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LAPT6 Brazil: Tough day for Fernandez
I feel Leo Fernandez' pain. He came into today's final table as the chip leader, but his stack of 56 big blinds was definitely vulnerable. The vulnerability was on full display early after he doubled...
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LAPT6 Brazil: Underpairs end Ximenes; Akkari out too
At this stage of the game, players are willing to take flips where they can. When the stacks are so shallow, it's not a bad strategy. You cross your fingers and take your chances. The problem is that...
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LAPT6 Brazil: Brescia knuckles under
Leonardo Brescia had been having a quiet final table. Despite all of the action around him - pair versus pair, a flip here, a double-up there, even a few eliminations - he has somehow stayed out of the...
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LAPT6 Brazil: Third time no charm for Pardo
There was a lot of final table experience at the LAPT6 Brazil final table. We all knew about Team PokerStars Pros Andre Akkari and Leo Fernandez. But the most under-the-radar source of final table...
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LAPT6 Brazil: Death by a thousand cuts for Murta
When heads-up play began, Daniel Murta was the chip underdog to Victor Sbrissa. Slowly, small pot by small pot, Sbrissa began to increase his lead. He liberally raised his button against Murta's big...
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LAPT6 Brazil: Sbrissa gives his fans what they want
Imagine the crowd rushing a college football field after a huge win and taking down the goalposts. Then apply that image to the final table set of a poker tournament and you'll have a good idea what we...
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APPT7 Cebu: Sun and cards in the air
We've made it to Day 1A. The sun set on one side of the island and rose on the other. Players on the Waterfront Airport Hotel & Casino welcomed the night and players at the Shangri-La got treated...
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APPT7 Cebu: Take and give
As we've mentioned before, Cebu gives a lot to its visitors. Sometimes, a few of those visitors like to give a back. For the past three years, Lynn Gilmartin has been sponsoring a Cebuano child through...
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David "Betudontbet" Emmons takes 4/30/13 Super Tuesday; Goldenboys chops for 2nd
It was another big crowd gathered around the virtual tables for this week's Super Tuesday, the weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em tournament on PokerStars. A total of 541 entered, building a $541,000 prize...
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It's break time so that means interview time. Lynn Gilmartin catches up with Team PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang on break. They discuss poker, food, life and how much everyone loves Cebu:
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Win a Eureka Side Pass (worth €1,200) for free!
Do you want a free €1,200 package to play at Eureka Croatia? Of course you do. Nine side event packages, each worth €1,200, are up for grabs and you can freeroll one of these Eureka Side Passes into...
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APPT7 Cebu: Flying around
We're only in Day 1A of APPT Cebu and we've already seen more animals than in any other tournament. One was delicious. We've already written about the amazing lechón, but we'll write about it a little...
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APPT7 Cebu: Zalac leads Day 1A
And that's it. We started at noon and we finished by 6:30. We saw 81 players sign up for the day and 40 ended it. It was a splendid little tournament. While a short Day 1 contributes to an extra day in...
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Ready for SCOOP
I am back now from the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific. Poker went well for me there, highlighted by a final table in the first event (the "accumulator") where I finished fourth. It was a lot of fun...
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George Lind III goes crazy...again
George Lind III--you might know him as Jorj95--might be clinically insane. I don't know what the medical manuals would call the sickness, but I'm going to dub it "Sick Challenge Syndrome." Lind...
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EPT9 Berlin: Big, late wins for Lehmanski, Rossiter and Verkaik
The glitz, glamour and mega bucks of the Main Event and High Roller always scoop the focus on the last day of an EPT. Daniel Pidun scooped €880,000 after taking an enormous lead into the heads-up...
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EPT9 Berlin in review: Pidun and Benger the big winners
The European Poker Tour stop in Berlin was always going to a big one (with no little thanks to the huge Berlin Cup which preceded the Main Event). Daniel Pidun, the first domestic player to win in the...
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EPT Grand Final Super High Roller prize pool crests €3 million
More than 30 people--high-rolling, nose-bleeding, poker playing people--are ready to kick off the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final in style. Each of them have already...
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APPT7 Cebu: Round 2
Another day, another pig. Day 1B of APPT Cebu is now underway. The lechón is being chopped up, the smell of poker is in the air and players are seated at their tables. "It's a wonderful place," said...
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