Poker news from October 2011
The following is a list of all the poker news and articles posted on HighstakesDB in October 2011. Look through the list to see if you find the news you are looking for, alternatively use the search function in the top right corner of the website.
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Articles published in October 2011
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Yet another cheating scandal is emerging in the online poker world, after at least two nosebleed players are reported to have fallen victim for a scam, in which a trojan horse was installed on the victims computers to see their hole cards during a nosebleed session.
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WSOP, Main Event, November Nine, live, World Series of Poker, ESPN
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Theo Jorgensen, who is currently in Casinos Austria, Baden, is sharing some interesting information through his Facebook about a big Pot-Limit Omaha cash game that is running.
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A total of 185 players showed up to play the $10.000 buy-in WPT World Poker Finals at Foxwoods this year. That number is now down to final eight players and we will have a new champion on Tuesday.
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Once in a while a player comes along who gets people talking, creates a whirlwind of action, wins and loses a ton of money and plays full on aggressive poker until their eyes bleed - think Isildur1, martonas, XBLINK (XWINK) and now we have !P0krparty¡ - in fact many forums seemed convinced that !P0krparty¡ may well be XWINK, a rumour however that is yet to be confirmed.
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The Kahnawake Gaming Commission issued a statement Thursday indicating that Blanca Games has submitted a plan to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) that would repay all players.
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World Series of Poker announced yesterday that Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson have been voted into the Poker Hall of Fame as the 2011 class.
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22-year-old Russian Andrey Pateychuk is the new 2011 EPT San Remo Main Event champion. Pateychuck took home €680,000 after a deal the final two players negotiated before heads-up play began.
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Daniel "jungleman12" Cates is fed up with the negative exposure poker has received since Black Friday, and for that reason (according to ThePokerFarm.com), he is going to issue a challenge to the whole world.
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The final table of the 2011 EPT San Remo Main Event is now set. Online legend Johnny "bad_ip" Lodden will not play in the final today after he bubbled the final table in 9th place earning €45.000.
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Day 5 of the EPT San Remo Main Event (buy-in €4.900) will begin shortly, and a total of 24 players are coming back to the tables today.
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Editor for Poker-Red.com, the biggest Spanish online poker community and news website, is spreading a wild rumor on 2+2 poker forums.
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Day 3 of the 2011 PokerStars EPT San Remo Main Event (buy-in €4.900) is in the books and the remaining field of 144 players was cut down to just 64 and they'll be returning for Day 4 Today.
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The $200/$400 NLHE ring games have been brewing for some time but as of yesterday there were no truly big scores to come out of them. That all changed in the early hours of this morning when Phil "takechip" D'Auteuil went on a rush and took $410k one tabling $200/$400 NLHE.
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Daniel "jungleman12" Cates has started his games great after moving to the United Kingdom.
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According to Irishtimes.com, up to 180 staff at a Dublin-based subsidiary of the US poker company Full Tilt Poker are being made redundant.