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Taking Chances: The World Poker Fund Holdings
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A couple of days ago I was asked by one of my readers to cover the World Poker Fund Holdings (OTCPK:WPFH) in one of my articles, discussing their shares, chances, risks and business outlook. I never heard about them before, so it got me interested.

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BlogNews Weekly: MPC Records Broken, Craig McCorkell Interview, Grand Prix …
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Each week, PokerNews brings you insight into the happenings at the major poker sites. Featuring the most popular blog posts, BlogNews Weekly is your one-stop shop for all your poker blog highlights. This week, the BlogNews Weekly brings you highlights …

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Italian Gambling Ban Would Further Asphyxiate Online Poker Market
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An Italian gambling bill that would effectively ban all forms of online poker advertising could heap further misery on the country's underperforming poker market. The bill, which seeks to implement a complete ban on all forms of gambling advertising …

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Card Player Poker Tour Los Angeles Swing Begins September 21
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One year has passed since the Card Player Poker Tour awarded more than $2.3 million to poker players across Los Angeles. Action this year begins Sept. 21 when the first tournament of the 2015 CPPT Los Angeles swing gets underway at the Bicycle Casino …

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Poker Pro Phil Hellmuth To Participate In Reddit AMA
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The AMA is in celebration of the debut pf Poker Central, the world's only 24/7 Poker TV channel, on Oct. 1. Leading up to the launch, Poker Central organized several premier poker events this summer, most notably the $500,000 buy-in Super High Roller …

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High-Stakes Poker Organizer, 'Professional Mistress' Sentenced To Five Years …
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One of her gambling operations was an underground high-stakes poker game. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the poker games began after Guo befriended an unidentified foreign professional poker player during one of her trips to Macau, the …

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WSOP Unveils Finalists For Poker Hall Of Fame
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The other main criteria for the Poker Hall of Fame are that the player must have “played poker against acknowledged top competition” and “for high stakes,” while playing “consistently well” and “gaining the respect of peers.” The player must have …

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MOVING UP STAKES: Some insight on moving up to bigger poker games
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Like most things in poker, there's no set rule about when and how to move up to the next stake. Different players have different skill levels and risk tolerances, so each individual will handle moving up differently. There are some guidelines that …

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Amaya Brings Norwegian Poker Championships Home at Last
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The Norwegian Poker Championships, after years in the wilderness, will make a return to home soil at last. Draconian gambling laws that have in recent years exiled the championships to far flung cities in the UK, Ireland, Latvia and Sweden have finally …

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California Assemblyman Reschedules iPoker Bill for August Hearing
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The date of the hearing may not be known, but what is becoming crystal clear is the mood at and following the hearing will let us know if online poker has any chance of passing in 2015. Most observers are of the opinion it will now take a miracle for …

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RunGood Poker Hard Rock Tulsa Kicks Off Wednesday; $100K Main Event this Weekend
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The RunGood Poker Series continues its "Road to the RunGood Cup" this week with the RunGood Hard Rock Tulsa, which kicks off this Wednesday, September 16th with a $180 RG Deep Stack event featuring two starting flights and a $20,000 Guarantee.

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Bated Breath: Daniel Negreanu On the Verge of the November Nine
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Daniel Negreanu, the most marketed and marketable player in poker, is within spitting distance of making the final table of the 2015 WSOP Main Event. With 27 players left, he's sitting in ninth place with just one day of play left before everything …

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James Chen Wins Macau Poker Cup 23 High Roller for $220000
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Yue Feng Pan captured headlines when he topped a record summer series field of 945 players to win the Macau Poker Cup 23 (MPC23) Main Event for HK$2,108,000 (approx. $272,000), but just a couple days later another man captured a nearly equal prize …

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Three Sure-Fire Steps to Improving Your Poker Skills
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If you've spent more than, oh, about five minutes hanging around the poker world, I think you'll see the face of just about every poker player reflected in the mirror of that general truth. Surely, then, the necessary first step in fixing poker …

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Russian Poker Tour to Hit Minsk With $1500000 Grand Final on Sept. 17
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Poker players in Europe are getting ready for one of the hottest festivals of the season, as the Russian Poker Tour (RPT) plans to throw the biggest poker event in Eastern Europe in 2015, taking place in Minsk, Belarus, from Sept. 17-27. To be held at …

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Hold'em with Holloway: Things to Say and Do When You Bust a Poker Tournament
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For most players, busting a poker tournament is an emotional experience. It's the point where players — no matter how well they played — must accept the fact that their tournament life is over. Sometimes it doesn't hurt much (maybe you were short for …

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Pia Jeppesen Wins the 2015 Genting Poker Series Stoke Main Event
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Pia Jeppesen became only the second female to win a Genting Poker Series (GPS) Main Event title after she outlasted 283 opponents in Stoke to get her hands on the winner's trophy and ÂŁ30,660 in prize money.

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Man jailed for poker attack hits cellmate with food tray
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FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — An 18-year-old Delta Junction charged with beating his step-father with a fireplace poker is facing additional assault charges for hitting his cellmate with a food tray. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports (http://bit.ly …

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