Online Poker

Urindaner Has a Rough Weekend at Poker Tables

This past weekend saw the usual insane action at the nosebleed tables over on Full Tilt Poker. As all railbirds know, Full Tilt Poker is the place to go to see all kinds of crazy action. Nowhere else on the internet can someone sit down and watch hundreds of thousands of dollars change hands [...]

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Controversy Surrounding Online Poker Instructor, Jason Ho

Over the past several years, as online poker players have evolved from a sea of fish to a more overall competent player pool, players seek out to get whatever edge they can. Whereas in the past, players sought advice in books from successful players, the technological age has paved the way for virtual teaching [...]

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Details on the Ultimate Bet Freeroll Challenge

The last six months has seen virtually all of the major online poker sites bless their customer bases with promotion after promotion, vaulting each into seemingly daily headlines. While some promotions are more innovative than others, and people have different opinions over which is best, everyone can agree on one thing – that the [...]

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Poker Pro Brian Townsend Loses Half a Million in Single Session

With his month long suspension imposed by Full Tilt Poker in his rear-view mirror, sponsored pro Brian Townsend may be wishing the suspension had lasted longer. This is because the embattled and highly criticized Townsend suffered over a half million dollars during a single session. Townsend decided to step out of his comfort zone and [...]

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Did iPoker Renege on Jackpot Payment?

The forums at twoplustwo.com are burning up with a report that iPoker.com has reneged on a promotion which offered $160,000 as it’s grand prize. In the promotion, called the Fort Knox SNG Jackpot, players had one goal, to win 6 consecutive 6-max sit and go poker tournaments. The original author of the thread, [...]

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Bad Beat Jackpot at Carbon Poker Over $250,000

CarbonPoker’s Bad Beat Jackpot is currently well above a $250,000. The next time a player gets beaten while holding a hand of quad 7s or higher the lucky loser, the hand’s actual winner, and the rest of the players who happen to be sitting at that table all win big.
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Durrrr Up on Antonius by $1 Million Dollars in Challenge

The matchup that never ends hit a milestone of sorts over the weekend, as Tom “durrrr” Dwan turned of the heat on a beleaguered Patrik Antonius and added to his already commanding lead in the durrrr challenge, pushing his lead to a whopping million dollars at Full Tilt Poker. This development is leaving observers, [...]

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Poker Pros Ivey and Ziigmund Up in 2010

Even the greatest poker players in the world can have a rough night. Back in the beginning of 2009, Phil Ivey got off to a less than stellar start online at Full Tilt Poker posting a losing quarter during the 1st 3 months of the year. However, he quickly recovered and posted some [...]

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Win Free Tickets to the Super Bowl from PokerStars

Online poker site, Pokerstars, is giving players a chance to win pairs of tickets to the 2010 Super Bowl in Miami Florida. We are not aware of any other poker site offering this unique promotion, so here’s a great way to play some poker and possibly earn your way to sunny Miami for football’s biggest [...]

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Cake Poker Snatches WSOP Bracelet on Ebay

Things aren’t always rosy in terms of finances for professional poker players. The ebbs and flows of variance which accompanies the game can be brutal, especially when coupled with other money leaks such as craps, blackjack or sports betting. When things are running bad for stretches of time, even players who seemingly have [...]

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Online Poker Sites Raise $1.5 Million

In what can only be viewed as a public relations win for the online poker community, the Poker Players Alliance is reporting that online poker players have combined to donate $1.5 million in cash to relief efforts for earthquake ravaged Haiti. In a press released issued yesterday by the PPA, Chairman and former Senator [...]

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How Will PokerStars Regain the Spotlight?

For the last several years, PokerStars has ruled the online poker world. They currently, and have for quite some time, been the world’s largest online poker site. At any given time of the day, there are more players playing on PokerStars than any other poker site in the world. As such, often [...]

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Doyle Brunson Political Tweet Causes Stir

The social networking tool, Twitter, has quickly become a worldwide phenomena. It provides users to send out and read messages from anyone in the world. People from all walks of life are there, from the common person to well-known bold faced celebrities. The poker world, in turn, has followed the lead of [...]

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Spitting Incident at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

As was previously reported, PokerStars got the poker year rolling with one of the biggest live sponsored tournament series, the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA). As players have began returning home from playing at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas, details have begun to emerge about a rather ugly incident that occurred during one [...]

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