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Poker Stars To Give Away Free Lamborghini To Player

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

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It’s always so much fun when a poker site finds something other than cash or a live tournament entry prize package to offer as a reward (though there’s nothing wrong with cash and live tournament entry prize packages, of course). And PokerStars has once again come up with a winner in the form of another [...]

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Poker Stars Sponsors Spanish Basketball Federation

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

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Online poker and sports have been making fantastic bedfellows for a long time now, and one of the poker sites spearheading that union is Poker Stars. Poker Stars has just announced that it will be sponsoring the Federación Española de Baloncesto (FEB), otherwise known as the Spanish Basketball Federation for at least one year’s time. [...]

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Win A Seat In The English Poker Open At Cake Poker

Friday, June 18, 2010

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Cake Poker is giving players the chance to win seats in the 2010 English Poker Open in London for only $3. Only the 2nd annual running of this event, the 2010 English Poker Open will take place between September 11 and 14. Cake Poker satellites into the 2010 English Poker Open will run at 4 [...]

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Poker Stars SCOOP 2010 Satellites Are On

Friday, April 23, 2010

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The 2010 Poker Stars Spring Championship of Online Poker is coming up May 2nd – 16th, and this time will be comprised of 38 events for a grand total of $45 million guaranteed to be awarded. Each of the 38 events has 3 different buy-in levels with 3 different prize structures to match, making it [...]

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Cake Poker Squeezes Out Short-Stacks

Monday, April 5, 2010

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In an effort to bring the game of poker back to its online poker cash tables (as distinct from a roll-of-the-dice which is an entirely different game), Cake Poker is squeezing out short-stacked players from its cash tables by raising the minimum buy-in to sit down at one to 30 Big Blinds. In order to [...]

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Cake Poker Teams Up With Phil “Unabomber” Laak: Adds Eight New Sites

Thursday, February 11, 2010

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The Cake Poker Network was the 10th largest online poker network on the web, until now. Thanks to the addition of Unabomber Poker, the official poker website of Phil “The Unabomber” Laak, and 7 more poker websites, the Cake Poker Network is now the 9th largest poker network online At Unabomber Poker, you can play [...]

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PKR Spices It Up With Sexy Nuts & Loaded Partnership

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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Hey poker playing Lads! Do you like seeing buxom broads in skimpy outfits? Of course you do! That’s why you read Nuts Magazine or Loaded Magazine, the two places you can count on seeing plenty of them every month. Well now you can enjoy staring at them all you want while you’re playing online poker [...]

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Poker Stars Will Be First To Go Mobile

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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It was only a matter of time before online poker went mobile, and it looks like that time is just about upon us, courtesy of Poker Stars. Just the site you’d expect to be making a bold and progressive move forward onto the smartphone scene by enabling its enormous worldwide member base to play online [...]

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Poker Stars Player Breaks Record For Most Hands Played In A Row

Monday, November 30, 2009

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Over at PokerStars this weekend, a 22-year-old Russian player going by the name of innerspy accepted the challenge posed by the Russian Card Game Masters and hosted by Poker Stars to try and break the world’s record for the most number of hands played in one sitting. And he did it! Innerspy sat down for [...]

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PatIvey: The Phil Ivey of PKR Poker

Monday, November 16, 2009

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Phil Ivey is no longer the only Ivey making it big in the poker world, nor is he the only P. Ivey, even. His near-namesake (and near-doppelganger in recent success as well) is named PatIvey and after winning the PKR Masters in September, for about $30,000, and then winning it again in October, for another [...]

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