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It ended up being Kent Lundmark from Sweden who won the EPT Barcelona Main Event, the biggest poker tournament ever held in Spain, and laid hands on the first place prize of €825,000. Lundmark is the 6th Swede ever to to win an EPT Main Event; the last being Anton Wigg who took down EPT Copenhagen in season 6.

The EPT Barcelona win was Lundmark's third EPT cash ever and by far his best live result in his poker career. In the beginning of this year, he was runner-up in the Nordic Masters of Poker, earning $69,000, and also he was the last standing Swede at the the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas (29th place for $66k).

Read more » Swede wins EPT Bacelona for €825k!

The EPT Barcelona Main Event is now, after a very long day (Day 3) that finished about 2 hours ago, down to only 24 players. In the lead is Giuseppe Pantaleo, the German, from Bieledfield, who won the Sunday Warm-up during EPT Tallinn earlier this year. Pantaleo started Day 3 with a 622,500 stack and played fantastic poker from start to finish. Today, he will return with a 2.3 million stack, and if he plays as good as yesterday there is no doubt that he could win the tournament and lay hands on the first place prize of €825,000.

All the remaining players are guaranteed at least €20,000 each. The 9 players who make it to the final table are guaranteed to bring back home with them at least €50,000 each.

Marco Bognanni from Italy is in the lead with a 1.2 million stack at the moment. Only 20k chips behind him is the PokerStars qualifier Roman Mahklin from Russia. There are lots of PokerStars qualifiers left in the tournament, but unfortunately not so many familiar faces.

The only remaining Team PokerStars Pro is Matthias De Meulder with 434,000 chips. The tournament feels very open at the moment. In other words, anything can happen. We will return with an EPT Barcelona Main Event update as soon as Day 3 comes to and end.

Through out the night, the bids for Peter Eastgate's bracelet from WSOP Main Event 2008 have been pouring in.

It was a pleasantly surprised ex-world champion Peter Eastgate, who yesterday noted that bids on his WSOP bracelet had reached 75,100$ from a starting price of 16,000$.

- I am obviously pleasantly surprised that the price has reached such a high level, he said.Read more » Eastgate's bracelet auction reaches new heights

About 2 weeks ago Jonathan Duhamel, 23, won the 2010 WSOP Main Event and became 8.9 million dollars richer. Now you might think that the new multi-millionaire has been celebrating and spending lots of money since the big win. NO NO! Jonathan Duhamel has not spent any money on himself, however, he recently donated about $100,000 to Montreal Canadiens Child Foundation, but apart from that he has taken it very easy and also taken a well-needed break from poker.

Read more » World Champion holds tight to his money

Lots of pros took part in Day 1b of the EPT Barcelona Main Event and made it to a much more interesting day than the first starting day. These are a few examples on PokerStars Pros who were among the 262-player field who survived the day: Live Boeree, ElkY (ElkY's girlfriend, Cathy Hong, made it as well - she won her seat in a live satellite), Johnny Lodden and Leo Fernandez (4th place).

Day 2 will kick off in just a few hours - there are 339 players left. In total 758 players from 53 countries took part in the Main Event - creating a total prize pool of €3,790,000. First place will get €825k and 112 places are paid.

Ever wondered what your life would be like if you had made millions of dollars from playing poker and got to travel around the world and play in the biggest tournaments for free? No need to speculate anymore! We are now giving you a unique opportunity to get answers to your questions from 3 of the hottest names in the poker world - PokerStars Pros Vanessa Rousso, Daniel Negreanu and Jonathan Duhamel (2010 WSOP Main Event winner).

Read more » BankrollMob Exclusive: Ask questions to Daniel Negreanu, Jonathan Duhamel & Vanessa Rousso

The finnish poker star started the year by losing $ 3,000,000 at the online tables, but the curve has since turned into $ 1,500,000 in plus. Among other things thanks to a German Limit expert.

With the recent stories from Asia's gaming mecca Macau, it is just before the $ 2,000 / $ 4,000 Fixed Limit Hold'Em may sound a bit boring.

But still quite entertaining when there is a long heads-up match between Patrik Antonius and the German 'IHateJuice' - the player who Phil Ivey doesn't even feel like he has an edge on.Read more » Antonius wins 504.000$ HU

Day 1a of EPT Barcelona attracted a field of 263 players. At the end of the day 137 players had survived and they will now have a 1 day break before it's time for Day 2. The one who will bring the most chips, 217,700, to Day 2 from Day 1a is an unknown player called Loic Sa. Loic Sa has only won about $8-9k before this tournament, so we can only wish him the best of luck with the rest of the tournament!

Most interesting hand during Day 1a was for sure the all-in between Team PokerStars Sportstar Fatima Moreira De Melo and Team PokerStars Pro Alexandre Gomes. Fatima pushed all-in with 3 of a kind, and Gomes called with a flush draw/royal flush draw. The turn card gave Fatima a full house, and Gomes turned to the poker gods for help. BAM! Gomes one outer landed on the river and gave him a royal flush. De Melo had been eliminated from the tournament! De Melo looked a bit chocked when she left the casino, and who can blame her for that!?

Read more » EPT Barcelona - Day 1a is over: The poker gods turned against De Melo

In Daniel Negreanu's latest blog one can read about the hassle he recently had to go through to be able to make it to EPT Barcelona. The reason for all this hassle was that his passport had expired, and due to some miscommunication between him and his assistant, Patty, the passport hadn't been renewed only days before EPT Barcelona - a tournament that Daniel had been looking forward to for a long time.

Read more » Daniel's winding road to EPT Barcelona

Madness-game in Macau seemingly never ends. Ivey left China while Tom 'durrrr' Dwan remains to be found in the big cash game, where he due to the recent reports seems to have have found his rhytm again, after losing his first HU session.Read more » Rumors from Macau : Durrrr wins 9 million$ in one session

Ladies and gentlemen, we are just hours away from EPT Barcelona - one of the biggest and more prestige full stops on the tour. Just like last year, we can expect a huge field of players to take part in the Main Event with a buy-in of €5000+€300. Defending champion Carter Phillips, EPT Snowfest winner Allan Baekke and EPT Vilamoura winner Antonio Matias are 3 of the most interesting names that already have announced that they will take part in the Main Event.

PokerStars has been running lots of satellites for EPT Barcelona. Now over 160 online qualifiers players are on their way to Barcelona to take part in the Main Event. Some of them have won their entry for as little as €7.50 - now they have the chance of winning some serious cash that can take their poker career in the right direction.

Recently PartyPoker introduced anonymous heads-up tables in the poker client. The new tables will, for example, give beginners a much better chance against the more experienced players as different tracking programs won't do no good. However, it might also help the more experienced players/pros get more action. This is what 2 Team PartyPoker pros had to say about the new tables.

Bodo Sbrzesny: Often in online poker you see heads-up tables with only one player on it because everybody has too much respect to play against the player. With the hidden names there should be more action!

Tyron Krost: For beginners or new online players it makes it much harder for the sharks to find them and also stops them from being targeted by those players that use the online database sites.

We offer a $50 No Deposit Bonus and a gift offer worth $50 to all players who don't have an account at PartyPoker. In other words, a great opportunity to try out the new anonymous heads-up tables.

Not less than 1,841 players took part in Full Tilt Online Poker Series Event 18, $207+$9 Rush NLH Super Turbo, which created a prize pool of $381,097. It ended up being no one else than the host of the event, Soi Nguyen, who took home the tournament and the first place prize of $78,503. Nguyen is the 7th Red Pro to win a coveted FTOPS jersey and he has now joined the ranks of Erick Lindgren and Greg Mueller as the only Full Tilt player to have won their own FTOPS event.

1. Soi Nguyen ($78,503.92)
2. hellviper86 ($51,827.83)
3. Luke Staudenmaier ($38,489.79)
4. WhoIsTJones ($30,105.87)
5. Philpro01 ($22,484.13)
6. wildjoker321 ($15,624.57)
7. gambeta_perrins ($9,527.17)
8. David Peters ($6,478.48)
9. Nick "agriffrod" Mitchell ($4,573.04)

There hasn't been much going on in Skjervoy's high stakes career in the past few weeks. Yesterday, however, he was back at the tables again and took on Arabianight in a 972-hand match of $200/$400 PLO and won $167k. After this heads up, he sat down at a short-handed $300/$600 PLO table and won another $200k against various opponents. In total he won $368,000 last night - a fantastic comeback by Skjervoy.

Read more » HighStakes: Skjervoy is back in business - won $368k last night!

The NAPT (north american poker tour) Los Angeles Main Event final table included some really big names, and the big favorites to take home the tournament were Jason Mercier, Anh Van Nguyen and Michael Binger. But it wasn't any of them who took home the tournament. Instead it was the American poker pro Joe Tehan who laid hands on the $725k first prize. This is not Tehan's biggest win in his poker career. Back in 2006, he took down WPT Mandalay Poker Championship for about 1 million dollars. In total he has now won $3 million dollars in his poker career.

Final table results:

1. Joe Tehan, $725 000

2. Christopeher DeMaci, $440 000

3. Al Grimes, $250,000

4. Anh Van Nguyen, $195 000

5. Ray Henson, $145 000
6. Michael Binger, $114 000
7. Jason Mercier, $84 857

8. Jake Toole, $60 000

The highest bid of Peter Eastgate WSOP bracelet is at the time of writing at $ 16,600, but before long Tony G will go in and outbid, he says. He will make the bracelet into a dog collar.

It sparked widespread outrage when the Danish ex-world champion Peter Eastgate on Monday announced that he would discard his WSOP bracelet in an auction on eBay.Read more » Tony G: I'm buying Eastgate's bracelet for my dog

In the four-year history of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour only 1 female had made it to a final table (Liz Lieu 7th place at the APPT Macau Main Event in Season 1) until yesterday when the PokerStars qualifier Young-shin Im from Korea reached the APPT Cebu Main Event final table 3rd in chips. She had already made a name for herself in the poker world as she had become the second women ever to reach an APPT final table. However, she was of course aiming to win the whole tournament. And so she did......

Read more » APPT Cebu: Young-shin Im writes poker history

World Poker Tour has after alot of encouragement chosen to expand the tournament series, which now comes to smaller tournaments in the U.S. and in Europe.Read more » World Poker Tour expands

"Play poker online - It's safer." is the "slogan" at the end of the banned PokerStars commercial that has upset and fascinated thousands of poker players around the globe in the past few days. In the commercial one get to see the winner of 2009 EPT Dortmund, Sandra Naujoks, and a few other poker players killing each other, in the most brutal ways, over a game of poker.

This commercial has already been banned in Germany and probably it won't be shown on television in any other country either, so here's your chance to see the most brutal poker commercial ever (NOT FOR SENSITIVE VIEWERS).

Read more » PokerStars most brutal TV commercial ever

The Danish ex-world champion has decided to auction off the trophy from the victory in the WSOP Main Event from 2008 to a good cause - It's still just gathering dust, explains 'Isser'.

Read more » Eastgate auctions of his bracelet

Latest news from Macau suggest that Tom 'durrrr' Dwan is challenged to a game of HU with one of the Chinese rich people later today. Supposedly to be pulled between 20 and 30 million HK $ on the felt - that is up to 3.5million USD!Read more » Durrrr in huge HU match

After summarizing last week's high stakes games, Gus Hansen is the biggest winner once again. Gus won $425k last week and is now up almost $1.9 million dollars in the past 30 days. We can only hope that his winning streak ain't over yet - assuming that he wants to win back the millions he has lost in the past few years.

Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies lost almost $640,000 last week, and once again he ended up being the biggest losers online. Many of his fans are now claiming that he's running out of money. Let's hope that those rumors are false because the high stakes scene needs Ilari Sahamies!

Read more » High Stakes: Gus Hansen is up $1.9M in the past 30 days

The PartyPoker poker software is definitely one of the best and most advanced on the market today and it has all the functions one can ask for as a poker player. So what's missing? Well, some of PartyPoker's software developers thought that something could be done with the poker table background and the alert sounds as they created a Tony G theme. You can choose from 3 different themes (black Tony G, Flag Tony G and Modern Tony G) and also use Tony G's personal alert sounds.

Read more » Tony G your PartyPoker