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Category: Online Poker News
Party Poker Signs Sports Star Totti, Sponsors Major Sporting EventsIn yet another example of the crossing over between the world of poker and the world of sports, Party Poker has just signed another sports star to its professional player roster. Francisco Totti, Italian football player (that’s soccer to us Americans), captain of AS Roma and World Cup champion. Totti will be representing ... 
Players Only & Sportsbook Poker Move To MergeSites on the Merge Gaming Network include Carbon Poker, Aced Poker, and Poker Nordica, Iron Duke, and Reefer Poker. And now there are two other names in online poker, gaming, and sportsbetting joining the network – and they’re particularly big and familiar ones at that. Players Only (PlayersOnly.com) and Sportsb... 
Online Poker World Turns Out For Haiti Earthquake VictimsThe whole world has been rallying together to help Haiti in its time of need, at that includes the online poker world. Haiti was recently struck by a 7.0 earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of people there and deccimated the land. Throughout the past couple of weeks, several online poker rooms have been holding cha... 
Player Wins Poker Stars Sunday Million TwiceThe winner of last weekend’s PokerStars Sunday Million, Juan Maceiras Barros, is not your ordinary PokerStars Sunday Million champ. Because this is the second time that Juan Antonio Maceiras Barros has won the event. Barros, who goes by the username vietcong01 online, won $255,954 for this weekend’s win. Which means the... 
Introducing New Rush Poker Tables At Full Tilt PokerThere’s a new kind of poker in the online poker world, and it comes courtesy of Full Tilt Poker. It’s called Rush Poker and already an average of 420 – 1,550 Full Tilt players are getting the rush from it. See, online poker players like to keep things moving. Everyone’s looking for action, and no one... 
Doyle’s Room Goes To EuropeYesterday, Wednesday, January 13, Doyle’s Room Poker, the official online poker room of The Texas Dolly and Godfather of Poker himself, Doyle Brunson, and currently standing as the 4th biggest poker site in the United States, announced that they will be making a major expansion into the European online poker market, t... 
2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Results: 19-Year-Old Gimbel WinsOne of the first live poker tournaments of the year also happens to be one of the biggest, and that’s PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, held every January at the high class Atlantis Resort in the luxurious Bahamas. This year’s event started off strong on January 4 with some exciting early events, but of course all... 
Poker Pro Amir Vahedi DiesPoker lost a champion the other day – a real champ – when Amir Vahedi, poker pro and World Series of Poker bracelet winner, succumbe to complications from diabetes, confirmed his Iranian friends, and died on January 8, 2010. He was 46. The news was released by a close friend of Vahedi’s and another accompl... 
9/11 Cop Beats Negreanu on TV For Million Dollar PrizeSomeone has beaten Daniel Negreanu to win the $1 million grand prize in the Poker Stars Million Dollar Challenge. His name is Mike Kosowski, and he is a retired police officer from New York who was there during the 9/11 attacks. In fact, it was during those attacks that he was injured and forced to retire. And it was during... 
Berlin Newest City Added to PokerStars EPT ScheduleFor the last 3 years running, the European Poker Tour, Europe’s largest poker tournament event, hosted each year by Poker Stars, held its Germany event in Dortmund. But not this coming year. For the first time in the history of the PokerStars European Poker Tour, the EPT Germany event is set to take place in the count... |
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