Not less than 9031 players paid the buy-in of $200+$15 and took part in the world’s most popular online tournament yesterday, PokerStars Sunday Million. Thanks to the big starting field, not less than $1,806,200 was up for grabs.

The final table was very interesting and thrilling this time. When there were 6 players left, they all had about the same amount of chips left. This is quite unusual thing to see on a final table. Anyhow, it came to be the player "palurdo" who took home the tournament at the end. For the win he received $257,930.

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PokerStars Sunday Million tournament is just getting more and more popular. PokerStars now thinks that the current guarantee simply isn't enough, and therefore they have decided to add another $1,000,000 to the pot in the next tournament on Sunday.

PokerStars are expecting a huge starting field as $2,500,000 is up for grabs in the next Sunday Million. It will be very interesting to see what the first prize will land on. In last Sunday Million the winner got $236,000. Probably it will be double that amount on Sunday!

PokerStars are running lots of daily satellites for just a few dollars to the next Sunday Million tournament with $2,5000,000 in the pot. We give you a 100% bonus up to $600 at PokerStars to get started!

 

Online poker players have gotten some great news from the state of Florida where Governor Charles Grist has signed off on a new bill passed by the state legislature earlier in May this year. This bill authorized an in depth study of the impact that legalising online poker in certain states will have on the economy and on the people.

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21 year old Andrew Feldman from Watford, a previous paperboy have won £4 Million playing online poker since he made the choice to leave his job to pursue a carrier as a poker player. The £4 million was won over less than three years which has to be considered an amazing achievement. It seems like the former paperboy is now living a life in luxury as he has already bought a £90.000 Audi R8 and a $500.000 house.

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The Finnish poker players are among the world's best, such as Future Patrik Antonius, Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies, Juha Helppi etc. But they might experience some difficulty playing online poker within their own country in the future.

The Finnish politicians are preparing a new gaming legislation. According to an interview with Jouni Laiho, the working committee is ready to take more drastic steps. Initially it is a tight ban on advertising of poker companies and a ban on bank transfers to poker sites.

A ban on Internet access to poker sites are also an option, which has also been practiced in Italy.

Patrik Antonius is the Finnish poker pro that few players dare to play against at the moment. He grew up in a poor family and went on to become a model a tennis player and later on one of the most respected poker players online. In a Swedish poker magazine he is telling the story about his life, how he went from poor to rich and living the good life.

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Is it legal to play online poker in the US at the moment?

It is not very simple to answer this question right now. Lawyers, politicians and the poker players are all interpreting the law in different ways.

But now a bunch of poker rooms and the poker players of the US have teamed up to get some stragiht answers from the President of the US, Barack Obama.

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