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What are some of the hottest headlines in the world of poker? Here you will find all the latest juicy stories along with other important news and tournament results. A must read for the poker enthusiast with articles published throughout the day.

Holland Commission Says Legalize Online Poker

 

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/24/2010

High Stakes Poker News: Cole South’s $171K Weekend

 

One of the more popular and successful online poker players, Cole South, walked away with $171,000 this weekend.

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/23/2010

Nicholas Abou Risk Wins UKIPT Poker Tour in Edinburgh

 

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/23/2010

Online Poker Tournament News: UB.com Sending Players to Four Aces Poker Event

 

North America’s 3rd biggest online poker room, UB.com, has announced plans to act as head sponsor for the Four Aces Open Poker Tournament in Montreal September 10th, 2010 at the Four Aces Poker Club.  Online poker players will be able to qualify for the $2500+250 buy-in No Limit Hold 'em Main Event in a series of Super Satellites that will take place between August 29th and September 5th.

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/23/2010

UBOC 5 Day Four Recap

 

UB.com's Online Poker Championship Series, which guarantees over $4 Million in tournament money and competition prizes, continued on Saturday, August 21st with the fifth and sixth of the UBOC5 tournament schedule’s twenty guaranteed events, attracting hundreds of players to the tables for the $128K GTD NLH Heads Up, hosted by Annie Duke, and the No Limit Hold’em 2X (second chance) Shortstack  $100K GTD.

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/22/2010

Victory Poker Provides Winning Ingredient for Cake Poker

 

Poker News Daily is reporting that Victory Poker will be switching online poker networks and joining a list of rooms coming on board the Cake Poker Network.

Victory Poker is owned by the same folks who brought us the popular Who’s Your Daddy energy drink.  Dan Fleyshman, who runs the company, has been boasting of a “big announcement” on his birthday next month. 

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/21/2010

Online Poker: Beat The Staff Poker Tournament

 

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/21/2010

Berlin Poker Tour Heist Masterminds Trial Begins

 

The trial of Mohammed Abou-Charka and Ibrahim al Moussa has begun in the Berlin state court and is expected to go through until November.

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/20/2010

UB.net’s Upcoming Poker Freeroll Series Big Reward

 

 

From August 23rd, the leading online poker site’s daily freerolls will send one lucky online poker player to the WPT’s annual Festa Al Lago Championship event, where they will compete for a share of the multi-million-dollar Main Event prize pool.

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/20/2010

High Stakes Poker News: Patrik Antonius Takes on Zigmund

 

HighStakesDB.com reports three players fought it out in a $200/$400 PLO game earlier in the week. On Wednesday, they were at it again, but this time they stepped up to play $300/$600 instead. And this time around it was Patrik Antonius who got the better this matchup when he managed to win $237K while the two others lost about $100K each. Antonius also found a $95K win in the seven game, so at the end of the day he ended up winning $332K. 

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/20/2010

Jesus On TMZ.com: Turns $1 Into $20,000 Playing Online Poker

 

Professional poker player Chris "Jesus" Ferguson is a major celebrity.

The TV show "TMZ" says so.

"TMZ," a nightly, half-hour, syndicated American television program, usually features on-the-street interviews (or non-interviews) with major Hollywood celebrities such as movie and TV stars (the show is based in Los Angeles).

On yesterday's episode of "TMZ" was--shockingly, or maybe not--a segment on Ferguson.

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/20/2010

UB.com $4 Million Online Poker Tournament Day 2 Recap

 

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/20/2010

Jagajeet Chiba: Negreanu Poker Website Needs to be Boycotted

 

(Jagajeet Chiba’s opinion does not necessarily reflect that of Gambling911.com nor its Management)

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/19/2010

UB.com Online Poker Tournament Recap (August 18, 2010)

 

Here is your UB.com online poker tournament recap for two major events that Gambling911.com has been advertising these past couple of days.

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/19/2010

Bwin CEO Blasts PokerStars, Full Tilt as Illegal Online Poker Rooms

While Norbert Teufelberger and his Bwin co-CEO Manfred Bodner insist that PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker will be froze out of the U.S.
Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/19/2010

Nude Poker Tournament Coming Soon To The French Riviera

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/18/2010

PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker Combined Growth Down On Year

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/18/2010

Zynga Texas Holdem Poker Enters Lucrative Asia Market

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/17/2010

Major Online Poker Tournament Slated For Wednesday August 18

Submitted by C Costigan on, Aug/17/2010

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