Poker
Timoshenko Wins PokerStars WCOOP Main Event - Monday, September 28, 2009
PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker has ended and the last event of the series was of course the Main Event. 2,144 players registered for the Main Event and after twenty three hours of play it was Yevgeniy Timoshenko who earned the first place prize of $1.7 million. (full story)
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Full Tilt Poker Tournament Results - Monday, September 28, 2009
The action was hot this past weekend at the larger online poker rooms and Full Tilt Poker was no exception. Two of Full Tilt Poker's weekend guaranteed tournaments saw thousands of players competing for the large prizes up for grabs. Both the $750k guaranteed and Sunday Brawl tournament had a nice showing of players and those who could outlast the field would be greatly rewarded. (full story)
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Cake Poker Tourney Sees Big Increase in Prize Pool - Monday, September 28, 2009
Major online poker rooms offer their members several weekly tournaments with large guaranteed prize pools. Many times these online tournaments see an increase of the prize pool which can result in tens of thousands of extra dollars up for grabs. This past weekend Cake Poker offers their players Player Appreciation Days which saw the normal $100,000 guaranteed tournament offering a guarantee of $250,000. (full story)
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PKR Moves into Sports Betting Industry - Monday, September 21, 2009
Many of the top online poker rooms offer several options when it comes to online betting. Several offer their players a casino as well as a sports book along with their online poker room. 3D poker room, PKR, recently announced they will soon be offering sports betting to their customers. (full story)
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Ante Up For Africa Monte Carlo Set to Air Saturday - Monday, September 21, 2009
This past April PokerStars held an Ante Up For Africa event during their European Poker Tour stop in Monte Carlo. The event was filmed and CBS began airing the coverage this past Saturday. The final day of filmed coverage will air on Saturday September 26th at 2pm EST. Fans can see their favorite PokerStars pros in action as well as celebrities as they took to the felt for this great cause. (full story)
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Titan Poker Completes First $1 Million Guaranteed - Thursday, September 17, 2009
Titan Poker announced recently that they would begin offering their players a monthly million dollar guaranteed tournament. The new tournament took place for the very first time yesterday and it saw 1,975 players competing for their share of the $1 million prize. (full story)
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Katchalov Wins WCOOP Event #24 - Monday, September 14, 2009
Event #24 of PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker saw 1,564 players competing in eleven rounds of play before the winner was finally named in the heads up no limit hold'em event. the winner, online player Eugene "MyRabbitFoo" Katchalov, was able to last the twenty one and one half hours of competition to claim the first place prize. (full story)
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Poker Pros See Earnings Increase This Month - Monday, September 14, 2009
The month of September started out a hot month for online poker players at Full Tilt but now with the WSOPE taking place, the action has slowed down some. But regardless of the slow down at Full Tilt poker pros Di "Urindanger" Dang and Ilari "Ziigmund” Sahamies managed to gain quite a profit this month. (full story)
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Dwan Signing with Full Tilt? - Monday, September 07, 2009
The internet has been abuzz over the past few weeks as poker fans and players try to figure out if Tom ‘durrrr' Dwan is going to sign with Full Tilt Poker. As reported earlier a recent interview of Howard Lederer hinted that Dwan might be in the works to sign with Full Tilt. Now reports have surfaced that a Facebook account supposedly owned by Phil Ivey says that Dwan will be signing soon with the online poker room. (full story)
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Cereus Networks Sports Legends Challenge Postponed - Monday, September 07, 2009
Absolute Poker and UltimateBet make up the Cereus network and the two were working together to host the Sports Legends Challenge in September. The event would see poker pros and sports players competing in a tournament as well as online qualifiers. Some of the biggest names in poker as well as sports were scheduled to attend but now the event has been postponed to 2010. (full story)
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