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EPT Warsaw: The player lounge

Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008

The chip count page has been updated, featuring the latest counts at the start of level 7. For those not able to say they are among the remaining players there is always the player lounge, a place to chill...

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APPT Manila: Van Marcus crowned 2008 APPT Manila champion

Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008

And then, just like that, it was over. Van Marcus is the 2008 APPT Manila main event champion, taking home PHP 8,037,000 or USD $162,856.98. On the final hand, Marcus completed, and Tah Jun raised to 210,000. Marcus called...

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EPT Warsaw: Look! It's the Minieri kid!

Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008

Dario Minieri has chips. It was worth checking because just a few minutes ago he was down to his last few thousand. The casual observer might say he had some kind of kick-ass rake back deal. Those who’ve seen...

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APPT Manila: Final table update (level 27)

Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008

This is officially a record APPT final table – we’re into the 14th hour of the final table and the 11th hour of actual play. Play has also reached level 27, which has never been reached in any other...

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World Cup of Poker: Germany Province Final Results Are In

Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008

Poof! We have winners! While the U.S. and Canada players rested their weary poker-filled heads and slept in on a Sunday morning before their qualifying tournaments, the Germans were already competing for their spots on the provincial teams. Sixteen qualifiers...

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APPT Manila: Final Table Update, Round 25

Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008

It's often said that to win a major poker tournament, it is often said that you require skill and luck. To win the 2008 APPT Manilla tournament, you also need a heathy dose of endurance. It's now almost 4am...

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EPT Warsaw: Taking it to the river

Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008

Team PokerStars Pro Katja Thater was holding a bottle of water high above her head. She’d been asked how much she had left by Nicolas Liakos in seat three and to save speaking had lifted the bottle, which had been...

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EPT Warsaw: Fall of the local hero

Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008

Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki has been eliminated, crashing out of his home event before the break. Having spent the opening levels battling to move beyond his original 10,000 stack, Marcin found himself with a straight and flush draw...

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EPT Warsaw: Buffet for the busted

Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008

Players and reporters have just finished their dinner break and the swift-footed know to get to the restaurant five minutes before the official end of the level to reserve the best table and/or first place in the buffet queue. But...

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EPT Warsaw: ElkY leads, Team PokerStars Pros follow

Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008

With silver studded baseball cap, silver rimmed sunglasses and metallic headphones, you could be forgiven for thinking that Bertrand Grospellier is part machine. He’s not; he just plays like one, already ahead to the tune of 40,000. ElkY has...

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EPT Warsaw: Charge of the Serenelli

Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008

Sorel Mizzi, who stormed to a massive lead two weeks ago in Budapest before freefalling in spectacular fashion was moved in the last level to fill a gap in Roland de Wolfe’s table. Now he’s been moved again, back...

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APPT Manila: Suk joins Shell in lead after day 1A

Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008

Less than one-quarter of the 149 players who started day 1A of the PokerStars.net APPT Manila main event will return for day 2 on Saturday after a dramatic day of play at the Hyatt Hotel and Casino. Just 38...

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APPT Manila: Kocher coughs, Nagashima doubles

Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008

Arthur Kocher has just lost a chunk of chips in a recent encounter with Kim Jong Sung of Korea. With blinds of 400/800, and a stack of just over 60,000 chips, Cocher raised in early position to 4000. It...

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APPT Manila: Swiss rolls over another opponent

Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008

The stampede on the magnificent dinner buffet at Manila’s Hyatt Hotel and Casino doesn’t appear to have claimed any victims, ensuring 55 players have returned to the ballroom for the final two levels on day 1A of the PokerStars.net...

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