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Is Molly Bloom Finally done being the “Poker Princess”
She hasn’t won a major tournament, been a high stakes player or done anything else significant in poker. Still, Molly Bloom has found a way to grace poker headlines off and on for the past few years. Known to many as the “Poker Princess,” Bloom has been running some of poker’s most high-profile games. But…
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Rafael Nadal wins EPT Prague Celebrity Tournament
Rafael Nadal might want to consider playing more live poker tournaments in the future. After all, the world’s number one tennis player won the EPT Prague celebrity event, which is just his first ever live tourney. Rafa now gets to donate €50,000 to the charity of his choice. Despite that fact that Nadal only had…
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Sheldon Adelson fighting a Losing War against Online Poker
By now, many poker players have heard of the war that Sheldon Adelson is waging against online poker. The crusty old man has been trying to spread his message through both the TV and press that online gambling is a terrible thing. His key arguments so far? Internet gaming is more addictive than crack and…
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Forbes tabs Jay Farber as 2013’s Chris Moneymaker
The poker world has yet to find another Chris Moneymaker, who inspired a boom after winning the 2003 WSOP Main Event. And while it doesn’t look like a Moneymaker replica is coming any time soon, Forbes thinks that Jay Farber could come pretty close. Forbes recently documented Farber’s rise from a Las Vegas VIP host…
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New World Chess Champ Magnus Carlsen also plays Poker
Over the years, there have been a fair amount of poker players who’ve also played chess professionally. Two-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Dan Harrington is the most notable chess/poker player. Jeff Sarwer and Almira Skripchenko are a couple of other pros who’ve crossed between the two games. Now, we can add one more very notable…
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McEvoy, Johnson headline Senior Poker Tour
The number of entrants in the WSOP Seniors Hold’em Championship increased by almost 300 people this year, hitting a record of 4,407 players. Apparently, WSOP winners Tom McEvoy and Linda Johnson took notice of this since they’re headlining a new poker tournament series that’s dedicated entirely to seniors. Appropriately titled the Senior Poker Tour (SPT),…
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Niklas Heinecker passes $4m in 2013 Online Poker Winnings
Throughout 2013, most of the attention in the high stakes poker world has been on Viktor “Isidur1” Blom. After all, the Swede has made over $4.5 million playing online this year. But one player who’s had an exceptional year, yet has flown under the radar a bit, is Niklas “ragen70” Heinecker. The German recently won…
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Viktor Blom answers Poker’s Tough Questions during FTP Challenge
Viktor “Isildur1” Blom recently took on 100 challengers at Full Tilt Poker during a promotion. And Blom was his usual self, multi-tabling heads-up sit and go’s against five players at a time. In the end, he was able to beat 62 of the 100 challengers, which was pretty good considering how he was multi-tabling. However,…