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Casino and poker divisions drive 888 revenue growth
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Online gaming operator 888 Holdings has highlighted the performances of its poker and casino divisions as key factors in a 7% year-on-year rise in revenue for the first half of 2013. The company's sales increased to $200.1 million (€149.5 million) in …

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Poker room at Md.'s largest casino to open
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HANOVER, Md. (AP) — The 52-table poker room at Maryland's largest casino is set to open to the public. Dealers will start shuffling cards at Maryland Live! Casino in Hanover at noon on Wednesday. A grand opening ceremony will be held at 11 a.m..

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888 boss plans further online poker expansion
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888 – which runs online poker, casino, bingo and sports betting services primarily in the UK and Europe – was forced out of the US in 2006 after an online gambling crackdown, but the market has slowly opened up. Regulatory difficulties have held up …

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Poker tournament is no flop
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Hard Rock poker director Bill Mason says the momentum started on Aug. 8 with the first event of the 33-tournament Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. That first tournament cost $350 to enter and drew more than 3,300 entries. Players who busted out could …

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Poker Room At Maryland Live! Casino To Open
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HANOVER, Md. (AP/WJZ) — The 52-table poker room at Maryland's largest casino is set to open to the public. Dealers will start shuffling cards at Maryland Live! Casino in Hanover at noon on Wednesday. A grand opening ceremony will be held at 11 a.m..

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Maryland Live poker room to open
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The 52-table poker room at Maryland's largest casino is set to open to the public. Dealers will start shuffling cards at Maryland Live Casino in Hanover at noon on Wednesday. A grand opening ceremony will be held at 11 a.m.. Maryland Live opened in …

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Final Table Set In $10 Million Guaranteed Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open …
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The final table is set in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $5,300 no-limit hold'em main event in Hollywood, Florida. A gigantic field of 2,384 entries blew away the event's $10,000,000 guarantee, building a final prize pool of over $11.9 million. Now …

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Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open: Bonomo Discusses Making the Final Table …
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Justin Bonomo is second in chips heading into the final table of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10 Million Guarantee Championship Event on Wednesday. On Tuesday, after bagging his chips, Bonomo was kind enough to spend a few minutes with …

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Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open: Crunching the Numbers on Day 4
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In four hours of play on Day 4, 11 players have been eliminated from the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10 Million Guarantee Championship Event, and the remaining 10 players have formed the unofficial final table. It looks like this: …

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Player's reaction to losing hand at World Series of Poker is soul-crushing
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What we have here is an all-in situation from this summer's World Series of Poker main event, which aired during Tuesday's episode on ESPN, deep into the tournament. If you know how to play no-limit Texas hold 'em, the situation is clear. If you don't …

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Nadal Will Play In Poker Tournament
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Rafael Nadal will be hoping to polish his poker when he downs racquets temporarily to play in his first pro poker tournament as part of his sponsorship with the PokerStars website. The Spanish tennis powerhouse is set to playing an event in the Czech …

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Promos and Defections Influence Online Poker Player Traffic
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Those are the highlights of recent online poker player traffic numbers as compiled by industry independent tracking site PokerScout. Full Tilt showed an increase of 14% of players last week by offering the Build Your Bonus promotion that allows 37 …

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AGA To Use Poker Movie To Push For Regulation
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Reuters reported that the U.S. casino lobby is going to be using the release of the online poker flick Runner, Runner to advocate the need for regulation on real-money Internet gaming activity. According to an email obtained by Reuters, American Gaming …

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European Poker Tour President Edgar Stuchly on the Upcoming Season 10 and …
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Season 10 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour kicked off this week in Barcelona, Spain. PokerNews has already set the stage with our EPT Barcelona Numbers Look and a special Where Are They Now featuring all nine past champions. Now, we'll …

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Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open: Pahuja Discusses Poker in Florida, Going …
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Mukul Pahuja is a professional poker player who grew up in New York and then moved to Florida. At the time this was published he was the chip leader of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10 Million Guarantee Championship Event, and he discusses …

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World Series champ Greg Merson on Maryland Live's new poker room: 'Elite'
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When Greg Merson got hooked on poker as a Laurel teenager in the mid-2000s, he had to find private games if he wanted to play locally. “I started playing in home games around the area,” Merson said. “I played all different stakes in underground games …

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bestbet Jacksonville Offers Players Additional Perks as Part of Card Player …
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Coming off the $10 million guarantee Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open being held at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida Aug. 22-29, bestbet Jacksonville will offer players from that tournament an incentive to come north. Players who …

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Poker Legend Bobby Hoff Dead At 73
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I won 40 times in a row and thought I was surely the best poker player in the world. I won $8,000 in those 40 sessions. In 1959, that was just amazing. So, I thought I was not only the best poker player in the world, but one of the richest ones. I soon …

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