Poker News

According to a CardPlayer.com article the Los Angeles County Coroner has confirmed they’ve received the body of cult poker personality Brandi Hawbaker last Sunday. The apparent cause of death was suicide; Brandi was was 26 years old. She is also known to some as Brandi Rose or Naami Dea.

There has been a lot of tension in recent weeks between Doyle Brunson and Patrik Antonius. The two have apparently already agreed to play each other in a high stakes heads up poker match with more than a million dollars on the line. It now seems likely that a $100K per hole golf match might also be added to the card… This story is a great read and can be found here.

Susie Isaacs and other top female players that boycotted the 2008 WPT Ladies Championship can celebrate victory today as the WPT has reevaluated their decision and will put no mandates on future WPT Events labeled “championship”, full story here.

Stay Puff the professional tournament player is providing Poker-Prop.net news readers with reviews of events 50 to 55 at the 2008 World Series of Poker Read the Full WSOP Report

Pokerstars is giving away a million dollars worth of free seats to the WSOP. Starting April 13th, PokerStars will be offering you a chance to freeroll your way to the WSOP every hour at five past the hour until June 21st. A total of 80 Prize packages are up for grabs, prize packages include entry to the Main Event, accommodation at The Palms in Las Vegas and $2,500 spending cash. More Details

Professional tournament poker player Stay Puff is back giving us a report of the 2008 World Series of Poker. This report includes reviews of Event 40 to Event 48.Read the Full Report Here

When the WPT Ladies champion is crowned at Bellagio next week, some of poker’s top female players will not be in attendance. To find out why some have chosen to boycott this event read the full story here.

While Epassporte has yet to release a statement that they’ve left the US market, more online poker rooms have shared notice they’ve been given from the company. Read the update here

Absolute Poker has been working overtime to add new features and promotions since last years POTRIPPER incident. There latest addition is a new bounty tournament series called Absolute Assassins which gives players a unique way to earn their seat in the 2008 World Series of Poker…Full story

This week we cover a variety of poker news and notes that include: Harrah’s Entertainment changing their name, Leeann Tweeden becomes Poker After Dark’s new poker babe and will begin hosting season 4, and finally we’ll talk about the new Pacific Poker bonus. Read the Full Stories Here