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Once again, BankrollMob is proud to offer our members an exclusive leaderboard. During the month of November, you will have the chance to cashin on a total of $1,000 in our PokerStars leaderboard prizes.

Starting tomorrow, you will find several daily PokerStars Freerolls, exclusively for BankrollMob members, on our Freeroll page (shortcut). The amount of money that you will make from each and every PokerStars Freeroll will be copied to leaderboard points (the prize money will be added to your PokerStars account). As soon as the leaderboard is over, the top 30 players will win their share of the $500 prize pool, directly to their PokerStars account. Top 200 win entry to a $500 Freeroll. Remember, you can play as many of our daily PokerStars Freerolls as you wish.

How to enter:
1. Signup for a free Mob account here at BankrollMob. If you already have an account, great! Just make sure you're logged in.
2. Create a PokerStars account - check out our exclusive PokerStars offer. If you already have an account, no problem!
3. Register your PokerStars User ID in the form on the leaderboard page (here). This is a must, otherwise you will not earn points for the leaderboard.
4. Play as many of our daily PokerStars freerolls as you like, to earn points for the leaderboard. Good luck!

Prizes

The World Poker Final, played at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, is now down to only 8 players after 4 days of play, and Jonathan Little is the player to keep an eye out for. Little has won both the WPT's Season VI Mirage Poker Showdown and Season VII Foxwoods World Poker Finals and the WPT Season VI Player of the Year Award. In other words, he now has the chance to capture his third WPT title! Below you can see who the 8 remaining players are and how many chips (and big blinds) they have left. 

Read more » World Poker Finals: Jonathan Little closing in on his 3rd WPT title!

Just a reminder, that today we went back to "winter time", so clocks were set 1 hour back.

www.BankrollMob.com runs in the GMT timezone which does not change, it has the same time all year round. However, our Party Poker leaderboard freerolls now run 1 hour later compared to before, so be sure to check the tournaments to make sure you're aware of the new kick-off times etc.

As for GMT, during winter, if you're in the CET timezone, you would be 1 hour ahead of GMT (ie. GMT+1) and 2 hours ahead during Summer (GMT+2). We recommend World Time Buddy to keep track of the timezone differences.

It's now official which poker players that were picked for Poker Hall of Fame this year. Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson, both from USA, are the new inductees who have received the honorable title that makes sure that they always will be remembered as good poker players that contributed a lot to the poker scene.

Read more » Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson are the new Hall of Fame inductees

The final table of EPT San Remo ended up being a very thrilling one, and it ended up being Andrey Pateychuck from Russia and Dimitar Danchev from Bulgaria who played heads-up for the title. Both players made a deal (winner would get €680k and the runner-up €600k) and started what turned into an almost 3 hour long heads-up with some sick hands. The heads-up was extremely swingy and it was impossible to say who would walk away with the trophy.

Read more » EPT San Remo: Andrey Pateychuk won after an almost 3 hour long heads-up (€680,000)

The 2012 PokerStars Carribean Adventure (PCA) is just around the corner, and there are satellites running day and night at PokerStars where you can win a prize package and the chance of going to The Bahamas and play for millions of dollars. 

The package you can win includes buy-in for the Main Event, accommodation and more.

The festival will be played from January 5-14, 2012, and the Main Event will be played from January 7-13. Last year's Main Event winner took home massive $2,300,000, and now you have the chance to do the same thing. Apart from the Main Event, PokerStars 2012 PCA festival will include many side events across a wide range of games.

If you don't have an account on PokerStars already, you can get a 100% up to $600 bonus on your first deposit. Click here for further information.

After 5 days of play, the EPT San Remo main event field has been narrowed down from 837 to 8 players. These 8 players will in a few hours time return to the theatre of Casino San Remo and fight for a first prize worth €800,000. Daniel Nielson, from Australia, will bring the largest stack to the final table. With 6,7 million chips Nielson has about a 2,3 million lead over Dimitar Danchev, from Russia, in second place.

Read more » EPT San Remo: The final table is set; live stream available at 14:00 CET

It hasn't been a good year for Richard "nutsinho" Lyndaker so far on PokerStars. In total, he's down about $900,000 and among the biggest losers online. Lyndaker is usually a pretty calm person when it comes to big losses. Lately, however, he's been talking a bit about his bad poker sessions on twitter, and some of these tweets indicate that he's about to quit poker.

Read more » "November will be the last month of 'nutsinho' playing on Pokerstars"

Christopher McClung, from Canada, arrived as chip leader when Day 4 of EPT San Remo kicked off yesterday. When the day had come to an end, McClung had boosted his 1,2 million stack to an amazing 3,1 million - most of those chips came from a hand when he knocked out Joseph Cheong with flush vs set of kings. McClung's 3,1 million stack gives him a 1.1 million lead over Daniel Neilson in 2nd place.

Just as planned, the Day 4 field was played down to 24 players who will return to the poker room today and play it down to a final table, which will take place tomorrow with live stream. Among the players who still have chips left one can find quite a few interesting names. Just to mention a few: Barny Boatman with 1,25 million, Johnny Lodden with 1,2 million, Lex Veldhuis with 877k, and Elio Fox with 377k.

Today 64 players will return to the tables and play Day 4 of PokerStars EPT San Remo Main Event. All of the remaining players are guaranteed €12,000 each and today the field will be played down to 24 players before going on a break until tomorrow. Christopher McClung, from Canada, is in a pretty big lead with about 1,2 million chips. Then there are 7 players with 750,000 - 850,000 chips, so day 4 will be very interesting to follow.

Joseph Cheong, the 2010 WSOP main event finalist who lead the pack into Day 3, has dropped 3 positions and will return with 833,000 chips today. A few other notables in the top of the remaining field of players: Alessio Isaia (winner of this year's WPT Venice) in 5th place with 818k, Johnny Lodden (classic high stakes player during the Prima Poker era) in 6th place with 793k, and Lex Veldhuis (the winner of WSOP Europe last week) in 11th place with 652k.

In an interview that was released last week Patrik Antonius spoke out about the Full Tilt scandal and the money he will lose if the poker site goes bankrupt.

"This one person made an attack on me, saying I had only $100 in my account. He was right but he's not right that I'm not a very big loser in this," Antonius told the poker magazine in Cannes on Day 4 of the WSOPE Main Event.

The person Antonius is referring to is Noah "NoahSD" Stephens-Davidowitz, and Antonius is very concerned how he got his account balance and why he's telling everyone about such a confidential information.

Read more » Patrik Antonius will lose $5 million if Full Tilt goes bankrupt

The Irish company Pocket Kings Ltd, a company that for example takes care of the technique and the support at Full Tilt Poker, has informed about 180 employees about the termination of their contracts due to the circumstances after Black Friday when the site was closed down.

180 instead of 250
About a month ago, Pocket Kings informed its employees that they shortly would have to let go of 250 employees, however, after a period of deliberations it was reduced to about 180. According to some of the affected employees, they have been offered severance pay and compensations.

In case you missed it: The EPT San Remo Main Event started a couple of days ago. A massive field of 837 players signed up for the tournament and now, 3 days later, 145 players have chips left to gamble with. Chip leader is Joseph Cheong, from USA, with 632,000. Cheong has about $4,5 million in career winnings - $4,1 million from the 3rd place finish at the 2010 WSOP Main Event.

Three notable players with plenty of chips left: William Thorson in 4th place with 508k, Vanessa Selbst in 6th place with 497k, and Johnny Lodden in 20th place with 287k. Anyhow, the tournament bubble bursts when there are 128 players left. The winner of the tournament will take home stunning €800,000 while the runner-up will get €480k.

PokerStars is now focusing on a brand-new tournament concept that they call Time Tourneys. Instead of playing until one player has all the chips, the new Time Tourneys will end when a specific time has passed, and the prizepool will be divided between the remaining players according to how much chips they have left.

There are Time Tourneys with buy-ins for as little as $1 and the time they last is between 15 minutes up to 3 hours. One of the new Time Tourneys will be part of Saturday Line-up and the buy-in for this tournament is $22 with a $10k guarantee.

Make sure to check out the new TIME TOURNEYS and also our 100% up to $600 deposit bonus if you don't have an account at PokerStars already.

When the final table of the WSOP Europe Cannes Main Event was about to start yesterday Elio Fox, from New York, was in a big lead with about 3,9 million chips, and in second place was no one else than Jake Cody, from UK, with 2,6 million. The other 6 players, most of them with over $2m in tournament winnings, also had plenty of chips to gamble with, so it was very hard to foresee a winner.

Read more » Elio Fox wins the WSOPE Cannes Main Event ($1,927,310)

The final table is set. After 4 days of play, the record field of 593 players has become only 8. These 8 finalist are now about to fight for a first place prize of €1,400,000! New Yorker Elio Fox leads the pack as the other 7 players take their seats. Fox created a name for himself in the poker world when he took home the Bellagio Cup championship earlier this year, played in Las Vegas. Then he received about $680,000. Now he has the chance to win 3 times that amount!

Read more » WSOPE Cannes Main Event: The final table is set!

According to a new report on Gamaing Intelligence, Groupe Bernard Tapie has hired the same lawyer who negotiated the Party POker/DoJ and Neteller/DoJ settlemens. The agreement between Full Tilt Poker and Groupe Bernard Tapie is reportedly subject to "several conditions", and the most import condition is a good resolution with the United States Department of Justice.

Even though the involved people are working day and night to get Full Tilt Poker back online, it might take a long time before the poker site is up and running again. Well, according to some rumors, Full Tilt Poker might reopen by January 2012 if everything goes according to plan.

The field has been narrowed down even further as another day of the WSOP Europe Main Event is over. The 25 remaining players will now fight for a seat at the final table where some serious cash is up for grabs. Leading the field is Max Silver, from UK, with 1,769,00, and close behind him his fellow counterman Chris Moorman with 1,769,000 chips.

Read more » WSOPE Main Event: 25 players left - Antonius, Seidel, Tony G & Cody are 4 of them

We are happy to announce a new and exciting collaboration with one of the most successfull platforms for financial trading. ThePokerTrader.com has specialized in educating poker players and converting their already strategic way of thinking and skill based approach and turning them into winners on the financial markets.
By identifying the similarities between poker and financial trading, ThePokerTrader.com offers an opportunity to learn how to apply your poker skills in financial markets that trades $3.7 trillion dollars every day.

So what are the similarities?
The whole mentality of poker players is to get the edge, find the fish, and calculate possible risk and success in percentages terms. This translates directly into the kind of attitude and plan you needed to trade any financial product, from FX, to stocks, CFDs and futures.
Another major appeal of poker is the ability to play 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, there always seems to be a table to play at. Also the money involved is the biggest it has ever been with games to suit all budgets. Again, this translates directly to the financial markets and trading. The FX markets for example allow anyone to trade currency 24 hours a day 5 days a week.
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It's high time to take a look at last week's high stakes games online. The one who won the most money last week comes from Finland. Ilari Sahamies had a fantastic week and almost everything went his way. At the of the week Sahamies booked a profit of $565,272 - another well-neded win for him! Another player that did very well last week was Davin Georgis ($378k). Let's hope for some more high stakes action this week!

Read more » High Stakes: Sahamies won $565k last week!

Get ready for our long string of leaderboard tournaments in collaboration with PartyPoker. Not less then $15,000 in total is up for grabs the next 3 months - exclusively for BankrollMob members.

The details:
- 4 freerolls worth $25 every day - Monday to Friday.
- 4 freerolls worth $50 every day during the weekends.
- A monthly leaderboard (each month) with $1,000 in extra prizes.
- A total of 4K freerolls + 1K leaderboard prizes for the next 3 months - so total of 15K is up for grabs!

You will climb the monthly leaderboards by getting the same amount of leaderboard points as the cash prize you win from the daily freerolls. If you are among the top 30 finishers by the end of each month, you will win a share of the $1,000 prize pool - directly cashed out to your Party account. The top 200 finishers each month win an entry to a $500 freeroll.

How to participate:
1. Signup for a free Mob account here at BankrollMob. If you already have an account, great! Just make sure you're logged in.
2. Create a PartyPoker account - check out our exclusive PartyPoker offers below. If you already have an account, no problem!
3. Register your PartyPoker account name in the form on the Leaderboard Page - shortcut to the Leaderbord Page Here. This is a must, otherwise you will not earn points for the leaderboard.
4. Play as many of our daily PartyPoker freerolls as you like, to earn points for the leaderboard!

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Another day of the WSOP Europe Main Event is now in the books, and today, when play continues, 115 players will continue the long road towards the final table. In a quite big lead are two Americans, Constand Rijkenberg with 462,800 chips and Hoyt Corkins with 429,900 chips. In 4th place is Jake Cody with 323k, and in 9th place is Erik Seidel with 291,900. Another 2 big names that made it through Day 2 with plenty of chips are Patrik Antonius (23rd place - 228k) and Liv Boeree (202,300).

The total prize pool is €5,692,800 and 64 players will receive a share from it. The winner will get amazing €1,400,000, and the runner-up will get €800,000.

Day 1a and b of the WSOP Europe Cannes Main Event have been played over the weekend. In total, 593 players signed up for the Main Event and made it to the biggest main event in WSOP Europe history. Today, 327players will return to the tables and play Day 2. The chip leader is Lari Sihvo, from Finland, with 144,725, closely followed by Tommy Vedes (142,775) and James Rosen (147,000). Unfortunately there aren't so many big names in the top of the remaining field, though, the first prize of 1,400,000 euro will make sure that the rest of the tournament will be interesting to follow.

Lately there have been rumors that Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies has gained a lot of weight during the summer. The Finnish tabloid magazine Seiska even published one of Ziigmund's Facebook profile pictures on its website a while ago, a picture which confirmed that Ziigmund indeed had gained some weight. However, according to the magazine, Ziigmund's girlfriend Elina doesn't seem too bothered with his rounded appearance.

This is what an anonymous person wrote on Seiska's website a while ago...
"Ilari knows how to make fun of himself. He calls himself ´Fat roe sack´ and is very descriptive about his unhealthy and fattening diet"