May 23, 2013 Dusk Till Dawn is pleased to announce their ocial partnership with FIDPA, the Federation Internationale De Poker Association. Dusk Till Dawn will use FIDPA’s International Poker Rules forall of its poker events including the inaugural ISPT held at Wembley Stadium on May 31st 2013. The International Poker Rules are the brainchild of [...]

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May 23, 2013 Shaniac has overcome many challenges in his life as a professional poker player, and a short film captures the ups as well as the downs. “The film focuses on some of the more painful, struggle-filled chapters of my history and ignores the happier, more carefree things I get to enjoy,” said Shaniac.

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May 22, 2013 Full Tilt Poker is bringing the 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship to television screens worldwide this summer; and tomorrow night sees the latest installment air for the first time in the UK on Channel 5 from 12-1 am BST. Twelve hour-long episodes will be broadcast globally and feature all the action [...]

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May 22, 2013 Just before play began Monday at Heartland Poker Tour’s nationally-televised Final Table, 37-year-old Pat Steele said he was “going to have a lot of fun here.” That he did. He had already gotten through all but eight players in the field of 462 at Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort. The good times [...]

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May 21, 2013 Poker pro and former UB.com representative/owner Annie Duke released a statement on her Facebook page over the weekend insisting she never used a tool that allowed her to see other players hole cards while online. Secret recordings scraped from the hard drive of UB.com insider cheat Russ Hamilton indicate that Duke obtained [...]

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May 21, 2013 A spate of reported unauthorized Skrill logins have the online gambling community on edge. Skrill, formerly known as Moneybookers, is a popular money transfer platform for those gamblers living outside the United States. It is similar to PayPal. Attempts to compromise customer accounts have occurred over the past two weeks, according to [...]

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May 20, 2013 Kambi Sports Solutions is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement to deliver a fully managed Sportsbook solution to 888, under the www.888sport.com brand. The agreement will enable 888 to offer a significantly upgraded sports betting experience to its customer base in addition to facilitating expansion of its business into [...]

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May 19, 2013 Want to buy Jamie Gold’s (pictured) World Series of Poker bracelet? You can! Heritage Auctions will auction off the bracelet and a commemorative watch in July. Gold’s bracelet could carry significant weight given that it came as a result of defeating the largest Main Event field in WSOP history at nearly 8,800 [...]

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May 19, 2013 The Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati has been named the third stop in this year’s 22-city World Series of Poker season. The 10th annual competition will come to the Queen City Sept. 19-30 with the main event running the last three days. Buy-ins for the series range from $365 to $1,675. The top 100 [...]

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May 17, 2013 The pick of yesterday’s final tables came in the SCOOP-11-H $2,100 Stud event, where a final four of Thor ‘osten’ Hansen, Shawn ‘buck21’ Buchanan, Bryn ‘BrynKenney’ Kenney and Brian ‘$tinger 88’ Hastings contested the closing stages of the 66-man tourney. In the end, it was ‘osten’ who took the title, adding a [...]

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