The Everest Poker Live Like a Pro or Live The Dream promotion has filled 100 seats. Winners of this tournament will receive 100,000 dollars worth of high stake tournament buyins and travel expenses. Once the 200 seats have been filled, Everest Poker will run a casting call, which will filter out the 10 winners of the event.

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The European Gambling and Betting Association, known as the EGBA, was not pleased that Germany banned all forms of online gambling. This includes any poker, casino and sportsbook gambling sites that are ran on the internet. The EGBA has made there first move by filling an official complaint with the European Commission. Read more…

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Shane Warne, a long time cricket star, makes his debut as a professional poker player today at the 2008 Aussie Millions. He has received extensive training from the 2005 WSOP Main Event Champion Joe Hachem and a long term sponsorship from the online poker room pacificpoker.com

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Shannon Elizabeth is all set to make her debut under new sponsorship. This sexy Hollywood actress is known for a lot more than just her roll as Nadia in the movie American pie, she is also one fierce competitor at the poker table. In fact just recently she eliminated three different multi-time WSOP winners in Barry Greenstein, Jeff Madsen and Humberto Brenes from the NBC Heads-up Poker Championship.

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Applications filed by both the Kahnawake Gaming Commission in Canada and the Government of Antigua for Whitelist approval have been declined by UK’s Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. This is a huge blow to hundreds of Kahnawake gaming operators as it prevents them from being able to advertise freely in the United Kingdom.

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Patrick Antonius was asked by “Poker Magazine” Finnish version to list who he believed the top five poker players of Fixed Limit Texas Hold’em, No Limit Texas Hold’em, Live tournaments and Pot Limit Omaha are. Without hesitation Patrik let us know who he thinks the best to be; discover who he chose in this article.

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This past week PKR had 10,007 players logged in their software. Reaching the 10,000 player milestone is quite an accomplishment for any online poker room but is even more impressive for PKR as they’ve been live for less than 18 months.

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Howard Lederer finds himself 1.25 million dollars richer this morning after having won event 9 of the 2008 Aussie millions late last night. This event was a 25 player $100,000 buy-in event which was played as part No Limit and part Pot Limit Texas Holdem and included the top names in poker.

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Betfair Poker is now running a weekly $100,000 guaranteed tournament. The tournament is played on every Sunday at 8:30 EST. There is a $555 buyin with several freerolls and satellites to enter. Satellites run several times throughout each day, which guarantee at least one seat per tournament.

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Randy Couture is hosting a tournament with proceeds going to the Extreme Couture GI Foundation. The tournament is being played on January 8th, 2007. First place prize to the tournament winner is a whooping $50,000! Several major pro’s are attending which include: Doyle Brunson, Todd Brunson and Mike Matusow.

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