Betting on a new career
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Andrew Barber decided to change his career to finance from poker soon after April 15, 2011, when the FBI shut down the top U.S. online gambling websites on a day that has become known in wagering circles as Black Friday. Barber, a 30-year-old Cornell …

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Poker Hall of Fame Nominations Open Until August 15
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On July 22nd the WSOP opened up nominations for the 2013 induction class into the Poker Hall of Fame. Nominations will be accepted until August 15th, and people are allowed to vote for whomever they think is worthy of being enshrined. The class will be …

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OnlinePokerRealMoney.co Discusses the US Poker Landscape
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OnlinePokerRealMoney.co has brought light to the strides made on the US poker frontline, more so at the state level than the federal. The company says that with the progress made over the past few months, widespread state-legal online poker is not just …

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Benefits boosted for online players at Full Tilt Poker Galway Festival
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ONCHAN, Isle of Man — (PRESS RELEASE) — With an array of tickets to be won (both online and live), lively entertainment, bundles of competitions and exclusive benefits for online players the Full Tilt Poker Galway Festival is set to be two weeks of …

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Poker Hand Of The Week: 7/25/13
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Give us your opinion in the comments section below for your chance at winning a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription. Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they'll come up with dozens of different opinions. That's …

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Ultimate Gaming wins final approval for intrastate Internet poker system
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What it means: In what was hailed as a historic event, Station Casinos subsidiary Ultimate Gaming won final approval for its intrastate Internet poker system. Ultimate Gaming Chief Technology Officer Chris Derossi reported that during its 90-day trial …

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Global Poker Index: Peters, Negreanu Catching Volpe for Player of the Year
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Each week, the Global Poker Index releases a list of the top 300 tournament poker players in the world using a formula that takes a player's results over six half-year periods. The GPI also ranks the top performers of the year over two six-month …

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Embarrassing Episode for Poker Dominicano Casts Shadow on Site
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Poker Dominicano recently came under a great deal of fire for how they, mostly the owner, dealt with customers in a thread on 2+2 which escalated to the point of the owner of Poker Dominicano serving 2+2 with a cease and desist letter. The insults and …

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The State of Poker Ten Years After Moneymaker's Historic Win
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Earlier this month marked ten years that Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, an occurrence that many say was the reason for the boom in poker's popularity. It's a story that has become one of the biggest and widely …

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Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw: Some Preliminary Event Results
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Choctaw Casino The Card Player Poker Tour has pulled into Durant, Oklahoma at the Choctaw Casino for a 54-event series that kicked off July 18. The series will conclude with a $1,500+$120 no-limit hold'em main event that begins on Aug. 1 and features a …

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Fan Nominations Being Accepted For 2013 Poker Hall Of Fame Class
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According to the WSOP, the process works as follows: All submissions will be tabulated and the top 10 nominations will be reviewed by the Poker Hall of Fame Governing Council. The living Poker Hall of Fame members and a media panel will then cast votes …

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888 Poker for US Players
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888 Poker might not be a name familiar to the casual fan of online poker in America, but it's a name that is about to get a whole lot more recognition. In fact, it could turn out to be the most prominent name in American online poker. To understand why …

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Wall Street Heavyweights Play $50000 Charity Poker Tournament Tuesday Night
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Einhorn. Credit: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg On Tuesday night the fourth annual “Take 'Em To School Poker Tournament” was held in New York City. Some of the biggest names on Wall Street, in addition to some poker pros, were in attendance. The event …

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Mobile Poker Club Launches Fast-Fold Poker
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Mike Hamilton of Mobile Poker Club said: “The games at Mobile Poker Club just got a whole lot faster and more exciting with the launch of Next! Poker. If you get dealt something like 7-2 or 8-4, then just fold your hand and you're transferred to a new …

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Atlantis Casino Resort Spa In Reno Hosting World Poker Tour Regional Western …
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Atlantis Casino Report Spa In Reno The Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, Nevada will be hosting the World Poker Tour Regional Western Poker Challenge from September 13th through 23rd. This year there is sure to be a tournament for every type of …

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Full Tilt Poker Reveals Four New Red Pros and UKIPT Ambassadors Ahead of …
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Full Tilt Poker has announced the names of four Tour Ambassadors to represent the online poker room at all stops of the UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT). Martins Adeniya, Sinem Melin, Dermot Blain and Ben Jenkins will participate in each UKIPT Main …

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Hendon Mob Acquired by Global Poker Index
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The Hendon Mob website is highly regarded by poker players and fans as the most comprehensive database of poker players, venues, festivals, events and live tournament poker results in the world today. Its site provides information on over 250,000 …

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How Dana Castaneda and Loni Harwood made poker history in Las Vegas
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In most live poker tournaments with open registration, women tend to make up between three to five percent of the fields on average. Math is hard, but the odds on one of them winning those events are slim. So when a woman plows through a tough …

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