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The PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour kicked off it’s fourth season Thursday breaking records in Brazil. The R$5,000 LAPT Brazil main event drew a record-breaking 536-player field to the Sheraton WTC in São Paulo, 169 of whom won their seat through online poker satellites on PokerStars. Including side events, LAPT Brazil will have a combined prizepool of R$4M making it Latin America’s biggest festival of poker. The main event winner will earn R$615,840. Just 168 players survived the first day and will return Friday to the Convention Center of the Sheraton WTC in São Paulo for Day 2. Argentine Leandro  [ Read More ]

PartyPoker is giving new players a head start in building their bankrolls this month. The online poker site is giving away $10 free to new players who register for an account on the site through PokerListings. The promotion will offer ten free Tournament Dollars to the first 3,000 players from the UK, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Russian Federation who sign up for an account through Feb. 28. Players will automatically be credited five Tournament Dollars within 24-hours of signing up and get an additional five once they’ve made a minimum $25 deposit on the site. Players must  [ Read More ]

The PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour rolled into Nottingham this weekend and promptly smashed the UK record for number of entries in a poker tournament. The renowned Dusk Till Dawn poker club played host as 1,058 players entered the £500 UKIPT Nottingham main event over two starting days, creating a £529,000 prize pool with £109,000 reserved for the winner. The event broke the UK attendance record of 848 previously held by the 2010 EPT London main event. The tournament drew players from 30 different countries, hundreds of local hopefuls and even a few stars of the UK poker scene,  [ Read More ]

Congratulations Carlo, how are you feeling about the win? I’ve just about recovered! I’m trying to do some research and find out if it’s the longest tournament without a proper break. It went on for 14 hours 25 minutes with just those 5 minute breaks every hour! How did you qualify? I just bought in. I wasn’t able to enter the other PPOC events but I’m a regular PokerPlayer reader. What was your tournament record like prior to this? I’m a winning tournament player on a couple of sites. I won the Sky Poker Primo, I’ve won a couple of  [ Read More ]

A new challenger has lined up to take on Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom in the latest SuperStar Showdown match. Coming off a win in the $100k buy-in Super High Roller event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov will play the much-hyped Team PokerStars Pro Feb. 13 at 3 p.m. ET. In addition to the high roller win, Katchalov boasts a WPT title, five WSOP final table appearances and better than $6 million in career live tournament earnings. The 2,500-hand match will be played over four tables of $50/$100 No-Limit Hold’em. This will be Blom’s fourth SuperStar Showdown challenge. He  [ Read More ]

For the second straight year, UB will be sending over twenty players to compete in the running of Montreal’s biggest poker event, the Poker Pro Canada Classic. The $1500+150 buy-in No Limit Hold ‘em event runs Jan. 27-30, 2011 at the Four Aces Poker Club. UB is running a series of super satellites and freerolls Jan. 2-16 giving players a chance to win a $2500 prize package that includes a seat plus $850 for travel expenses. 300-plus players and prize pool of $500,000 is expected in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Article Source: Pokerlistings.com