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The tenth Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS X), concluded late on Sunday as action in three different events wrapped up. Rising star Amit Makhija entered the day in the $5,000+200 ‘high rollers’ event as the chip leader among…

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Capping the tenth Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) was Sunday’s $500+$35 NL Hold’em Main Event. The guaranteed prize pool of $2,500,000 was just eclipsed as 5,225 players registered for a total prize pool of $2,612,500. Among…

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Michael Binger led going into the final table of the WSOP Circuit Event Championship at Lake Tahoe, but he would lose that lead before surging back to claim his victory. And at one point in heads-up play, Binger found himself…

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Sunday’s 118-player field on Day 1b of the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Warsaw Main Event was as star-studded as Saturday’s Day 1a, with top pros such as Katja Thater, Sorel Mizzi, Dario Minieri and Alex Kravchenko taking…

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After several final tables without a win, Van Marcus claimed his first APPT title today at the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Manila Main Event, besting Tae Jun Noh in a marathon heads-up battle to claim the championship…

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A stay has been granted until December 12th by a Kentucky appeals court as the battle over the attempted seizure of Internet domain names associated with various forms of online gambling continues. The motion to stay was filed…

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An impressive lineup of events in the final weekend of the tenth Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) began on Saturday with action in three different major tourneys. Greg ‘DuckU’ Hobson and ‘Antoshka’ captured event titles during…

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Day Two of the WSOP Circuit Event Championship at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe was a grueling affair as 55 remaining players battled down to the final table of nine. Familiarity with the event seemed to matter as by the end of the day Todd…

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Friendly, efficient, accommodating, and generous; those are the first words that come to mind when I think about the poker room at the Carson Valley Inn. The poker room is just fifteen minutes north of Lake Tahoe and about forty-five minutes south…

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The field on Day 1a of the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Warsaw Main Event was small, with only 99 players taking the field, but stacked, with big-name internet pros, EPT champs and other familiar faces filling the tables…

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