2010 WSOP Rules Released

During his tenure as Commissioner of the World Series of Poker, Jeffrey Pollack frequently referred to the ongoing effort by Harrah's to improve the world's largest and most prestigious series of poker tournaments. Often Pollack...

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Short-Stacked Shamus

29 Jan 2010

Vegas Virgin Down Under - Part 4

Day 2 of the Main Event writes Simon Zammit was finally upon us and having started with over 700 players, we were just down to around 300 and from Team Betfair's intial 27 players, the...

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Dave Allan

28 Jan 2010

Jake Cody wins EPT Deauville

A 21-year old former psychology student from Rochdale has beaten a record field of 768-runners to be crowned EPT Deauville's champion. Remember the name, Jake Cody....

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Matthew Pitt

27 Jan 2010

Vegas Virgin Down Under - Part 3

Our intrepid blogger Simon Zammit is not in the best of moods today but he does have the great news that 10 Betfair Qualifiers have made it through to Day 2 of the Aussie Millions...

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Dave Allan

26 Jan 2010

Annette safely through to Day 2 of Aussie Millions Main Event

After winning Event #4 last week, Annette Obrestad was one of the 243 players who parted ways with $10,500 on Day 1b to take part in the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event. It looks as...

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Matthew Pitt

26 Jan 2010

Topless poker tournament busted

With beer, poker and topless female dealers, it may have sounded like the perfect poker tournament in history but police in Kentwood, Michigan had other ideas and decided to raid the premises and make 20...

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Matthew Pitt

25 Jan 2010

Sorel Mizzi on top at Aussie Millions

More news of the Betfair Pros and qualifiers at the Aussie Millions 2010 from our behind the scenes man Simon Zammit with the news Sorel Mizzi is one of the chip leaders after Day 1A...

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Dave Allan

24 Jan 2010

The Vegas Virgin - Down Under

Once again we welcome the always readable Simon Zammit to the Betfair Poker Blogs and this time he's in Australia. Another year, another event and this time, Betfair are sending me Down Under for the...

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Dave Allan

22 Jan 2010

Sexual Identity and Online Poker

Poker has never been more popular, and one consequence of its growing popularity is an increasing number of women playing the game. As Barbara Connors notes in her essay "Power Play," appearing in the collection...

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Short-Stacked Shamus

22 Jan 2010

Phil Laak wins Poker After Dark Nicknames week

The final episode of Nicknames week on Poker After Dark aired last night and showed Phil "The Unabomber" Laak beat Antonio "The Magician" Estfandiari heads-up to claim the entire $120,000 prizepool....

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Matthew Pitt

18 Jan 2010

The Betfair Poker Interview: Victoria Coren

Poker players, listen up! If you're looking for a good read, poker pro and writer Victoria Coren has a terrific new book, For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker. Coren's book covers the...

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Short-Stacked Shamus

15 Jan 2010

Poker tax laws in the UK are changing

A number of countries in the European Union have recently updated, or are in the process of updating, their online gambling laws and it now appears the the British Government is planning on following suit....

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Matthew Pitt

13 Jan 2010

Poker Book Review: 'For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker' by Victoria Coren

We gravitate toward poker -- we love poker -- for a variety of reasons. One reason why many of us enjoy the game so much is for the stories it produces. As it happens, some...

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Short-Stacked Shamus

8 Jan 2010

Poker and personality traits

Have you ever wondered why some poker players make it to the big time and others simply fall by the wayside? Are some people natural born poker players and some destined to fail? Why do...

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Matthew Pitt

6 Jan 2010

Top Moments in Poker, 2000-2009

Ten years ago we all woke up hoping that when we turned on our computers they would still function. Oh, and also, that the world hadn't ended. Thankfully most all of those apocalyptic "Y2K"-related fears...

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Short-Stacked Shamus

1 Jan 2010

January 2010 - Bloggers