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Daniel Negreanu: Hacker has cost me $61,000
Poker News February 5, 2012 Daniel Negreanu has revealed that an email hacker who logged into his PokerStars account 'for a joyride' has cost him $61,000.
The 37-year-old had his hotmail hacked last week as he was on a plane back to Las Vegas from the Aussie Millions in Melbourne.
Kid Poker then discovered to his horror that his main poker account had also been accessed - and the perpetrator was busy playing with his...
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Daniel Negreanu: The best loser in poker
Poker News January 30, 2012 Hats off to Daniel Negreanu.
The 37-year-old has certainly had his enemies (Annie Duke, anyone?) but nobody can say he's a bad loser.
Most of us sukily storm off after getting kicked out of a tournament, any tournament, especially when it's right on the bubble.
But not Kid Poker.
He let an eye-watering $800,000 slip through his fingers in the Aussie Millions Super High Roller...
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Phil Ivey lands biggest cash of career so far
Poker News January 28, 2012 Phil Ivey busted out of the Aussie Millions 2012 Main Event in 12th place today - then went and won the $250,000 Super High Roller.
The 35-year-old, who picked up $100,000 earlier in the day, pocketed an astonishing $2,000,000 after beating Patrik Antonius ($1,200,000) heads up.
Gus Hansen picked up $800,000 for finishing 3rd.
Ivey was just ahead of Antonius when heads up began, but ground...
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Phil Ivey makes big move at Aussie Millions
Poker News January 25, 2012 Phil Ivey dominates poker to the extent that he is most commonly compared to a great golfer, Tiger Woods.
But it was a legend from another sport - cricketer Shane Warne - who helped the 35-year-old into a commanding position on Day 1c of the Aussie Millions Main Event in Melbourne.
Ivey had struggled throughout much of this third opening day and had dropped to 85,000 chips - nearly 170,000...
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John Dibella wins $1.7m PCA 2012 Main Event
Poker News January 16, 2012 John Dibella has won the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, picking up $1,775,000.
The 43-year-old stockbroker from New York was only in the Bahamas to play a series of small side events.
But the married father-of-two unexpectedly won a live $1,000 satellite into the $10,000 Main Event last Saturday.
And a week later, he finds himself champion of one of the biggest poker tournaments...
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Daniel Negreanu takes revenge on Isildur1
Poker News March 28, 2011 Daniel Negreanu has stunned Isildur1 in their SuperStar Showdown online poker rematch on PokerStars.
Kid Poker was $130,000 down at one point on Sunday night but fought back to take $25,500 off Isildur1, who had only lost once clash before in the heads-up online poker series two months ago.
A gravious Negreanu immediatedly paid tribute to the 20-year-old after his win at the four-table,...
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Daniel Negreanu: Isildur1 is better than me
Poker News March 23, 2011 Daniel Negreanu has vowed to take revenge on Isildur1 Viktor Blom in the second match of their SuperStar Showdown on PokerStars this Sunday.
Kid Poker was destroyed by the 20-year-old last weekend, when the youngster took the maximum $150,000 off him in just four hours and 1,439 hands.
But Negreanu, 36, claims he has been practicing non-stop since his shocking defeat and will definitely be...
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Isildur1 destroys Daniel Negreanu in 4 hours
Poker News March 21, 2011 Isildur1 Viktor Blom destroyed Daniel Negreanu in the first match of their SuperStar Showdown on PokerStars last night.
The 20-year-old made Kid Poker look like an amateur as he took the maximum $150,000 off him in just four hours and 1,439 hands.
The pair were playing the now standard four-table, 2,500-hand match at $50/$100 No Limit - with another match to be played under the same terms...
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Isildur1 to face Daniel Negreanu online
Poker News March 15, 2011 Isildur1 is to go head-to-head with Daniel Negreanu in an online poker clash.
The two pros, who are both sponsored by PokerStars, will fight it out in a SuperStar Challenge which will be spread across two consecutive weekends.
It will begin on March 20 for 2,500 hands of No Limit Hold’em across four tables at stakes no lower than $50/$100, and will continue the following Sunday - March...
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EPT Deauville: Lucien Cohen wins €880,000
Poker News February 1, 2011 The EPT Deauville has been won by French pest-control expert Lucien Cohen.
The 47-year-old from Paris, using a toy plastic rat as a card protector, beat final table chip leader Martin Jacobson - and a record-breaking 891-strong field - to scoop the €888,000 first prize and the first EPT title of the season.
Jacobson, finding himself at a 5:1 chip disadvantage in heads-up, had to act and...
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