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Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw Main Event Starts Friday
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Choctaw Durant Casino The next stop on the Card Player Poker Tour is in Durant, Oklahoma at the Choctaw Casino Resort. The 54-event series started on July 18th and ends on August 4th. The $1,620 no-limit hold'em main event is scheduled to begin on …

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Andrew Brokos — Just A Cooler
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Andrew Brokos As I, and I think most poker players use the term, a cooler is a situation where you believe that both players were correct to play a big pot with the hands they had. Of course only one of them won, but in your opinion, the loser of the …

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Making Progress: Casual poker interest reaches new heights
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Recently, I have being blogging about our Women's Poker League I set up after falling in love with Texas Hold'em poker. The purpose was to get more women interested in poker and dispel the myth that it's a man's game. That first night of my Women's …

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Bumping 'N' Grinding
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Contrary to what some critics say, highly skilled multi-tablers are not playing a mindless form of poker. Undoubtedly, focusing on only one table allows you to think more deeply about each decision than when you're playing ten tables. However, skilled …

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The proving ground for amateurs
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The proving ground for amateurs. HOODIED whizz kids with designer shades and more money in their poker bankroll than you have ever saved in your bank account. By Marbella Slim/ Published 3rd August 2013. poker, Amateur poker The Amateur Poker …

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"Prop" poker players paid to bet at Colo. casinos
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In this Thursday, July 18, 2013 photo, proposition player Dane Rhodes, center, poses for a portrait with casino staff Angie Hardesty, left, and Mary Baznik, at the Wildwood Casino in Cripple Creek, Colo. Rhodes works forty hors per week at the Gold …

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Dana's Dream Poker Run raises money to fight Leukemia
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DESOTO, MO (KTVI) – 145 area motorcyclists fired up their bikes to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The event was Dana's Dream Poker Run on Saturday, July 27th. It's held in memory of Dana Haverstick who died of leukemia at age 25.

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World Series Of Poker Europe Releases 2013 Schedule, To Host 'Ladies Event …
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Hellmuth won the WSOPE main event last year The World Series of Poker has announced its schedule for the 2013 series in Europe, which will be held, just like last year, near Paris, France. The WSOPE kicks off Friday, Oct. 11 with a brand new event.

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Gus Hansen Now Down $10.4 Million Lifetime On Full Tilt Poker
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Gus Hansen lost $114,498 (according to HighstakesDB) on Thursday, which brings his lifetime losses on Full Tilt Poker to an incredible $10.4 million. The Dane has lost about $3.4 million more than the next worst in the tracking history. Hansen is …

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World Poker Tour Names Ali Nejad and Olivier Busquet as WPT Alpha8 …
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When WPT Alpha8™ premieres on FOX Sports 1 in early 2014, World Poker Tour's brand new series of super high-roller tournaments will introduce two of poker's most popular personalities – Ali Nejad and Olivier Busquet – as the show's commentators …

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Niantic Poker Run Raises More Than $20000 For Leukemia
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Since its inception in 2009 the Poker Run has raising almost $80,000. This year it raised over $20,000 which will go towards lifesaving research and patient services, bringing help and hope to patients and their families. The money raised came not only …

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Poker players score $51000 in presents as The Beast turns one at Americas …
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — (PRESS RELEASE) — It looks like August's Beast leaderboard prize is just icing on the cake. Popular online poker site Americas Cardroom today announced that it's giving away an extra $51,000 in celebration of The Beast's 1-year …

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Milestone: Ultimate Poker Deals 10 Millionth Hand
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Ultimate Poker may only be in its fourth month of operation, but the first and only regulated online poker site in the US celebrated another milestone yesterday. The site dealt its 10 millionth hand of real money poker on Thursday, something which had …

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Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw Main Event Begins Friday At Noon In Durant …
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In August 2012, Maxx Dansky was on his way back home to Nashville, Tennessee when he decided to stop off for some poker at Choctaw. After four days of battling it out in the $1,000 CPPT main event, the 25-year-old poker pro emerged victorious, taking …

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Ali Nejad, Olivier Busquet Join World Poker Tour as Commentators for Alpha8 …
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The World Poker Tour's new super high-roller tournament series, the Alpha8, kicks off this month at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla. The event will be televised on FOX Sports 1 next year with two brand new commentators, both of …

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On poker: Ex-roommate has bright future
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There were high expectations for Dan Smith going into the 2013 World Series of Poker. He had made so many final tables in 2012 that he finished either first or second in the rankings of every poker company that tracks tournament results. And he had …

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Caesars Still Expecting Online Poker Launch This Summer
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The month of July has ended and the poker world is still waiting on the launch of a World Series of Poker-branded online poker site to hit the Internet in Nevada. Though there hasn't been any new updates since Caesars Entertainment Corp. not long ago …

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Atlantic City's Revel to close poker room
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – Atlantic City's Revel Casino-Hotel is folding its poker room next month. The Press of Atlantic City (http://bit.ly/1clYy0Z ) reports the casino said in a statement the decision to close was made in an effort to further …

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