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Tournament Review Articles
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| Tournament Review for February 6, 2012 Several members took home scores of over $40,000 in online poker tournaments on Super Bowl Sunday. Sweden's inhoo came out on top in the PartyPoker Winter Million tournament, chopping the $1 Million Guaranteed event three ways for $130,139. |
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Feb 6th, 2012 | 2 |
| Tournament Review for January 30, 2012 PocketFives members weavel and Gettin Daize were the two largest winners in online poker tournaments over the weekend, taking home $382,855 and $285,310 for their respective 1st and 2nd place finishes in the PokerStars TCOOP Main Event. |
Join Date: Jul 7th, 2005 |
Jan 29th, 2012 | 0 |
| Tournament Review for January 23, 2012 Several PocketFives members took home online poker tournament cashes of over $50,000 on Sunday, led by Giuseppe LeChiffre19 Pantaleo of Germany, who earned $114,000 for his 3rd place showing in the PokerStars Sunday Million weekly flagship tournament. |
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Jan 22nd, 2012 | 5 |
| Tournament Review for January 16, 2012 Several PocketFives members took home online poker tournament cashes of over $40,000 over the weekend, led by LiroLa, who earned $60,555 for his 3rd place showing in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up. Veteran online poker player UHBigTex earned $60,508 for his 5th place effort in the Stars Sunday Million weekly flagship event, while WhiteRabbito chopped the Sunday Rebuy for $47,292. |
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Jan 16th, 2012 | 3 |
| Tournament Review for January 9, 2012 Several members took home online poker tournament scores of over $40,000 over the weekend, led by mBlasterX, who took down the PartyPoker $200k Guaranteed for $59,814. |
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Jan 9th, 2012 | 2 |
| Tournament Review for January 2, 2012 Several PocketFives members earned online poker tournament cashes of more than 40,000 over the weekend, led by online poker veteran Shane shaniac Schelger, who took home $84,000 for his 7th place finish in the PokerStars Sunday Million weekly flagship tournament following a 7-way chop. |
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Jan 2nd, 2012 | 2 |
| Tournament Review for December 26, 2011 Several PocketFivers took down key scores in the final Sunday of online poker tournament action in 2011, as LFmagic earned $111,700 for his 3rd place showing in the PokerStars Sunday Million weekly flagship event. |
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Dec 26th, 2011 | 0 |
| Tournament Review for December 19, 2011 PocketFives members took home a number of six-figure scores in weekend major online poker tournament action, led by Australia's skunkden, who finished 6th in the PokerStars 10th Anniversary Sunday Million tournament for $758,986 following a six-way final table deal. Fellow member jcl87 won the High Roller $10,000+300 NLHE buy-in event for 402,050 while gray31 placed 2nd for $289,850 and Stamdogg ... |
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Dec 19th, 2011 | 0 |
| Tournament Review for December 12, 2011 Several PocketFivers picked up key online poker tournament scores over the weekend, led by Zimmy of the United Kingdom, who won the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up for $87,700 following a four-way final table deal. Fellow member lubos1980cz placed 2nd in that event for $73,500 and LuckyDuy finished 3rd for $68,600. |
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Dec 12th, 2011 | 0 |
| Tournament Review for December 5, 2011 Two PocketFivers took home over $100,000 in major online tournament action over the weekend, as Gabriel Otranto and marcin123 each earned over $128,000 for their respective 2nd and 3rd place finishes in the PokerStars Sunday Million weekly flagship tournament. |
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Dec 5th, 2011 | 5 |
| Tournament Review for November 28, 2011 PocketFives members claimed a number of key scores over $40,000 in major online poker tournament action over the weekend, led by vincelis, who placed 3rd in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up for $77,547 following a three-way deal. United Kingdom's andethegreat finished 5th in the Stars Sunday Million for $55,515 while fbg1919 took home $47,905 for his runner-up performance in the Sunday 500. |
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Nov 28th, 2011 | 1 |
| Tournament Review for November 21, 2011 Several PocketFives members earned scores of over $30,000 in major online poker tournament action over the weekend, led by wykrecony69 of Poland, who took home $57,400 following his heads-up chop in the PokerStars Sunday 500 event. Fellow member scott96dl placed 3rd in that tournament for $37,800. |
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Nov 21st, 2011 | 2 |
| Tournament Review for November 14, 2011 Germany's flpro led PocketFives members in major online poker action over the weekend, placing 3rd in the PokerStars Sunday Million weekly flagship tournament for an even $130,000 following a three-way chop. Fellow member jdpc27 of Mexico finished 1st in the Stars Sunday 500 for $68,500 and Lion King of the Netherlands won the PartyPoker $100k Guaranteed High Roller event for $36,400. |
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Nov 14th, 2011 | 1 |
| Tournament Review for November 7, 2011 Canadian online poker player stevejpa took home $85,737 for his runner-up performance in the Stars Sunday Warm-Up to lead PocketFives members in major online poker tournament action over the weekend. |
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Nov 7th, 2011 | 5 |
| Tournament Review for October 31, 2011 Several PocketFives members took home scores of over $50,000 in major online poker tournament action over the weekend, led by Zilkar Zilkar Baranow of Brazil, who pocketed $149,679 for his runner-up performance in the PokerStars Sunday Million weekly flagship event following a four-way final table deal. Fellow member MarkusG earned $57,916 for his 5th place finish in that event. |
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Oct 31st, 2011 | 1 |
Other Recent Articles
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| Will the WSOP Main Event Final Table Ever Return to July? On Wednesday, PocketFives brought you an exclusive interview with World Series of Poker (WSOP) Tournament Director Jack Effel, who previewed the five new bracelet events that grace this year’s schedule. Today, we’re proud to bring you Part 2 of our interview, which focuses on the delayed final table of the Main Event, tournament registration at the Rio, and whether we’ll see the series move to ... |
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Feb 9th, 2012 | 0 |
| Tapie Lawyer: Full Tilt is in Worse Financial Condition than We Anticipated In recent days, much has been made about the nearly $17 million allegedly owed to Full Tilt Poker from a handful of brand name pros, including Phil Ivey, Layne Flack, David Benyamine, Erick Lindgren, Barry Greenstein, and Mike Matusow. |
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Feb 8th, 2012 | 31 |
| Previewing the Five New Gold Bracelet Events at the 2012 WSOP At the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP), five new gold bracelet events will be held. The new tournaments comprise a wide variety of games and genres and include a $5,000 Mix-Max No Limit Hold’em event, a $2,500 Four-Max No Limit Hold’em event, a $1,500 Ante-Only No Limit Hold'em event, a $1 million Big One for One Drop charity poker tournament, and a $3,000 Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit ... |
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Feb 8th, 2012 | 1 |
| DC City Council Overturns Internet Gambling Legislation After more than a year of debate, the District of Columbia’s City Council has decided to repeal legislation legalizing internet gambling. On Tuesday, the full City Council met for discussion of the issue, which was passed in 2010 after council member Michael Brown (I-At Large) tacked on language authorizing the regulation and taxation of internet gambling to a supplemental budget measure. Read ... |
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Feb 8th, 2012 | 7 |
| Laurent Tapie: 19 Pros Owe Full Tilt Poker $16.5 Million In recent days, PokerStrategy reported that several well-known pros owe Full Tilt Poker sizable sums of money, a situation that if unresolved could potentially kill the deal that would see Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) purchase the assets of the beleaguered site. According to a report from iGamingFrance, GBT Managing Director Laurent Tapie has confirmed that the debt amounts to $16.5 million and is ... |
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Feb 7th, 2012 | 24 |
| Witness List Released for Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Hearing On Thursday, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will hold an oversight hearing entitled, “The U.S. Department of Justice Opinion on Internet Gaming: What's at Stake for Tribes?” The witness list includes two names that should ring a bell in the online poker world: gambling law expert I. Nelson Rose and Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Board Member and Litigation Support Director Patrick ... |
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Feb 7th, 2012 | 0 |
| Heads-Up with Christina Lindley (lindeyloo22) It’s been a topsy-turvy last 10 months for poker pro Christina Lindley (pictured), who is known on PocketFives as lindeyloo22. After setting up shop in Las Vegas to play online poker with fellow female star Lauren locoenlacabeza Kling, Lindley left the United States following the events of Black Friday in order to keep playing online. Now residing in Canada and on a warm weather retreat to ... |
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Feb 6th, 2012 | 6 |
| New PocketFives League on HogWild Poker - Win an iPad 2 If you haven’t already heard, HogWild Poker is launching an online league for PocketFives members, and they’re giving an iPad 2 to the winner of the February series. Four free league games are scheduled every Tuesday in February at 9 pm ET. And they’re all open to PocketFives members from the United States since the site isn’t rake-based: |
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Feb 5th, 2012 | 14 |
| Add Your Hendon Mob URL to Your PocketFives Profile We have some exciting news for you on Super Bowl Sunday. Your live poker scores will now be displayed in your PocketFives Profile. It’s really easy to add your live scores to your account thanks to a partnership we’ve formed with the Hendon Mob, the premier source for live poker results and stats. |
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Feb 5th, 2012 | 4 |
| PPA: Mitt Romney Has it Wrong in Opposing Online Poker If you haven’t heard by now, Republican Presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney (pictured) told a Las Vegas television station that he does not support legalized online poker in the United States “because of the social costs and people's addictive gambling habits.” As you’d expect, a major Presidential candidate coming out against our industry in a public forum did not sit well with the Poker ... |
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Feb 4th, 2012 | 32 |
| How Realistic is it to Play Poker Full-Time? It's not easy playing poker professionally. From a nocturnal lifestyle to the ebb and flow of your bankroll to the mental rigors of tough decisions, poker players experience the gamut of emotions on a daily basis. Being a poker pro definitely isn't for everyone, which is why a thread recently popped up on PocketFives discussing the pros and cons of playing the game full-time versus part-time as ... |
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Feb 4th, 2012 | 3 |
| 888, Caesars Extend Agreement to U.S. Market Last week, it was announced that Caesars Interactive Entertainment and 888 had extended a U.K. software licensing agreement to the United States. When and if online poker is regulated on a Federal or state-by-state basis, 888 and Caesars will work together to offer real money online gaming. 888 is traded on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol “888,” while Caesars is a private company ... |
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Feb 3rd, 2012 | 0 |
| Don't Project, Predict "How can you call there," one player said to another incredulously. "Don't you know my reputation?" The speaker in this case is a very tight player and in a group where everyone plays together on a weekly basis and his reputation is known by all. |
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Feb 3rd, 2012 | 5 |
| LiroLa Final Tables Sunday Majors on Back-to-Back Weekends On January 15th and 22nd, Rafael Monteiro (pictured), better known as LiroLa on PocketFives, recorded final tables in Sunday Majors on back-to-back weekends. One of them was even for a win to boot. On January 15th, Monteiro and 3,600 other poker players entered the weekly PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up and vied for a $734,000 prize pool. When the smoke cleared, Monteiro took third place, the highest ... |
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Feb 2nd, 2012 | 12 |
| 2012 WSOP Schedule Released, November Nine Moved to October The 2012 World Series of Poker schedule was released on Wednesday and features 61 gold bracelet events, three more than were handed out in 2011 in Las Vegas. 2012 will be the 43rd running of the tournament series, which will once again emanate from the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. In order to accommodate the 2012 Presidential election, the WSOP Main Event November Nine will be pushed forward ... |
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Feb 1st, 2012 | 12 |
| District of Columbia Online Poker Could Be Repealed After looking like a sure bet after its passage, the laws in the District of Columbia that would open up internet gaming and online poker in the backyard of the Federal Government have come under fire and may, in fact, be rescinded before any online operations come to fruition. |
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Feb 1st, 2012 | 1 |
| World Series of Poker Changes November Nine In breaking news from Las Vegas, Caesars Entertainment officials have decided to do away with the World Series of Poker November Nine. What its replacement will be – if anything – remains to be seen, but WSOP officials posted on Twitter on Tuesday, “A few hints on WSOP schedule coming tomorrow... you won't find the November Nine returning.” The 43rd annual World Series of Poker dates were also ... |
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Jan 31st, 2012 | 15 |
| PPA Recognized by PC World for Social Media Usage The poker advocacy group the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) received positive press last week, having been cited in PC World as an organization that has successfully used digital media to advance its cause. The PPA is in eclectic company, as also receiving a rating of “effective” or better from PC World were such high-profile movements as the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the ongoing Occupy movement, ... |
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Jan 31st, 2012 | 0 |
| T.J. Ulmer (1bigacehole) Wins PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuy Black Friday changed the lives of poker players from around the United States. Among them was T.J. 1bigacehole Ulmer (pictured), who relocated to Montreal, Canada in order to continue playing online poker. The decision paid off, as in recent weeks, Ulmer walked away with a $67,000 bankroll boost for winning the PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuy. Down the stretch, he contended with several brand name ... |
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Jan 30th, 2012 | 7 |
| weavel, Gettin Daize Finish 1-2 in PokerStars TCOOP Main Event On Sunday, the eyes of the online poker community were fixated on the Main Event of the PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker, or TCOOP. The 49th event of the first ever TCOOP, and the series’ finale, brought out a field of nearly 3,400 players in a $700 No Limit Hold’em tournament. When the smoke cleared, two PocketFives members cashed in for nearly $700,000 total, David weavel Emmons ... |
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Jan 30th, 2012 | 8 |
| Ari Engel Takes Second in Ongame $100K Seven years ago, and eight months after our community launched, Ari Engel (pictured) joined PocketFives. His results since then have been consistently impressive, as he’s registered about $2.5 million in tracked tournament cashes and ascended all the way to the top spot in the prestigious PocketFives Rankings. Engel was forced out of Las Vegas following Black Friday and now resides in Toronto, ... |
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Jan 29th, 2012 | 5 |
| Results of PokerStars Player Meeting Released On February 1st, a variety of changes will purportedly take effect on PokerStars following a meeting between players and site officials, according to the former. After assessing the results of the summit, which was held after PokerStars made changes to its rake calculation in recent weeks, the original poster in a PocketFives thread commented over the weekend, “PokerStars shows again why it is ... |
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Jan 29th, 2012 | 2 |
| PartyPoker Holding $1,000 Exclusive PLB Competition for PocketFivers - Sign Up Now Starting at the beginning of the day GMT on February 1st, you’ll want to head to PartyPoker, one of the world’s largest online poker rooms. The beginning of February will usher in a $1,000 PocketFives Leaderboard, or PLB competition, that will send the top 10 players to a special 10-man sit and go. Everyone who makes the sit and go will take home a prize and it’s quite easy to get signed up. ... |
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Jan 28th, 2012 | 2 |
| Phil Ivey Wins Aussie Millions Super High Roller Event Sixteen players entered the AUD $250,000 Super High Roller Event at the 2012 Aussie Millions. The field was chalk full of brand name poker pros, including the likes of Jason treysfull21 Mercier and Tom durrrr Dwan, but in the end, Phil Ivey (pictured) emerged victorious and collected a top prize of AUD $2 million (USD $2.1 million). Three players finished in the money and Ivey won his first ... |
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Jan 28th, 2012 | 17 |
| Get More Out of Poker Live games are much more enjoyable to me than online games. Driving to games, getting there early, having to wait, getting into a game that is full and not being able to get a seat for hours, and the sometimes brutally slow pace of play are all among the negatives of playing live poker. For me, that is all made up for by the social aspect of the game that is lost online. |
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Jan 27th, 2012 | 17 |
| Poker on the BRINK It took all of two days for Frederik Brink (pictured), who goes by the user name BRINK here on PocketFives, to score an online poker Triple Crown. If you’re not familiar with the award, a Triple Crown requires a person to bink three online poker tournaments with at least a $10,000 prize pool across three sites tracked for the PocketFives Rankings within seven days. And, as we said, Brink needed ... |
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Jan 27th, 2012 | 3 |
| Could Facebook Reach $100 Billion in Revenue with Legalized Internet Gaming? The monstrous social networking site Facebook could be motivated to push for legalized and regulated internet gambling in the United States. According to a Business Insider article published earlier this week, Facebook could reach $100 billion in revenue if it can dip into the internet gambling pool. Last year, the company only logged $4 billion in revenue, so it has a long way to go to reach 25 ... |
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Jan 26th, 2012 | 15 |
| New Obstacles Emerge in Full Tilt Poker, Groupe Bernard Tapie Deal According to an article posted on Subject: Poker on Wednesday, $14.3 million allegedly owed to Full Tilt Poker front man Chris Ferguson could be the latest obstacle in a deal to transfer the assets of the dormant online poker room to Groupe Bernard Tapie. While PocketFives was unable to verify the contents of the story as of press time, Subject: Poker revealed that Ferguson transferred about $60 ... |
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Jan 26th, 2012 | 18 |
| KGC Received 1,340 Internet Gambling Complaints in 2011 Earlier this week, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) issued a report outlining dispute resolutions for the 2011 calendar year. Overall, there were a large number of disputes reported to the KGC last year, a stanza that included Black Friday and subsequent industry upheaval. Read the report. |
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Jan 25th, 2012 | 2 |
| Could U.S. Online Poker Legislation Become a Rider? In a recent Poker Community thread, PocketFives asked for questions from the online poker community for Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Executive Director John Pappas (pictured). With a hearing in the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on deck for two weeks from now and an election looming in November, can U.S. online poker players expect to see Federal regulation this year? For the answer to that ... |
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Jan 25th, 2012 | 9 |
| Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Holding Second Internet Gambling Hearing On February 9th, the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will hold its second hearing about internet gambling. The first, which took place at the tail end of 2011, discussed how the Federal Government legalizing online gaming would impact tribal interests. This time around, the December opinion letter from the U.S. Department of Justice stating that the Wire Act only applies to ... |
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Jan 24th, 2012 | 4 |
| MIT Offering College Course on Poker Bots Remember when you were in grade school and a couple times a year, the teacher let you play games for an entire class period? Wouldn’t it be grand if that happened at an institute of higher learning? This month, CardRunners instructor Will TheDreamer Ma is teaching a course on poker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is a second-year PhD student. |
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Jan 24th, 2012 | 23 |
| Inside the Poker Refugees Holiday Party Last month, poker players around from the world celebrated the holidays. From the Ukraine to the United States to Uruguay, the poker community took some well-deserved time off from the tables to be with family and friends. Down in Costa Rica, an entirely different get-together took place, as players who relocated through Poker Refugees gathered with one another to ring in the holidays. View ... |
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Jan 24th, 2012 | 1 |
| WSOP Main Event Champion Pius Heinz Joins the PocketFives Podcast This month, listeners of the PocketFives Podcast, powered by ClubWPT, are in for a treat, as 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Pius MastaP89 Heinz (pictured) joins the show. Heinz, who banked $8.7 million for taking down poker’s most prestigious tournament last year, spoke with us from the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, which just wrapped up in the Bahamas. Heinz is a sponsored pro ... |
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Jan 23rd, 2012 | 1 |
| You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party On the second Sunday of 2012, the PartyPoker $200,000 Guaranteed brought out a field of 1,391 players. As a result, the prize pool of the $215 gala was 50% larger than its guarantee at nearly $300,000 and the top 99 players walked away with some dough. For Romania’s Valentin busto23 Vornicu (pictured), the tournament marked his very first Sunday Major win and a $59,000 bankroll boost for good ... |
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Jan 22nd, 2012 | 4 |
| Austria's Ringelsdorf Wins iPoker $200K Guaranteed Earlier this month, the 131 registered PocketFives members from the European nation of Austria partied in the streets. Why? Gerald Ringelsdorf Karlic recorded the win in the iPoker Network’s weekly $200,000 Guaranteed and came away with a $34,000 payday. If you’re not familiar with the six-figure guaranteed tournament, it comes with a price tag of $215 and, on January 8th, it drew a crowd of ... |
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Jan 22nd, 2012 | 2 |
| Meet and Train with Real Madrid on bwin One of the more unique poker promotions we’ve seen in a while is currently playing out on bwin, which is giving its members an opportunity to train with and meet one of the world’s top football clubs, Real Madrid. The final chance to score a prize package comes your way via a $25 tournament that will be held on Tuesday, January 24th at 21:00 GMT+1. The event has a standard payout plus a Real ... |
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Jan 22nd, 2012 | 1 |
| Iowa Lawmaker: We Can Have a Multi-State Compact for Online Poker As each day passes, the legalization and regulation of online poker in the United States seems to draw nearer. With Nevada already vetting potential operators and New Jersey trying to catch up, the state of Iowa has jumped into the fray as well. However, with a population of three million, roughly one-third as large as the Chicago metro area, Iowa offering intrastate online poker could be a ... |
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Jan 21st, 2012 | 5 |
| Coral Poker Giving Away Signed Football Shirts in February On February 4th, the Ongame Network site Coral Poker is giving its members something to smile about. One day before the NFL’s Super Bowl takes place, Coral Poker will be holding the Football Freeroll Bonanza Main Event at 19:00 U.K. Time. In order to qualify for the tournament, which will give away signed football shirts to its top three finishers, just finish in the top 25 of any Freeroll ... |
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Jan 20th, 2012 | 0 |
| Zynga in Active Conversations About Real Money Internet Gambling According to an article that appeared on on Friday that was picked up by several mainstream news outlets, Zynga, which operates a Facebook-focused play-for-fun poker site, could soon be branching its efforts into real money gaming. If you’re skeptical about a site called , by the way, you can take solace in knowing that Dow Jones and Company, the same firm that publishes the Wall Street ... |
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Jan 20th, 2012 | 7 |
| Minimize Your Losses in Poker You just can't make a hand. Your nut flush draw never connects. An open-ender and the board pairs. Lots of small pairs that you get to see a flop with and not a set in hours. You bought into a $2/$5 blind No Limit Hold'em game for $500 and are down to your last $220 without ever really winning a hand. Frustration level: high. Quality of your play: probably not nearly as high as your ... |
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Jan 20th, 2012 | 16 |
| 888 Poker Nearing End of LG Promotion There’s not much time left to take advantage of the ongoing LG 2012 Giveaway at 888 Poker. The longstanding online poker room has teamed up with one of the world’s biggest electronic manufacturers for a special promotion involving prizes from LG. The promotion only runs until the beginning of February, so if you haven’t yet made your way to 888 to check it out, now is the time to do so. Just ... |
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Jan 19th, 2012 | 0 |
| Ladbrokes Enters U.S. Market By Acquiring Software Provider According to the Financial Times, Ladbrokes has purchased a 65% stake in Las Vegas-based Stadium Technology Group in preparation to expand into the U.S. market on a broader scale. Richard Glynn, Ladbrokes’ Chief Executive Officer, told the Financial Times why Ladbrokes would seek to partner with the software provider: “The size of the U.S. market and potential for positive regulatory change in ... |
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Jan 19th, 2012 | 4 |
| Kevin Howe (scarface2911) Final Tables PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up Eleven days ago, the United Kingdom’s Kevin scarface2911 Howe (pictured) came away with a fourth place finish in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up. Howe’s reward was $41,000 and he watched as the remaining three players forged a deal guaranteeing each of them at least $81,000. While he called the three-way chop immediately following his exit “frustrating,” Howe still vaulted to #52 worldwide in the ... |
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Jan 19th, 2012 | 1 |
| Nelson Rose: Future Administrations Won't Reverse DOJ Wire Act Opinion In a conference call held on Wednesday conducted by iGamingBusiness, gambling law expert I. Nelson Rose (pictured) discussed the recent proclamation by the U.S. Department of Justice that the Wire Act only applies to sports betting. While some in the industry have contended that online poker could still be frowned upon, Rose took a much more optimistic approach, telling callers that the letter, ... |
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Jan 18th, 2012 | 9 |
| Harry Reid, Jon Kyl "Making Progress" on U.S. Online Poker Regulation Over the weekend, U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV, pictured) offered American online poker players hope that a Federal solution to licensing and regulation the game will come to fruition within the year. |
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Jan 18th, 2012 | 6 |
| Heads-Up with FairPlayUSA Advisor, Former FBI Director Louis Freeh Pushing for the Federal regulation of online poker in the United States is FairPlayUSA. The organization features an eclectic set of advisors, among them former FBI Director Judge Louis Freeh (pictured). The fifth Director of the FBI, Freeh has also served as an Assistant United States Attorney and is now the Founder and Senior Managing Partner of Freeh, Sporkin, and Sullivan. PocketFives sat ... |
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Jan 18th, 2012 | 1 |
| Dustin Woolf, Thomas Koral Among UB Superuser Victims Suing Excapsa According to an article posted on Subject: Poker on Tuesday, the site’s first entry in a month, eight victims of the much-publicized superuser scandal at UB have filed suit against Excapsa Software, which the suit says was UB’s parent company back in 2006. According to Subject: Poker, the eight individuals filing suit are Daniel Ashman, Brad Booth, Thomas Koral, Greg Laverly, Dave Lizmi, Dan ... |
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Jan 17th, 2012 | 2 |
| Online Poker Payment Processor Ira Rubin Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy In breaking news from New York, Ira Rubin, a payment processor indicted on Black Friday, pleaded guilty to conspiracy in Federal court, according to Bloomberg, and likely faces 18 to 24 months behind bars for his role in the online poker industry prior to April 2011. According to the Black Friday indictments, Rubin and others “lied to banks about the nature of the financial transactions they ... |
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Jan 17th, 2012 | 2 |
| Brendon Rubie (BrendonR) Wins 2012 Aussie Millions Opening Event The 2012 Aussie Millions is underway at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia and, right off the bat, a PocketFives member is making waves. Brendon Rubie (pictured), known as BrendonR here on the site, won a $1,000 + $100 AUD No Limit Hold’em event, the opening tournament of the annual festival. Rubie outlasted 945 entrants to win an Aussie Millions gold ring and a cash prize of $200,000 ... |
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