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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
On August 10th Bodog is replacing their usual $100,000 Guaranteed tournament with their largest guaranteed tournament ever with a minimum prize pool of $250,000. From July 14th through the week of August 4th they will be offering hundreds of qualifiers with buy-ins ranging from $1+$0 to $54+4.
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Win a trip to Macau to compete in the APT as a member of Team Bodog from August 26 - 31. Score one of their four seats and you'll receive the Main Event buy-in ($5,300), flight expenses, six nights' accommodation in Macau and $500 in spending cash.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Gossip is grand, especially when it's true! We've offered some pretty big poker tournaments in the past, but this one will go down in history. Join us for our largest guaranteed poker tournament ever, the $250,000 Guaranteed. Get in on the action August 10, 2008 at 4 p.m. (EST) for as little as $1....
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
After a record breaking amount of visitors at this years WSOP, only 9 players remains of 6,844 starting field. November 9th, 2008, these 9 players will return to the felt with 21 minutes and 50 seconds left in level 33:
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Monday, July 14, 2008
It's Day 7 of the 2008 WSOP Main Event, and the 27 surviving players will return today at noon to play down to the final nine. WSOP officials conducted a redraw at the end of Day 6 play, and have now released the Day 7 seat assignments. Here is how the 27 players will line up:
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
The most important decision you'll make in any poker hand is whether or not you're going to play the hand at all. Starting hand selection should be one of the first topics you learn about if you want to be a winning player. Novice players don't realize that each hand has a winning percentage, and...
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Saturday, July 12, 2008
We are now exclusively running qualifiers for the 888Poker Open V, every Saturdays at 16:00 PPT, starting on July 05th and will run until October 11th, 2008! Qualify and give yourself a shot at the $648,000 guaranteed prize pool!
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Friday, July 11, 2008
In August of 2006, FTOPS I debuted on Full Tilt Poker with eight events and a combined guaranteed prize pool of more than $1 million. This past May, FTOPS VIII awarded more than $15 million in prize money over 24 events and in August, FTOPS IX promises to up the ante even further.
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Day 2b at the World Series of Poker Main Event began at noon today as 2,379 players took to their seats in the hopes of joining the survivors from Day 2a.
As the players break for dinner, nobody is near the 500,000 chip mark set by Brian Shaedlich at this time yesterday, but plenty of changes have...
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
It´s going to be a long hot summer with Absolute Poker, as we roll out a record-breaking run of freeroll action guaranteed to leave you grasping for breath. All you have to do to qualify our 31 day $20,000 FREEROLL Bonanza is deposit just $100!
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Monday, July 07, 2008
The last few years Phil Hellmuth gone out of his way to make a big entrance at the World Series of Poker Main Event. Last year he was supposed to arrive in a race car but the plan fell through when he wrecked it in the parking lot of the Rio the day before and showed up in a limo instead.
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Sunday, July 06, 2008
That's why we're rolling out the red carpet with an A-list loyalty program that rewards each and every single one of you.
FAME is your chance to step into the spotlight and enjoy the perks, benefits, bonuses, freerolls, and rewards that you deserve.
Every time you play a hand of poker, you earn...
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Friday, July 04, 2008
Get on Betfair Poker's daily tournaments this July and double winners will scoop a huge $25,000 bonus cash prize or a package to the WSOPE!
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Friday, July 04, 2008
Justin "Red" Phillips and his opponant sees the flopp A Qd 9. Both players checks. Turn comes Td and Justin's opponant bets and Justin just calls with his nut straight. River comes Ad. Justin's opponant calls and Justin raises, and the opponant goes all in. Justin calls with the nuts. The opponant...
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Thursday, July 03, 2008
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the largest set of poker tournaments in the world. Today starts the most popular event. The $10,000 buy in No-Limit Texas Hold'em. The winner of 2003 event, Chris Moneymaker, turned a $39 satellite tournament entry on online poker room, into $2.5 million! Follow...
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Every player has a different view on the ideal tournament; there are as many different types and structures as playing styles. Online tournaments have become the convenient choice for players of all kinds for their quantity, regularity, reduced fees and their high expected value!
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008
CHOOSE YOUR DESTINATION - Midnights Poker Club launches its exciting new live tournament promotion. Take your chance at the prizes from as low as 5 cents!
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
Hitwise, the world's leading provider of online competitive intelligence services reported a landmark week for Ladbrokespoker.com which saw it clinch the no. 1 position in the UK poker industry in terms of numbers of visits to the site on the week ending June 14th 2008. This equated to a massive...
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Congratulations to our latest Pokerfecta Winner el Timba. By winning 3 MTTs (See details below) el timba is our new Pokerfecta winner – walking away with the $6,000 jackpot. el Timba successfully took down the $1.5k GTD, $2000 GTD and $600 GTD in just one week!
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
All you need to do is play in Pacific Poker's CAP CANA CUP Qualifier for your chance to win a $5,000 package. CAP CANA CUP will be held in the
Convention Center of...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Betfair Poker's latest Daily Freerolls have been a footie fan's dream as the goals fly in at Euro2008. To celebrate the European Championship, we've been bumping up the prize pool for every goal scored during the tournament. Each freeroll starts at 22:00 UK time with a basic prize pool of $200 -...
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
What is Duplicate Poker and how is it different from regular poker?Now that you’ve learned how to play poker online, learning Duplicate Poker is just as easy. Duplicate Poker differs from regular poker in at least one very important way. The “luck of the draw” is removed from the game. Each player...
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Calling all new real money players: Make sure the foundations of your poker career are firm with the Bankroll Builder. As a rookie, we want you to take your first steps into real money play without risking a thing: You'll get exclusive entries into our exciting daily freeroll qualifiers for 60 days...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Duplicate Poker World Championship is a live event to be held in September 2008 with a total prize pool of $120,000! The Duplicate Poker World Championship (DPWC) is the first and only competition which will determine the world's top Duplicate Poker players, both in a team and individual format.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
PaddyPowerPoker today announces the Whalewatch promotion, which delivers a full week of money-added tournaments and culminates with the Whalewatch Grand Final Freeroll, with more than $15,000 in cash and prizes up for grabs.
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Monday, June 16, 2008
The multinational and well-known gambling operator, expekt.com, has so far paid out well over $1,000,000 in Cash Race prizes since the end of last year. June is another month that offers a fair share to the players that finish amongst the top 50 in the leaderboard.
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
Betfair Poker are delighted to launch two weeks of great WSOP action, culminating in a $120,000 Super Sunday Qualifier on 15th June in which 6 x $16,000 WSOP packages must be won. The winner of the Super Sunday event will walk away with a $40,000 dream package consisting of a $16,000 WSOP Vegas...
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
We're giving away $10,000 in extra cash prizes every week; all you have to do to play for your share is join the action on selected cash game tables.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Paddypowerpoker today announces the What A Load Of Balls promotion, in which new players can score a special 100% match bonus on their first deposit if the team they select to win the Euro 2008 football championship is crowned best in Europe this summer.
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Monday, June 09, 2008
Betfair Poker are delighted to launch two weeks of great WSOP action, culminating in a $120,000 Super Sunday Qualifier on 15th June in which 6 x $16,000 WSOP packages must be won. The winner of the Super Sunday event will walk away with a $40,000 dream package consisting of a $16,000 WSOP Vegas...
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Saturday, June 07, 2008
Do you have what it takes to go all the way at the WSOP*? To win bracelets in Vegas, be on TV and rake in the millions along with the pros? We’re talking about Poker’s biggest event and it’s happening this summer. Find out when, qualify and be there!
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Friday, June 06, 2008
Do you have what it takes to go all the way at the WSOP*? To win bracelets in Vegas, be on TV and rake in the millions along with the pros? We’re talking about Poker’s biggest event and it’s happening this summer. Find out when, qualify and be there!
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Thursday, June 05, 2008
The Bodog poker software has received an upgrade and now allows you to customize your game experience! Download the latest version and you'll get the added convenience of being able to resize your tables.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Welcome to the homepage of the ECOOP II – the 2nd European Champion Of Online Poker. After the huge success of the original ECOOP, Paddy Power Poker is once again offering players the chance to play in this incredible series of 10 guaranteed tournaments culminating in the $1 Million Guaranteed...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Want to play every single WSOP Holdem event this year without having to take out a second mortgage? Because you can and you don’t even have go to Vegas to do it!
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Betfair prodigy Annette Obrestad aka Annette15 has shown once again her prowess at the poker table, this time at Omaha. Having recently shown an interest in Omaha Annette decided to test her newly acquired skills at the World Poker tour in Barcelona. With a tough field of over 100 top poker...
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Sunday, June 01, 2008
PaddyPowerpoker today announces the Summer Slamdown Hands Race promotion, which will run over the months of June and July. Over $35,000 is up for grabs, with greater than $34,000 in cash and the remainder in Irish Winter Festival satellite tickets.
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Friday, May 30, 2008
This is the BEST package that Pacific Poker have ever offered and probably the BEST WSOP package in the industry! All you need to do is play in Pacific Poker's WSOP 2008 Qualifier for your chance to win a whopping $17,000 package and your once in a lifetime opportunity to win millions!!
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
Bodog Poker's Mini-SOP to feature all 25 Holdem events at the 2008 WSOP* in Las Vegas this summer at one percent of the buy-in; Three seats awarded at the end of the series to the 2009 WSOP* Main Event
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
On Friday, May 30, 2008, Betsson will open the doors of its first betting shop in Sweden, marking a challenge to the Swedish gaming monopoly. The aim of Betsson's new endeavour is to build loser relations with its players and offer more gaming opportunities and greater freedom of choice.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
This is the BEST package that Pacific Poker have ever offered and probably the BEST WSOP package in the industry! All you need to do is play in Pacific Poker's WSOP 2008 Qualifier for your chance to win a whopping $17,000 package and your once in a lifetime opportunity to win millions!!
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Monday, May 26, 2008
The Billionth Hand will be dealt on paddypowerpoker over the coming months, and you have the chance to profit as hundreds of cash prizes will be given out! 1,000,000,000 is a really REALLY big number, that’s more pints of stout than the Paddy Power Poker team down in a month of Friday evenings, it...
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Phil “Poker Brat” Hellmuth Jr. has won 11 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, more than anyone else in history. Considered one of the best if not the best poker player in the world, he hobnobs with celebrities, appears on ESPN poker telecasts regularly and claims he’d be a billionaire if he...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
DuplicatePoker.com announced today the introduction of a new and revolutionary feature destined to become one of the most useful tools in the advancement of poker education. Now, all players at the popular game site may utilize a state-of-the-art "hand history" feature. This allows players to...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Want to play in the 2008 WSOP? All you need to do is play in Pacific Poker's WSOP 2008 Qualifier for your chance to win a whopping $17,000 package and your once in a lifetime opportunity to win millions!!
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Check out the 'Multi-Table tab in Pacific Poker to find out how to play for your share of at least $20,000 every day at 15:35 PPT!
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
On Saturday, May 17, horse racing’s best colts and geldings race for one of the most prestigious titles in racing.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
STAX#RATING™ is back and bigger than ever. STAX#RATING™ lets all Betfair Poker Players know how good at poker they really are as well as giving each player the opportunity to win plenty of cash and some exciting prizes!
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Beautiful coral reefs, tropical forests, world-class nightlife: The Philippines has it all. That's why it's the perfect place to host this year's inaugural Asian Poker Tour (APT) event, which takes place from May 27 through June 1.
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Sunday, May 11 is your 'cue' to play in the $147,000 Gntd Big Break for a share of $147,000 and super signed snooker stuff, as you go up against 888.com World Snooker Champ, John Higgins!
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Every tournament, every hour, every day - Guaranteed! Enjoy May Madness at PartyPoker.com: We're guaranteeing the prize pool of every tournament we run throughout the month, so there's a staggering $12 million up for grabs.
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