This was confirmed by a statement on DuplicatePoker.com that read,
Duplicate is sadly bidding farewell to its players.Caught in the middle of the global financial situation the company is not able to continue to provide service.We are a small victim of the global financial crisis.Regretfully as of the today, October 5th, 2008 we are closing our [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | October 7, 2008

After halting what could have been a monumental collapse with 7 straight hands won during Heads Up play, Canadian player fantomas_1 capped an otherwise strong performance with an outright victory and $60,000 USD in the October 5 Party Poker $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool No Limit Texas Hold’em tournament.
Here are the rest of the top ten [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | October 6, 2008

Before we get into this week’s Second Guesses, I have a question: is everyone who makes it to the Party Poker 300K final table already working with a seven figure bankroll? Because that’s the only reason I can come up with to explain the rash of outright victors in the past few weeks of the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | October 6, 2008

The poker world forgot about November 9 for a couple of weeks while the best players in the world congregated in London for the second WSOPE, which started on September 19 and ended this morning in the wee hours.
The first event was £1,500 buy-in No Limit Hold’em, and the £144,218 prize (over $300K) went [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | October 3, 2008

Not that any one thing covers the gamut from hustlers to Hellmuths, but there are a few basic differences between bad poker players, decent poker players and good poker players.
The basic difference between a bad poker player and a decent player is that the decent player knows the value of his cards.
The basic difference between [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | October 2, 2008

The new bill, which intends to create a licensing framework for online games of skill –specifically excluding sports betting from this category, – comes at a good time as the UIGEA finds itself again under fire for its fundamental vagueness and inapplicability. S 3616 comes from a different source and has a different approach than [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | October 1, 2008