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Poker legend Doyle Brunson took out Annette Obrestad to move into the final eight in Sunday’s broadcast of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship on NBC.

Brunson and Obrestad had faced off before with Brunson coming out on top, this time was no different. Brunson quickly took a 15:1 chip lead by Obrestad chasing a straight draw with 7-5-J-K on the table while holding 6-4. Unfortunately, Brunson held J-5 for two pair and Obrestand missed on the river.

On their final hand, Brunson called with A-8 and Obrestad went all-in with Q-5 of hearts. Brunson flopped top pair.

Brunson wasn't the only poker star at the Caesar's Palace event, seven were former World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event winners.

2006 World Series of Poker Winner Jamie Gold got the boot from the championships in just 11 hands, losing to pro Peter Eastgate who flopped a pair of nines to Gold's sevens. 1998 WSOP Main Event champ Scotty Nguyen went against “High Stakes Poker” host Gabe Kaplan.E ach player in the Sweet 16 began with 80,000 in chips and the blinds kicked off at 600/1,200.

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[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]Have to admit that I think the two most entertaining match ups I've seen so far have been Phil Ivey vs. Gavin Smith in Round 1 and then Phil Ivey vs. Scotty Nguyen in Round 2. The contrast in personalities was priceless. The double up-and-then-bust run that Nguyen put in Ivey in that game was just sick. . .[/FONT]
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[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]This week was pretty sick on the suck outs, with both Phil Laak getting rivered by Mercier's set after Laak set up the"landing pad" and Annie Duke rivering a straight against Wasicka to essentially end that match. . .[/FONT]
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[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]And the week before you had Phil Laak similarly busting Phil Gordon with a rivered straight. . .[/FONT]
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[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]If it happens to the best of them, what chance have we got. . . :1orglaugh[/FONT]

I still dont qualify, o well

i still dont qualify, o well


maybe next time

Season 6 of PokerStars’ European Poker Tour just ended, and players can already start planning for season 7.

The next edition of the EPT will begin in August, with an event in Estonia. The series will consist of 13 events, with the grand final at a date and location to be determined. This season, it was held in Monte Carlo. Here is the schedule, with the buy-in of the main event only:

EPT Tallinn (Estonia)
Aug. 11-16
€4,250

EPT Vilamoura (Portugal)
Aug. 28-Sept. 2
€5,300

EPT London
Sept. 29-Oct. 4
£5,250

To be determined
Oct 26 – 31
€5,300

EPT Barcelona (Spain)
Nov. 22-27
€5,300

EPT Prague (Czech Republic)
Dec. 13-18
€5,300

PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (Bahamas)
Jan. 8-14
$10,300

EPT Deauville (France)
Jan. 26-31
€5,300

EPT Copenhagen (Denmark)
Feb. 17-22
DKK 37,250

EPT Snowfest (Austria)
March 20-25
€3,750

EPT Berlin (Germany)
April 5-10
Grand Hyatt
€5,000 + 300 buy-in

EPT San Remo (Italy)
Dates and Location TBD
€5,300

EPT Grand Final
Dates and Location TBD
€10,600

Interops poker has recently change their gaming platform and in order to celebrate that event they offering a 110% bonus to all new players up to $600. The site is well established in United States and offers Casino and Sports betting games besides poker.

Never been dealt a bad beat while waiting for your seat at a restaurant to be ready? PokerStars is apparently looking to provide said opportunity, as the company moves toward a mobile version of their poker software.

How the market will respond is another question. While the concept of mobile poker is clearly appealing in theory, whether or not players will embrace it is less so. If you’re used to a large screen – or even a laptop – scaling down to even the most generous screen offered by a mobile device will be a tough transition at best.

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Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is now officially in the record books and by all indications, it was an overwhelming success. A grand total of 130,746 unique players participated in the series, which culminated with three versions of the main event spaced out over two days of play. An astounding 174 countries were represented during the 38-event stretch and over $63 million was awarded in prize money.

1st place: toetagU ($1,162,350)
2nd place: Sumpas ($851,775)
3rd place: BradL ($627,300)
4th place: DuckU ($473,550)
5th place: cpfactor ($332,100)
6th place: BongBob ($261,375)
7th place: siola ($199,875)
8th place: jpmetalman ($138,375)
9th place: delaney_kid ($94,095)

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After a couple of semi-successful fixes, the encryption flaw at the Cereus Poker Network has now been resolved.

The poker information site Poker Table Ratings, which uncovered the flaw in the first place and has been assisting Cereus in finding the right solution, has announced: “We can confirm that SSL is now being used everywhere for Cereus.

The login vulnerability no longer exists. We’re now ensuring a proper implementation, but it seems like the biggest problems have been addressed.”

The advisory brings to a close a crisis that started on May 6 when Poker Table Ratings advised Cereus of the flaw after it managed to hack the bespoke XOR encryption on the network’s player gaming data, using a standard Windows calculator.

Cereus immediately reported the issue to the Kahnawake Gaming Commission and quickly installed a quick fix, giving an undertaking that OpenSSL would be installed as a more permanent solution. This was partially achieved, but was still vulnerable according to PTR experts, leading to further work implementing a full OpenSSL initiative, which has now passed muster.

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44-year-old Londoner Andrew Couldridge has won the PokerStars.com UKIPT Nottingham Main Event at the DTD Poker - Dusk Till Dawn Poker room. Couldridge takes home £80,000 and an entry into the £5,250 PokerStars.com EPT London event, which is the season Finale to the UK & Ireland Poker Tour.

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Players at Absolute Poker can earn a seat at the Main Event in just a few easy steps. This happens by playing the Steps Tournament. A $12,000 Main Event prize package awaits players who can make their ways through the ten levels, or “steps”, of the tournament. In Steps, players actually have the opportunity to win their seats to the Main Event for as little as ten cents!

Regardless of how a player wants to get to the Main Event, Absolute Poker provides a way to get there. A US-friendly site, Absolute is making it possible to arrive in Las Vegas in time for poker’s biggest event.

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The Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Macau Main Event, in its second year, drew 88 players. This year’s event is taking place in the PokerStars Macau poker room at the super luxurious Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. The APPT Macau main event will run until Sunday, May 23. The buy-in is 40,000 Hong Kong Dollars ($5,128 USD).

(Play will resume at 12:15 pm, Macao time, Wednesday.)

Most amateur poker players dream of playing in the World Series of Poker Main Event once in their lives. Even if they don’t make it past the first day, it would be the achievement of a life-long dream. Like most online poker sites, PartyPoker is awarding seats in the 2010 WSOP Main Event through various qualifying tournaments. That has all been discussed before. But now, Party Poker has taken the leap and launched the “WSOP for Life” promotion.

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PokerStars’s 2010 Spring Championships of Online Poker saw a dramatic finale yesterday as tens of thousands of players logged on to battle it out in the high, medium and low stakes NLHE main event.

First up, the low buy-in event – which initially promised a $1 million guaranteed prize pool – attracted a colossal field of 19,188 runners, breaching its guarantee and awarding a staggering $191,000 first prize to “midjat”.

The medium-stakes event, which featured a $1,000 entry fee, was unsurprisingly a smaller affair with 3,675 runners, all of whom combined to generate a $3.6 million prize pool. The lion’s share of this was won by “cooperzo311”, “Mr.M.M0ney” and “Athanasios”, after the three stuck a deal that ensured them all at least $400,000.

More elite still was the high buy-in event, featuring a suitably exclusive price-tag of $10,000 to enter. Nevertheless, 615 hopefuls still stumped up the cash to create a $6.15 million prize pool, ensuring that the winner, Ryan “totagU” Fair, took home $1.1 million for first place as runner-up Kristoffer “Sumpas” Thorsson bagged $815k.

The trio of two-day events concluded another highly successful SCOOP series and provided members of Team PokerStars pro with the perfect pre-Vegas warm-up ahead of this year’s World Series. In the online world, all attention will next fix on ‘Stars’ 2010 World Championship of Online Poker, scheduled to begin this September.

Fresh off the exciting MiniFTOPS, Full Tilt Poker still has plenty of action this week. Starting today, players at the online poker room can enjoy a large variety of events that lead up to the granddaddy of them all: the World Series of Poker.

The WSOP starts the end of this month, but it’s not too late to get in on the action. Players can play in FTP $1 Main Event Seat tournaments, Daily Shootouts, direct qualifiers, 150 Seat Main Event Guarantee and more. In addition, a player that qualifies through the Full Tilt Poker Academy WSOP Main Event Challenge will earn a seat to the Main Event and get one-on-one pointers from a member of Team Full Tilt; outlast that member in the Main Event and win $5,000 for paying attention!

The WSOP isn’t the only place to go with Full Tilt Poker. The site is holding qualifiers for the FTPS Espana and various WPT events as well. If a player wants to get into a major live tournament, Full Tilt is the place to qualify.


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Party Poker will give you a brand new Aston Martin DB9 Coupe if you finish in pole position at the live Drive the Dream final in London. You can win your way to this fantastic event for free as PartyPoker is giving away five prize packages to the final on 2nd October: win yours by joining the daily freerolls, qualifying through to the monthly satellites where you can win your seat to the live final in London. Take a look at the complete qualifying structure page to see how you can book your seat at the exciting final. As well as the Aston Martin DB9 Coupe, every player who sits down in London is guaranteed an amazing prize.


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For fast action poker and the chance to play with the best players out there, DoylesRoom online poker room has done it again, with an imaginative competition that provides constant thrills and big money prizes.

Fancy your chances among the competition? Put your money where your mouth is and play to win at Doyles Room, the poker room where every game matters and your prize money builds up along with your ranking.

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