Lock Poker Player Traffic Drops 15%
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Lock Poker, widely known as a U.S.-facing poker site in which withdrawal requests have been languishing and repeated empty promises from customer support that those cashouts are on their way to players, has seen its cash game player traffic decline by …

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Tournament Poker Has Lost Its Way Part 2: The Solutions
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Robbery at EPT Berlin In Part 1 of this series (sorry it took so long to get Part 2 up) I discussed some of the ways tournament poker has strayed from its true path, and the unintended consequences this straying from the path has brought on – not …

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CPPT II – Big Poker Oktober
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CPPT II – Big Poker Oktober. $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em. Follow-the-action · Andrew Miramontes Shoves River. Melanie Weisner raised to 1,300 from middle position and was called by Andrew Miramontes from the cutoff, a player on the button, the small blind …

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Card Player Poker Tour Bicycle Casino Results: Events 3,7 & 8
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The ninth stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California Sept. 21 and will host a series of tournaments through Oct. 15 culminating with a $1,100 no-limit hold'em $500,000 estimated …

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European Poker Tour and UKIPT Combine Forces in London
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The European Poker Tour (EPT) and the United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) have joined forces once again, this time around in London. The UKIPT began its last stop in 2014 at the Hippodrome Casino on Oct. 7 with a huge £150+£15 super …

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Phil Hellmuth Guns For His 14th World Series of Poker Bracelet In Australia
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Hellmuth is currently fifth in chips of six players remaining in the 2014 WSOP Asia Pacific $2,200 AUD six-max no-limit hold'em event at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. This is the 'Poker Brat's' 108th cash and 51st final table finish in a …

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Sweden Poker Tax Evaders Getting Online Scrutiny
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According to an interview conducted on Swedish Radio News, Skatterverket spokesperson Dag Hardyson stated that the tax organization was actively investigating players by presenting screen names of poker grinders to various known offshore tax havens.

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Malta Added as a New Destination for the European Poker Tour
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Like many other stops on the “Tour”, the dates and venue have been specifically chosen to coincide with a regional tour – in this case the Italian Poker Tour (IPT) – meaning that there will be in excess of forty poker tournaments played over eleven …

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Hollywood Poker Open Season 3 Only One Month Away
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The Season 3 of the HPO schedule features eight stops, including a new one at the Hollywood Casino Toledo from Feb. 5-16. Each stop will include a Main Event as well as qualifiers for the season-ending championship at the M Resort Casino Spa in Las …

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Making Moves: The Stop-and-Go in Tournament Poker
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When you are short-stacked in a no-limit hold'em tournament — say, down to less than 10 big blinds — your options are necessarily limited. In a lot of cases, you really only have one “move” left that is available to use, and that's an all-in raise or …

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Daniel Negreanu Slams Online Poker Regulars
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Overall, the online regulars are discontented with the addition of the new format claiming that it will kill their games – the classic Sit & Go's – and poker in general as an environment where skill prevails in the long run. For Daniel Negreanu though …

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Phil Ivey's Online Poker Slide Continues
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So far this year, the poker pro is down more than $2.4 million. The 10-time bracelet winner is still facing a lawsuit from Atlantic City's Borgata casino over $9.6 million he won there in 2012. The big loser over the past seven days online was SanIker …

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Judge: Poker Pro Phil Ivey Cheated At Casino
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Eventually, and as a result of the Crockfords incident going public, Atlantic City's Borgata casino sued Ivey for $9.6 million, saying that the poker pro also edge sorted against them in 2012. In the Borgata case, the casino is trying to recoup the …

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PPA Clarifies Stance Regarding Rumored iGaming Ban With Poker Carveout
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The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) hasn't decided to monumentally shift their position on online poker legislation. Unfortunately, this was not the messaging received by the poker community following a PokerNews.com article published Thursday morning …

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Beer and poker: the last conversation
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Thumbnail image for al-martinez-sketch.jpg When old men get together over poker and a few beers they no longer talk only about babes and politics. They also talk about their bladders and their prostate glands. On this night they hit three out of four.

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Card Player Poker Tour Bicycle Casino Results: Events 4-5
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The ninth stop of Season II of the Card Player Poker Tour kicked off at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California Sept. 21 and will host a series of tournaments through Oct. 15 culminating with a $1,100 no-limit hold'em $500,000 estimated …

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Poker Tell Advice for Beginning Players
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If you're fairly new to poker, there's a good chance you might place too much emphasis on poker tells. Beginning poker players often think that winning poker is about being able to “soul read” your opponent by picking up on small gestures, expressions, …

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Poker Players Alliance to Fight Against Poker-Only Carve-Out in U.S. Federal Bill
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The Poker Players Alliance will be fighting to stop any legislation to prohibit online gambling from passing in the lame-duck session of Congress, even if it contains a carve out for poker. "I think the way the industry is developing, our best-case …

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