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EPT Copenhagen Day Three: Pierre Neuville Surges To Lead With 24 Players Remaining

The European Poker Tour’s stop in Copenhagen, Denmark is entering into the homestretch, with a well-respected Belgian at the top of the leaderboard. 72 players came back on Thursday to whittle the field down to the final 24 contenders. Heading the field at the start of the day was Team LockPro Elite member Melanie Weisner, [...] Continue reading

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Weisner Tops Final 72 at EPT Copenhagen

Weisner, who is off to a strong start in 2012 with several deep runs in Aussie Millions events, finished with 368,200 chips, tops amongst the 72 players remaining in the contest.
Although Weisner has yet to score a major title, she has shown the abilit… Continue reading

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Wissing, Bjerkmann Rise on EPT Copenhagen Day 1b

Of the 216 players to buy-in today, 131 held on to enough chips to make it to Day 2 with Wissing and Bjerkmann standing out for their solid play and healthy stacks.
Wissing, a hometown Copenhagen pro with just under $700k in lifetime cashes, quietly bu… Continue reading

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Daily 3-Bet: Mercier Holds, Wade Back, Ziig Shivs Helppi

Any suggestions for a future 3-Bet, feel free to drop a note in the comments below.
Today in the 3-Bet Jason Mercier opens 2012 atop the Global Poker Index, Tristan Wade catches us up on his post-WSOPE bracelet travels and we re-visit the biggest pot o… Continue reading

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Heinz, Trickett, Cody Dominate Euro Poker Awards Nominations

Hosted by the Aviation Club in Paris, the ceremony is scheduled for January 25th and will present awards in nine distinct categories ranging from Player of the Year to Best European Event.
2011 WSOP Main Event champion Pius Heinz finds himself up for a… Continue reading

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Eduard Bhaggoe chipleader na dag 1 MCOP Main Event

De Master Classics of Poker kent in totaal negen events, maar de meeste aandacht ging logischerwijs uit naar het MCOP Main Event en het High Roller Event. Van beide events zal zaterdag de finale worden gespeeld, waardoor zaterdag een mooi slotstuk belo… Continue reading

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Trickett Rising as Partouche Main Event Bubble Pops

Trailing him is a very strong final 63 players, however, including 2011 WSOP bracelet winner Oleksii Kovalchuk (845k), who built a massive chip lead to end Day 2 yesterday only to see Wissing race by him today.
Also moving up quickly in the chip counts… Continue reading

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WPT Paris: Christophe Benzimra finishes in 34th position

  Team Titan’s  Christophe Benzimra finished 34th for a gain of 11,110 € in the prestigious WPT Paris 2011 which take place in the famous Aviation Club de France on the Champs-Elysées in Paris…
 and where 312 players paid the 7,500 € buy-in. Between them, Marvin Rettenmaier and Yann Brosolo from Team Titan also took part of [...] Continue reading

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WPT Grand Prix de Paris: Mikko Sundell Heads Leader Board

Europe is currently the capital of premier live events and the Aviation Club de France hosted the opening day flight of another on Monday as the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris got underway. Former World Series of Poker … Continue reading

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Darcourt, Ebanks and Karr Cruising at WPT Paris

Darcourt, who featured prominently in this year’s WSOP Main Event coverage, ran his 30k starting stack up to 198,500 by the end of the day to lead all Day 1b runners.
He’ll start third in chips in the merged Day 2 field tomorrow.
All told, 167 player… Continue reading

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