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Join PokerStars now! Richard “Tzen1″ Veenman isn’t like your typical member of Team PokerStars Online. Veenman, who signed on to represent PokerStars last January, splits a part-time IT job in the Netherlands with his chase toward Supernova Elite on PokerStars every year

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Getting to know Team PokerStars Online’s Richard "Tzen1" Veenman

Join PokerStars now! The French do things their own way and why shouldn’t they? It is their country after all. They eat when they want for however long they want, which is certainly something that the PokerStars Blog team can get on board with, much to the concern of respective partners back in the UK who are all too aware of our expanding waistbands

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EPT Deauville: Local betting rules

Join PokerStars now! As we alluded at the start of today’s coverage, Deauville isn’t exactly easy to get to. Yet it has consistently proven to be one of the most popular destinations for players on the European Poker Tour.

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EPT8 Deauville: Numbers add up and up in Normandy

Join PokerStars now! I’m not sure there’s a greater change in atmosphere, in any pursuit, than that of the bubble bursting in a high stakes poker tournament. From one minute to the next the mood changes from nervous tension to relaxed joy.

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PCA 2012: Post bubble ergo proptor bubble

Join PokerStars now! When it came time to square up the table for nine-handed play, the dealer told Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom he had to move directly in the center of the felt. It must be exactly how he’s felt for the past 24 hours: at the center of the poker world. Known almost entirely for his nosebleed cash games, Blom showed everyone he had tournament chops as he defeated everyone in the PCA $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller event

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PCA 2012: So, what’s Isildur1 doing TODAY?

Join PokerStars now! It takes 1’37″ to wander stride purposefully back from the press room to the PokerStars blogging desk on the tournament floor after picking up a free, tepid coffee doing some important research. During that small walk you can really see how much action there is the PCA.

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PCA 2012: Action everywhere

Join PokerStars now! 12.40pm: The Jonsson show More almost belligerent raising from Kjartan Bergur Jonsson, who has nearly finished his first beer of the day, although technically speaking, and using a strict 24 hour clock, that may not be strictly true. He opened again from the hijack for 14,500 which Lari Sihvo called from the big blind for a flop of [jd][kc][9s]

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EPT Tallinn Day 4: Level 18 updates contd. (3,000-6,000 500 ante)

Join PokerStars now! The United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour is all about providing quality deep-stacked tournament poker at an affordable rate for recreational players, but with an attractive prize pool for even the most steely of UK professionals. That ethos has been borne out here perhaps more than anywhere else. While Irishman Barry McGleenon finished the day with 209,300 – just 100 more than Day 1A’s chip leader Sam MacDonald – today’s field saw some great players hit the baize; a handful bred and blooded by the tour, others that have established themselves on other stages, all fighting for a hefty €71,000 first place prize

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UKIPT Cork: McGleenon shines among a bright Day 1B field

Join PokerStars now! This event belonged to Mother Russia. Just look at the results– five of the top eight finishers hailed from the land that brought us poker champions Alex Kravchenko, Ivan Demidov, and SCOOP leaderboard fixture Alexander “joiso” Kostritsyn.

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SCOOP: kizoku2008 crushes the competition in Event #32-M ($530 6-max limit hold’em)

Join PokerStars now! 4:10pm: Ten-minute break 4:00pm: The bubble bursts on Andrews The bubble has burst! The unfortunate bubble boy of the ANZPT Gold Coast is Danny Andrews. He was down to his last 20,000 which he moved in preflop with [qd][jh] with Kamel Bekhaled making the call with [3h][3d]. The board bricked out [2d][5d][5s][9c][kh] to see Andrews head home empty-handed while the remaining 27 players are now $4,510 wealthier

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ANZPT Gold Coast Day 3: Levels 15 & 16 (blinds 2,500-5,000, ante 500)