Closing the book on the PCA
I do not know what my home looks like in the first half of January. I’ve lived in this house for going on nine years, and I’ve never seen how the light hits the dining room or the shadows fall in the...
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WCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 8
The biggest buy-in event of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) brought out the biggest stars. And one of them is now half a million dollars richer. Stick around for all the latest from the...
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Introducing the VRPT: A brand new PokerStars Tour that's out of this world
Today we’re announcing the launch of a brand-new Poker Tour for PokerStars players. It’s open to anyone, it’s free to play, and there’s no travel involved. In fact, you’ll play while in space, while...
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WCOOP 2019: Pedro “PaDiLhA SP” Padilha on winning titles and apocryphal tales
Back in the 1960s, rock music pioneer Don “Captain Beefheart” Van Vliet was selling vacuum cleaners door to door in California. One day he was out on his rounds when he stumbled across the home of...
View ArticleWCOOP 2019: "snovalshik1" on how he turned $5.50 into $3,408.17
The WCOOP winner stories arrive in many forms. While we see many of the usual suspects turning up at those “M” and “H” final tables, the lower buy-in “L” events often present us players we haven’t met...
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WCOOP 2019: Alex “dynoalot” Difelice on winning his second title
He might not yet consider his poker career to be a success, but with $4.7 million in online cashes, $730K won in brick and mortar cardrooms, and now two World Championship of Online Poker titles under...
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WCOOP 2019: Rinat "Zapahzamazki" Lyapin livin' the stream, wins #18-M
All poker players who stream their play over Twitch harbor dreams of winning big tournaments while their viewers are tuned in and watching. Besides adding to their bankrolls and perhaps boosting...
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WCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 9
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WCOOP 2019: Naoya "nkeyno" Kihara breaks through with $1K Razz win
The $1,050 buy-in razz — Event #23-H on this year’s WCOOP schedule — wasn’t a tournament Japanese poker pro Naoya “nkeyno” Kihara was expecting to play. But he did. Once that decision was made, other...
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WCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 10
Pizza servers, new fathers and six-way tournament chops all feature in another packed round-up from the tables of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Let’s crack on… TODAY’S HEADLINES •...
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WCOOP 2019: Italo "sep_itl1914" Carandinas chooses right, wins #4-L
There was a moment at the final table of Event #4-L of the World Championship of Online Poker when Italo “sep_itl1914” Carandinas of Brazil faced what in retrospect was a crucial decision. It was the...
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WCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 11
WCOOP’s middle weekend was when the dam broke on this year’s flood of double champions. Here are all the specifics from the World Championship of Online Poker: TODAY’S HEADLINES • Double double on...
View ArticleWCOOP 2019: Viktor “TsiTool” Kovács wins PLO title for Hungary
The first Hungarian winner of the 2019 World Championship of Poker tells us his story. We’re well aware of Hungary’s ability to produce online poker excellence. You only have to look as far as Andras...
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WCOOP 2019: First champ of the year, Maxime “Daghemuneguu” Chilaud
Just as excitement for the World Championship of Online Poker 2019 was hitting boiling point, Maxime “Daghemuneguu” Chilaud became one of the series’ first winners when he took down #2-L: $109 Mini...
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WCOOP 2019: Persistence and patience equals payday for #27-L winner...
Like many who play on PokerStars, “19_Kumite_79” of Norway is a part-time player with a full-time job, meaning he plays when he can but generally has other commitments to fulfill as well. “I do manage...
View ArticleA last longer bet that could put you in the WCOOP Main Event
How would you like win a seat worth $55 into the WCOOP Main Event Low this Sunday? And while you’re at it, how about making some extra cash picking the winner of a Team Online last longer? Well for the...
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WCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 12
Honestly, there’s not enough room on the internet to record all of yesterday’s news from the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). I don’t know why we’re wasting even more space with this intro...
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WCOOP 2019: Five figures for Jeffrey "Jefffrr8" Reardon after #24-L win
A few days ago when Jeffrey “Jefffrr8” Reardon found himself at the final table of WCOOP Event #24-L, a $22 buy-in six-handed no-limit hold’em event that drew a huge 5,803-player field, a couple of...
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WCOOP 2019: Patrick Serda mixes it up, wins 3rd title in 8-Game
Among the recent round of WCOOP winners were a few familiar names, one belonging to the amiable Canadian Patrick “prepstyle71” Serda who bested a 460-entry field to win Event #32-M, the $215 buy-in...
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WCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 13
It’s Day 13 of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Unlucky for some? Not for most of the players in today’s round-up, including some of those guys who seem to run purer than the driven...
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