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New Poker Pot Record Broken Again – Four Times Over

27. October 2008

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The recently achieved record for the largest pot in a real-money online poker game ever – $609,730 on Saturday, September 13, did not last for long. Just a month-and-a-half later that record was smashed, not once, but four times over. And three of those in the same night! Last time it was the FullTilt Poker [...]

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Everest Poker Awards Players Just After Winning Major Industry Award

21. October 2008

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The eGaming Review Industry Awards has recognized poker site Everest Poker as its “Operator of the Year”. Among the factors cited for awarding Everest Poker this honor were that it’s supposedly the only poker room online that runs its own customer service center and operates its tables using its own proprietary software. Whether these boasts [...]

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Duplicate Poker Deals Final Hand

10. October 2008

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DuplicatePoker.com was not your ordinary poker site. It offered players a novel new way of enjoying the game of online poker – a way that emphasized the game’s element of skill over luck. But unfortunately, the folks behind the scenes at Duplicate Poker were not so skillful, or lucky, at keeping their online poker room, [...]

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Bodog Open II Kicks Off Sunday

25. September 2008

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Bodog Poker launches the second incarnation of its week-long, 14-tournament event, the Bodog Open. This year, the culmination of the event is a BPO II Main Event with a guaranteed minimum prize pool of $300,000. 8 of the tournaments in the Bodog Open II will be “Championship” events with the other 6 being special “Bounty” [...]

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Get All Your 2008 WCOOP Results Right Here – Part I of II

24. September 2008

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As promised, here are the results of the latest incarnation of PokerStars ever-popular World Championship of Online Poker. This posting is Part I, listing events from 9/5 to 9/13. Results for the second half of 2008 WCOOP events will be listed next week. 9/5    6-handed No Limit Holdem                     shane147 won $202,409 9/5    Pot Limit 5-Card [...]

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New Million Dollar Online Poker Room Opens

15. September 2008

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A new poker room is on the scene, and it aims to make every member a poker millionaire. It’s called “MillionDollarPokerClub” and it’s creator is Playsafe, the company that runs Tiger Gaming and Action Poker. The first thing anybody with even an inkling of the online poker scene would no doubt ask on reading this [...]

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PokerStars WCOOP Half Way Through

15. September 2008

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With the 2008 PokerStars WCOOP half way finished players have been paid out over $2 million in 1st place prize winnings with the top winner so far taking home over $600,000 from the High Roller NL Hold’em event #5. With a little more then 1 week to go in this years WCOOP there are still [...]

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PokerStars WCOOP Underway

10. September 2008

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The eagerly-awaited, annual online poker extravaganza known as the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is underway again, and it’s not too late to enter! Sure, about a third of the tournament’s 33 events have already taken place (we’ll hold off printing any results until after the entire event is completed), but that leaves [...]

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Proof that Online Poker Rooms Protect Players

4. September 2008

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Anyone worried about online poker security need only read the recent story of 26-year-old Brian Townsend to have their concerns assuaged. Multi-accounting is a crime that doesn’t only hurt internet poker rooms but internet poker players as well, as it involves one player misrepresenting himself by playing at the same site under two different usernames. [...]

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