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Join PokerStars now! Those of you with a keen eye might have noticed that PokerStars was looking into the possibility of adding Romania as a Eureka Poker Tour stop this season. Unfortunately, owing to player taxation issues, this is now out of the question.

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Special deepstack event added to EPT Prague

Join PokerStars now! The first day of WCOOP Event #40 fielded a truly massive turnout of 8,332 players, crushing the $1 million guarantee with a $1,666,400 prize pool. The schedule called for 1,080 players to be paid, with $349.94 going to the first casher and a whopping $249,964.40 to the last man (or woman) standing

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WCOOP 2011: Daut44 comes close, z81ima wins in Event #40, $215 NLHE

Join PokerStars now! 712 players lined up at the 10:00am CST starting gun for WCOOP Event #16 $215 buy-in PLO (6-max). And at 10:01am mtvdeuem of Slovenia decided ship the entire 5,000 chip starting stack to papillon of Malta exiting the tournament before most had even taken their seats. Quite the contrast from Event #15′s Razz tournament that just finished a mere eight hours ago when Fred_Brink outlasted a field of 799, including Team PokerStars pro George Danzer who finished 16th, the Razz contestants may have received a little more play for their buck than mtvdeuem did.

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WCOOP Event #16: Team Online Anders "Donald" Berg wins third WCOOP Bracelet

Join PokerStars now! The PokerStars Italian Poker Tour continues to attract impressive fields, and this Nova Gorica event was loaded with talent that generated a very healthy €556,780 prize pool. After it was all said and done, Oleksii Kovalchuk from the Ukraine took down the title and banked the €150,000 first prize

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Oleksii Kovalchuk wins IPT Nova Gorica for €150,000

Join PokerStars now! 3.05pm: No scared Money here I had the pleasure of watching Chris Moneymaker play at the recent UKIPT Edinburgh event where he went deep before busting out just before the payouts.

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Eureka Croatia: Day 1A, level 1 updates (blinds 25-50)

Join PokerStars now! On a recent holiday to cloudy Devon I visited a rather eccentric pub. It was originally the home of a seventeenth century card-playing gentleman, Squire Ley. George Ley had a sizeable gambling win in 1690 and decided to spend the cash building a house–we must assume that he had mastered ye olde nosebleed stakes! The house was designed as a shrine to card gaming and had four floors to represent the four suits, thirteen rooms for the number of cards in a suit, fifty-two windows, fifty-two stairs, and was built on a ground area measuring exactly fifty-two feet square.

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Of pubs, PokerStars promotions, and English eccentrics

Join PokerStars now! 3.20pm: Alain Medesan eliminated in 14th place (€2,200) Huge pot, new chipleader and the exit of the colourful Romanian.

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Eureka Poker Tour Nova Gorica: Day 3, level 19 & 20 updates (blinds 5,000-10,000, ant

Join PokerStars now! 2.50am: Chip counts Here’s the chipcounts of the remaining players: Visraeliyan Petleshkov, Bulgaria, PokerStars qualifier, 495,000 Tadeas Kozdon, Czech Republic, PokerStars qualifier, 355,000 Alain Medesan , Romania, 303,000 Senadin Cosic Bosnia Herzegovina, 270,000 Dieguez Rodriguez, Spain, 258,000 Miha Staric, Slovenia, PokerStars qualifier, 237,000 Plamen Todorov, Bulgaria, 208,000 Libor Behro, Czech Republic, PokerStars qualifier, 179,000 Mauro Palazzo, Italy, 165,000 Simeon Todorov, Bulgaria, PokerStars qualifier, 159,000 Aleksandar Kaludercic, Bosnia Herzegovina, 112,000 Jure Vodeb, Slovenia, 105,000 Franco Recchia, Italy, 105,000 Simon Andrei, Romania, 93,000 Dorde Jovanovic, Serbia, 75,000 Daniel Todorov, Bulgaria, 60,000 Play will resume at 2pm tomorrow and will play down to a winner. A wrap of today’s play is on the way. Alain Medesan is in third place going into tomorrow 2.25am: Play is done for the day Players will bag their chips just as soon as the tournament staff have coloured up the 500 denomination chips.

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Eureka Poker Tour Nova Gorica: Day 2, level 17 & 18 updates (blinds 3,000-6,000, ante

Join PokerStars now! A total of 92 players sat down at the start of Day 2 of the Eureka Poker Tour, Nova Gorica main event.

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Bulgarian PokerStars qualifier leads sweet sixteen into final day

Join PokerStars now! The Eureka Poker Tour rolled into Nova Gorica, Slovenia and 96 players in total took to the felt on Day 1A. Slovenia is the smallest country, in terms of population, to ever qualify for the Football World Cup and it looked as if they would be outnumbered here too. There were more Italians and Romanians and just as many Bulgarians as there were Slovenians playing today.

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Slovenian PokerStars qualifier leads after Day 1A