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| Sentencing of Absolute Poker Co-Founder Brent Beckley Delayed A U.S. District judge filed an order on Friday indicating the court’s intent to consider an upward departure from the sentencing guidelines for Absolute Poker co-founder Brent Beckley. As such, Judge Lewis Kaplan of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York has pushed Beckley’s sentencing date to June 28 at 2:30pm. |
Join Date: Jan 10th, 2012 |
May 22nd, 2012 | 1 |
| Las Vegas Live Tournament Preview: Summer 2012 The action in Las Vegas during June is unprecedented, even for the city that invented action, and first and foremost is the World Series of Poker. Despite complaints regarding the structure, staff, food, and waits to buy in, the WSOP is still the 900-pound gorilla of the tournament world. It is the one tournament series the whole world has heard of, and even with thousands of bracelets out ... |
Join Date: Apr 13th, 2005 |
May 22nd, 2012 | 0 |
| PocketFives HogWild Poker League Finale Set for Tuesday On Tuesday night, the felts of HogWild Poker, a free U.S.-facing online poker room, will come alive with the finale of the May PocketFives League. Three league events have already been held and Tuesday night will determine who walks away with $250 cash, PocketFives Gear, and 150,000 in Hog Bucks, all of which are on the line. Next Tuesday, May 29th, HogWild Poker will host a freeroll for ... |
Join Date: Dec 29th, 2011 |
May 22nd, 2012 | 4 |
| Grip Wins PokerStars SCOOP High-Stakes Main Event for $798,000 The finale of the 2012 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) took place on Monday with the second day of three Main Events. The high-stakes version, which had a $10,300 buy-in, attracted a field of 517 players and boasted a purse of over $5 million. Sixty-three players returned to the felts on Monday to determine a winner and, when all was said and done, Costa Rica's Nick Grip ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 22nd, 2012 | 6 |
| White House Responds to Calls for Legalized Online Poker We admit we were surprised that the White House responded to pleas from the online poker community for legalization and regulation of our industry in the United States. In the past, poker players had vocally taken to social media like Facebook and Twitter to fire off questions and suggestions about the issue. In recent days, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese responded ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 20th, 2012 | 19 |
| Shaun Deeb Wins Fifth SCOOP Title Early Sunday morning, longtime PocketFives member Shaun shaundeeb Deeb (pictured) captured his fifth PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) title, extending his own record for the most ever. He told PocketFives in an exclusive interview following his victory, "Once I get deep, I just know I'm going to win. I have the craziest confidence that I'll make the right decisions and not ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 20th, 2012 | 10 |
| DraftDay Introduces Online Championship of Fantasy Sports On Monday, DraftDay, a U.S.-friendly daily fantasy sports site, will kick off its first ever DraftDay Online Championship of Fantasy Sports, or DOCOFS. The series, which resembles online poker tournament schedules like the WCOOP or SCOOP, spans eight events and has over $40,000 in guaranteed prize money. If you're an old pro at daily fantasy sports, or just want to get your feet wet, the DOCOFS ... |
Join Date: Dec 29th, 2011 |
May 19th, 2012 | 0 |
| JLizard Joins PocketFives Training Staff Brand new to the PocketFives Training team is Walt JLizard Wright (pictured), a Costa Rican resident who has been a member of the PocketFives community for the last six years. Wright has laid claim to an amazing half-dozen Triple Crowns, good for the fifth most in the history of PocketFives, and amassed over $2.5 million in tracked cashes, including nearly $900,000 on PokerStars alone. |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 19th, 2012 | 23 |
| Introducing the U.S.-Facing FaceUp Gaming You may have noticed ads at the top of PocketFives for FaceUp Gaming, which happily takes U.S. users from 36 states. FaceUp Gaming isn't a rake-based site. Instead, you can take advantage of the site's monthly subscription, which runs an affordable $24.95 per month. There's also a completely free sign-up option if you'd rather not spend any cash, as well as a two-week free trial. |
Join Date: Dec 29th, 2011 |
May 18th, 2012 | 21 |
| A Different Kind of Bad Beat Story Everyone has bad beat stories and most people get tired of hearing them. We all know someone who just can’t help but tell them all the time, while others make hands into bad beats when they were really just bad plays. I’m sure I've told my share of bad beat stories too. |
Join Date: Aug 20th, 2006 |
May 18th, 2012 | 1 |
| Tobey Maguire, Hollywood Celebs Avoid High-Stakes Poker Trial According to the New York Post, "Spiderman" star Tobey Maguire (pictured) won't be bringing his spidey senses to court as a result of his alleged involvement in a high-stakes poker home game involving Bradley Ruderman. If you're not familiar with the original complaint, the Post recapped, "Investors, taken to the cleaners by convicted con man Bradley Ruderman, clawed back millions that the Ponzi ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 18th, 2012 | 8 |
| Poker Hand Analysis with Assassinato and andressoprano What follows is a unique conversation between PocketFives Training instructor Alex Assassinato Fitzgerald (pictured) and Andres andressoprano Pereyra about a hand that came up at a No Limit Hold'em tournament table. You can learn from pros like Fitzgerald by visiting PocketFives Training. Top-level MTT training starts at just $30 per month. |
Join Date: Sep 27th, 2006 |
May 17th, 2012 | 18 |
| Manchester's Barry Denson to Attempt Phil Laak's Poker Endurance Record There are many legends about players enduring marathon poker sessions and, for the most part, many of those stories are exactly that, just legend. In trying to break what is officially recognized as the world record for the longest time spent in a poker cash game, a British man is looking to not only knock off one of the most popular pros in the game, but also raise funds for a cause close to ... |
Join Date: Oct 5th, 2006 |
May 16th, 2012 | 9 |
| Heads-Up with Viktor Blom (Isildur1): SCOOP, WSOP, Cash Games One of the major headlines of the ongoing PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is the solid play of Viktor Isildur1 Blom (pictured). The cash game guru won two tournaments in the first three SCOOP events, taking down a $215 No Limit Hold'em event and a $530 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em event. He's finished in the top 100 in three other SCOOP contests and solidified his name as ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 15th, 2012 | 12 |
| Back-Tax Issue Looms as Spanish Online Poker Licensing Draws Near With the June 1st date for regulated online gaming in Spain looming, a potential snag has developed for those poker operators hoping to acquire licenses. A number of sources, including the Spanish newspaper Cinco Dias, have reported that some applicants may be required to pay taxes on revenues earned from residents of the country from before online gaming regulations were introduced. |
Join Date: Jan 10th, 2012 |
May 15th, 2012 | 6 |
| Senate Indian Affairs Committee Deletes Poker Facebook Posts, Bans Players In his Daily Action Plan here on PocketFives, Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Vice President of Player Relations Rich TheEngineer Muny revealed that pro-online poker comments had been deleted from the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs' Facebook page. Moreover, those who championed the legalization and regulation of online poker in the United States were banned from the Committee's wall. |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 14th, 2012 | 12 |
| Shaun Deeb Picks Up Second 2012 SCOOP Stud Title The 2012 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, or SCOOP, has been very kind to longtime PocketFives member Shaun shaundeeb Deeb (pictured). In the first twenty 2012 SCOOP events, Deeb has recorded not one, but two tournament titles, both in Stud. His latest win came by virtue of taking down the high-stakes version of SCOOP Event #19, $2,100 Triple Stud, for $45,000 on Saturday night, ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 13th, 2012 | 7 |
| AGA: Internet Gaming Won't Severely Erode B&M Gaming Revenue According to Frank Fahrenkopf, CEO and President of the American Gaming Association (AGA), legalizing and expanding internet gaming will not severely erode revenue from land-based casinos. Some in the industry have speculated that legalizing internet games like poker could hurt casino attendance and, consequently, revenue. However, organizations like the AGA and Poker Players Alliance (PPA) have ... |
Join Date: Dec 29th, 2011 |
May 12th, 2012 | 5 |
| D Ro Final Tables PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuy Last week, David D Ro Rowan (pictured) came away with a third place finish in the weekly PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuy. The tournament drew more than 1,200 players and well over $400,000 was given out, nearly double the event's guarantee. Rowan collected $41,000 as his reward and is nearing an amazing $2.5 million in tracked cashes in his PocketFives profile. How'd he do it' PocketFives virtually ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 12th, 2012 | 5 |
| Memory Lane: 2007 WSOP Main Event The end result was sitting in a rental car in a driveway in Henderson, Nevada with no recollection of driving home. It was one of those “How did I get here, what happened to the last 20 minutes” moments. I’ve always been pretty even-keeled and my emotional swings are minimal. My highs aren’t that high and my lows aren’t that low. So, finding myself sitting there staring at the ... |
Join Date: Aug 20th, 2006 |
May 11th, 2012 | 3 |
| Bonified (Andy Ward) Breaks Down PartyPoker Pokerfest Main Event Win The most recent PartyPoker Pokerfest Main Event was monumental for Andy Bonified Ward (pictured). The United Kingdom resident became a "bona fide" champ and walked away with $216,000. The $640 buy-in tournament was one of the richest held on PartyPoker in recent memory. We caught up with him to discuss his big breakthrough. |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 11th, 2012 | 1 |
| PokerStars Running Exclusive $1,050 SCOOP Freeroll for PocketFivers The good folks at PokerStars are reaching out to the PocketFives community by offering an exclusive freeroll on Sunday, May 13th at 2:30pm Eastern Time. There's no cost to enter the winner-take-all tournament, which will award the champ a $1,050 ticket into Event #27 of the Spring Championship of Online Poker, a $1,050 No Limit Hold'em tournament. You have nothing to lose and we're happy to ... |
Join Date: Dec 29th, 2011 |
May 11th, 2012 | 0 |
| TheSquid Inks the Competition in SCOOP Event #2 There have been several mammoth tournaments held so far during the 2012 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, or SCOOP. And, believe it or not, there have been a few of them that didn't feature PokerStars pro Viktor Isildur1 Blom at the top of the leaderboard. Among those flying high so far is Sam TheSquid Grafton (pictured), who recently won a PocketFives Triple Crown and was part of ... |
Join Date: Dec 29th, 2011 |
May 10th, 2012 | 4 |
| Total Bookings, Pre-Registrations Up for 2012 WSOP In a conference call on Tuesday featuring executives from the World Series of Poker (WSOP), it was revealed that total bookings and pre-registrations for this year's festivities are up. This year, 61 bracelet events will play out starting on May 27th from the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Last year, a variety of records were set despite the uncertainty surrounding Black Friday. ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 10th, 2012 | 5 |
| Isildur1 Wins Back-to-Back SCOOP Championships For the poker industry, this is one of the special times of the year. PokerStars has once again rolled out its Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), offering $30 million in guaranteed prize pools. A few days into the tournament schedule, one of the most notable names in online poker has already solidified his place in the history of the SCOOP. |
Join Date: Oct 5th, 2006 |
May 9th, 2012 | 24 |
| ESPN Brings Back WSOP Main Event Live Broadcast Fans of poker on TV will be pleased to know that ESPN will be bringing back near-live coverage of the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event this year. Once again, the action will air on a 15-minute delay, but only the final table itself will be shown in a near-live format. ESPN also announced on Tuesday that the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop will air live on July 3rd. |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 8th, 2012 | 1 |
| WSOP Loosening Stance on Table Chatter, Player Celebration In a conference call with members of the media on Tuesday, World Series of Poker (WSOP) officials outlined major changes to the rules regarding table chatter and player celebration. The WSOP crew pointed out several times that, due in part to imposed restrictions, players had been forced into silence the table, not able to discuss a hand in progress or get excited about a win. |
Join Date: Dec 29th, 2011 |
May 8th, 2012 | 21 |
| Isildur1 Wins PokerStars SCOOP $215 NLHE Event If the rest of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) lives up to its beginning, we are in for a rousing month. PocketFivers already finished 2-3-4 in the low-stakes edition of the opening event on Monday. Then, Brazil's Alexandre Allingomes Gomes won the high-stakes installment of Event #1. |
Join Date: Jan 10th, 2012 |
May 8th, 2012 | 12 |
| PocketFivers Go 2-3-4 in Opening PokerStars SCOOP Event The very first tournaments of the 2012 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, or SCOOP, kicked off on Sunday. Each PokerStars SCOOP contest features three buy-in levels – low, medium, and high – meaning there's an event for every budget. The kickoff low-stakes event was a $27 No Limit Hold'em Six-Max tournament that nearly tripled its guarantee of $250,000, as over 25,000 entrants ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 7th, 2012 | 0 |
| Lock Acquires Assets of Cake Poker Network, Launches Revolution Gaming PocketFives can confirm that Lock Poker has acquired "selected" assets of the Cake Poker Network and will re-brand the latter Revolution Gaming. The software update containing the change will go live on May 31st. A press release sent by Lock Poker on Monday declared, "Lock is in the process of acquiring assets from Cake and will be re-branding the Cake Network to launch Revolution Gaming, ... |
Join Date: Dec 29th, 2011 |
May 7th, 2012 | 24 |
| Lock Poker May Purchase Cake Poker Network, Press Release Coming Rumors circulating around the online poker world on Sunday have the Merge Gaming Network site Lock Poker acquiring the Cake Poker Network. When asked whether there was any truth behind the rumors, a Lock Poker representative told PocketFives on Sunday, "I cannot comment right now, but I can say that we will be putting an official press release out this week." PocketFives has learned that the ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 6th, 2012 | 12 |
| What World Series of Poker Main Event Starting Day Should I Pick? It's that time of year again. The 2012 World Series of Poker is upon us and PocketFives members from around the world have been qualifying in earnest for it. With sites like WPT Poker, 888 Poker, and PokerStars sending users in droves to the largest tournament series on the face of the Earth, it's no surprise that a thread popped up in our Live Poker forum discussing the optimal WSOP Main Event ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 6th, 2012 | 2 |
| He Just Smiled and Gave Me a Vegemite Sandwich Two weeks ago, the felts of PokerStars came alive with the Sunday Warm-Up, which brought in 3,468 runners and offered up a total prize pool that nearly lapped $700,000. In the end, Australia's Mishel MISHELA Anunu (pictured) pulled out all the stops and walked away with $108,000 for the win. He doubled his cashes in tracked tournaments here on PocketFives in the process and currently sits at #49 ... |
Join Date: Dec 29th, 2011 |
May 6th, 2012 | 0 |
| Finland's tohveli Final Tables Ongame $100K The April 22nd running of the Ongame $100K was monumental for Finland's Mikael Andersson (pictured), who goes by tohveli here on PocketFives. Not only did he record his largest tracked cash on PocketFives (although he won the same tournament for nearly $30,000 before PocketFives tracked Ongame), but it also meant the first time in a while we can remember interviewing a Finnish online poker ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 5th, 2012 | 2 |
| PokerStars Nearing 80 Billionth Hand The world's largest online poker room is getting ready to celebrate another milestone on its road to 100 billion hands. At the time of writing, PokerStars is about 50 million hands shy of 80 billion and has pulled out all the stops to celebrate in style. The 80 billionth hand will likely be dealt during the day on Sunday, when its patron are busy playing in tournaments like the Sunday Million, ... |
Join Date: Dec 29th, 2011 |
May 5th, 2012 | 0 |
| Don't Limp in Poker The topic for last week’s column was by request, but writing it got my mind turning and led to a lot of other ideas. Some of those will pop up down the road, but I closed my previous column with my two-word strategy tip for beginners: “Don’t Limp.” There is a lot of value in that little tidbit, but in poker, you should always understand why you are doing something instead of taking ... |
Join Date: Aug 20th, 2006 |
May 4th, 2012 | 20 |
| Denmark's Troubaduren Final Tables PokerStars Sunday Million On the third weekend of April, the nation of Denmark rejoiced as Daniel Sorensen (pictured), better known as Troubaduren on PocketFives, final tabled the PokerStars Sunday Million for $112,000. Denmark has been a hotbed for poker as of late, with Mickey mementmori Petersen winning EPT Copenhagen, Frederik BRINK Brink winning EPT Madrid, Jannick Wrang winning EPT Campione, Morten Lihn winning WPT ... |
Join Date: Dec 29th, 2011 |
May 3rd, 2012 | 0 |
| MartinBHansen = PartyPoker Pokerfest Champion The fourth event of PartyPoker's Pokerfest saw over 500 players turn out for a $530 No Limit Hold'em tournament. The $250,000 guarantee was passed by $8,000 and when all was said and done, Denmark's Martin MartinBHansen Hansen (pictured) came away with the win and walked off with $54,000. He didn't stray too far, however, as PocketFives was able to catch up with him to celebrate the big win. |
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May 3rd, 2012 | 0 |
| Impact of High-Speed Online Poker Games In the last few weeks, we've seen several variations of high-speed online poker games introduced. Full Tilt popularized the concept in the form of Rush Poker in early 2010, 16 months before Black Friday. In Rush Poker, as soon as a player's action in a hand ended, he was whisked away to a brand new table where a new set of opponents awaited. Another hand started instantaneously and the process ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 2nd, 2012 | 3 |
| lucky_scrote Chops PokerStars Sunday 500 On April 22nd, U.K. player Daniel lucky_scrote Carter (pictured) made his mark on the online poker world. How' Carter chopped the PokerStars Sunday 500 heads-up and walked away with $65,000. As a result, he's achieved his highest position ever in the PocketFives Online Poker Player Rankings at #583 worldwide and is the top dog in all of Gloucestershire. PocketFives caught up with Carter for a ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 2nd, 2012 | 4 |
| Groupe Bernard Tapie Could Launch New Online Poker Site With its deal to purchase the besieged Full Tilt Poker now dead, Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) seems to be looking at a completely different angle for its online poker dreams: starting its own site. According to a report on Diamond Flush Poker, GBT front man Laurent Tapie (pictured) allegedly sent an e-mail to several of the prominent members of the staff of Full Tilt Poker. |
Join Date: Oct 5th, 2006 |
May 2nd, 2012 | 5 |
| Family Pot: Connecting the Online Poker Community In case you've missed the big banner ads at the top of PocketFives, we'd like to introduce Family Pot, a tool that helps connect online poker players. If you've won a major pot, made the money in a tournament, or simply have a few minutes to kill, you can hop on Family Pot and spread the word. Let's take a look at how it works. |
Join Date: Dec 29th, 2011 |
May 1st, 2012 | 0 |
| PocketFives Launches Local Poker Communities You'll notice a brand new yellow link at the top of PocketFives that says "Local." On Tuesday, PocketFives launched local poker communities. Dubbed PocketFives Local, this new feature provides a unique way to view local activity and interact with players in your area. PocketFives considers this project phase 1 of its efforts to reach a broader audience of poker players throughout the world. ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
May 1st, 2012 | 7 |
| WSOP Expanding into Australia with WSOP APAC The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is expanding globally once again. Five years after the debut of WSOP Europe, WSOP officials have announced the establishment of a new branch of the WSOP in the Asia-Pacific region. The World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific (WSOP APAC) will kick off April 4th, 2013 at Australia’s Crown Melbourne (pictured) and run through April 15th, featuring five bracelet events. |
Join Date: Jan 10th, 2012 |
May 1st, 2012 | 5 |
| The Sickest Day Ever? Sunday might go down as one of the sickest days in the history of online poker. We're not exaggerating, either. Scott stpauli111 Hall (pictured) took down four tournaments on PokerStars in a single day, and these weren't small potatoes either. He trumped the fields of the Sunday Supersonic and Bigger $162 for $42,000 apiece. Hall also took down the $50 Rebuy and $200 Rebuy on PokerStars for ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
Apr 30th, 2012 | 44 |
| PKR Rolling Out New Features The independent online poker room PKR is rolling out new features. From new environments to new emotions to a new hand replayer, PKR is innovating. If you don't already have a PKR account, you can sign up through PocketFives and make a minimum deposit to get one free month of PocketFives Training with the sign-up fee waived, a $65 value. There aren't any play-through requirements or anything ... |
Join Date: Dec 29th, 2011 |
Apr 30th, 2012 | 1 |
| PocketFives Live Tournament Preview: May Welcome to the PocketFives May Live Tournament Preview presented by . In the past, May was a month off for traveling tournament pros, as everyone spent a little time at home with their families and prepared for the World Series of Poker, but those days are gone. |
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Apr 30th, 2012 | 0 |
| P5s HogWild Poker League Returns in May, Cash and HDTV Up for Grabs It’s back! For the fourth straight month, HogWild Poker, a free, U.S.-friendly online poker room, is holding an exclusive league for members of PocketFives. This time around, $250 in cash, 150,000 Hog Bucks, PocketFives Gear, and a brand new HDTV will be on the line, and every single league event is free. If you're from the United States and itching to play poker, here's your big chance to do ... |
Join Date: Dec 29th, 2011 |
Apr 29th, 2012 | 2 |
| PocketFives Training Instructor Assassinato Wins First Triple Crown The one-year anniversary of Black Friday meant mixed emotions in the poker community. Many pros are still separated from their bankrolls, but for Alex Assassinato Fitzgerald (pictured), April 15th featured the opening tournament victory of his first Triple Crown. He'd ultimately win a $55 buy-in tournament on PartyPoker, the Merge $60,000 Sunday High Roller, and the Titan Poker $30 Rebuy within ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
Apr 28th, 2012 | 11 |
| It's Time to Shine In late 2006, Ireland's Cathal shinerrr Shine (pictured) signed up for a PocketFives account. Since then, it's been all uphill, as Shine has recorded over $1.2 million in tracked cashes, risen to #370 worldwide in the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings, and finished in the money on eight sites we follow. He's the #6 player in the Sortable Poker Rankings for Ireland and tops in his hometown of ... |
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Apr 28th, 2012 | 8 |
| GBT Lawyer: "We Were Prepared to Move Forward with FTP Deal" This has been a pretty eventful week in the world of online poker. On Tuesday, Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) confirmed that a tentative agreement to purchase the assets of Full Tilt Poker via the U.S. Department of Justice had failed. In the company's place, PokerStars is rumored to be acquiring what was once the second largest online poker room in the world. |
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Apr 27th, 2012 | 11 |
| Poker Industry Insiders Comment on U.S. Impact of PokerStars, Full Tilt Deal An update from Wicked Chops Poker on Friday noted that the rumored sale of the dormant Full Tilt Poker to the world's largest online poker site, PokerStars, may be signed off on as early as next week. There's a rumored price tag of $750 million, which reportedly includes paying back Full Tilt's players and settling the site's issues with the U.S. Government. Therefore, the question becomes, ... |
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Apr 27th, 2012 | 17 |
| We All Started Somewhere: Tips for Beginning Poker Players Even players who are naturals at poker had a steep learning curve early on in their careers. The growth and improvement that can be experienced in the first few months of serious play is tremendous for players who dedicate themselves to improving and have some natural ability for strategy, mathematics, and psychology. |
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Apr 27th, 2012 | 2 |
| Two Plus Two Passwords Reportedly Compromised, Forum Outage Occurs On Thursday, Two Plus Two user e-mail addresses passwords were reportedly compromised. As a result, the popular poker forum went dark at 2:20pm Eastern Time and Two Plus Two officials sent an alert to members. The message began, "On April 26th at approximately 11:20am Pacific Time, the Two Plus Two Forums were closed as a result of a hacker who has displayed the ability to access e-mail ... |
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Apr 27th, 2012 | 9 |
| Tripp Kirk Wins WSOPC St. Louis Main Event In recent days, Tripp trippkirk Kirk (pictured) took down his second gold ring by virtue of winning the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event in St. Louis, Missouri. After outwitting, outplaying, and outlasting 624 opponents, he earned $190,000, a six-figure sum he'll now bring back to his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. |
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Apr 26th, 2012 | 4 |
| Major Media Outlets Lend Credence to Full Tilt, PokerStars Rumors As the poker industry continues to buzz about rumors of discussions between Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, the mainstream media has cast its gaze in the direction of online poker. The Wall Street Journal’s Alexandra Berzon, who has reported at length on the Black Friday indictments since last year, reported early Wednesday morning that PokerStars is in discussions with the DOJ to not only ... |
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Apr 25th, 2012 | 35 |
| PokerStars Stays Mum on Full Tilt Acquisition Rumors With rumors swirling that PokerStars had reportedly purchased Full Tilt Poker, settled with the U.S. Department of Justice on its Black Friday charges, and provided for the repayment of players for a total sum of $750 million, the world's largest online poker site stayed quiet on Tuesday. In a post on the PokerStars Blog entitled "PokerStars' Statement Regarding Settlement Discussions," the ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
Apr 24th, 2012 | 22 |
| Poker Community Reacts to PokerStars Rumored Purchase of Full Tilt This has certainly been an interesting day for online poker players around the world. With information and rumors about the possibility of PokerStars buying Full Tilt Poker flying around the internet, players are still trying to wrap their heads around the “whats,” "whens,” and “whys” of it all. |
Join Date: Jan 10th, 2012 |
Apr 24th, 2012 | 13 |
| Analysis of Alleged Full Tilt Buyout by PokerStars For months and months, poker players everywhere have been frustrated by numerous news bits about the possible impending sale of Full Tilt Poker. With hundreds of millions in player balances dangling in the wind, the anxiety over this story has clearly been justified. Today, it appears we have received some real news: PokerStars is apparently purchasing Full Tilt Poker for $750 million and will ... |
Join Date: Dec 21st, 2004 |
Apr 24th, 2012 | 24 |
| GBT: Issues Surrounding FTP Purchase "Proved Unresolvable" On Tuesday, eGamingReview sourced a statement from the Laurent Tapie-led (pictured) Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) saying that acquisition talks for Full Tilt Poker had "failed." EGR added, "A statement from the consortium explains that the reasons for the failure are twofold, citing the inability to agree a repayment plan for rest-of-world players plus legal complications which 'proved ... |
Join Date: Dec 29th, 2011 |
Apr 24th, 2012 | 4 |
| Rumor: PokerStars Buys Full Tilt, GBT Says Statement Coming Shortly In breaking news Tuesday morning, rumors are swirling around the internet that PokerStars has bought Full Tilt for what is rumored to be $750 million. Chili Poker CEO Alex Dreyfus posted on Twitter on Tuesday, "PokerStars buys Full Tilt for a consideration of $750M, including settlement with DOJ and full balances of players ($330M). I'm impressed." |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
Apr 24th, 2012 | 31 |
| That's So Sick One of the perks of watching televised poker is getting to hear the phrase "so sick" multiple times. Whether stemming from a bad beat, a tough decision, or a well-timed call, "so sick" is used relentlessly on poker TV shows. For PocketFives member sosick, who hails from Poland, "so sick" is a way of life. He goes by Pawel in the real world and won last week's PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up for ... |
Join Date: May 1st, 2006 |
Apr 23rd, 2012 | 12 |
| Hungary's noirduck Chops PartyPoker High Roller for $26,000 Last weekend, Hungarian online poker player noirduck (pictured) chopped the PartyPoker High Roller heads-up with fellow PocketFiver Cathal shinerrr Shine. His reward for an afternoon of hard work was $26,000 following the two-way deal in a final table that featured members of PocketFives in the top eight spots, including four of our site's top 100. So what does it take to chop the PartyPoker ... |
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Apr 22nd, 2012 | 3 |
| rfohrenbach Claims Second Triple Crown In the first five days of April, Mexico's Ricky rfohrenbach Fohrenbach (pictured) claimed his second online poker Triple Crown. He's been a card-carrying member of PocketFives for the last five years and has generated nearly $2.5 million in tracked cashes. He's an American transplant whose largest tracked tournament cash came in June 2010 in the PokerStars Sunday Million for over $80,000. |
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Apr 22nd, 2012 | 5 |
| PocketFives Podcast: Will U.S. Online Poker Be Legalized in 2012? This month, the PocketFives Podcast remembers Black Friday and gives our listeners an update on Federal and state online poker legislation. The internet gaming industry was turned on its head on April 15th, 2011 when the U.S. Department of Justice indicted 11 individuals associated with PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker. All three sites left the U.S. market, while only PokerStars ... |
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Apr 21st, 2012 | 4 |
| Luck of the Irish: EMSGAWA9 Cracks Top 100 in P5s Rankings When the latest calculation of the PocketFives Online Poker Player Rankings took place on Wednesday, Ireland's Jono EMSGAWA9 Crute (pictured) popped up at #96. It marked his first appearance in the top 100 worldwide and came in part due to having the 90th best Sliding PLB tally in the shire. He just topped $1 million in tracked cashes and sat down with PocketFives to celebrate his big ... |
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Apr 21st, 2012 | 18 |
| Russell Carson (rdcrsn) Wins Fourth Triple Crown Only seven players have ever amassed more than four Triple Crowns here on PocketFives. Doing so is no easy feat, as a person needs to win three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked for the PocketFives Poker Rankings in the same seven-day period. PocketFives Training instructor Russell rdcrsn Carson (pictured) recently grabbed Triple Crown #4 and could soon join that elite ... |
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Apr 20th, 2012 | 13 |
| USA P5ers: 32" HDTV Added to Next HogWild Poker P5s League Game On Tuesday, April 24th, the final free PocketFives League game of April will take place on HogWild Poker. The free, league-based, USA-friendly site is generously adding a 32-inch HDTV* to the prize pool that will be awarded to the game's winner. Again, it's completely free to play and the winner of Tuesday's tournament walks away with a new television. |
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Apr 20th, 2012 | 2 |
| Why the Weekly Live Poker Game is King The growth and explosion of online poker mirrored my own growth in the game. I came into poker as the online boom was beginning and although I started playing in small live games with friends, I quickly added online play to my routine. |
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Apr 20th, 2012 | 1 |
| Qualify for FA Cup Final with 888, P5s in Exclusive Freeroll On Monday, April 23rd, 888 Poker will be running an exclusive freeroll for players whose 888 accounts are tracked to PocketFives. This will serve as the first step toward qualifying for the blockbuster FA Cup Final, which takes place on Saturday, May 5th in London's Wembley Stadium and features Chelsea against Liverpool. You're not just getting tickets to the match, either. No, no. You're ... |
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Apr 19th, 2012 | 0 |
| Black Friday Prosecutor Preet Bharara Among Time's Most Influential People This week, Time Magazine released its list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Making the cut alongside the likes of New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow and New York Knicks hoopster Jeremy Lin was United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara (pictured). The significance to online poker players: Bharara was the lead prosecutor in the Black Friday ... |
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Apr 19th, 2012 | 5 |
| Full Tilt Licensing Hearing Scheduled for May 3rd, Open to the Public On Thursday, May 3rd at 2:00pm local time, a licensing hearing for Orinic Limited, a subsidiary of Full Tilt Poker, will be held at the Braye Beach Hotel in Alderney. The hearing will be open to the general public, who will presumably get to weigh in on whether the company should receive a Category 2 e-Gambling License from the Alderney Gambling Control Commission, or AGCC. |
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Apr 19th, 2012 | 2 |
| bwin Launches 2012 WSOP Qualifiers It's almost time for the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP). The tournament series kicks off at the end of May from Las Vegas and bwin, which makes its home on the Ongame Network, is sending players to it in earnest. Text found on bwin's website heralds, "The World Series of Poker is poker's biggest annual feast. Every summer, poker's kings and queens descend on Las Vegas for a menagerie of side ... |
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Apr 18th, 2012 | 0 |
| PokerStars Issues Cease and Desist Letters to PokerTableRatings On Sunday, Lee Jones, Head of Home Games at PokerStars, answered the questions of several posters on the TwoPlusTwo forums. While discussing matters such as Zoom Poker and a recent player summit, Jones revealed that PokerStars is ramping up its battle against PokerTableRatings (PTR), which has been simmering for years. |
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Apr 18th, 2012 | 9 |
| Amarillo Slim Enters Hospice Care, Poker Players React On Monday around 9:00pm ET, Kevin kevmath Mathers posted on Twitter that the health of poker legend Amarillo Slim (pictured) was fading: "Reading reports that Amarillo Slim is in a hospice in Amarillo, Texas and is doubtful to make it through the night." PocketFives confirmed the news on Tuesday with World Series of Poker Media Director Nolan Dalla, who was in St. Louis, Missouri for a Circuit ... |
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Apr 17th, 2012 | 14 |
| WSOP November Niner Phil Collins (USCphildo) Wins HPT Palms Main Event The Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) wrapped up its stop at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas over the weekend with a talented final table, one in which all six players had resumes of which most poker players would be jealous. The person with the most sparkly bullet point, Phil USCphildo Collins (pictured), also won it all and cashed in for $71,556. |
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Apr 17th, 2012 | 2 |
| GBT Funds New Full Tilt Poker Company According to Pokerfuse and posters on TwoPlusTwo, Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) could be breathing life into a brand new Full Tilt Poker company. In an article published on Tuesday, Pokerfuse noted, "Laurent Tapie has recently been appointed the director and secretary of a new Irish registered company: New Full Tilt Limited. The company was originally incorporated on February 14th, 2012 with a ... |
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Apr 17th, 2012 | 17 |
| U.S. Online Poker Traffic Drops 80% Since Black Friday According to the watchdog site PokerScout, U.S. online poker cash game traffic has decreased by 80% since Black Friday. In its weekly traffic update posted on Monday, PokerScout pointed out the large disparity between pre-Black Friday and post-Black Friday U.S. traffic: "Approximately 90% of U.S. players knocked offline by Black Friday remain offline one year later. In one fell swoop, the ... |
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Apr 16th, 2012 | 1 |
| I Wonder if Anyone Will Tweet About Black Friday Today On Sunday morning, 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event November Niner Ben Benba Lamb (pictured) posed a pretty simple question on Twitter: "I wonder if anyone will Tweet about #BlackFriday today'" What followed was a wave of comments from online poker players commemorating the one-year anniversary of Black Friday, when the U.S. Government indicted the founders of, and payment processors ... |
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Apr 15th, 2012 | 11 |
| Napa Valley Casino Introducing Progressive High Hand Bonuses You've seen high hand bonuses at casinos throughout the United States and throughout the world. For example, if you get a Royal Flush in spades, you get $100, or if you make quad eights, you get $75. Napa Valley Casino in American Canyon, California, just outside of San Francisco, is taking the high hand concept to a new level by introducing a progressive component. Plus, it is not taking money ... |
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Apr 15th, 2012 | 0 |
| Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake Team Up for Online Gambling Movie Hold onto your butts. Ben Affleck (pictured) and Justin Timberlake are set to star in an online gambling movie, according to the Hollywood Reporter. What the flick will specifically be about is not clear, but we know its title is "Runner, Runner." Let the puns begin! According to the Hollywood Reporter, "'The Lincoln Lawyer' helmer Brad Furman is on board to direct the thriller, which takes ... |
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Apr 15th, 2012 | 8 |
| Yay for Yaya24 Last weekend, Sweden's Yaya24 came away with the win in the Microgaming €100,000 Guaranteed. The weekly tournament, which takes place on sites like 32Red, drew 485 players in its last go-around and 50 finished in the money. If you've never played in the event, it's a €110 No Limit Hold'em Rebuy, and Yaya24's reward for coming away with the victory in it was €25,000. He bluntly admitted in ... |
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Apr 14th, 2012 | 4 |
| New Full Tilt Lawsuit Levied Against Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson According to eGamingReview (EGR), Nick Hammer, Robin Hougdahl, Steve Segal, and Todd tbt4653 Terry have filed a new lawsuit against Full Tilt front men Howard Lederer (pictured) and Chris Ferguson. Both pros have already been accused of running a "global Ponzi scheme" by the U.S. Department of Justice, and the latest legal claim charges them with "conversion and of exercising 'unlawful dominion ... |
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Apr 13th, 2012 | 14 |
| Knowing Your Limits After last week’s column, “Act Like You’ve Been There Before,” there was enough feedback from readers who thought I wasn’t accurately giving credit to different financial situations of players. |
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Apr 13th, 2012 | 3 |
| DraftDay Holding $25,000 Money Ball Fantasy Game, Free Entries for P5ers Now here's a promotion worthy of a feature article. On Sunday, the daily fantasy sports site DraftDay will be holding its first ever $25,000 Money Ball contest. This $10 multi-entry game will shell out a $4,000 first place prize and a colossal 420 players will walk away with cash. From now until the Money Ball starts on Sunday at 1:05pm ET, any member of PocketFives who signs up for DraftDay ... |
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Apr 12th, 2012 | 2 |
| The Scoop on the 2012 PokerStars SCOOP Schedule On Thursday, registration opened for the 2012 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, or SCOOP. The 40-event series once again features low-, medium-, and high-stakes versions and begins on May 6th, which is just a few short weeks away. This time around, $30 million is up for grabs and registration is already open in the PokerStars lobby. Moreover, satellites are already running to the ... |
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Apr 12th, 2012 | 9 |
| Internet Gambling Opponent Sheldon Adelson Plans Investment in Spain One of the most polarizing figures in the gaming community, Las Vegas Sands Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Sheldon Adelson (pictured), announced this week that he will expand his company's foothold into Europe. |
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Apr 12th, 2012 | 6 |
| UB: "Discussions with DOJ are Nearing Resolution" It's been eerily quiet on the Absolute Poker and UB fronts. Like Full Tilt, UB and Absolute Poker officials have been relatively silent in updating the general public about the status of their funds, which have been frozen on the CEREUS Network rooms since Black Friday last April. A year later, discussions between the CEREUS Network sites and the U.S. Department of Justice could soon be coming ... |
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Apr 11th, 2012 | 21 |
| Federal Judge: "Face the Ace" Concept Not Protected Under Copyright Law You'll recall a poker game show sponsored by the now-defunct Full Tilt Poker called "Face the Ace," which aired on NBC. The series pitted an amateur against three poker pros for a top prize of $1 million. The show premiered in August 2009 and featured heavy promotion of Full Tilt, formerly the world's second largest online poker room. |
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Apr 11th, 2012 | 3 |
| lobbylud Breaks Down PokerStars $100 Rebuy Chop On March 18th, a four-way deal ended matters in the PokerStars $100 Rebuy, which sported over 1,000 players on that fateful day and shelled out a prize pool of $340,000. Each player involved in the chop banked $31,000, while Kevin lobbylud Parkes (pictured) officially came away with the win and booked a $35,000 payday. He's just $21,000 shy of his $1 million cash badge here on PocketFives and ... |
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Apr 11th, 2012 | 0 |
| N1, RLOG Ross RLOG Loggie (pictured) shot up to #99 worldwide in the PocketFives Rankings this week, his highest position ever. The online poker player from the United Kingdom had been rewarded for some stellar play as of late, highlighted by a final table in the PokerStars Super Tuesday in late March. RLOG was certainly super in that $1,000 buy-in tournament, as he pocketed nearly $70,000 for his second ... |
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Apr 10th, 2012 | 7 |
| Joseph Kuether (daPHUNNIEman) Wins WSOPC Rincon Main Event In recent weeks, 36 players finished in the money in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit stop in Rincon. The re-entry tournament sported a $1,600 buy-in and, when the final card was dealt, Joe daPHUNNIEman Kuether (pictured) walked away with the title and $111,000. |
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Apr 10th, 2012 | 0 |
| Lithuania's pavasareja Banks $166K in PokerStars Sunday Million Lithuania has been a steady riser in the PocketFives Country Rankings. The Baltic nation was up two spots last week, jumping from #21 to #19 worldwide helped in part by a tidal wave of recent scores. Among those Lithuanian poker players that have made waves is pavasareja, who goes by the name Aleksas and chopped the PokerStars Sunday Million in late March. |
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Apr 10th, 2012 | 2 |
| Manitoba to Partner with BCLC for Online Gambling Site The Canadian province of Manitoba has revealed plans to open its own internet gambling site in order to provide games specifically to Manitobans. Manitoba Lotteries, which operates land-based casinos and the lottery, will partner with the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) to deliver the games to the public. |
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Apr 10th, 2012 | 0 |
| AKBigFish Wins PokerStars $100 Rebuy In late March, Brian AKBigFish James (pictured) struck a deal in the weekly PokerStars $100 Rebuy. His reward was a $55,000 payday after chopping heads-up with PokerStars member jaybeastie, who earned $51,000. The tournament generated a field of over 1,000 players and a $334,000 prize pool was divvied up. The American transplant now living in sunny, sandy Costa Rica spoke with PocketFives about ... |
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Apr 8th, 2012 | 10 |
| Would You Play on a Re-Launched Full Tilt Poker? Many in the online poker industry believe it's not a matter of if, but when Full Tilt Poker will rise from the ashes and re-launch under the direction of Groupe Bernard Tapie or another investor. With a deal reportedly in the works, posters on PocketFives have been busy debating whether they would placate the new Full Tilt, or avoid it like the plague, in a Poker Sites thread. On this holiday ... |
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Apr 7th, 2012 | 60 |
| Act Like You've Been There Before During the first level of a $300 buy-in tournament, a guy wins an all-in and celebrates like he just doubled up with four people left in the WSOP Main Event. It seems all too common in poker, and many other competitive activities, for massive overreaction to events that don’t warrant that sort of emotion. |
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Apr 6th, 2012 | 17 |
| Epic Poker League Parent Reports $8 Million in Liabilities In a bankruptcy filing published by CardPlayer on Thursday, Federated Sports and Gaming, the parent company of the Epic Poker League, reported nearly $8 million in liabilities. The "Statement of Financial Affairs" was issued to the United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Maryland - Southern Division and entered the books on April 3rd. |
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Apr 6th, 2012 | 11 |
| Heads-Up with WSOP November Niner, 888 Pro Sam Holden Starting on April 9th on the Poker Channel, 888 Poker sponsored pro Sam SamDMND Holden (pictured) will star in a documentary about poker and his life. A camera crew followed Holden across the world from the U.K. to the United States last year during the 2011 WSOP November Nine, where Holden finished in ninth place. PocketFives was fortunate enough to get an exclusive interview with Holden about ... |
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Apr 5th, 2012 | 0 |
| Last Call for Daily Fantasy Baseball Promos It's almost the start of baseball season in the United States, and that means a bundle of freerolls and cost-effective promotions for fans of daily fantasy games. Here on PocketFives, we work with several daily fantasy sports sites, each of which has concocted a unique hook for you to sign up and give it a whirl this week. Several of the sites we promote are holding promotions in conjunction ... |
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