Day 3 at EPT Vilamoura is in the books and the rich continued to get richer as Antony Lellouche and Jeff Sarwer steamrolled the field for a third straight day.
After two days of letting Sarwer enjoy the top spot, today was Lellouche’s turn to assume the role of chip leader. The French pro, whose resume [...]

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Two days of poker are in the books at EPT Vilamoura in Portugal, and former child chess prodigy Jeff Sarwer of Canada leads the way with only 69 players still in contention for the top prize of €404,793.
Sarwer, who also held the chip lead at the end of Day 1B, made the most out of [...]

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Full Tilt Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge continues
Tom “durrrr” Dwan completed the second leg of his [...]

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Today was the second starting flight at Casino Vilamoura in Portugal, where the European Poker Tour’s latest main event is taking place. Yesterday’s field of 136 and the 186 players at the tables on Day 1B combined for a total field of 322, building the prize pool to €1,561,700. A total of 48 players will [...]

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Welcome to the BLUFF Daily Buzz, where we scour the entire internet for all the latest news in and around the world of poker. If it involves chips and cards, or people known to associate with chips and cards, we’re there.
Dwan drops first Live Challenge match
The Full Tilt Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge is officially underway, [...]

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Poker programming on mainstream television has always been a two-hour final table broadcast, cash game action or more recently a game show mash-up. However Wednesday night marks a new direction for poker on TV with the debut of Poker2Nite on Fox Sports Net.
Hosted by Joe Sebok and Scott Huff, the 30 minute show will cover [...]

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Online poker players have used the moniker “UB” for over ten years and now UltimateBet will simply be known as UB Poker an will be found at a new domain name, www.UB.com.
The move from the old company name to UB.com comes complete with some software updates and a much improved tournament schedule. Company executives are [...]

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A total of 136 players showed up today for the first of two starting flights of the European Poker Tour main event in the Portuguese seaside resort region of Vilamoura, the newest addition to the the EPT’s Season 6 schedule.
The overnight chip leader is Austria’s Ljubomir Josipovic, who closed out the day with a stack [...]

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Welcome to the BLUFF Daily Buzz, where we scour the entire internet for all the latest news in and around the world of poker. If it involves chips and cards, or people known to associate with chips and cards, we’re there.
New poker game show features familiar faces
Poker game shows are apparently the biggest trend at [...]

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Last night the ongoing saga of “Isildur1″ continued, but ended a little differently than the other chapters we’ve documented so far.  Not only was the mystery Swede on the losing end of a monster session against Patrik Antonius, he also dropped the biggest pot in the history of online poker, worth almost $900,000.
That monster hand [...]

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Seven days ago Joe Cada sat across from Darvin Moon in pursuit of a world championship at the WSOP Main Event. Monday night he sat ringside at Madison Square Garden for World Wrestling Entertainment’s Monday Night Raw along with his agent Dan Frank and fellow Team PokerStars member Dennis Phillips for a Main Event of a different [...]

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Welcome to the BLUFF Daily Buzz, where we scour the entire internet for all the latest news in and around the world of poker. If it involves chips and cards, or people known to associate with chips and cards, we’re there.
Dude looks like a lady redux
Once again, a man has won a ladies tournament. No, [...]

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While Full Tilt Poker was busy serving up its trifecta of FTOPS events on Sunday, the other sites did not just roll over and let them run the busiest online poker day of the week. Rather, quite the opposite happened and PokerStars hosted their “Landmark” Sunday Million tournament, commemorating more than $250 million in Sunday [...]

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Team Bluff is in full swing at Carbon poker.  Last week, the winner of the Team Bluff October leaderboard, ‘89yotastacked’ defeated 2008 Bluff online poker player of the year David ‘The Maven’ Chicotski.  The match was hard fought, but ultimately came down to an all in preflop hand with ‘The Maven’ holding AQ, and ‘Yota’ [...]

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The FTOPS XIV Main Event promised participants it would have at least $2.5 million in prize and it more than delivered on that guarantee, with $2,735,500 up for grabs and the promise of six figure payouts for the top five finishers in the massive event. It certainly helped that the FTOPS XIV Main Event was [...]

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