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  • Online Poker Weekend: 'Ship Hamilton', 'NFrost_10' Big Winners

    Monday, August 25, 2008, Mickey Doft
    Another big weekend on the online poker circuit saw both the big tournaments just get by their published guarantee numbers. Both the big rooms proved they are psychic when it comes to knowing their user bases, and knowing how to set their g...more

  • ChanPoker Announces Closure

    Wednesday, August 20, 2008, Haley Hintze
    Chan Poker (http://chanpoker.com), the splashly online poker site fronted by 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Johnny Chan, has announced its closure effective August 21st. Chan Poker was most recently a member of the Ongame Net...more

  • FTOPS IX, Event #22, $2,500 NLHE: 'hAAydon' Tops in Three-way Chop

    Monday, August 18, 2008, Mickey Doft
    The tournament with the largest entry fee of FTOPS IX at Full Tilt was the two-day, deep-stacked NLHE Event #22, which attracted 942 players who each put up the $2,500+$120 buy-in. Notable finishers here included Tom "SBRounder" West in 16t...more

  • Online Poker Weekend: 'Gunslinger3' Draw Sunday Million Win

    Monday, August 18, 2008, Mickey Doft
    A great Sunday night for online poker continued with two major events at PokerStars, the weekly Sunday Million and Sunday Warm-Up tourneys. In a rarity, the Warm-Up failed to reach its guarantee and thereby offered a small bonus overlay to ...more

  • FTOPS IX Main Event: 'dubbeemin' Seals Victory

    Monday, August 18, 2008, Mickey Doft
    Full Tilt's FTOPS Main Event saw 4,880 people enter the $500+35 buy-in, $2,500,000 guaranteed finale, all chasing a first-place payday of $432,400. Several notables made it close to the final table, among them Daniel "B_O_K_E" Bokesch in 23...more

  • FTOPS IX, Event #12: Ben 'bmf823' Fineman Captures Short-handed Title

    Tuesday, August 12, 2008, Mickey Doft
    FTOPS IX Event #12 attracted a field of 1,405 players to the $1,000+60 six-max NLHE affair, generating a prize pool of $1,500,000 and a winner's share of $300,000. With so much talent and skill in the field, there were several big names tha...more

  • Online Poker Weekend: Sunday Million Goes to 'ziggy47'

    Monday, August 11, 2008, Mickey Doft
    Daniel "ziggy47" Bokesch pulled off one of the most unlikely final-table, "worst to first" runs in recent online memory to take down the weekend's biggest event by total prize purse, the PokerStars Sunday Million. Elsewhere, the normal Full...more

  • 'GARFIELD25' Captures FTOPS IX Opener

    Thursday, August 7, 2008, Mickey Doft
    The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) IX kicked off Wednesday night with a bang. Event #1, a $200+16 no-limit hold'em event with $1,000,000 guaranteed, drew 5,779 players for a total prize pool of $1,155,800 and a first-place prize of $...more

  • Full Tilt's FTOPS IX Begins

    Wednesday, August 6, 2008, Haley Hintze
    Full Tilt's ninth edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) begins today with the first of 25 events, a $200+16 event hosted by Allen Cunningham which boast a million-dollar purse guarantee. FTOPS IX will run through August 17, ...more

  • Forbes: $24 Million in Bodog Funds Seized - Bodog Responds

    Thursday, July 31, 2008, PokerNews Staff
    According to an article on Forbes.com, $24 Million in funds has been seized by the US government over the past six months, funds the feds claim are in bank accounts used to fund operations and make payments to US-based customers of Bodog. C...more
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