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Since the London events have ended and the players have nowhere to compete, they rushed into online poker. Gus Hanses tried to crush on Cole South but the last one succeeded to get back most part of what he lost previously.

There was a fine battle at Full Tilt room between Erik “DIN_FRU” Sagstrom and Phil Ivey. Erik was having fun beating everyone and finished the day with a $336k in his pocket, though he could have won much more if it were not for the Phil Ivey who suddenly rushed in to the game as if he knew some kind of secret and was not afraid of getting into trouble with Erik. The day brought him $1.1 million. Here is a short list of the players who were not that lucky to sit at the same table with Ivey: Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Cole South, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond and Patrick Antonius.

There is still a chance to win a ticket to the annual Irish Classic Poker Festival main event that is to take place on August 16.

Every Wednesday from 9 o’clock in the evening London time, Betfair has been offering one seat to the main event for as little as $2.20. Besides, the qualifiers will be entered into the Free Million Dollar Game freeroll, which will award one competitor with a seat to the Betfair-sponsored WSOP Europe.

The main event of the Irish Classic Poker Festival will be a $140,000 guaranteed no-limit hold’em tournament with a $1,551 buy-in.

Survivor Tournaments and the use of the Euro currency throughout the tournaments are the newes features that have been recently added to Microgaming Poker Network’s  portfolio. In addition to that gamblers will soon be able to take part in two additional daily tourneys: Breakfast and Bedtime Bounty.

The tournaments have been designed to make the poker network even more payable. The Survivor Tournament, with its very rapid pace, is supposed to ascend rapidly and eliminate the “weakest” player at every level. The other two tourneys use half of their buy-in as a part of their prize pool and another half as a bounty on the player’s head.

The running promotions are supposed to keep gamblers interested and continue company’s expansion.

The PokerStars team now consists of 40 players. The most recent members who have joined the team are Jason “Treysfull21” Mercier and Marcel “The Flying Dutchman” Luske.

Luske was the top player in Europe in2001 and 2003 and won the Lifetime Achievement Award at European Poker Awards last year. In the main event of the 2004 WSOP, he finished in place 10.

As for Mercier, a 22-year-old Florida native, he won the PokerStars European Poker Tour Season Four event in Sam Remo, finished in place 6 at the Season 5 event in Barcelona, won last year’s PokerStars European Poker Tour Million One Dollar Showdown High-Roller tournament in London and took his first WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha competition. Since his first appearance last year, he is known to have won over $3.2 million.

PokerStars and the National Hockey League are going to offer a huge charity event to benefit the Ronald McDonald House and the NHL Players Association’s Goals and Dreams.

The event will take place at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas in the middle of June.

The tournament will be promoted on the online casino poker gambling site belonging to PokerStars. To attract players to the event, a big number of celebrities and athletes will compete in the poker event.

The charity poker tournament will operate in the conjunction with the annual NHL awards ceremony.

Responding to the growing market demads and I response to the request of the customers PKR offers a new version of online poker that gives players a chance to customize and control 3D avatars at the tables. In addition to that, PKR’s playes can enjoy other new features like extremely popular Pot-Limit Omaha, Omaha 8 and a roulette game for the hardcore gamblers. Now, there are more goodies at their online shop and the time bank benefits more for thinking players: the more hands are dealt to a user, the more time they have for their decisions.

It is obvious PKR is working on improvements for the future.

The online casino poker gambling industry is getting ready for the biggest spring poker event – the Spring Championship of Online Poker tournament event. The overall championship event will feature 66 tournaments  throughout the 22 total events planned to take place during the SCOOP.

Both beginners and advanced players in nearly every age will be able to take part in the championship. Professionals are believed to take part in some of the higher stakes events. The buy-ins are promised to be reasonable, while the prizes – very good.

With lots of gambling sites offering various spring promotions, please mind that only Poker Stars is offering a chance to participate in the event.