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The Interim Poker Room at SugarHouse Is Bathed in Underglow
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The temporary poker room at the SugarHouse Casino just opened its doors on Nov. 1 — and guess what? It's got that new-car smell. Aside from the 24 new tables with table side food, beverage and massage service, the place looks like Fast and the Furious …

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2014 Seneca Fall Poker Classic: Bracken, Cleveland Lead as 28 Advance in …
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The 2014 Seneca Fall Poker Classic continued Monday in Niagara Falls, New York with Event #2, a $125 no-limit hold'em tournament with a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool. The tournament features six separate starting flights across three days, and Flights …

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This Week In Tournament Poker — November 3 – 9
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In this Card Player weekly feature we look to provide our readers with a guide to some of the biggest poker events taking place in their area for the upcoming week. Check out all the tournament action set to go down in your own backyard from November …

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Is Yahoo! Getting Into the Online Poker Game?
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There is no way to really know what their plan is for poker, but if it were to become legal they would have a huge advantage over most other companies in the market with their database of users and the money they could spend to build or buy good …

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Steve O'Dwyer Wins 2014 Asia Championship Of Poker Super High Roller
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Steve O'Dwyer In recent years Macau has become the new locus of ultra high-stakes poker action, at first in cash games and increasingly in the tournament realm. The latest massive event to go down in the world's largest gambling center was the 2014 …

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Steve O'Dwyer wins $1.8M in Asia Championship of Poker Super High Roller …
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Seventeen months after a career victory at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo, US-born poker pro Stephen O'Dwyer (GPI No. 313) finally returned to the winners' circle earlier today, defeating over 50 of the game's best in the $500,000 HKD buy-in Super …

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Poker Strategy With Dusty Schmidt: Defending The Blind
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Dusty Schmidt In this series of articles, I break down every poker play in the book. Literally. That's why it's called The Playbook! So far, we've considered what to do when a player has raised in front of you and you are not in the blinds. Now we'll …

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UK PokerNews Round-Up: Companies Perform Well; Stuart Pearce Learns Poker
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The past several days have been relatively quiet in regards to poker in the United Kingdom and Ireland, but there has still been plenty to talk about. Some of the companies listed on the London Stock Exchange posted excellent figures, there were the …

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2014 Seneca Fall Poker Classic: Pusmucans, Smith Dominate Opening Flights …
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The 2014 Seneca Fall Poker Classic continued Sunday with the start of Event #2, a $125 buy-in no-limit hold'em event with a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool. The special event features six separate starting flights across three days with the survivors …

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Geopolitical poker
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A new round of geopolitical poker is due to be played out in the Eastern Mediterranean in the coming weeks. Ankara does not seem prepared to back down in regards to Cyprus's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and it looks like Turkey will continue its …

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Lawyers For Poker Player Claim Illegal Search
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Lawyers for the defendants in this summer's alleged illegal gambling bust that implicated high-stakes poker player Paul Phua are arguing that the government violated their fourth amendment rights. In other words, certain evidence must be suppressed.

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PokerStars Announces Rake Increase on November 4
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Announced only few days after the introduction of a new currency exchange rate, the two changes are part of what PokerStars Head of Corporate Communications Eric Hollreiser called PokerStars' commitment " to keeping poker exciting, fresh, and relevant …

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A Hand Matchup from the 2014 EPT London ÂŁ4250 No-Limit Hold'em
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Preflop, with the blinds at 3,000 and 6,000 and a 1,000 ante, Tazon went all-in from the button, Miettinen called in the small blind, Mroczek went all-in from the big blind, and Miettinen called and was all-in.

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Poker Night in America's Joe Sartori Dies Aged 55
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Poker Night in America's Joe Sartori Dies Aged 55 On Wednesday, October 29th, Joe Sartori, 55, passed away following a brief battle with inoperable stomach cancer. The long time poker industry stalwart and much respected member of the TV show 'Poker …

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Poker Is Not Supposed to Be an Easy Game to Beat
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I've made this argument before but it bears repeating after this past Thursday's outrage: Poker sites made a major miscalculation when they allowed break even and slight losing players to still grind out a living thanks to rakeback and VIP rewards – in …

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A Poker Life: Joe Kuether
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Joe Kuether represents the last of a generation. The Wisconsin native was among the final players to emerge from the pre-Black Friday online poker era and, as a result, at 25-years-old, he is one of the younger American pros on the tournament circuit …

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How Offshore Poker Sites Impact Regulated US Markets
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The regulated online poker markets in the US may have suffered greatly due to competition from offshore online poker operators in the initial stages, but now most of the biggest US-facing offshore online poker rooms have announced that they no longer …

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Poker ace is flush as his winnings top ÂŁ1m mark
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AN ACE poker player is celebrating after taking his total career winnings past the ÂŁ1 million mark. Craig McCorkell, 26, scooped ÂŁ178,000 at one of the biggest poker events earlier this month. His third-place finish at the Pokerstars European Poker …

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