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Tom Breitling offers Reasons for Ultimate Poker Struggles
Ultimate Poker’s initial year in the US online gaming market didn’t exactly finish out in dream fashion. In Nevada, where they’ve been offering online poker since last April, Ultimate’s player base fell from 180-220 hourly-cash-game players last summer to its current low of 55 players. As for New Jersey, UP’s online poker revenue dropped from…
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PokerStars’ US Fast-Fold Patent gives them a Tremendous Advantage
PokerStars has struck out three times in their efforts to enter the US online poker market. Nevada flat-out denied them, New Jersey said wait two more years, and Delaware didn’t want an operation without an online casino. But while Stars has watched fellow competitors like 888 and partypoker enter the US market, they still hold…
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Why Everybody should lay off the Borgata about “Chipgate”
Back in February, Jacob Musterel sued the Borgata over a compromised $2 million poker tournament. The Egg Harbor Township (NJ) native claims that the Borgata failed to properly supervise a Winter Poker Open event where Christian Lusardi cheated by introducing counterfeit chips (a.k.a. Chipgate). Musterel wants the Borgata to refund everybody’s tournament buy-in plus travel…
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Debate over whether Full Tilt Players cheated Guy Laliberte
Earlier this week, Cirque du Soleil owner and high stakes poker player Guy Laliberte told Le Journal De Montreal that he was essentially cheated at Full Tilt Poker. Although the French-to-English translation is a little choppy, Laliberte alleges that famous pros were borrowing an endless supply of money from Full Tilt. Combining this unlimited bankroll…
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Waka Flocka dubs Dan Bilzerian the “New Hugh Hefner”
Dan Bilzerian continues to fascinate the world, and All In Magazine is capitalizing on this fascination with a series of interviews with “Blitz.” They’ve now released two parts to the series, with the second just recently coming available. In this segment, Bilzerian starts out by discussing the now-famous staking deal with Jay Farber, where he…
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Keven “Stammdogg” Stammen wins WPT Championship and $1.35m
Already leading the Global Poker Index’s Player of the Year standings, Keven “Stammdogg” Stammen vaulted himself even further ahead of the competition last night by winning the Season XII WPT World Championship along with $1.35 million. Stammen beat out a 328-player field to top the World Poker Tour’s most prestigious tournament. Interestingly enough, though, it…
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Is Patrik Antonius Online Poker’s Biggest Winner?
Thanks to their numerous TV and online poker battles, Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius are two players whose careers are closely tied together. But these high stakes pros couldn’t be any further apart these days when considering their online results. Antonius is coming off a week where he made nearly $1 million under his ‘FinddaGrind’…
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Greg Merson looking to promote Himself and Poker More
As has been discussed many times over the past few months, Joe Hachem thinks that poker has a problem, and it starts with WSOP Main Event champs and younger pros. Greg Merson definitely saw Hachem’s rant and it’s forced the 2012 Main Event champ to rethink his views on everything from playing tournaments to interviews.…
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Antonio Esfandiari: Broke, Starving in Airport after buying out of No Sex Bet
These days, it seems like Antonio Esfandiari just can’t stay out of the poker news. Whether he’s doing his Strip Magic show for Ultimate Poker or entering into a no sex prop bet with Bill Perkins, Esfandiari is all across the headlines. Speaking of the latter, “The Magician” recently gave some intimate details on the…
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Where have the Poker Fish gone…to your Local Casino
Wondering where all of the online poker fish have gone over the past few years? A great place to check would be your local casino, at least according to The Atlantic, which wrote a great piece on the matter this week. The article follows a poker pro, who goes by the alias “John Calvin,” around…