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Unibet Poker Exits Europe: Players Moved to BoaBet

November 12, 2024 at 2:42 PM |

Unibet Poker is leaving most European markets. Affected players are now with BoaBet. Find out how this shift impacts accounts, withdrawals, and game access.

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GGPoker Revolutionises Staking with PokerStake Integration

October 17, 2024 at 3:27 PM |

GGPoker's PokerStake integration transforms the staking process. It gives poker players worldwide easier access to backers and expands winning opportunities.

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Brazil’s Online Poker: Regulations Loom, But No End in Sight

October 7, 2024 at 2:29 PM |

As Brazil tightens regulations, online poker platforms brace for change. Despite the October 1st deadline, poker players expect the action to keep rolling.

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GGPoker Surrenders Its Poker Licence for Czech Republic

August 30, 2024 at 3:01 PM |

GGPoker has withdrawn its Czech Republic poker licence. Learn more about the possible reasons why they’re surrendering their licence and what you must expect.

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GGPoker Purchases WSOP for $500M: The Future of Online Poker

August 13, 2024 at 3:15 PM |

Explore how GGPoker’s purchase of WSOP for $500M will affect the online poker world. We discuss the buyer’s agreement and what this means for GGPoker’s future.

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WCGRider Up $227,000 After First Session of HU Challenge

September 16, 2013 at 6:14 PM |

On 15 September, the 15,000 hands $100/$200 NLHE heads-up challenge between Douglas ‘WCGRider’ Polk and Ben ‘Sauce’ Sulsky kicked off. After a first session of 2,460 hands, ‘WCGRider’ is in the lead with $227,000 in profits.

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Isildur1 Wins Over $1 Million on Wednesday

September 5, 2013 at 6:20 PM |

Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom is currently up $1.5 million in September, making up for almost all of his losses in August.

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Summer Ends, Online Poker Traffic Increases

September 4, 2013 at 7:35 PM |

In the past week, most online poker rooms have shown a 3-5% increase in traffic, in comparison with the previous weeks.

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Durrrr Challenge 2 Continues with 168 Hands

August 30, 2013 at 4:04 PM |

Daniel ‘jungleman12’ Cates and Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan played on three $200/$400 NLHE tables in the Thursday session of the Durrrr Challenge 2. ‘Jungleman12’ won with $20,000 in profits.

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Niklas Heinecker Wins $1.1 Million in Two Days

August 24, 2013 at 12:00 PM |

Niklas ‘ragen70’ Heinecker has been dominating the NLHE games online in the past couple of days. He won the most from one of the largest high stakes fish today, ‘MalACEsia’.

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Cal42688 on Vacation, Pessagno Takes Over Lead Again

August 16, 2013 at 1:30 PM |

Three players got ahead of Calvin ‘cal42688’ Anderson in the online MTT money list, while he has been on vacation. ‘Cal42688’ has nevertheless stated that he would be back before the WCOOP.

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French Regulated Market Traffic Drops under Italian

August 14, 2013 at 1:12 PM |

For the first time since the introduction of the regulation, the size of the French market shrank to below that of the Italian.

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Viktor Blom makes $1.1 Million on Sunday

July 29, 2013 at 6:22 PM |

Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom is back on an insane heater; he took home $1.1 million in an insane high stakes session. Gus Hansen, Kyle "KPR16" Ray, SanIker and Phil "Polarizing" Ivey all fell pray to the Swedish poker monster.

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Cal42688 Retakes Online MTT Money List Lead

July 26, 2013 at 10:47 AM |

Calvin ’cal42688’ Anderson involuntarily gave up his leading position in the online multi-table tournament money list for three weeks. Following his WSOP performance in Las Vegas, however, he has now retaken his rightful place.

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US Players to be Reimbursed for FTP Funds in 2015?

July 25, 2013 at 11:01 AM |

Players of Full Tilt Poker from the United States are forced to remain in doubt for even longer as to whether they get reimbursed for their full bankrolls at the room and if yes, when exactly.

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Ultimate Poker Introduces Winner Takes All Rake System

July 24, 2013 at 2:33 PM |

The only legal online poker room in the United States to date, Ultimate Poker has introduced a remarkably unique rake structure: rakeback is paid only after won hands.

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888poker's Spiderman Ad Pulled in Great Britain Due to Indecency

July 14, 2013 at 5:34 PM |

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned the Spiderman themed advertisements displayed on 888poker's website as they can reach children, who are not of permitted age to gamble.

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Zynga Reveals Real Money Poker App for Facebook

July 11, 2013 at 1:03 PM |

The Facebook version of the ZyngaPlusPoker client, already available for play in the United Kingdom, has been revealed at the World Gaming Executive Summit conference in Barcelona.

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Cloudy Prospects for Licensed Operators in France and Italy

July 10, 2013 at 12:20 PM |

Online poker traffic and revenues drop in H1 2013 in France and most operators struggle for survival in Italy. The regulated markets apparently suffer the segregation.

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Isildur1 Won Over $5 Million in 2013, $2 Million in July

July 9, 2013 at 4:14 PM |

Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom is on an insane heater this July, he already won $2 million at the nosebleed online cash games in July, which puts him on the first spot on the biggest winner of the year leaderboard with over $5 million profit.

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Isildur1 Wins $700,000 on Thursday

July 5, 2013 at 4:30 PM |

Viktor Blom (Isildur1) cashed a little less than $700,000 at NLHE, FLO8, 27TD and Mixed tables this Thursday. His main prey was Trueteller at the high stakes tables.

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Isildur1 and Sauce123 Clash Again - High Stakes June

June 28, 2013 at 7:04 PM |

The epic clash at the $300/$600 PLO tables between Viktor Blom (Isildur1) and Ben Sulsky (Sauce123) gained much attention this Thursday.

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888poker Overtakes PartyPoker, Bans Sharkscope

June 27, 2013 at 10:18 PM |

On average, 2,062 players played at 888poker last week. With this number, the network overtook PartyPoker's place in the traffic leaderboard, ranking 3rd. PartyPoker only had 2,025 players in the same time.

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World Record Traffic Spark at PokerStars

June 19, 2013 at 5:36 PM |

PokerStars' Road to 100 Billion promotion proved to be a major success; so major that it broke the record for cash game traffic registered in the poker room.

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Microulis69 Wins 100 Billionth PokerStars Hand at an NL5 Table

June 14, 2013 at 4:59 PM |

The 100 billionth milestone hand was dealt this Thursday at PokerStars. The Greek player Microulis69 took $103,800 for his winning J-5 hand.

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New Faces in the Online High Stakes Field

June 13, 2013 at 5:51 PM |

Despite the WSOP, the online high stakes tables remain occupied, with many new players trying to take a shot at the game at this time of the year. ‘Trex313’ is the biggest winner, while the action is once again sponsored by Gus Hansen for the most part.

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High Stakes May 2013 - Cottonseed1 the Biggest Winner

June 5, 2013 at 5:09 PM |

Kyle Hendon (cottonseed1) took the lead as the most profitable player in May with $1,491,247 profit. He is followed by Gus Hansen and Ben Tollerene (Bttech86) in the top 3.

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A Fold from Lrslzk Not Even Shaun Deeb Had Seen Before

May 30, 2013 at 12:57 PM |

Sami ‘Lrslzk’ Kelopuro folds in an incredible spot, making analyst Shaun Deeb go crazy.

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Cal42688 Takes Down Fourth SCOOP Title

May 24, 2013 at 11:53 AM |

Calvin ‘cal42688’ Anderson won the SCOOP #25-M $215 FLHE event, making it dangerously close to Shaun Deeb in terms of SCOOP victories.

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Partouche.fr Shuts Down

May 19, 2013 at 6:06 PM |

Partouche.fr, the online poker site of the Partouche Group operating in the regulated French market, has announced to shut down its operations by 1 June, 2013.