PokerStars Sunday tournament result 2-6-11

Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011

While watching the Super Bowl last night and trying to figure out how I took the wrong side of almost every bet (I correctly picked who would take the first timeout), I checked my Twitter feed to see David Aydt's...

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Escobar nails ESPT win in Madrid

Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011

It took all day, all night, and most of the next morning, but the Estrellas Poker Tour has its latest champion. After a marathon session that took the final table players into the morning light, Ricardo Escobar emerged as the...

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Hibernation is ending

Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011

I hibernate in January. It's a close run thing between August and January as to which month involves me doing the least. I don't really trust people who 'hit the ground running' in the New Year - I put them...

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High-rolling Katchalov next up for Isildur1's SuperStar Showdown

Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011

There aren't many people in poker who command the type of respect Eugene Katchalov gets. The man wins WCOOP bracelets. He wins WPT titles. He wins stack of cash on top of stack of cash. It's not even been a...

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WCOOP Profile: A Crib Clown Teen Power

Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009

A crib clown teen power! Think on that for a second. Let it rest on your noodle while we introduce one of WCOOP's newest bracelet winners, Thomas "soterdelf" Osterfeld. It's been just a couple of days since Osterfeld won $174,594...

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WCOOP Profile: Firefighter, todch, smokes competition

Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009

"Now I know I can compete with the sharks," said the man when I asked him what it was like to take down a WCOOP event. It's rare to hear something like that from a winner of a World Championship...

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2009 WCOOP: MyRabbiFoo revealed

Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009

I've been watching PokerStars players for longer than my kids have been alive. At the very same time I started the PokerStars Blog, a player with the screen name MyRabbiFoo started playing on the tables. He almost immediate started winning,...

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2009 WCOOP Event #28

Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009

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2009 WCOOP: df1986 dials up a win in $1,050 NLHE Event #33

Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009

The nightcap of the WCOOP's tournaments today was its most expensive as the $500,000 Event #33 $1,000 + $50 NLHE overshot its guarantee by the size of small town as tonight 1,240 ponied up the entry fee. With the $1,240,000...

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2009 WCOOP: Vicky shouldn't complain

Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009

Among the best writers--if not the best--on Team PokerStars Pro is Ms. Vicky Coren. We're very happy when we get a submission from the lady who wrote the book on poker (or, a book at least, titled For Richer, For...

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2009 WCOOP: ShawnZJones scoops them all in Event #32, $530 Stud Hi/Lo

Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009

Who said stud poker was dead? Not anyone who has been watching the WCOOP action over the last two weeks. Yesterday, 510 players chose to spend their Tuesday checking and raising, scooping and splitting in Event #32, $530 Stud Hi/Lo....

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2009 WCOOP: KRUTHE Krushes final table Event #31 $320 PLO 6-Max (w/Rebuys)

Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009

799 brave souls with little regards for money stepped up to the plate this afternoon to put down their first $300+$20 investment into tonight's WCOOP Event #31. If the Pot Limit Omaha game of the event wasn't enough gamble for...

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Chad Brown hosts and wins

Date: Tue, Sep 15, 2009

Have you ever gone to a party and been so impressed with the host that you just gave him all your money? Well, that's not exactly what happened in America's deep south this week, but it's close. Over the past...

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Weekly Dose: Holy WCOOP!

Date: Tue, Sep 15, 2009

Is it just us or is time flying while we're having fun? We did a little math this morning and, sure enough, by this time next week, the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker will be over, just a happy...

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