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 The EPT Barcelona Main Event is starting to heat up, with players reaching the money yesterday, and only 102 players remaining. The chipleader is Andrei Konopelko with 1.4 million chips, but big names like Davidi Kitai and Jan Heitmann are also in the top 10.

 Olivier Busquet, winner of EPT Super High Roller was wearing a "Save Gaza" t-shirt, while Daniel Colman, the runner-up was wearing a "Free Palestine" t-shirt, which caused a lot of controversy and resulted in PokerStars changing the rules for future tournaments regarding political statements.

Chris "Moorman1" Moorman is a poker legend, he was the first player to ever reach $10 million in online tournament winnings, and he is also an all time leader in the Triple Crown rankings. Last week, he earned his 22nd title by winning the final tournament that was eligible for a TC title.

Olivier Busquet defeated his former student, Daniel Colman in heads-up play to win the EPT Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller and €900,000

 The Main Event of the Estrellas Poker Tour set the record of being the biggest poker tournament ever to be organized outside of the USA, and the €50,000 Super High Roller is also the biggest SHR held in Barcelona.

We recently stumbled upon a company called PokerFuel, which claims to have created dietary supplements that will help you with your poker game, tilt control, and to win money, of course!

The 100th EPT stop in the tour's existence is Barcelona, where it all started back in 2004. PokerStars has been heavily promoting the Barcelona Poker Festival, which is the local Estrellas Poker Tour paired up with European Poker Tour Barcelona, for the past couple of months, and their efforts seemed to have paid off.

The Big One for One Drop has found great success in mainstream media, the videos of the brutal elimination of Connor Drinan and Scott Seiver's bluff at the final table both quickly became huge hits on the internet, but nothing can top the reaction media outlets and poker enthusiasts had regarding Daniel Colman's reaction to winning $15 million. 

 As we have previously reported, Humberto Brenes, one of the most well-known live players in Latin America, parted with PokerStars after his contract was not renewed. Angel Guillen has departed at the end of June, and recently Nacho Barbero was also dropped from the team. Ultimate Poker has also decided to end things with about half of their Pro Team.

Pokerstars is running a promotion between August 12 - September 4 with a total of $500,000 in prizes, and all you have to do to participate is to complete some simple daily "Challenges".

According to multiple New Jersey sources, Pokerstars and Full Tilt have received the approval to enter the New Jersey market in October.

Cheung Yin Sun has gained fame when it turned out she was the mysterious partner that accompanied Phil Ivey when he won millions at different casinos with the help of a technique called "edge-sorting". The casinos refused to pay out the winnings, stating that Ivey and his partner were cheating. Now she is involved in yet another lawsuit.

One of the most beloved characters and most accomplished live players on Team PokerStars shared the details of the split with the company and his future goals.

As we recently reported, Daniel ''jungleman12'' Cates had a bit of an accident when he ended up 1500 miles from his destination when we tried to travel to Mexico to play some online poker. His first couple sessions at the tables were not very successful either, but in the last couple of days he has been on a tear, winning more than $1.4 million on Full Tilt Poker tables

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 PokerStars has been working for years on their new client, and now .EU players have the opportunity to try out the exciting new features the software has to offer.