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Remember the episode of ‘High Stakes Poker’ is on tonight, this show is the first of the series with a $500,000 buyin!

Just finished watching this episode (not the most exciting episode) but this symbalises the LAST of the $100,000 buyin tournaments, as of next week the buyin jumps to $500,000! And features the following players.
oyle Brunson: Regarded as arguably the greatest player of
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Facebook and pokerheaven have teamed up to launch a great IQ test. Checkout the plugin by going to the applications section of the site.
I’m currently ‘average’
The game asks wether you should call raise check or fold certain hands, this could even improve your game!

After reading on various ‘High Stakes’ poker forums it seems that Ladbrokes are out doing in the bigger rooms in terms of having more actively playing High Rollers, Many have said that $25/$50 - $100/$200 rooms were constantly full, despite Ladbrokes having a smaller player based than PokerStars and PartyPoker.

After watching ‘High stakes poker’ you may have noticed Negreanu reading players hands incredibly accurately. Checkout this video of a few hands where it looks like he can even see the other players cards! Click here

Checkout this article looks like PartyPoker may be returning to the US, rumours of poker Giant PartyPoker.com have been circulating for a while so fingers crosses that it happens. The fact Doyles Room returned to US players the other week can only increase this chance.

Thought this might be of interested to you ‘Jman’ has posted a thread about his experiences of playing High stakes poker with some BIG names (think Hellmuth and Negreanu) I’ts a long post but a very interesting read. Check it out on the 2plus2 forums here http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=10387771&an=0&page=0#Post10387771

The ever increasingly popular US poker series ‘High stakes poker’ have no increase the Ante. Buyin’s have increase from $100k to $500k. This should sort the boys from the men, Stay tuned to the series for some great poker action featuring Hellmuth, Brunson, Negreanu and more. Speak of Negreanu does any one know of a [...]

Good news for fans of poker and facebook. Arsenal Interactive have launched a new poker system for users of facebook to play online hold’em with each other. You may have played existing poker games on facebook but this new app includes webcam interaction!

Good news for those of you who live in Sweden, Party Poker has released a site specific to swedish players. Visit the partypoker.com homepage and you should be redirected to the swedish specific site.!