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Battle of the Phil's at the LAPC Final Table
February 29th, 2008 by MadMax
This is becoming one of the most anticipated final tables for a major tournament event in years. The two Phil's battle it out for their first World Poker Tour Title.
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Win A Piece of Yankee Stadium or Lessons With Hellmuth
February 26th, 2008 by AJW
Online poker room Ultimate Bet, has just recently launched a new loyalty program called, RAI$E. RAI$E is a revolutionary new rewards program and is rolling out some of the coolest prizes in 2008.
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Poker After Dark International Week
February 24th, 2008 by AJW
The popular NBC poker television show, Poker After Dark is back this week with the 2nd edition of International Week.
Last International Week came down to Canadian Brad Booth against Finnish Patrik Antonius. Patrik crushed Brad Booth and Finland was crowned champion.
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World Series of Poker Schedule Change
February 21st, 2008 by AJW
Harrah's, owner of the World Series of Poker has announced that they are swapping dates for two of the events at this years WSOP.
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Annette_15 Best Woman Poker Player?
February 19th, 2008 by AJW
Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad is consistently becoming recognized and rewarded for her amazing online and live tournament poker game. The 19 year old has just picked up another three awards.
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WWE and Ultimate Bet Wrestlemania Promotion
February 17th, 2008 by MadMax
Who would have ever thought that Wrestling and Poker would make a good partner? Well Ultimate Bet seems to think so and is also running a few promotions to the next Wrestlemania XXIV.
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Ultimate Bet Launches New Loyalty Program
February 13th, 2008 by MadMax Online poker room Ultimate Bet, has just recently launched a new loyalty program called, RAI$E. With RAI$E poker players now have the opportunity to earn new rewards that are comparable able to compete against the awesome loyalty program that Poker Stars has had for years.
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Hellmuth and Duke Host Ultimate Bet Reality Show
February 13th, 2008 by AJW
The Best Damn Poker show will be airing Monday, February 11th. Ultimate Bet announced a couple days ago that their much talked about reality show featuring Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke will air on FSN.
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World Poker Tour Season 6 Scedule Released
February 11th, 2008 by AJW
The World Poker Tour known as WPT and there new broadcast company, GSN, annoucned the sixth season television schedule featuring 23 two-hour World Poker Tour episodes. The season premieres in its new timeslot on Monday...
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Absolute Poker Completes Acquisition of Vegas Poker 247
February 9th, 2008 by AJW
Absolute Poker, one of the world’s most popular sites for online gaming enthusiasts, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Vegas Poker 247. The transaction will be finalized soon; details of the terms will follow.
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Jennifer Leigh Poses For Playboy
February 7th, 2008 by MadMax
Jennifer Leigh better known as Jennicide in the online poker world, has already posed for Playboy and the issue is set to be released in April 2008. The issue will in fact be the May 08 edition of Playboy.
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World Poker Tour Offers Ladies Superbowl Alternative
February 5th, 2008 by AJW
The 2008 European Poker Tour in Dortmund had several interesting stories throughout the tournament. It started off several hours late because of the numerous extra entrants that were unplanned for.
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World Poker Tour Offers Ladies Superbowl Alternative
February 3nd, 2008 by AJW
Press release from the World Poker Tour: Ladies: if you're feeling claustrophobic with all that football mania in you house this weekend, come down to the COmmerce Casino for a little competition that could be very rewarding!
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Gavin Griffin Wins WPT Borgata
February 1st, 2008 by AJW
Poker history has been made thanks to Gavin Griffin, who becomes the first ever poker player to win an European Poker Tournament title, World Series of Poker Bracelet and now a World Poker Tour.
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PokerTek Announces Product Approval
January 30th, 2008 by AJW
PokerTek develops and markets PokerPro and PokerPro Heads-Up™, automated poker tables and related software applications developed to increase casino revenue, reduce expenses and attract new players into poker rooms.
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Brett Faustman Beats Star Studded WPT Final Table
January 27th, 2008 by AJW
When the final table began at the World Poker Tour tournament in Tunica the final table was star studded. In seat one was Freddy Deeb who had a large chip stack of over 1.3 million in chips.
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Bart Tischelman Wins in Tunica
January 25th, 2008 by AJW
Tuesday was a great day for Bart Tischelman, as he won the Grand Casino Tunica's WSOP Circuit Event Championship addn took home over four hundred thousand dollars.
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New WSOP Radio
January 23th, 2008 by AJW
Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. has announced today the launch of World Series of Poker Radio, the official weekly radio show of the World Series of Poker Presented by Milwaukee's Best Light.
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ActionJeff Wins Aussie Millions Heads Up Championship
January 20th, 2008 by AJW
The online poker super star Jeff Garza known mostly as ActionJeff attended the Aussie Millions Heads Up Championship and won the $100,000 first place prize.
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Record Field at the Borgata Winter Classic
January 18th, 2008 by AJW
Saturday turned out to be another record day for the 2008 Borgata Winter Poker Open (WPO) as the Atlantic City casino crossed the $2.2 million main event prize pool... Read the full story here |
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PKR Sets There 10k Player Milestone
January 16th, 2008 by AJW
Since PKR.com's launch 1.5 years ago, they have continued to grow steadily with a rise in sign ups and users contining to grow and this pass week, it passed the 10,000 concurrent user mark.
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Betfair Launches Weekly $100k GTD Tournament
January 13th, 2008 by AJW
The new weekly tournament that takes place every Sunday at 8:30 EST. It has a guarantee of $100,000! To enter this event you can buy in directly for $555. Or you can go a cheaper route by winning your way in via daily satellites or freerolls.
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Randy Couture Hosting Charity Poker
January 10th, 2008 by AJW
Randy Couture is one of the worlds best MMA fights and you can see him headlining UFC events for the next few years. He and his wife started a foundation called the, "Xtreme Couture GI Foundation" which helps raise money for retired and injured United States Army soldiers.
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Ultimate Bet Now in 14 Languages
January 7th, 2008 by AJW
Just recently Ultimate Bet came out with a news release that there website, ultimatebet.com and software has been fully translated into 14 different languages....
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The 19th Hole - Poker After Dark
January 4th, 2008 by AJW
Poker After Dark season 3 continues this week with a new match of 6 players. There are also two brand new players that have yet to play a Poker After Dark tournament. David Oppenheim and Gavin Smith are the new players who will competing for the winner take all....
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Germany Bans Online Poker
January 3rd, 2008 by AJW
Germany has decided to celebrate there new years by banning all forms of online gambling. This is the same stand that the United States has taken and basically are failing at
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Josh Field aka JJ Prodigy Banned From PCA
January 1st, 2008 by AJW
Whatever travel plans Josh Field had planned to attend the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure; are most likely cancelled by now. Justin will be turning 18 days before the PCA tournament events start.
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Season 3 Of Poker After Dark
December 30th, 2007 by AJW
The 3rd seasion of Poker After Dark is ready to be kicked off on December 30th and features many new Poker Players. There are no major changes to the Poker After Dark format. Players are still required to ante up $20k and its a winner take all tournament.
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Harrahs to Set Record Buyout
December 28th, 2007 by AJW This past Monday set a huge record and left a mark in the live Casino industry. For the past year Harrah's has been negotiating and planning to buyout Apollo Management, and Texas Pacific Group.
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New Chip Reese Award Announced
December 27th, 2007 by StayPuff
A few weeks ago the Poker world suffered a significant loss when David “Chip” Reese passed away in his sleep. He died pneumonia on December 4th at the age of 56.
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Bluff Magazine Announces Player of the Year
December 19th, 2007 by AJW
The 2007 Bluff Magazine Player of the Year award goes to no other then Bill "Magnum" Edler. This is Bluff's 3rd poker player to receive the player of the year award. Previous winners have been Chad Brown in 2006 and Phil Ivey in 2005.
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PokerStars Releases Mac Compatible Software
December 12th, 2007 by AJW
PokerStars is the worlds largest online poker room and probably the most reputable room as well. PokerStars has recently announced that their software will now be fully compatible with a Mac computer.
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Ultimate Bet Online Poker Championships is Back!
December 7th, 2007 by AJW
Ultimate Bet online championship (UBOC) is back and today is their first event. Tonight at 5:00PM Pacific, Ultimate Bet is hosting the $100,000 guaranteed No Limit Texas Hold'em tournament. This is the first of the 13 events Ultimate Bet will hold. Read the full story here |
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I-Play and Daniel Negreanu Release Mobile Poker Software
December 1th, 2007 by AJW
Earlier in the year Daniel signed an endorsement deal with I-Play, which is a mobile games software company. Daniel Negreanu would be the spokesman and face of their new poker software product. Negreanu has helped I-Play create...........
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Kathy Liebert Ends Up On Top at NPL Vegas Open
November 30th, 2007 by AJW
Last night Kathy Liebert put on an impressive performance at the National Poker Leagues (NPL) Vegas Open, where she finished first place and took hom a prize of $56k.
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Asian Poker Classic - Eric Assadourian Wins Over $350k
November 28th, 2007 by AJW
The Poker Stars $15,000 Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APT or APPT) Higher Roller Tournament had great results with 64 players playing for the first place prize of over $350k.
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Asian Poker Classic - Dinh Le Wins
November 26th, 2007 by AJW
The Poker Stars sponsored the very first poker tournament to ever be played in Macau, China. The tournament was a Asia Poker event (APPT)
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Phil Hellmuth To Host Charity Event
November 22th, 2007 by AJW
Phil Hellmuth the poker brat and 11 time WSOP Bracelet winner will be hosting a charity tournament at the Palms Resort & Casino on December 1st. The tournament is being called, Beauty and the Bet and has a much different fromat then other charity tournaments.
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TJ Cloutier Wins His First Major Event Since 2005
November 21th, 2007 by AJW
TJ Cloutier pulled off a very impressive win at the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge, which was held in Tulsa. To enter this main event would of cost....
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WSOP Rated a Top Sport in North America
November 20th, 2007 by AJW
This last week Turnkey Sports and Entertainment released there findings from the research they have conducted. In a poll of over 10,000 sport fanatics in North America the World Series of Poker was voted 11th, as the most admired sport leagues.
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FTOPS is Finally Over, Find Out the Results
November 19th, 2007 by AJW
The Full Tilt of Online Poker Series wraps up after another successful 2 weeks of great online tournament poker. The winner of the main event was screen name.....
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Mike Vela Wins the WPT Foxwoods Final
November 15th, 2007 by AJW
The 2008 WPT World Poker Finals wrapped up at Foxwoods Casino, with Mike Vela claiming the first place prize of over $1.7 million.
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Absolute Poker's Response
November 15th, 2007 by AJW
With respect to its on-going internal investigation of the recent security breach in its
system.
“As Former Grand Chief Joe Norton, the 100% owner of AP, previously stated, Absolute........
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The Down Fall of Nazi Poker
November 14th, 2007 by AJW
This is one video you will have to watch! Click the link below to watch it.
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David Benyamine To Quit FTP
November 14th, 2007 by AJW
The high stakes poker player on Full Tilt Poker, David Benyamine, has said what every poker player says about once a month, "I quick poker."
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FTOPS is Back!!
November 7th, 2007 by AJW
The high stakes poker player on Full Tilt Poker, David Benyamine, has said what every poker player says about once a month, "I quick poker."
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Barry Greenstein Gives Hope to US Players
October 30th, 2007 by AJW
Barry Greenstein has recently spoke out about the current position of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA). You can hear exactly what he said by visiting Pokerroad.com and listen to his audio blog.
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Mansion Poker's Huge Overlays
October 2nd 2007 by AJW
ESPN has been covering the World Series of Poker for the last two months. The wait is finally over as ESPN will be showing the final table of the WSOP on October 9th. Tonight you will see the dramatic hands of Jerry Yang....
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Mansion Poker's Huge Overlays
October 1st 2007 by AJW
Mansion Poker continues with its tournaments of unparalleled value. In last Tuesday’s $110,000 guaranteed tournament, just over half of the prize pool was made up of player buy-ins.
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Annette_15 Wins WSOP Main Event in Europe
September 2007 by AJW
In over 30 years of World Series of Poker history no woman has won the main event until 18 year Annette Obrestad. Annette is mostly known as Annette_15...
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Big Names Bust In WSOP Main Event Europe
September 2007 by AJW
Day 4 of the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event continues today with many upsets. There was 32 players left and only 10 would advance to the final table.
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Daniel Negreanu Talking about High Stakes Poker
September 12th, 2007 by AJW
During the World Series of Poker European events, Daniel Negreanu had some spare time to spend at playing at PokerStars. He has been dipping into the 100/200 No Limit holdem games.
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Big Names Left In WSOP Main Event Europe
September 11th, 2007 by AJW
Day 2 of the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event continues today with a huge suprise coming from Betfair.com. Betfair has annouced that they will be adding £57,000....
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Million Dollar Cash Game Season 2
September 4th, 2007 by AJW
The Million Dollar Cash Game(MDCG) is a European rip off of the ever so popular High Stakes Poker on the Game Show Network. The MDCG has recently announced a 3 year deal with online Poker Room Full Tilt.
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Pamela Brunson Wins WPT Ladies Night
August 30th, 2007 by AJW
The daughter of legendary Dolye Brunson has just won and crowned champion at the 5th annual ladies night at the LA Casino.
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Nancy Cartwright AKA Bart Simpson Hosts Poker Tournament
August 29th, 2007 by AJW Nancy Cartwright is the voice of character Bart Simpson on the longest running cartoon, The Simpsons. Nancy is an Emmy award winning actress will be hosting the 2nd annual Monte Carlo Night Texas Holde'em Charity Event.
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Negreanu wins PokerStars Showdown
August 25, 2007 by JAX
In what may surprise no one, Daniel Negreanu has won the PokerStars showdown. His opponent was malicious222, who at times seemed almost mesmerized by who he was playing.
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Jesus Ferguson Building a Bankroll From Sratch
August 22, 2007 by AJW
In August 2007, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson completed a remarkable achievement by turning an empty Full Tilt Poker account into over $10,000. With amazing discipline and incredible bankroll management, he showed that it is indeed possible to make something out of nothing.
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Bodog Domain Crisis
August, 2007 by AJW
Bodog.com domain name was seized by the United States Governement. It's looking like Bodog will not get their domain back. They might have a chance if they are willing to cough up $42 million.
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Biggest and Best High Stakes Poker On Your TV
August 21, 2007 by AJW
Season 4 of High Stakes Poker on the Game Show Network is by far the most anticipated season of high stakes poker yet.
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Bodog $50k GTD Wednesday Tournament
August 20, 2007 by AJW
Online Bodog Poker room is one of the most preferred rooms for USA and Sportbook players favorite places to play. Bodog is now introducing a brand new $50,000 guaranteed prize pool weekly event.
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AT&T Launches Poker Interface
August 19, 2007 by AJW
The Asian Pacifc Poker Tour will be kicking off late next week. It will be hosted at the Hyatt Hotel in Casino Manila. Many of the worlds most popular poker players will be in attendance.
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Asia Pacific Tour
August 18, 2007 by AJW
The Asian Pacifc Poker Tour will be kicking off late next week. It will be hosted at the Hyatt Hotel in Casino Manila. Many of the worlds most popular poker players will be in attendance.
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Boss Media Investment Reports
August 17, 2007 by AJW
Boss Media has been doing very well since the UIGEA and the acquisitions of many popular sites like Paradise Poker. Boss Media is a publicly traded online gaming site and software
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Ladbrokes Poker Revenue Down
August 17, 2007 by AJW
PokerStars is the worlds largest online poker room and probably the most reputable room as well. PokerStars has recently broke another record for hosting the largest real money cash game tournament this past weekend.
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Beverley Pace Wins $50,000
August 16th, 2007 by AJW
Beverley Pace recently won the first ever Party Poker Women's World Open in London. She took home $50,000 and will get to see herself on TV.
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Moscow Millions Re-Scheduled
August 15th, 2007 by AJW
The Moscow Millions has been postponed because Full Tilt Poker withdrew as the main sponsorship. The event was scheduled to take place October 20-22
but had to cancel because of Full Tilt's withdrawal.
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FTOPS Breaking Guarantees
August 14th, 2007 by AJW
Full Tilt could not be happier with the results of there 'Full Tilt of Online Poker Series which has be smashing the guarantees from tournament to tournament.
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PokerStars Beating Its Own Records
August 13th, 2007 by AJW
PokerStars is the worlds largest online poker room and probably the most reputable room as well. PokerStars has recently broke another record for hosting the largest real money cash game tournament this past weekend.
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World Poker Tour (WPT) In China
August
12, 2007 by AJW
The World Poker Tour has been negotiating with the China Leisure Sports Administrative Centre(CLSCA) for quite sometime. They have finally worked out a deal that has both sides very pleased.
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Utah Players Be
Careful
August
11, 2007 by AJW
Utah has been making it very clear to residents of their state that playing online poker could be considered in violation of State Laws.
The Grand Jury of Utah has already charged over five people and four companies.
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FTOPS Begins Today
August 8th, 2007 by AJW
It seems like the Full Tilt of Poker Series happens every couple weeks. This is the 5th one and is by far has the biggest tournaments. Full Tilt has guaranteed to pay out over $7 Million in 14 major events.
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Doyle Brunson Will Play at WSOP Europe
August
7, 2007 by AJW
To help launch Doyle's new poker
business - one that is being targeted directly to the UK and European market
- Doyle Brunson will be attending the first ever World Series of Poker in Europe.
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Affiliate of Poker Series Registration Opens
August
6, 2007 by AJW
Ever since the boom of online poker there has been affiliates. Affiliates are the people and companies who promote the online poker rooms and offer players better deals then they would normally get.
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PokerStars Protecting the Fish
August
5, 2007 by AJW
Its been rumored for several months that PokerStars will be prohibiting data mining websites that provide data for savvy online poker players.
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Province in Canada Will Completely Legalize Poker
August
4, 2007 by AJW
There are now plans for Quebec to legalize live Poker in all casino's throughout the province. Now residents of Quebec will not have to jump provinces to play poker. This new law will go into effect after the ...
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Harrahs Releases World Series of Poker Circuit Schedule
August
3 2007 by AJW
The World Series of Poker Circuit has gained a ton of
popularity over the past 3 seasons. Season 4 will be the biggest one yet with 12 featured events starting on August 29th, 2007.
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Beat Hellmuth Win Bounty
August
2, 2007 by AJW
Ultimate Bet has announced that their prize player, 11-time WSOP bracelet winner, world champion, poker bad boy, Phil Hellmuth will play in the 50 Seat Aruba Satellite.
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