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M.a-0000 defeats Xuan Liu to take Women’s Sunday title
by Pokerplayer on Apr.30, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! It’s an exciting week for women as the PS Women Live tournament in Monte Carlo gears up for its start on Monday, April 30. The ladies-only event will be live amidst the EPT Monaco festivities, and the women of poker have descended upon the elegant resort city of Monte Carlo to compete for a prestigious poker title
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M.a-0000 defeats Xuan Liu to take Women’s Sunday title
Battle of the Planets: Soap opera plot twists end with nine-way chop
by Pokerplayer on Apr.30, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! Having a good reputation and keeping a cool head at the poker table is very much a positive trait for all players. In the case of tonight’s $50,000 Battle of the Planets triple shootout freeroll, both traits would be used to secure a deal that took longer than some turbo SnGs take to finish
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Battle of the Planets: Soap opera plot twists end with nine-way chop
APPT Cebu: The measure of a man
by Pokerplayer on Apr.27, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! The poker culture in the Philippines has been lively and thriving since the first time the APPT set foot in the country, during the Season 1 event in Manila in 2007. Filipinos, like many people in other parts of the world, have taken to the game with passion and fervor, helped in no small part by a governmental regulatory apparatus (PAGCOR) that supports the game and legitimate poker rooms run by organizations like the Metro Card Club that makes live poker as accessible as the online variety. The game’s growth here in the Philippines has been made possible by a number of people, not the least of whom is Wally Sombero.
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EPT8 Monaco: Justin Bonomo looking ahead to main event after Super High Roller win
by Pokerplayer on Apr.25, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! Before the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final got under way the Super High Roller piqued the interest of high rollers everywhere. Starting on Monday 38 players (seven of whom re-bought after swift elimination), contested the biggest event on the Season 8 calendar (thanks to an exchange rate favouring the Euro).
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EPT8 Monaco: Justin Bonomo looking ahead to main event after Super High Roller win
EPT8 Grand Final: Coren and Weisner heads up for the title
by Pokerplayer on Apr.25, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! Team PokerStars Pro Victoria Coren and Melanie Weisner are battling it out for €58,900 in the final of the €5,000 heads-up tournament, the last two players remaining from a starting field of 27. Coren had beaten Dori Yacoub in her semi, while the fast talking American, who has impressed on the tour with five main event cashes over the last two seasons, beat EPT London champ Mark Teltscher in hers. Coren drew first blood taking the first round in a best of five match after both players got it in with top pair and she caught her kicker
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EPT8 Grand Final: Coren and Weisner heads up for the title
Cast your vote for the Season 8 EPT Awards
by Pokerplayer on Apr.16, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! With today’s start of EPT Berlin, the European Poker Tour is just two champions away from finishing its eighth trip around Europe. With the end of the season comes the annual EPT Awards. Most of those awards revolve around the points players earn for their individual performances
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EPT8 Berlin: Searching for German talent, step forward ‘wizowizo’
by Pokerplayer on Apr.16, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! There are hundreds of players at every European Poker Tour destination of which only a modest amount can be focussed upon in the live coverage. Priority is thus given to big names, big stacks, those with previous successes and those that have consistently proved themselves to make for interesting copy (Nasr El Nasr, for instance). Domestic players often fly under our radar until the later stages when the hopes for a local winner come to the fore but here in Berlin we’re trying to jumpstart that process
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UKIPT Nottingham: Robert Baguley upsets odds to claim title and £210,400
by Pokerplayer on Apr.16, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! Sometimes in poker, the best thing you can do is screw up your copy of the script, unread. Robert Baguley, a 60-year-old retired landlord from Leicestershire, has just beaten a field of 1,625 of the continent’s best players to win the Nottingham stop of the PokerStars United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT). It was an upset worth £210,400, and has proved once again that tournament poker is anyone’s – and everyone’s – game.
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UKIPT Nottingham: Robert Baguley upsets odds to claim title and £210,400
EPT Player of the Year contenders scrambling for points
by Pokerplayer on Apr.03, 2012, under Gambling News
Join PokerStars now! The EPT Player of the Year race saw the main contenders in a mad scramble for points at EPT Campione – making it a very close race with just two events to go. Czech pro Ondrej Vinklarek hung on to the lead despite valiant attempts by his nearest rivals to grab the #1 spot
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WPT Cannes oder doch lieber Marbella?
by Pokerplayer on Apr.03, 2012, under Gambling News
Registriere dich bei bwin Poker jetzt! Die WPT Wien steht in den Startlöchern. Auf bwin Poker rüstet sich das bwin Team bereits für die nächsten Events der World Poker Tour. Mehrmals pro Woche sind $320 Online Finals für die WPT Cannes und WPT Marbella in der Pokerlobby zu finden
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WPT Cannes oder doch lieber Marbella?