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2008 WSOP Event 24, $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em/Omaha: Max Pescatori Hauls in Bracelet

Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 Internet

Max Pescatori, whose nickname is the "Italian Pirate," just added another World Series of Poker bracelet to his loot. Pescatori bested a field of 457 players in Event #24, $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em/Omaha and navigated his way… Read more…

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2008 WSOP Event #25 $10,000 Heads-Up NLHE Championship: Down to the Final Four

Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 Internet

Day 2 of the 2008 WSOP Event #25, the $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em World Championship, started with 32 players and played three rounds to get down to the final four. Vanessa Selbst must have liked making the final four in this event… Read more…

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2008 WSOP Event #26 $1,500 Razz Day 2 – Viox, Greenstein Head Final

Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 Internet

104 players returned to the felt for Day 2 of Event #26, $1,500 Razz, including Day 1 chip leader Barry Greenstein, Shawn Sheikhan, Jon ‘Pearljammer’ Turner, Dewey Tomko and Cyndy Violette. At the end of the day, only eight remained… Read more…

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2008 WSOP Event #23, $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em: A Pair of Hinkle Bracelets

Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 Internet

In a commanding performance, Blair Hinkle – second in chips when the day began – was responsible for sending six of the other eight finalists home through a mixture of luck, timing and aggression. His runaway victory, in which… Read more…

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Poker Room Review: ‘Old’ Seminole Casino – Hollywood, FL

Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 Internet

The tropical décor of the original Seminole casino in Hollywood seems sedate next to the frenzy of the new Seminole Hard Rock across the street. But that’s okay. This place provides a nice counterbalance with its extremely flashy… Read more…

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New Online Poker Room

Date: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 Internet

An online poker room is the next venture for a global financial services company’s gaming affiliate, Cantor Gaming. CantorPoker.com is the room, which is running on the Entraction Poker Network, the same network that the poker room of UK based poker pro David “Devilfish” Ulliott, Devilfishpoker, just recently switched to. CantorPoker has games both for [...]

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Erick Lindgren Snags WSOP Gold

Date: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 Internet

The first golden bracelet to ring the wrist of Erick Lindgren has arrived. The 31 year old poker pro, playing for almost ten years, finally got his first World Series of Poker victory this year in Event #4, the $5,000 buy in Mixed Holdem event. The California native and sports jock has cashed 15 times [...]

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2008 WSOP Diary, June 4: Event #2 Finishes, Event #4 Reaches Final Table, Second Championship Event Starts

Date: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 Internet

Day 2 of Event #5 looked like a sort of Roman arena where hungry, 500 lb lions would be pitted against the French Olympic skating team. Over 30 players were eliminated in the first hour of play. Among the dead and dying was Phil Hellmuth, who will now have to wait a little longer for [...]

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The Heimlich Maneuver: Semi-Bluffing

Date: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 Internet

Inducing a bluff is sort of like the poker version of performing the Heimlich maneuver. Your opponent is choking on a big bankroll and you are just helping them to spit it up. This is an act of mercy on your part. It’s beautiful in its own way. Now if you are going to induce [...]

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Camera Shy

Date: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 Internet

We have encountered a number of players who have wound up playing at the WSOP, WPT, or any number of big name tournaments. While we have talked to a lot of stars, we have also met a bunch of people who held down day jobs and have either won a satellite to get into one [...]

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New Zealand Looking for Big Time Poker

Date: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 Internet

All around the world live poker events are cropping up in countries that never held them before, and in those nations where poker was already popular, the guaranteed prize pools keep going up and up. In the Southern Hemisphere the Aussie Millions has reigned supreme, but soon the neighboring New Zealand may give them a [...]

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Poker Pro Signs with Room

Date: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 Internet

It is a story that is becoming familiar, a poker pro does well in a major tournament, and he gets a contract to represent an online poker room. It happened again with Padraig Parkinson, an Irish poker player that is a bit of a legend in his home country, and has recently signed with online [...]

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WPT Spanish Victory

Date: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 Internet

The very first Spanish Championship held as part of the World Poker Tour has wrapped up and declared the first winner, and his name is Hansen. Not Gus Hansen, but Casper Hansen, who picked up a 400,000 euro prize and a seat in the World Poker Tour Championship at the end of the season, which [...]

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First $10k Mixed Game at WSOP Today

Date: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 Internet

Today is the fifth day of the 39th World Series of Poker, and also the opening day of the first $10,000 mixed game event for the venerable series. The $10k events have grown in popularity over the years as more and more players are finding financing through online poker rooms and super satellites. In addition [...]

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