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Students attending Carnegie Mellon, the prominent research university located just a few miles out of downtown, have faced their fair share of ups and downs when it comes to poker. On the upside has been the impressive list of growing poker options around the city for students, while on the downside, Pittsburgh’s normal winter weather has waged war on those not brave enough to dare attempt a drive to the local tables.
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Titan Poker looks forward to a huge few months ahead as they launch massive tournaments that reward players with fantastic prizes! Beginning this Sunday March 2 at 20:00 GMT, Titan Poker will host one of the biggest online events with a guaranteed $2 Million prize pool. Players can either buy-in to the Main Event for $1,500 + $80 or win a seat through their sit-n-gos and Multi-Table Satellites. These run daily and start off for as little as $3 + $0.30. Don’t miss out – there are satellites running as we speak!
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Only two more months to the year’s first PokerNews Cup and we have already awarded over 70 players with fantastic packages to this awesome event for free! As a €1,500 PokerNews Cup Austria Package winner, you will receive buy-in to the €650 Main Event (April 23-27) and €850 cash for travel and accommodation. You also receive exclusive merchandise, full Team PokerNews Membership and a special invite to the Team PokerNews Welcome Party.
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Who is Dianna Donofrio? I asked this question a few years ago when I kept hearing her name. Then, when I was finally introduced to her, I recognized her as one of the many staff that runs around the World Series of Poker, frantically doing their jobs and making the event as successful as possible.

I first met Dianna at a large party held during the 2006 WSOP. As I sat down at the bar to relax and have a drink, this excited and friendly lady introduced herself to me. It was Dianna. As she explained to me that she was looking for another person to work the payout table at the WSOP, it dawned on me that I had a girlfriend who fit her needs. I made a call, my friend flew to Vegas, and Dianna and
I became quick friends.
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Three masked men fired shots and then burst into the back door of a San Antonio Texas home where a poker game was being held. In the course of robbing the game of approximately $3000 and the players’ wallets, a player was shot twice in the chest. San Antonio television station KSAT reported that the game was “high stakes,” but also reported that the game was a $300 buy-in.

Charles Lineberry, 49, was taken to University Hospital where he was in critical condition. The San Antonio native and father of one has grossed over $170,000 in tournaments in the last three years, with two of the cashes coming in WSOP events. In one of his online profiles, Lineberry wrote that if he could change anything
in the world of poker, he would “legalize poker in Texas.”
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I have hundreds of poker books in my library and most of them are not very good, in my opinion. I am trying to recommend a few good books to put on your shelves, though, and that has made me re-examine some titles that had gone into the “suspect” bin because of harsh reviews and the comments of others. However, one of the books that came out rather well upon closer look was Matt Lessinger’s The Book of Bluffs (more…)

If you won $7,000,000 on a three-month rush, and stacked up all the cash on a big table, would you then risk it all playing the world’s greatest players, including Chip Reese, Doyle Brunson, Stu Ungar, Johnny Chan, and a host of other poker greats? Playing as high as $10,000/$20,000 limit heads-up poker, you could easily lose your new-found fortune to a school of sharks! Of course, the other choice you would have, while standing behind this mountain of cash, peering around it at this dangerous lineup of poker sharks, would be to cash out, take the money and run!
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There are many Stu Ungar stories from his glory years, and some consider him the greatest tournament poker player that ever lived. However, what is perhaps Stu’s most famous hand occurred in a heads-up tournament against reigning World Series Main Event champion Monsour Matloubi in 1990. Ungar challenged Matloubi to a heads-up $50,000 freezeout in an effort to prove he could have won the tournament after having bombed out by overdosing on cocaine during the night before the third day of the tournament. The hand went down as follows:
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DuplicatePoker.com has announced its first-ever “Duplicate Poker World Championship,” which will run for several months and culminate with the championship final this fall. The 2008 competition uses the unique Duplicate Poker format, in which players at different tables are dealt the same cards, from an in-common deck used across all tables. Success in this poker format — which is recognized as a “skill game” and is legal in most U.S. jurisdictions — is done by ranking the players based on how well they played the cards when compared to opponents at other tables who were dealt the same hands.
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As the spring semester continues at the University of Texas in Austin, students are still finding plenty of time to enjoy the game of poker. This time of year is when the action often dries out, as classes tend to get harder, studying becomes more of a priority, and spring break is in sight. Even with so much going on, however, UT Austin students still have plenty of poker to look forward as their semester winds down.
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