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Brady Beats Field to Win Aruba Poker Classic
from What's new on Launchpoker.com
(2008/10/6 10:10)
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The Aruba Poker Classic, sponsored by online poker room Ultmate Bet poker, just wrapped up two days ago and the winner was pro poker player Matt Brady. Brady outlasted the 550 players to score the victory, worth $1 million to the poker pro. The final table started with Brady holding the second largest chip stack, and when he went into heads up play, he still had a significant lead...
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Online Poker Room Suffers Overlay for Being Nice
from What's new on Launchpoker.com
(2008/10/6 10:04)
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Online poker room Doyles Room decided to offer a free ticket into a $250,000 Guaranteed event for new deposits by existing players, which wound up costing the poker room $50k. This was the overlay, the amount that they fell short in meeting the $250k guarantee, and so the funds had to come out of Doyle's Room's coffers. The total number of players in the event were just over 1,300, but many of them did not have to pay to enter, so the prize pool came up just under $200k...
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Jenny McCarthy Hosts Poker Tournament
from What's new on Launchpoker.com
(2008/10/6 9:16)
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Actress Jenny McCarthy hosted a poker tournament recently in order to help raise awareness and raise money in the fight against autism. Plenty of stars showed up to play in the Dana Point, California tournament, including Lance Armstrong and Tony Hawk. Taking a cue from the event started by Annie Duke and Don Cheadle called "Ante up for Africa", this event was named "Ante up for Autism"...
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La Quinta Etapa del SPT se celebrará en Aranjuez
from Casinos Online - Como ganar a la ruleta, trucos, casino, poker, juegos, tragaperras, bingo
(2008/10/5 17:23)
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El casino portugués de Vilamoura no albergará la 5ª etapa del Spanish Poker Tour organizado por Everest Poker. La Comisión de Juego portuguesa no ha concedido los permisos administrativos necesarios para que se dispute en las instalaciones de dicho casino por lo que la organización ha decidido mantener el calendario pero cambiando [...]
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WPT Boot Camp Returns
from What's new on Launchpoker.com
(2008/10/5 14:10)
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After a year and a half the World Poker Tour Boot Camp will be returning to the Isles of Capri Casino and Racetrack at Pompano Park in South Florida on November 15th and 16th. The camp works on improving poker players' skills in order to give them a chance at going deep in a World Poker Tour tournament. The skills that are to be focused include cash games, which are different from the tournament style play of the WPT events but are popular...
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Poker Scammers Indicted
from What's new on Launchpoker.com
(2008/10/5 13:57)
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Four men who were charged with participating in a high stakes poker scam in Atlantic City have been indicted by New Jersey authorities. James Harrison, Joseph Ingargiola, Stephen Phillips and Steven Forte all faced charges of second-degree attempted theft by deception. Two hotel rooms at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa were rigged with surveillance cameras in order to spy on a man who was invited to play Chinese poker...
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Bodog Poker Open II Today
from What's new on Launchpoker.com
(2008/10/5 13:52)
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Online poker room Bodog Poker is holding the main event of their second Bodog Poker Open today. The Bodog Poker Open II wraps up with the main event, starting at 4pm ET, with a buy in of around $500 and a guarantee of $300k in prize pool payouts. Last year's main event was won by Shawn Luman, taking home more than $76k for his victory...
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Barça six-shooters stun Atlético
from uefa.com - News
(2008/10/5 1:55)
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Villarreal CF may have gone clear at the top of the Spanish Liga on Saturday night but it was FC Barcelona who stole the headlines after Josep Guardiola's team thrashed Club Atlético de Madrid 6-1 at Camp Nou.
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United up to speed, Arsenal stall
from uefa.com - News
(2008/10/5 1:50)
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Arsenal FC needed a stoppage-time goal to avoid defeat at Sunderland AFC, leaving Manchester United FC to make up lost ground in the Premier League with victory at Blackburn Rovers FC in the evening kick-off.
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Inter catch Lazio in pole position
from uefa.com - News
(2008/10/5 1:45)
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S.S. Lazio's home draw with US Lecce allowed FC Internazionale Milano to join the Roman club at the top of Serie A after José Mourinho's men defeated Bologna FC at the San Siro later on Saturday evening.
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