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Negreanu to face rUaBot in first PokerStars Limit Hold’em Challenge

Start stacking your bets in easy-to grab piles, because PokerStars has just announced a brand new big show for the weekend: the PokerStars Limit Hold’em Challenge.

You read it right. Limit Hold’em.

“People still play Limit Hold’em?” you say.

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Igor Kurganov wint EPT High Roller Titel

Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu begon met de vierde grootste chipstack aan de finale tafel en lag ver achter op de chipleader Justin Bonomo. Negreanu wist echter al snel te dubbelen, waardoor hij weer volop kans maakte. Toen het spel eenmaal 4-hand… Continue reading

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EPT8 Monaco: Season ends in high style

The one thing poker players like doing more than anything else is playing poker. The second thing they like doing is heading to a swanky cafe/restaurant overlooking Monte Carlo bay, drinking champagne out of delicate glass flutes and listening to the r… Continue reading

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Igor Kurganov Beats Daniel Negreanu For European Poker Tour €25,000 High Roller Title

After a grueling and swing-filled heads-up battle Igor Kurganov has won the 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final €25,000 high roller title, defeating Daniel Negreanu heads-up …
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EPT Monaco $25,000 High Roller: A four-handed round

Dusting down the “A Round With…” concept when a tournament is four-handed represents a level of indolence even beyond me. But we still want to see how these guys are playing, right, so here are the first ten hands of the post-break period. That’s A R… Continue reading

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EPT Monaco $25,000 High Roller: A four-handed round

Dusting down the “A Round With…” concept when a tournament is four-handed represents a level of indolence even beyond me. But we still want to see how these guys are playing, right, so here are the first ten hands of the post-break period. That’s A R… Continue reading

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EPT8 Monaco $25,000 High Roller: Schwartz busts amid the banter

The kind of conversation referred to as “banter” is usually best kept within the confines of online dating profiles, along with use of the word “random” to mean “slightly out of the ordinary” and “bubbly” to mean “boring”. (All that goes double for the… Continue reading

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EPT8 Monaco $25,000 High Roller: Out of the spotlight

One of the many quirks of top level poker tournaments is that often when the action nears its most meaningful end, the apparent interest among supporters is at its lowest. It’s just a case of mathematics: a field of 500 bringing even two rail-birds eac… Continue reading

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EPT8 Monaco: High Rollers, ladies and champions

Morning folks and welcome again to Monaco for the final day’s action on season eight of the European Poker Tour. This, remember, is not just the Grand Final. It is the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final.

And it has come to this. After… Continue reading

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EPT8 Monaco $25,000 High Roller: Unstoppable Bonomo blazes again

Certain things are just easier in a High Roller’s world. You need to get to Monte Carlo from Nice? Helicopter it is, or maybe give the Ferrari a spin. You want a round of drinks, and one for the nanny, there’s your €1,000, no problem. Similarly, if y… Continue reading

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