With the PokerNews Cup being the focal point for many poker players in Australia at the moment, the rest of the world have been watching the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event in London with the final table wrapping up today. The Empire Casino in Leicester Square was the place to be in London for the most anticipated and stacked final tables of recent times. Two November Niners, six individual bracelet winners with a combined eleven bracelets and all-in-all nine quality players that started the day as follows: Seat 1: Barry Shulman – 1,090,000
Seat 2: Jason Mercier – 3,198,000
Seat 3: Praz Bansi – 1,160,000
Seat 4: Markus Ristola – 784,000
Seat 5: Chris Bjorin – 518,000
Seat 6: James Akenhead – 1,398,000
Seat 7: Daniel Negreanu – 438,000
Seat 8: Antoine Saout – 701,000
Seat 9: Matt Hawrilenko – 674,000 With Jason Mercier holding a greater than two-to-one advantage over his nearest opponent, he began the day where he finished, by accumulating chips at will. Read the full post …

Since martonas showed his face again earlier this week, Full Tilt has played host to some of the most impressive high-stakes action ever seen and Wednesday night was no exception.

The list of players trading pots last night reads like a railbirds dream with Phil Ivey, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Patrik Antonius, David Benyamine, Gus Hansen, Tom “kingsofcards” Marchese, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, martonas and POKERBLUFFS all punching in for a session.

Ivey sat for most of the day yesterday playing a mix of six-max $500/$1,000 No-Limit Hold’em and Fixed-Limit HORSE, crushing all opposition for over $950,000.

Surprisingly, Ivey’s largest No-Limit pot came in at just over $200k, only the sixth largest pot of the day.

The largest pot, worth $448k, belonged to Antonius with kingsofcards, the most recent addition to the regular high-stakes degenerates, on the losing end.

Mostly thanks to Antonius, Marchese’s session could not have gone much worse, booking a loss worth well over half a million dollars.

Despite the beating he gave Marchese, Antonius’s losses to Dwan and Ivey still resulted in the Finnish pro losing nearly $50k, including $270 dropped in a 400 hand session of the durrrr Challenge.

Full details and updates on the latest Challenge session can be found here.

Gus Hansen stayed away from all No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha tables, choosing instead to play Limit HORSE.

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If last night’s high-stakes action on Full Tilt is any indication, when unknown Swede martonas takes his virtual seat, furious action is sure to follow.

The martonas comeback began with a $200k win on Sunday night. But when the Swedish gambler tried for a repeat the next night, he lost over $500k to Tom “kingsofcards” Marchese and Aaron “aejones” Jones.

If martonas is one thing, he’s persistent.

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When PokerStars made a commercial to introduce Daniel Negreanu to its stable of top pros, you might of thought he was promoting a fitness show instead a card game. They showed him playing golf, picking fruit from a stand and running down a distant dirt road.

This guy plays poker? Where's the extra pounds? Why does his skin have a hue, rather than the pale white color of zombies? And why isn't he playing cards instead of running? Shouldn't he be working on his game?

But that's just it. Negreanu was working on his game.

Working out can help you work on your game. Read the full post …

Online poker room Doyles Room has added another player to their Brunson Ten. The poker room is trying to appeal to a younger crowd and aims to add ten young poker pros to its roster, and the latest and fourth member of the team is Chris “Moorman1″ Moorman, a 24 year old British poker pro. Doyles Room is the online poker room of poker legend Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson, and sports as members Todd Brunson and Mike Caro, definitely older members of the poker crowd. Each member of the Brunson Ten will by under the age of 25 and hand picked by Doyle.

Sky Poker have added Sarah Champion to its lineup of presenters. Sarah, a TV and radio presenter and actress, who is currently a host on Absolute Radio, will debut on Sky Poker tonight at 9.00pm when she presents the £15,000 Guaranteed Primo tournament on Sky Channel 865.

Before moving into presenting, Sarah was a successful model and has also worked in print journalism and as a broadcast journalist for radio. She was voted one of the sexiest women in radio by FHM Magazine.

“Sarah is an excellent addition to our team of presenters and analysts at Sky Poker and we are proud to have her on board,” said Des Duffy, head of poker at Sky Poker. “Sar

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Patrik Antonius headlined an epic six-max No-Limit Hold’em session on Full Tilt Poker last night, taking down the biggest pot of the day online worth an astounding $581,071.

With Antonius, Phil Ivey, durrrr, Urindanger and POKERBLUFFS filling the seats of multiple six-max $500/$1,000 NLHE tables, it was no surprise that some of the sickest action of the month was on display.

The top three pots alone were worth over $1.28 million and the next five largest totalled just over $1 million.

Patrik Antonius took top honors for the night, winning over $383k, thanks in large part to taking down the first, second and fourth largest pots.

The single biggest pot of the night came as a gift to Antonius after he flopped the nut flush against Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

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Online poker room PKR has joined forces with Matchroom Sport to host a live event in October. The event, dubbed the inaugural PKR Heads-Up Grand Slam, will be held in London from October 8-10, 2009. The event will be a deep stack event, which favors players of greater skill than dependency on luck, and some big name pros are on the schedule to play already. Players can expect to run into pros like Annette Obrestad, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Vicky Coren ,JC Tran, Andrew Feldman and Tom “Durrrr” Dwan.

With prize pools as large as $25,000, and small player fields, the next batch of upcoming freerolls are not to be missed.

The following events (with prize pools worth as much as $20,000) are open to all PokerListings players who qualify during the specified time period.

If you’re not a PokerListings registered player on any of the following sites, click on the site’s name in the list to sign up.

Upcoming Events

Carbon Poker

The bi-weekly freeroll from Carbon Poker is worth $2,500 and takes only 200 raked hands to get your seat.

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Men have traditionally been the dominant gender in the poker industry but times are changing as the interest in our great game from the fairer sex has reached epic proportions of late. A recent poll has shown that the number of female players the world’s biggest tournaments, both online and live, is at an all-time high. I can certainly attest to this after donating half of my stack to the beautiful blonde vixen who sat across from me in the tournament I just busted from, so it is no surprise to see that women now make up almost 25 percent of the poker playing population.   Today, the world’s largest poker school, PokerStars.net, announced that it will be sponsoring the fast growing High Heels Poker Tour (HHPT). Read the full post …