Day Two of the PCA was a day for moving and shaking. Of the 1,529 players who took part in this year's event, only 884 returned for the second day of tournament play. The dust has yet to settle on the day, but it appears as though less than 300 remain in the field. The majority of those players will be walking away with their own small piece of the more than $15 million prize pool.

It then made sense to hear that he had signed with the tour's sponsor, PokerStars.com. Just after the EPT London, Mattern spoke to Card Player about his sponsorship, and also about playing against some of the circuit's greats. Rebecca McAdam: How is your deal with PokerStars going for you? Arnaud Mattern: I'm really really happy to join PokerStars Team Pro.

For 2,000 Frequent Players Points (FPPs) players could take their seats against the slew of Team PokerStars Pros sitting with various bounties on their heads. Various because depending on when the player signed up for the tournament is how much they would get for knocking out the pro. Read below's explanation on the payouts from the PokerStars promotion page: Exactly how much goes into the prize pool depends on you.

This year's World Series of Poker events brought out some of the biggest poker stars around, and it was no shock to see the names of those players participating in the November Nine. While the entire series of tournaments leading up to the World Series of Poker is entertaining, it is only setting the stage for what thousands of poker players aim to place in year after year, the final event of the World Series of Poker.

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WE'RE GOING TO depart from Vegas for a bit to congratulate and send our best to 80-year-old Honolulu resident Rebecca Berry, who traveled all the way to Minnesota to hit a big one. Saying she had a feeling about the machine: "I would play, walk away, play, walk away, and I kept coming back to the same machine for two days." While visiting her daughters, she won $1,373,825.63 on the Mystic Lake Casino's Wild Cherry progressive slot and said, "I was planning on retiring early next year, but I'm going to call him and say I quit." A couple of days later her boss, U.S.

Marie-Lizette lives, works and plays in the greater Los Angeles area. After years of playing the cash tables, Marie-Lizette has turned her attention towards the poker tournament circuit. Marie-Lizette is a professional poker tournament player, blogger, writer, and photographer at events in the greater Los Angeles area.

Being able to fold small full houses is one of the hall marks of great Omaha players. When you play hold'em, you should basically never even be considering folding full houses unless the board is very tricky (say you have a three on an AcAs3h3cJd board), or you have an incredibly specific read on an opponent.

If you play big bet poker, you need to get all of the information you can before making a decision for your stack. Every bit of information you can get is power and it's not just a few big blinds lost if you make a mistake; it's your entire stack. With that in mind, we focus on information gathering when recommending software for No Limit and Pot Limit Hold'em cash game players.

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Small-ball is the style of poker employed by the majority of successful tournament players, as it enables you to steadily increase your stack without taking significant risks. When you watch a player who's employing a small-ball strategy at the table, you'll notice how well they appear to control the action, yet at the same time appearing to play with reckless abandon, giving little thought to the strength of their starting hand.

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'My night playing poker with Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon and Daniel Craig...' Natalie Pinkham reveals all By Natalie Pinkham Last updated at 11:38 AM on 13th April 2009 TV presenter reveals the astonishing story of how she ended up sharing an intimate, late-night card game with Hollywood's sexiest leading men...

When Harrah's Entertainment acquired the world series of pokerfrom Binion's Horseshoe in 2004, it also took over the business of managing the Poker Hall of Fame, first created by Benny Binion in 1979. The Poker Hall of Fame remains an exclusive club, with only 37 members having been enshrined to date.

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