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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.

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Eugene Katchalov Joins Team PokerStars Pro

March 24, 2011 at 1:50 PM |

Eugene Katchalov, winner of the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller event, now joins the room’s Team Pro. Considering only his top achievements, that is, winning a WPT event as well as a WCOOP bracelet in addition to the PCA Super High Roller championship, it is not surprising the room wanted to have him as a member.

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Phil Ivey - How I'm Spending My Day

March 24, 2011 at 10:28 AM |

Phil Ivey is tweeting again. He used to have a Twitter account since April, 2009, but he hasn't used it much. Now he posted that he's starting to use the service once again. He also posted some proof of his identity.

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Hungarian Poker Pro Accepts ’good2cu’ Cage Challenge

March 23, 2011 at 10:33 AM |

High stakes pro Andrew ’ good2cu’ Robl has lately offered a cage fight challenge on his blog, scheduled during this year’s WSOP in Las Vegas. Hungarian poker pro ’d0npelo’ answers the call.

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Andrew Robl Offers Cage Fight Challenge

March 18, 2011 at 12:27 PM |

If you happen to a beginner MMA fighter and might want to beat Andrew Robl, and not in the poker sense, you might be in luck this time. The young pro blogged that he has been practicing "Jiu Justi" for some time and he takes challengers to fight him in a cage fight.

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Daniel Cates Believes Isildur Uses 'martonas' Nick?

March 17, 2011 at 9:37 AM |

Apparently Daniel 'jungleman12' Cates believes the Swedish 'martonas' to be just another alias for PokerStars' pro, Viktor 'isildur1' Blom. Martonas plays on Full Tilt Poker, this is why it's a sensitive issue Cates raised.

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Andrew Li Breaks Supernova Elite Record

March 3, 2011 at 12:04 PM |

Andrew 'azntracker' Li has set up a new record by the end of February: he managed to collect the 1 million VPPs that are required to the highest PokerStars VIP level, the SuperNova Elite in just two months.

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Peter Eastgate vs. Sports Betting - 0:1

March 2, 2011 at 10:39 AM |

An interview has recently appeared in a Danish newspaper, in which 2008 WSOP Champion Peter Eastgate told journalists of Politiken that he had lost around $1.7 million sportsbetting, mainly because of last year's World Cup South Africa. He even missed the WSOP in order to be able to attend the World Cup (not a very profitable choice, after all).