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If you want to see the biggest Poker Pros in the world around the same table, you should go to Full Tilt Poker. Phil Ivey winning a large stack from Gus Hansen, then Gus Hansen wins a big stack from John Juanda, all this you can see live at Full Tilt Poker. Just open your Poker sofware, or if you din´t have one, download it here, and open an account. Go to Hold´em then go to $500/$1000 No Limit Hold´em. Here you can find some of the biggest stacks in the world of Online Poker. Names like Phil Ivey, John Juanda (who just won WSOP Europe in London), Patrik Antonius and Gus Hansen sits down at the same table and play.

Look at this hand:

In this hand Phil Ivey got K-K, Gus Hansen has 10-10 and OMGClayAiken got A-Q. Phil Ivey takes down this hand, when his K-K stands and he got two pairs with Kings and Nines. In this single hand Phil Ivey won $90,997. In one single hand! That is what I call High stakes Poker.

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Tiffany Michelle from Ultimate Bet won the big Charity Poker event at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. This event was made for raising money for Road 2 Recovery. The Poker room at MGM Grand was full of poker pros and other celebrities who all paid a buy-in of $300, and if they went out of the tournament, they could make a re-buy paying another $100. This could be made by the first four levels of play.
Some big names in poker were there, like WSOP bracelet winner Jeff Madsen, great poker player Jennifer Harman. From Doyle´s room came Todd Brunson and Hoyt Corkins. The winner of WSOP Main Event 2006, Jamie Gold also played. He won $12 million when he won the main event at WSOP, defeated Paul Wasicka.
First prize in this Charity Poker Event was a buy-in to WSOP Main Event 2009, worth $10,000. Second and Third place got a nice watch that was designed by Curtis and Comapny.
And the winner was Tiffany Michelle, and now she has a ticket for 2009 WSOP Main Event. This year (2008) she was the last woman in the tournament, and finished on place 17, and she won $334,000.

The Irish Poker Festival is now over and the winner of the main event was Jimmy McSweeney. This was a Ladbrokes event and McSweeney won €100,000. He was beating 832 players that was attending this tournament, and heads-up he was up against Andrew Roberts. The prize pool for this popular event was €416,000. Last hand was a real coinflip, McSweeney had 6-6 and Roberts had A-9, and 6-6 held, making McSweeney the winner of the tournament.

Here is the final table places:

1: Jimmy McSweeney €100,000

2: Andrew Roberts €65,000

3: Bo Ericshen €35,000

4: Hugh Whelan €25,000

5: Nick Heather €20,000

6: Ian Smith €15,000

7: Steve Johnson €12,000

8: Barry Hand € 10,000

Ladbrokes Bryan Coleman was saying; “We’re absolutely delighted with the turnout and would like to thank all the players who made this Festival such a success. Our heartiest congratulations go to Jimmy, who is a worthy champion and we’re sure we’ll be hearing more of him in the future.”

We also want to congratulate Jimmy McSweeney for a good tournament and to the €100,000!

Today Michael Martin won the EPT London and the prize money of £1 million. Michael Matin comes from Washing Cross and is 24 years old. He was down to only 95,000 in chips and was on his way out of the tournament, but it all turned around, and he won a couple of big hand in just 10 minutes, and he was back again. When he was down at 95,000 in chips the big blind was 80,000. This is how close it was, but then he tripled up and the doubled up twice.
Heads up he was up against the swede Michael Tureniec. The last hand was a all-in pre flop and Martin had 4-4 and the swede had K-9. The flop made a set for Martin and it was all over, Michael Martin was a poker millionaire.
The swede Michael Tureniec can be happy aswell, he turned his $800 that he paid at Pokerstars satellites, into £500,000. He won a satellite at Pokerstars just the weekend before the EPT London began. EPT London was played at Victoria Casino in central London. There was 596 poker players attending and around 125 was Pokerstars players. The buy-in for EPT London was £5200+£200.

The High Roller event at EPT London is finished aswell. The winner here was Jason Mercier. His first prize was £516,000 and it cost £20,000 in buy-in. Here 86 players attended. In heads-up he met John Juanda, the man who won the WSOPE just a couple of days ago. But this time he did´nt go all the way, but London have been really good to John Juanda anyway.

Next EPT event is in Budapest, October 28 – November 1. Buy-in for this event is €4000+€350 and have a cap of 500 players.

Matt Brady took home the 2008 Aruba Poker Classic that ended yesterday. He won $1 million, and won over the swedish poker pro Johan Storakars in the heads up. Johan Storakers was the chip leader when the final table began, and Matt Brady was at second place in chips when it started. But this changed under the final table.
Matt Brady is a poker pro and he have won big money in the World Poker Tour, and is a respected name in the poker world. But this was his first win in a big buy-in tournament.
This final table was actually delayed by rain, and this never happens in poker. Aruba is a Paradise Island but it started to rain under the final table, that was played outside by a great pool just by the water. The tournament final table had to move inside to a casino where they finished it.
The last hand of the tournament, Matt had T-7 and flop was J-T-T. Johan Storakers had A-J and went all in, and Matt´s tens won. Congratulations to Matt Brady and for the winnings of $1 million!

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In January 5-10 2009 the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure takes place in Bahamas, and you can win you seat at Pokerstars. The buy-in to this event is $10,000 and there will also be a High roller event  with buy-in of $25,000. This is the second year this event will be at the European Poker tour. Last years winner was the poker pro from the Pokerstars team, Betrand Grospellier. He won $2 million and that year turned out to be a great year for him.
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After more than 19 hours, if we don´t count the two hour dinner break,  John Juanda took home the title in WSOP Europe Main Event. John Juanda is Full Tilt Poker pro and he won the first prize of £868,800. He is the second person who takes home the title in WSOPE after last years winner Annette Obrestad.
Here is the final table places:
1st  : John Juanda              £868,800
2nd : Stanislav Alekhin     £533,950
3rd  : Ivan Demidov          £334,850
4th : Bengt Sonnert           £271,500
5th : Daniel Negreanu       £217,200
6th : Scott Fischman        £171,950
7th:  Robin Keston           £135,750
8th : Toni Hiltunen          £108,600
9th : Chris Elliott             £81,450

The heads up between John Juanda and Stanislav Alekhin lasted over 7 hours and there was over 240 hands played before Juanda finally could win.
This was the 4th and last event of this year´s WSOP Europe. It all started with the £1,500 buy-in NL hold´em, and Jespoer Hougaard from Denmark was the winner here. His first price was £ 144,218. Then it was time for the £2,500 buy-in HORSE event, name of the winner here was Sherkhan Farnood, that took home £76,999 in first prize.
The 3rd event was £5000 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha, and this was won by Theo Jorgensen, he also from Denmark, he won £218,626 in first prize money.
And the final one, the main event, after almost 20 hours of play at the final table, John Juanda won the big prize money of £868,800.

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by Nick Laurrell

I hate players who take it upon themselves to denote every dumb play at the poker table:

“Terrible play… donk… bad bluff… donk… stupid… donk”

First of all, get a new word. At this point, donk is a donkish term for bad play. Secondly, if there were no “donks” out there making stupid moves then the only way that any one would ever make money would be through being on the right side of cold decks. So don’t go hating on bad players because if it wasn’t for them, then your genius play would just be run-of-the-mill crap gambling gambling. It is in part because of the donkeys that poker is as profitable as it is.

Frankly, I’m sick and tired of people scaring perfectly bad players away and then being forced myself to sit in the brewing stew of super-tight-know-it-all-pot-odds-shackled players. Life is too short to spend your time with judgmental tightwads.

So I’ve got a plan. It’s a small plan and kind of trivial, but it’s a start.

In the spirit of the many great acronyms that the internet has given birth to: lol, lmao, gg, gl, own, pwn, etc, I give you dBAD (pronounced dee – bad) which stands for “don’t be a douchebag.”

Say you are at a table and a guy calls two other all-ins holding pocket fives. Now the guy with the fives is obviously way behind and making a mathematically unsound decision – to say the least – when a six miraculously hits the turn, giving the idiot the winning Number of the Beast.

One guy who lost holding QQ forces out “nh” while two other uninvolved players limit their chat to “wow.” And then comes the inevitable attack from a guy who had nothing to do with the hand itself but cannot abide such behavior at the poker table… his poker table:

“For making a call like that you sure have a lot to learn about poker.” As true as that may be, what good does it do anyone to say that?

So what do you do?

“dBAD”

And even though that guy won’t get it the first time, our movement will grow. Like a revolution, dBAD will grow upon the fingertips of even-tempered poker players everywhere, shutting down the wannabe Matusows and Tony Gs with an acronym of defensive aggression and sleek musicality (seriously, doesn’t dee bad just sound cool?)

So if you are sick of whiny know-it-alls spewing their hateful advice wherever and whenever bad luck strikes at the poker table, join me in proclaiming loudly and in 3/4s caps lock glory:

dBAD.

The EPT London that starts today, October 1^st, is sold out. All the 500 seats has been taken, and about 130 of the seats is taken by players who have qualified through Pokerstars. For players who made the buy-in in cash, it was £5200+£200. Pokerstars also added £250,000 to make the first prize a guaranteed £1,000,000. EPT London will take place at Victoria Casino in central London from today, October 1 to Octbober 6. Note ever before has Pokerstars had a guaranteed prizepool in an EPT.
There will also be a High Roller event along with ETP London. Buy-in for this event is £20,000+£300, and this will be a No Limit Hold´em tournament that will be held from 5 october to 6 october. The final table of the High Roller event will be filmed for future brodcasting.
The best Pros from Pokerstars will play in EPT London, names like Daniel Negreanu, Chris Moneymaker and Joe Hachem.

Last time EPT London was held, 400 players showed up to play this popular event. The winner of the tournament was a Pokerstars qualifer, Joseph Mouawad. He won heads-up over Florian Langmann and won the first prize of £611,000. But this year the first place winner is guaranteed £1,000,000!
With a guaranteed first prize and this special High Roller event this looks like it´s going to be the best EPT event ever.