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Luca Pagano: It’s Time to Bring Entertainment, Fun Back Into Poker August 23, 2014

Most career EPT Main Event cashes (20). Most career EPT Top 10 finishes (7). Maybe most notably: #1 on the all-time EPT Leaderboard with 5,550 points – almost 1,000 clear…
Denoking Trips Up Isaac Haxton in Massive High-Stakes Pot August 22, 2014

The return of Gus Hansen, Alex Kostritsyn and Isaac Haxton made for some fascinating battles in the high-stakes games on Full Tilt Poker this week. While each player had some…
Negreanu: “You Can’t Be For and Against the Game at the Same Time” August 21, 2014

Say nothing. Do nothing. Be nothing. That’s just not how Daniel Negreanu rolls. As we’ve learned over the past decade following him from one side of the globe to the…
Daily 3-Bet: Colman Backs Palestine, Timex Profits, Poker v Kickball August 20, 2014

The PokerListings Daily 3-Bet is a pair of light-up shoes, a rubber utility ball and 20 mins of off-the-hook, heart-pounding afternoon poker news four-square. Have something you want to see…
Thomas Kremser: “I Don’t Regret Much and I Was Lucky to Be There” August 14, 2014

For seven years and 70 events, Thomas Kremser served as tournament director for the European Poker Tour. There from the very beginning, Kremser played an essential role in building founder…
Why Dutch Boyd’s Poker Tilt is Next Must-Make Poker Movie August 12, 2014

There has never been a better poker movie than Rounders. Actually, that sentence is not entirely accurate. Let’s try again. There has only ever been one good poker movie and…
High-Stakes Report: Cates Joins $10m Club, Hansen Sinks Deeper August 11, 2014

Instead of another long, lazy week of summer what we got last week was the most action-packed run of the high-stakes online poker year so far. Every day hundreds of…
Rant: Let’s Get Real About Online Poker Hearts and Minds August 11, 2014

Do recreational poker players think their money is safe when they play online poker? I don’t think that a lot of them do. During a recent card game in a…
Franҫois-Xavier Thiébaud: “Poker is a Present for Any Photographer” August 11, 2014

In 2013, French photographer Franҫois-Xavier Thiébaud published a book of poker images taken over a period of three years at the European Poker Tour stop in Berlin. His photography from…
Gus Hansen Loses $280k Monster Pot to Viktor Blom August 8, 2014

It’s been an exciting week at the high stakes tables as Chinese player samrostan and Gus Hansen made sure there were a lot of huge pots. Coming back from the…
EPT By the Numbers: Luca Pagano, Brits Dominate Stats August 6, 2014

Who made the most final tables, who won the biggest prize and why could the search for a double-title winner have been over in a matter of weeks instead of…
Beijing Millions Shatters Records, Tasmanians Love Poker August 5, 2014

A record-setting tournament in Beijing and a surprisingly busy event in Tasmania highlighted another week of tournament poker. We’ll take a close look at both events below as well as…
Trueteller Reigns Supreme in High-Stakes Games on FTP August 4, 2014

It was a run that you don’t see very often. Unidentified German player “Trueteller” dominated four straight days of action on Full Tilt Poker. It didn’t only make him the…
Rant: Why Isn’t Chris Moorman Sponsored? August 3, 2014

Why is Chris Moorman not covered from head to toe with patches when he plays a live poker tournament? Seriously. Is there another sport or game in the world where…
Amaya Shareholders Approve PokerStars Deal; What Happens Next? July 31, 2014

On July 30 at the annual Amaya shareholders meeting, all resolutions concerning the purchase of the Rational Group, parent company of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, were given the official…
Brad Booth Reflects on Iconic $1m Bluff Against Phil Ivey (Video) July 30, 2014

In Season 3 of the televised cash-game High Stakes Poker on GSN, Brad Booth pulled off one of the most iconic bluffs in TV poker history. Now, six years later,…
10 Highly Memorable EPT Champions from the past July 30, 2014

The 100th European Poker Tour Main Event is coming up soon in Barcelona — the very same city where the first EPT event took place back in 2004. Over the…
WSOP Rant: Abusing Chip-Count App Borders on Pure Evil July 14, 2014

When Johannes Strassmann first went missing in Slovenia, some heartless idiot thought it would be funny to enter him into a side event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP)…
Phil Hellmuth: “I Got Cocky and Tried to Bluff the Billionaires” July 13, 2014

Phil Hellmuth plays in private games in the Bay Area with billionaire tech moguls but according to the Poker Brat it’s anything but easy pickings. “The guys I play poker…
Scott Palmer Made Millions from Online Poker Living at Parents’ House July 12, 2014

A few years ago Scott Palmer was living with his parents and making millions of dollars playing high-stakes online poker. His parents had no idea. “One Christmas my dad kept…

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