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Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen and Tom 'durrrr' Dwan dominated the Full Tilt High Stakes in October. Together, they already combined winnings of over $4M according to Highstakesdb.
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Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen and Tom 'durrrr' Dwan dominated the Full Tilt High Stakes in October. Together, they already combined winnings of over $4M according to Highstakesdb.

The 23-year old online poker pro Andy Teng took down 226 players and claimed the 8th leg of the Grosvenor U.K. Poker Tour trophy, winning almost £70,000.

Yesterday, five PokerStrategists hit the road to Dublin for the Irish Winter Festival. Besides fun and sight-seeing, poker is of course on the schedule as well.

For some time past, a new generation of SnG's can be found at Full Tilt Poker – the Matrix tournaments. Every participants plays in 4 SnG's simultaneously which will be rated as a single tourney.

Day 3 of the Bellagio World Poker Tour ended, with 34 players remaining and chip leader Daniel Negreanu being eliminated.

The US American swimming star Michael Phelps is currently playing poker at the Caesars Palace Classics – and quite successfully too. In the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Event, he reached the final table.

Recently, PartyGaming licensed a bundle of casino games by CryptoLogic Limited. According to the Financial Times, both companies now also discuss a fusion of the poker platforms.

The PartyPoker Premier League season III will start on November 24th, with Juha Helppi and J.C. Tran joining in already.

Day 2 of the World Poker Tour is finished, with Daniel Negreanu taking the leader position away from Antonio Esfandiari.

Following the Kentucky controversy regarding the online casinos' web domains, officials from iMEGA, PPA and the ICA have spoken.

The World Heads-up Poker Championship (WHUPC) in Barcelona is currently struggling with a massive depletion of participants. The cap was already reduced to 64 players.

The Poker Players Alliance just created a guide designed to rate the US politicians' approach to poker.

Poker Royalty recently announced that is has just launched its London office in order to manage its Europe-based clients.

Ylon Schwartz' eBay auction was not really a success. At least not as successfully as the poker pro had imagined. Instead of $100,000 to $300,000, there was only one bid for the minimum amount of $37,500.

Recently, PokerStars banned the Canadian Sorel 'Imper1um' Mizzi for three months from every game. The reason: a friend of Mizzi temporarily played the $300 PLO Event of the WCOOP for the young online pro.

Three PokerStrategy veterans dominated the big weekend tournaments on PokerStars. PokerNoob won the Sunday 500k. Crackpfeife finished second in the Sunday Million, and our own TribunCaesar was the runner-up in the Sunday Warm-up. Altogether, they made about $240,000 in prize money.

Google will start advertising for online casinos again in the United Kingdom on its own advertising platform Adwords, shortly after Yahoo and MSN made the same decision.

A more than dubious sentence took place a few days ago in Kentucky. According to it, the US state is allowed to seize over 140 .com domains from online casinos which offer their services in Kentucky.

On November 5th, the already tenth edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) kicks off. 25 tournaments and more than $15M in guaranteed prize money are waiting for the players.

The 67-year old Canadian Glen Witmer defeated the pros at the final table of the North American Poker Championship in Ontario, and secured his first WPT title.