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Professional poker player and member of UltimateBet Poker Team, Annie Duke, is teaming up with the famous Commerce Casino in Los Angeles to present a special charity poker event on benefit of the Decision Education Foundation (DEF), a non profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of young people by empowering them with effective decision skills.

Twenty seven year old Canadian pro and member of Full Tilt Poker Pro, Erik Cajelais, has claimed his first WSOP bracelet after taking the World Series of Poker Europe Event 2, winning $169.000 in prize money.

Leading online poker site Full Tilt Poker and Emblaze Productions are pleased to announce the list of invited players for Million Dollar Cash Game 2009.

UltimateBet is glad to inform that  TV & Film personality Tiffany Michelle has signed on for a second year as a member of Team UB. The poker pro will continue to be part of UB's exclusive poker team, which also includes 11 time WSOP Bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke and recent WSOP champs Brandon Cantu and Matt Graham.

The Poker Hall of Fame has recently informed that online poker pro and heads up expert Tom "durrrr" Dwan has been removed from its list of nominees

Poker legend and 11 time World Series of Poker Bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth will once again host the annual Hold'em for Heroes charity poker tournament set to get underway on November 19th at Fort McDowell Casino in Arizona.

Ceasars Cup Team Captains, Daniel Negreanu and Annette Obrestad have called four more players for the first team poker event featuring the best players from both sides of the Atlantic competing against each other to determine whether the Americas or Europeans are home to the best tournament poker players.

Unlike the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, in where the online poker site PokerStars.com dominated the field with  six sponsored players at the final table, this year most poker sites had to compete against each other to have their brands exposed at the final table.

Team Captains Daniel Negreanu and Annette Obrestad have added two more players to their teams line-ups in preparation for the inaugural Caesars Cup.

Professional poker player Sammy "any two" George will become the first  opponent for Tom “durrrr” Dwan in the live version of the “Durrr Million Dollar Challenge, which is expected to happen during the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe festivities in London next month.

Online poker site UltimateBet.com has informed that British TV presenter, model and poker player Liv Boeree has earned a spot on UltimateBet's Team UB alongside Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke.

World Series of Poker Champs Jamie Gold and Peter Eastgate and Poker in the Park will team up for a special a charity poker tournament benefiting the Jamie Gold Foundation, a non profit organization created by Gold following his record-breaking $12,000,000 victory at the 2006 WSOP.

Online poker site EverestPoker.com has informed that 25 year-old professional poker player and member of the WSOP November nine, Antoine Saout  has signed as part of their exclusive Team Everest.

Dusty Schmidt, a recognized golfer and professional online poker player who not long ago lost his amateur golfing status after issuing a $1 million challenge involving golf and poker, has dropped a lawsuit against the United States Golf Association (USGA) to have his amateur golfer status reinstated.

If Phil Ivey can’t bring excitement to the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event final table, then no one can.

Sportsbetting websites like BetUS.com could be regretting ever posting odds on the winner of the 2009 WSOP. Before the start of this year's World Series of Poker, the sportsbook posted odds to win for the poker event with one of the best players in the world, Full Tilt Poker's Phil Ivey, with odds of 150-1. Now with Ivey's entry into the Main Event in November, his win could cost sportsbooks literally millions.

Online heads up specialist, Tom “Durrrr” Dwan will take its famous heads up skills to the Matchroom Sports in London, for a live version of his Million Dollar Challenge.  The challenge will take place in September and will see Dwan taking on four opponents for a special 500 hands live heads up match up.

Online poker site and member of the CEREUS Network, AbsolutePoker.com today announced that celebrated poker player and model Lacey Jones has signed a deal to represent the poker brand around the globe.

Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier closed the 2009 WSOP Main Event Day 3 as the chip leader with 1,380,500 in chips, followed by fellow Frenchman Ludovic Lacay in second place with 896,000.

The top ten nominees for the 2009 Poker Hall of Fame are Tom Dwan, Barry Greenstein, Dan Harrington, Phil Ivey, Tom McEvoy, Men Nguyen, Scotty Nguyen, Daniel Negreanu, Erik Seidel and Mike Sexton.

French poker pro and member of Team Pokerstars.com, Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier is closing a remarkable performance at the World Poker Tour season VII by taking the prestigious WPT Player of the Year Award.

Team Captains Daniel Negreanu and Annette Obrestad have announced their first picks for the first-ever Caesars Cup, an exclusive poker tournament modeled after golf's Ryder Cup, and featuring the best European and North America's pros battling against each other in a series of Heads Up and Team events.

Eva’s Heroes announced today that 11-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and member of Team UltimateBet.com, Phil Hellmuth, will return to the Alamo  City to host the Second Annual Tony and Eva Parker Celebrity Casino Night.

The United States is dominant once again at the World Series of Poker.

With only a few day left before the 2009 World Series of Poker takes a three month hiatus to play the Main Event's final table, it seems the race for Player of the Year is already a done deal for the professional poker player Jeff Lisandro.