The Weekly Turbo: An Unexpected Victory, Bots and Seminoles Hard Rock-ing

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The Winner’s Circle

Hometown hero Rachid Rami won the 2016 PMU.fr Marrakech for almost $100,000, defeating a field of 396 players.

Sunday Briefing: pejacpokertook down the Sunday Million for $146,146.72, making himself the big winner of the weekend. Cesar “Ce$ar$pa” Garcia won two PokerStars Sunday tournaments.

An unexpected winner this week was Zachary Smiley, who came out of nowhere to win the WPT Maryland Live! for $356,536. Not bad for a first cash for this unemployed medical school dropout.

Andoni Pollopopeye” Larrabe won his third Super Tuesday Oct. 4 at PokerStars, adding the $74,810.28 win to his list of victories.

September 888 Recap: Sami Kolpuro, Dominik Nitsche and “GetLuckyAK” get in a three-way deal and more!

A big weekend for Daniel Lupo, who shipped two tournaments for a combined $12,423! But wait, there’s more; check out this New Jersey Online Poker Briefing.

The Game Changers

Can poker bios and styles of play predict the outcome of the November Nine? These bots show we can.

Four men allegedly used marked cards and special contact lenses to take over $10,000 from a player in China. Unfortunately, they weren’t smart enough to flee the scene afterward.

888 Holdings won “Best Digital Operator” for 888poker.com at the Global Gaming Awards for their expansion of U.S. and European operations.

Haters gonna hate. Trolls gonna troll. This week on Five Thoughts: Trolling Bonomo, bailing out the GPL, threatening the future of high rollers and more!

France’s fenced-in online poker experiment appears to be over, as the country is set to move into shared liquidity with other European nations.

American artist Frederic Remington helped to shape future generations’ ideas of the Old West, cowboys, and of course, poker.

Poker author and coach Tommy Angelo shares a long-form discussion of “reciprocality” in poker: Reciprocality says that when you and …

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