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  • THAY3R Final Tables FTOPS $535 No Limit Hold'em Shootout


    Thursday marked Day 2 of the 14th Full Tilt Online Poker Series . When the smoke cleared on the virtual felts, Thayer THAY3R Rasmussen (pictured at right) grabbed third place in Event #3, a $535 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Shootout . He banked $36,000 for...
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    Posted Nov 06 2009, 11:36 AM by Dan with 1 Comments
  • Weekday Tournament Review for Nov-6-2009


    PocketFives.com members won all 11 of 11 major tournaments for the first part of this week, which was kicked off by Russian player DopPiNg , who had an outright win in the Full Tilt Po ke r $1k Monday for $92.2k after outlasting 372 other hopeful entrants...
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    Posted Nov 06 2009, 06:22 AM by wandigo with 6 Comments
  • High Stakes Poker Season 6 Cast Released


    Recently, GSN officials released the cast list for Season 6 of the popular cash game franchise “ High Stakes Poker .” A total of 17 names were revealed and filming begins on November 11th at the Golden Nugget in Downtown Las Vegas. In a radical change...
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    Posted Nov 06 2009, 12:04 AM by Dan with No Comments
  • s00tedj0kers Wins FTOPS XIV Kickoff Event


    On Wednesday night, the 14th running of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) kicked off on the virtual felts of the world’s second largest site. Amid much fanfare, Kory s00tedj0kers Kilpatrick brought home $120,000 as part of a four-way chop and...
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    Posted Nov 05 2009, 03:37 PM by P5s Staff with 4 Comments
  • Jordan Smith (scarface_79) Joins the PocketFives Podcast


    This week, the PocketFives.com Podcast sponsored by the USA-friendly site Carbon Poker welcomes Jordan scarface_79 Smith, who is fresh off finishing 10th in the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event . Smith had the dubious distinction of being...
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    Posted Nov 05 2009, 01:59 PM by Dan with 1 Comments
  • PokerStars Launches UK and Ireland Poker Tour


    Hot off the press is the launch of the PokerStars UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT). The nine tournament series kicks off on December 11th in Galway , Ireland at the Radisson Hotel and comes with a €2,000 price tag. The tournament series is the newest...
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    Posted Nov 04 2009, 11:35 PM by P5s Staff with No Comments
  • YanniYankievich Hits #79 in Online Poker Rankings


    Last week, Jarosław YanniYankievich Jaskiewicz entered the PocketFives.com Online Poker Rankings at #87 worldwide. One week later, he’s ballooned to #79 on the prestigious leaderboard on the strength of wins in the Full Tilt Poker $75,000 Guaranteed and...
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    Posted Nov 04 2009, 05:22 PM by Dan with 16 Comments
  • Sam Iola (siola) Chops PokerStars Sunday Million


    Over the weekend, Sam siola Iola bested a field of 7,962 players and chopped the PokerStars Sunday Million for $189,000. The college student from California was the top dog of the 1,170 entrants who finished in the money and recorded his first six-figure...
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    Posted Nov 02 2009, 11:45 PM by Dan with 4 Comments
  • Online Poker Discussed in Massachusetts State Legislature Hearing


    Late last week, allowing online poker was one of several gambling proposals set forth in a Massachusetts State Legislature hearing. On the scene was Randy Castonguay , the Massachusetts State Director for the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), who spoke during...
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    Posted Nov 02 2009, 04:33 PM by Dan with 4 Comments
  • WPT Officially Sold to Party Gaming


    Despite a last-minute $36.5 million bid by Mandalay Media , World Poker Tour Enterprises (WPTE) shareholders officially rubber-stamped a $12.3 million sale to Peerless Media , a subsidiary of Party Gaming . The 85% to 15% vote of stakeholders took place...
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    Posted Nov 02 2009, 02:21 PM by Dan with 6 Comments
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Jordan 'scarface_79' Smith joins us to discuss his 10th place finish in the WSOP Main Event and his other recent large cashes.

P5s Podcast, Nov 5, 2009
Thur, 5 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST
Ian Ramsey, local counsel for the Interactive Gaming Council, discusses a recent hearing in the Kentucky Supreme Court regarding the potential seizure of online gaming domain names.

P5s Podcast, Oct 29, 2009
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PocketFives.com Rankings
Rank PLB PRO
1. gboro780 2 1
2. djk123 1 4
3. Jovial Gent 3 3
4. moorman1 5 2
5. Doc Sands 7 6
6. rock3656 4 9
7. govshark2 12 7
8. shaundeeb 18 5
9. ImaLuckSac 11 13
10. Believer82 17 11
Carbon Poker Sorting Tables
Rank PLB
 1. djk123 9364.34
 2. gboro780 8544.39
 3. Jovial Gent 8459.52
 4. rock3656 7971.03
 5. brainwash 7571.79
 6. hoodini10 7483.04
 7. ImaLuckSac 7434.28
 8. govshark2 7402.60
 9. TravestyFund 7330.63
 10. Believer82 7255.12
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