Tom Dawn Durrr took down a $617,968.50 pot while playing heads up at Full Tilt Poker table rail haven against LarsLuzak. This marks the biggest pot ever won in online poker history, just marginally topping the $609,730 pot Guy LaLiberte (Patatino) won off Hac Dang (trex313) last month

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The FTOPS (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) is back for the 10th time in history and for the final series of 2008. The series begins on Wednesday, November 5th and carries a main event with a prize pool of $2.5 million guaranteed with only a $535 buy-in. Please visit link to view the complete FTOPS X schedule.

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On October 5th, Duplicate Poker sent a message to it’s players and posted a similar message on their website that reads:

Duplicate is sadly bidding farewell to its players. Caught in the middle of the global financial situation the company is not able to continue to provide service. We are a small victim of the global financial crisis.

Regretfully as of the today, October 5th, 2008 we are closing our service. We thank our players for being with us. Hopefully at later time and in a better economic climate Duplicate Poker will re-appear.

This is quite surprising since a few weeks earlier Duplicate Poker issued a press statement claiming that they have gained global appeal and poker players are at all levels are playing the new format of Texas Hold’em.

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Full Tilt Poker’s Million Dollar Cash Game was played out for the third time in London, England and a few of the players that were in attendance were: Patrik Antonius, Doyle Brunson, Jennifer Harman, Johnny Chan, Daniel Negreanu, Eli Elizra and Phil Ivey. Each one of these players were required to buy-in for at least $100,000 and played $300-$600 no limit Texas Hold’em. Phil Ivey ended up crushing the game again taking down a pot over $800,000 and another pot over $500,000.

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Daniel Negreanu predicted that the final table would take roughly 15 hours to play due to the quality of players at the table and the blind structure. He even undershot it as it took 22 hours before John Juanda finally won the WSOP Europe Main Event. Juanda not only takes home a prestigious gold bracelet he also earned £868,800.

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Playboy model and professional poker player Jennifer “Jennicide” Leigh has started dating the creator of Napster, Shawn Fanning according to several sources on online message boards. Jennicide is closely followed poker babe that also participates among major forums such as TwoPlusTwo and is a fan favourite of many male poker players.

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Party Poker is currently the fourth largest poker site in the world and only a few players behind the iPoker network for the third position and Party has just released new software to their players. The new software is so impressive that it may have even set the bar higher than what PokerStars has done. There are several new features that truly benefit multi-table players with keeping the inexperienced poker players in mind. Please read the full article for more details on what has changed over at Party Poker.

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Doyle Brunson, the famous veteran poker player that is commonly referred to as the god father of poker played a best of three heads up Texas Hold’em match against teenage poker prodigy Annette Obrestad who is well known for winning the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event and crushing online poker. The match was played out as a warm-up to the WSOP Europe Main Event.

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