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Tag: High Stakes Poker

  • China’s Poker Princess Guo Meimei busted

    By now, many people have heard about the wild story of Molly Bloom (a.k.a. the Poker Princess), who organized high stakes poker games in Los Angeles and New York. Some of those who attended Bloom’s games include Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Alex Rodriguez and Tobey Maguire. You can read all about the story…

  • Debate over whether Full Tilt Players cheated Guy Laliberte

    Earlier this week, Cirque du Soleil owner and high stakes poker player Guy Laliberte told Le Journal De Montreal that he was essentially cheated at Full Tilt Poker. Although the French-to-English translation is a little choppy, Laliberte alleges that famous pros were borrowing an endless supply of money from Full Tilt. Combining this unlimited bankroll…

  • Waka Flocka dubs Dan Bilzerian the “New Hugh Hefner”

    Dan Bilzerian continues to fascinate the world, and All In Magazine is capitalizing on this fascination with a series of interviews with “Blitz.” They’ve now released two parts to the series, with the second just recently coming available. In this segment, Bilzerian starts out by discussing the now-famous staking deal with Jay Farber, where he…

  • Is PokerStars moving to Zoom-Only?

    It’s been a few weeks since PokerStars made the controversial decision to switch all of their regular high stakes games (50/100 NLHE, PLO and up) to Zoom Poker format. And Stars recently struck again by changing their $25/$50 PLO games to Zoom on February 1st. Given these huge changes, a poster on TwoPlusTwo raised a…

  • PokerStars causes Controversy by using Same EPT Barcelona Hotel

    Several members of the high stakes poker community were spooked at EPT Barcelona last year when criminals busted into their hotel rooms and installed malware on their computers. Jens Kyllonen was especially shook by the matter after his hotel room was broken into multiple times. The perpetrator(s) installed a virus on his laptop in an…

  • Dan Bilzerian dishes on Ivey, Dwan and Degens of Poker

    If ever there were a poker player who could rival the Dos Equis guy, it is Dan Bilzerian. For evidence of this, you need merely check Bilzerian’s twitter feed, which features numerous pictures of hot girls, guns, luxury cars and movie appearances. Given all of the cool things that Bilzerian can and has done, it’s…

  • Jens Kyllonen, Others targeted in “Sharking” Scandal

    Three months ago, we covered an incident at EPT Barcelona where poker players’ laptops were compromised. If you don’t want to read the entire story, the jest of it is that certain players noticed their laptops were tampered with, then reported this to hotel security. Unfortunately, the security staff was less than helpful, leading the…

  • EPT Barcelona Players fear their Rooms and Laptops were Compromised

    Just yesterday we discussed some news from EPT Barcelona regarding how Daniel Negreanu got upset over the “first card rule.” Now a new story might even top this since it involves breached hotel rooms, compromised laptops, and a possible inside job. The reports started this morning when high stakes poker pro Jens Kyllonen discussed a…

  • Dan Bilzerian Craziness continues: He loses $2.5m in One Night

    Dan Bilzerian is known as one of the wildest and craziest poker players in the game today. The son of wealthy corporate takeover guru Paul Bilzerian, Dan first became well known after the lid was blown on Hollywood poker games involving Tobey Maguire, Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon. Bilzerian was interviewed about his…

  • Jamie Gold Busto? Selling WSOP Bracelet

    People have been wondering for years if 2006 WSOP Main Event Jamie Gold is busto. And the poker world is only going to further buy into this rumor now that Gold is selling his 2006 Main Event bracelet through an auctioneer. The bracelet is being sold through Heritage Auctions, which dubs themselves as “The World’s Largest…