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PokerStars presents a short documentary on the hardships and successes of the poker career of Team PokerStars Online pro Shane ’Shaniac’ Schleger.

Shane 'Shaniac' Schleger

Shane ’Shaniac’ Schleger started out as a waiter in New York City to become one of the most successful online players, as well as a Team PokerStars Online professional. The road, however, was far from smooth, requiring immense amount of work and dedication, as well as a “strong competitive spirit” to overcome the hardships.

US Deparment of Homeland Security shuts down Mt. Gox transactions on Dwolla, regulation of Bitcoin is planned.

Many US players would consider Bitcoin the tool to bypass US federal law. Considering it is an anonymous and not “real” currency, even though maintaining real value, it could provide a shortcut for online poker in the US market, at least for global sites that accept it as a deposit currency. Most recently, iPoker’s WinPoker skin made it available as a payment method.

Two renowned professional poker pros left LockPro Elite, the sponsored pro team of Lock Poker. Those who part ways with the room are Chris ‘moorman1’ Moorman and Paul ‘paulgees81’ Volpe.

Both players turned to the social media to announce their decision to leave their sponsoring room, Lock Poker.

The 888poker iPad App Fast-Tracks your Poker Game!

The focus of the 888poker iPad App is mobile poker gaming par excellence. Now players can enjoy top-notch poker games on their iPad.

iPad Poker gaming is experiencing a groundswell of support from players the world over. Top-tier mobile poker is the order of the day and 888poker has developed a software platform to enhance your enjoyment of iPad poker play.

A new application for Android devices offers the opportunity to users to define odds in live poker games.

A new app for Android smartphones and tablets has been released to calculate odds at live poker games: this is the Poker Odds Camera. All it takes with the software to take a picture of the cards on the table and the app calculates your odds.

The application handles two as well as multi-way all-in situations and we can calculate odds for every individual street; even in the case of a river shove, we can see where we stood on the flop or the turn.

After two years’ break, Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan and Daniel ‘jungleman12’ Cates resumed their 50,000 hands heads-up duel.

‘Durrrr’ and ‘jungleman12’ started their duel, dubbed the Durrrr Challenge 2, in August, 2010. The last hand they played was the 19,335th, where Cates stood at $1,251,059 in profits. Dwan was apparently unable to counter the NLHE heads-up specialist, at his prime at the time, which might be the main reason he began to postpone further hands and chose the highly plus EV games in Macau instead.

Ashton Griffin has recently tweeted that he was going to participate in a $100,000 PLO heads-up championship in April.

Ashton Griffin

The Alls Star Showdown is an online heads-up championship, the NLHE variant of which was held in November, 2012. A total of eight players paid the $100,000 buy-in: Tobias 'KTPOKP' Kuder, Ben 'Sauce123' Sulsky, Isaac 'Ike Haxton' Haxton, Alex 'Kanu7' Millar, Alexander 'Sussie Smith' Roumeliotis, Dan 'w00ki3z.' Cates, Phil 'mrsweets28' Galfond and Ben 'ben86' Tollerene.

There is always something keeping you from achieving the great breakthrough? Are you unable to beat your stake? Some useful tips and solutions follow from the history of winning online poker strategies.

 
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Rigged RNGs, or Play Bad, Get Rewarded
One of the basic rules of winning online poker strategies is that despite making correct decisions, the RNG is rigged and the fish will get his backdoor nut straight. The only solution is to double-cross the RNG, betting big in situations where you are more than likely beaten. In the worst case, you are still saving yourself a bad beat and can tilt a lot of players by winning hands from behind.

Tomorrow, on 10 March, the heads-up matches of the Negreanu Challenge will be played. Let us inspect the teams in comparison to determine the favourite!

Daniel Negreanu has recently challenged FTP Pros Gus Hansen, Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom and Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan to heads-up SNG matches. Three duels will be played among the teams of three: Negreanu picked four times WSOP champion Isaac ‘luvtheWNBA’ Haxton and Betrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier as his teammates.

Ryan ‘MouldyOnions’ Bell reached the SuperNova Elite VIP level in only 53 days, breaking Andrew ‘azntracker’ Li’s SNE speed record.

Already as of 15 February, British high stakes SNG player Ryan ‘MouldyOnions’ Bell was within arm’s reach of becoming the first SuperNova Elite (SNE) of 2013, as well as to break Andrew ‘azntracker’ Li’s “SNE speed record.” In 2011, ‘azntracker’ needed less than two months to collect the 1,000,000 VPPs required for the SNE status.

IveyPoker.com, the poker training site soon to be launched by legendary poker pro Phil Ivey, is now joined by Dan Shak in its pro team that already boasts the membership of Patrik Antonius, Greg Merson, Jackie Glazier, Jennifer Harman and Cole South.

Dan Shak

The IveyPoker.com website, a coaching enterprise with the promise of teaching everyone how to win, is still being developed and is currently in “the final stages of developing an innovative social poker game that also provides poker training content from some of the world's top pros.” The aforementioned, respectful list of players is now joined by Dan Shak.

Jonathan Grotenstein and Storms Reback’s latest book titled SHIP IT HOLLA BALLAS!: How a Bunch of 19-Year-Old College Dropouts Used the Internet to Become Poker’s Loudest, Craziest, and Richest Crew, details the story of arguably the most infamous poker crew from before Black Friday.

Advanced praises of the book go as follow:

"The loud narcissism and adolescent degeneracy of these talented 'ballas' ain't pretty, but the testosterroneous world of high-stakes online poker in America before Black Friday, in all its doomed glory, steadily throbs in Grotenstein and Reback's swift prose."

—James McManus, New York Times bestselling author of Positively Fifth Street

Patrik Antonius and Rui Cao are to enter a million dollar challenge. The online duel will take place on PLO, NLHE and 27TD tables, probably during next week.

High stakes pros Patrik Antonius and Rui Cao agreed in a chatbox conversation to enter a heads-up challenge, betting $1 million each. The session will be in PLO, NLHE and 27TD games: the bets are $350,000 in PLO, $350,000 in NLHE and $300,000 in 2-7.

The GPI European Poker Awards ceremony was held on 22 January at the Elysee Biarritz in Paris, France. Titles were awarded in a total of nine categories.

Marvin Rettenmaier

The most prestigious award, European Player of the Year, went to Marvin Rettenmaier. This was no surprise: this year Epic Poker League’s Global poker Index (GPI) was used to determine the winner. As of 31 December, 2012, Rettenmaier held the top position, which predestined him for the coveted title.

In addition to his major MTT successes, Johan Van Til wins dozens of WSOP packages each year. One will easily find periods when there are literally no Step 6 tournaments that kick off without him.

Johan ‘busto_soon’ Van Til

Dutch Johan ‘busto_soon’ Van Til gained fame around 2007 and 2008, when he was already able to show off a number of major results, after only 2 years into his professional poker career. He took down a number of $109 re-buy events and had tens of thousands of dollars in total winnings.

His biggest prize was $81,326 for the Full Tilt Poker Mini FTOPS Event #40 in 2011. His balanced performance can be easily followed in the charts below.