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The 2011 EPT Copenhagen Main Event is down to 24 players and now it starts getting really exciting! Yesterday, Michael Tureniec from Sweden was in the lead. Now, another Swede has overtaken the lead! Per Linde (picture) has accumulated 1,622,000 chips and he will for sure make it to the final table with a healthy stack if he continues like this.

In second place is Florian Langmann from Germany with 1,304,000 chips, followed by the Swedes Joel Nordkvist and Michael Tureniec. In fact, the most of the remaining players are from the Nordic countries. Well, maybe that something one should expect from a tournament held in Denmark?

888 Poker have now launched their Face2Face poker. This is a webcam feature that will allow players to play each other, face2face. This is said to bring a "new dynamic to the world of online poker". The webcam system is now live in the 888 poker software and it also include a communication system that should be similar to Skype. As of now, 888 is running the Face2Face on a variety of different cash tables.

Read more » 888 Poker Launch webcam poker Face2Face

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Usually the opponent that Viktor "Isildur1″ Blom Takes on in
his SuperStar Showdown are world renowned players.

Next time it's going to be a litlle different though. Read more » Viktor "Isildur1" Blom faces an online qualifier in his next Superstar Showdown

Another day of the Main Event is now in the books. 262 players have become 73 and the final table, where lots of cash is up for grabs, is not far away! In the lead is Michael Tureniec from Sweden (picture), followed by another 2 Swedes - Per Linde and Joel Nordqvist.

Day 2 of the EPT Copenhagen Main Event was, as you probably already figured out, dominated by the Swedish poker players. There are a few big names who will return to play Day 3 of the tournament. For example, JP Kelly in 4th place, and further down in the felt are Johnny Lodden and Juha Helppi.

Yesterday, 235 players came to the SAS Radisson Hotel in Copenhagen and signed up for the EPT Copenhagen Main Event. The field included players such as Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, Ramzi Jelassi, JP Kelly - along with many other big names from the poker world. After eight one-hour levels of poker, the field had been reduced to 129 players. The one who will bring the biggest stack (203,800) from Day 1b to Day 2, which starts today, is the Lithuanian player Domantas Kimciasukas. He played fantastic poker during Day 1b and it's a very well- deserved lead!

Day 2 will kick off in a bit. We will return with an update as soon as Day 2 has come to an end.

For the last few months there's been rumours flying around, that the European Poker Tour would be moving the Grand Final event from Monte Carlo to another location. Speculation's suggested pretty much every high profile European city - and some less-than-high-profile cities. Now it's finally decided where it's headed.Read more » European Poker Tour Grand Final moves to Spain

Mark Hirleman, from Arizona, leads the field with 163,400 chips after that Day 1a of the 2011 EPT Copenhagen Main Event has come to and end. He and another 132 players are now through to Day 2 of the tournament. Three of the biggest names that will play Day 2 as well are Annette Obrestad and Johnny Lodden from Norway, and Peter Eastgate from Denmark. Anton Wigg, last year's Main Event winner, was among the last players to bust. Anton Wigg played very well and could easily have ended up as the chip leader if it wasn't for an all-in against Obrestad with AJ flush draw vs pocket 10's - an all-in which Annette Obrestad won with a set of 10's.

Day 1b of the tournament is about to start now. An even bigger field of players are expected today, so let's hope that it will be an interesting day of poker!

The 2011 LAPT Sao Paulo Main Event attracted a record field of 536 players when it began on Friday. Three days later, on Sunday, the tournament was down to a final table. After many hours of play, Alex Mangano from Chile, the chip leader of the tournament after Day 2, was the last man standing after he had knocked out Joao Neto in second place.

For the win Manzano received the first place prize of R$615,840! The runner-up, Joao Neto, got R$352,760.

Today, it's time for one of the most popular stops on the European Poker Tour, EPT Copenhagen. We can expect to see some really big names in the Main Event. Two players to keep an extra eye on are Anton Wigg from Sweden, who won the Main Event last year, and Martin Jacobson (also from Sweden) who ended up runner-up in 2 EPT tournaments last year.

Day 1a of the Main Event is about to start now. We will keep you updated from start to finish.

For the first time in PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour history, a field of of over 500 players signed up for the Main Event! On Wednesday, the LAPT Sao Paulo Main Event began and not less than 536 players paid the buy-in of R$4,600+R$400.

According to the tournament clock, 172 players survived Day 1 and the chip leader is Leandro Csome with 271,000 chip. In second place is Emerson Baroni with 206,000.

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Yesterday, the WPT National Series Paris High Roller Event (€10,000 buy-in - 27 participants) finally got a winner. It ended up being Imad Derwiche from France who took home the tournament for €125,000 after an amazing comeback on the final table. This is his biggest win in his poker career, but if he keeps up that good game we will for sure hear more about him in the future.

WPT Paris High Roller Payouts
1. Imad Derwiche €125,000
2. Sayah Bouali €65,000
3. Firas Nassar €46,000
4. Haim Kakoun €20,642

According to Microgaming Poker Network, they recently paid out two Bad Beat Jackpots in two days. The first one was on Saturday the 12th of February. A Nordicbet Poker player was sitting with a four of a kind of 10's and lost against a Royal Flush. Losing the call, the player still earned $195,404 from his 10's.

The player explained, "I knew that my Four of a Kind Tens weren’t enough to beat my opponent’s Royal Flush, although when I looked moments later I saw notification of my win and realised that I had hit the Bad Beat Jackpot, and start screaming! I still can’t believe I won and now I think it’s time to relax before taking my place back at the poker table.”

The second Bad Beat Jackpot was on the following day, February 13th. The six players that was involved got a share of $79,985.

According to Microgaming, this was the only time up to date that the Bad Beat Jackpot was won twice in two days.

Daniel 'jungleman12' Cates now speaks out about the defeat of Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom in the third edition of the heads-up challenge SuperStar Showdown.

When Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom on sunday beat Eugene Katchalov in SuperStar Showdown IV, he of course changed the overall statistics for the challenge, to 3-1 in the Swede's favor.

It may be difficult to see who will step up and end his good run, where he now has three wins in a row. The toughest opponent on paper, is last year's most successful No Limit Hold'Em player, Daniel 'jungleman12' Cates, but Blom already taught him a lesson in the SuperStar Showdown III.Read more » 'Jungleman12' : 'Isildur1' has evolved greatly

"Sometimes in life a person can feel lost and wake up one morning not recognizing who he is. Last summer that was how I felt. Prior to winning the WSOP in 2008, my life was very much a good solid routine of playing online poker and hanging out with my friends and family. Winning the WSOP changed that. I relocated to London and started a new life, the life of a high profile poker pro. For almost 2 years I was in a constant spotlight, travelling from poker tournament to poker tournament, doing thousands of interviews and never had a chance to catch my breath. In the whirlwind that followed winning the WSOP I lost track of the most importing thing in my life, myself.Read more » Peter Eastgate is back for round two! Here is his statement

Last year's high stakes King Daniel 'jungleman12' Cates, was thursday morning challenged to a heads-up duel by a totally unknown Swede. The meeting evolved mildly surprising.

It's not every day that Daniel 'jungleman12' Cates looses 47 buy-ins on a single headsup session.

However, it is not every day that he moves down as 'low' as $ 25 / $ 50, but both were exactly what occurred against Swedish 'Lindqvro' thursday morning at Full Tilt Poker.Read more » Jungleman12 looses 47 buy-ins in a HU session against mystery Swede

The 2011 WPT Venice Main Event has finally got a winner. After 8 hours and 20 minutes, the heads-up battle between Alessio Isaia and Szabolcs Mayer finally came to an end and Isaia took home the top prize of €380,000!

It's not every day that a heads-up last for that long! In fact, the heads-up between Isaia and Mayer is the longest in World Poker Tour history! Let's just hope that it won't happen too often though!

Read more » Alessio Isaia wins WPT Venice - after 8 hours of heads-up

A legend and world record holder has left us. Last Thursday, Jack Ury , WSOP's oldest participant, passed away at the age of 97 in his home in Terra Haute, Indiana. Jack Ury took part in last year's WSOP at the age of 97 and, once again, he became the oldest participant at the World Series of Poker.

Jack Ury's most memorable moment, if you ask me, was at the 2009 WSOP Main Event in a hand against Stephen Friedlander. The flop came 766. Ury bet 1,000 and Friendlander went all-in. Ury called and Friedlander flipped over 76 for a full house. At that point, everyone thought that Ury's tournament was about to end. 

Ury waited a while before turning over his cards, telling Friedlander, "You're in trouble", before showing his 77 for a better full house.

Jack Ury will be missed and remembered by many! Rest in peace!

19 players signed up for the WPT Venice High Roller Event (€10,000 buy-in) and 8 of them made it to the final table - Dario Minieri, Marcello "LuckExpress10" Maringliano and Dominik Nitsche were the biggest names and the big favorites to take down the tournament. However, it ended up being a fight between Bjorn Lindberg and Marko Neumann for the first prize of €70,700.

It was a very exciting and tight heads-up match that ended when both players went all-in after the flop - Neumann with a set and Lindberg with a straight and flush draw. Turn was to no help for Lindberg, but the river card gave him the flush and also all of Neumann's chips.

A big congratulations to Bjorn Lindberg, winner of the 2011 WPT Venice High Roller Event!

It's time for the final table of the WPT Venice High Roller Event. Only 19 players took part in the High Roller event and these are the 8 players that will fight for the first place prize of €70,000 (only the winner and the runner-up will get money).

1. Giovanni Safina,131 550
2. Björne Lindberg, 123 000
3. Dominik Nitsche, 86 475
4. Dario Minieri, 79 500
5. Marko Neumann, 76 600
6. Marcello "LuckExpress10" Marigliano, 47 575
7. Massimiliano Rosa, 16 900
8. Kirill Rabtsov, 8 375

The biggest name on the final table is defiantly the Italian poker pro Dario Minieri (many top finishes at EPT and WSOP). Other players took keep an extra eye on are Marcello "LuckExpress10" Maringliano (plays the highest stakes at Full Tilt) and Dominik Nitsche (many good results in major live tournaments).

After 4 days of poker, the final table of World Poker Tour Venice is set! In the lead is no one else than the 2010 EPT London winner, David Vamplew (picture). However, he's not the only EPT winner on the final table. Maxim Lykov, winner of 2009 EPT Kiev, has also made it to the final table with a big stack, however, he's almost 2 million chips behind David Vamplew who has accumulated 4.1 million chips. It will be a very interesting final table where everyone is guaranteed at least €31k each and the winner will get €380k.

1. David Vamplew, 4 100 000
2. Alessio Isaia, 2 910 000
3. Szabolcs Mayer, 2 585 00

4. Maxim Lykov, 2 175 000
5. Adrien Garrigues, 1 555 000

6. Emmanuel Rodrigues, 1 465 000

7. Luca Fiorini, 470 000

8. Paolini Renato, 405 000

Alexander Kuzmin entered the final table as chip leader, but many pointed to Allen Carter (second largest stack and the chance to be the first player ever to win the very same WPT Tournament twice) as the favorite to take down the tournament. Carter played fantastic poker on the final table and was massive chip leader with just a few players left. But then he doubled up Force, who also had a big stack, and started getting unlucky in several hands.

Read more » WPT: Alexander Kuzmin won the Southern Poker Championship ($601,469)

Day 1a of the WPT Venice Main Event is in the books. 218 players signed up for the very first starting day and 101 of them have chips left and will return to play Day 2. The one who will bring the biggest stack from Day 1a to Day 2 is Isaia Alession (212,000), and almost 50k behind him, in second place, Malinov Radoslav Dimitrov with 165,000.

Day 1b of the tournament is running at the moment. We will return with an update as soon as the tournament crew calls it a day.