May 5, 2012 At a final table that included three players still in the running for the World Poker Tour (WPT) Player of the Year crown, not to mention the host of the WPT segment “Raw Deal”, it was a little-known player from Ohio who would walk away with the WPT Bestbet Jacksonville trophy and [...]

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May 4, 2012 UK poker player Barry Denson is looking to beat Phil “The Unabomber” Laak’s record for the longest poker session by a single player. Laak holds the current record at 115 hours (nearly 5 days), which is pretty sick.

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May 3, 2012 Poker pro Daniel Negreanu has been beaten by Igor Kurganov of Russia at the 2012 EPT Grand Final €25,000 High Roller. As such, Negreanu lost out on a cool €1,080,000. Now he moves forward to take on Internet poker player with the handle “rUaBOT”, a well-known limit hold’em specialist.

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May 2, 2012 LAS VEGAS, Nev. With poker’s popularity exploding across the Asia-Pacific, the World Series of Poker (WSOP), in partnership with Australia’s Crown Melbourne, have reached a multi-year agreement to bring the major poker tournament series to the region commencing in April 2013.

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May 1, 2012 In a letter presented to the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) last week, Antigua accused the US Government of failing to “observe its international obligations in good faith and with due consideration for the rights of Antigua & Barbuda” as it relates to the island nation’s online gambling industry.

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April 30, 2012 After spending the last week in hospice care after a long battle with cancer and heart disease, Thomas Austin Preston Jr., known as “Amarillo Slim” to just about everyone, passed away on Sunday at the age of 83. Slim’s family issued the following statement to www.wsop.com: “We hope everyone will remember our [...]

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April 29, 2012 We are down to the final 26 at the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final and it’s Dutch online cash game pro Geert-Jan Potijk in the lead with 1,320,000. Also still in with a chance of taking home the €1.5 million first prize are French PokerStars qualifier Lucille Cailly (the last woman [...]

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April 27, 2012 A controversial CyberSecurity bill has passed in the House despite a veto threat from the Obama administration. The bill does not contain any amendment pertaining to the legalization of Internet poker. The Poker Players Alliance had hoped to attach legislation legalizing Web poker onto this bill.

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April 26, 2012 Justin Bonomo put his massive chip-lead to good work at yesterday’s Super-High-Roller final table, dominating the other players at the eight-person final table to take home the €1.6 million first-place prize-money. With only six players making the money there were two players at the final table who went home empty-handed: Eugene Katchalov, [...]

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Groupe Bernard Tapie regrets to announce that, after seven months of intensive work, our efforts to obtain final approval of the United States Department of Justice of the agreement to acquire the assets of Full Tilt Poker have ended without success.

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