Las Vegas, NV (May 7, 2012) – The Women in Poker Hall of Fame (WiPHoF) board announced open nominations this morning for the 2012 inductions. The WiPHoF dinner and ceremony is taking place August 31st,2012 at 6PM at the Golden Nugget Casino Grand Ballroom in Las Vegas. It is the “kick off” event for the [...]

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May 7, 2012 Lock Poker to Leave Merge for CakeWell-informed rumours of Lock Poker leaving the Merge Network and taking control of the Cake Poker Network were confirmed late last night by Shane Bridges – the Senior Affiliate Manager at Lock Poker – who went online last night to state “I can confirm this, we [...]

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May 6th, 2012 Limit Hold’em Challenge: Negreanu Loses To RUaBot This week, PokerStars announced the start of a new competition series called ‘The Limit Hold’em Challenge,’ in which selected pros would play each other for high stakes in the once popular poker variant. The first challenge then presented a fascinating contest between a young German [...]

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May 5, 2012 At a final table that included three players still in the running for the World Poker Tour (WPT) Player of the Year crown, not to mention the host of the WPT segment “Raw Deal”, it was a little-known player from Ohio who would walk away with the WPT Bestbet Jacksonville trophy and [...]

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May 4, 2012 UK poker player Barry Denson is looking to beat Phil “The Unabomber” Laak’s record for the longest poker session by a single player. Laak holds the current record at 115 hours (nearly 5 days), which is pretty sick.

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May 3, 2012 Poker pro Daniel Negreanu has been beaten by Igor Kurganov of Russia at the 2012 EPT Grand Final €25,000 High Roller. As such, Negreanu lost out on a cool €1,080,000. Now he moves forward to take on Internet poker player with the handle “rUaBOT”, a well-known limit hold’em specialist.

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May 2, 2012 LAS VEGAS, Nev. With poker’s popularity exploding across the Asia-Pacific, the World Series of Poker (WSOP), in partnership with Australia’s Crown Melbourne, have reached a multi-year agreement to bring the major poker tournament series to the region commencing in April 2013.

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May 1, 2012 In a letter presented to the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) last week, Antigua accused the US Government of failing to “observe its international obligations in good faith and with due consideration for the rights of Antigua & Barbuda” as it relates to the island nation’s online gambling industry.

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April 30, 2012 After spending the last week in hospice care after a long battle with cancer and heart disease, Thomas Austin Preston Jr., known as “Amarillo Slim” to just about everyone, passed away on Sunday at the age of 83. Slim’s family issued the following statement to www.wsop.com: “We hope everyone will remember our [...]

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April 29, 2012 Poker legend Amarillo Slim, whose real name was Thomas Austin Preston, Jr., passed away early Sunday morning (April 23, 2012) at the age of 83. Gambling911.com had been reporting on Preston’s declining health over the past two weeks. Preston’s daughter confirmed the poker legend’s death with noted poker historian, Nolan Dalla. The [...]

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