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Mike Leah wins WSOP APAC High Roller – Grabs $600k and First Bracelet
With over $3.3 million in live tournament winnings and plenty of huge online poker victories, Mike Leah was starting to enter those discussions about the greatest poker player to never win a gold bracelet. However, Leah finally got his first bracelet in the 2014 WSOP Asia-Pacific $25k High Roller. Like any high roller victory, this…
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Study says Poker Players are Skinny Drunks
If you’re a poker player, then we have good news and bad news: you are most likely skinny and a drunk. This finding comes courtesy of a study from Jackpot.co.uk, which undertook the task of finding out which type of gamblers were the healthiest. We can tell you right now that it wasn’t slots players…
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Phil Ivey loses £7.7m Crockfords Case – Is Precedent set for Borgata?
Phil Ivey took a bad beat in court when a UK High Court judge ruled against him in a £7.7 million baccarat edge sorting case. Predictably, Ivey argued that edge sorting is not cheating and he wouldn’t use the technique if he thought it cheated the casino. The judge believed that Ivey didn’t think he…
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Popular Jason Somerville gone from Ultimate Poker
Over the past year, Ultimate Poker has been busy slashing their roster of pro players. Once boasting over a dozen signed pros, Team U now has only a handful of players representing them. And you can count one less because Jason Somerville is rumored to be out at Ultimate Poker (UP). This is quite strange,…
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Joe Cada’s Split with PokerStars foreshadows Grim Future
The death of the sponsored poker pro is something that’s been discussed frequently over the past few years. But Joe Cada’s recent split with PokerStars has hammered the point home that sites are increasingly moving away from sponsored pros. In Cada’s case, all he wanted was 100% rakeback from PokerStars to continue representing them. And…
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Poker Scammer steals $280k – Confesses after speaking with God
What do you do when you’ve stolen $280,000 from the poker community? For most, the answer would be to hide out and try to get away with the crime for as long as possible. But for Justin Archuleta, the answer was to confess his sins to the TwoPlusTwo community and offer up a list of…
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Greg Merson signs with WSOP.com
In a day and age where sponsored poker pros are becoming an endangered species, Greg Merson managed to land a sponsorship deal with WSOP.com. The 2012 Main Event champion will become the gaming site’s first-ever sponsored player. Merson gained international fame after winning the 2012 Main Event along with $8,531,853. That same year, he also…
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Famed Poker Room “Aviation Club” Raided
The Aviation Club de France has long been one of Paris’ most-popular poker rooms. In fact, it served as host to WPT Paris last year. But the Aviation Club was recently the center of a big police raid as 12 people were busted for “clandestine work, breach of trust and money laundering.” This news comes…
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PokerStars Return to US draws Closer
What once seemed like it was years away appears to be drawing very close as PokerStars is poised to enter the United States again. The world’s largest online poker site has been out of America ever since Black Friday. However, according to New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak, PokerStars should be in the US within…
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Mexico Online Poker Bill coming – Expect Negative Outcome
Mexico is moving closer to regulating online poker, and iGaming in general. A new bill will be introduced to the House of Representatives on September 9th and could be voted into law as early as Sept. 20th. The idea is to update Mexico’s archaic gaming laws, which are still based on legislation from 1947. The…