01 Mar 07
L.A. Poker Classic: The Final Six
pokernews.com - After five grueling days of poker at the Commerce Casino, six players remain in the hunt for $2.4 million at the L.A. Poker Classic. JC Tran lost a tremendous margin in chips, yet managed to end Day 5 as the chipleader for the second day in a row with $3.47M.
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01 Mar 07
WSOP Preregistration Begins
cardplayer.com - Preregistration for the 2007 World Series of Poker has begun, scheduled for June 1 through July 17 at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino. ...
New changes have been made to the new participant rules, including a less conservative player apparel policy. Players will now be allowed to wear apparel with multiple logos and patches.
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28 Feb 07
LA Poker Classic - Then There Were 18
pokernews.com - 54 players returned to the Commerce Casino for the fourth day of action at the L.A. Poker Classic main event. By Midnight, only 18 players remained and JC Tran leaped out in front of the pack with a massive $3.46 million stack, which was almost as much as second, third and fourth places… combined.
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28 Feb 07
Euro Poker News: Trouble in France
cardplayer.com - First, there were the arrests of BWIN (PokerRoom.com) executives in Monte Carlo. Then there was the forced withdrawal of the Deauville EPT event (allegedly due to their association with Poker Stars). Now, the French authorities have “asked” to interview John Anderson (former executive of 888 / PacificPoker.com).
Feeling the heat, last week PartyPoker announced that it would not accept any new real money accounts from French players. Existing players are able to continue playing, for now. Meanwhile, French authorities have forced PokerStars to cease its affiliate activities in France.
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27 Feb 07
2007 L.A. Poker Classic Day 3
cardplayer.com - Day three of the 2007 L.A. Poker Classic dispensed with the “levels played” criteria of the previous stages, and instead became a race to pop the tournament’s money bubble. In other words, the returning field of 152 needed 98 players to bust in order to move onto the LAPC’s penultimate phase.
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27 Feb 07
'Women's Poker Night' Offers Insight
pokernews.com - "Women's Poker Night" ... is a book expertly put together by the publisher of Woman Poker Player Magazine, Maryann Morrison. By bringing together the best of the women players in the game, the best poker writers around and some newcomers that provide excellent insight, Morrison has provided a compilation that ably demonstrates why women are coming to the world of poker ...
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27 Feb 07
WSOP's 52 Greatest Moments
pokerplayernewspaper.com - Over its 37 year history, the World Series of Poker has produced many moments of remarkable drama.
Some of these events have already achieved legendary status. Mark Rogers attempts to catalogue and, ambitiously, rank the top 52 World Series moments in his awkwardly titled book, "52 Greatest Moments World Series of Poker".
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26 Feb 07
Harrah’s To Launch WSOP-Europe
businesswire.com - The World Series of Poker®, the planet’s most prestigious poker tournament, is extending its international reach this year by launching the World Series of Poker Europe, Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. announced today.
The inaugural WSOP Europe is scheduled to debut in London September 6-16, 2007. The new tournament will be held at three casinos operated by London Clubs International – Fifty, Leicester Square and the Sportsman.
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26 Feb 07
Germany Catches The Poker Bug
dw-world.de - Poker clubs are springing up like mushrooms across Germany. Every week, poker tournaments take place in practically every urban area. It's a game almost everyone is familiar with, either from playing simple variants like Draw Poker or from any good old Western.
"The basics are there, so people quickly lose their inhibitions to play," said Michael Körner, a poker commentator at Germany's leading sports channel DSF.
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26 Feb 07
L.A. Poker Classic - Day 1 Recap
pokernews.com - The largest and most prestigious tournament in California kicked off on Saturday at Commerce Casino outside of Los Angeles with the L.A. Poker Classic championship main event, which also happened to be the latest stop on the World Poker Tour. 791 players bought in for $10,000 each for a shot at the coveted $2.4 million first place prize.
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26 Feb 07
Ladies poker tournaments are a kick
cardplayer.com - For many years certain hardcore female poker players have opposed women's events because women could compete fairly against men and did not need the poker equivalent of affirmative action.
True, but so what? I have observed that women just seem to have a good time playing poker amongst themselves.
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26 Feb 07
Party Poker Says 'Non' To French Players?
online-casinos.com - Affiliates with French connections were wondering what the future had in store for them this week following the brief appearance of a notice on the Party Partners.com affiliate program site, suggesting that French player days on Party Poker could be numbered.
The notice, dated Friday 23 February said that PartyPoker will no longer accept deposits from new French customers, although existing players from France may continue to play. No reasons were given for the decision.
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23 Feb 07
"Premiere League" Filming in UK
cardplayer.com - The groundbreaking series, developed by Matchroom Sport, will feature 12 of the world’s best players playing in a unique league format for a $500,000 pot. ...
Ten-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth will lead a top field that includes: Dave ‘The Devilfish’ Ulliott, Tony G, Andy Black, Kiril Gerasimov, Liz Lieu, Ian Fraser, Roland De Wolfe, Vicky Coren, Juha Helppi, Kenna James and Eddy Scharf.
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23 Feb 07
YouTeller.com: By Invitation Only
winneronline.com - New customers will be able to register a YouTeller.com account only at a member's invitation.
"Our servers could not handle the traffic if we open our doors for a public sign up. But it is our first priority to provide our customers with a stable service and a reliable support," says Florian Schweitzer, spokesman of the London-based technology company Seed Capital Ltd. and adds: "YouTeller.com follows the GMAIL model."
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22 Feb 07
The Poker Channel Hits EU Screens
uk.pokernews.com - The Poker Channel, one of the original poker content TV stations in the UK, is set to launch in Europe. Scandinavia, Germany and France will be airing The Poker Channel's programming from March 1st.
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22 Feb 07
'The Rules Of Poker' Entertaining
pokernews.com - "The Rules Of Poker", published by Kensington Books and available now in all bookstores or online for $13.95 is a much needed book that covers every aspect of poker and its various intricacies, including games outside of Texas Hold 'Em such as Stud games, Omaha and Lowball variations. It also lays out a very strong tournament rules section that, with its implementation, could bring all poker tournaments into a viable and useful standard that would allow players to all be on the same page rather than deal with the differences between casinos.
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22 Feb 07
One US-Facing Site Figures to Cash in Big
gambling911.com - "We built a skin for Sportsbook.com because they have tons of US customers who could no longer play on Paradise," a Sportsbook.com Poker representative told antsy poker players ... "Players who have cash in the Sportsbook account now only have to download the Sportsbook.com Poker site, create a nickname and then they can join a tournament or ring game immediately. But, these games are not on Paradise or against Paradise players."
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22 Feb 07
NZ: Flush of success for pub poker
stuff.co.nz - Texas hold'em poker is taking the pub scene by storm, with hundreds of players bluffing their way to glory in pubs and clubs around Christchurch [New Zealand].
Several leagues have sprung up, with players pitting their skills against each other without real money being exchanged.
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21 Feb 07
UIGEA Effects: Hints from Financials
pokernews.com - In the last week, PartyGaming and 888 Holdings reported financial information, providing a first peek at how their departure from the US is effecting their bottom line. ...
From the preliminary numbers, it looks like the online gaming community is predictably down – but not out. And with the right cost cutting measures and marketing focus, bigger online companies will see growth, albeit slow, from their heartbreaking, post UIGEA, fourth quarters.
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20 Feb 07
U.S.-Friendly Online Poker Rooms
pokernews.com - One of the current topics of confusion among U.S.-based poker players is not so much which online rooms are open to American players, but how one gets their bankroll funds onto and off of these sites. With that in mind, we'd like to run down the options at six sites, each of which continues to accept U.S. players.
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