Shannon Shorr, the 2006 Bellagio Cup Champion, was knocked out of the World Series of Poker Circuit main event by Justin Bonomo.

Shorr, being disappointed with his result, decided to take a break. Now, he is planning to go to London and Amsterdam after a small trip home to Alabama.

Shannon Shorr will be back playing top level cards in a month’s time.

Tom Dwan, having finished 8th in the WPT, could not stop. So, he continued his play and showed his talent for pot-limit Omaha. Tom managed to take $150,000 in one game alone.

Most of the sum, Tom took in one hand against the player known as lady marmelade when he won a pot worth $112,000.

Tom Dwan has become noticed thanks to his success at Texas Hold’em.

The first winner of the WPT Ladies tournament is already known. Nancy Todd Tyner, political consultant, having fought her way through the field of 150 amateur and professional players got her WPT championship bracelet and her first WPT title. Besides, she won $68,640.

Tyner started playing poker only 18 months ago, but she is new in the world of poker. She’s been specializing in gaming issues since 1992. In 1990 she led the campaign to legalize casinos in Mississippi. She’s been a political consultant to more than 196 campaigns in 42 states and six countries. Her winning records amount to 98%.

Robyn Moder, Executive Vice President, WPT Studios, said, “We could not think of a better way to end our season or a better person to show the strength and importance of women in poker. Nancy encompasses the heart and soul of the ladies tour and what it’s all about – providing the opportunity for women everywhere to make their mark in the sport of poker…”

The WPT Ladies tour was launched in January. The goal of the tour is to support the growth of women in poker.

The tour featured stops at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, N.J., Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, Bay 101 in San Jose, Calif. and Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn. The last stop was at Bellagio on April 13 – 14. It must be noted that 15% of each $1,500 buy-in was donated to help end breast cancer forever. The first season of the WPT Ladies tour raised more than $51,000.

David Chiu, the Chinese poker player, won the WPT Championship on Saturday night. He has become $3,389,140 richer.

Chiu managed to overcome the near six-to-one deficit in the game against Gus Hansen who had previously knocked out Jeff King, Tommy Le, Cory Caroll and John Roveto single-handedly.

Chiu admitted that he played even better than he had expected. Thanks to the victory, Chiu enters Card Player’s player of the year rankings in fourth position on 2,880 points, while Hansen and Roveto move up to joint-12th and 15th respectively.

Titan Poker is a fast developing and growing internet gambling company. Their gamblers have found more money in their pockets thanks to another increase at the site.

Constant offers of unique promotions and incentives cannot but attract both newly registered and established online casinos poker gamblers from all over the world.

online casinos poker gamblers can now win a guaranteed $16 million each month when gambling at the site. It means that the guaranteed prize pool is raising $4 million each month from the $12 million the site has been guaranteeing in the past two months.

Using Playtech’s online casinos poker gambling platform, one of the top ones available in the industry, the Titan Poker also benefits from it.

Being 25 years old, lots of people wear ripped jeans, listen to music they like and prefer extreme kinds of sports, but very few can boast of more than $1.6 million in career earnings. Vanessa Rousso is 25, but she is the one who can. She is a professional poker player. Her earnings have already placed her in the top 25 all-time for prize money won by women.

Her career goals were different from what she is now. Having graduated from High School at the top of her class, Vanessa went to Duke on a full scholarship. Having graduated in just 2 ½ years with an economic degree, she went to the University of Miami Law School.

During her first year of law school, Rousso began to compete in tournaments. In 2005, she finished seventh in the WSOP Tournament Circuit event at Harrah’s in New Orleans. But the tournament that put Vanessa on the map was the 2006 WPT Five-Star World Poker Classic. Before that she had earned $40,000 as poker player. In the months leading up to the event she started asking friends and her family to buy “shares” in her, as she attempted to get money for the buy-in. As a result ten people decided to invest their money. And Vanessa did not let them down. The investors made their money back ten-fold, as Rousso earned $250,000 with her seventh place finish in a field of more than 500 players. During that event she got her nickname “Lady Maverick”.

That was the time when PokerStars came to Rousso regarding sponsorship. And then the idea of playing poker for living came to her mind.

Being a Law School graduate, Vanessa had already made close to $1 million playing poker. That was the time to turn from a part-time pro into a full-time professional poker player. That was the time of making career decisions. And she chose poker.

She’s been traveling a lot all her life. Being born in New York, she spent the first ten years living in France.

She’s moved more than 20 times. All her life has been and is on the go. E.g., next week she’ll be in Brazil for the inaugural event of the Latin American Poker Tour, and after that she’ll go to Vegas for three-week break before the start of the WSOP.

By the way, Rousso first learned to play poker at the age of 5. When at Duke, she took a class in game theory which helped her interest in the game soar to a whole new level.

Vanessa receives lots of support from her family and her fiancé. She appreciates it.

During the break before her third WSOP she’ll take advantage of the time off and keep her mind and body fresh by limiting the amount of poker she plays.

“I’m playing as well as I ever have,” she says. “Everything is really coming together for me. I know what to expect, now it’s just a matter of executing and getting the right cards. If I do that, I’m expecting big things.”

Ayre, the founder of Bodog, is going to retire.

The company was founded in 1994. They started from a small site offering entertainment and gradually turned into a great casino with a range casino games and sports betting and music business.

Having taken the reduced role of running the poker room, Ayre has sold the company to the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group, based in Montreal, Canada. The plans to expand in South American gambling market won’t be changed.

PKR, a 3D online poker room that offers various cash games and tournaments, is giving away seats to the $2,500 Asian Poker Tour for only $2.20.

There, players compete in progressively higher-stakes tournaments. The winner can take a $5,000 prize package to the APT held from May 27 to June 1. Approximately 400 players will compete for a massive cash prize.

The qualifiers will run on PKR until the grand final on May 12. (more…)

online casino players can take their chance to win seats at the weekend’s World Poker Crown (WPC) tournament by taking part in a series of one-cent qualifiers hosted by PacificPoker.com.

The qualifiers will be held every hour, but they will be limited to a max of 500 participants and registration will start 30 minutes before the start of every event.

The WPC will start on April 26. It is believed to become one of the largest online tournaments in history. It has a buy-in of $1,050 and a three million dollar prize pool that includes one million dollar for the winner. The tournament is sponsored by 888.com.

Such pros like Dave Colclough, Julian Gardner and Michael Keiner and Shane Warne will take part in the tournament.

The finalists will play live in the final table in Barcelona from May 6 to 10.

Live webcasts of major poker events and a unique collection of poker footage will soon be available for poker fans. The site has recently been launched by online casino PokerStars.com, but at the moment it is undergoing beta-testing and contains a video tutorial in which Canadian poker pro Daniel Negreanu gives an overview of the site. There, he explains in details how to to use and access the material. Having accessed the material, users will find there subgroups for major events, channels dedicated to each Team PokerStars.com professional player, live-play videos, instructional comments, interviews and behind-the-scenes action for each competitor, Online Action, Sweat the Hand and Fun Stuff categories. Besides, the site contains a searchable database of filters with videos categorizing a player, event or type of hand.

Registered users at PokerStars.tv can either e-mail video links to other players or personalize their favorites by creating their own video channel and selecting their preferences. The feeds from tournaments are available in English, German, Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish.