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Review: Ultimate Beat Continues Trend of Surprisingly Decent Poker Movies
Yep. Thanks to the past decade or so, we’ve been pre-conditioned to expect any major poker entertainment to not just suck, but suck worse than Blaine Gabbert facing a steady blitz. Tilt. That Stu Ungar...
View ArticleCalvin Johnson on Ryan Riess Wearing His Jersey (VIDEO)
Missed this until today, but as everyone is aware by now, 2013 WSOP Main Event winner Ryan Riess (aka Megatron Nowitzki) wore Calvin “Megatron” Johnson‘s jersey during his title run. This is somewhat...
View ArticleRafael Nadal to Play First Live Poker Tournament at EPT Prague
Last year, Rafael Nadal signed the biggest sponsorship deal in poker history with PokerStars. Math math math 18 months later, he’s ready to play his first live tournament. Nadal, known by many as “The...
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Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler Wins HPT Player of the Year
Winning HPT POY means Chainsaw can now get any nerdy hot girl with glasses that he wants. It’s true. In the bible and everything. He did it. Chainsaw fucking did it. Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler has...
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WSOP Europe Goes Bye-Bye for A Year; WSOP APAC Moves to October
Daniel Negreanu will have to wait 6 months to defend his WSOP APAC title. The World Series of Poker is shaking things up in 2014, kicking its European event to the side for a year and moving the APAC...
View ArticleThe Party Is In New Jersey: Party Borgata Crushing and Other Updates
It’s easy to hate New Jersey. It’s like, take everything that’s awesome about New York, get rid of it, and what’s left, that’s New Jersey. It genuinely might be the most disliked state in the Union....
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WPT Five Diamond Pays Out $1M+ to First; Imari Love Goes for HPT MSC Title
With the WPT and HPT rolling back the years to 2009 with big turn-outs, so will we with some vintage Keeley Hazell. A couple of noteworthy events are wrapping up on the poker circuit this week. First,...
View ArticleJean-Robert Bellande Leads WPT Five Diamond; Imari Love Does Not Win HPT...
Above: The last time JRB ran this good… A quick update from around the circuit… Jean-Robert Bellande finds himself in a very unfamiliar spot: atop the leaderboard deep in a tournament. Bad luck follows...
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Dan Smith Is King at WPT Five Diamond
The spoils of victory. “King” Dan Smith was crowned WPT Bellagio Five Diamond champion on Tuesday. The win, dare we say, was a coronation of sorts for Smith, who becomes the latest WPT millionaire. He...
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New Jersey Suspends PokerStars iGaming Application; Caesars et al Party in...
PokerStars will not be passing go on the AC boardwalk just yet, and it will not be collecting your $200. The messy, up-and-down, will-they-won’t-they saga of New Jersey granting PokerStars an iGaming...
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Rafa Nadal Wins EPT Prague Charity Poker Event
“Holy shit, this really just happened.” Batting a thousand here. The world’s current #1 tennis player (and star), Rafa Nadal, won his first ever live poker tournament, capturing the EPT Charity...
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Rounders 2 Is Officially, Finally, For Real This Time A Go
The greatest poker movie of all time is getting sequeled. About damn time. The oft-rumored, almost-there-but-not-really sequel to Rounders (aptly titled Rounders 2) is now seriously for real this time...
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2013 Year in Review: Rise of The New Poker Media
Come on Poker Fuse, would it kill you to post a few pics like this? As “sort of” members of the so-called poker “media,” we’ve always been fascinated by the evolution and trajectory of our niche...
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And the 2013 Wicked Chops Player of the Year Is…
2013 was The Year of Negreanu in poker. No-brainer. We’ve been giving out the Wicked Chops Player of the Year since 2010 (Vanessa Selbst was our inaugural winner). We usually put a lot of thought into...
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Wicked Chops Podcast: A Whole Lotta Legislative End Of Year Review
Whoever this guy is signing with Ivey Poker did not make our top stories of 2013. With 2013 coming to a close, it’s time to recap the biggest poker stories of the year. This was a watershed year for...
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Ok, Zack Clark Left $300k in A Vegas Cab Already… (UPDATED 1/2/14)
What poker pro left 300k in a Las Vegas cab? Everyone is asking. Very rarely, and we mean RARELY, do we hear from friends who don’t follow poker about pokery things. In fact, it’s really only happened...
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Somebody Really Needs to Steal Gus Hansen’s Laptop – Part II
Gus Hansen and Phil Ivey took it in the A in 2013. Back in 2010, right after the peak of the online nosebleed battles, we wrote about how someone needed to hide Gus Hansen‘s computers. The Great Dane...
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The 2014 PCA is Off to a Good Start, But Might Miss $10M Guarantee
Girls are known to wear bikinis in the Caribbean. We don’t cover tournaments any more–except the big ones that require some attention. If you want to be bored to tears reading how certain hands played...
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PartyPoker Enters Sponsorship Agreement with 76ers and NJ Devils
Can you believe it took this long for the U.S. to get into online gaming sports sponsorships? It’s nuts, right? Yes yes yes yes. On Wednesday, Bloomberg broke that the NBA’s Philadephia 76ers and NHL’s...
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2014 PCA Round-Up: Selbst, Merson, Panka, Schindler Shine
Hey look, Poland won something! The first major event of 2014–the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure–is in the books. Here’s a recap of the highlights in bulleted form: The $10M guarantee Main Event...
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