Lee Watkinson has once again proved he is the best Pot Limit Omaha player. Hours ago he made it through a star-studded field of top poker professionals, eliminating Mike Sexton and 4th place and Tom Durrr in the end to take home Event 7 of the 2008 Aussie Millions title. This was a $3,250 plus rebuys Pot Limit Omaha event, the same type of event Lee won his 2007 WSOP bracelet in.

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The PokerStars success continues for ElkY, who back in 2006 was the first PokerStars player to reach Supernova Elite status in their VIP program. He later joined Team PokerStars and plays live events under this sponsorship. His biggest accomplishment yet, occurred last night when he won $2,000,000 and the title of 2008 EPT PokerStars Caribbean Adventure champion.

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With the success of WPT Ladies night events and the rise in poker amongst female players the World Poker Tour has decided to launch an all new tournament league for ladies. This league will have its own No Limit Texas Holdem tournament circuit and already 5 events for season one have been scheduled. The first event will be held January 20 at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, NJ.

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One of the most famous Rappers, Jay-Z has lost $500,000 in one hand of poker in Las Vegas. There are no confirmations yet to whether this story is true right now. But according to insiders, this story holds a lot of merit.

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After being banned from the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure it did not take long for Josh Field to make his live tournament debut. Having just turned 18 and ready to take the poker world by storm Josh is making his debut today at the Aussie Millions. Here Amanda Letherman caught up to him for a video interview which can be seen here.

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FTOPS, short for Full Tilt Online Poker Series, has been confirmed to carry on in 2008. This is a quarterly Vegas style tournament series which runs online. The first series of 2008 is FTOPS VII which will include 20 events over a 12 day period and its first event begins February 6th at 21:00 ET.

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