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New Jersey Online Poker Tournament Report: January 31, 2014
Pokerfuse highlights some of the options now available to play online poker tournaments in New Jersey.
- Highlights of online poker tournaments available in New Jersey.
PokerStars Makes Radical Changes to France Poker Series
Evian and Amneville dropped—Monaco and an online event added.
- PokerStars has issued the schedule for the 2014 France Poker Series (FPS), and it contains some big changes from last year.
- The stages held at Evian and Amneville have been dropped, and replaced by a stop in Monaco and an online stage.
PKR Offers First UK Mixed Max Event
Mixed Max shifts tables from 9 player to 6 player to heads up as the tournament progresses.
- PKR’s biannual tournament series this year will be spiced up by the addition of a Mixed Max event.
- The PKR event will be a $500 buyin tournament where the first day is played at nine player tables.
- Day 2 switches to 6 player tables and when 16 players remain Day 3 will be played as a heads-up shootout.
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Uncle Sam Takes What’s His From FTP Payments
Remission coming soon, unless you owe the US gov’t. This quasi-interesting thread popped up on Reddit yesterday as a user names “Lokaji” posted that he received an official email from the Garden City Group stating that he’d been approved for repayment from Full Tilt Poker…but that it was all going to outstanding debts to the US government.
EPT Live’s Joe Stapleton’s Marathon Deauville Broadcast
Challenge accepted. European Poker Tour color commentator, and fan favorite, Joe Stapleton isn’t just a heady wordsmith. He’s also a European grade athlete and he shows off his mad jogging skills in this latest video from PokerNews. You see, Stapleton, in a promotion of sorts with PokerStars, was to accept a “challenge” from a twitter follower of #EPTLive. That challenge: run around the block/casino…5 times!
Daniel Negreanu Gets Deep Online
Kid Poker has choice words for his followers. If you follow Daniel Negreanu on social media then you may have noticed that he’s spending a little less time talking about male circumcision and more time speaking his own truth.
World Poker Tour’s Fist Pump Filled Championship
Season XII Championship brings the WPT back to Borgata. As the Borgata Winter Open heads into its final table today the World Poker Tour doesn’t want players to forget that it’ll be back at the Borgata in no time. When the WPT switched coasts for its Championship event, for the first time, it made headlines. Now, Mike, Vince and the gang don’t want you to forget where the event will take place and have you show up to the Bellagio looking for action.
Team PokerStars Online’s Daleroxxu Gets Hands On In “Popeye” Home Movie
A true masterpiece with an oscar-worthy performance by Dale. We love us some Dale 'Daleroxxu’ Philips, he’s a prolific blogger, Team PokerStars Online grinder and fantastic podcast guest. With that in mind, what is going on in this video?
Shawn “buck21” Buchanan — COOP There It Is
Online pro becomes the first Triple COOP winner. It would be great to win a single PokerStars COOP (Championship of Online Poker) title, let alone three. That’s what Shawn Buchanan did, but to make it even more amazing, he won one in each of the three COOP series: WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker), SCOOP (Spring) and TCOOP (Turbo).
PokerStars Pros Go Trading Places
Easy game: if you could be any single poker player for 24-hours, who would it be?
Jason Somerville Hosts Ultimate Poker’s UFC Promo Show
Poker pro uses pure stats to break down UFC 169. If you follow the career of poker pro Jason Somerville then you know that perhaps the one thing he loves as much as playing poker is MMA and, especially, the UFC. That’s partially why his Ultimate Poker sponsorship is such a good fit.
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New Jersey’s Next Poker Millionaire to be Decided on Saturday
An 8 player sit and go for a $1m first prize—second place plays $25k. The culmination of the BorgataPoker and partypoker New Jersey promotion to create New Jersey’s “Next Poker Millionaire” arrives on Saturday in a live sit and go tournament at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.
Traffic Watch
A weekly review of the online poker market. This week: Top five networks and top five markets, Merge Gaming and the Equity Poker Network. Cash game traffic continue to slide this week in all markets except Sweden and the offshore dot-com market. Even New Jersey took a breather from its early frantic growth.