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EPT8 Deauville: Teichert demonstrates the danger of defending with Brunson

Posted on 05. Feb, 2012 by admin.

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If not today then sometime soon, Nikolaus Teichert will ask himself, “Why did I make that call?” It’s a question we’ve certainly been asking ourselves up on the stage behind the final table, just a heavy velvet curtain separating us from them. Perhaps he wanted to emulate Doyle...

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EPT8 San Remo: The final four tables

Posted on 04. Feb, 2012 by admin.

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We are down to the final four tables here at EPT Deauville with just eight more players to bust before play ends for the day, 32 down to 24. Table five, which housed Luca Pagano, Ignat Liviu, Kevin Vandersmissen, Marc Inizan, Paul Guichard and Bernhard Mossner was the table to break. Guichard had four-bet...

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EPT8 Deauville: Away with the Fereys as the bubble bursts

Posted on 03. Feb, 2012 by admin.

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After a prolonged spell where the player count didn’t seem to budge, the bubble bursts with two players departing on the same hand-for-hand hand, so to speak. Gone are Eric Nhouyvanisvong and Ilan Boujenah who will each share the €7,500 awarded for 128th place. Is that a good thing or a bad...

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EPT8 Deauville: Chip leader, not the chip leader, chip leader again, then not. Maybe.

Posted on 02. Feb, 2012 by admin.

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Last night we reported that Toufik Ouirini was chip leader at the close of play. At the time he had a smile and a little more than 166,000 chips. With the tournament area closed to the press he was our best guess. We were nearly right. Ouirini was in fact in third place, behind Amir Salhani in first...

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EPT Deauville: Scotty looking for a win

Posted on 01. Feb, 2012 by admin.

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There are few players as recognisable in poker as 1998 WSOP champ Scotty Nguyen. You can keep your Phil Hellmuths and Johnny Chans, when it comes to American poker moments there are few that beat that moment when the Vietnamese born pro induces the call from Kevin McBride that wins him the Main Event...

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EPT Deauville: Scotty looking for a win

Posted on 01. Feb, 2012 by admin.

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There are few players as recognisable in poker as 1998 WSOP champ Scotty Nguyen. You can keep your Phil Hellmuths and Johnny Chans, when it comes to American poker moments there are few that beat that moment when the Vietnamese born pro induces the call from Kevin McBride that wins him the Main Event...

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Getting to know Team PokerStars Online’s Richard “Tzen1″ Veenman

Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by admin.

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Richard “Tzen1″ Veenman isn’t like your typical member of Team PokerStars Online. Veenman, who signed on to represent PokerStars last January, splits a part-time IT job in the Netherlands with his chase toward Supernova Elite on PokerStars every year. And, unlike most online poker pros...

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Milestone hands making it rain in 75 billionth hand promo

Posted on 30. Jan, 2012 by admin.

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So, you’re walking down the street. You’ve got your earbuds in, maybe grooving to a little Sly and the Family Stone and thinking about how you wished you had chosen a different pair of underwear to wear that day. Without warning, you trip over a plain brown envelope and fall flat on your...

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Kovalchuk leads IPT San Remo

Posted on 29. Jan, 2012 by admin.

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Former PokerStars Italian Poker Tour winner Olevksii Kovalchuk leads the field as IPT San Remo moves into Day 3. After 10 hours of play on Day 2, 37 players remained in the hunt for the €175,000 first prize. Kovalchuk, from Ukraine, won the recent Nova Gorica leg of the IPT, and finished up with 850,000...

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TCOOP: gabrieldin6′s deal-making brinksmanship pays off in Event 38 ($55 NLHE Ante Up)

Posted on 27. Jan, 2012 by admin.

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When I was in school, I took a semester-look seminar in negotiation. The class taught me that, as much as negotiation is a science (employing myriad acronyms like BATNA to explain why people will behave in certain predictable ways during a negotiation), it’s also an art form. The science only defines...

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TLB winner to fight Sports Star for record prize

Posted on 27. Jan, 2012 by admin.

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If you’re not a former winner of PokerStars’ Tournament Leader Board, you may not even know this event exists, much less what’s happening with it. However, it’s become so interesting that we have to pay it some attention. It’s history-making, after all. Every week for as...

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TLB winner to fight Sports Star for record prize

Posted on 27. Jan, 2012 by admin.

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If you’re not a former winner of PokerStars’ Tournament Leader Board, you may not even know this event exists, much less what’s happening with it. However, it’s become so interesting that we have to pay it some attention. It’s history-making, after all. Every week for as...

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PokerStars set to deal 75 billionth hand

Posted on 26. Jan, 2012 by admin.

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The Road to 100 Billion is not a short one, but there are fortunately a lot more stops along the way there these days. They are rest stops where we can take a break, consider the trip ahead, and, indeed, win a lot of money. PokerStars announced this morning that, just a couple of months after awarding...

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AlexeyKID tops huge field in Super Tuesday (1/24/12); Lodden 2nd, Kling 5th

Posted on 25. Jan, 2012 by admin.

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This week’s Super Tuesday saw no decline in numbers resulting from the ongoing TCOOP, with another big field of 445 showing up for the weekly $1,050 no-limit hold’em tournament. That’s a small increase from last week, and in fact represents the largest Super Tuesday field since almost...

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TCOOP: Andy123460 of Canada wins Event 23 ($153 NLHE 6-Max Hyper Turbo)

Posted on 23. Jan, 2012 by admin.

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The Turbo Championship of Online Poker consists of a series of turbo tournaments. Some of the events, like this one, are hyper turbo tournaments. It means three-minute levels and some of the fastest poker you’ll ever see. Or you might not see it if you blink. We haven’t blinked yet. And it’s...

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James “Asprin1″ Akenhead finds sweet relief in the Sunday Million

Posted on 23. Jan, 2012 by admin.

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After 19 events of high-speed TCOOP madness, it was a relief to sink back into the old routine of the Sunday Million. Big stacks. Long time banks. Comfy fifteen-minute levels. 7,125 Sunday grinders agreed, buying in for $215 apiece to create a $1,425,000 prize pool. 1,080 places were paid with first...