Europe has got a new champion at the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe – Annette Obrestad. She has become known on the Internet as Annette_15. She comes from Norway, and she is about to turn 19. In other words, she has become the youngest bracelet winner in World Series.

The largest ever number of elite poker players have taken part in the tournament, but only one is said to have impressed everyone. That is Gus Hansen.

Annette never expected to win, but she did. Her winning has made the WSOPE even more popular and exciting.

Chilipoker.com, the growing online poker room, has partnered wit Liz Lieu. The reason for partnership is the need of style and understanding of concepts which Liz is capable of.

Liz Lieu has become known in the poker world thanks to her several limit and no-limit hold’em titles and earnings of more than $600,000 within the period of two years only. Having become a partner of Chilipoker, Liz will be an important “face” of the site.

The partnership is said to be successful, as mutual understanding is of primary importance for both sides.

Liz Lieu will take part at the WSOPE on September 10, 2007 in London.

The European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) 2007 is said to take place later this year, if to be exact – at the end of November. It should run for ten consecutive days. The event, staged by Titan Poker, the Playtech-powered site operating on the iPoker Network, will have a pot of $2.5 million.

Winners of each event will be able to take a significant cash prize, while one million dollars to be given away during the Main Event will become a climax of the Championship. Besides cash prizes, winners will get ECOOP bracelets and 50 best players will be entered into a $50,000 free-roll tournament the day after the Main Event.

Players can buy in to the ECOOP directly or qualify via ongoing sit and go tournaments and multi-table satellites.

ryptoLogic Ltd. is known to have launched a new casino on World Poker Tour®’s (WPT) gaming site.

According to the agreement between CryptoLogic and WagerLogic Ltd., and WPT Enterprise Inc., CryptoLogic will become the only software provide for the new casino site. Entertainment and valuable experience are the things players will definitely enjoy.

CryptoLogic’s most popular games are present on the site: Millionaire’s Club, mega-progressive jackpot slot, Hulk and Thor in smash-hit Marvel jackpot slots, and the phenomenally successful casual slot games, Cubis and Bejeweled.

The choice of WPT is primarily based on the popularity of CryptoLogic’s software with WPT’s customers, CryptoLogic’s casino experience, integrity and innovations. To say more, such famous names in the gambling industry like InterCasino, William Hill, Littlewoods and Playboy use CryptoLogic’s casino customer base.

The appearance of new Apple poker room at Pacific Poker will enable its customers to play poker online free of charge and not applying for the help of Virtual PC software the cost of which runs as high as $250. Apple’s software is destined to work for quick modes. In particular, Apple software will include the poker forum and poker school enjoyed by Windows users. There players can either discuss strategies or learn how to play Texas Hold’em in the poker school and in the poker forum. The topics of the latter concern online poker tells, the ways to play and win. The program to be used by Apple Poker software is Java. Since Apple computers are not compatible with Windows, Java being the medium for the poker software makes it possible for Macs to play poker free of charge plus not buying Windows.

Pacific Poker claims that Apple players will be given up to $100 immediately on opening a new real money account. In addition to that Pacific Poker had his tournament listings upgraded, for the World Series of Poker to be added. These satellite events running every hour will give Apple poker players the opportunity to go to Las Vegas and to compete in the event won by Joseph Hachem last year and whose prize amounted to $7.5 million.

Having offered a new poker room Pacific Poker naturally hopes to get more gambling market, but unfortunately nothing can give 100% guarantee, as more and more competitors are appearing on the horizon. (Mac-Pacific Poker)

PartyPoker, the largest poker room, and Poker Academy, the leading Texas Holdem poker software developer (www.poker-academy.com), have signed an agreement. Thanks to it the players of PartyPoker.com will be able to improve their playing skills while training.

In accordance with one of the points in the agreement PartyPoker had to implement a new “Poker Trainer” supported by Academy’s revolutionary poker trainer software which hade been worked out by a group of experts at the University of Alberta. Thanks to the new technology the players are able to play against the computer rivals in real-time format at a play money trainer table thus improving their skills and applying immediately to practice. No risk is taken!

Poker Trainer is characterized by the following features:
– three levels: for beginners, intermediate and experienced;
– possibility to choose the number of players you’d like to play against;
– “Hand Evaluator” activated as you play a hand. It informs you of its value, chances to win (percentage), and the pot odds;
– an advisor function complementing the “Hand Evaluator” directs you toward your best moves for each hand, i.e. fold, bet, call, raise;
– the results coming from your performance on the trainer (hands, hands played, hands won, win rate) are available on “Session Stats”;
– part of the free PartyPoker.com software is downloadable.

That is what Warren Lush of PartyPoker has said: “If you’re new to poker, the ins and outs of the game can sometimes seem overwhelming. What’s more, trying to psyche out your opponents while calculating the odds in a split second is a tall order – even for seasoned pros. That’s why a new Poker Trainer was added to PartyPoker’s free software package, powered by the most advanced poker training software at the market. Using our Poker Trainer, players will soon have the skills and confidence to stay on top of Texas Hold’em, the most popular version of poker played online”.

As far as you have understood, the Poker Trainer is not aimed to train only the beginners. It is for every poker admirer who looks forward to improving his playing skills, especially if a poker event is approaching.
For more detailed Poker Trainer information go to PartyPoker.