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Gus Hansen and Sam Trickett are both back in Macau and apparently there are some massive games up running at the moment. According to Hansen's blog, he lost a massive 12 million Hong Kong dollar pot (about 1.55 USD) in one of these games.

"As expected my second session here in Macau was a bit more ‘swingy' than the first one. Unfortunately ‘The Swinger Party' was somewhat expensive as I rarely had the best hand at the river and tried one too many bluffs! I am currently playing my third session here in Macau and things were looking mighty fine until a 6 handed pre-flop pot turned into a 12 million (Hong Kong$) heads-up battle. As the smart reader has already figured out - I didn't win it "

Read more » High Stakes: Hansen and Trickett back in Macau

The European Poker Tour Deauville Main Event is now finally down to a last table with 8 players. Paul Guichard, from France, holds the narrow lead over Vadzim Kursevich from Belarus. Guichard, who's known as one of the best players on PokerStars.fr, began the last day before the final table with 1.7 million. About 6 hours later, he had turned that stack into amazing 5,955,000.

The hottest name on the final table is of course Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano. This is his 20th cash and his seventh EPT final table. Today he will bring 2,010,000 to the final table and is second to last in chips. But with his final table experience he's still one of the favorites to take down the tournament.

There are some amazing cash prizes on the final table today. The winner will get a stunning 875,000 Euro, while the second place finisher gets 557,000 (could easily be the first prize in any major tournament). All the remaining players are guaranteed to get away with at least 67,200 each.

The Englishman Berry Danson will try to get a world record by playing poker for 5 days without a break. The attempt will most probably take place this summer at a casino in Manchester, UK and Danson will have to play for 120 hours straight, with small breaks when he needs to eat and use the bathroom.

The current Guinness World Record holder is no one else than Phil Laak who played live poker for 115 hours nonstop at the Bellagio in Las Vegas back in 2010. It will be very interesting to see whether Berry Danson has what it takes to break that insane record.

Martins Adeniya started Day 2 with 115,000 chips and ended the day with amazing 512,00 and the chip lead. Most of the chips he accumulated during Day 2 came from a young, aggressive poker player that tried to bluff him in several pots. Adeniya figured out his young opponent's "strategy" quickly and managed to win some huge pots.

"I came into the day with 115,000," said Adeniya. "My stack swung around between 100,000 and 150,000 for a while, but then a young kid at my table tried to bluff me. I made a huge call on the river to get a full double-up to 250,000. I've just been building from there, picking up small pots."

Read more » Martins Adeniya leads the way into Day 3 of EPT Deauville

When the 2011 WSOP Main Event came to an end many said that there wouldn't be a November Nine the following year. These "speculations" were confirmed the other day by WSOP on twitter.

Here are some WSOP's latest tweets:
-A few hints on WSOP schedule coming tomorrow...you won't find the November Nine returning.

-Another good change coming to WSOP in 2012...no off day during Main Event.

-The WSOP Main Event this year will be 3 days shorter without compromising structure at all.

-All days will play the standard 5 levels guaranteed...except potentially the last day. Start play at 12 noon, finish 12:40 am.

Read more » 2012 WSOP: The November Nine Era comes to an end

Both starting days of EPT Deauville have now been completed. Day 1b of the Main Event, which was played yesterday, saw a field of 550 players and many recognizable faces in the poker world. Big names such as Viktor Blom, Vanessa Selbst, Dario Minieri and Jude Ainsworth were eliminated during the early stages of the day, while notables such as Vanessa Rousso, Nacho Barbero, and Team PokerStars SportStar and Olympic Gold Nedalist Fatima Moreira de Melo (picture) made it through the day.

Day 2 of the tournament kicks off at 12:00 p.m. local time and an approximate total of 546 players will continue the long road towards the final table where some serious cash is up for grabs. The 889 entrants have created a prize pool of amazing €4,267,200 and the winner will get €875,000 of it. In total, 128 players will receive a piece of the enormous prize pool.

A few months ago poker player and music mogul Alan Meltzer passed away. Two days ago, the New York Post wrote what Melzer repaid faithful workers who gave him a shoulder to cry on - by making them rich after his death. One of them is upper East Side doorman Chamil Demiraj, who received $500,000, and the other one his chauffeur Jean Laborde, who received $1,000,000.

"I appreciate it," Demiraj said. "He was a generous guy. He was a really good friend of mine, and I was a good friend of his. It's a surprise. Peace and rest to him. That's all I can say."

"He was always joking. He never looked down on anybody,'' said Laborde, a 54-year-old father of five from Irvington, NJ. "He was such a nice guy. He left me money, but it's not a good deal for me because it means he's no longer here.''

Read more » Meltzer's will: $500k to the doorman. $1 million to the driver.

According to what Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu wrote on his twitter yesterday, he had both his e-mail and PokerStars account hacked. And according to different tracking sites, the hacker managed to play over 400 hands on the "KidPoker" account and lost more than $46k before PokerStars stopped him.

This is what Negreanu wrote when he found out that his e-mail account had been hacked:

Read more » Hacker took over Daniel Negreanu's poker account

The first starting day of PokerStars EPT Deuville Main Event saw a field of 339 players. 221 of those players survived the day and will get one day's rest before it's time to get back into the action. The chip leader, Kristijonas Andrulis from Lithuania, will bring 162,600 chips to Day 2. Only 400 chips behind him is Philippe Ma, from France, followed by his fellow countrymen - Elie Payan (141k) and Julien Claudepierre (128k).

Unfortunately not many familiar poker players can be found in the top of the Day 1a field. Let's hope that Day 1b, which starts in a few hours, will take care of that "issue". We will return with an update as soon as Day 1b comes to an end. Stay tuned!

Yesterday, a 15-year-old boy way charged with second-degree murder for shooting 28-year-old Kearn Nedd to death at  a charity poker tournament last year. Nedd, a mixed martial arts fighter, tried to stop 2 masked men with guns from robbing the event at the Rozz Banquet Hall in Bramption, Ontario.

The 130 people who were participating in the tournament could just watch Nedd being shoot by the boy, who was 14 at the time. The robbers then took off in a waiting vehicle. Nedd died after being taken to a hospital.

The other robber, Samir Abdelgadir, 30, was also charged earlier this month with accessory after the fact to murder.

I doesn't feel like a long time ago since PokerStars had the 72 Billionth Hand promotion, and now it's once again time to celebrate a big milestone hand, the 75 billionth hand! As usual when PokerStars celebrates something lots of prize money is up for grabs.

In total, they will hand out amazing $1 million during the duration of this promotion, with prizes being awarded to players dealt into every one-millionth hand from 74,700,000,000 to 75,000,000,000. The winner of the seventy-five billionth hand will get at least $20,000.

Click here fore further information on this promotion. Good luck!

The following two freerolls from this weekend has been re-scheduled:

January 29th: PokerStars $1000 freeroll for those members who opened 100+ doors in our Christmas Calendar during December 1st-24th. NEW DATE: February 5th.

January 28th: High Pulse Poker €500 freeroll for top 200 in December leaderboard. NEW DATE: February 4th.

Note: Both dates above are not yet confirmed (as of January 30th), but we don't expect any problems this time around, so hopefully the new dates above will be the final dates for these two freerolls.

One more thing. We'll have a PokerStars leaderboard in February as well. Stay tuned!

The 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event came to an end this weekend after only 7 hours of play on the final table. It was the Melbourne local Oliver Speidel who took home the tournament for $1,600,000. A well deserved win for a man who survived a field of 659 players.

Read more » 2012 Aussie Millions: Oliver Speidel wins the Main Event. Phil Ivey took home the Super High Roller

The 2012 Turbo Championship of Online Poker is now in the books as all 50 events have found their winners. Yesterday, the main event (Event #49) was played and not less than 3667 players took part in this event, which created a prize pool of $2,4 million! A player called "Betudontbet", from Mexico, won and received $382,855! Chris "ImDaNuts" Oliver , who finished 2nd in PCA last year, came second and got $285,310.

Another exciting tournament that was played yesterday was the $2100 High Roller event. Icallany, from norway, took home this event and received amazing $210,070. But still he received less than the runner-up, AlexKP, because of a deal the last 4 players agreed on. The other 2 players received about $170k each.

Apparently our $1000 Christmas freeroll at PokerStars, tonight the 29th January, was not played.

We will re-schedule it 1-2 weeks into the future and post in our news section, as well as in the freerolls section, when it will be played. Hopefully we will know more during this coming week.

Everything else will remain the same, the same players who registered will be playing etc., as we already sent the list of players to PokerStars - the only thing that will change, is the date.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

(This $1000 freeroll is only for those members who managed to open 100+ doors in our Christmas Calendar during December 1st-24th, which also registered for this freeroll when registration was open a few weeks).

Sam Trickett received the Player of the Year award at European Poker Awards in Paris, France the other day. Trickett started 2011 by winning and coming second in two Aussie Millions high roller events. Then it didn't take long before he to won the prestigious Partocuhe Poker Tour main event. In other words, a fantastic year for him!

The Russian poker pro Andrew Pateychuck became 2011's rookie thanks to winning both an EPT and a WPT title in just 1,5 month. And not to forget his 5th place finish in the WSOP main event.

Read more » European Poker Awards

It has been a very long time since Tom "durrrr" Dwan gave an interview. But at Aussie Millions, which is being played at the Crown Casino right now, he talked about, for example, Black Friday, the cash games in Macau and his plans for 2012.

Read more » Tom Dwan on Black Friday, the cash games in Macau etc

There are only 14 players left in the Aussie Millions Main Event. These survivors will be back at 20:15 local time - after a 75-minute dinner break - and continue until only 12 players remain. Then Day 4 will finally come to an end and the players will get some well-needed rest.

Chip leader is Bjorn Li with 2,450,000 chips, and close behind him are Daniel Ideama (2,287,000) and Mohamad Kowssarie (2,247,000). Phil Ivey has lost a lot of chips during Day 4 and now he has 645,000 left - only Matt Turk and Danny Chevalier have less.

The next player to hit the rail will get 75,000 AUD, and the 9 players who reach the final table will get at least 125k AUD each. The winner will take home amazing 1,600,000 AUD!

The ex-world champion Joe Hachem, 45, has after 6 years with Team PokerStars Pro been without a contract since the end of 2011. A few days ago it became official that he signed for AsianLogic Group that owns for example Asian Poker Tour and several poker sites.

Hachem will become the ambassador for the APT and will also work as expert in strategic questions in order to develop poker in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region.

Read more » Joe Hachem signs for the owners of Asian Poker Tour

A total of 659 players signed up for the Aussie Millions Main Event and created a $6.59 million prize pool of which the winner gets $1.6 million. Today, after 4 days of play, 27 players have chips left and will return at 12:00 pm local time today and play Day 3.

Chip leader is Tim O'Shea with 1,370,000 chips, closely followed by Matthew Turk with 1,350,000. In third place is no one else than Phil Ivey. Yes, that's right! Phil Ivey is no longer only playing high stakes games in Macau. Phil will bring 1,240,000 to the poker tables today. He's defiantly one of the favorites to take home the tournament.

We will return with an update as soon as Day 3 comes to an end.

Some sad news. The Norwegian poker veteran Thor Hansen, 64, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and probably only has another 2 years left to live. Hansen received the sad news recently and doctors have told him that the cancer he has is untreatable.

"I don't count on dying tomorrow", Hansen said in an interview with Norwegian Verdens Gang.

"I have to fight and we'll see if I can win another good poker hand"

Read more » Norwegian poker legend diagnosed with cancer

Tony G is a well-known loudmouth in the poker community. When he's not busy trash talking someone at the poker table, he (and many other poker players) likes to bet money on crazy stuff. During the 2012 Aussie Millions, Tony G offered Melanie Weisner, an American poker pro, a seat in the Main Event ($10,000 buy-in) if she could go around a poker table twice on a unicycle.

Read more » Tony G to Melanie Weisner: "Ride the unicycle 2 times around a poker table and you'll get $10k"

One tournament, 7,818 players, 15,365 Rebuys, 3,956 Add-ons and a total prize pool of $542,780. Sounds crazy, hah? Well, maybe not if you have taken part in one of PokerStars' Turbo Championship of Online Poker events. The event we are talking about above is Event #27, which was played yesterday.

Read more » PokerStars TCOOP: Brazilian brings home $82,562!

After a terrible losing streak last weekend, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom took a break at 16:00 on Monday. It didn't take long before people started speculating in whether or not the young swede had cleaned out his PokerStars account. But at 01:00 am on Tuesday he returned to the $50/$100 and $100/$200 Omaha tables and continued playing.

Things went much better for him then, and after about 3,600 hands against several regulars at the nosebleed tables he got away with a $560,000 profit. Most of the money came from Phil "MrSweets" Galfond, who lost about $350k that night.

"I need to work on my all-in game." Galfond wrote on his twitter yesterday.

A total of 2,995 players entered Event #23 ($153 NLHE 6-Max Hyper Turbo) and generated a prize pool of $449,250 - more than double the guarantee. The hyper turbo structure forced players to make quick decisions and the action was crazy to say the least. Only 46 minutes into the tournament the money bubble happened and all remaining 391 players were guaranteed $260 each.

Read more » PokerStars TCOOP: Three-way deal in Event #23