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The Canadian Poker Tour has recently announced that they have signed professional poker player Lacey Jones as its new face and spokesman for the tour. Jones will be attending the live events, with the first one being in Calgary at the Cash Casino in late February. She will also be displayed on the CPT’s brand new online video network.

The durrrr challenge is now 64% complete and Dwan and Antonius are approaching their one year anniversary of the challenge. A couple of days ago Dwan played Antonius for a total of 2,112 hands and added $209k to his lead, which puts him ahead by over $1 million.

Full Tilt Poker recently released a interesting new poker format, they call it Rush Poker. This new format is only for no limit hold’em currently, and either NL25, NL50 & NL100. The idea behind rush poker is to get players the maximum number of hand possible per hour with numbers expected to be upwards of 300-400 hands per hour.

Popular online poker site PokerStars.com announced today a special promotion that will allow players to save 15-50% on merchandise through their VIP store. The promotion will run from January 12-31 with a different product offered at a discount each day. Full Details Here

The poker world experienced a great loss hour ago as one of its more colorful personalities, professional poker player Amir Vahedi, passed away in Las Vegas due to complications from diabetes. This news came as a shock to the poker community and has been the source of many poker tweets and posts on poker forums the past couple of hours. Poker-Prop.net extends our condolences to his friends and family in their time of loss.

Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan and Patrik Antonius met for their 27th session last night on Full Tilt Poker and Dwan continued to impress by increasing his overall lead to $697,532. 1063 hands were played, which passed the half way mark in the challenge.

Doyle Brunson has added another hit poker player to his crew over at DoylesRoom, the latest being Chris Moorman. Moorman is well known in the United Kingdom and is one of the top online poker players. The 24 year old has already made a name for himself by winning three $10,000 tournaments on three different poker sites in one week.

Lary “pokergirl_z” Kennedy and Greg Omotoy have filed a complaint to the Superior Court of California accusing Full Tilt of many things including: fraud, false advertising, racketeering, unjust enrichment, libel and slander. The lawsuit came about after Full Tilt confiscated more than $80,000 from the two players poker accounts for operating poker bot software.

Luke “FullFlush” Schwartz has it out for Tom “durrrr” Dwan and has recently said in a pokerlisting interview that he can’t stand durrrr. He can’t stand durrrr’s face, durrrr’s voice, and durrrr’s eyes. He can’t stand anything about durrrr. He’s just an arrogant social retard. He’s spastic. There’s not much more to say than that. Read more about this heated topic and what else FullFlush has to say.

Professional superstar poker player Daniel Negreanu, who might be considered one of the most famous players of all time faced off against former professional soccer player Teddy Sheringham during the World Series of Poker Europe main event. The two of them butted heads and finally decided to make a prop bet, with Sheringham saying that Negreanu can not score on him. Visit link to view complete details of the prop bet.