Many poker amateurs fantasize of turning pro’s. they see the WSOP tournaments on TV and on the internet and they think to them selves – what makes this guy better than me? You enjoy playing poker, you kick your poker mates ass and you’ve played in several online poker tournament. So what’s missing? what’s that [...]

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Welcome to the BLUFF Daily Buzz, where we scour the entire internet for all the latest news in and around the world of poker. If it involves chips and cards, or people known to associate with chips and cards, we’re there.
Experts: Legalized online gambling in U.S. unlikely in 2010
The online poker community has plenty of [...]

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Since it is Thanksgiving, it is only fitting that we here at BLUFF update you on something we are certainly thankful for—the endless stream of high profile, high stakes heads-up matches between the elusive “Isildur1” and the best and brightest names in the online poker world. So, before you carve up that turkey, take [...]

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Welcome to the BLUFF Daily Buzz, where we scour the entire internet for all the latest news in and around the world of poker. If it involves chips and cards, or people known to associate with chips and cards, we’re there.
“Red Dawn” alert: Russian breaks world record
In the online world poker world there are grinders, [...]

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The holiday season is in full swing which means we’re in the home stretch of the Online Player of the Year race and the latest rankings update shows that Jeremy “daisyxoxo” Fitzpatrick continues to distance himself from the rest of the pack. The newest rankings, updated on the 24th still have daisyxoxo in the [...]

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Online poker players have a little more to be thankful for today, as it appears the UIGEA regulations that were supposed to go into effect next Tuesday will be delayed for another at least another six months. While formal confirmation has not yet been issued, well-placed sources tell Bluff that the Poker Players Alliance’s petition [...]

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Welcome to the BLUFF Daily Buzz, where we scour the entire internet for all the latest news in and around the world of poker. If it involves chips and cards, or people known to associate with chips and cards, we’re there.
Florida online poker report
The Florida Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability has compiled [...]

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It may be just a drop in the bucket to make up for the $3.3 million he dropped to Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey Saturday night, but the mystery Swede won nearly $650,000 Sunday off none other than Tom “durrrr” Dwan Sunday. The two opened up some $500/$1,000 No Limit Hold’em tables at around [...]

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After the epic Sunday last week that boasted the FTOPS Main Event and the Landmark Sunday Million, you might think it would be tough for players to find the motivation to return to the tables. They came out in spades though, with almost every event meeting or exceeding the guarantee. Nine different players [...]

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The FTOPS may be over and done with for 2009, but Full Tilt offered up an early Thanksgiving treat for railbirds and its high stakes grinders alike in the form of the 2nd installment of the $25,000 Heads-Up Pot Limit Omaha Championship. Last year’s event came down to Team Full Tilt’s Patrik Antonius and [...]

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Those who were wondering when Isildur1’s seemingly unstoppable rush came to an end might want to bookmark Saturday, November 21st. Granted, Isildur1 has booked losses before, most notably a more than $2 million losing session to Patrik Antonius, but he always found ways to bounce back, whether it be with sessions against Tom “durrrr” [...]

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Finally a freeroll tournament worth talking about! I can’t tell you how many freerolls make me yawn, but this one going on at Pokerstars right now definitely got my attention. All players (new or existing) can play in up to 120 $2500 freeroll tournaments, plus a $25,000 freeroll as well. Did that sink in? I said 120 $2500 freeroll tournaments…

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The matches aren’t even over yet, but Isildur1’s latest battles with Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey have already become big news. It has been a rough day for the mystery Swede at the tables and Antonius just made it even worse after winning the biggest online cash game pot in history, this time worth [...]

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Welcome to the BLUFF Daily Buzz, where we scour the entire internet for all the latest news in and around the world of poker. If it involves chips and cards, or people known to associate with chips and cards, we’re there.
Full Tilt Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge continues
Tom “durrrr” Dwan completed the second leg of his [...]

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Online poker players have used the moniker “UB” for over ten years and now UltimateBet will simply be known as UB Poker an will be found at a new domain name, www.UB.com.
The move from the old company name to UB.com comes complete with some software updates and a much improved tournament schedule. Company executives are [...]

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Last night the ongoing saga of “Isildur1″ continued, but ended a little differently than the other chapters we’ve documented so far.  Not only was the mystery Swede on the losing end of a monster session against Patrik Antonius, he also dropped the biggest pot in the history of online poker, worth almost $900,000.
That monster hand [...]

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Seven days ago Joe Cada sat across from Darvin Moon in pursuit of a world championship at the WSOP Main Event. Monday night he sat ringside at Madison Square Garden for World Wrestling Entertainment’s Monday Night Raw along with his agent Dan Frank and fellow Team PokerStars member Dennis Phillips for a Main Event of a different [...]

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While Full Tilt Poker was busy serving up its trifecta of FTOPS events on Sunday, the other sites did not just roll over and let them run the busiest online poker day of the week. Rather, quite the opposite happened and PokerStars hosted their “Landmark” Sunday Million tournament, commemorating more than $250 million in Sunday [...]

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Team Bluff is in full swing at Carbon poker.  Last week, the winner of the Team Bluff October leaderboard, ‘89yotastacked’ defeated 2008 Bluff online poker player of the year David ‘The Maven’ Chicotski.  The match was hard fought, but ultimately came down to an all in preflop hand with ‘The Maven’ holding AQ, and ‘Yota’ [...]

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