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February 2009

  • Ferguson Falls early and Cornel Cimpan Wins the L.A. Poker Classic
  • There's a Bounty out on Phil Hellmuth!!
  • Annie Duke in Celebrity Apprentice Begins Sunday
  • New High Stakes Poker Season 5 Premieres Sunday on GSN
  • Who is __FullFlush1__ ??
  • U.S. Government Could Make $50 Billion from Online Gaming
  • Liv Boeree Pics
  • L.A. Poker Classic -- Preliminary Update Part II
  • Gus Hansen and Trex313 play $500/1000 PLO on 'Hansen Hangout'
  • NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship Lineup Announced
  • Ivey destroys Durrrr and others today to win over 1 million online
  • LA Poker Classic is now down to 20 players with Ferguson leading the field
  • Krautschneider Captures ANZPT Adelaide Honors
  • Durrrr Challenge session 3 goes to Durrrr with a win of over $200,000
  • Tony G and PokerNews.com Scam Users in Rake Race Ripoff
  • FTOPS XI Event #5, $200+16 NHLE 6-Max: 'TOPTEN' Tops Them All
  • FTOPS XI continues as last year’s champion takes down another event
  • Gus Hansen Gets his Ass Kicked by Theo Jorgensen on Gus Hansen TV
  • Announcing ThePlayr.com's Durrrr Challenge Blog
  • Vivek Rajkumar Wins L.A. Poker Classic Heads Up Championship
  • Durrrr and Antonius square off in part 2 of the Durrrr Challenge with Antonius up $191,000
  • Dwan gets out of his downswing as Luzak kills Ivey
  • Nevada Suffers Sharpest Annual Gaming Decline in History
  • Run it Twice -- Brian Rast
  • PPA Chairman Discusses Online Poker and Politics -- Part II
  • FTOPS XI continues as last year’s champion takes down another event
  • EPT Copenhagen Final Table Set
  • Poker Legislation Timeframe
  • Interview With Luke 'IWEARGOGGLES' Staudenmaier
  • Scotty Nguyen Takes down the HORSE Tourney at the LA Poker Classic
  • Gus Hansen Scores almost half a Million in one session against trex313 on Full Tilt
  • Phil Ivey Scores Six Figure Win Thanks to Durrrr
  • WPT Renewed for Another Season on FSN
  • Tom 'Durrrr' Dwan and Patrik Antonious begin durrrr's Million Dollar Challenge
  • Gus Hansen busted out of EPT Copenhagen by Annette Obrestrad
  • Did Carter 'CKingUSC' King try to sell the Michael Phelps Bong on eBay?
  • Introducing ThePlayr EPT Live Blog
  • Shenanigans on PokerStars as they deal 25 billionth hand
  • EPT Scandanavian Open in Copenhagen, February 17th-21st
  • Isildur1 and durrrr back at it
  • Tom 'Durrrr' Dwan and Patrik Antonius to playr Durrrr's Million Dollar Challenge
  • Michael Phelps to face charges?
  • Russ Hamilton, SuperUser, wont discuss cheating allegations
  • Gus Hansen's Poker Channel
  • Poker Player Sues Venetian and Wins $80,000
  • Michael Phelps Caught Smoking a Bong!
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    Amir Vahedi Dies in Las Vegas

    Amir Vahedi dies in Las Vegas, Nevada - January 2010
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    Online Player "t soprano" Bests Negreanu for Bracelet in WSOP Event #14

    Eleven players remained in the $2,500 No-Limit Hold ‘em event after three days of action-packed poker. Of these, some famous names lurked – Daniel Negreanu, four-time WSOP bracelet-winner was the most recognisable.
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    Travis Johnson Wins WSOP Event #7 - $1,500 NLHE

    Travis Johnson has become the newest addition to the list of World Series of Poker bracelet-winners after taking down Event #7, the $1,500 No-Limit Hold ‘em.
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    Rami ‘arabiankinight' Boukai wins WSOP Event #10

    Saudi born American Rami Boukai outlasted a field of 453-runners to claim the $2,500 Pot Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha event and with it prize money of $244,862. The 26-year-old battled his way through a final table lasting nine and a half hours before finally seeing off Najib Bennani to seal his first bracelet win.
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    Ken Aldridge wins WSOP Event #9

    1,459 runners bought in to $1,500 No Limit Hold Em Six-Handed Event but in the end it was American Ken Aldridge who claimed his first WSOP bracelet. Aldridge, known as Teach, won an epic heads up battle with Carmen Cavella to take the first prize of $428,259.
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    Phil Ivey Wins Bracelet Number Six in WSOP Event #8

    Phil Ivey, widely considered by many to be the best poker player in the history of the game, has cemented that opinion further by taking some time out from cash games to win his sixth WSOP bracelet and his first since 2003 in NL 2-7 Draw.
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    Steve Sung wins WSOP Event #4 Stimulus Special

    A big field for a small buy-in was what organisers of the $1,000 No Limit Hold Em Event #3 hoped for and boy did they deliver. A whopping field of 6,012 players sat down for the so-called Stimulus Special, a record for any event other than the WSOP Main Event.
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    Steve Sung wins WSOP Event #3 Stimulus Special

    A big field for a small buy-in was what organisers of the $1,000 No Limit Hold Em Event #3 hoped for and boy did they deliver. A whopping field of 6,012 players sat down for the so-called Stimulus Special, a record for any event other than the WSOP Main Event.
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    Constant Rijkenberg Staking Scandal

    Constant has yet to pay many of his backers for his big EPT San Remo win
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    Rami 'arabiankinight' Boukai wins WSOP Event #10

    Saudi born American Rami Boukai outlasted a field of 453-runners to claim the $2,500 Pot Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha event and with it prize money of $244,862. The 26-year-old battled his way through a final table lasting nine and a half hours before finally seeing off Najib Bennani to seal his first bracelet win.
    Read more »


    Ken Aldridge wins WSOP Event #9

    1,459 runners bought in to $1,500 No Limit Hold Em Six-Handed Event but in the end it was American Ken Aldridge who claimed his first WSOP bracelet. Aldridge, known as Teach, won an epic heads up battle with Carmen Cavella to take the first prize of $428,259.
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    Phil Ivey Wins Bracelet Number Six in WSOP Event #8

    Phil Ivey, widely considered by many to be the best poker player in the history of the game, has cemented that opinion further by taking some time out from cash games to win his sixth WSOP bracelet and his first since 2003 in NL 2-7 Draw.
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    Steve Sung wins WSOP Event #4 Stimulus Special

    A big field for a small buy-in was what organisers of the $1,000 No Limit Hold Em Event #3 hoped for and boy did they deliver. A whopping field of 6,012 players sat down for the so-called Stimulus Special, a record for any event other than the WSOP Main Event.
    Read more »


    Steve Sung wins WSOP Event #3 Stimulus Special

    A big field for a small buy-in was what organisers of the $1,000 No Limit Hold Em Event #3 hoped for and boy did they deliver. A whopping field of 6,012 players sat down for the so-called Stimulus Special, a record for any event other than the WSOP Main Event.
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    Tom McEvoy wins WSOP Invitational

    There may have been no entry fee and no million dollar pay day but the competition was as fierce as you would expect from a line up which featured 20 former winners of the WSOP Main Event.
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    Matthew Woodward Representing For The Red, White And Blue

    An American has a shot at winning the EPT Grand Finale in Monte Carlo.
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