Poker Hand of the Week: 10/2/15
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Give us your opinion in the comments section below for your chance at winning a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription. Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they'll come up with dozens of different opinions. That's …

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Online Poker: Jens 'Jeans89' Kyllönen Wins $635000 In September
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Finnish poker pro Jens “Jeans89” Kyllönen was the biggest winner in the online poker world in September, capturing $635,283 in profits, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. It took him roughly 9,500 hands to win that amount. On the flip side …

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First computer date: Sam the poker player (without wine)
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“Poker.” Swell. MatingWorld had matched me up with Maverick. His favorite destination? Vegas. Newspaper? The Daily Racing Form. By the time our entrees arrived, I glumly accepted the fact that all I would get out of this date was an excellent meal …

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Matt Savage to Host Poker Central's Original Show Inside Poker
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The production of Inside Poker, an original poker show by Poker Central, the only 24/7 poker television network in the world, began at Fort Lauderdale in Florida on August 16 when the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was being held. Matt Savage, the …

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FireKeepers hosts Michigan poker championship Oct. 15-18
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The Mid-States Poker Tour returns to FireKeepers Casino and Resort in Battle Creek for the Michigan State Poker Championship on Oct. 15-18. The main event sports a $200K guarantee and qualifiers began Sept. 11. The last time FireKeepers hosted this …

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Golden Nugget Closes Free-Play Poker Site
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A free-play poker site from the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas has closed up shop, the brick-and-mortar casino's live poker room said on Twitter last week. Apparently there was some confusion about an email sent out to the site's users, according to the tweet.

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Online poker companies get OK to operate in N.J.
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Chris Grove, editor of OnlinePokerReport.com, said PokerStars, the world's largest poker website, will boost New Jersey's online poker industry, but it is still too small to support many such sites without adding players from other jurisdictions where …

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Stones Gambling Hall Introduces First-Of-Its-Kind Limit Poker Challenge
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Stones Gambling Hall today announced its first major live poker challenge event—the $100,000 Limit Poker Challenge. Since opening just over a year ago, the Stones Poker Saloon has quickly become a destination for live action poker for everyone from …

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Card Player Poker Tour: The Bike Results Events 5-8
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The eighth stop of Season III of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at The Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, Calif. Sept. 21. The series will continue until Oct. 14 and feature a $1,100 no-limit hold'em $500,000 estimated guarantee main event Oct. 10 …

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Irish Poker Player Patrick Hicks Passes Away At 71
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Hicks, who used to regularly visit Dublin's Fitzwilliam Card Club, will never be forgotten by anybody who had the pleasure to meet him and interact with him. He is widely known not just for his poker talents, but also for his pleasant nature. Dara O …

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Daniel Negreanu: Don't Trust the Authors of Poker Books
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There are hundreds of poker books out there that run the gamut of covering various strategies, the mental part of the game, and books that lean toward biographies and recount the lives of pro players who made their way to the top. No matter your …

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7 Deadly Sins of Poker Tournaments
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Each of us is guilty of making huge errors in judgment from time to time while playing poker tournaments. However, with experience you avoid many of the major errors that beginners often repeat with frequency. These “deadly sins,” as we will call them …

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