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The Aussie Millions is held at the Crown Casino in Melbourne each year and is the Southern Hemisphere's biggest poker tournament.  Full Tilt Poker has a plan to send you into the 2011 Aussie Millions competition in style with a $16,000 USD prize package.  Start planning your Aussie Millions vacation in January of 2011 starting November 6th, 2010 and you can keep building the plan until January 8th. The world's best poker players are always in attendance and its an event that has grown every year since it began in 1998; known then as the Crown Australian Poker Championship.  Tyron  [ Read More ]

Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies massacred Cole South and Brian Hastings in the high-stakes online cash games last night. In a three-hour span, Sahamies recorded nearly 1,000 hands of heads-up $500/$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha against the two. South, likely still stinging from a $700k loss to Ziigmund last week, ended up losing $602k to the swingy Finn. The loss erases all of his profits this year putting him down over $800k. Hastings didn’t do much better, although his $187k loss over 600 hands seemed less significant. It appears Sahamies has recovered nicely from an awful August, earning nearly $1 million in September so  [ Read More ]

The 2010 English Poker Open final table was set Monday night and will play down to a champion at the Palm Beach Casino in London Tuesday. EPT San Remo champ Liv Boeree finished 12th. A total of 193 players entered the £3500+£250 EPO main event over two starting days, including names like James Akenhead, Jennifer Tilly, Phil Laak, Neil Channing, and Annette Obrestad. EPT San Remo champ Liv Boeree made 12th for £9,500, practically bubbling the final nine late on Day 2 Monday. Mathew Frankland, whose under $10k in career tournament earnings includes a World Series of Poker cash this  [ Read More ]

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Brighton kicked off on Friday. The poker event was a £1,000 + £70 no holdem tourney. The event is being held at G Casino, a two flight, one first day main event poker tournament. The first flight started up at noon and the second flight at 6:30 in the evening. The event is Leg Seven of the Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tour, for which some players had won online tournament qualifiers in order to attend. This same event last year attracted 235 players, won by Bernard Litman, who won £70,520.

The Australia and New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) is in Melbourne, Australia and set to hold the AU$2,700 main event from October 9-11 at the Crown Casino. The PokerStars-sponsored main event will be capped at 450 players and run for three days. A year ago, a field of 218 players participated in the event, and Sydney’s Chris Levick took down the title and AU$158,050. Last year’s ANZPT Player of the Year Tony Hachem is expected to play in this year’s event, and he is in second place on the current ANZPT leaderboard, narrowly trailing John Maklouf. Team PokerStars Pros Joe  [ Read More ]

Although Tom “durrrr” Dwan was one of the biggest losers in September, he has drastically reversed his fortunes so far in October. The 24-year-old Dwan sustained blows from multiple high-stakes foes last month. However, the downswing was largely due to falling behind almost $700,000 in the Durrrr Challenge with Dan “Jungleman12” Cates. While Dwan and Cates resumed their battle this past week after a short break, with Dwan chipping away not much more than $1,000 into his deficit on Sunday and erasing an additional $31,778 last night, it was Dwan’s session with Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies this past week that put  [ Read More ]

The biggest news on day 1B at the 2010 PokerStars European Poker Tour London £5,250 no-limit hold’em main event was the release of the official size of the field and prize pool. The field stands at 848 players, which smashes the record for the largest poker tournament ever held in England. The previous record was 730 players for the 2009 EPT London main event. The year-over-year growth was an impressive 16 percent, making this one of the largest poker tournaments of the year. Here is a look at the full prize payout information: Position Prize 1 £900,000 2 £545,000 3  [ Read More ]

Backed by the loudest crowd of supporters the Casino at the Empire has likely ever seen, James Bord took down the WSOP Europe main event title in London early Wednesday morning. A Londoner himself, Bord was ecstatic to finally claim his first World Series of Poker bracelet after coming so close this summer with a sixth-place finish in a 2010 WSOP Lowball event. “I feel more relief than anything,” he said. “It was a great feeling; amazing feeling.” “I think I showed a bit of heart. I’ve been there before and blown up, so I had it in my head  [ Read More ]

Gus Hansen lifted the label as one of the best players on the planet without a World Series of Poker Bracelet in London Sunday. The man they call the Great Dane finally finished off online MTT killer Jim Collopy in the previously-delayed final round of their best-of-three match for the WSOP Europe’s £10,350 Heads-Up High Roller title. Following the win, Hansen said it truly felt like the monkey was finally off his back. “I have been playing the World Series since my good friend Huck Seed won it in the mid 90s,” he told PokerListings. “Back then I didn’t really  [ Read More ]

A recent ruling on poker in the US has reportedly disappointed the Poker Players Alliance. The PPA is lead by former U.S. Senator Alfonse D’Amato, Chairman of the PPA. D’Amato expressed disappointment in the Washington State Supreme Court’s decision that upheld a state law that makes it a Class C Felony to play poker and gamble online. It remains the only US state that is so harsh on online poker players, although no individual has yet been charged with the Class C Felony. “We are extremely disappointed in the State Supreme Court’s ruling,” said D’Amato. He went on to call  [ Read More ]