The worlds most important poker tournament, World Series of Poker Main Event reached it’s finally state. The players left the tables and nine of them will come back in November to make decision about the most prestigious golden bracelet. In all time’s third biggest poker tournament 6865 players paid the ten thousand and entered the playing field this year ,but only nine of them have now the chance to be the winner and take home the massive $8,711,956 first prize.

The nine players needed 8 days to enter the final table. They come from all parts of the world: Belize, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Ireland, Ukraine and the United States and that proves being poker the most popular card game world wide. The nine players are Badih “Bob” Bou-Nahra, Phil Collins, Matt Giannetti, Pius Heinz, Sam Holden, Ben Lamb, Anton Makiievskyi, Eoghan O’Dea and Martin Staszko.

22 players started the final day with Anton Makiievskyi but he closed the day on the 8th. The tournament now takes a 108days break and they return to the Rio All Suite Las Vegas in November 5 to play the final table and continue the game at Level 36 for almost 35 minutes. Each of the finalists are now guaranteed $782,115 in prize money and 8 of them will become a millionaire.

One of the worlds most popular online poker room Everest Poker announced an amazing $125,000 promotion to their players. With Everest Poker International Cup you can enjoy the excitement of a live tournament and play real money poker for completely free. Play your favourite poker games and spend a wonderful weekend in Spain.

In the new Everest Poker promotion 50 lucky players can sit to the poker tables in Gran Casino de Alicante for the EPIC Live Finale $75,000 prize. EPIC is the biggets live freeroll of Everest Poker and the online gualification tournemanest are open to every players from all over the world. The only thing you need to do is to register a seat for you and enjoy the live tournament experience and get your share from the $125,000 for absolutely free.

The freerolls are running now in worthf of $50,000 until the Live Finale in september! The Live Finale Packages are worth $2,500 plus each EPIC Direct Entry gives you 10 Packages and an amazing $25,000 cash prize. On the top of the the best 50 players from all freerolls get $500 cash instantly.

The $50,000 EPIC Direct Entries starts on 1st of August and 29th of August a 20:00 GMT where $50,000 and 20 Live Finale Packages could be won, qualification tournamenst are held from 4th July to 28th August. You can find all qualifier tournaments on the EPIC tab of the Everest Poker lobby.

At 31st May the worlds most important poker event launched. Now it’s a tradition, World Series of Poker 2011 started with the Casino Employees $500 No Limit Holdem Tournament and won by Sean Drake, a part time poker dealer from California. WSOP is the most prestigious poker tournament this year includes 58 poker events with about $180 million of total prize pool. The tournament is being held in Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas and will be finished on 19th July when the final table participants left.

However the first gold bracelets had been already awarded, there’s still your chance to participate on the Main Event only for $1! Most online poker rooms hold satellite tournaments on regular base. If you are lucky enough, you could be one who travel to Vegas and play poker against the „pros”.

One of the worlds most popular online poker room with nearly 5 million members 888 Poker holds their $500 buy-in WSOP Qualifier on every second Sunday. Of course you don’t need to give up your WSOP play even if you don’t have $500 in your poker account. The 888 WSOP Step1 tournaments start every 2 hours for $1 and one player advances to the next step after every $25 buy-in. From Step2 every fifth player advances to the third satellite and every fifth from there has already a seat in the Sunday $500 qualifier. Register to 888 Poker now and participate at the WSOP Main Event with them!

Annie Duke is defiantly one of my favorite woman poker player. She is the second most winning woman player in the all time winning trail, right after kathy liebert, with a remarkable $1.6 million in career tournament earnings. But this is not why she earned my great appreciation. The thing about Annie Duke is her unique playing style. She is relaxed and communicative. If you watch her playing with other big shots in the field, you might be surprised that she manages to win at all. While most of the other poker players in the table tend to keep their eyes on the table, ware sun dark glasses or hide below a concealing hat, Annie Duke is completely open, uncovered, smiling, talking, joking around and keeping the atmosphere easy going and again, relaxed. As far as it goes for this writer, this is the way to play poker. Below you can watch her latest poker after dark game.

Poker heads-up duel is when at the end of a poker tournament only two players remain in the competition and they are both very highly skilled in both knowledge and experience. The heads-up play will continue until one player has won all the chips on the table.

The World Heads-Up Poker Championship is held every year since 2001 across Europe. This successful tournament, launched on NBC in the United States, the National Heads-Up Poker Championship competition, which only invited players, can participate.

The goal is to win in six games in order to become the champion. The first round is to be distributed by all of the players against each other. There are four groups, which are : spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs. Winners of the semifinal between the groups formed compete against each other till there are only two left. The two finalists are competing to be the champion, who has two wins in the duel against another player.

NBC first Heads Up Champion of 2010 is Annie Duke. Annie Duke won the competition and took home a half-million-dollar prize while setting a new poker record for being the first woman poker heads-up competition winner.

There’s no doubt that playing professional real money poker can earn you a lot of money if you know what you’re doing.

Two weeks after the big Berlin poker tournament robbery local police has released to the public that 2, out of 4 suspects were detained this last Saturday.

The two are fairly young – 20, 21-year-old and it seem that they don’t have much experience in these sort of things. One of them has surrendered himself and the other was arrested two days after. Two more suspects are still missing but the police has their names and is looking for them.

The robbery took place in the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Berlin. Four masked men have crashed the poker tournament that was running during that time and took over the hotel security stuff and guests with personal handguns. They managed to get away with 242,000 Euros.

According to the hotel they could have got away with more, but one of the hotel security guards managed to take back for one of the robbers a bag that had half a million Euros in it.

Amanda Leatherman has been with the WPT, (World poker Tour) for the pass two seasons. But from this next coming season she will not be hosting these well covered and commercialized poker tournaments. This Poker beauty has signed up with the north American poker tour.

Before working with the WPT, Amanda has been covering poker tournaments for pokernews.com and pokerroad.com. The fact that she is such a popular and wanted poker reporter is based on her great knowledge in the game and, of course, her great looks.

We here at Winner-Takes-All.com wanted to wish her Good luck in her new job.

It was quite a shock to the poker industry to find out that one our it’s uprising stars has been arrested and is suspected of murder.
Sophon Sek, winner of last year’s British Columbia Poker Championship, is accused for taking part in the murder of 6 people on October 2007 as part of what some might refer to as Gang wars in British Columbia.

Sophon was arrested before even having the chance to collect his winning money. For now the money – $364,364, is being held for him by the RCMP.

We are waiting to hear news from the trial that has started on the end of November and is still in progress.

One of the victim’s mother has said in an interview that it’s about time “faith will be coming back to bite”. She express her grieve and anger about having to watch sophen going on with his life as if nothing happened, participating in poker tournaments and remaining cool enough to even win the game while the victims’ families are left to grieve and swallow their sorrow in silence.

Ironically enough, the bail for his release, 2 days ago, was $370.000, which is just about of all his winning money.

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