Archive for 2010-02-22
February 22, 2010
As poker players, reporters, and fans descended upon Copenhagen, Denmark for the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour event to begin on February 16, they settled in and near the Casino Copenhagen for another of the Season 6 stops on the tour. But on the night before play was set to begin, PokerStars hosted a night of honors with the Nordic Poker Awards at a local nightclub.The Nordic Poker Awards looked at the top players from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland and allowed voting to take place in several categories to determine each winner.
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February 22, 2010
UB Poker provides double the rewards for your play a total of six times a day during the UB Power Hour. Each Power Hour time segment offers players the chance to earn double the Ultimate Points whether you prefer the table action at ring games or the competition of tournament play.The program offers a window of prime points opportunity for late night poker players, as well as for those who prefer a little afternoon delight.
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February 22, 2010
The first week of High Stakes Poker turned into the Phil Ivey show, with the largely acknowledged “best player in the world” turning a profit of more than $300,000. With this week’s game starting with just seven players, after last week’s felting of Phil Hellmuth, viewers were looking forward to another week of intense action. Let’s see how it unfolded.Ivey picked up right where he left off last week. After Tom Dwan limped in with Q[s]-10[s], Ivey completed in the small blind with K-2 and Andreas Hoivold checked his option with 3[h]-2[h].
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February 22, 2010
All of the major online poker websites have their major Sunday tournaments, but sometimes one has events so major that they simply outshine the other sites. While Full Tilt took a prominent spot on the calendar on February 21 with the last events of the FTOPS series, including the $2.5 million guarantee Main Event, it was PokerStars who came through with the monster of them all. It was the site’s celebration of its 40 billionth hand and the festivities that caught the attention of poker players the world over.
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