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New UB Complaint Claims $20M Stolen
Eight high-stakes online poker players including Brad Booth, Dan Smith and Dustin “Neverwin” Woolf have filed a Rico complaint against the former owners and management of Ultimate Bet. Brad Booth is one of the eight high-stakes pros seeking compensation from Ultimate Bet. The complaint names Excapsa Software, the company that controlled Ultimate Bet, and alleges [...]
Blackrain79: Building a Fortune a Few Cents at a Time
Nathan “Blackrain79” Williams has played six million hands of small-stakes No-Limit Hold’em online with some of the highest win-rates in history. Blackrain79 has earned more money at NL2 and NL5 than any other player on PokerStars. Experienced? Williams has played six million hands of online poker. Williams also coaches at DragTheBar.com. In his new book [...]
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$10m Turbo COOP Starts Thursday on PokerStars
The first-ever Turbo Championship of Online Poker is set to start on January 19 on PokerStars with 50 events and $10 million guaranteed to be awarded. Joining the world-renowned WCOOP and SCOOP series on the Stars schedule, the TCOOP series runs from January 19-29 with buy-ins ranging from $5.50-$2,100. Turbo and Hyper Turbo tournaments will [...]
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Poker’s In and Out List: Galfond Shopped, Shak Must be Stopped
It’s a brave new poker world as the first week of 2012 comes to an end, and as always PokerListings.com is ready with a brand new set of snap judgments. The first In and Out List of the New Year features a 5-star photoshop thread, Eugene Katchalov’s POY win, poker in Macau and Beth Shak. [...]
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Monster Pot Recap: MrSweets28 Spanked by Berndsen12
Phil “MrSweets28” Galfond hit a disastrous river card to lose the biggest pot in high stakes last night to Berndsen12. Galfond was in the midst of a marathon session that saw him play over 8,000 hands when he took Dutch pro Sander “Berndsen12” Berndsen on at $100/$200 heads-up Pot-Limit Omaha on PokerStars. Approximately one-hour into [...]
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Lew Sets World Record for Poker Hands Played
PokerStars Pro Randy “nanonoko” Lew set a new world record for poker hands played today at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, blasting through 23,493 hands in just 8 hours. Randy “nanonoko” Lew The Team Online pro renowned for his multi-tabling ability and epic rise to $1 million in profit through the microstakes took it to the [...]
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Jaka Crushes Day 2 at PCA Main Event
Right now at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event, there’s Faraz Jaka and then there’s everybody else. The man known as “The-Toilet” online literally destroyed any and all poker players in his vicinity on Day 2 today in the Bahamas to stack up a massive 902,500 in chips when play came to a close. Peaking [...]