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    Latin Series of Poker announces a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool in its first 2012 live poker event.
    Lima, Peru – February 3, 2012 - Organizers of the Latin Series of Poker (LSOP) announced today that they will guarantee half a million dollars in their first Live Poker Event in 2012. The Texas Hold'em tournament will be held from June 5th to June 10th at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima, Peru.

    PPA Criticizes Romney’s Non-Support of Online Poker
    Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is being denounced by Poker Players Alliance (PPA) for his stand on online poker as being ignorant and uneducated about the security that will be established in any future internet poker legislation intended to safeguard both consumers and players against gambling addictions.

    Robbie Williams Ridiculed for Opening an Online Poker Site
    Robbie Williams, the Take That singer, is now being ridiculed and condemned by anti-gambling campaigners for opening a poker site.

    Poker Pros In Debt with Full Tilt According to Tapie
    French investment company Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT)’s counsel, Behn Dayanim, has disclosed the names of many high profile poker players who owe millions of dollars to Full Tilt Poker, an online poker room site in the process of being purchased by GBT.

    Are Full Tilt and 888 entering the USA Market this year
    Potentially good news awaits poker fans in the U.S.

    2012 WSOP Schedule Released!
    2012 World Series of Poker Schedule

    PokerStars weekly round-up – February 1
    Sunday Million winnerWhile some turbo-charged events were still taking place in the final day of TCOOP on January 29, a massive 7,302 players registered to play the slower-paced, but no less prestigious, Sunday Million. As ever, the $1 million guarantee was smashed, with $1,460,400 to be shared out among the 1,080 players who cashed.

    Party Poker Named in Megaupload Indictment
    In a 72-page indictment made by the US Department of Justice against Megaupload.com, Bwin.Party digital entertainment defended itself since its online poker arm called Party Poker and Party Gaming were named in the indictment on the grounds of advertising on the file hosting site, Megaupload.com, spending over $3M in advertising and marketing, which went on for several years.

    Kool Shen Declared Winner in the EFOP Diamond Championship
    It took four grueling days of exciting competition held at the Aviation Club de France before the Diamond Championship, the Main Event’s winner of the European Finals of Poker 2012, was named.

    Pokerhost $25,000 Freeroll!
    Starting Sunday January 29th Poker Host is going to give you more reasons to keep playing with us! We will be running qualifiers to our new and exclusive $25,000 freeroll, which will be held on Sunday February 26th at 14:00 pm EST.

    888 Holdings to extend partnership with Caesars Interactive Entertainment
    888 Holdings (LON:888), an online gaming firm, after unveiling its partnership with American group Caesars Interactive Entertainment, obtained 10% ownership.

    NASCAR driver Rusty Wallace to play in "High Speed Hold'Em on the Halifax"
    On Feb. 22, 2012, former NASCAR driver Rusty Wallace, who won 55 NASCAR Cup series in his 25-year driving career and retired in 2005, will be co-hosting and participating in the inaugural "High Speed Hold'Em on the Halifax" celebrity poker tournament.

    Turbo Championship of Online Poker final round-up January 30
    Here are the updates on the Pokerstars Turbo Championship of Online Poker :Betudontbet wins NL Holdem Main EventIcallany takes High Roller titleMongy holds on to win TCOOP Leaderboard

    Speidel Wins $1.6M in 2012 Aussie Millions
    Oliver Speidel, a former employee in risk management three years ago, is the new Aussie Millions poker champion, winning A$1.6 milion!

    Pokerstars Turbo Championship of Online Poker daily round-up - January 27
    Here are the updates on the Pokerstars Turbo Championship of Online Poker

    WPT Venice Welcomes the Royal Flush Girls
    Good news to all poker fans --- World Poker Tour (WPT) will be back in north-east Italy sometime early February 2012 for WPT Venice.

    Cupids for Charity NLH Tag-Team Tournament
    Poker gives presents Cupids for Charity NLH Tag-Team Tournament

    PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker daily round-up – January 26
    So far there have been 31 events and $5 million in guarantees in the 2012 TCOOP, which makes it all the more incredible that the total prize pool to date is already $10,497,098.40. Check out the latest winners, today’s tourneys, and leaderboard movers and shakers on Pokerstars below…

    Aussie Millions Day 3 Update and WSOP Araya’s Win
    There were some late registrants on 2012 Crown’s Aussie Millions Poker Championship Main Event and total number of players now went up to 659, 314 of which came back for some Day 2 action. Each one of them want to give their best shot in bagging their share of the $6.59 million prize pool, $1.6 million of which will be given to the top winner. There were 75 players remaining. Tim O’Shea, with his 921,000 in chips, is the best player to get the title. But things could still turn around as Phil Ivey is only over a hundred thousand chips behind with 778,500.

    2012 Aussie Millions and the 100k Challenge Update
    Day 1c of the 2012 Aussie Millions recorded 317 registered players which has beaten the number of last year's tally by 43 registrants (there were only 274 registered players in 2011's Day 1c). Overall, the final tally for this year's Aussie Million main event totaled to 657 players, still 64 players shy from last year's total 721 registered players. Nevertheless, big name poker pros were in attendance on Tuesday, to name a few: Brandon Adams, Chris Moorman, Dan Shak, Daniel Negreanu, David Gorr (last year's champion), Erik Seidel, Jason Mercier, JC Tran, Joe Cheong, Joe Hachem, Melanie Weisner, Mike Sowers, Phil Ivey, Roberto Romanello, Sam Trickett, Sorel Mizzi, Toby Lewis, Tony G, and Victor Ramdin.

    Better than a Wallet, Intercash launches WinningsCard.com
    20 JANUARY 2012 (Douglas, Isle of Man) – Celebrating a decade in business, Intercash intends to share the joy of relaunching its popular online gaming card, the WinningsCard (http://winningscard.com) with ICE attendees at Earl’s Court next week.

    November Nine for 2011 WSOP Named
    It started July 7th with 6,865 players and is now down to the final nine remaining players. The 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event with a $10,000 buy in will resume on November 5th with nine players looking for the top prize of more than $8 Million and the elusive WSOP gold bracelet.

    Swed wins Gold Bracelet
    Swedish poker player Alexander Anter got his first cash and WSOP bracelet in the same day. Anter outlasted a field of 3,389 players in the final $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Event of the 2011 WSOP.

    Another 2nd place finish for Hellmuth
    As Phil Hellmuth was finishing up another WSOP Event it looked like he was the going to pick up his 12th bracelet. That was not the case as Hellmuth’s chip lead was chipped away at by Brian Rast. It was Hellmuth's third second place finish in the 2011 WSOP.

    Four Days gets Max Lykov $648K
    Max Lykov of Russia was the last player standing in the World Series of Poker $1,000 Event #54. The original field began with 4,576 players who were divided into two groups for the first day of play.




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