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History of the World Series of Poker Part 1: How It All Began
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Next week on Monday, Nov. 4 and Tuesday, Nov. 5, the 2013 World Series of Poker will come to a conclusion as the Main Event final table takes place. The nine remaining players, led by JC Tran, will be front and center under the bright lights on the …

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Online Poker Player Traffic Update
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The online poker industry saw a 2% rise in cash game player traffic last week, following a decline of 1% from the week before. PokerScout attributes much of the increase to PokerStars, who experienced a rise of 3% on its cash tables due to the …

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Barrington Poker Party Turns Violent
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A Barrington poker party apparently got a bit out of hand very early last Sunday morning, Oct. 27. Barrington police were called to a home near Anchorage Way and Melrose Avenue about 5:20 am after a report of yelling and screaming. They stopped a …

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Tobias Reinkemeier Leads After Day 1 of World Poker Tour Alpha8 £100K Event …
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The World Poker Tour has touched down in two European countries this week. A few days after the the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris kicked off in France, the WPT Alpha8 began in London at the luxurious Palm Beach on Mayfair venue. The hefty …

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Lock Poker Leaves Revolution – Co-Starring Who is Pure Poker?
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Lock Poker left the Revolution Gaming Network without any notice to players today. It launched a proprietary platform that will not be shared by any other sites. The action on Lock Poker has been sparse since the site relaunched hours ago. There may be …

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$1000 Rake Race This Week at RedKings Poker!
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There is no better time to sign-up for an account on RedKings Poker than right now! RedKings is running a PokerNews-exclusive rake race for first time depositing customers signing up through our links. The contest period is from Oct. 28 through Nov. 3 …

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£500000 Sky Poker UK Poker Championships Announced
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Sky Poker has announced it will host the inaugural UK Poker Championship at one of Europe's leading poker venues Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham in February 2014. The highlight of the seven-day festival will be the Championship Event and its guaranteed …

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Chris Louviere Wins Heartland Poker Tour Prairie Meadows for $54225
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The Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) visited the Prairie Meadows Racetrack Casino Hotel in Altoona, Iowa this past weekend. The $1,650 Main Event attracted 125 players and created a prize pool of $180,750. After three long days of play, Chris Louviere of …

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World Poker Tour Announces $100000 Alpha8 Event in St. Kitts November 16-17
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On Monday, the World Poker Tour announced another addition to the Alpha8 tour, the company's newly-launched super high-roller series. Taking place Nov. 16-17, the Alpha8 will head to the Caribbean island of St. Kitts for a televised $100,000 buy-in event.

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Sky Poker Announce Huge UK Festival
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Sky Poker has announced that it will host the first-ever UK Poker Championships in 2014 at the Dusk Till Dawn poker club in Nottingham. The ambitious series will run for seven days and encompass six exciting events, with coverage being shown on Sky …

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Charities and bars claim poker crackdown is a bad deal
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The state Gaming Control Board, which Mr. Snyder put in charge of charity poker room oversight two years ago, released a new set of regulations in July that upset operators of the charity poker rooms, which have countered with a bill in the Michigan …

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The challenge of deepstack poker
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IN deepstack poker tournaments, like the Deepstack Open, you begin with a huge amount of chips compared to the starting blinds. By Marbella Slim/ Published 29th October 2013. poker With so many chips, you can expect players to be playing some strange …

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2013 PokerStars.net APPT Macau Asia Championship of Poker Day 1a: Keith …
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On Monday, the 2013 APPT Macau Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) HK$100,000 (approximately $12,900) Main Event kicked off at the PokerStars Live at the City of Dreams. Day 1a attracted 93 players, each looking to claim a portion of the guaranteed …

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Jian Yang Crowned 2013 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) Warm-Up …
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The final day of the 2013 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) HK$25,000 Warm-Up has concluded with China's Jian Yang (pictured) leading from start to finish as he captured the title. The final table started with a mixture of players from all over the …

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FROM LAST NIGHT: Jim Chanos Blew A Hand Of Poker And David Einhorn Got …
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Last night at 9:00 p.m., Bloomberg TV aired a secret charity poker game between six of the biggest hedge fund managers in the game, and one takeaway is — everyone's a loser sometimes, even billionaires. Take the clip below, for instance. Legendary …

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Poker Player Tweets of the Week: It's time to debate
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So it's no surprise that a couple of tweets really stirred up the poker community this week. Online and live players debated about the difficulties of their respective games, while high-stakes cash players pined for stricter adherence to criteria by …

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High-stakes World Poker Tour tournament hits London's Palm Beach Casino
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This is only the second event in this new World Poker Tour series of high-stakes, televised poker tournaments where the minimum buy-in is $100,000 with unlimited re-entries allowed. The first event, held 2 months ago in Florida, attracted just 18 …

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Cincinnati Reds charity poker tournament Dec. 7
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The eighth annual Reds Community Fund Celebrity Poker Tournament will be Dec. 7 at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Doors open at 3:00 p.m. for registration and side games and the tournament will begin at 4:00 p.m.. Each table …

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