Aug
10
2008
It’s the final day on the first season of the Latin America Poker Tour. The final table action is due to start at 1pm local time. These are the contenders still standing in Punta del Este, Uruguay:. Seat 1: Sidney Chreem, 38, …
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2008
2.05pm — Sidney Chreem, Brazil, eliminated in sixth place, earning $34045 The tournament short-stack Sidney Chreem moves all in pre-flop for his last 50000. Lisandro Gallo reraises from the button and everyone else folds. …
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2008
3.10pm — The level ends with Lisandro Gallo taking another pot, this time from Alexandre Gomes. The tactics are the same: Gallo calls a button raise in the big blind, then check calls all the way to the river. …
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2008
Poker machine fans may notice a dearth of their favorite pastime after 2012, when poker machine powerhouse TABCORP will be without a license, thanks to the actions of the Brumby Government. Tabcorp is embroiled in a legal battle with …
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10
2008
Online poker room Littlewoods Poker has announced that they will now allow their players to set up and run their own online poker tournaments. Typically if a poker player wishes to play with friends online, they all have to find a …
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2008
Online poker room Titan Poker has just awarded a $9000 Asian Poker Tour - Macau package to one of their top players, 22 year old Artem Khudaverdiev, from Nuernberg, Germany. The event was the $20000 VIP Race, four days of poker with 39 …
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10
2008
In Colorado, people of the state are relatively new to the casino gambling thing, but they have already collected enough signatures to get an initiative on the state ballot in November that would raise gambling limits.
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2008
Had the state of Pennsylvania known it was going to be this hard to get a casino built in Pittsburgh, they might never have approved it, now the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board is ready to make a decision on the future of project.
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10
2008
The Florida and Texas lottery’s will be watching for the same thing tonight when their main lotto game numbers are drawn, will there be a winner, or will the jackpot for these lottery’s continue to grow?
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Aug
10
2008
All good things must come to an end, and now the first season of the Latin America Poker Tour (LAPT) is in the record books. After Julien Nuijten in Rio de Janeiro, Valdemar Kwaysser in San Jose, the third and final champion has also …
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