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Corkins Guns For Second Wpt Title
Corkins will attempt to join an elite group of players who have won two WPT titles when the final table plays out from the Beau Rivage in Biloxi Mississippi.  “It is a big deal,” said Corkins. “I want to get first or second because that would give me 4,000 WPT points   More...

Added On: March 3rd, 2010

Patrik Antonius Dumps 826k
Antonius' session started at $300/$600 Pot-Limit Omaha against Tom "durrrr" Dwan and Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies. Dwan, who had been at the table for 30 minutes prior to Antonius taking a seat, left just a few hands after Antonius's arrival. Just 20 minutes later, Dwan's spot at the table was taken by Cole   More...

Added On: March 3rd, 2010

Poker Site Haiti Donations Top 2m
Currently PokerStars players have donated $670,000 with five days left to participate while Full Tilt is up to $307,721 and still taking donations. Both rooms will match the amount their players donate meaning more than $1.9 million from just those two rooms alone will be going toward relief efforts in Haiti. The   More...

Added On: March 3rd, 2010

Obrestad Avoiding Aussie Millions DÃ JÃ Vu
Among the chip leaders with 21 people left in the 2009 Aussie Millions, holding ace-ten, she pushed all in for around 350k over Canadian Zach Fellows' raise, expecting him to fold all but premium cards. However, Fellows made the rather loose call with just pocket fives. The fives held and an angry   More...

Added On: March 3rd, 2010

The Sunday Scoop Near Miss For Nico Behling
The Sunday Million continues to smash its guarantee as 10,077 players came out to play creating a $2.01 million prizepool. Behling and Swiss player Ronald “ronaldgruer” Gruer, who is currently ranked fourth in CardPlayer's Online Player of the Year race, made competition at the final table fierce. Gruer eventually finished in fifth   More...

Added On: March 2nd, 2010

Antonius Tops Weekend High Stakes Action
The Finn's win came from 239 hands of $300/$600 Pot-Limit Omaha with Brian Hastings. After a little over two hours of play, Antonius left the tables with his profit, not to return besides six un-eventful hands Sunday night. Friday had begun according to plan for Hastings after he made $114,898 playing 125   More...

Added On: March 2nd, 2010

Newhouse A New Man At Lapc
The Chapel Hill, North Carolina native had made a World Series Poker final table that summer and after taking down the WPT Borgata title and it's $1.5 million first place prize, he went deep just a month later at WPT Niagara, finishing 17th. His faced donned the cover of poker magazines   More...

Added On: March 2nd, 2010

Nacho Barbero Wins Lapt Uruguay
With a field of 306 players this year's LAPT Punta del Este event generated a prize pool of $1,042,260. Forty-eight players made the money with Barbero taking home $279,330 for first. The final table was made up of three Argentinean players, two Brazilians, one Colombian and one local player from Uruguay. The only   More...

Added On: March 2nd, 2010

Ziigmund Breaks 1 5 Million Mark
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Added On: March 1st, 2010

Pokerstars Announces 2010 Nordic Poker Awards
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Added On: March 1st, 2010