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Look, I love watching poker; as long as it’s for some real money, I’ll watch just about anything happily. From the eagles of super high stakes cash game poker to the more sparrow-like fixtures of the weekly Party Poker 300K, I dig watching poker.
But this was pushing it. Not only did the October [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | October 20, 2008

Kentucky Judge Thomas Wingate ruled in favor of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky; he decided to dismiss the motions brought on by representatives of 141 Internet domain names to end the case. With Wingate’s decision, the last hearing in the case will be held on November 17th to see whether [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | October 17, 2008

I get that the new software has made it infinitely easier to multi-table on Party Poker. I get that when you’re playing on 5 tables at once, you don’t get but a moment for each decision. I get the whole EV thing.
But people, poker is more than numbers – especially No Limit cash game poker.
Will [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | October 16, 2008

The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino will be unveiling a new form of poker tournament in November when Dream Team Poker begins. The inaugural run for Dream Team Poker will take place from November 7th to November 9th at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas; it has been dubbed a “Private Premier Invitational” and [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | October 15, 2008

Those who regularly follow World Series of Poker Circuit play will notice that one of the venues for it has undergone a big change; Caesars Indiana has been completely remodeled and the name of the riverboat casino complex has been changed to Horseshoe Southern Indiana. The name of the actual riverboat – “Glory of Rome” [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | October 15, 2008

It took Swedish player Starderi all of 2 hands Heads up to put the exclamation mark on a remarkable performance, with a $60,000 first prize victory in the October 12 edition of the Party Poker $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament.
Here are the rest of the top ten finishers, their respective [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | October 13, 2008

There were really two phases to the October 12 Party Poker 300K, and both were dominated by Swedes.
The 3 Swedes of the final table – sixth place finisher Sampas, second place finisher Fettan80 and the outright winner, Starderi – each controlled the final table for extended periods of play, even eliminating 6 consecutive players at [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | October 13, 2008

Some of the well known people that will be speaking at the third annual World Poker Congress include Asian Poker Tour CEO Chris Parker, World Poker Tour CEO Steve Lipscomb, and the Head of Poker at bwin.com Hendrik Knopp. There were also be professional poker players speaking at the conference – Marcel “The Flying Dutchman” [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | October 10, 2008

With election campaigns escalating, international tensions between superpowers rising and a global economic meltdown overwhelming billions of citizens worldwide, a lot has been going on in the way of frontpage news. So much so that I wanted to take a quick minute and catch you up on some Party Poker news.

Party Poker’s third installment of [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | October 9, 2008

This is because Duke is slated to appear on the eighth season of the hit reality TV series “The Apprentice,” which sees multiple people competing for a chance to work for Donald Trump. Also tabbed “The Celebrity Apprentice 2,” the show began taping on September 21st and will air in January of 2009.
Other celebrities that [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | October 8, 2008