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High-Stakes Action at Party Poker

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Party Poker has recently added pot-limit Omaha games, so much requested by its gamblers. Loyal to Party Poker players will have access to $25/$50 pot-limit Omaha games alongside with regular offerings on the site.

This Omaha turns out to be the first time offer of a high-stakes pot-limit game on Party Poker’s site. Demand for action and high stakes, and need of a better test of gambling skills finally lead to this incredible offer.

It needs to be remembered that games at Party Poker are available for non-US gamblers only.

Eric Baldwin Joins UB.com’s Poker Pro Team

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Eric Baldwin is reported to have joined the poker pro team of UB.com, a top internet poker gaming site licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission.

Baldwin, known as “basebaldy” earns money playing poker online. In the past year he is believed to have won approximately $1.5 million. His success and prominence are growing, and that is why UB.com invited him to join their poker pro team.

UB.com’s poker pro team consists of the biggest budding stars, and Eric Baldwin will naturally compliment the already existing base of players and will probably redefine the UB’s predence on the international poker gambling market.

New Year – New Tournaments

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In January Pala Casino Resort and Spa’s poker room is running its regular No Limit Hold’em poker tournaments.  The tournament will be held daily at 11 am and 7 pm, except Saturday, January 30 when Annie Duke will host the $25,000 Annie Duke Free Roll Poker Challenge tournament.

All 11 am tournaments will have a $25 buy-in and a $5 entry fee. Each player will start with $3,000 in chips and there will be a $1,000 guarantee. In addition to that, on Tuesdays, the room will offer a $10 re-buy for $1,500 in chips. The 7 pm Saturday tournaments will have a $65 buy-in and a $10 entry fee. The players will start there with $5,000 in chips and have one optional $15 re-buy purchase of $2,500 in additional chips prior to the fourth blind level. The 7pm tournaments on Sundays will offer a $15 buy-in, a $5 entry fee with an unlimited $5 re-buy for the first three blind levels and a $10 add-on. All the players will start with $1,500 in chips.

For more details about the tournaments, visit the webpage for Pala Casino Resort and Spa’s new poker room.

Ace Hoyle has Power to Stay

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There are lots of online sites offering gambling tips and recommendations. Ace Hoyle is the recently launched poker information portal offering a bit of a laugh along with the reviews, warnings, strategies and more. Having an interactive approach, Ace Hoyle encourages visitors to come back.

In the highly competitive online gambling market where sometimes it is so hard to find a unique and fresh approach to collaborative poker information and sharing sites, the site is believed to become a success.

Top Poker Magzine Features Top Stories

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November’s issue of Bluff Europe is now available at newsstands and card rooms across Europe.

The front cover of the magazine features Barry Shulman, the CEO of Card Player magazine, who defeated Daniel Negreanu for the coveted title of the WSOPE winner. Inside the magazine you’ll also find an exciting life story of five-time WSOP bracelet winner Scotty Nguyen. In addition to that Bluff Europe offers a great variety of live tournament reports from WSOPE, EPT and English Poker Open. Besides, November issue of Bluff Europe provides its readers with top-quality news, reviews and features from the biggest names in poker, not to speak about an exclusive freeroll for the readers.

New Tournament from Full Tilt poker is on its way

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Fourteenth tournament of FTOPS is announced to start in a few weeks. The guaranteed prize constitutes $16 million dollars. There will be approximately 25 events during the whole tournament. You may already see advertising campaign online telling some basic fact that you will be most interested in.

The buy-ins are $0.50 of 50 Full Tilt points which might seem to be a very small prize to pay for chance to win $16 000 000. Six times you will have the chance to win $1 000 000 as six events have been prepared with main prize of $1 mln.

FTOPS XIV is planned to set off with a $216 6-max hold’em on the fourth of November with approximately $1 mln in cash prizes.

Sunday $250 000 tournament from Titan Poker

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Its time for the regular weekend tournament from Titan Poker to set off in a few hours. The guaranteed revenue constitutes $250 000 and you still have some hours to search for the satellites in case you are not willing to pay $300+$20 to sign up for the event.

All the participants will be playing a No Limit Texas Hold’em with 5000 starting chip stack and 10 players per each table. Blinds will be moving with interval of 15 minutes.

To gain more information please visit Titan Poker official web site and register to take part in the tournament. Registration is free and doesn’t take long.

WPT’s second day brings results of the new structure

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The Main event of the Fests al Lago WPT underwent changes in the structure of the tournament with the $15 000 of the revenue for the most skilled player. The new structure provided each player with 60 000 chips to start playing and another innovative step was to allow new players to register in the tournament till the middle of the contest. The second day brought another 35 players to participate in the even, making the total number of the gamblers equal to 275.

Despite the fact that the tournament is not that big, the number of players, who are still coming to the event, has greatly increased and is much greater than the managers have expected. This fact is mostly the result of a strong advertising campaign all over the net.

The prize pool has been raised up to $4 000 000 by the quantity of the players. Most active players will be awarded with a worthy cash prize. The winner will take home $1 218 225 and other will be illegible for a $23 855. The exact quantity of the winners is limited by 27 persons.

Third day even started today at 12 00 at the gorgeous Bellagio.

Father Andrew earns $25.000 gambling

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Welcome the card player priest who knows the card better than anyone else. He will be a gust in the TV Poker competition in the coming weekend.

While spending his time gambling Father Andrew Trapp has proved to be a good player by gaining revenue of $25.000 according to Poker Stars publicists. As a result he is rewarded with the right to continue participating in the show’s Million Dollar Challenge. Watch him on FOX on Sunday night.

A gambling Priest might seem to be a wrong notion but he assures everyone supporting him on youtube that all the funds he wins will be used in construction of a bigger church, besides he shows an example to all young men of a person who serves God and enjoys his life while being a priest.

“Elena m” Challenges Bodog Team

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Bodog.com reports that 441 players payed a byu-in of $109 to take part in the Sunday $100,000 guaranteed tournament. “Elena m” turned out to be a winner of the top prize of $25,000.

Actually, it was for the first time when ‘elena m” made it to the final table. On the way to her winning she had to fight against two 2009 WSOP Bodog Team members, Brandy “ParliGod” Savage and Bolivar “ramux’ Polacios.

Online player ‘trp2006’ is reported to have taken second place for $15,000 followed by ‘elymint’ in third for $9,500. Rounding out the final table was ‘theycallmetrues’ in fourth for $7,000, ‘ParliGod’ in fifth for $5,500, ‘Ecliptica’ in sixth for $4,500, ‘Ramux’ in seventh for $3,500, ‘lunarphase’ in eighth for $2,200 and ‘tommybear987’ in ninth for $1,700.