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World Series of Poker National Championship Day 1: Vornicu Leads as 62 ...
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The World Series of Poker Southern Comfort 100 Proof National Championship kicked off on Wednesday as 126 players took to the felt at Harrah's New Orleans for their shot at the first WSOP bracelet to ever be awarded on American soil outside of Las ...

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FullTilt Poker Names Rebecca McAdam as Senior PR Manager
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FullTilt Poker Names Rebecca McAdam as Senior PR Manager. FTP hires a new public relations manager. floeschie, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License. By Jocelyn Wood. May 23, 2013. pokerfu.se/fm6f. Continue reading on pokerfuse PRO » ...

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Turlocker Wins DeepStacks Poker Tour Stop at Turlock Poker Room
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The tournament was the first major event Esquivel ever entered – and the largest buy-in for a Turlock Poker Room tournament, ever. Esquivel didn't expect to win, he said, but just tried to remain calm and professional throughout the two-day tournament.

Online Gambling Bets on Return to US
Wall Street Journal
It is the headquarters for PokerStars, the largest online poker company in the world by a wide margin. And it is from this unusual perch the company is playing a difficult hand: just two years after being shut down in the U.S., and with its founder ...

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Online Gambling Bets on Return to US
Wall Street Journal
It is the headquarters for PokerStars, the largest online poker company in the world by a wide margin. And it is from this unusual perch the company is playing a difficult hand: just two years after being shut down in the U.S., and with its founder ...
PokerStars Makes Wall Street Journal Front PagePokerfuse

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UK casino accuses US poker star Ivey of cheating
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LONDON (AP) — A major casino operator is accusing Phil Ivey, an American who is one of the world's top professional poker players, of amassing millions of dollars in winnings by cheating at baccarat. Court papers filed in Britain's High Court by the ...
The Curious Case of Poker Pro Phil Ivey's Punto Banco RakeGrantland (blog)
'Tiger Woods of Poker' is £7m Cheat, Says London's Crockfords CasinoIBTimes.co.uk
Casino hits back in £7.7m fight over winnings with top gamblerEvening Standard

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UK casino accuses US poker star Ivey of cheating
WTHI
The case has rocked the world of professional poker by pitting one of its most charismatic young stars against a major resort and casino operator. The game in question took place in August at Crockfords, one of London's oldest and most respected casinos.
The Curious Case of Poker Pro Phil Ivey's Punto Banco RakeGrantland (blog)
'Tiger Woods of Poker' is £7m Cheat, Says London's Crockfords CasinoIBTimes.co.uk
Crockfords Casino hits back in £7.7m fight over winnings with top gambler Phil ...Evening Standard

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UK casino accuses US poker star Ivey of cheating
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LONDON (AP) — A casino group has accused U.S. professional poker star Phil Ivey of cheating at baccarat and says the alleged scam means they don't have to pay his claimed multimillion dollar winnings. The Genting Group said in court papers filed ...
The Curious Case of Poker Pro Phil Ivey's Punto Banco RakeGrantland (blog)
'Tiger Woods of Poker' is £7m Cheat, Says London's Crockfords CasinoIBTimes.co.uk
Crockfords Casino hits back in £7.7m fight over winnings with top gambler Phil ...Evening Standard

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UK casino accuses US poker star Ivey of cheating
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LONDON (AP) — A major casino operator is accusing Phil Ivey, an American who is one of the world's top professional poker players, of amassing millions of dollars in winnings by cheating at baccarat. Court papers filed in Britain's High Court by the ...
The Curious Case of Poker Pro Phil Ivey's Punto Banco RakeGrantland (blog)
'Tiger Woods of Poker' is £7m Cheat, Says London's Crockfords CasinoIBTimes.co.uk
Crockfords Casino hits back in £7.7m fight over winnings with top gambler Phil ...Evening Standard

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With just eight players returning and only six needed to set the final table, two players were going to get the short end and that turned out to be Negreanu and Italian Rocco Palumbo.

Coming into the day as the short stacks it was going to be an uphill battle for them but Negreanu more than doubled his stack to up over a million in the first half hour.

A downswing shortly thereafter sent him back down the ranks before he finally busted in seventh for $137,085 and the satisfaction of his third consecutive major final table.

Palumbo, meanwhile, never got anything going before busting in eighth when he shoved J8 in the small blind into Brandon Stevens' KJ.

Rheem, Lindgren Extend Lead

Meanwhile at the top of the chip counts, the two leaders built their stacks up a little further for the final run to the $1.1m first-place prize.

Driver's seat for Chino.  

Former November Niner Rheem, also a previous WPT champion, bagged 5,495,000 to end the day for a decided edge to start the final.

Former Full Tilt pro and sportsbetting pariah Erick Lindgren also slightly increased his stack up to 3,355,000 and is looking for his first major title since 2008.

WPT Montreal winner Jonathan Roy and pros Matt Hyman, Brandon Steven and David Peters round out the final six.

The finalists will take a day off tomorrow while the $100k Super High Roller plays its final table before picking up again on Friday.

The official chip counts and seating assignments:

Seat 1. Jonathan Roy - 1,900,000 (47 bb) Seat 2. David Peters - 1,085,000 (27 bb) Seat 3. Erick Lindgren - 3,355,000 (83 bb) Seat 4. Brandon Steven - 1,210,000 (30 bb) Seat 5. Matt Hyman - 1,560,000 (39 bb) Seat 6. Chino Rheem - 5,495,000 (137 bb) The payouts:1st: $1,150,297 2nd: $650,275 3rd: $421,800 4th: $289,988 5th: $223,203 6th: $173,993

For a full recap of the Day 5 action, check the WPT Live Updates.

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Caesars plans to launch online poker this summer in Nevada
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Caesars Entertainment Group said it plans to go live this summer with an online poker site in Nevada, the only U.S. state so far to offer legal Internet gambling, and will promote the nascent service to thousands of poker ...
US Poker Site Offers Apple Users Windows 7Online Casino Reports
Caesars plans for online poker in NevadaGambling Online Magazine
Ultimate Poker Hurried Launch May Prove FatalPoker News Report
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US Poker Site Offers Apple Users Windows 7
Online Casino Reports
Ultimate Poker, the first online gambling operator to open its doors with a Nevada licence, has already, has already dealt out more than half a million hands and paid out $10,000 as part of its first tournament. But it came up with an innovative way ...

Any ideas or recommendations for a future 3-Bet, drop a note in the comments and we’ll include it in an upcoming post.

Today in the 3-Bet we find a closer look at the curious case of Phil Ivey’s Punto Banco score, an amazing oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker and we revisit a great piece about current high-roller dominator Steven “Zugwat” Silverman.

1) Ivey Suspected of "Edge Sorting" in Punto Banco Dispute Always has an edge.  

So by now we're sure you've heard of Phil Ivey's ongoing $12m dispute with Crockfords Casino in London.

Long story short Ivey played some super high-stakes Punto Banco over the course of a couple nights with an unidentified "Chinese woman," lost big at first then asked to up the stakes and proceeded to win close to £7.8 million.

After looking into it the casino decided Ivey had engaged into some shady play, returned his original £1m bankroll and refused to pay out. Ivey sued, and that's pretty much where it sits today.

The good folks at Grantland.com, however, have looked into it a little closer and turned up a few more interesting details.

According to writer David Hill, Ivey and his companion made several suspicious requests to keep the same deck of cards in play overnight, rotate decks 180 degrees and bring in a Cantonese dealer to work with - all in the name of "superstition."

It all adds up, the casino says, to a case of "edge sorting" - a technique that exploits visual cues from cutting flaws on the back of the deck. Check it out here.

2) Extraordinary Oral History of the 2003 WSOP Burned by the bunny tell.  

Ok, remember when we said if you were only going to read one retrospective piece about the 2003 WSOP it should be Nolan Dalla's?

Forget that. Read two.

The aforementioned Grantland has done us another huge favor with a truly fascinating oral history of the 2003 WSOP Main Event and the Moneymaker win that changed the course of poker history.

There are so many amazing storylines and impossible-seeming twists of fate to recount them all, but suffice to say it may change your mind about fate and destiny. A sample from an interview with Dutch Boyd:

"Boyd: I was playing with Moneymaker on Day 4. I got a pretty good tell on him. He was the kind of player who, if you checked to him, he was going to bet. All the time.

And he had something, it was almost like out of a Hollywood movie, where he would flare his nostrils when he was weak. It was like a bunny, man.

So I was like, This is going to be so easy. All I gotta do is check to him and let him bet, and I'll just look at his nostrils, and if they start flaring, I'll come over the top of him. And that's what I did in our big famous hand."

Read the full piece here.

3) Saving Teen Poker Prodigy Steven "Zugwat" Silverman From GA and GPAs to B.O.S.S.  

Seeing legendary online grinder Steven "Zugwat" Silverman at the top of the chip counts in the WPT $100k Super High Roller today -- coming off a win at the EPT Grand Final High Roller last week no less -- jogged our memories of an in-depth piece on Silverman in the Washington Post a few years back.

Profiling Silverman as a semi-retired 22-year-old "former teen poker prodigy" who "won and lost millions," it seems almost like a piece from/for a time capsule.

Including Silverman being inspired at 15 by Moneymaker to start playing online to dropping out of college to being cut off from his parents and sent to Gamblers Anonymous, it reads like a lot of pieces about Internet poker from that era - with a bit of jaw-dropping awe.

It ends with Silverman in "retirement" from poker, basically focusing on school and only marginally dipping into poker from time to time.

Looks like that hasn't exactly held.

It's a great piece all in all, though, and even includes a guest appearance by former roommate Andrew "LuckyChewy" Lichtenberger. It's worth a revisit if you have the time. Read it here.

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Full Tilt Poker Remission Process Continuing at Snail's Pace
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Former United States customers of Full Tilt Poker are likely to face a continued wait for their refunds from the site, according to unofficial reports emerging on poker forums. TwoPlusTwo forum poster “Schlucky1” commented Sunday on the results of ...

IBTimes.co.uk
The Curious Case of Poker Pro Phil Ivey's Punto Banco Rake
Grantland (blog)
Last August, in Britain's oldest private gambling club, the professional poker player and gambler Phil Ivey went on a hot streak. It was his second night in a row at Crockfords in Mayfair. The previous night he and his unnamed companion, a Chinese ...
'Tiger Woods of Poker' is £7m Cheat, Says London's Crockfords CasinoIBTimes.co.uk
Crockfords Casino hits back in £7.7m fight over winnings with top gambler Phil ...Evening Standard

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Debbie Does Poker - Get Ready, Get Set for the 2013 WSOP!
Poker Player Online
by Debbie Burkhead. The 44th Annual World Series of Poker kicks off on May 29 and runs through July 15 with 62 coveted WSOP gold bracelets up for grabs in 2013 – which is one more than last year. The WSOP starts off in grand style on Saturday June 1.
A call for a committeePokerStars.com (blog)
Brent Hanks Wins California State Poker Championship 2013 Main EventTight Poker

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by Debbie Burkhead

The 44th Annual World Series of Poker kicks off on May 29 and runs through July 15 with 62 coveted WSOP gold bracelets up for grabs in 2013 – which is one more than last year. The WSOP starts off in grand style on Saturday June 1. Event #6, The Millionaire Maker, ($1,500 no-limit hold’em) will feature a one-day start, twoflight, single re-entry event, where the winner will receive $1,000,000!

 The WSOP season is heaven for poker players; the tournament draws tens of thousands of poker players from all over the world, and Las Vegas cardrooms prepare well in advance to offer a variety of games during this once-a-year gathering of poker players. Poker Player Newspaper will have information on specially designed tournaments offered throughout Vegas as an alternative choice for players.

  PPN is also happy to announce that once again, we will be your go-to publication for information on all of the games around town as well as all things WSOP related. This publication will have four special editions that will also include trivia and information about the history, happenings, and results of the WSOP.

  Make sure to pick up your free souvenir copy of PPN, which, as always, is available in every cardroom in Vegas. For your convenience, PPN will have all the latest tournament schedules from cardrooms around Las Vegas, with four special editions during May- July for your most up-to-date information throughout the Series.

 I hope that all our readers have a great experience while here in Las Vegas, and I know that information in our souvenir WSOP editions will help you make the most of your time in town. Good Luck, and I hope to see you at the table.

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GPI Player of the Year: Small Shake Up in the Top 10; Mercier Jumps to No. 15
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By reaching the final table of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final €100,000 Super High Roller, both Mike Watson and Scott Seiver leapfrogged over Steven Silverman. Silverman, who attempted to run the gauntlet in ...
Silverman going for gold in WPT $100000 High RollerOfficial WPT Poker Magazine

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Survivor's "Boston" Rob Mariano on Poker, Daniel Negreanu's Reality TV ...
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More than a few parallels can be drawn between that cutthroat contest and poker (i.e. manipulation, patience and bluffing), and that's something “Boston” Rob Mariano, perhaps the most popular Survivor player ever, put on display in at the World Series ...

Poker Room beating, robbery suspect indicted
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HAMPTON FALLS — A man who allegedly strangled a patron outside the Poker Room in January has been indicted on two charges of second-degree assault and two charges of robbery. Bryan A. Lisio, 26, of 200 Landing Road in Hampton, allegedly beat ...

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