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PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau Day 1A: Demes and Steicke Lead the Way

Season 3 of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) officially commenced on Tuesday as the Grand Lisboa Casino in Macau opened its doors to the first of three main event flights that will flow through the PokerStars Macau Poker Room this…

PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau Day 1A: Demes and Steicke Lead the Way

Season 3 of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) officially commenced on Tuesday as the Grand Lisboa Casino in Macau opened its doors to the first of three main event flights that will flow through the PokerStars Macau Poker Room this…

The Online Railbird Report: Million Dollar Surge for Tom "durrrr" Dwan

Everyone’s favorite Swedish mystery man “martonas” continued to drive the high-stakes action on Full Tilt Poker this weekend despite a sharp downswing that saw much of the $2.4 million in winnings he booked in the first half of August all but…

Asian Poker Tour Day 2: Choi and Steicke Maintain Iron Grip on Field

Do you remember when you were a teenager and you wanted to beat the crap out of a similarly-aged brother, so you put your hands around his throat and squeezed until he cried out in pain? No?

PokerStars European Poker Tour Kyiv Day 4: Lykov Still In Front For Final Table

A starting field of 296 has been whittled down to just eight at the first ever PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Main Event in Kyiv, Ukraine. After four days of play at the Kyiv Sport Palace, Maxim Lykov of Russia will carry the chip lead to…

Demidenko Leads Way as PokerStars EPT Kyiv Main Event Begins

The first day of the first ever PokerStars.com European Poker Tour event in Kyiv, Ukraine is in the books. A total of 129 players came out for the first of the two scheduled Day 1 flights, 93 of whom survived to return for Thursday’s Day 2

Blotter: New casino opens in Pittsburgh

The new Rivers Casino near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, opened last weekend to fireworks, confetti, music and capacity crowds. The new site offers over three thousand slot machines, most of which were in use within the first hour after the ribbon-cutting ceremony. The new casino also conducted two “test runs” on 5 August and 7 August; casino officials donated the proceeds from those sessions to local charities.

Poker Book Review: Jeff Hwang’s ‘Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha, Volume I’

‘What else could you possibly say about Omaha that you didn’t say in the first book?’ Such was the question Jeff Hwang…

The PokerNews Top 10: Significant WSOP Innovations

After that final, exciting rush of eliminations last Wednesday night, the first seven weeks of the 2009 World Series of Poker came to a dramatic…

Blotter: 2009 Poker Hall of Fame nominees announced

Dedicated GP readers may remember us reporting on the new Poker Hall of Fame nomination process at the end of May. For the first time in the history of the organization everyday players had an opportunity to influence the final list of nominees. Well the results are in, and they’re not surprising.