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The Playground Poker Montreal Festival Wraps Up and WPT Montreal Approaches
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The Playground Poker Montreal Festival is coming to a close, as the Main Event reaches its final day. The festival has been a huge success with over $1,400,000 Million in prizes already awarded through 12 of the 16 events, including a huge $190,750 top …

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Already 60 Players Qualified for October's PPC Poker Tour Aruba World …
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The PPC Poker Tour, which hosts US and destination poker events, recently concluded yet another successful stop at the Horseshoe Tunica and is now at Fort Pierce Jai-Alai and Poker in Florida for the 2014 Fort Pierce Poker Open. The three-event series …

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Mid-States Poker Tour Continues This Week at Potawatomi Casino in Milwaukee …
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Season 5 of the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) continues this week at Potawatomi Hotel & Casino in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This marks the first time the tour has visited the luxurious property, and already expectations are this weekend's $1,100 Main Event …

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2014 WinStar River Poker Series Main Event Day 2: Eyster Leads Final 10 …
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On Monday, the final 133 players returned for Day 2 of the WinStar World Casino Resort River Poker Series Main Event. After 10 levels of play, the unofficial final table of 10 was set. Kevin Eyster bagged up the chip lead with 5.74 million and is the …

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Nevada Online Poker Numbers Fall for July
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Nevada online poker revenues fell 7.62 percent in July compared to the previous month, according to a report issued by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. While gambling results for July showed a 0.65 percent increase in revenues to approximately $932 …

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Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Stuck With $2.5 Million Overlay
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In 2013, the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida stunned poker players by easily surpassing their $10 million guarantee in the $5,300 buy-in Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, drawing 2,384 players. Much to the delight of the field, the 2014 edition …

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Bwin.Party Suffers H1 Poker Losses, Outlines Shake-up Plan
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Bwin.Party Suffers H1 Poker Losses, Outlines Shake-up Plan Online gambling company Bwin.party has released its H1 interim results ending 31st June, revealing a 7% fall in revenue to €317.1 million from the €342.5 million generated in H1 2013. While the …

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$2.5 Million Overlay at Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open; Jared Jaffee Leads …
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The $5,300 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open easily surpassed the guarantee by nearly $2 million, and champion Blair Hinkle walked away with nearly $1.75 million after besting Justin Bonomo in an epic heads-up match. The success in the first go-around at …

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Poker run to benefit Angel Stevens family
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A benefit poker run for the Angel Stevens family is planned for 1 p.m. Sept. 20. The run will start and finish at the Red Eye Bar, 5013 N. Cliff Ave., hitting five different towns along the way. Registration is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Raffle tickets …

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Clyde Tjauw Foe Wins Rotterdam Poker Series Main Event
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Despite synchronising nicely with the conclusion of the EPT Barcelona, few “international” players headed to the Holland Casino in Rotterdam this weekend, leaving mostly Dutch players to battle out the €1,080 buy-in Main Event of the Rotterdam Poker …

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Telsa deals as several states play factory poker
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk waves during a rally at the Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif., in June 2012. Musk has five states bidding up subsidy packages to land a coveted plant for a $5 billion factory to make batteries for a new generation of Tesla electric cars.

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Nevada Online Poker Revenues Dip in July
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Nevada's online poker sites had a record-breaking month in June. It was the first time they had ever surpassed the $1 million mark in revenues, and was fueled mostly by the presence of tens of thousands of poker players in Las Vegas for the World …

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Quantum Reload: Sign of a Maturing Poker Market
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The recent debut of the “quantum reload” concept at the recent World Poker Tour Legends of Poker event serves as the latest in a series of stark reminders that the poker market continues to mature, and that trying to keep the game's major events new …

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On poker: It pays to have a short memory
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"Sorry, but congratulations." I must have heard some combination of the words "sorry" and "congratulations" 100 times in the two days after I was knocked out of the World Series of Poker Main Event last month. Thank you, but hold the "sorry." I had a …

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Tesla Motors dealing as states play factory poker
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Tesla Motors has five states bidding to attract a $5 billion factory that will make batteries for a new generation of electric cars. The winner is expected to offer publicly financed incentives exceeding a half-billion dollars. And the package could be …

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Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Stuck With $2.5 Million Overla
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Seminole Hard Rock In 2013, the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida stunned poker players by easily surpassing their $10 million guarantee in the $5,300 buy-in Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, drawing 2,384 players. Much to the delight of the field, …

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2014 WinStar River Poker Series Main Event Day 1b: Carter Edges Out Eyster …
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On Saturday, the WinStar World Casino and Resort in Thackersville, Oklahoma, saw Day 1b of the River Poker Series Main Event take place with a total of 455 entrants putting up the $2,500 entry fee. By the time play concluded, only 46 would survive to …

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2014 WPT Legends of Poker Day 4: Eskandari in Control at Televised Final Table
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The final 16 players of the 2014 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker returned to the Bicycle Casino on Thursday looking to reach one of the WPT's most prestigious final tables. When the day ended, Massoud Eskandari led a group of lesser-known players at …

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