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Poker Tournaments

NBC National Heads-Up Championship - Negreanu Withdraws, Sands Joins

January 24, 2013 at 2:17 PM |

Dealing starts at the NBC National Heads-Up Championship soon, without Daniel Negreanu apparently, who backed out and will not take part in the most prestigious heads-up challenge.

Liv Boeree Analyzes Lance Armstrong's Doping Admission

January 23, 2013 at 7:23 PM |

The British paper The Telegraph asked Liv Boeree, PokerStars pro to analyze Lance Armstrong's interview With Oprah. You can read her opinion below.

Poker Players

Andre Coimbra $100K Challenge - Back to Starting Bankroll

January 22, 2013 at 5:03 PM |

Andre Coimbra is mid and high stakes SNG specialist who keeps testing himself through various challenges. Last year he decided to play all of the events of the PokerStars MicroMillions series, which meant he had to play 100 events between 12-23 July, 2012 without much rest due to the stucture of the tournaments. Now he's up to something big.

Poker Tournaments

Sheppard Wins First Multi Prize Pool Tournament, Romanello Finishes Second

January 21, 2013 at 7:18 PM |

As we reported in January, Roberto Romanello's brainchild, the Multi Prize Pool tournament finally took off. The event was held at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham and ended with the victory of Brian Sheppard, beating Romanello.

Poker Rooms

PKR Releases iPad App

January 21, 2013 at 4:33 PM |

Our partner PKR Poker, a next-generation poker room with quality 3D software has released an iPad version of their client software, which can be downloaded via the Apple App Store.

Poker Tournaments

NBC National Heads-Up Championship Entrants List Released

January 21, 2013 at 2:23 PM |

The names of the players participating in this year's NBC National Heads-Up Championship has just been made public. Amongst the 64 entrants are Phil Hellmuth, Michael Mizrachi, Phil Laak, Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom and Gaelle Baumann.

Poker Legislation

Segregated Online Poker Market to Fail, Regulators Aim for Common Market

January 19, 2013 at 2:00 PM |

French online poker regulator ARJEL has announced that state revenues from online poker fall short of expectations and major changes are necessary.

Poker Players

Gus Hansen Wins $662,000, Isildur1 Returns after Short Break

January 18, 2013 at 4:34 PM |

Following a single day’s break, Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom returned to the online high stakes game, loosing $207,000 in a long session. Gus Hansen is the biggest winner of the past 24 hours.

Poker Players

Isildur1 on Break - January Profits Drop to $3 Million

January 17, 2013 at 5:38 PM |

Viktor Blom (Isildur1) has lost a decent amount of money at the high stakes tables recently, so he decided to take a break from playing poker.

Poker Rooms

PartyPoker Withdraws Top VIP Level and 30%+ Rakeback

January 16, 2013 at 9:41 PM |

PartyPoker has officially announced that they remove the Palladium Elite VIP level, including all bonuses equivalent of over 30% rakeback, as of 1 April, 2013.

Poker Tournaments

PCA High Roller 2013 - Vanessa Selbst Wins, Most Successful Female Poker Player Ever

January 15, 2013 at 10:25 PM |

Vanessa Selbst won the PCA High Roller event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas. With her current first prize of $1,424,420 she is the most successful female poker player in the World with $7,004,036 life tournament winnings.

Poker Players

Phil Galfond Takes $1.1 Million from Isildur1

January 14, 2013 at 2:28 PM |

Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom finished his last session with a $1.1 million loss to Phil ‘OMGClayAiken’ Galfond. Most of the money changed hands in PLO.

Poker Rooms

Terminal Poker 4 W€€KS OF CASH Promotion Starts on Monday

January 13, 2013 at 5:03 PM |

Terminal Poker hands out €16,000 between 14 January and 10 February in the 4 W€€KS OF CASH central promotion.

Poker Players

Sauce1234 Loses $1 Million

January 12, 2013 at 6:58 PM |

2012 online high stakes money list top finisher Ben ‘Sauce1234’ Sulsky lost around $1 million at PLO and 27TD tables on Thursday. He lost the most to Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom.

Poker Rooms

iPoker Four Months Into the Split - Tournaments Review

January 11, 2013 at 11:00 AM |

What has changed regarding SNGs on the iPoker network since the split? What does the MTT offering look like? We take a look at the tournament traffic of the network.