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Pokerstars WCOOP 2012

Micro Millions concludes tonight, hopefully with upwards of $150K coming our way, and as it does so we can start planning for WCOOP 2012 now that the schedule has been announced. Starting on September 2nd and ending on the 23rd there will be the usual mix of events and buy-ins with standouts being day 1′s … continuation reading bet

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Poker Crime – Full Tilt and PokerStars roundup

It’s all happening or not happening in the Black Friday poker news world. Here is a summary of the Full Tilt and PokerStars poker crime or apparent lack of evidence for it – in our traditional 2nd Wednesday of the month Poker Crime post. The Full Tilt Crew Ray Bitar decides for the good of … continuation reading bet

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@Pokerstars Micro Millions Returns

We’re at polar opposites this week as we arrive on the eve of the world’s first $1 Million buy-in tournament and Pokerstars announce Micro Millions II. Pokerstars will be offering in excess of $5 Million in guaranteed prizes whereas the ‘Big One For One Drop’ tournament, starting in the Rio, Las Vegas, tomorrow will award … continuation reading bet

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PokerStars Half Price Sunday Tournaments – #APOLOGY promotion?

PokerStars Half Price buyins for their main Sunday Tournaments is the poker news sweeping round the poker world! Sunday 17th June PokerStars have reduced the buyins for the Sunday Kickoff, Sunday Warm-Up, Sunday Storm, Sunday Million and Women’s Sunday by 50% while keeping the guarantees at the standard amount. Are these just fantastic PokerStars promotions … continuation reading bet

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Cornelius’s Weekly Rant: The two faces of PokerStars

It’s not often I criticise PokerStars but, I have to say, I find their stance on data mining sites a bit rich in light of the ‘super-grinder’ PokerStars Team Online Pro’s that they have been scrambling to sign in the last 18 months. After a lengthy battle, lasting several years, PokerTableRatings finally relented just over one … continuation reading bet

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PokerStars Limit Challenge: KidPoker destroyed (by the river, in all fairness)

The PokerStars Limit Challenge – a 1,250 hand limit heads-up match between Daniel ‘KidPoker’ Negreanu and rUaBot – got underway on Saturday, and it was the anonymous online limit God, rUaBot, who prevailed over the two-time limit Hold’em WSOP bracelet winner. Said to be ‘a young German genius’ by Negreanu on his Twitter account, rUaBot, an … continuation reading bet

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PokerStars Limit Hold’em Challenge

PokerStars Limit Hold’em Challenge - It was announced on the PokerStars blog on Wednesday that the Fixed Limit world is to be set alight this weekend as Daniel Negreanu takes on limit legend rUaBot in the Fixed Limit version of the Durrr Challenge. At 14:00 Eastern Time (19:00 GMT), KidPoker and rUaBot will start with a … continuation reading bet

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PokerStars Full Tilt merger: A force for Good or Evil?

A PokerStars Full Tilt Poker merger is, at the moment, a big rumour and just a rumour. PokerStars themselves have not confirmed it and the only real mention of them buying FTP is by Groupe Bernard Tapie in their ‘resignation letter‘ of their failure to buy Full Tilt. If it is true and PokerStars do … continuation reading bet

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InsuredPlay – online poker cash game insurance

InsuredPlay.com allows online poker players to take insurance bets for online cash games. This means using the InsuredPlay software you can insure or take a hedge betting option to protect your poker bankroll against the outcome of an All in hand. Not much comes for free in this world – apart from some freerolls (as … continuation reading bet

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Tourney Of The Week: #Pokerstars Sunday Supersonic

We appreciate that not all of you reading this will be poker pros. In fact at least 90% of you can’t be, which means that you will more than likely have to be getting up on Monday morning at some stupid time to start your working week. This means that playing the Sunday Million on … continuation reading bet

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The Week Ahead: #Pokerstars

Pokerstars, since their sad departure from the US market almost exactly a year ago seem to have, unbelievably, become even bigger. Record after record has been broken lately for player numbers and prize pools and their promotions put everyone else to shame. Customer service, fraud and collusion detection, and payment processing are all top notch … continuation reading bet

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ZoomPoker.com worth how much?

Zoom Poker, Zoom or PokerStarsZoomPoker appears to be the name for PokerStars Rush Poker game and Zoom has just appeared in the PokerStars test client. As reported by pokerQ4 zoompoker.com is not owned by PokerStars! Now with the release of PokerStars Zoom on their test client how much is zoompoker.com worth? And to who? PokerStars … continuation reading bet

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