News Archive – Page №30
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GPL 3 Stars Week 4: All Hail Filatov, Best Heads-Up Match Ever April 29, 2016
The Moscow Wolverines emerged as a contender and Tom Marchese and Olivier Busquet played one of the best heads-up matches ever streamed on Twitch during Week 4 of the Global…
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888poker Reboots Super XL Series in May with $3m Guaranteed! April 21, 2016
888poker’s biggest tournament series is back next month and the guarantees are higher than ever. After a very successful $2m-guaranteed series in January of this year 888poker will bring back…
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888poker Joins Forces with Swedish Online Poker Championships April 19, 2016
888poker has signed a two-year deal to be the exclusive online poker room partner of the Swedish Online Poker Championships. The site has been expanding exponentially in the last few…
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5 Reasons the Global Poker League Will Succeed Wildly (& 5 It Won’t) April 18, 2016
The Global Poker League (GPL) is a fortnight old and already it’s changed the poker landscape. The view isn’t more beautiful. It’s nothing like that. However, when I look at…
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888poker Expands Again w/ King’s Casino Deal, New Tourney Events April 15, 2016
The second largest online poker room has announced a new partnership with the largest and most successful brick-and-mortar casino in Europe. 888poker and the King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, will…
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Win a $1,700 888Live Costa Brava Trip in Exclusive PL Giveaway! April 13, 2016
Skiing in Austria; golfing in Marbella; wine-tasting in Tallinn. Every year 888poker spices up its 888Live events with a day of additional “off the felt” activities for its online qualifiers.…
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$888 8-Handed Crazy Eights Tourney One to Watch at 2016 WSOP April 12, 2016
The $565 Colossus shattered records at the 2015 World Series of Poker and opened a few eyes about the potential of low buy-in bracelet events. It’s back on the schedule…
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Sao Paulo, Bilbao, Montreal Highlight Big 888Live Local Schedule April 7, 2016
England. Spain. Estonia. Brazil. Canada. They’re all on the schedule for the 2016 888Live Local series as the “every player” low buy-in series is back, bigger and better after a…
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Game Developer Dan Higgins: Pixar + Rounders = Lords of New York March 18, 2016
If you’ve seen the movie Rounders then you get the inspiration for the upcoming Lords of New York, a spectacular-looking poker RPG from Lunchtime Studios.
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William Kassouf Makes His Case for Global Poker League Wildcard March 17, 2016
You remember William Kassouf, right? The guy who drove Vanessa Selbst close to insanity at EPT London just by talking to her? The guy with multiple bad accents who lit…
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888poker Pro Nitsche Locked In for $300k Super High Roller Bowl March 17, 2016
Three months before it’s set to begin, the $300,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl at the Aria is already sold out. All 49 seats have officially been snapped up and…
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Look East, to the Future: Poker Footprint Grows in Central Asia March 16, 2016
While the poker world waits for another boom in places like China or India, it seems there are already big possibilities opening up in the nearer East. The recently completed…
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Cates on durrrr Challenge: “I Guess It’ll Continue at Some Point” March 10, 2016
Is it really still possible the perpetually-on-hiatus $1.5m durrrr Challenge will be completed? Is there really such a thing as a “GTO dream machine” that some of the top high-stakes…
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Kara Scott on 888: “This’ll Be a Way for Me to Get Back Into the Game” March 9, 2016
If you like to watch poker on TV, you know who Kara Scott is. She’s been the host of seemingly every major poker show in the Northern hemisphere, not the…
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Eastgate: “I Was an Addict, a Degenerate Gambler, But I Got Fed Up” March 8, 2016
It’s been a while since Peter Eastgate has been seen anywhere at a poker event. In fact his last live poker cash dates back to the infamous ISPT event at…
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888Live Local Aspers Balloons to £100k Prize Pool; Kara Scott 3rd March 7, 2016
888poker has a lot to celebrate these days. The 888poker Live Local series came back to the Aspers Casino on London this past weekend and for the first time, it…
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Danny Mills: Everybody Knows Ex-Sportsmen Like a Bit of a Gamble March 4, 2016
The 888poker Live Local Series is taking over Aspers Casino in London again this weekend – a place where they gathered the largest crowd of last season. Team pros Sofia…
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Half-Fingers & Emma Samms: Unibet UK Poker Tour Brighton Trip Report March 2, 2016
The new low buy-in Unibet UK Poker Tour will hit five stops in 2016 with full, week-long poker festivals capped by £220 buy-in, £40,000 guaranteed Main Events. The tour kicked…
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Barry Greenstein on Trump: “He’s Really More the American Kim Jong-un” March 1, 2016
Barry Greenstein, known as the ‘Robin Hood of Poker’ because he gave all of his tournament winnings to charity, was one of the most popular and visible players during the…
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Kevin MacPhee on GPL: “It Seems Like There’s a Very High Ceiling” February 29, 2016
Bahamas, Los Angeles, Australia, New Zealand, Dublin, Tallinn. Back to LA. Poker pro Kevin MacPhee has been on the poker circuit for the past eight years and done his fair…