Is Carbon Poker Closing Shop? Smoke Says Maybe
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Further spurring rumors that Carbon Poker might be in trouble was a notice to affiliates indicating that their affiliations would be shutting down as of June 1. The letter also said no new players would be accepted into the affiliates program as of …

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Poker Hand of the Week: 5/15/15
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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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Internet Poker: Phil Ivey Has Huge Week At Virtual Tables
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Poker pro Phil Ivey won $280,000 on Full Tilt over the past seven days, according to tracking from HighstakesDB. Ivey was the second-largest winner over the stretch, trailing only Ben “Ben86” Tollerene's $373,000 in winnings at the virtual tables …

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bestbet Orange Park offers Poker 101 classes on May 23 and June 20
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bestbet Orange Park will offer Poker 101 seminars on Saturday, May 23 and Saturday, June 20 at 455 Park Ave. beginning at 12 pm noon until 5 pm each day. The classes will cover poker basics such as hand rankings and table etiquette along with an …

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Daniel 'Jungleman' Cates to Play MPN Poker Tour in Tbilisi, Georgia
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American high-stakes regular Daniel 'Jungleman' Cates has confirmed his attendance to the upcoming MPN Poker Tour Tbilisi, as event organized by Adjarabet and the Microgaming Poker Network. Built around a five-event schedule highlighted by a $550 …

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Asian-facing operator 138.com launches poker with Microgaming
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The company already offers a 138-branded sportsbook and casino, and describes the launch of its poker offering as the addition of its first “mind sport” to its product portfolio. It has launched download and instant play clients, and will follow this …

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PokerScout Report: Online Poker Cash Game Traffic Down for Fourth Straight …
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Last week was another bad one for online poker, as PokerScout reported that the industry's cash game traffic dipped a fairly significant five percent, the fourth straight week of declining numbers. In the top ten of PokerScout's rankings, half the …

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Tiger Woods' Celebrity Poker Tourney Hits MGM Grand
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Is Tiger Woods the Phil Ivey of Poker? We're about to find out as the fourth annual “Tiger Jam” charity poker tournament gets underway in Las Vegas tomorrow (May 14). Hosted by Woods himself, the star-studded event at the MGM Grand will feature “the …

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2015 Mid-States Poker Tour FireKeepers Casino
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One of the most successful stops in recent memory on the Mid-States Poker Tour was at FireKeepers Casino last October, where the tour drew 517 runners to the stop in Battle Creek, Mich. That tournament was won by Ryan Dykhouse for $124,500, one of the …

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#14mayosinpokeronline: Spain Goes on Strike While Regulator Welcomes New …
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Poker players in Spain decided to call for the country's first-ever poker-related protest on Thursday, demanding legislative changes to stop the decline of the poker industry. Frustrated about the limits imposed by the ring-fenced online poker market …

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Global Poker Index: EPT Grand Final Shakes Up Rankings; Urbanovich, Seiver …
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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 into account a player's results over six half-year periods. The GPI also ranks the top performers of the year over two six …

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Daniel 'Jungleman' Cates to Play MPN Poker Tour in Tbilisi, Georgia
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American high-stakes regular Daniel 'Jungleman' Cates has confirmed his attendance to the upcoming MPN Poker Tour Tbilisi, as event organized by Adjarabet and the Microgaming Poker Network. Built around a five-event schedule highlighted by a $550 …

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Don't over-think at the poker table
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Consider the implications of this for poker. Poker players typically play sessions that last for hours, which is tiring in itself. They have to stay focussed, observe the action even when not in the hand, and in live games, where such things matter …

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Organizers: Turnout at this year's World Series of Poker 'going to be huge'
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The 2015 World Series of Poker, which begins on May 27 with the first two of 68 tournaments scheduled through July, will likely produce multiple events with participation above or similar to last year's monster stack. WSOP officials held their annual …

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Jason Mercier Captures Two SCOOP Titles in Back-To-Back Days
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As of Wednesday morning on the West Coast of the United States, 24 of the 138 events from the 2015 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) had been completed. Of those 24, Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier captured two titles, and …

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Le Monde Newspaper Urges French Government to Reform in Order to Save …
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The downfall of the French online gambling industry was covered by the country's mainstream media on May 13 when France's leading newspaper, Le Monde, published an online article titled "Is Online Poker Going Through The Floor Soon?" ("Le poker en …

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The New Jersey Online Poker Briefing: Justin "SetMining" Wong and "BINKed-It …
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The next three finishers in this tournament are all well-known poker players in New Jersey with Jonathan "jetsfan14" Borenstein winning $3,640 for third place, Jake "schaf4206" Schafer winning $2,840 for fourth place, and Michael "itWasThatOr0 …

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Computer program rivals top poker players in complex card game
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After playing 80,000 hands between April 24 and May 8, a computer program called Claudico amassed slightly fewer chips than its opponents, four top-10 poker professionals; however, the deficit was not large enough to determine conclusively that the …

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