The 2008 World Series of Poker HORSE event winner Scotty Nguyen issued an apology to the poker community, after he acted extremely inappropriate to his fellow competitors and other people in attendance. Nguyen ended up getting so drunk that he basically made a fool of himself and is now feeling the guilt of this and issued an excellent apology last week.

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Professional poker player from Australian, Joe Hachem is going to star in a documentary film directed by Bil Cates. Apparently the film will cover his 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event win when he defeated Steve Dannenmann heads up. I will not be excited to see this film as I have briefly met Joe and found him to be super full of himself. Please do not watch this film…

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The Connecticut based Mohegan Sun Casino grew significantly bigger adding a $925 million expansion, that includes a 42 table poker room, over 650 slot machines and 28 floor table games all over a 64,000 square foot area.

“We are very excited to reveal Casino of the Wind to the world,” said Mr. Etess, CEO of Mohegan Sun. “The Rockwell Group, who have been our architects since the beginning in 1996, have outdone themselves. This may be their best work yet.”

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Ross “Dutch” Boyd was left out of the $15,000 Bellagio main event after he couldn’t find a backer in time. Normally, Team SMD backs Dutch, but after his poor performance in the World Series of Poker, they decided to sit him out. Team SMD is owned by Eric “Sheets” Haber and Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy and they back over 60 players. Where will this leave Dutch, can he find a backer in time for the World Series of Poker Europe in time?

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The 2008 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is underway and is already drawing great numbers. The first event was a $215 No Limit Texas Hold’em 6 Max Freezeout that drew 7,217 players creating a total prize pool of $1,443,400, which blew the PokerStars guarantee of $1 million away. It will be interesting to see what kind of numbers the Main Event will bring with a $5,200 buy-in and a $10 million guaranteed prize pool.

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The World Poker Tour is returning to Canada to film a pair of tournaments at the famous River Rock Casino. Rodgers Sportsnet will broadcast the footage with Jim Van Horne and well known Canadian poker player Kenna James. Sportsnet subscribes will be able to watch a $1,000 buy-in tournament with bounties on Brad Booth, Gavin Smith, Antonio Esfrandiari, and Kenna James.

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It has been rumored that professional hockey player Mats Sundin will be announcing tomorrow that he is joining Team PokerStars and joining the likes of avid hockey fan Daniel Negreanu, professional Tennis player Borris Becker and several other professional poker players.

The timing seems quite strange for Sundin as he has yet to decide whether he is playing in the NHL or is hanging up the skates for good. He has also not given out any interest as to which team he would like to play for, as many are throwing him upwards of $10 million per year to sign.

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To keep up with the demand of ladies event, Lauren Failla is offering women a chance to player their very own poker tour that is being called, ‘High Heels Poker Tour’. The High Heels Poker Tour launched in 2007 out of Florida and has given women more ladies only tournaments and cash games at local casinos. Their mission is to empower women to become champion poker players.

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The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino has re-opened their poker room after spending 30 million dollars and creating what they call a “Poker Lounge.” The Poker Lounge was designed by Zeff Designs and features a 16 zoned state of the art sound system, 18 table room, beautiful bar and an overall very warm atmosphere. There are several twists that the Hard Rock is throwing in including: kill is 5 times the small blind for no limit games, Mississippi Straddle, and many other interesting little twists to the game.

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Brian “sbrugby” Townsend has been the current topic of gossip and forum flaming as he admitted to cheating on his blog on cardrunners.com. Cardrunners.com is the largest and best online poker tutorial site and Brian is not only an instructor but also a part owner of the site. The site also has a strategic business relationship with Full Tilt Poker which is one of the sites Brian admitted to cheating via multi-accounting on.

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