One of the youngest and most influential poker players nowadays is Norwegian Annette Obrestad. Her major achievement is winning the first WSOP Europe which made her the youngest player ever to win a WSOP bracelet as she was just 18 at the time.
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Whether you treat online poker as a hobby or as a part of your work, Pokerjunkie.com can be a very helpful tool in your poker-related endeavors. The site’s expressed goal is to help online poker players all around the world by building a helpful database that comprises various resources for a poker student who wants to learn and master the game of poker. If you want to learn more about poker strategy, poker theory and poker math, then Pokerjunkie.com is definitely the place you have been looking for.
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PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site, has managed to deal 10 billion hands in less than one year. Last September, the online poker site dealt its 50 billionth hand. All players at the table dealt into the 50 billionth hand moved all-in as they were trying to maximize their wins and capitalize on the extra cash up for grabs offered by PokerStars. A German player nicknamed “tbvle” ended up winning the hand down with pocket queens and collected no less than $56,000. He also received a $5,200 ticket into the World Championship of Online Poker Main Event, which ran several days later.
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Sunday 1/4 Million has always been one of the best tournaments on PokerStars for the players with smaller bankrolls as it has a low buy-in of just $11. But there was something about its name that didn’t seem quite appropriate. It was something like naming your first born son “Achiles” and naming your second child “Not Quite as Strong as Achiles”. In other words, the name of the event didn’t sound as illustrious as the other Sunday majors so PokerStars decided to do something about it and change its name.
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PokerStars launched the SuperStar Showdown challenge earlier this year after they unmasked online sensation cash player Isilsur1 as Swede Viktor Blom.
Rumors about a PokerStars SuperStar Showdown date between Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom and Daniel Negreanu have been spread for some time on the internet.
Proposition bets are very tempting for regular gamblers who like big returns on their money.
A month ago, famous Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen apparently hit rock bottom and checked himself into treatment in order to get clean from the drugs and alcohol addiction. Sports books offered gamblers proposition bets on how long he can stay clean.
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It was last year around this time that PokerStars set a world record and made history when the best known poker site organized a special edition of the weekly Sunday Million tournament to celebrate 40 billion hands dealt on the site.
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The casino was a VIP establishment where only people recommended by regular clients were allowed in and a purchase of at least $5000 worth of chips was required. The casino had tables for card games, roulette and one-arm bandits.
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Taxi driver Loo Siew Wan, 53, is accused of five offences of attempted cheating, cheating by personation, theft and giving false information to the police.
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