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Micon over at DonkDown had a Skype-chat with an eye-witness — brings up some more details from the robbery itself about how the action played out at the Hyatt and the cash situation on hand. JUST HAD THIS CHAT W/ONE OF THE REPORTERS THAT WAS @ EPT BERLIN [4:30:46 PM] Bryan Micon:...

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As the dust settles from yesterday’s big poker heist at EPT Berlin, I was just thumbing through the Berlin poker robbery links and videos KevMath amassed. My favorite Google translation so far comes from the interview with a German photographer on hand: 14 clock in Berlin’s luxury hotel “Grand Hyatt”: The...

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Here’s the final table of EPT Berlin, with the standard EPT Live streaming at www.eptlive.com scheduled to start at 6am ET: Seat 1: Marko Neumann – 2,185,000 Seat 2: Marc Inizan – 3,655,000 Seat 3: Kevin MacPhee – 6,070,000 Seat 4: Artur Wasek -3,530,000 Seat 5: Marcel Koller – 3,590,000 Seat 6: Nico Behling – 960,000 Seat...

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They’re in the money at the National Heads-Up Championship. Everyone’s brackets have turned to shit — I’ll update that situation as soon as I put this post up here — and Jerry Yang’s crew is apparently rolling old-school Hevad Khan, getting all up in Jennifer Harman’s grill. (Jennifer of all...

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Here’s some video from this afternoon’s attempted robbery at EPT Berlin: Here’s a clip of an interview from German TV news: A translation from 2+2 poster “B4RT3K” from the interview between the reporter and “Roman” the security guard in the video above: Reporter: “We got one witness with us, Roman, you are from...

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Details are a little sketchy, but apparently at around 2pm CET (8am ET) a group of masked robbers stormed the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Berlin during day 4 of the EPT Berlin Main Event. Here’s video someone recorded off the live stream as people frantically leave the area: 3:35pm Berlin time update...

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Let the heads-up fun begin. Ali Nejad and Leann Tweeden called out the pairings at Pure in Caesars Palace last night. Here’s a print-outable PDF of the official bracket for the 2010 National Heads-Up Championship, which gets underway today at 1 pm pacific. Make your own picks via Pokerati’s bracket-tracker...

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Our good pals at the Hard Rock wanna remind you that they have their $20,000 guarantee tourney tomorrow. They probably don’t want me to tell you that they had to add money to the prize pool the last time they ran this tourney to make the guarantee … but that’s...

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This seemed obvious once the pictures started coming in that showed us while no Haiti, the destruction caused by the 8th largest earthquake in recorded history made organizing a poker tournament an afterthought: The official word, via @PokerStarsBlog: The PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) regrets to announce that the 2010 LAPT...

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Poker 2 Nite has returned for their 2nd season, this time they’re on Versus, as Fox Sports Net had various restrictions on what Scott Huff and Joe Sebok could actually cover on the show, especially with online poker. Joe Stapleton is no longer the head writer, replaced by the...

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We saw it coming … Iowa is following in the footsteps of California, Florida, and Italy, pushing a measure to legalize intrastate online gambling. Poker, of course, included. @BigRussPoker was unavailable for comment on whether or not he would be considering a move should the measure make it to law....

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We’ll be seeing the brackets for the National Heads-Up Poker Championship soon (drawing party is tomorrow) … and with some help from KevMath, I put together a list of who’s going to be represented at the mini-tables in this made-for-TV event. The list isn’t complete — feel free to let...

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photo: Jim Schutze / Dallas Observer Longtime friend of Pokerati and poker pro Gregg Merkow took a rough beat early yesterday morning when fire engulfed two of his restaurants in Dallas. A four-alarm blaze destroyed The Hurricane Grill and the Greenville Bar & Grill, owned by Merkow, along with Mick’s bar...

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Our friends at CardRunners couldn’t have been more thrilled when I took down the team portion of the WSOP-Dream Team event this past summer — wearing their patch while doing so — but since then have been less than enthusiastic about my performance at the tables. So … they...

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A little Google-translate suggests there’s a lot more to this case than just a guy in Florida getting carried away with online poker money transfers. Apparently the detainee, Michael Schuett, is an accused fraudster in Germany who has been on some sort of run hiding out in the USA. A...

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Still making sense of it all, and how this is different from other poker-related money seizures and charges against Canadian Douglas Rennick … but it looks to be something big, and a new level of poker prosecutions. Here’s the story from the Naples News: Feds investigate Naples man in money laundering...

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Once upon a time, February 27, was perhaps more important to the poker blogosphere than 4/20. You’d see the pokergeeky intertubes go nuts over the date representing a dream flop for those of us who like to raise from early position with 2-7 offsuit. But after so many years —...

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Here’s the latest Inside Deal, featuring a review of the NAPT and a Q&A with Daniel Negreanu: Related Posts Daniel Negreanu on LAPC’s Not-So-Deep-Stacks Blind Structure (0) Watch Episode 2 of High Stakes Poker 6 here (1) NAPT Main Event and Invitational Final Tables set (0) NAPT Main Event Day 4, $25k High Roller Shooutout...

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We all know there’s lots of chit-chat on blind structures, always, and there should be. They are important. In the early days of the poker boom, a lot of tourney directors didn’t really know what they were doing and surely didn’t understand the nuances of stack sizes deep into tournaments...

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Also last week, kinda funny, I had just shown up in the tournament room at the Commerce when I was supposedly simultaneously in front of a computer, chatting in the LAPC livecam chat room: (Thanks to all looking out for this site’s good name.) 6:54 pokerati: maybe we can get uyou involved...

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The LAPC main event is fixin’ to get underway … Friday at noon, and Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Jason Mercier, and a few others got together to hold a $5,000 fantasy draft for the main event of California’s version of the WSOP. More to come as the field takes shape tomorrow/today Friday....

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I’m still alive, but Pauly’s out. Before bringing our Hollywood poker weekend to a close, we decide we should get a firsthand taste of the real Commerce degen experience, so Pauly escorts me to the ATM to make good on an a charitable WPT rebuy acquired-at-the-table debt before he jets...

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Your intrepid player-correspondents catch up on the first break at the star-studded WPT Celebrity Invitational to talk about how the tourney is going … I’ve battled back from chip-and-a-chair conditions at a table full of pros (and rebought with Pauly money) to stay alive, while Pauly has been taunted by...

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The PPA was in Massachusetts this week, testifying before a joint committee on behalf of H4069, which would classify poker as a game of skill — apparently important as that state considers a variety of casino-related legislation. Go Massachusetts Skillaments, but elsewhere, far more is at stake for states that...

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Not the most action-filled episode of High Stakes Poker, but you can still watch it anyways, right?: Related Posts ESPN.com Inside Deal 2/27 w/ Daniel Negreanu (0) Daniel Negreanu on LAPC’s Not-So-Deep-Stacks Blind Structure (0) Poker stuff that happened over the weekend (0) Watch Episode 1 of High Stakes Poker here (if you haven’t seen...

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Poker2Nite inked a deal for a second season of the poker-news-talk-variety show presented by UB.net, featuring Scott Huff, Joe Stapleton, and Joe Sebok. After a start-up run on FoxSports — and seen regularly on Pokerati — season 2 will run for 12 episodes on the Versus network … Versus was...

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The North American Poker Tour at the Venetian is coming to its inevitable conclusion with the $5,000 main event final table, scheduled to start at 2pm PT today, with live streaming available at www.napt.com/tv. Here’s how the final table of 8 will look when play resumes: Seat 1: Daniel Clemente...

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The Atlantic Lottery Corporation, aka Loto Atlantique, plans to get into the poker business — bringing a new regional dynamic into play as it opens new online poker tables to citizens of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Labrador and Prince Edward Islands. They already offer online lottery tickets,...

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We were still waiting for cards to get in the air at the WPT Celebrity Invitational when we found the red-carpeted smoker’s terrace at the Commerce. The first ever PartyPoker Party in LA, too — LA: It’s Very Different than America — as Tao of Pokerati runs into its first...

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The field in the $5,000 buy-in NAPT Main Event at the Venetian is down to their final 24 players, with a few recognizable names remaining as they play down to the final table of 8 today. Today is also the first day of the $25,000 buy-in Invitational Bounty Shootout....

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