2009 WCOOP: MyRabbiFoo Wins Marathon Event 24 ($530 NLHE Heads-Up)

Date: Sun, Sep 13, 2009

Heads-up poker is considered by many to be the rawest and purest form of poker. The pitting of two players against each other leaves no room for folding around or sitting out a few hands. Every hand matters, every chip...

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WCOOP Profile: Brothers match bracelet for bracelet

Date: Sun, Sep 13, 2009

It's been just a little more than a year since a man named Max Greenwood bought into the $1,000 no-limit hold'em rebuy event at the WSOP and took it down for nearly $700,000. He walked away with a gold bracelet...

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2009 WCOOP Event 21

Date: Sun, Sep 13, 2009

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2009 WCOOP Event #19

Date: Sat, Sep 12, 2009

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WCOOP Profile: iCeVeNoM foils pesky ape

Date: Sat, Sep 12, 2009

For some people, there is a great white whale in poker's waters. They spend their day playing Ahab around a virtual felt sea and never capture their prey. Such it is for the player known as iCeVeNoM. The 23-year-old UCLA...

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2009 WCOOP: Sleep is the winning formula for Science in Event #22, $530 Omaha Hi/Lo

Date: Sat, Sep 12, 2009

We've all done it. Shut our eyes between hands, grabbed a few winks on a break, nodded off during hand-for-hand play. Heck, some of us have even fallen asleep in front of a screen full of blinking sit-n-goes, only to...

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2009 WCOOP: Soterdelf Takes Event 21 Title to Germany for $215+R NLHE Victory

Date: Sat, Sep 12, 2009

Rebuy tournaments have been player favorites for years, as they allow for a more aggressive style of play and the opportunity for second (and third) chances if the plan fails. Though rebuys sometimes receive a bit of scrutiny, as some...

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2009 WCOOP: Straight to the top for Str8$$$Homey in Event #23, $320 NLHE (10-min. levels)

Date: Sat, Sep 12, 2009

The last WCOOP event of the day, a $320 buy-in no-limit hold'em event (with 10-minute levels), attracted a total of 2,676 entrants, creating a prize pool of $802,000 -- well over the tourney's $300,000 guarantee. The top 396 finishers got...

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WCOOP Profile: lebordelaii nurses win, knee

Date: Fri, Sep 11, 2009

Normally on a nice weekend, the PokerStars player known as lebordelaii could be found on the pitch. At just 21-years-old he still has a lot of that youthful energy that poker players lose after too much time at the tables....

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2009 WCOOP: Timmy K topples the field in Event #20, $320 2-7 triple draw

Date: Fri, Sep 11, 2009

Today's WCOOP schedule amounted to nothing less than an action junkie's paradise. Event #19, a 6-max Pot-Limit Omaha rebuy started off the day, followed by Event #20, a $320 2-7 Triple Draw tournament that shot past its $100,000 guarantee....

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2009 WCOOP: Team PokerStars Pro George Danzer Takes Event 19 Title ($320+R PLO)

Date: Fri, Sep 11, 2009

Pot-limit Omaha is all the rage with the kids these days. Truthfully, it has been gaining popularity with poker players of all ages for years. While PLO is similar to hold'em - enough so that the concept is relatively easy...

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PokerStars hosts Kent Senter benefit

Date: Thu, Sep 10, 2009

If you have reached adulthood and your life takes a unimaginable, terminal turn, it's rare to find yourself in a position where one of your lifelong dreams comes true. For Kent Senter, it happened. You might have heard about Senter,...

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WCOOP Profile: Zen for the win

Date: Thu, Sep 10, 2009

It almost seems rude to profile somebody who has been around PokerStars almost as long as it has been around. It seems a tad gauche to "introduce" you to someone who has a really hard time counting the number of...

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2009 WCOOP Event #16

Date: Thu, Sep 10, 2009

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