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In November 2010, the WSOP Main Event Final Table will not be the only event worth of your attention, as the International Poker Players Association (IPPA) Championship, the poker tournament with the biggest buy-in ever, will also take place at that time in Monte Carlo.

48 players are expected to cough up the $250,000 in Monte Carlo, all top dogs, of course. Entrees who have already registered are as follows: Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, Tom 'durrrr' Dwan, Michael and Robert Mizrachi, Huck Seed, Gus Hansen, Johnny Chan, Freddie Deeb, Tony G, Bruno Fitoussi, Allen Cunningham and John Hennigan.

Congressman Barney Frank discussed online gambling and personal liberty on Jay Leno’s The Tonight Show. Topics of their conversation included the income to be made by taxing a regulated online gambling market, the ways to limit it to children, etc. Issues like lottery and marijuana were brought as examples and Frank’s arguments revolved around adults who are to be allowed to do whatever they like at home. It was an intelligent debate between Leno and Frank, I recommend watching this 4 minutes long session of the show.

The second stop of the EPT Season 7 was Vilamoura, Portugal. A total of 384 players have entered the tournament, including Daniel Negreanu, Kevin MacPhee, Arnaud Mattern, Antonio Esfandiari, Chris Moorman and JP Kelly, who even hosted the prize ceremony of the ’Fairways and Felts’ event during the tourney.

The EPT7 Vilamoura Final Table

The finale yesterday eventually saw some British dominance both at the table and on the rail; the top three stacks were Toby Lewis, Sam Trickett and former soccer player Teddy Sheringham. The final table was as seen below.

One of the central topics nowadays in the poker community, the Durrrr Challenge 2 has already offered a number of interesting hands, as we had hoped. These are the subjects of a video analysis from Phil ‘OMGClayAiken’ Galfond.

Galfond is, by the way, the only player durrrr excluded from participating in the challenge. He is among the top players on both FTP’s and PokerStars’ annual profit lists.

Jungleman is currently leading with a $692,400 profit after a little more than 6,800 hands from the 50,000 of the duel. I can’t wait to see how it goes for the next 43,000.

Watch Galfond’s analysis here. 

It's commonly known between poker players that Italian players are quite weak at the game. Now it's your time to decide,  you can register to the AK Poker Club, which is swarming with Italian players.

The AK Poker Club was founded in Italy when some local brick and mortar poker clubs decided to gather in an online network, so their players can play from their homes. I think the above information is enough for you to run and register to rob them of their cash.

The EPT Vilamoura is slowly drawing to an end, with the final table currently being played.

So far, the event has been full of surprises, one of these was the participation of many-many famous athletes.
Here is Fatima Moreira de Melo, for example. Fatima is a world-famous Dutch field hockey player, who has also been playing poker for more than a year now. Unfortunately, Fatima didn't make it to the final table this time. Nevertheless, you can now see a video interview with her, where she answers questions posed by her fans.

Teddy Sheringham, famous English football (soccer) player got more lucky than Fatima, and is currently playing the final table.

According to Seiska, a Finnish yellow press-style magzine, Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies and Miss Finland 2010, Viivi Pumpanen are dating.

If I had to describe Ziigmund, I would say the following: a millionaire, one of the best PLO players in the world, and an infamous womanizer. Seiska says he has strengthened his fame for being a striker by dating Viivi Pumpanen, Finland’s latest beauty queen.

ziigmund has always known how to party

The 22 year-old lady has won the title this year, and immediately became a tabloid target. She broke up with her bridegroom, Pezhman Ahmadi (successful entrepreneur) just a few months ago, and can now often be seen on the side of Ziggy, and their relationship seems quite intimate.
Although Pumpanen denies that there is anything more than friendship between them, the local media already handles them as a couple.

As I have mentioned in a previous post, the 2010 Nominees of the Poker Hall of Fame have been chosen by public voting. The ten-name list did not bring real surprises.
This is the second time that the nominees have been chosen by public voting. The list was made official yesterday.

Below you can view Mike Sexton’s induction into the Poker Hall of Fame from last year.

The 2010 Nominees are as follows:

Chris Ferguson
Barry Greenstein
Jennifer Harman
Dan Harrington
Phil Ivey
Linda Johnson
Tom McEvoy
Daniel Negreanu
Scotty Nguyen
Erik Seidel

As I have mentioned in previous posts, Victory Poker officially became part of the Cake Network on the 1st September. Players can already enjoy the benefits of the brand new Victory Poker platform. Victory Poker’s website, however, has not yet been available yesterday, as they have been refurbishing it. Upon viewing the site yesterday, players saw the following message:

If we have a look at the Victory Poker website today, we can see that the software client has already been made available for downloading, and the site is promised to be back up in a few hours.

Fox Sports Net came to an agreement with WPT, so for the next three years FSN will televise the popular poker tour from the 9th to the 11th season. The new episodes will air on Sunday nights at 8 and 11PM starting with the 179th episode in January 2011. The show's commentators will be Mike Sexton, 2009 WSOP bracelet winner and Vince Van Patten actor along with Kimberly Lansing, reporter.

Phil Ivey doesn't give interviews very often, so it is exceptional that Tatjana Pasalic caught him at the WPT London. Ivey talks about his feelings about the tournament and he feels confident that he has serious chances of winning it this year. When asked whether poker's popularity is about to drop or not, he also talks about the reputation of poker worldwide.

An interesting video to watch, I highly recommend it!

Despite the falling traffic across various sports betting websites, Betfair can still boast about its growing weekly traffic, according to a weekly report at BetRankings.com

(BetRankings.com is an independent Web site compiling weekly Top 25 rankings for both the US and Global sports markets.)

The chart shows that Betfair still is the #1, Bet365 #2, Bwin the #4. Only these sites were showing upward traffic in the top 6.

The Earl hurricane caused major power outages on the island of Antigua, where many well-known off-shore gambling firms reside.

"Islands hit particularly hard were Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla and St. Martin, where there are reports of roofs torn off, trees downed and numerous power outages," CBC meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe said.

A Rancho Cordova, CA couple was arrested in April after a security guard found a seven-week-old baby in a parked vehicle outside the Thunder Valley casino. It turned out the Northern California couple went gambling into the casino, leaving the baby unattended for about 2 1/2 hours.

A Placer County Superior Court judge now sentenced the 27 year old parents, Thuan huy Nguyen and Panfila Phu Phan to 60 days. He also ordered them to attend parenting class and with a 4-year probation, they could get the baby back.

 

The biggest match was fought at the Elevado table ($100/$300/$600 PLO 6-Max) on Saturday, with many poker celebrities such as Phil Ivey, Tom 'durrrr' Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Di 'Urindanger'' Dang, Scott 'URnotINdanger2' Palmer, and a newcomer by the name of 'cadillac1944'.

This years' 5th biggest pot was on the table this day, $528.618.