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Has it ever come to you that at smoking casinos dealers are second-hand smoking all day long? Well, Wynn employees have had enough of it, and filed a lawsuit against their employer. A federal judge ruled that the Plaintiffs can proceed with the filing of their lawsuit against Wynn casinos, who seemingly failed to protect them from the dangers caused by second-hand smoking for prolonged times.

Is the time of smoking casinos over?

The case is interesting because Wynn Resorts LTD. wanted the dismissal of the suit, claiming it is not their duty in Nevada state to protect their employees from second-hand smoking, and they also questioned the court's jurisdiction in such a case. Unfortunately for Wynn, the judge disagreed with the the casino's legal department, and allowed the Plaintiffs to proceed with the case.

EPT Vienna is over, Michael 'mae9690' Eiler, 20-year-old german player has took down the title last Sunday, who won the final heads-up against Martin Hruby. Daniel Negreanu, Canadian PokerStars Pro set out to win his first EPT title, wanting to claim his "Triple Crown" (a WSOP, a WPT and an EPT first place) that only Roland de Wolfe and Gavin Griffin could win so far, but in the end he only came in 4th.

Michael Eiler

Nanonoko in real life

According to PokerTableRatings.com, Randy 'nanonoko' Lew is down in popularity. I'm not saying he's not popular at all, but he definitely lost some of his revenue since March according to PokerTableRatings. This of course might be only due to PTR Premium's launch that limited access to player searches, that is why all the players lost some popularity. The popularity graph (which is based on the number of profile views) is very telling nevertheless.

Whether you like Tony G or not, you cannot deny he's very entertaining to some. The Lithuanian-born Australian player (born as Antanas Guoga) posts regulaly on his blog at PartyPoker. His newest finding is this: he can be a distant relative of Vlad the Impaler, who ruled Wallachia, next to Transylvania - part of modern day Romania - between 1456 and 1462.

WSOP is currently holding its first WSOP Circuit Event in South Africa. 3 poker pros have already signed up to play at the tournament Vanessa Rousso, Gus Hansen and Maria Ho are already in Johannesburg at the circuit event of "The World Cup" of poker.

The WSOP series is well established in the US, and now they join the Emerald Poker Series of tournaments, with the circuit event being held at the Emerald Resort & Casino between 24th and 31st October. You can find the schedule here.

The recording dates for the 7th season of High Stakes Poker, GSN's hit TV show have been made available. The Season will be filmed from 18-20 November. The lineup has also been introduced: the host will be Gabe Kaplan again, and the tableside interviewer is Kara Scott, who has been replacing A.J. Benza again.

Although not as successful as Annie Duke or Liv Boeree yet, Taiwan-born 27-year-old Maria Ho is a renowned female poker player, boasting eight WSOP and two WPT in the money finishes. In 2007, she finished 38th in the WSOP Main Event, winning $237,865, which is her greatest achievement so far.

Maria Ho

Despite her youth, she is considered an experienced poker player and as such, it is little wonder she has a firm opinion about the scandal of this year’s WSOP Ladies Event: six male players, including Shaun Deeb and David ‘Blue Knight1’ Sesso, have entered the game, disregarding the organisers’ explicit request. They stated that poker is not something in which there is room for “segregation” as it suggests that women cannot possibly match men in terms of skill or knowledge, etc.

Many poker players use Moneybookers (MB) to transfer money to and from poker rooms, in addition to a variety of other financial transactions. Some are, however, afraid of creating a MB account, out of fear from hacker attacks, which I can understand. With the Security Token (ST), however, these attempts can be neutralized.

The token is a small gadget to enhance the security of your MB account. In essence, it “generates unique, one-time passwords to increase the security upon login to your Moneybookers account.” In every 32 seconds, it produces a new entry code which is to be given after the usual process when logging in. To see the code, you need to push the small button on the token, so that it is displayed for 10 seconds.

The main event of the 2010 EPT Vienna kicks off today at the Kursalon Palace in the capital of Austria. It is the second time a stop of the PokerStars European Poker Tour takes place in the Middle-European country; in 2005, Pascal ‘Triple P’ Perrault managed to take down the event, winning €184,500.

While 297 players registered five years ago, the €5,300 event this year is likely to exceed that number with 209 players having entered as yet and the registration being open until day 1B (Wednesday). From the international elite, here are only some of the names expected to turn up in Vienna: Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Daniel Negreanu, Luca Pagano, JP Kelly, Arnaud Mattern, Pierre Neuville, Dario Minieri, Johannes Strassman, Pieter De Korver, Kevin MacPhee, Tomer Berda and Alex Kravchenko.

In early October, we all felt sure that Gus Hansen was to be the high stakes fish of the month, but he ended up winning over $1.3 million at Full Tilt Poker since then. In his latest, 11 hours long session, which he played against ‘Urindanger’, he won around $500,000.

Gus Hansen

In September, it was only Brian Townsend and his -$2,534,000 that stood between Hansen and the shameful title of High Stakes Fish of the Month, loosing “merely” $2,097,000 in online cash games. By 10th October, he lost $1,533,000, paving his way for actually being “honoured” this month – when he started winning. By the 24th, he decreased his losses by $1,344,000, winning $447,000 during his latest clash alone.

Ladbrokes, leading UK betting company, has recently added the option of anonymous tables to their online poker portfolio. This ensures that your data, including your screen name and avatar, is absolutely inaccessible to your opponents. Switching between anonymous and normal formats is, of course, possible.

“We are really excited about this launch. Never before have poker players been able to play without other players knowing who they are. This brings an added element to the game for people whose playing style maybe recognizable. For those new to the game, it is an opportunity to try some different moves without getting a reputation because players will simply never know who they are playing against,” Kate McLennan, Ladbrokes spokesperson commented.

My selection of 2+2's best Viktor Blom photoshops was very popular among you, so I decided to find some more goodness at 2+2. Here are the best of poker pro look-alikes. Enjoy!:) 

 
Allen Cunningham  

Cake Poker has just established a player-to-player marketplace where participants can buy and sell Gold Cards (i.e. “collectible rewards that are randomly distributed to players at all of our real money ring games”).

If you have a spare one, you can sell it for cash in The Exchange and if you happen to need any to enter a certain Gold Card tournament, you might find one available for purchase. In order to be able to access The Exchange, an upgrade to Cake 2.0 is going to be necessary, if you have missed it yet. Once logged in, you will see the "Exchange" button in the Gold Card tournament lobby, which takes you to the marketplace.

Part VI of Eponymous’ Photoshop comic strip ‘The Godfather of Online Poker’ is here, in which the tension between the Five Sites is increasing, Gustav Corleone draws dead one last time and Patrik also experiences a serious downswing.