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LAPT5 Colombia: The luck of the Irish

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You have to love a guy who wears a t-shirt inspired by the movie The Big Lebowski. Robbie Renehan, a 29-year-old who qualified for the 2012 PokerStars.net Latin American P… Continue reading

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LAPT: Team Pros looking ahead to Panama

Last week, PokerStars Mexico held a press conference in a plush hotel in the heart of Mexico City’s chic suburb of Condessa. The nation’s two Team PokerStars Pros, Angel Guillen and Christian de Leon and Team Online’s Jorge Limon, joined together for t… Continue reading

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WSOP 3-Bet: Shulman Shuffle, No Go for Ho, Bloch on NPR

Arguably the best father-son tandem in poker, with respect to Doyle and Todd Brunson, Barry and Jeff combined to win over $140k for the Shulman family today.
They weren’t the only story, however, as Maria Ho made her first cash and Andy Bloch provide… Continue reading

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IPOPS Barcelona – Event 5 won by Jesse Rockowitz

Event 5 of the iPOPS Live was won yesterday by American Jesse Rockowitz in a nice 33 vs 22 hand. Jesse is no stranger to live poker winnings being the owner of a WSOP bracelet from a $1,500 NLH event in 2010. With a $100,000 boost to his bankroll he is headed to Vegas this [...] Continue reading

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Player of the Year Profile — Dan Smith

Dan Smith has had an incredible start to 2012, topping the Aussie Millions $100,000 high roller winning three separate €5,000 buy-in no limit hold’em events in the span of roughly a week at the EPT Grand Final. As a result of his Monte Car… Continue reading

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Pop Poker: Baseball and Poker in American Culture

Baseball and poker both originated in the U.S. and both drew upon games invented elsewhere, much like American culture as a whole is in many ways comprised of elements of cultures from around the world. 
And just as poker is thought to have come from … Continue reading

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Isildur1 Beats Haxton in $500,000 SuperStar Showdown

Viktor “Isildur1” Blom finally got the better of his nemesis Isaac Haxton after he took the American for $500,000 in the most recent renewal of the PokerStars SuperStar Showdown. Having …
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Aliro Diaz Wins LAPT Chile National Poker Championship

Season 5 of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) kicked off last week with the LAPT Chile National Poker Championship, the third time the LAPT has made a stop in Chile. Held at the Vina del Mar Casino and Resort, the $1,000 + $100 Main Event wrapped up Sunday with Aliro Diaz winning the final [...] Continue reading

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LAPT Grand Final Day 3: Daniele Nestola Leads Final Table, Daniel Negreanu Fifth

The Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Grand Final narrowed its field down to the final table Sunday as just eight players remain out of the original 367. With a buy-in of R$3,700 or about USD $2,155, the total prize pool amounts to USD $1,343,100, with USD $324,600 going to the winner. Leading the finalists in [...] Continue reading

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Nestola Leads, Negreanu Lurks at LAPT Grand Final

Nestola started the day just off the lead with about 440,000 in chips but more than quadrupled his stack over the course of the day to buid a solid advantage over Negreanu and the rest of the final eight.
He’ll start tomorrow with 1.89 million in chips… Continue reading

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