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A Poker Life: Amir Lehavot
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Amir Lehavot At 38, Amir Lehavot was the oldest player seated at the 2013 World Series of Poker main event final table, but that doesn't mean he was the most experienced. In fact, the Israel-born poker pro, who now lives in Weston, Florida, has only …

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'Poker Princess' Pleads Guilty In Gambling Case
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Bloom, dubbed the “poker princess” by her poker-playing clients, reportedly hosted private games in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami and New York for years. Celebrities rumored to have appeared in a Bloom-run poker game somewhere in the United States …

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Poker Clinic: 'Polarised range' explained
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A: Unless your third eye is fully open or you are Derren Brown, it's impossible to put opponents on a specific starting hand. Instead, we make our best guess of the range of hands that they could be holding, given what we know about them. As the board …

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Poker marathon challenge: Recap
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"I've decided to have myself a little poker marathon next week. The details are simple: 100 hours of poker in 7 days. It's not totally insane and probably lots of people have done this before. I'm not taking bets against me completing it or anything …

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Score some post-Christmas poker action
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IF YOU have gone cold turkey on the poker front the last couple of days, you must be raring for action – and Sky Poker have got plenty for you to take aim at. By Marbella Slim/ Published 27th December 2013. KICK-OFF: Sky Poker's UK Online Poker Series …

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France Rejects Pooling Online Poker With Other Countries
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The French government has rejected a call by the country's leading gaming regulator to allow French online poker player pools to join forces with gaming pools of fellow European countries in order to increase liquidity. ARJEL, the gaming regulator of …

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Know When to Hold 'Em: When Jay Rosenkrantz's poker doc got shuffled up, he …
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For Rosenkrantz, the poker story began in the early Aughties when he was a film student at Boston University. Like college kids for generations, he played a few friendly hands, but he noticed a new phenomenon. He said, "Somebody would go off on their …

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On poker: Main Event mistake draws instant reaction from tweeting critics
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The World Series of Poker Main Event is the most watched televised poker tournament in the world. There's been much debate about whether delaying the final table until November has improved or diminished the broadcast. I'm indifferent on the matter …

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These Two Sites Are Running Away With The NJ Online Poker Market
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… 2013 11:44 CST@OPreport · Tweet. Race for market share in NJ. With the first full month of regulated online gambling in New Jersey complete, a definitive picture of the early winners has already emerged – at least when it comes to online poker in NJ.

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The 2013 Poker Year In Review: Part Three
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As disappointing as it was to see Michigan begin to stamp out charity poker rooms or Illinois stop gambling expansion yet again, the most disheartening domestic gambling news came from Texas, which failed to consider two separate bills that would have …

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Vegas cabbie returns $300000 to 'famous' poker player without a second thought
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An unidentified — but, reportedly, very, very famous — 28-year-old poker player left behind $300,000 in cash in a brown-paper bag when he exited a Las Vegas taxi earlier this week, and the cabbie, upon discovering it was not, as he'd suspected, a bag …

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John Gudger Wins Party Poker WPT UK Milton Keynes Main Event
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Party Poker runs a wide range of qualifiers to help players win free seats to these events. The next tournament is going to be the WPT National London, and those who would like to qualify for the same can do so between February 27 and March 2 at Party …

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Gold Strike Casino to Shut Down its Poker Room
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Poker enthusiasts will soon get a brand new live poker room, but they will lose an existing one too. According to a report at anteupmagazine.com by Jennifer Gay, the Gold Strike Casino in Mississippi will pull down the shutters of its live poker room …

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Pending Lock Poker Withdrawal Requests Reach One Year Anniversary
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Two Lock Poker players are now reporting withdrawal requests that have reached the one anniversary unpaid, according to a log of Lock Poker withdrawal requests compiled by IHasTehNutz at Two Plus Two. These check withdrawals were initiated in …

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Play Rake Free Sit-N-Gos On WSOP.com Through December
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From now until the end of December, players on WSOP.com can jump into any sit-n-go on the site and compete rake free. The sit-n-gos, which feature buy-ins from $1 to $55, will not collect any rake or fees for the rest of the month. Players can find …

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Former Poker Pro Haseeb Qureshi Starts over with Charitable Donations and …
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West Hollyood, CA — (SBWIRE) — 12/23/2013 — Haseeb Qureshi's career as a professional poker player began unexpectedly at 16. Five years later, he was a world-class high stakes player, with sponsorship as a Full Tilt Poker “Red Pro,” and a growing …

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Las Vegas Cabbie Returns Huge Cash Stash to Anonymous Poker Pro
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When you're a Las Vegas cab driver, you never know who – or what – will end up in your taxi on any given day. So veteran driver Gerardo Gamboa was unfazed when a Bellagio hotel doorman, opening the cab's rear door to help a new customer in, noticed a …

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Thunder Valley hosts Heartland Poker Tour in January
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Thunder Valley Casino Resort's Up the Ante Poker Room continues to bring some of the best tournament series to Northern California. Thunder Valley is teaming with the Heartland Poker Tour again with a series that will run Jan. 17-26, capped off by a …

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