Tag: opponent
LAPT Viña del Mar: Lady in the lead
by Pokerplayer on Mar.24, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! Another shot. Every player has one tournament where they wish things had gone differently. Maybe it was a bad call, a failed bluff or a bad beat, but you replay the hand in your head night after night
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MicroMillions: sergiuo surges to win in Event #46 ($1+R NLHE 3x-Turbo)
by Pokerplayer on Mar.20, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! It is not how you start but how you finish that matters, for sergiuo he finished as strong as ever to take down Event 46, a $1 re-buy NLHE 3x-Turbo event. He came into the final table in the bottom half of the leader board with less than 10 big blinds, but he managed to get an early double-up, and then eliminated a few players propelling him into a chip lead that his opponents were unable to surpass
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MicroMillions: sergiuo surges to win in Event #46 ($1+R NLHE 3x-Turbo)
APPT Seoul: A rough day in the office
by Pokerplayer on Mar.09, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! The Day 1b flight of the APPT Seoul Main Event has come in at 139 entrants, and when combined with yesterday’s numbers, has produced a total field of 268 players to shatter all previous records for a poker tournament in Seoul in terms of both number of entrants and prizepool. They’ll all be fighting to reach the top 28 which is where the first KRW5,000,000 (US$4,473) payout will be awarded. Reaching the final table on Sunday is worth KRW15,889,600 (US$14,215) while our champion will receive a massive KRW194,000,000 (US$173,555) – impressive numbers in any currency
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APPT Seoul: By the numbers
by Pokerplayer on Mar.09, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! During the course of tournaments, we bloggers often come across little factoids that never make it into the blog for a variety of reasons. Having collected several of those factoids during the first two days of the 2012 APPT Seoul Main Event, I decided to take a page from my colleague Jess Welman at BLUFF Magazine and organize them into their own post. Without further adieu, I give you the 2012 APPT Seoul, “by the numbers”: 268: size of the combined Day 1a and Day 1b field for the 2012 APPT Seoul Main Event
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MPC Red Dragon Main Event Day 2: Levels 11-13 (blinds 1,200-2,400, ante 400)
by Pokerplayer on Feb.25, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! 4:30pm: Ten-minute break 4:15pm: Cheam gets frisky We rushed to the table of Kazakhstan’s Roman Paxyutkin after he let off a loud scream after copping a brutal beat against Australian Alvin Cheam.
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MPC Red Dragon Main Event Day 2: Levels 11-13 (blinds 1,200-2,400, ante 400)
EPT8 Copenhagen: The final table begins
by Pokerplayer on Feb.25, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! The final table starts at 12 noon today with the final eight of 299 players back for one more day of action at the SAS Radisson Casino.
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EPT8 Copenhagen: The final table begins
PCA 2012: Way to stay alive
by Pokerplayer on Jan.13, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! Ville Wahlbeck started today on the most tricky of tables. Described earlier right here , it was also the home of Joe Cada, Jonathan Duhamel, Eugene Katchalov, ElkY and Philipp Gruissem.

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PCA 2012: Way to stay alive
PCA 2012: Letting the cards do the talking
by Pokerplayer on Jan.08, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! Victor Ramdin and Jude Ainworth sit just one table apart, both well chipped with 90,000 and 80,000 respectively.

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PCA 2012: Letting the cards do the talking
PCA 2012: Empty chair leads the Main Event
by Pokerplayer on Jan.08, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! I appreciate this is hard to believe, but an empty chair is currently runaway chip leader of the PCA Main Event.

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PCA 2012: Empty chair leads the Main Event
PCA 2012: When the robot slows down
by Pokerplayer on Jan.08, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! There are around one hundred tables in the main tournament room of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and Randy Lew is only allowed to play one of them today. He’s a leashed dog, a grounded pilot, a caged bird. Forcing Lew to sit and look at one deck and a mere eight opponents is akin to forcing a modern day Van Gogh to paint with a shaving brush.

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