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Online Sports Book To Launch Bitcoin Poker
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A leading Bitcoin online sports book will this week launch a poker client that will use the digital currency. Nitrogen Sports, which is based in Costa Rica, is joining the likes of Seals with Clubs, Silk Poker, Betcoin Poker, Switch Poker, WinPoker …

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Poker Strategy With Gavin Griffin: Looking Like An Idiot
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I think that quality applies well to poker also. I always wonder why some people muck their cards when they are caught bluffing. First of all, you never know when you might have the best hand or your opponent might have misread their hand. The equity …

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WPT Borgata Poker Open Day 1b: Darelene Lee On Top as 425 of 826 Entries …
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The World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open continued Monday as 826 entrants turned up for Day 1b, which brought the total field up to 1,226 entrants – the fourth largest WPT in history. A prize pool of $3,924,426 will be distributed to the top 120 players …

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Former Devils great Ken Daneyko makes transition to poker, signs sponsorship …
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The man named "Mr. Devil" has signed a sponsorship deal with online poker room partypoker, which currently operates legal online poker in the State of New Jersey, which will see Daneyko represent the company in various poker tournaments both live and …

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Mansion Poker Abandons UK iGaming Market
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Mansion Poker Abandons UK iGaming Market Ahead of the UK's new online gambling legislation due to be implemented on October 1st, Mansion Poker has become the first main operator to withdraw from the country's online gambling market. Up until now …

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Man assaulted with fireplace poker in Colorado Springs
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Police are searching for a man who allegedly attacked another man with a fireplace poker in northeast Colorado Springs on Monday night. Officers responded to a disturbance in the 6100 block Gunshot Pass Drive, west of Powers Boulevard, just after 6 p.m..

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This Week In Tournament Poker — Sept. 15 – 21
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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 September …

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Poker Strategy With Bernard Lee: Specific Tournament Situations and Tricks
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Bernard Lee Before the 2013 World Series of Poker, I wrote a column in Card Player about common betting mistakes that I see many amateurs make at the poker tables. These errors included oversized chip betting, accidental raises, string betting, unknown …

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Pettus: Forget voting; just draw straws, play strip poker
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Not by a straw poll. Not by a man named Mr. Straw. An actual straw. But the 177-177 special election runoff tie between alderman candidates David Glenn Bolin and Stephanie Bounds could have been even crazier. It almost was, because of a brand-new law …

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Could New Jersey become an international hub for online poker?
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The US has been slow to regulate online poker since the Department of Justice effectively closed down the market in 2011 when it indicted executives of the three largest online poker sites in the world. In the three and half years plus since “Black …

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WPT Borgata Poker Open Day 1a: Bianco Leads as 172 of 400 Advance
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The World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open kicked off on Sunday as 400 entrants turned up for Day 1a action. After eight levels of play, just 172 advanced to Day 2 with Ben Bianco and his stack of 389,000 leading the way. Also sitting with healthy stacks …

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Daniel Negreanu Critical of Poker Hall of Fame Choices
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Daniel Negreanu may be on the nominee short list himself this year, but when the latest Poker Hall of Fame finalists were unveiled this week, it caused an unexpected uproar from “Kid Poker” and certain members of the poker pro community. As word of the …

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Top Poker Tweets From The Pros: Mercier's Poker Dream, Devonshire's Stash
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“How often do u have dreams about poker? Used to happen to me a lot more but I probably still have 1 per week.. Last night (in my dream), I misclick opened c/o to 20k at 1/2k with QJo (200k stack)
 Button jammed 80k
 BB called all in for 70kish
 B4 …

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California Online Poker Closed Door Policy Problematic
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Yet across the world, online poker and many other forms of gambling have turned into a valuable market for many countries. Despite the popularity and potential for a steady stream of revenue, the US has only grudgingly embraced online poker in recent …

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Ben Bianco Finishes Strong to Top Day 1A of Borgata Poker Open
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Ben Bianco battled with Allyn Shulman for the chip lead during the last level of the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open. Bianco won a giant pot with pocket kings in the closing minutes of the final level to end the day with the chip lead with 389,000 …

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Poker Run benefits plane crash burn victim
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The occasion was a poker run and pool tournament to raise money benefiting Rachel “Ladybug” Lukasik, an 11-year-old girl badly injured in a fiery single-engine plane crash Sept. 2 near Showdown Ski Area in the Little Belt Mountains. It was organized by …

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Henry Smzelcer wins 2014 Poker SA $2400 Diamond Event
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The 2014 Poker SA Diamond Series drew to a close on Sunday evening. A massive week of poker was capped off by Henry Szmelcer winning the $2,400 Diamond Event and Bruno Portaro winning the $3,700 Diamond High Roller. It's been an absolutely …

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Partypoker.NJ Qualified Jeffrey Gross for the Borgata Poker Open
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Jeffrey Gross is a 50 year-old semi-professional poker player from New Jersey that won a satellite on partypoker.nj for his seat in the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open. He turned a $100 investment on the site into a seat worth $3,500 and has …

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