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April 2012 - Bloggers

Robert Baguley Triumphs at UKIPT Nottingham

The 60-year-old retiree Robert Baguley after winning UKIPT Nottingham (Photo: PokerStars)

The 60-year-old retiree Robert Baguley has become the latest champion on the PokerStars United Kingdom Ireland Poker Tour, besting a whopping field of 1,625 players at the Dusk Till Dawn poker club in Nottingham to...

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17 Apr 2012

Morten Christensen Captures WPT Vienna, €313,390 Score

Morten Christensen after claiming victory and first prize at WPT Vienna (Photo: World Poker Tour)

A week of exciting poker in Vienna, Austria has concluded with Danish player Morten Christensen topping a field of 396 to win the World Poker Tour Vienna event and capture the €313,390 first prize. Mortensen...

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16 Apr 2012

Black Friday, One Year Later

The events of April 15, 2011 profoundly affected poker in the U.S. and beyond.

It was early morning on the west coast, mid-day in the east, and dinner time in the U.K. and Europe on Friday, April 15, 2011 when word spread the United States Department of Justice had...

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13 Apr 2012

Scott Stanko Claims WSOP-C Council Bluffs Main Event Title and Ring

Scott Stanko earned over $101K for his WSOP-C win at Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Photo: PokerNews)

The latest stop on the World Series of Poker Circuit came to a close late Tuesday night in Council Bluffs, Iowa with Scott Stanko of Nebraska topping a field of 290 in the Main Event...

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11 Apr 2012

On Lotteries, Brackets, and Other Gambles

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The last week or so has seen America kind of swept up in a frenzy of gambling, with many who don't normally engage in such risk-taking finding reasons try their luck. Between the super-inflated jackpot...

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6 Apr 2012

Taking Hands Off

After winning a big pot, some players will instinctively fold the next hand or two.

Say you're in a no-limit hold'em cash game. After struggling for most of the session, you've just won a nice pot and now suddenly you're back in black. The next hand has begun, it folds...

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5 Apr 2012

Groupe Bernard Tapie Gearing Toward Full Tilt Poker Relaunch

Recent indications suggest the possibility that a relaunch of Full Tilt Poker by Groupe Bernard Tapie may well be happening soon

As the one-year anniversary of Black Friday approaches, it is starting to appear as though much-maligned Full Tilt Poker may be edging closer to a relaunch after more than nine months offline. In the last...

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5 Apr 2012

Jannick Wrang Wins EPT Campione, Busquet Runner-Up

Jannick Wrang of Denmark topped a field of 570 to win the EPT Campione Main Event (Photo: Neil Stoddart)

It's all over at the European Poker Tour Campione Main Event where Jannick Wrang of Denmark topped a field of 570 to claim the title and €640,000 first prize. Wrang survived five tough days of...

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1 Apr 2012