Dropping out of college is highly discouraged in most cases, but when you're a 23-year-old college dropout with $1.5 million in tournament winnings and even more in your bank account from high-stakes cash games, it's hard to look back on that decision as a mistake. That's where poker…
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The World Series of Poker Academy is heading to Los Angeles for the first time in September to conduct an intense weekend poker camp at the Bicycle Casino. Instructors for this edition include Annie Duke, Kenny Tran, poker tells expert and former G-man Joe Navarro, noted poker professional and…
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SpadeClub.com, the total poker experience, offers more than 2,500 tournaments and awards $100,000 every month, all for just $19.99 a month. No entry fees, no deposits, no risk. Find out more. SpadeClub member Arthur "InntheBuff" Kliszak took fist place in SpadeClub's recent $5,000…
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CardPlayer.com readers can still to register for this week's exclusive $10 buy-in tournament, wherein five $109 seats in Bodog's Sunday $100,000-guaranteed tournament will be overlayed, but they better hurry, because it takes place today at 4:05 p.m. ET. The $10 buy-in will go into the…
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High Stakes Poker, the TV show that lets poker fans see what it's like to play for six-figure pots, will return for a fifth season. Both GSN and Poker PROductions, its production company, have confirmed that High Stakes Poker was renewed. Details about when and where the show will be filmed…
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Every Thursday, Card Player sits down with some of the best in the game to discuss pivotal hands from the week's biggest tournaments on the circuit. This week we spoke with Luke Staudenmaier, who finished third in the Bellagio Cup IV main event, the first stop for the World Poker Tour's…
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UltimateBet and Absolute Poker are combining into one integrated online poker site that will bring players together on one platform, called CEREUS. The project has been in the works for more than a year. Players from both sites will see the change in August when CEREUS launches, and while the new…
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The World Poker Tour Bellagio Cup IV main event begins on Friday, and with three starting days, there is still plenty of time to qualify for the $15,000 buy-in tournament through supersatellites and single-table sit-and-gos. All supersatellites have a buy-in of $1,590 and pay out one seat per 10…
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Doyle Brunson made three final tables at the 1998 World Series of Poker out of the 20 preliminary events that took place. He won the $1,500 razz event and followed that up with a runner-up finish in the $2,500 pot-limit Omaha event (T.J. Cloutier was the winner), and a third-place finish in the…
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The first of two second-day flights in the World Series of Poker main event started at noon today in Las Vegas, and 1,252 players started the day. The players in the super-sized other half of the field in the $10,000 no-limit hold'em world championship will take their seats tomorrow - all…
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