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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.

Russell Carson, known online as "rdcrsn", is one of the best online tournament players in the world. He has posted the following picture as a part of the "PokerStars Sickest Setup" contest. Grinding 24 tables is no easy feat, but doing it in this futuristic-looking but probably very comfortable setup might help a little.

Partypoker New Jersey is organizing the Garden State Super Series between September 7 - 21. The tournament series has a total of $1 million guaranteed spread out through 60 tournaments. Yesterday, due to technical difficulties, the site crashed and could not be restored, several tournaments got cancelled, including the $1,000 buy-in Main Event.

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.

This January, during the Aussie Millions tournament series, there was a huge cash game running, with players like Phil Ivey, Ike Haxton, Paul Newey, Patrik Antonius, Doug "WCGRider" Polk, Max "AltiFC" Altergott, Paul Phua and Rono Lo. Phua and Lo, the two Chinese businessmen got into a $1 million pot, check out the video below.

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.

New Jersey Senator Ray Lesniak generated a lot of discussion with this Tweet, and later he implied that PokerStars could be opening its player pools so that US players would be finally able to play poker with the rest of the world. Several people tweeted questions regarding the Senator's statement, you can read his answers and more details about PokerStars' return below.

Earlier today we have reported that the WSOP Hall of Fame finalists are now public. But what does the Hall of Fame actually look like? Below you can see the original wall where the legends of poker are immortalized at the Binion's Horeshoe Casino in Las Vegas.

The Borgata Casino in Atlantic City has been constantly coming up with new legal charges in their case against Phil Ivey. This time, they are claiming that Ivey's edge sorting technique can be considered racketeering. 

Alexander Lakhov won the WPT National event last June in the exact same poker room where he claimed the $310,000 first prize for winning the WPT Merit North Cyprus Classic this week, defeating players like Toby "810ofclubs" Lewis and EPT Grand Final champion Nicolas Chouity.

As we have previously reported, the nomination for the next two players to be inducted in the Poker Hall of Fame opened not long ago. Now the public nomination process on WSOP.com is done, and the Poker Hall of Fame Governing Council has decided this years final 10 players who have the chance to be a part of poker history. In the following you can learn a bit more about the nomination criteria and the about the finalists.

The Taj Mahal in Atlantic City is a historic casino that made an apperance in arguably the best poker movie ever made, Rounders. It is where the lead character, Mike McDermott bluffs Johnny Chan, and this is where he goes with his friend Worm to play some cards after his girlfriend leaves him. Unfortunately, one of the most iconic places in Atlantic City is set to close its gates soon. Atlantic City casinos have been closing left and right in the past few years (with the Showboat and the Revel closing this month), but to see "the Taj" go is truly a sad sight for anyone who watched Rounders and dreamed of visiting the casino.

In the promotion players can win tickets to WCOOP Steps qualifiers as well as take part in a special WCOOP freeroll.  From today onwards, PokerStars will be issuing challenges and tweeting questions on their Twitter account (@PokerStars), and players who complete the challenges or answer the questions correctly will be entered in a draw. Today's challenge is to re-tweet the message "Good Luck in WCOOP".