2011 March 08 Poker News, Events and Happenings
On the 10th episode of the Poker News Daily web series “The Showdown with Jon Friedberg,” actress, model, and poker player Christina Lindley joins us to discuss her rapid rise in the game and how she manages to juggle her time successfully. You can show your love for “The Showdown” by signing up for UB.com, which makes its home on the USA-friendly CEREUS Network, using the deposit code UBPND. Sign up now.
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We’ve got Matt Savage’s latest interview, some controversy surrounding the sixth place finisher in the PokerStars Sunday Million, and more in tonight’s Nightly Turbo.
Tom Dwan and Daniel Cates put in two quick session of the “durrrr” Challenge Monday night. Cates booked a win and extended his overall lead in the Challenge.
A look at the online high-stakes cash games that ran over the weekend with Phil Ivey pocketing seven figures over the weekend.
In recent days, the ownership behind the payment processor Neteller officially announced several changes, including the name of the company.
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The winner of a big event in Prague recent was someone who should know poker. Radoslav Průcha is the publisher of a poker magazine and won the Paradise Poker Tour Prague. The poker game in the Czech Capital wrapped this weekend when Prucha beat Luboš Galuška as his final opponent. He won the €30,000 first place prize when the game wrapped at the Card Casino. There were 230 poker players who paid a €550 buy-in for the €125,000 guaranteed prize pool. Third place finisher was Mariusz Chrusciel with Tibor Boros coming in fourth and fifth going to Bernd Wachter
The winner of a big event in Prague recent was someone who should know poker. Radoslav Průcha is the publisher of a poker magazine and won the Paradise Poker Tour Prague. The poker game in the Czech Capital wrapped this weekend when Prucha beat Lubo
The advent of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine has proven to be a success, but it comes with one interesting byproduct: the WSOP feels like it is going on year-round. Now that the poker community has finally decompressed from the end of the world’s largest poker festival last year, it is time to ramp it up again. The USA-friendly online poker room UB.com has already gotten started, awarding not just seats into the 2011 WSOP Main Event, but also cold, hard cash.
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