Full Tilt Poker recently announced their plans for a Mini-WSOP* (MSOP) designed for players without the bankroll of time to travel to Las Vegas to play the 2008 World Series of Poker. This event will mirror that of the live Las Vegas tournament series with the only difference being this event is played online and each tournament has a buy-in 1/100th the size of its live counterpart. Winners of each event will receive a Full Tilt championship watch (shown left). The event will run online at Full Tilt Poker from May 30th to July 5th.
In just two events the PokerStars LAPT has become a huge success. It never hurts any to have relatively unknown players take down major titles. The latest big money poker champion is a 24 year old Hungarian poker player named Valdemar Kwayssen. To learn more about his accomplishment read our 
扑克之星 全球最大的扑克网站 打开了首次实弹卡室在澳门的今天. This is our horribly translated way of informing our visitors from China that PokerStars Macau opened for business today. This is big news as far as the future of online poker is concerned as executives in the poker industry have been keeping tabs on the Asian market for quite some time. Many believe that Asian market has the potential to provide the largest poker boom the industry has seen yet and poker booms are obviously good for the players as they attract fish. To put it simple: Macau is the Vegas of the Far East (but bigger) and until recently poker was illegal there and still is so online. The Chinese government is beginning to show signs they’re ready to let go of the poker ban as recently they signed a 5 year deal with the WPT to allow poker to be broadcast on television and after seeing massive success with PokerStars Asian Poker Tour they decided to allow PokerStars to open Macau’s first live poker room. For details on this room as well as how you can win a chance to play there, 
Rumors are floating throughout the Poker Community that High Stakes Poker on the Game Show Network (GNS) has been canceled. Here the hosts account of how they’ve been ‘treated like…” 
Trends suggest that being the host of World Poker Tour might not be as great of a job as its cracked up to be. Today Layla Kaleigh announced she would not be returning to the show next season. This makes her the third consecutive host to quit after just one season. To date Shana Hiatt, original host of the WPT, was the one hostess to last more than 2 years. 
Julien Nuijten is the latest Magic player to win a major poker tournament. Early Tuesday morning he took down the PokerStars LAPT Event in Rio de Janeiro. Nuijten first rose to fame in 2004 when at age 15 he became the youngest player ever to win a Magic: The Gathering Championship. He joins Magic Hall of Fame members David Williams and Erik Froelich as players who’ve made the transition from winning Magic events to winning high stake poker tournaments.
Bodog announced yesterday they’ve signed 22 year old poker prodigy Justin Bonomo to Team Bodog. He will be endorsing Bodog Poker at live events around the world starting with the WSOP Vegas later this month.
Harrah’s confirmed today that the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event will be played 117 days after it has been set. The move of the final table to the September TV season is designed to help draw a wider audience by giving WSOP the appeal of a major sports championship. While a lot of full time poker player’s and poker community members have been quite vocal that this violates tradition and the point of a poker tournament, supporters feel these players are missing the bigger pitcher. 
