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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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.

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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. Last night he returned to the highest stakes games online, and for the second night in a row, he managed to get beat out of half a million dollars.

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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.

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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.

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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.