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PokerStars is running a Team Pro Online Week, that includes promotions to win free PCA packages worth $15,000, the opportunity to become a Team Online pro, and an exclusive Micro-Stakes Zoom Poker Challenge, as well as the Red Spade Open, a $55 tournament with $1 million guaranteed and juicy bounties on Team PokerStars players.

Sebastian Pauli  scored a start to finish victory in the EPT London Main Event, in the heads-up he defeated Kevin MacPhee, who was aiming to win his second EPT. Meanwhile, Andrew Chen won the £10,300 High Roller.

Scott Davies had a great run at this year's World Series of Poker, he cashed six times and came close to a bracelet in the $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em tournament, finishing in 4th place for $112,000. This time around he managed to go all the way and beat a strong final table on his way of capturing his first WSOP bracelet as well as the 2014 WSOP Asia-Pacific Main Event title.

Day 5 of the EPT London Main Event started on Friday with 16 players, and play would continue until only the 8 participants of the final table remained. Sebastian Pauli started the day as the chipleader, and he leads the final table with a significant chiplead aswell, but he has fierce competition that includes EPT champions Jake Cody and Kevin MacPhee, aswell as Pablo ''gordiju'' Gordillo, who gained fame when he won three tournaments in one night on PokerStars for more than $100,000. You can watch the live stream with revealed hole cards at the bottom of this article from 14:00 BST.

Mike "GoLeafsGoEh" Leah has had a very impressive year so far, and he continues to to rack up results, this time, he defeated an extremely strong final table consisting of players like Jonathan Duhamel, Jesse Sylvia and Brian Roberts on his way to winning the A$25,000 High Roller tournament for A$600,000. 

PokerStars recently introduced a new tournament format, in which people can win up to $30,000 in just a couple of minutes. Even though many players think it will ruin the poker ecosystem, Spin&Go tournaments have been extremely popular since their introductions. According to tracking site estimates, cash game traffic has decreased by 9%-13% on PokerStars as a result of Spin&Gos. PokerStars published an infographics about the results of the first 10 days, which you can check out below.

36 players started Day 4 of the EPT London Main Event, and there were still plenty of big names in the field. By the end of the day there were only 16 players left standing, led by German player Sebastian Pauli. Today, players are playing down to the final 8 players, you can watch the live stream from Day 5 in the article, with players like Jake Cody, Kevin MacPhee and Benny Spindler all battling for the £499,700 GBP first prize.

Day 4 of the WSOP APAC Main Event started with 18 players with Victor Teng in the chiplead with 1.8 million chips, but there were plenty of great players still left in the field. By the end of the day, the 6-handed final table was set, and the chipleader is EPT Grand Final runner-up Jack Salter with 3.2 million chips, while Teng finished as the final table bubble.

135 players began Day 3 of the EPT London Main Event, with Italian player Raffaele Sorrentino in the lead. By the end of the day, Polish player Jakub Mroczek managed to build the biggest stack, leading the final 36 players with 1,790,000 chips. There are plenty of big names still left in the field, and several players have the chance to win their second EPT title aswell. You can watch the live stream from Day 4 in the article.

Victoria Coren-Mitchell is the only two-time EPT champion in the history of the series and one of the most recognizable faces in the game. She recently gave an interview to PokerListings magazine about poker, writing, and more, you can read the excerpt of the interview below.

370 players began Day 2 of the EPT London Main Event, with Russian pro Anatoly "nl_profit" Filatov in the leading the field. By the end of the day there were only 135 players left, and the new chipleader was Italian player Raffaele Sorrentino with 491,400 chips. There are plenty of big names left in the field including Johnny Lodden, Jake Cody, Liv Boeree, Sam Trickett, Chris Moorman and Eugene Katchalov, just to name a few. You can watch the live stream from Day 3 in the article.

Rafael Nadal will once again battle at the play money tables as a preparation for his Heads-Up Challenge against Brazilian football legend Ronaldo. You can join Rafa at the play money tables, or ask him a question on Twitter using the #AskRafa hashtag, today from 20:00 CET, or check out the live stream in the article.

The London stop of the European Poker Tour started this week, sofar 667 players have registered for the Main Event, but registration is open until the start of Day 2, so this number could increase. The chipleader after the two starting flights is young Russian pro Anatoly "nl_profit" Filatov with 173,900 chips. You can watch the live stream from Day 2 in the article.

The online tournament series of the iPoker network will be organized with two buy-in levels this year. The Micro events is scheduled between October 20 - 26, while the High events will run between November 2 - 9. The tournament series has a guaranteed prizepool of €1,000,000.

As we have previously reported, Phil Hellmuth was in contention for his 14th WSOP bracelet in the  A$2,200 Six-Max No-Limit Holdem event at the APAC, and George Danzer was looking to win his third bracelet in the A$5,000 8-Game Mix event. Hellmuth eventually finished in fourth place, while Danzer won, extending his lead in the WSOP Player of the Year race. The Main Event has also started, Tobias Reinkemeier ended up as the chipleader of Day 1a.