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Borderline Gambling: Buenos Aires, Argentina
To live well, the right things have to go wrong. I don't know in what proportion. But in Buenos Aires, I seemed determined to find out. I woke up in Santiago at five. The cabbie told me to pay him in...
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UKIPT Series 1, London: Day 1A, Level 7-12 updates (Blinds 1,000-2,000 ante 300)
9.10pm: Done for the day Play is over for the day, it appears that roughly 46 of the 147 players made it through the day, a wrap of the day's play is on the way. 8.55pm: Last three hands The clock has...
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UKIPT Series 1, London: Pat Simcoe cooking on gas, leads after Day 1A
In December 2009 PokerStars took a bit of step into the unknown when they launched a regional tour in the shape of the UKIPT. Three and a half years on and they've launched the UKIPT Series. It's...
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UKIPT Series 1: Day 1B Level 1-6 updates (Blinds 200-400 ante 50)
5.30pm: Half a dozen done and dusted That's six levels in the book, this half dozen didn't quite see the half dozen levels through though as Richard Evans, Ashioue Miah, Jen Chiang, Dominic Webber,...
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UKIPT Series 1: Day 1B, Level 7-12 updates (Blinds 1,000-2,000 ante 300)
9pm: Play is done for the day Roughly 60 players made it through to Day 2, a wrap of the day's play is on the way. 8.40pm: Last four hands The clock has been paused and the remaining players will play...
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UKIPT Series 1: Nikolay Ponomarev leads after Day 1B
With another 196 players entering the fray today when they were added to the 147 from Day 1A the final number of runners for the first ever UKIPT Series event was confirmed at 343. A short time later...
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UKIPT Series 1: Day 2 Level 13-14 updates (Blinds 1,500-3,000 ante 300)
1.05pm: So so Simcoe Start of day chip leader Pat Simcoe has had a pretty pedestrian opening two levels and is on much the same as he started with, perhaps a couple of thousand lighter if anything....
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UKIPT Series 1: Day 2 Level 19-24 updates (blinds 15,000 - 30,000 ante 4,000)
8.10pm: Break time The players are now on a 15 minute break whilst tournament staff colour up and race off the 1k chips. You'll find level 25 updates in a new post. 8pm: Jake Cody wins a million chip...
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UKIPT Series 1: Day 2 Level 25-30 updates (blinds 60,000 - 120,000 ante 20,000)
11.30pm: Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody wins UKIPT Series 1 It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that with the stacks as they were and the blinds high that the next all-in would decide this...
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UKIPT Series: Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody wins UKIPT Series 1 and £19,400
The inaugural UKIPT Series is going to be tough to top as Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody defeated a field of 343 to claim the first prize of £19,400 and his first tournament victory since he completed...
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Women's Sunday: heralove goes from worst to first
Sometimes all it takes is one hand to turn it around. Heralove arrived at the final table as the short stack, and little did she know that only seconds later, she'd play the pivotal hand in her...
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Sunday Warm-Up: FOO-92's return trip to final table worth $107K
Experience pays dividends at the tables as the players who you will read about below have it in spades. Tonight's $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-up field of 3,432 players had plenty of folks lined up...
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Sunday Million: Nick "gbmantis" Niergarth goes wire to wire, wins $235k
Nick "gbmantis" Niergarth had been here twice before but years ago. Then a 22 year-old college student, Niergarth finished third in the Sunday Million in December 2007. About 18 months earlier he'd...
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PokerStars weekend review (04-15-13)
It's been a big weekend for Team PokerStars Pro. Jake Cody and Matthias De Meulder both won national PokerStars events while Daniel Negreanu was busy going bracelet hunting down under in the WSOP APAC...
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Announcing: Sickest Setup contest winners
Thanks to everyone who entered the PokerStars Sickest Setup Contest! More than 700 photos were shared, and we were impressed by the quality and creativity of many of the entries. Team Online members...
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Back to basics
Online poker is becoming tougher every day. Competition is fierce. I've found it helps to re-focus on doing the easy things, the things people don't think about much, making it a good foundations to...
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Red Spade Open returns April 28
I don't know about you, but I find some measure of comfort in the big red spade. I mean, red spades don't occur in nature, and yet somehow when I see the PokerStars flag flying, it makes me feel at...
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Daniel Negreanu wins WSOP APAC, $1m and bracelet number five
Daniel Negreanu today won the WSOP APAC Main Event for A$1,038,825 collecting his fifth WSOP bracelet in a dominating final table performance. The Team PokerStars Pro never looked out of his comfort...
View ArticleWatch the Sunday Million final table (14 April 2013)
Nick 'gbmantis' Niergarth won the Sunday Million this weekend just gone by and if you'd watched the final table you would have had little reason to doubt that he'd take it down. Niergarth had a large...
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