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Daniel Booth won a whopping $96,000 first prize at Sky city Casino in Adelaide (australia)
What’s more remarkable is that this relative poker newcomer has only been playing for 5 months! The tournament usually comes with a $3,000 buyin however booth won entry through a series of regional tournaments.
Poker pro Joe Hachem (2005 wsop winner) [...]

Just done watching this episode, Jamie Gold was involved in the biggest pots of the whole season.
Gold/Antonius were involved in a pot worth around $750k, they then played the hand 3 times and ended up splitting the pot 2/3 and 1/3
However all in all it was quite a boring episode,

Poker Crushr is a new tool for researching how your opponents play.
Simply enter a username on the site (or download the software) and it will tell you exactly how these players play by researching their hand history on over 100 poker rooms.
You can also enter your own nameto identify your own weaknesses.
The downloadable version coms [...]

Sealand, the tiny ‘country’ located 12km from british shores has opened an online casino.
With a population of just 27 Sealand is offering tax free gambling for people accross the world, the casino is governed by the people of sealand and offers all the usual casino games (but not poker yet)
See more about Sealand here
Casino [...]

I have just launched a brand new poker news site. It gathers news from around the web relating to all aspects of poker (both online and offline)
Click here to visit CardNews

The main discussion on day 1 at the 2007 world poker finals was about a hand involving J.C. Tran and another player who wished to remain nameless.
Both players were involved in the pot, the flop comes 995 J.C. Tran and player 2 go all in, Tran reveals a 9 for trips, player 2 instantly mucks [...]

Rumous have been spreading that poker giants 888 may merge with BlueSQ late next year, this could mean pacific poker could become one of the largest online poker rooms.
However nothing is set in stone as yet, this is merely forum gossip but has been spreading like wildfire.
Stay tuned for updates

Just finished watching this episode, was good to see Doyle Brunson play (although folding a hand to a lower flush)
Other highlights include watching Laliberte winning hand after hand (half of his winning he is donating to charity) this also introduced my favourite phrase of the series “Lesson number one for the potentially best bluffer [...]

ThePokerFilm is a newly released mini documentary which follows the life of 4 college students who make a killing player poker (both online and offline) view the series here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPwKQGrSz0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS29g1o0×3c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=380do2DhRrw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KqmcUKWcjw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOP4OJgqC5s
It certainly goes a bit ofcourse as it’s intentions were to show how these players live. Also having 3 episodes about a drinking competition certainly shows the [...]

As most of you online players have heard Absolute Poker has come under a lot of scrutiny for having a ’super user’ account, this basiclly allowed a player (username potripper) to view all of the other players hole cards, obvsiouly giving him an advantage which he greedily used to steal pot after pot. Some believe [...]