Lettau Wins EPT 100 Barcelona Final: Bonus Video of Stapes Princess Challenge

Germany's Andre Lettau has won the EPT 100 Barcelona Final  Plus we have bonus footage of poker commentator Joe Stapes (Stapleton) dressing as a princess.

It camedown to Sam Phillips vs. Andre Lettau.

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EPT 100 Barcelona Final: Hossein Ensan Leads the Pack

At the start of #EPT100, Hossein Ensan, 50, took down the first ever EPT Seniors Event for a best live cash of €4,535. He then won a seat in a live satellite to the record-breaking EPT Barcelona Main Event and is going in to the final as chip leader with 10,295,000.

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November Niner William Tonking Gives Self ‘Punchers Chance’ to Win WSOP Title

The University of South Carolina is known for producing football players, not poker players.

Grid stars such as George Rogers, Sterling Sharpe and most recently, Jadeveon Clowney, have made it to the NFL after first starring at the Columbia, South Carolina-based university known as "the other USC."

But all that's now changed.

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‘Ghost’ Fraudster Gets Nearly 5 Years Prison Sentence: Blames Gambling Problem

Canadian Ralph Sanon has been sentenced to 4-and-a-half years for stealing identities and raking in over $777,000 between the years 2011 and 2013.

Dubbed “the Ghost” by investigators, he would steal the victims identities then use bogus ID’s to get unsuspecting banks to provide him with fresh debit cards and PIN numbers, allowing Sanon to essentially drain the accounts of victims.

Sanon got his nickname for his elusiveness. 

At the pre-sentencing, he claimed to have fallen into the wrong crowd and developed a gambling addiction.

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Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore Opens Tuesday Night

BALTIMORE — (Associated Press) - The Horseshoe Casino Baltimore is scheduled to open, marking a new milestone in Maryland’s development of casino gambling.

The casino set to open Tuesday is the fifth and last of the five casinos initially planned when lawmakers approved slot machine gambling in a 2007 special session, a plan later approved by voters in a statewide vote in 2008.

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Two Suspects Detained for Abduction and Murder of Internet Gambling Millionaire

Just one day after it was revealed that kidnapped Taiwanese Internet gambling millionaire Shih Chia-chin had been found dead, his alleged captors and killers were detained in the southern part of Taiwan on Tuesday.

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Dreyfus: Poker is Mainstream, Legitimate and Bankable

10 years after the first boom, Poker has now reached 100 million fans and grown to become an almost $4 billion industry around the world. Last year, for the first time, more than $1 Billion was spent on buy-ins by live players in poker tournaments aggregated by the Global Poker Index (GPI) across 94 countries.

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Dan Colman, Olivier Busquet: Poker’s Hottest Bromance

We’ve been reading a great deal about Dan Colman of late along with his protégé and mentor Olivier Busquet.

There is certainly good reason for this.

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Michigan Bookies: Detroit, Ann Arbor, East Lansing, Grand Rapids

Michigan bookies are well placed with two of College Football’s most popular and successful programs: The Wolverines and Spartans.  Likewise, Michigan bookies can capitalize off of Detroit’s four professional sports franchises including the NFL Lions, MLB’s Tigers, NBA’s Pistons and, in recent years, the more prominent Red Wings.

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Bram Haenraets Leads 25 Remaining Players at EPT100 Barcelona Main Event

Dutch PokerStars qualifier Bram Haenraets, who is playing his first live tournament, is chip leader going in to Day 5 of the record-breaking #EPT100 Barcelona Main Event. The 30-year-old from Amsterdam - who won his seat in a €82 satellite on PokerStars - has 4,395,000.

There are 25 players left from the 102 who started Day 3 today. The overall field was a staggering 1496 players from 71 countries, a record for EPT events in Europe (beating the 1,240-strong EPT6 Sanremo won by Liv Boeree).

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Kidnapped Internet Gambling Millionaire Found Dead

A Taiwan businessman who reportedly amassed tens of millions of US dollars from illegal gambling has been murdered by his kidnappers, police confirmed on Monday.

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Has Selig Stand on Pete Rose Softened?

CINCINNATI (Associated Press) - As his term winds down, baseball Commissioner Bud Selig hasn't changed his outlook on Pete Rose's lifetime ban for gambling.

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Selig visited Cincinnati on Friday for the opening of an urban youth academy.

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Watch EPT 11 Barcelona Main Event Live

The EPT 11 Barcelona Main Event can be watched live courtesy of PokerStars.com.

More play commences on Tuesday with the Final Table to begin play on Wednesday.

EPT 11 Barcelona set records over the past week with 1496 Players taking part (beating the previous record of the 1,240-strong EPT6).  The winner will receive €1,261,000.

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Van der Sloot Threatens to Kill Warden, Gets Transferred to Remote Prison

A Dutchman accused of killing 21-year-old Peruvian student Stephany Flores has been moved to a remote penitentiary after authorities claim he threatened to kill the warden of the prison where he is serving 28 years.

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Did Daniel Negreanu Once Slap Phil Ivey in Drunken Stupor?

“You would be nothing without me,” poker pro Daniel Negreanu allegedly told fellow pro Phil Ivey at a poker tournament some years ago.


MAC compatibility on Americas Cardroom Coming October

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NY Post Goes Inside the Sleazy World of Online Poker

The poker community received a jolt from the New York Post Monday morning after they published a story featuring the headline “Inside the Sleazy World of Online Poker”. 

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AP: Fantasy Football Looking a Lot More Like Gambling

Some of the newest incarnations of fantasy football look a lot more like gambling than intricate, outsmart-your-opponent strategy games.

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Jason Mercier Once Stabbed in the Back – Almost Died: Reveals Scar for First Time

While attending this week’s EPT Barcelona events, poker pro Jason Mercier spoke to PokerStars TV and was candid in recounting the time he nearly died outside an Italian nightclub following a brutal and -what he says - was an unprevoked stabbing.  The attacked occurred right after his first European Poker Tour win in 2008 at San Remo.

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50-Year-Old Andrei Konopelko Leads Pack at EPT 100 Barcelona Main Event

Belarus PokerStars qualifier Andrei Konopelko is chip leader going in to Day 4 of the record-breaking #EPT100 Barcelona Main Event. The 50-year-old from Minsk - who won his seat in a €530 satellite on PokerStars - has 1,451,000.

There are 102 players left from the 292 who started Day 3 today. The overall field was a staggering 1496 players from 71 countries, a record for EPT events in Europe (beating the 1,240-strong EPT6 Sanremo won by Liv Boeree).

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Meet Double Bubble Boy Poker Pro Randal Flowers

Lightning never strikes the same place twice.

Or does it?

Don’t tell this to poker pro Mark Randall Flowers, winner of more than $2.1 million in live tournaments to date.

He somehow managed to bubble both the EPT 11 Barcelona Main Event, meaning he was the last person to bust before guaranteed cashes to all those remaining.

But Flowers hardly seemed phased when asked by PokerNews.com how much more pain he could take.

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Vojtech Ruzicka Leads Record-Breaking EPT100 Barcelona Main Event

Czech pro Vojtech Ruzicka is chip leader going in to Day 3 of the record-breaking #EPT100 Barcelona Main Event. There are 292 players left from the 906 who started Day 2 today. The overall field was a staggering 1496 players from 71 countries, a record for EPT events in Europe (beating the 1,240-strong EPT6 Sanremo won by Liv Boeree).

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PokerStars Says ‘No’ to ‘Free Gaza’ and Other Political Messages

Following the EPT Barcelona €50,000 Super High-Roller event of this past week in which WSOP One Drop winner Dan Colman wore a “Free Palestine” shirt and his backer Olivier Busquet wore a “Save Gaza” shirt, PokerStars has put an end to so-called political statement apparel during tournament play.

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Fantasy Sports Players Are Giving Up Their Day Jobs

(Associated Press) - Cory Albertson was cruising at 30,000 feet and, like others on the plane to Detroit, taking care of some business on his laptop.

 

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Dan Bilzerian Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS Only as He Can

Poker playboy Dan Bilzerian is the latest to take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and it wouldn’t be Bilzerian without a bunch of scantily clad women to surround him. 

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Michael Mizrachi Remains Secretive About EPT Barcelona Strategy

Michael Mizrachi, one of the biggest names in poker today, had been the chip leader at this week’s EPT Barcelona but has lost some steam on Saturday. By day’s end he had dropped to under 20th in terms of chip count.

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Denver Area Bookie Client List Could Prove Damaging Following Guilty Plea

As reported earlier this month by Gambling911.com, Denver area bookies and agents alike may be looking over their shoulder this football season….Worse still, they could be fearing that dreaded early AM knock on their door.

That’s because one of the state’s largest bookmaking operations has been taken down and the client’s list reportedly reads like a “Who’s Who of Denver’s Elite”.

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Poker Pros ALS Ice Bucket Challenge - Hellmuth, Bilzerian: Pam Anderson Says ‘No’

Some of the best known poker pros have begun to take part in the uber viral ALS Ice Bucket Challenge including the likes of Phil Hellmuth, Antonio Esfandiari, and poker playboy Dan Bilzerian, an Internet sensation himself.

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Kid Poker Daniel Negreanu Talks $25-$50 Online Challenge

Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu responds to the recent Twitter debate about whether or not he's able to beat $25/$50 on PokerStars in this interview with PokerNews.com.

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EPT100 Barcelona Breaks Records With 1496 Players; €1,261,000 Grand Prize

There were a staggering 1496 players from 71 countries competing at #EPT100 Barcelona, the historic 100th EPT Main Event and the debut event of Season 11. This is a record for EPT events in Europe (beating the 1,240-strong EPT6 Sanremo won by Liv Boeree) and follows the record-breaking €1,100 Estrellas Main Event which had 2,560 entries. Day 1b yesterday, which had 1010 entries, was also the biggest start day for any EPT, including the PCA.

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2014 Emmy Awards Odds – Where to Bet Online: Breaking Bad Huge Favorite

BetDSI.com has your 2014 Emmy Awards odds that you can bet on right from your laptop or mobile device.

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