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Bren "YaAaRnY" Lenton has started a prop bet last month, where he bet that he can win 100 buy-ins and play at least 70,000 hands at the $5/$10 or higher Pot Limit Omaha tables in 31 days. In the end, he didn't manage to win the bet, but even people who bet against him agreed that his performance was impressive, and he also managed to score a runner-up finish in one of the WCOOP events for $55,000.

A couple of days ago we reported about the Ted Forrest vs. Mike "The Mouth" Matusow weight loss bet and how Mike refuses to pay Forrest the money he owes him for the bet. Forrest first told Mike that he would become a better man if he paid his debt, but this Sunday, someone on Twitter wrote that Ted should fight Matusow for the cash, and Forrest loved the idea. Could this weight loss bet transform into a heavyweight fistfight? Check out the Tweets below and decide for yourself!

As we have previously reported, 14-times Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal is going to play a Zoom Poker 6-max session at the PokerStars play money tables today (in preparation for his heads-up match against Brazilian football legend Ronaldo.) Rafa is going to get 2 points for each hand won after the flop, while the rest of the player pool receives 1 point everytime they win a pot against Rafa after the flop. The winner's points are then multiplied by a hundred, and the USD equivalent is donated to Care International. You can watch the live stream below, or on PokerStars.tv from 19.00 CET. 

As we have previously reported, the last Full Tilt Poker Sit & Go promotion was a disappointment, many people now refer to it as the "Epic Fail Showdown", after Gus Hansen didn't show up to play his scheduled Heads Up Sit & Go tournaments against Viktor "Isildur1" Blom. This time around, it's players who have the chance to play a $5,000 Heads-up S&G against the Swedish Full Tilt professional, and all you need to do is to play three S&G tournaments in 24 hours.

Doug "WCGRider" Polk is the self-proclaimed best online heads-up No Limit Hold'em player in the world, and he is never afraid to prove his superiority when a new challenger steps up to the plate. Last week, Polk has battled with Swedish Denoking (wilhasha on PokerStars), and after losing in the first couple sessions, he turned it around with a $736,000 win. After Denoking sat out, Polk demanded that the buttons be distributed evenly, a move which many thought was not good business.

Steven Minty is an artist from Los Angeles, who was fascinated with the Dia De Los Muertos, which is a Mexican holiday which honors the dead. Minty wanted to show the message of the Dia De Los Muertos and the end result was a stunning deck of cards with great colors and beautiful design. If you want to buy a pack or just check out some of the other designs, visit Minty's Kickstarter page!

Ted Forrest and Mike "The Mouth" Matusow made a weight loss propbet in 2010 for $2 million, which Forrest eventually won. Forrest has now called out Matusow for only paying $70,500 of his debt in the past 4 years, and Matusow told him that he is not willing to change his lifestyle just to pay his debt.

In PokerStars' new promotion tennis star Rafa Nadal is going to play heads-up against retired football legend Ronaldo. The battle is going to take place in London on November 6, and will be live streamed on YouTube and PokerStars.tv

One of the most prestigious and highest-paying tournaments in the WCOOP schedule, Event #23, the $10,300 No Limit Holdem 8-max High Roller tournament, has attracted the finest players in poker, and produced an extremely tough final table, with players like Ankush "pistons87" Mandavia, Mustapha "lasagnaaammm" Kanit, Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky and Doug "WCGRider" Polk. In the end, Vicente "vicenfish" Delgado Zamorano (pictured below) won the title and the huge first place prize.

The Cincinatti Kid is one of the most famous poker movies of all time, and it was around this time 50 years ago that the production crew started shooting the film. It is considered to be one of legendary actor Steve McQueen's best movies. The visual quality of the film is not the best after all this time, but the atmosphere and the characters are great, so if you watch it to celebrate a little bit of poker/movie history, you will definitely not be disappointed.

Iraj Parvizi, a trader from Dubai has sued the Les Ambassadeurs casino in London, claiming that poker pros Roland de Wolfe and Josh Gould have colluded against him in a poker game, resulting in his loss of 185,000 pounds. Now Parvizi is using the help of Richard Marcus, who claims to be the "world's #1 casino and poker cheating expert", to prove his claims.

Jimmie Akesson, the leader of Sweden Democrats, has been caught gambling away large sums of money on unregulated sites just two days before the elections. At first he told media that this did not impact his political role, but now he admits he might have a gambling problem.

As we have previously reported, the two Full Tilt Professionals, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom and Gus Hansen were scheduled to play a best out of three heads-up Sit&Go match, with each Sit&Go played in a different poker variant. The winner would get $50,000, and players could also have a chance to win tournament tickets if they guessed the winner of the Showdown correctly. The promotion was well received, people were making their picks, but Gus Hansen has failed to show up for the start of the matches yesterday.

SuitedAce Poker is running a $300,000 race between September 15 - December 7, with 12 weekly and one Grand Prizes leaderboard!

Cort "thecortster" Kibler-Melby has been crushing the high stakes games in the past few days, he won $1.65 million in the last 7 days, which is one of the biggest runs in recent high stakes history. His biggest victim, and the biggest loser of the month is Gus Hansen, who is down almost $1 million in September.