the popular MicroMillions series got off to a cracking start today with six different events kicking off and hundreds of thousands of players getting among the low-limit action....
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