Lewis was one of a number of winners this week (Photo courtesy of PokerStars Blog/Neil Stoddart)

While a handful of pros decided to stay Stateside this week and take part in the massive poker tournament at the Casino WinStar in Oklahoma, most of the poker world is living it in Europe right now thanks to a [...]

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Jake Cody (Photo courtesy of the PartyPoker Blog)

When the final table of the World Poker Tour Main Event got underway, most eyes were on 21 year-old phenom Kristoffer Thorsson. However, in the end, it was another online poker wunderkind who was the last man standing in the event.
Jake Cody of Britain first rose [...]

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Ho and Michelle hit the road this week

Each week we spend hours scouring over Twitter finding the best 140 character-or-less thoughts from all your favorite poker personalities. Some might be horrifying, some state the obvious, and some make us love Mike Matusow - or hate Mike Matusow. You can follow all the pros on [...]

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If you think back to the beginning of the year, there was a player who vaulted out to an early lead in the BLUFF Online Player of the Year race, but fell out of the top twenty as spring ended and summer began. That player was Chris “Getting Daize” Oliver and if you had [...]

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Kristoffer Thorsson (Photo courtesy of the PartyPoker Blog)

When a satellite qualifier final tables a major event, it is always an exciting endeavor; a Cinderella story in the vein of Chris Moneymaker. The folks over at PartyPoker added a new wrinkle to the satellite story for the World Poker Tour London thanks to a promotion [...]

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Meet your new EPT Champ (Photo courtesy of PokerStars/Neil Stoddart)

When the final table of the PokerStars EPT Vilamoura event began, British players held 73% of the chips in play. It was no wonder then that it was a Brit, Toby Lewis, who came out on top in the tournament, defeating Swede Martin Jacobson heads-up [...]

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Usually Phil Ivey can’t show up anywhere in poker without drawing the attention of the entire room, yet the eight-time WSOP bracelet winner managed to sneak into the top ten of the BLUFF Player of the Year race without many people noticing. What would be a huge year for most people is just par [...]

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It’s the European Poker Tour but when the final table at Vilamoura gets underway on Thursday it’ll be all about the Brits. The top three chip stacks all belong to players with British passports as Toby Lewis leads the way just ahead of Sam Trickett and former soccer superstar Teddy Sheringham.
Lewis has 3,322,000 chips which [...]

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Seidel is the early frontrunner of this year’s HOF nominees

Last year, most everyone in the poker community assumed World Poker Tour host Mike Sexton was going to be the latest addition to the Poker Hall of Fame before the nominees were even announced. This year, the names of the inductees are a little less [...]

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The newly revamped World Series of Poker Circuit has it’s first champion and rather than the home game heroes who have been populating the events the past couple of years a former WSOP bracelet winner walked away with the championship ring. Blair Hinkle, 24, defeated a final table that included WSOP Circuit cashing machine Dwyte [...]

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Mizzi’s 2p2 thread generated over 17,000 views in three days

If you’re a frequent reader of TwoPlusTwo, you might be aware the Sorel Mizzi has had a less than stellar week off the felt, thanks to a potential cheating scandal and his recent admission that he used multiple Full Tilt Poker screennames following his lifetime ban [...]

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Day 3 at the European Poker Tour stop in Vilamoura, Portugal started with Brandon Cantu on top but ended with Sweden’s Martin Jacobson leading as the only player over 1,000,000 in chips and Cantu looking on from the rail.
Jacobson broke the seven digit barrier thanks to a huge pot against double World Series of Poker [...]

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Dwan’s second Challenge is not going as smoothly as his first

After a weekend of rest, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Daniel “jungleman12” Cates resumed durrrr Challenge play on Monday, logging 958 more hands, bringing the total number of hands played to 6,820.
Once again, it was Cates who came out on top, booking $172,954 in profit, bringing [...]

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Just 14 players away from the money bubble the European Poker Tour stop in Vilamoura wrapped Day 2 with Brandon Cantu sitting pretty atop the leaderboard. Cantu bagged up 557,400 chips as the only player to crest the half-million chip mark.
The day started with 224 players all chasing the €467,835 ($592,000 US) first place prize [...]

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Online poker grinders, you have a few days to catch your breath. FTOPS XVII is long gone, WCOOP is still a few days away, but many online players are still recovering from the stretch of UBOC 5 events, which wrapped up on Sunday.
The fifth installment of the UB Poker series generated over $4 million [...]

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