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Full Tilt Rebrands, Mucks 'Poker'
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Full Tilt Poker, which has perhaps the most storied past among online poker sites due to its mismanagement and eventual acquisition by Rational Group, added a new chapter to its saga by mucking "Poker" in order to broaden its offerings to include …

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One of These Nine Men Will Be Poker's Champ
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Baseball, which evolved in the U.S. Northeast around the same time poker was emerging along the lower Mississippi, is now played in dozens of countries, and most of its best players are from Latin America. Basketball, our other 19th-century sport, is …

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Zionsville man nets $500K in poker world series
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ZIONSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — To the surprise of himself and nearly everyone watching, Chris “Bass Master” Greaves spent the past week tearing through the World Series of Poker leaderboard. A newcomer to the WSOP Main Event, the 39-year-old software …

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Harvard Report shows Online Poker does not Promote Gambling Addiction
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The study was based on anonymous data collected from PokerStars´ and Bwin´s player database and analysed the betting actions of millions of poker players, online casino gamblers and sports bettors. It concluded that the small percentage of players who …

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Zionsville man wins $565193 in World Series of Poker
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To the surprise of himself and nearly everyone watching, Chris "Bass Master" Greaves spent the past week tearing through the World Series of Poker leaderboard. A newcomer to the WSOP Main Event, the 39-year-old software developer from Zionsville was …

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NJ iGaming Weekly: Despite Rising Volume, Revenues Dip for Third …
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A recent press release from the DGE revealed that revenue tallies for New Jersey's online poker market were down 9.92 percent from May to June. While prospects for July look marginally better, June marked the third consecutive month in which the state …

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California Tribe Serves Up False Hope for Online Poker
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On Sunday night Marco Valerio broke the news that despite California not passing an online poker bill, the Iipay Nation (formally known as the Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueño Indians) of California were planning on launching their own real-money online …

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High-Stakes Poker Player Paul Phua Arrested In Las Vegas For Allegedly …
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High-stakes poker player Paul Phua was arrested along with seven others for allegedly “operating an illegal gambling business” out of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The feds said that each defendant is charged with one count of unlawful transmission of …

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Lock Poker Losing More Players
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The latest player traffic numbers posted by PokerScout show that Lock Poker has lost roughly 36% of its cash game action since late April when the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) requested the site provide an open dialogue with regard to unpaid player funds.

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Santa Ysabel Tribe in California Launches Online Poker Site PrivateTable.com
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The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel has gone live with their online poker site PrivateTable.com. Currently only play money games are available but real money games are expected to be available soon. This move represents the first tribe citing their …

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Meet the 2014 November Nine
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LAS VEGAS — After 10 days of competition, only nine remain out of the field of 6,683 players in the 2014 World Series of Poker main event. The November Nine includes a very diverse collection of players and come November, one of the largest and …

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888 to Create Pool-Sharing Poker Network in Nevada
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But when the sun goes down on the 2014 World Series of Poker mid-week, the final chip is bagged up at the Rio and the world's poker players return to their respective corners of the globe, it will be business as usual for the newly regulated online …

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High-Stakes Poker Player Paul Phua Arrested in Illegal World Cup Betting Raid
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Paul Phua, a wealthy Chinese businessman and a regular in Macau's high-stakes poker cash games, was one of eight people arrested over the weekend for allegedly running an illegal betting operation at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas …

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World Series of Poker reaches 9 finalists in Vegas
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Nine poker players from six countries have passed the biggest bubble in cards, making the World Series of Poker main event final table and earning a shot at $10 million in November. Mark Newhouse had been here before, finishing ninth last year. And he …

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Ultimate Gaming to run online poker for the El Cortez
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“By combining the online accessibility of Ultimate Poker with the classic Vegas feel of the El Cortez, we're giving new and existing players a different way to experience the game of poker,” El Cortez Executive Vice President Alexandra Epstein said in …

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Day 6 recap: Jacobson leads final 27
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Other big stacks belong to two-time bracelet winner Luis Velador, tournament regular Dan Sindelar, Spanish online poker phenom Andoni Larrabe and William Pappaconstantinou, who goes by the name "Billy Pappas" in the world of foosball, and now poker.

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Chutzpah Alone Won't Win the Poker World Series
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As he had early on, Zach Jiganti, an up-and-coming poker savant, dominated his table pretty much from noon to midnight on Day Three and most of Day Four of the World Series of Poker's Main Event. In one hand, he called a raise in the big blind bet from …

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Correction: Connecting Online Poker Sites story
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Gaming Control Board officials said Wednesday that the network, which would be operated by Gibraltar-based 888 Holdings PLC, could be a model for a system connecting players in Nevada and Delaware. The two states have legalized online poker within …

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