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Should Poker really be covered like Winter Olympics?
It’s been about a week since Joe Hachem gave his interview on how WSOP Main Event champions need to step up their ambassadorship efforts. And the discussion hasn’t stopped, with Daniel Negreanu recently bringing up an interesting perspective on poker television coverage. Negreanu thinks that ESPN and 411 Productions could learn a thing or two…
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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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Niklas Heinecker wins 2013 GDAM and $4.46m
The innagural GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions (GDAM) Main Event was a huge success after 71 players paid the HK$1,000,000 (US$130,000) buy-in. 54 of these grinders opted to rebuy after busting, and the buy-ins/rebuys combined to create a massive HK$119,375,000 ($15,376,897) prize pool. Germany’s Niklas Heinecker took full advantage of this giant pool as he won…