Dolan won big in Biloxi This year the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Mississippi may not have had the strength of the World Poker Tour to bolster attendance, but the Southern stop fared just fine and produced a number of big name winners.  We’ve got the results from the biggest events of the Beau’s Million Dollar [...]

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After Day 4 at the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event only 12 players remain in contention for the title and the $1,600,000 first place prize but poker fans hoping for good news about Phil Ivey might be disappointed. The man with the biggest chip stack is Canadian poker pro Yann Dion. Known as “Yadio” online, Dion [...]

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American online poker pros sad they are missing out on major series like the WCOOP, SCOOP, and the current TCOOP on PokerStars need not feel so left out anymore.  Merge Network, which is still open to US players, unveiled plans for a new online tournament series, Poker Maximus, which will run across the Merge sites [...]

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Duhamel is sitting on top of both the POY and Power Rankings Every time a major event comes and goes, the BLUFF Power Rankings see a major shift.  First of all, the big winners from last year plummet down the ranks, as their scores go from full to half point value.  While these names drop, [...]

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Just before the final hand of the night at the Aussie Millions Main Event there were five or six players who could all be chip leader at night’s end. Those players were all hovering between 1,100,00 and 1,350,000 and it was all going to come down to who picked up a few extra chips on [...]

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The WPT Season X Team (Photo courtesy of the WPT Blog) The television debut of the tenth season of the World Poker Tour is just a couple of weeks away. Wednesday the organization announced a premiere date of February 12th. The show will be returning to its usual spot on FSN Sundays at 8pm and [...]

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On Wednesday Tim O’Shea had a day to remember but very few people are talking about his climb to the top of the Aussie Millions Main Event chip counts. It seems almost everybody is preoccupied with the guy in second place. Phil Ivey. O’Shea finished with 921,000 and finds himself well in front of the [...]

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The third and final starting day of the Aussie Millions Main Event brought another 317 players to the felt and pushed the total field to 657. Robert Lam bagged up the biggest chip stack at day’s end but the real story is the player who bagged up 14,400 fewer chips: Phil Ivey. Lam finished with [...]

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The World Series of Poker Circuit once again drew a big crowd, this time at the Choctaw Casino in Durant, Oklahoma.  While it may not be a very big city, the Midwestern stop generated the second biggest field of the season with 978 runners in the $1,600 buy-in event. Abraham Araya, an East African immigrant [...]

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Duhamel is up over $1.2 million this year Eugene Katchalov has made his 2011 BLUFF Player of the Year victory lap.  Now the 2012 race is underway and, thanks to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, we have a new crop of frontrunners. While the winner of the PCA Main Event is usually the first player to [...]

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The second of three starting days in the Aussie Millions Main Event is in the books and WSOP bracelet winner James Dempsey sits on top of the leaderboard. Dempsey, who also has a World Poker Tour title to his credit, finished the day with 189,000. Right behind Dempsey is Ilir Beluli with 182,700. Both players still [...]

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For almost four hours on Tuesday Dan Smith and Mikhail Smirnov went back and forth in hopes of winning the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge. In the end however it was Smith who outlasted the Russian poker pro to claim the title and the $1,012,000 first place prize. Smirnov walked away with $616,000 for his runner-up performance. [...]

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The 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event kicked off Sunday in Melbourne and things could not have gone better for Brett Watson. The Australian bagged up 257,400 chips at the end of the night and finds himself more than 80,000 clear of his closest competitor. The closest players to Watson are Paul Sing and Benjamin Jenkins, who [...]

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If you believe the tales coming out of the Macau cash games Gus Hansen is on quite the heater. Now he’s taking a page of the Sam Trickett playbook by taking that success into the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge where he holds the final table chip lead. Hansen took his chip stack on a roller [...]

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Boeree is one of this year’s Readers Choice Winners The New Year is in full swing, and the poker world is running on all cylinders with events running in Australia, New Jersey, LA, and Biloxi.  In addition to a nonstop glut of tournaments, this week has also been full of big announcements, some good some [...]

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