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LAPT6 Brazil: A grand city for a grand tournament
From the Department of Little Known Facts, I give you this: São Paulo, host city for the 2013 PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Season 6 Brazil Main Event, is the most populous city in all of...
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LAPT6 Brazil: The conventional wisdom
People like to cite "conventional wisdom" as support for unexamined position statements. In poker, the "conventional wisdom" used to be that pros would never play the first starting flight of a...
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LAPT6 Brazil: Pull up a chair
How many of you would want Vanessa Selbst to your immediate left in a tournament? How about an ex-wife or an ex-husband? In the last tournament I played, the last seat in the event was sold to my...
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EPT9 Berlin: Button bashing Joe Kuether bags €36,500
Joe Kuether has picked up an EPT trophy and €36,500 in Berlin taking the American to $1.25m in live career winnings. It's Kuether second cash of the festival having min-cashed in, and quickly then bust...
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MPC Red Dragon: Reyes rises to the lead
Today was a big day. Two hours before the tournament even started, the Red Dragon Main Event beat the record for largest poker tournament in Asia. The line was set at 635 unique players and tournament...
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LAPT6 Brazil: Yes, that Ronaldo
Several times already today I've written that we'll get to Ronaldo "later". Later is now. Sitting in this room at the feature table, approximately forty feet to my left, is one of the greatest strikers...
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EPT9 Berlin High Roller: Lykov leads final seven as high rollers prove that...
At noon today in Berlin, 63 players returned to the function suite of the Hyatt Hotel and prepared to play poker for hundreds of thousands of euros. Seventeen of them took a sharp left when they walked...
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EPT9 Berlin Day 5: Robert Haigh leads heading into final table after marathon...
Those of a purest disposition should look away now. EPT Berlin will not be the final table we might have wished for. It's an awkward truth but after an afternoon of eliminations, tomorrow's...
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LAPT6 Brazil: The devil in the details
I'd probably be remiss if I didn't say a few words about the LAPT's new host venue in São Paulo, the Tivoli Hotel. The last two years, the LAPT's Brazil event took place at the Sheraton World Trade...
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LAPT6 Brazil: Red spade of courage
We're approaching the dinner break with five of the seven members of the Red Spade Brigade - Team PokerStars - still alive in the tournament. One of them may even be the current chip leader. Definitely...
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LAPT6 Brazil: Chilling effect
At the back of the main tournament room of the Tivoli Hotel in São Paulo, behind a long, narrow desk covered in black cloth, you might currently find some bloggers and photographers huddling together...
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LAPT6 Brazil: The way we watch what we're watching
Standing out amidst the tournament tables while I searched for stories and for warmth, I was struck by two things. First: as the field has collapsed to close to 100 players, the L-shaped tournament...
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LAPT6 Brazil: Nacho's very not dead
Mistakes get made in this business. Hands get mis-reported, players get mis-busted. Call it the fog of war, if you want, but these things do happen. Earlier today I scoured the room for Team PokerStars...
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MPC Red Dragon Day 2 updates
3:45pm: Even more Kenneth Wong continues his ascent. Wong has used the influence of his stack to make it grow some more. He's now near 500,000. 3:40pm: Dispersion The rough table with Raiden Kan,...
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LAPT6 Brazil: No busking allowed
This morning, on the three-block walk from my hotel to the Tivoli Hotel, the venue for the 2013 PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Brazil Main Event, I passed a ten-strong motorcycle gang wearing...
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EPT9 Berlin: Looking back at the action
It's been another action-packed festival here on the European Poker Tour and we've been bringing you news, views and interviews, but it hasn't all gone to plan. The video team pulled together some of...
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MPC Red Dragon: Fanny Li leads final 18
The Red Dragon was merciless in Day 2. The survivors of all three flights converged for the first time today and most of them were eliminated in a quick, ruthless manner. Today was also the first time...
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EPT9 Berlin High Roller: Griffin Benger turns 28 and comes of age in...
Name recognition for Griffin Benger is not all that high on the live poker scene. Before today, his total recorded tournament haul was $263,139, which didn't even earn him a place in the top 150 in...
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EPT9 Berlin: Daniel Pidun makes it a first for Germany, winning title and...
And so we got the happily-ever-after. Despite fears of a flat-lining finale, removed from the excitement and drama of typically high-profiled contests, EPT Berlin wrapped up in short-and-sweet style, a...
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LAPT6 Brazil: Records may fall
It's a packed house. Yesterday the field consisted of 295 entries, which includes the re-entries that were executed in the first four level of the day. With thirty 10-handed tables available in the...
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