News | December 2013
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Phil Ivey finishes 2013 in the red
31 December 2025 a las 12:31 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
For some, he's the best poker player in the world. This year, he has finished his run in online poker in the red. To be more precise, Phil Ivey has lost a total of $2.686.000 at the high stakes tables under the nickname 'polarizing'. Thing is, Ivey never showed a profit this year - he even go to be 3.5 million in the red. This year he has played 80.000 hands.
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Cabbie receives $10k reward after returning $300k
30 December 2025 a las 15:28 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
A story to end 2013 in a high note: Gerardo Gamboa used to be a simple taxi driver... Now he's a taxi driver that found (and returned) $300,000 in his car's backseat.
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Sheldon Adelson hires David Beckham
29 December 2025 a las 19:17 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
After retiring from football, there are lot of things one can do. If some sport stars are associating to poker, some are associating tocasinos in general. David Beckham will now work with Las Vegas Sands Corp., promoting the company casinos in Asia, according to an Associated Press Article.
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North-american market might be worth $1.95 billion dollars
28 December 2025 a las 14:01 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
The closure of the north-american market brought some hardship to online gaming. Today, and with the eminent regulation in many states, many try to estimate the value of the market.
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Christmas - the Bilzerian way
27 December 2025 a las 23:45 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
There are a lot of possible different ways to celebrate Christmas. Some people eat turkey, some people open presents. Tradition is what it's all about. Well, Dan Bilzerian made his own Christmas.
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Sheldon Adelson hasn't given up on Spain
26 December 2025 a las 23:45 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
Sheldon Adelson made the news in Spain with a project called EuroVegas. Many demands later, the gigantic project went down the drain and the Las Vegas Sands Corp. eventually set its eyes on Asia.
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Teddy KGB won't be on Rounders 2
24 December 2025 a las 20:56 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
Rounders premiered 15 years ago, time enough for the movie to become known as a classic poker movie. Now the sequel will enter production. Past Monday, The Weinstein Co. producer announced a partnership with the investment group Qatar Holding and Miramax, in order to breath life into the second installment of Rounders.
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Negreanu closes 2013 as the leader of 4 poker rankings
23 December 2025 a las 16:27 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
Daniel Negreanu has the habit of summing up his year and making new year resolutions. Yesterday we published his 2014 goals, but tonight it's time for summing up his year: Negreanu is the leader in 4poker rankings!
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Daniel Negreanu's goals for 2014
22 December 2025 a las 21:12 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu started his week with a summary of his achievements in live tournaments during 2013: this year he won two bracelets. Now he has presented us with his goals for 2014.
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888 Poker closes the year in 2nd place at PokerScout
21 December 2025 a las 17:45 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
Some good news for the 888Poker room - due to some changes made in its software and brand, as well as successfull promotions, the poker room is now the second largest online poker room in the world.
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Rational Group - considering sports betting?
21 December 2025 a las 01:41 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
It was this past July that Rational Group confirmed its plans to turn Full Tilt Poker into Full Tilt Gaming, a room that offers online poker and casino games. It seems, though, that Rational Group's plans might go further than that.
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France votes against shared online poker market
19 December 2025 a las 22:40 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
The french and european poker market has sufferent an harsh setback - the French National Assembly has rejected a proposal that intented to allow a shared online poker market with other regulated markets.
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Winamax Series €5.000.000 GTD
19 December 2025 a las 16:11 @Mclub 0 comentarios
From the 5th to the 14th January 2014, Winamax is offering you a week of high voltage poker with a series of 64 special tournaments, each with its own unique structure. In total there will be a massive €5,000,000 in minimum prizes paid out. Not only that, for the first time the Main Event will guarantee €1,000,000 for a buy-in of €150!
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Jean-François Vilotte to leave ARJEL's presidency
18 December 2025 a las 20:16 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
ARJEL's president, Jean-François Vilotte, will abandon the presidency of the french gambling authority, since he has accepted a job in the private sector. His term was valid for two more years.
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Tom Dwan is no longer a Full Tilt Poker player
17 December 2025 a las 19:42 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
It's official: Tom "durrrr" Dwan is no longer a Full Tilt Poker player. The north-american is no longer featured in The Professionals page, at FTP's website.
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Negreanu seats at a $0.50-$1 table with $100k
16 December 2025 a las 00:05 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
Had to be Daniel Negreanu - the Las Vegas resident and Team PokerStars Pro was missing some online poker action during his trip to Prague. Thing is, he sat at a $0.50/$1 Badugi table with a $100,000 stack.
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PokerStars - out of New Jersey for at least 2 years
14 December 2025 a las 19:33 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
According to an article in Forbes maganize, authored by Nathan Vardi, New Jersey's Division of Gaming Enforcement has decided to suspend the review process of PokerStars' license application.
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EuroVegas is no more
13 December 2025 a las 23:50 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
It's official: the Las Vegas Sands company won't go forward with the EuroVegas project, an ambitious undertaking that was to take place in Madrid's outskirts. According to Las Vegas Sand, the company has given up on the project to pursue new opportunies in Asia.
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Is Sheldon Adelson an "hypocrite"?
12 December 2025 a las 13:39 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
Online poker is being discussed during this week in the United States. The US Congress Committee on Energy and Commerce has heard the various parties involved in this process and, yesterday, the Las Vegas Sands representative didn't have an easy day.
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Lim Yo-Hwan - a corean Elky?
11 December 2025 a las 15:31 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
StarCraft player and coach, Lim Yo-Hwan (known by the handle BoxeR), decided to become a poker pro. As a StarCraft professional, Yo-Hwan was earning about $500,000 per year (in sponsorships and awards), and he hopes he will be even more successful at the poker tables - just like Elky.
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Rens Feenstra is the winner of Riga's Unibet Open
10 December 2025 a las 18:56 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
The dutch player Rens Feenstra has won the Unibet Open, in Riga. With 24 paid places, this €1500 live tournament paid out a €75000 first prize. With a field of 208 players, the prizepool ammounted to €310.688,73.
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Amundsgård is crushing congressman Wiborg
09 December 2025 a las 18:02 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
It was this past Saturday that the first session of a very special norwegian duel was played: Ola Amundsgård vs congressman Erlend Wiborg. After this first session, it seems very unlikely for Wiborg to win. The two players faced off at a conference center (Felix Konferansesenter) in Olso, although they were playing online at PokerStars.
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Chris Christie optimistic about New Jersey's online gaming market
08 December 2025 a las 15:13 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
Chris Christie, New Jersey's republican governor, is quite confident about the new online gaming market in his state. He's so confident he believes that, by the 1st of July 2014, online gambling will create billions of dollars in revenue for the Atlantic City casinos.
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Japanese congressmen want to authorize casinos
07 December 2025 a las 23:54 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
Hyroyuki Hosoda, Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party, has wrote a bill that has as purpose authorizing the construction of casinosin Japan. The bill has now been submitted to the japanese parliament for further discussion.
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North-americans don't oppose online poker, survey says
06 December 2025 a las 18:26 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
A survey done by the Online Poker Report website to 1,500 north-americans, through Google Consumer Surveys, reached the conclusion that 60% of people are for or maintain a neutral position on online poker.
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Singapore may ban online gambling
05 December 2025 a las 22:15 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
S. Iswaran, Second Home Affairs Minister, has said that his government may ban online gambling. His statement was made during a symposium on crime and casinos.
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Poker Pro vs Politician
04 December 2025 a las 14:58 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
Ola Odd_Oddsen Amundsgård challenged norwegian politicians to play against him, offering 1 million krone ($162,715) to anyone who beats him. Erlend Wiborg, member of the Progressive Party, accepted the challenge - the confrontation will begin this Saturday (7th of December).
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The engine of Macau's economy - the casinos
03 December 2025 a las 14:10 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
The revenue figures obtained by the 35 Macau casinos remain astonishing. After an historic record of €3.385.186.370 in gaming revenues in the month of October, the month of November registered €2.781.948.425, representing an increase of 21.3% in comparison with the same period in 2012.
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Dan Bilzerian strikes again
02 December 2025 a las 15:16 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
Dan Bilzerian likes to live life on the highway; in his own words, "won $10.8 million last night playing poker, headed to Puerto Vallarta to relax". Bilzerian is a regular at Ivey's Room, at the Aria Casino, where some of the highest poker stakes in all of the Las Vegas casinos are played.
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Spanish party wants to cancel compensatory effect of losses
01 December 2025 a las 15:15 @MclubPT 0 comentarios
Spanish players were caught by surprise by the most recent decision of the PSOE (Partido Socialista Obrero Español) parliamentary group. The PSOE members have presented a proposal that aims to cancel the compensatory effect of losses in online gambling.
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