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- Who is !P0krparty¡?

Canadian online poker player !P0krparty¡ is making waves similar to those made by Viktor Blom last year. Blom, you might recall, played high stakes online poker as Isildur1.

- Merge Refusing New Players from Some States

We continue to see possible fallout from the new indictments handed down yesterday. Merge Network decided to stop accepting players from certain states in the US.

- BREAKING: More Gambling Domains Seized

A Maryland federal grand jury indicted two more online gambling businesses today. Before this there was an undercover operation via a payment processor.

- Viktor Blom Collects Over $50,000 From Dan Cates in Showdown

On Sunday, Team PokerStars Pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom beat Dan “w00ki3z” Cates by a margin of $51,196 in the third part of the PokerStars SuperStar Showdown

- Sam Trickett Wins $100,000 Challenge

Trickett wins $1.5 Million and grows his career total earnings to a bit over $3 Million after a very fierce battle against Tony Bloom and Erik Seidel.

- Daniel Negreanu still punishing UB Poker

It’s no secret that Daniel Negreanu has about as much respect for UB Poker as he does for Annie Duke –and since Annie was a UB Poker pro she had the distinction of having two huge negatives against her in Daniel’s eyes—but the level of his ire seems to be borderline unhealthy, and this is coming from someone who is a big fan of Negreanu.

- Animated poker series "The Micros" - A huge hit!

The pilot episode of an animated poker series which was created by online poker professionals, Jay Rosenkrantz and John Wray, found it's home on YouTube barely a week ago. Since then the show has gotten extremely good feedback. They gathered over 62,000 hits on YouTube only in a week.

- Triobet gives up high entry fees for players

Triobet poker room decided to make a very interesting promotion where Sit & Go maximum entry fee will be €3 no matter what the limit is!

- Durrrr takes on Hong Kong businessman in ultra-high-stakes poker match

The rumors have been flying out of Macau for the past week regarding some incredible high-stakes action that sprang up around the APT tournament in Cebu. Among the big name players that have been taking part in a massive $10k/$20k HKD NLHE game (about $1,400/$2,800 USD) are Phil Ivey, Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan, Chau Giang, and John Juanda.

- NAPT Los Angeles did not see a win from Mercier, Binger and neither from Nguyen

There were a lot of stars in Los Angeles this week. No, not Hollywood stars. Bicycle Casino was overrun by poker professionals for the 2010 PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT).

- Gus Hansen has started to climb up at Full Tilt Poker High Stakes

Gus Hansen started out 2010 very badly at the High Stakes Tables. Almost as bad as 2009. He was well in the red zone until October with $3.1 million but his cold streak turned around and now he is down "only" $1.1 million!

- Huck Seed and Allen Cunningham win Full Tilt Doubles Poker Championship

This weekend was very busy for poker fans. There was quite a lot to watch and one of the shows was Full Tilt Doubles Poker Championship. The winner was decided during the last weekend.

- WSOP 2010 - Jonathan Duhamel Is The Poker Champion Of The World

Jonathan Duhamel is the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion. Duhamel became the first Canadian Main Event winner and has a throng of fans decked out in red hockey jerseys at the Rio going insane. Duhamel banked $8.9 million and Racener earned $5.5 million, a healthy consolation prize.

- Jonathan Duhamel and John Racener in WSOP Main Event Final Table Heads-Up

Joseph “subiime” Cheong was eliminated in third place in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Jonathan Duhamel and John Racener were left for the Heads-Up. The former will hold just over a 6:1 edge in chips after entering the final table as the chip leader. Duhamel will come with a stack of 190,100,000, while Racener will hold 29,200,000.

- WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals - Jeff Forrest Reigns

Jeff Forrest, a 22 year old poker player, won the WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals for $548,000! During Heads-Up he told WPT officials, "I keep thinking I am going to wake up."

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