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It came to be a quite interesting final table in the high roller event this year. This thanks to Lisa Hamilton who impressed a lot, but also because of the action (from start to end) this final table delivered. All the players at this final table played very good and gave the crowd an entertaining final table to watch. Anyhow, the player that stood out among the rest of the players thanks to his fantastic timing, ability to shifting gears at the right time, and pushing all-in at the right time was William Reynolds. Williams never thought that he would take home the tournament as he was all in and shortstacked lots of times. However, he managed to double up time after time and used his aggressive style until he was the last man standing.

"I feel great! I can't count the amount of times I was all in. I was ready to be on the beach and up in my hotel room." Reynolds said after the win.

Lets hope that we get to see William Reynolds on more final tables in the future because he's quite an entertaining player to watch and learn from. 

Final table results:
1. William Reynolds, USA -- $576,240
2. Will Molson, Canada -- $322,075
3. Adolfo Vaeza, Uruguay -- $218,150
4. Michiel Brummelhuis, Netherlands -- $154,350
5. Lisa Hamilton, USA -- $133,770
6. Tobias Reinkemeier, Germany -- $108,045
7. Matt Marafioti, Canada -- $87,465
8. Dmitry Stelmak, Russia -- $66,885

Day 1a of Aussie Millions in Melbourne, Australia is being played at the moment. 327 players started today - 120 have survived so far. In the lead is Chris Chronis with 155,000 chips, closely followed by Xen Xenofontos (125,000). Chris has had a great run so far in the tournament and its a well deserved lead.

Tony Hachem (Joe Hachem's brother) & Richard Ashby (Full Tilt pro with great live tournament results since 2001) are 2 of the most notable players that still are in the tournament. Let's hope that both of them make it to Day 2 of the tournament, because it's always more interesting to follow a tournament when one recognizes some of the players.

PRESS RELEASE:

Noble Poker announces its merger with tonygpoker.com, the popular online poker room run by Tony Guoga (aka Tony G). As both Noble Poker and Tony G Poker are iPoker Network poker room, all Tony G poker room players will be migrated to Noble Poker without affecting the player’s user experience.

Having recently enhanced its website and lead by new poker management, Noble Poker is adding more strength to its formidable lineup in the shape of Tonygpoker.comRead more » Noble Poker Announces Merger with Tony G + New No Deposit Bonus!

It's time for the final table in the High Roller Event of PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. 8 players have survived the starting field of 84 players (84 players who could afford the buy-in of $25,000) and now they will fight for the first prize of $576,240. None of the 8 finalists are probably familiar names to many people. However, many of them have some great results in the past and are probably players that we will hear much more about in the future. 

The most interesting thing about the final table has to be that 1 of the 8 remaining players are girls, which is really impressive as only 9 women took part in the tournament (1 of them ended up in 9th place). The one that will bring the most chips (1,072,000) to the final table today is Tobias Reinkemeier from Germany (picture). Reinkemeier is playing his first ever final table and it's not hard to understand that he's very excited and happy about it.

"I feel really great. I've had so many deep cashes - 11th in London, 23rd in Barcelona, 46th here in the main event - but no final table," he said. "Now I've made it. It's an amazing feeling, especially as I am going in to the final as chip leader, with a big buy-in and a field so strong."

1.Tobias Reinkemeier, Germany - 1072000
2.Adolfo Vaeza, Uruguay - 790000
3.Will Molson Canada - 669000
4.William Reynolds, USA - 482000
5.Lisa Hamilton, USA - 440000
6.Michiel Brummelhuis, Netherlands - 394000
7.Matt Marafioti, Canada - 236000
8.Dmitry Stelmak, Russia - 150000

Vanessa Rousso, 27, has just won the Ladies Event of PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in Bahamas. She made it to the final table as chip leader and then nothing could stop her from taking down the tournament and the first prize of $24,725. Even though many of the players who took part in the ladies event had qualified online at PokerStars, Vanessa had to fight hard to reach the final table as pros like Annette Obrestad and J.J Lui were in the tournament as well.

"There were a couple of pros who played. J.J. Lui was in there, Annette Obrestad. There was a bunch of good players. Obviously you have to run well in any tournament you play in. But I didn't make any mistakes that I know of, I played well and I'm happy with the way I played. Starting the year off with a victory is really cool"; Vanessa said in an interview after the victory.

A few days ago, Jonas "Nebuchad" Danielsson, wrote in his blog that he has lost his interest in poker and also the edge when he's playing. These are 2 of the main reasons why he has taken the decision to end his poker career and do something else instead.

"If I take good care of the money I have earned from playing poker, then I probably dont have to work for the rest of my life"; "Nebuchad" writes in his blog.

For many (including myself) it wasn't a big surprise that "Nebuchad" would stop playing poker. I mean, he hasn't played more than a few shorter sessions in the past 2 years. Even his blog has been dead during this time, and when he finally writes something - it's usually about something else than poker.

About "Nebuchad"
Jonas "Nebuchad" Danielsson, 25, lives in Stockholm, Sweden. He started playing poker many years ago and turned PRO back in 2005. "Nebuchad" has won millions of dollars playing No Limit Holdem against some of the world's greatest poker players. He was even involved in the world's third largest pot online against Patrik Antonius a few years ago. This was before games at $500/$1000 started. In 2008, he was voted 'player of the year' at the Scandinavian poker awards.

Latest news from BigBet Poker:

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The Big Bet team is excited to announce upcoming changes to our loyalty program.

On Thursday, January 14th, we are discontinuing VIP points and upgrading your current VIP points balance into BIG BET REWARDS. There will be no loss in value to your VIP Points balance at that time. For our players it means freedom from the constraints of simply redeeming your VIP points for tournament entries. Now you will be able to use your Big Bet Rewards for sweepstakes, merchandise, and CASH.Read more » BigBet Poker: Important Changes To Loyalty Program

Mansion Poker and BankrollMob are having a $2000 Rake Race for all Mansion Poker players who signed up at Mansion Poker through BankrollMob, either by using our previous $150 no deposit bonus or our current 100% up to $500 deposit bonus.

The $2000 Rake Race ends Sunday 31st January 2010.

Taking part and winning your share of the Rake Race is really easy, all you have to do is play poker at Mansion Poker. The points you earn in the Race period will count toward your placement in the race.

Click here to view the prize distribution for top 20, there's a total of $2000 to be shared!Read more » Mansion Poker $2000 Rake Race [UPDATE]

The Italian PokerStars pro Dario Minieri has taken the lead with 218,600 chips in the PCA High Roller event in Bahamas. Minieri is clossly followed by two players - Lex Veldhuis (214,500) from Holland and Dmitry Stelmak from Russia (203,400). 52 out of 85 players will return to play Day 2 of the tournament.

Elky, The Team PokerStars Pro who won last year's High Roller event only has 7200 chips left and is in last place of the remaining 52 players. Elky needs to double up a few times in the beginning of Day 2, because otherwise the blinds (400/800 blinds + 100 ante) will eat up his stack in no-time.

Play with Dario Minieri, Elky and other poker pros at PokerStars. We will give you a 100% up to $600 bonus on your first deposit.

This is how the final hand between Ty Remain and Harrinson Gimbel was played out in the PCA Main Event.

Ty Reiman raise to 620k before the flop, Gimbel answers with a re-raise of 1.8 million. Remain thinks for a moment before announcing that he's all in. Gimbel calls.

Showdown
Remain: 88
Gimbel: 1010

FLOP 1062

Gimbel flop trips and Remain needs to get lucky on turn to have a chance to stay in the tournament.

Read more » PCA: Harrison Gimbel, youngest ever Main Event winner!

It's time for another standings update for our exclusive BigBet Poker $25,000 RakeChase.

The BigBet Poker $25,000 RakeChase is exclusive for BankrollMob members and is really simple. Just hit each of the 9 VIP Point Milestones (as specified on the link above) and get RakeChase Prizes for hitting that level.

There's a massive $5000 up for grabs for the 1st person to reach the last level and if you make it through each of the 9 levels, you will get nearly $10,000 in RakeChase Prizes!!

The RakeChase runs betwen 20th November 2009 and Sunday 28th February 2010 - still plenty of time to get involved!Read more » BigBet Poker $25,000 RakeChase - Standings (Jan 11th)

The amFar charity tournament turned out really well this year as the buy-in of $5000 didn't scare off poker pros, celebs and other people from taking part (Slash from Guns 'N Roses, Nelly, Mats Sundin etc). Some of the participants of the tournament even made a few re-buys (PokerStars Pro William Thorson, just to mention 1 player with a big heart). Thanks to so many generous people - not less than $97,500 was donated to cancer research.

The winner of the tournament came to be Spencer Benjafield, an Englishmen who won his seat through a freeroll for players with 'supernova status' at PokerStars. For the win he received $37,500 from the total prize pool of $195,000.

PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event is just becoming more and more popular every year. The most popular event of PCA (like most other major tournaments) is the Main Event with $10k buy-in. This year, not less than 1,529 players signed up for the main event and put last year's record of 1,347 in the books. Now, after that 6 days of intensive poker have been played, it's finally time for the final table - a final table with these 8 players who are about to battle for the first prize of $2.2 million.

Read more » PCA - Live Stream: They will battle for the first prize of $2.2 million

884 players out of 1,529 players made it from Day 1 a & b to Day 2 of the tournament. In the lead after Day 1 was Wayne Bentley, a PokerStars qualifier from UK. Bentely continued playing good throughout Day 2 of the tournament as he's in 3rd place of the 314 players that will play Day 3. Chipleader at the moment is Praz Bansi with 960,800 chips, followed by Marc-Etienne McLaughlin (702,100) and Wayne Bentely (602,450).

Even though the top 3 players above have accumulated big stacks, they will have to fight really hard to stay in the lead since the remaining field is packed with pros. Daniel Negreanu, Dennis Philips, Phil Ivey, Huck Seed and Johnny Lodden just to mention a few. Day 3 will be the most trilling day so far of the tournament - that's for sure!

The second starting day of the PCA Main Event has now been played. Not less than 846 players started this day - many of them were some of the biggest names in poker. However, the most notable players that made it through Day 1b and will play Day 2 today are Paul Wasicka, Matt Graham, Annette Obrestad, Vanessa Rousso, Peter Eastgate, Phil Ivey and JC Alvardo.

A total of 1,515 players signed up for the PCA Main Event this year. This means that last year's record of 1,347 is history. Up for grabs in the Main Event is approximately $15,000,000, which makes sure that even the world best and richest poker players will give 100% all the way.

Rummy Royal is presenting two freerolls for BankrollMob members during January, one Kalooki 51 and one Rummy 500. Both of them are $100 each and free to enter.

If you have never played RummyRoyal before, here’s how to join the freeroll:

1. Click here and download the software
2. When done, choose “Real Mode” (no deposit needed here, but just fill in some details)
3. In the lobby, choose “$Real Mode” tab and “Multi Tourney” tab
4. Search for tourney name “BRM private”, click ‘join’ and register!
5. Practice some Kalooki and Rummy 500 games and come back to play at the freerolls!

For specific information regarding date & time for each freeroll, click below:

• Kalooki 51 freeroll, January 14th.
• Rummy 500 freeroll, January 28th.

A few days ago a hacker managed to overtake Jon "Pearljammer" Turner girlfriend's Full Tilt account. His girlfriend, Tracey "XTraCey" Nguyen had about $30,000 and a lot of player points in the account. The hacker lost all of the cash by going all in every single hand on a $25/$50 NL Holdem table. Turner could just stand beside and watch when all the money was lost, and at the same time the hacker made fun of him in the chat. Turner tried to stop the madness by contacting Full Tilt's support by mail and in the poker chat, but no luck before it was too late. 

Here is the chat conversation between Turner and his girlfriend (A.k.A. The Hacker)...

Read more » Full Tilt: Red Pro's girlfriend hacked

The Main Event of PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in Bahamas started yesterday. Wayne Bentley, a PokerStars qualifier from UK, picked up pocket aces and doubled up against pocket kings in the very beginning of the tournament. After that, Bentley never looked back and kept on building up his stack. At the end of the day, Bentley had accumulated 329,500 chips. Almost 11 times the starting stack.

Notable players that made it to Day 2 of the tournament are (just to mention a few) Daniel Negreanu, Dennis Phillips, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Barry Greenstein etc.

William Thorson and Mats Sundin are two of the biggest names that will play Day 1b of the main event. It will be intersting to see if Mats Sundin is as good at poker as hockey.

Gus Hansen had a very hard time at the poker tables last year as he lost more than $5,5 million dollars, and probably another few millions in sportsbetting. Even though Gus probably can afford to lose this much and still play high stakes, he deiced to take a break and look over his own game. It seems like this break really has paid off, because 2010 has started in the best possible way for "The Great Dane."

Between 1 and 3 January, Gus Hansen has won over $200,000 in less than 600 hands. It seems like he has changed something in his game and is really hungry for revenge. However, it will for sure take a couple of months before we get to know whether or not Gus Hansen is going to be a big winner this year.

Mansion Poker and BankrollMob are having a $2000 Rake Race for all Mansion Poker players who signed up at Mansion Poker through BankrollMob, either by using our previous $150 no deposit bonus or our current 100% up to $500 deposit bonus.

The $2000 Rake Race ends Sunday 31st January 2010.

Taking part and winning your share of the Rake Race is really easy, all you have to do is play poker at Mansion Poker. The points you earn in the Race period will count toward your placement in the race.

Click here to view the prize distribution for top 20, there's a total of $2000 to be shared!Read more » Mansion Poker $2000 Rake Race [UPDATE]

The hottest poker news of 2009 were mostly about one player, Isildur1 from Sweden. Isildur1 came from nowhere and won almost $6 millions in a couple of weeks and then lost it all + another $1.5 million in just a few days. After that, Isildur1 had another upswing and was plus for a day or two before he started losing again. Even though Isildur1 lost so much money, many of the world's best poker players praised the young Swede by saying that he is an outstanding poker player who just needs to avoid playing such long sessions and that he should stop playing PL Omaha and stick to NL Holdem instead.

The big scandal
Isildur1 made many poker players even richer when his game wasn't at its best. For example, he lost about $4 million dollars in one single session to Brian Hastings, and also a few more millions to Brian Townsend, Cole South, Illari Sahamies, Phil Ivey etc. Shortly after this, Isildur1 disappeared from the high stakes scene and it seemed like it could take long before we heard about the unknown swede again. However, it didn't take long before Isildur1 once again was in the headlines as a big scandal was about to be revealed. It all started after that Brian Townsend got his red pro status removed by Full Tilt for a month because he had used a non-allowed poker program to collect data from the games against Isiludr1. And according to different rumors, Townsend had shared this information with Cole South and Hastings. However, neither of them got punished in any kind of way by Full Tilt. After that Isildur1 got to know about this, he said that he will ask Full Tilt to give back some of the money he had lost, and that he probably wouldn't play at Full Tilt anymore.

Read more » Isildur1's 2009

PokerStars Caribbean Adventure poker festival kicked off yesterday with a Main Event satellite and a NL Turbo tournament. In total 50 events will be played between 4 - 14 January. The two most notable tournaments in this years PCA is of course the Main Event with $10,000 buy-in that starts today, and the highroller event with $25,000 buy-in on Janauary 11.

About PCA
PokerStars Caribbean Adenture was established back in 2004 and has since then awarded over $39,000,000 in prize money. The tournament is played in the beutiful Bahamas and attracts lots of poker players from all over the globe to come and play each year. The PCA is especially popular amongst younger american poker pros as they only have to be 18 years of age to take part and not 21 like in the WSOP.

Here are the previous PCA Main Event winners:

2009 - Poorya Nazari - $3,000,000
2008 - Bertrand "Elky" Grospeiller - $2,000,000
2007 - Ryan Daut - $1,535,255
2006 - Steve Paul Ambrose - $1,388, 600
2005 - John Gale - $890,600
2004 - Daniel Negreanu - $455,780

As promised, there would be a special prize for those Mob members who opened at least 20 out of the 24 available doors during our Christmas Calendar in December.

To find out whether or not you clicked at least 20 doors during December, and view the prize, simply go to the bottom of your Mob account page or click here (if you're logged in) to go directly to that section.

Thanks to everybody who participated in the Christmas Calendar promotion. We hope you enjoyed it, we certainly did. Now we have also gained some experience and knowledge on what to improve for the next Christmas Calendar.

If you won something in the calendar but haven't received your prize yet, please make sure that you have sent the e-mail required to claim your prize, and have a little patience as we're still catching up after the holidays.

Happy new year!

"Are you buried in bills? About to lose your home? On the brink of financial ruin? If so, this could be your big break. "Robin Hood 702", a self-made man and expert Blackjack player wants to use his skills to help you"

The text above is taken from a website that belongs to a professional blackjack player with the alias "Robin Hood 702" who wants to give a helping hand to 2 families with financial problems. "Robin Hood 702" will give 2 lucky families a luxury weekend in Las Vegas and at the same time give half of his winnings to them so that they can solve their financial problems. Does it sound too good to be true?! Well, you are probably not the first person to think that thought. However, this website is not a scam, but the real deal as "Robin Hood 702" helped a family last year to pay off their loan of $35,000. After this the website got a lot of attention and also started cooperating with Fox News. Fox News are now helping "Robin Hood 702" with the promotion of his website and they will also document the event with the 2 families. 

The last day of 2009 is soon coming to an end. It has been a fantastic year with lots of thrilling news to write about almost every single day. We at BankrollMob would like to thank everyone who read and comment on our news and we hope that you continue to do so next year as well! A big THANKS to all of you! Anyhow, before becoming too sentimental, we would like to let you know which the most popular news were this year.

Here are the top 5 news of 2009:

1. Jennifer Tilly harassed on Internet

2. HighStakes: Hard words in the poker chat between Gus Hansen and Ziigmund

3. Vanessa Rousso got herself a "small gift"

4. Pokerstars now has over 20 million customers

5. HighStakes Poker: Biggest Pot in the history of televised poker

Happy new year to all of you!