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Infamous Cheater at the WPT Championship

May 16, 2011 at 11:38 AM |

You may remember Ali Tekintamgac, the player who got disqualified from the Partouche Poker Tour after investigations revealed that he had probably cheated on several occasions, having “journalists” and “cameramen” signal him his opponents’ hands. Tekintamgac is now an entree at the WPT Championship which is the source of a considerable amount of tension.

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Jose ’Girah’ Macedo Disqualified for MA

May 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM |

Jose ’Girah’ Macedo, aka the “Portuguese Poker Prodigy,” won the Bluff Pro Challenge in April at his home site Lock Poker, co-sponsored by Bluff Magazine. On accusations of multi-accounting, however, he has just been disqualified from the challenge retrospectively.

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HSP Player Caught Importing Watches Illegally

May 6, 2011 at 1:14 PM |

Erik 'Rolex' Boneta, one of the amateur players from the last episode of High Stakes Poker has been caught trying to illegally import 'gray market' Rolex watches from Hong Kong. His company agreed to forfeit over $2,250,000.

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Tatjana Pasalic, Poker Hottie

May 6, 2011 at 11:45 AM |

She loves playing and popularizing poker, hosts a show, has her video blog, covers events and on the top of that all, she is incredibly hot: Tatjana Pasalic (27) has already had a fairy-tale career so far in the world of poker and she is not about to stop just now.

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Phil Galfond Moves?

April 29, 2011 at 12:55 PM |

Phil Galfond, one of the most respected and accomplished poker player and poker trainer has finally spoken after the Black Friday. He wrote a blog post on his coaching website, BlueFirePoker. He considers moving out of the U.S.

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Out with the Old in with the New Grinders

April 26, 2011 at 11:23 AM |

While the Dang brothers are contemplating their retirement from online poker, a few new names appeared at the high stakes tables and won big in the last few days.

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NeverScaredB - EPT Winner Who Almost Quit Poker

April 22, 2011 at 12:31 PM |

Ben 'NeverScaredB' Willinofsky is an online poker pro, but live tournaments didn't bring too much luck to him during his career. He posted a desperate 5000th post on a poker forum saying he'll quit online poker. 2 weeks later, he won the EPT Berlin Main Event.

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Phil Ivey & Tom Dwan - Insane Prop Bet

April 14, 2011 at 1:20 PM |

During yesterday's Poker After Dark TV show, two of poker's biggest legends today, Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan entered a rather unusual prop bet: Dwan can call Ivey to a 100,000 hand H.O.R.S.E. challenge any time now. The extra? If Dwan loses, he only has to pay 4% of his losses.

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Jose Macedo Sponsored by Lock Poker

April 14, 2011 at 10:05 AM |

Jose Macedo, the "Portuguese Poker Prodigy", as many like to call him has drawn much attention to himself lately; so much that he already has a sponsor, he joined the pro team of Lock Poker.

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Lex Veldhuis Fights Bertrand Grospellier in May

April 11, 2011 at 10:08 AM |

It seems that Lex 'RasZi' Veldhuis and Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier are doing a much better job at getting some attention than Andrew Robl. They plan to fight each other in a kickbox match right before the WSOP.

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Gus Hansen Lost $1 Million in April

April 8, 2011 at 10:42 AM |

Gus Hansen, the Danish Full Tilt Poker pro has been on a sensational heater this year, he started April's grind with $4 million profit, but now he seems to be losing, he already lost $1 million this month.

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WSOP Heads-Up Rematches Coming Up

April 7, 2011 at 9:57 AM |

Finally, WSOP came up with a great new idea for a TV show. Have you ever imagined what a WSOP Main Event Final Heads-Up rematch would look like? Sam Farha having a chance to get back at Moneymaker? Well now you can watch it.

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High Stakes March: OMGClayAiken Is Greatest Winner of the Month

April 4, 2011 at 1:25 PM |

Phil ‘OMGClayAiken’ Galfond made a profit of $1,901,909 in March in online cash games, qualifying himself as the greatest high stakes winner of the month. The American WSOP champion dominated in draw games, beating the field with earnings of $1,673,108, in addition to his PLO winnings of $224,437.

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Phil Galfond Wins $600,000 in a Single High Stakes Day

March 31, 2011 at 2:13 PM |

Phil ’OMGClayAiken’ Galfond seems to have been coming back from his most serious downswnig ever; he beat Gus Hansen, Van Marcus and Scott ’URnotINdanger2’ Palmer yesterday.

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Andrew Robl Scared - Backs Out of Cage Fight Challenge

March 25, 2011 at 1:52 PM |

As we reported 2 days ago, a Hungarian poker pro accepted Andrew Robl's cage fight challenge he posted on his blog on March 16. Apparently Mr. Robl was too scared of the Hungarian, and wants to play against high stakes players he knows. We all know why.