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Daniel Negreanu Blog Excerpts: Hacker Attack, Big Loss and Break-Up

February 6, 2012 at 6:55 PM |

In his latest blog entry, Daniel Negreanu tells public about the hacking of his PokerStars account, Aussie Millions and his former relationship with Hungarian beauty queen Polgár Kriszta. 

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Phil Galfond: “Let’s Make Some Changes!”

January 18, 2012 at 2:10 PM |

High stakes pro Phil Galfond offers a number of interesting ideas to improve online poker in his latest blog post.

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Duhamel Hit by Martin Finger at the PCA Players Party

January 16, 2012 at 5:50 PM |

The already-beaten-up Jonathan Duhamel took another punch; he got hit by Martin '0Piggybank' Finger, EPT Prague's champion at the players' party 2 days ago. This is quite a physical part of Duhamel's life it seems.

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Randy 'Nanonoko' Lew Sets Guinness Record at PCA

January 9, 2012 at 12:36 PM |

PokerStars pro Randy 'nanonoko' Lew has set a new Guinness World Record yesterday at the PCA 2012's Main Hall; he played 23,493 hands in 8 hours with realizing profit.

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Esfandiari, Trickett and Merson Top 2012 Live HS Money List

January 4, 2012 at 3:57 PM |

Big One winner Antonio Esfandiari unquestionably dominated the 2012 live high stakes money list with $19 million worth of profits. Down on the Earth, Sam Trickett and Greg Merson follow.

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Phil Ivey Received $920k per Month from Tiltware LLC

January 2, 2012 at 1:28 PM |

Phil Ivey’s Tiltware LLC payment details have been published in the process of his divorce case. The eight times WSOP champion received a monthly fee of $920,000 from the company.

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Phil Ivey's Ex-Wife Gets Millions and More In Divorce Settlement

December 19, 2011 at 5:41 PM |

Phil Ivey had already divorced from his wife Luciaetta Ivey in 2009, but their divorce settlement is still an issue today. Luciaetta, however came out well of the situation, according to a document filed this month she received items worth millions and also an alimony of $180,000 per month.

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Isildur1 Returns to PokerStars High Stakes Tables

December 9, 2011 at 4:27 PM |

After a three months’ pause, Viktor ’Isildur1’ Blom has shown up at the PokerStars high stakes tables. He kicked off with a PLO heads-up session against ’VietRussian.’

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Max Katz Benefits from Pius Heinz' Main Event

November 13, 2011 at 1:57 PM |

The Russian player Max Katz, who is known to be a better backer than player did well again; it turned out he and his team had a major share in Pius Heinz' Main Event, therefore they win lots of money on the German pro.

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New High Stakes Scam – Max Ashkar Wins $2 Million With Fraud?

November 4, 2011 at 1:56 PM |

2011 does indeed seem to be the year of online poker scams; add Max ’mexx86’ Ashkar to the list, who is accused of using a Trojan virus to win over $2 million in total.

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Antonius Claims to Be Big Loser of Full Tilt Scandal

October 20, 2011 at 7:12 PM |

Patrik Antonius, former Full Tilt Poker Pro claimed in a recent interview that he has nearly $5 million at stake at Full Tilt Poker. If the company goes bankrupt, and players won't be paid, he is bound to lose all his money.

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Tony G Wants To Sue the AGCC

October 12, 2011 at 6:28 PM |

Yesterday, the Australian-Lithuanian poker pro, Antanas 'Tony G' Guoga announced that he is willing to take legal action against the AGCC, because they were negligent in the handling of FTP's case and are responsible for the delay of the payments.

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Poker Hall of Fame 2011 Nominees Are Here

October 6, 2011 at 5:28 PM |

Caesars Entertainment and WSOP have published the results of the nomination process for the Poker Hall of Fame 2011. The living members of the PhoF, in cooperation with representatives of the poker media, are to choose from the ten nominees.

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Worst Player of All Time?

September 23, 2011 at 4:30 PM |

The russian player going by the name 'KP0T0B' has awfully bad stats, he managed to run -336BB/100 in 146,000 hands, on NL2. The brutally bad player might just be the worst player we have ever seen.

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Tom Dwan: “I'll Pay Back Everything I Was Paid”

September 22, 2011 at 5:10 PM |

Former Full Tilt Poker Pro Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan has undertaken a series of written and oral interviews recently, saying now the only things he cannot speak about are those the US Department of Justice has already said. On 2p2, he claims he would pay everything back he was paid by FTP.

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Negreanu: Lederer and Bitar Are Arrogant Idiots

September 16, 2011 at 5:37 PM |

As part of his two months long European trip, Daniel Negreanu is currently in Budapest, Hungary, the home of his new girlfriend, Krisztina Polgár. In an exclusive interview with Rakerace.com, he talks about moving to Canada, the legalisation of online poker in the US and the Full Tilt Poker scandal.

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David Saab Sentenced to 14 Years In Jail For Cocaine Smuggling

September 14, 2011 at 2:01 PM |

As we reported, Australian poker pro David Saab was arrested this January when, with his two companions, he attempted to smuggle 14,6kg of Cocaine to Melbourne, Australia. Saab was sentenced to 14 years in jail for his crime.

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Latest Scam Scandal Involves WSOP Champion?

September 13, 2011 at 8:20 PM |

According to ’feruell’, a fixed limit high stakes regular, and his fellow players, 888 Poker Pro and WSOP winner Darren ’Dooshcom’ Woods may be involved in a collusion scam at 888 push or fold tables.

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Nanonoko Returns to Poker in Canada

September 9, 2011 at 7:25 PM |

PokerStars pro Randy ‘nanonoko’ Lew has not played online since Black Friday but now resumes grinding: he is in Canada and he returned with a 6-max SNG video.

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British Poker Awards - Jake Cody is the Player of the Year

September 6, 2011 at 2:41 PM |

Jake Cody was the biggest winner of this year's British Poker Awards, he took down the Best Tournament Player and the Player of the Year awards as well. The ceremony was held as the highlight of the 2011 Poker in the Park festival in London.

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How Much of a Fish Guy Laliberté Exactly Is?

August 17, 2011 at 3:01 PM |

Cirque du Soleil company owner and billionaire Guy Laliberté has lost millions of dollars in online poker over the years and has been considered by many the biggest high stakes fish ever. Poker pro Mike Matusow now, however, claims that due to an agreement among the high stakes regulars, he has never had a real chance to win.

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Money Does Not Last too Long for Ronny Kaiser

August 16, 2011 at 5:27 PM |

Ronny Kaiser has lost almost all of his EPT Tallinn winnings, as he got rid of more than $300,000 on the weekend on PokerStars. 

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Chino Rheem Started to Pay His Debts

August 16, 2011 at 1:16 PM |

David ’Chino’ Rheem has amassed a huge debt in the past few years but at last he started to pay it back, following his victory at the Epic Poker League for $1 million.

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Jungleman Admits Involvement in Macedo Scandal

August 15, 2011 at 3:22 PM |

Daniel ‘Jungleman12’ Cates admitted in an interview made by Subject: Poker that he had played the ‘SamChauhan’, ‘Toshisan’ and ‘Girah’ accounts and participated in ghosting in cooperation with José Macedo.

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Jungleman and Dogishead Interviewed on Girah Scandal

August 11, 2011 at 4:18 PM |

Bluff Magazine has interviewed the two high stakes players who seem to have the most suspicious relationship with the scammer José ‘Girah’ Macedo. Daniel ‘Jungleman12’ Cates and Haseeb ‘dogishead’ Qureshi were asked a couple of more or less pressing questions and here are some of their answers.

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Conspiracy Theories about the Girah Scandal

August 10, 2011 at 6:38 PM |

It would seem that Haseeb ‘dogishead’ Qureshi is gradually becoming the top suspect to be behind the Macedo (Girah) Scandal as forum members and known poker celebrities assume that he is deeply involved in the case. At the very least, he used the Portuguese midstakes pro’s account for multi-accounting.

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Jose Macedo Busted for Scamming His Students

August 8, 2011 at 5:51 PM |

The 18 years old Jose Macedo, the Portuguese Poker Prodigy as he is much better known, confessed that he cheated his coached students during a teamviewer session. He won over $30,000 from them, which he promised to pay back, plus he would give a $30,000 compensation per player. Lock Poker has cut his sponsorship, and he is also out of PokerStrategy's coach team.

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Huck Seed Wins over $670,000 Playing Video Poker

August 5, 2011 at 6:56 PM |

Four times WSOP champion Huck Seed attacked one of the video poker machines at the Aria. He hit a royal flush for $670,655.

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Galfond Joins Cole South - Moves to Canada

July 26, 2011 at 2:15 PM |

Phil 'OMGClayAiken' Galfond, one of the most popular online poker players and instructors, cash game specialist thought it was time to get back to his beloved online poker; according to his recent tweet, he moved to Canada to be able to play.

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Phil Hellmuth Forgets 2011 WSOP Main Event

July 12, 2011 at 4:51 PM |

The unluckiest man at this year's WSOP, the 11-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth almost overslept his second day at the Main Event. He didn't realize that he was scheduled to play for the day. However, a friend is always on guard.