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Win a 2012 WSOP Main Event Entry on Facebook

Mar 6, 2012 at 10:47 am in Latest Poker News by George · 2 Comments »

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Every year, many poker players world-wide drool over the WSOP Main Event and wish they could play. I mean, $10,000 is a good chunk of change if you aren’t sponsored. Well PokerHost.com has a solution. PokerHost is giving away a 2012 WSOP Main Event seat, and all you have to do, is post your mug on Facebook with a PokerHost shield. Get as many likes as possible, because the person with the most likes, will win a 2012 WSOP Main  [read more →]

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Best Bet Poker Room opens as Florida’s Largest

Mar 5, 2012 at 1:05 pm in Latest Poker News by George · 1 Comment »

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The Best Bet Poker Room opened on March 1st, 2012 and claimed the top honors, beating out the world-famous Hard Rock Poker Room, as the largest poker room in Florida.

The poker room is located one mile off I-295 East Beltway, on Monument Road, across from Regency Square in Jacksonville, FL. According to various Twitter posts, the Regency Square Mall in Jacksonville was packed to capacity as the poker room filled with players looking to grind their way on the new  [read more →]

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Epic Poker League parent company files bankruptcy.

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The Epic Poker League is a series of poker tournaments begun in 2011 by Federated Sports + Gaming. We’ve written articles about the EPL and have praised what the league has done for poker, giving poker players their own league similar to the “Masters” in golf.

Lately you may have even seen these events on Discovery’s new tv channel, “Velocity”. The action is intense, and the best of the best have been competing for millions in prizepools.

Recently, Jeffrey Pollack the  [read more →]

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Merge Poker Network’s Maximus Series On Now

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The Merge Poker Network includes sites such as Aced, Lock Poker, and Sportsbook. The large poker room has a new series called the Maximus series. The series starts today with tons of mouth-watering events.

All together, there are over $1.5 million dollars worth of guaranteed payouts throughout the series. The series will take place over a 3 week period, across all of the Merge Network poker skins.

Satellite tournaments start as low as $1.10 for you low buy-in grinders. All together there  [read more →]

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Daniel Negreanu expresses his disgust with Bitar, Lederer, and Ferguson

Feb 9, 2012 at 5:45 pm in Latest Poker News by George · 4 Comments »

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Recently, I came across this blog post, the most recent entry, in Daniel Negreanu’s poker blog. Since we receive countless emails asking for FTP updates, I thought this was fitting to add into our Online Poker Magazine. In this blog post, the poker professional, discusses tournaments he’s played, account hacking, and gets into expressing his opinions about Ray Bitar, Howard Lederer, and Chris Ferguson, the leaders of the infamous FullTiltPoker debacle.

Here is what he had to say  [read more →]

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Senator writes open letter to poker players on Facebook

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Senator John Boozman (R-AR) wrote an open letter on his Facebook page, in response to the overwhelming amount of comments, phone calls, and letters he’s recieved relating to the pro-poker movement in the United States.

Here is the open letter the Senator wrote on his Facebook:

“Back in June of 2011, I noticed an uptick in posts on my Facebook page from advocates of online poker legislation. From the activity on my Facebook page in the past 24 hours, I can  [read more →]

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Bovada’s new Black Diamond Poker Open starts in March.

Feb 7, 2012 at 6:34 pm in Latest Poker News by George · Leave a Comment »

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Bovada.lv (the new face of Bodog Poker) has set a schedule of events called the Diamond Poker Open scheduled to start in March. With over 2,000 Satellites, 52 Events, and Non-stop play, the tournaments should make any poker player that plays online salivate.

There are some very lucrative tournaments, with relatively low buy-=in’s, these tournaments should fill up quickly. Here is some more information from Bovada.lv:

“The new BDPO tournament series is eight weeks of your favorite online poker tournament games  [read more →]

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Barry Greenstein speaks out regarding his FTP debt.

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Barry Greenstein spoke out about his FullTiltPoker debts and why he is reluctant to pay them back. It’s simple.. If they pay US players back what’s owed, he’ll pay the new FTP owners.

Here is what Barry had to say in a recent 2+2 post:

“I have been inundated with calls from all the poker media sites regarding this, so it’s easier for me to respond in one place. Obviously, 2+2 has become the main place where people discuss online  [read more →]

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Is FullTiltPoker sale being held by Player Debts?

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Lately many rumors have been circulating about the sale of FullTiltPoker to Groupe Bernard Tapie, a french investment group, and how player funds will be released to FullTiltPoker players who still have money tied up with the poker site.

Behn Dayanim explained the situation to PokerStrategy.com in this article:

“GBT doesn’t want to acquire assets which will need to be litigated over later. In total, the sum owed to the company is between $10 and $20 million. Several of the  [read more →]

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Merge Poker Network announces Poker Maximus Tournament Series

Feb 5, 2012 at 1:12 am in Latest Poker News by George · Leave a Comment »

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The Merge Poker Network has grown to be one of the biggest poker networks in the world. Recently, they have announced a new poker series with tons of new events and massive payouts for poker players. The Merge network sites (including Lock Poker, Sportsbook Poker, and Aced.com) will be flooded with players looking to score.

Here is what a Merge poker room operator has said about the events:

Starting March of 2012 we are going to run the first ever tournament  [read more →]