While results won’t be released until the special televised show airs, there was plenty of hockey-themed poker fun in the Amazon Room on Wednesday as Team PokerStars Pros, National Hockey League greats, and online qualifiers all came together for a special charity event, the PokerStars.net NHL Charity Shootout. The event was in conjunction with the annual NHL Awards celebration being held at the Palms Casino Resort, just a stone’s throw from the Rio. Read the rest of this entry »

Playing winning poker at microlimits is very simple, but it can also be very frustrating because of all the bad beats. Most players who are serious about poker will beat these limits and can move up to the higher stakes. In this article we will discuss recurrent traps that new players often fall in to, with regard to raising, profitable and unprofitable hands, premium hands, setmining, position, opening ranges and bad beats.

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The second incarnation of the Dream Team Poker Tournament at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas saw Gold’s “Team Aced” walking away with the title and the $59,000 prize. The individual winner of the poker tournament was Danny Nelson who took home $13,000 for finishing in the first place.

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On Thursday, March 19, PokerStars will open a live poker room on the 2nd floor of the Grand Lisboa Casino, located in the heart of Macau. It will host the largest regular weekly poker tournaments in Asia, the Macau Poker Cup, freeroll tournaments and many more events.

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The semi-finals of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship are set from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. After two and a half grueling days of play, the final four have been determined. Two members of Team PokerStars Pro will battle it out, as Vanessa Rousso will take on Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier. Also, Huck Seed will face off against Sam Farha.

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The second season of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” kicked off on Sunday night. Last year’s running of the show raised over $1 million for charity. This year, 16 contestants are divided into two teams, men versus women. Among them is Poker News Daily columnist and World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Annie Duke. Her team outsold the competition in the show’s first episode, as comedian Andrew Dice Clay was fired during week one.

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One of the most alluring aspects of poker is that many of its most colorful practitioners are just as well known for their exploits away from the tables. One such player from poker’s past was John Homes Jenkins III, a sixth-generation Texan who packed a century’s worth of drama into a life that lasted less than half that long.

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To celebrate its 25 billionth hand dealt, PokerStars has prepared something special for its players: starting with hand number 24,850,000,000, every millionth hand will receive extra cash, depending on the stakes and VIP level. The 25 billionth hand will receive $100,000 in cash and much more.

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Celebrate the launch of new DoylesRoom software with a free seat in a $5,000 guaranteed tournament.

There is no fee to enter, you only need to download new DoylesRoom software. Registration opens on Thursday at 5pm ET and we are allowing a maximum of 4,000 entrants so don’t miss out.

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The highly acclaimed ‘Beat Victor Challenge‘ is set to hit the VC Poker Tables, and may just prove to be Victor’s greatest player challenge yet. There is over $100,000 in prizes along with 10 trips to Spain to participate in a live tournament to win the ultimate prize - a heads up poker duel with Victor himself to bag the massive $50,000 Grand Prize.

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