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Rafael Nadal: Meer geluk met poker dan met tennis?

Posted on August 13, 2012 by admin

PokerStars staat bekend om haar uitstekende marketing en naast bekende poker pro’s trekken zij ook bekende sporters aan als ambassadeurs om nieuwe klanten aan te trekken. Nu Spanje recentelijk licenties heeft uitgegeven, waardoor verschillende online p… Continue reading →

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KC Poker Pro Recovers $1m in PokerStars-FTP Deal

Posted on August 1, 2012 by admin

On February 20, 2011, roughly two weeks after his 25th birthday, Hinkle had the biggest score of his career. He chopped the FTOPS main event on Full Tilt Poker for over $1.16 million playing under his screenname “blur5f6″.
That’s more than double wha… Continue reading →

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PartyPoker Eliminates High Stakes Cash Games

Posted on July 25, 2012 by admin

Last week, PartyPoker surprised the online poker community by removing its highest stakes real money cash games. Gone are all No-Limit and Pot-Limit tables at stakes above $5/$10 and all Fixed-Limit tables above $30/$60. Some players received the following short message from PartyPoker via e-mail: We have removed some of our super high stake games, [...] Continue reading →

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Opinion: PokerStars to Acquire PokerNews.com

Posted on July 24, 2012 by admin

From cutting staff to accepting advertising buys from less than reputable services, there are plenty of clues that PokerNews has been struggling since Black Friday.
And with PokerStars doing everything they can to strengthen their position as the world… Continue reading →

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Absolute Poker’s Brent Beckley Sentenced to 14 Months

Posted on July 23, 2012 by admin

Beckley, 32, was the head of payment processing at Absolute Poker starting in 2003 and pled guilty to two charges in December, 2011.
“I fooled myself into thinking that what I was doing was OK,” Beckley told U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan.
Despite Be… Continue reading →

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What Happens to Poker Without Online Sponsorship?

Posted on July 15, 2012 by admin

Both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker played a huge role in WSOP attendance in the past but this year Full Tilt is completely absent and PokerStars, restricted to offering their games outside of the U.S., only sent a handful of qualifiers.
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Bally Technology, IGT Granted First Nevada Online Gaming Licenses

Posted on June 25, 2012 by admin

Regulated online poker in Nevada is closer to becoming a reality. This past Thursday, the Nevada Gaming Commission granted licenses to two gaming companies to provide systems for online poker partners. The rival firms, Bally Technologies and International Game Technology (IGT), were both unanimously approved for online gaming licenses. They will not be the companies [...] Continue reading →

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2012 World Series of Poker Begins Today

Posted on May 27, 2012 by admin

The city of Las Vegas is replete with activities for its visitors. Shows, casinos and “other” adult activities abound but, for slightly more than two months in the summer, Sin City becomes the center of the poker universe as the World Series of Poker takes over the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino. The 43rd [...] Continue reading →

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Belgium Bans More Online Poker Sites

Posted on May 14, 2012 by admin

The Belgian Gaming Commission is certainly taking its new online gambling laws seriously. This past week, the Commission placed more online poker sites on the country’s blacklist, making it a crime for the country’s citizens to play on those sites. Including in the new batch of blacklisted sites are such popular names as Betfair, William [...] Continue reading →

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Poker Pros Network Launches

Posted on May 7, 2012 by admin

Industry conditions be damned. A new U.S.-friendly online poker network, the Poker Pros Network,  launched last week, hoping that its player-friendly atmosphere will attract casual and serious players alike. The Poker Pros Network, owned by Costa Rica-based CMK Interactive, is currently comprised of seven online poker rooms and is new enough that cash game tracking [...] Continue reading →

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