The Littlewoods Poker World Heads-Up Poker Championship title this year goes to Greece with Bambos Xanthos easing his way to victory. Three matches yesterday would confirm the 2009 champ and in the end the Greek pro outshone his opponents and took home the £65,000 top prize.

First up Russian Victor Ilyukhin took on Xanthos and appeared very confident, saying, “I know how Bambos plays”. His lucky pink shirt that he had been wearing all week was no help to him however as throughout their two-hour match, Xanthos maintained the lead despite some swings. Finally, on a Q 10 9 flop, the two were all in, Xanthos holding J 9 and Ilyukhin with 9 6.

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Players in the Southern California area will soon get the chance to take on — and take out — Celebrity Apprentice star and WSOP gold-bracelet winner Annie Duke.

Duke has confirmed that she will be at the Pala Casino Spa and Resort on Jan. 30 for the $25,000 Annie Duke Free Roll Poker Tournament, wherein players at the Northern San Diego County casino will be able to play against her for a chance to win thousands of dollars.

“We opened our new 15-table poker room in June, and play has been growing on a weekly basis,” said Bill Bembenek, the CEO of Pala. “Ev

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‘It never gets old making money.’With two titles and four final table appearances on the World Poker Tour already, there is little doubt Freddy Deeb is the most experienced player to have booked one of six seats at Festa al Lago Final table Sunday.

But the two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, who has more than $6.2 million in career tournament earnings, will come into Monday’s fight for the Festa al Lago title and $1.2 million first-place prize with something equally as important – The chip lead.

“It never gets old making money,” said the Lebanese-born American. “And I’m feeling very confident. I always feel confident. Otherwise I don’t play.

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Former IT consultant Darren Annis has won his very first GUKPT, beating heads-up specialist Jeff Kimber to take down the Thanet leg and £41,900.

The field of 132 was considerably smaller than most GUKPT main events but with veterans like Julian Thew and double bracelet winner JP Kelly terrorising the tables, any soft spots were hard to come by. 

With 11 players left in, it looked as though WSOP/WSOPE final tablist James Akenhead was yet again going to make a major final table but after losing most of his stack in a race, Akenhead had to settle for a little more than his buy-in back.

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Crown Casino released the schedule for the 2010 Aussie Millions Championship on September 17th, 2009. The schedule include a total of twenty poker events running on January 14th, 2010-January 31st, 2010 at the Crown Casino facility in Melbourne, Australia with the $10,500 Main Event taking place on January 24th, 2009-January 30th, 2010.

In releasing the Aussie Millions Poker Championship schedule, tournament officials took the effort to set some high goals in terms of cash pool and player attendance.

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After struggling to keep afloat since following Gus Hansen to Full Tilt’s mixed-game tables, Tom “durrrr” Dwan had his first big 7-Game win taking home over $584k last night.

In addition to his 7-Game profit, Dwan made an additional $66k playing Omaha, putting him up over $650k for the night.

Almost the entire online poker world made it out for the action with Gus Hansen and Richard Ashby both making over $100k, and Patrik Antonius, John Juanda, Justin Smith, and David Benyamine all making small profits.

But the list of losers was even more impressive with Chau Giang (-$268k), Cole South (-$249k), Nizot Skizared ($-157k), Phil Ivey (-$150k), Sirens (-$124k) and Brian Hastings (-$115k) all taking big hits.

Even David Oppenheim and Allen Cunningham sat for a few hands, donating tens of thousands to the durrrr fund.

Away from the mixed games, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond and Rob “Vega_Lion” Akery decided to gamble, taking multiple flips for $30k a piece.

When agreeing to flip, both players wager the agreed apon amount pre-flop, regardless of their hands, and check down all streets.

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Phil Ivey used to be terrible at poker. Way before his seven WSOP bracelets and $12 million in live tournament wins, he was the sucker at the table. It’s irrefutable, say Daniel Negreanu and Barry Greenstein. ‘I heard people say he was a good player and I said, “are you kidding me?”’ says Greenstein. ‘He just played too loose and got his money in bad spots. Negreanu, who has known Ivey for almost a decade, reports similar traits. ‘He played, like, every hand. Most people thought he was a sucker.’ Both players have logged hundreds of hours with Ivey and are also close to him away from the table. But their insight into his the earliest days is difficult to comprehend. It certainly gi

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2008 BC Poker Championship winner Daniel Negreanu.The BC Poker Championship is returning to the River Rock Casino in Richmond, British Columbia, Nov. 12-22, 2009.

One of Canada’s largest poker events, the 2009 BCPC will host five events and offer an estimated prize pool of $2.5 million.

The centerpiece of the series is the $2,700 No-Limit Hold’em main event, which will run Nov.

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PokerStars is offering its players the chance to win a Porsche if they deposit or reload into their PokerStars account before 17 October. It’s a promotion limited to players in North America, though, which seems odd considering Porsches are German. Surely PokerStars could include European players in this promotion, too?

But I digress. If you deposit at PokerStars in the period from 28 September to 17 October, and you live in North America, then your account will be credited with a ticket to the Win a Porsche tournament. This tourney will be held at 13:00ET on 18 October, which is a Sunday.

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In limit hold’em there are no fixed rules about post-flop play. You have to think about what you are tr ying to achieve with each move, and tr y to manipulate the table into doing what you want it to do. I’m not looking to beat any one player in particular. I leave my ego at the door. I’m not picky – I’ll take anyone’s chips.

However, having said there are no rules, I will add a couple of guidelines I generally stick to. Firstly if I’m the pre-flop raiser and I’m heads-up or three-handed, I’ll almost always make a continuation bet. I’m a big believer in giving my opponent the chance to fold. Remember, they are going to miss the flop much more often than they’ll hit it. With more than thre

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