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The Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas and professional poker player and member of the prestigious Team Full Tilt, Howard Lederer are proud to announce the inaugural Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament benefiting the Boys and Girls Club.

Poker champ and golf prodigy Dusty Schmidt is announcing a $1 million challenge to prove all golf and poker pros that he is the best combination of golfer and poker player in the world.

For third consecutive year, the Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament (CPT) benefiting the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), will bring sports celebrities, Hollywood stars and professional poker players to Las Vegas for a red carpet event that will also give participants the possibility to take part in this noble and charitable effort and play side to side with some well known faces in a peaceful and friendly environment.

The third annual Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament benefiting the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) no-kill animal shelter and sanctuary will be held at The Venetian Poker Room on Friday, April 17th. 

Actor and Pokerstars Celebrity Ambassador, Jason Alexander, known by millions around the world for his role of George Constanza in the TV comedy show “Seinfeld”, has announced that he will host the Third Annual 1736 Family Crisis Center's Poker Tournament on May 9th, 2009, at the Hollywood Park Casino in Los Angeles, California.

Poker talent agency Check-Raise Management has announced that 22 year old British poker pro, Andrew Feldman, has joined Team Full Tilt as part of its army of "red pros".

PokerStars.com has recently announced that Peter Eastgate, the youngest ever WSOP Main Event Champion and 2008 WSOP Main Event runner-up Ivan Demidov have signed with the online poker site as part of Team PokerStars Pro, which also includes previous World Series of Poker Champs; Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem as well as Daniel Negreanu and many other top pros from around the world.

Online poker site UltimateBet.com has given its Star Players team a heavy dose of talent and ambition with the addition of 25-year-old rising poker player Matt Graham, a former pre-med student, and currently one of the most brilliant players of his generation.

Women in Poker Hall of Fame, which not long ago opened the voting process for the 2009 WiPHoF induction event, has released a statement informing that Card Player Magazine founder and WSOP bracelet winner, June Field, Tournament Directors Association co founder Jan Fisher, and Full Tilt Sponsored pro and WSOP bracelet winner, Cyndy Violette has been selected as 2009 Women in Poker Hall of Fame inductees.

Professional poker player and member of the highly acclaimed Team Full Tilt, Howard Lederer and his wife, Suzie, will host a special April Fools Charity Poker Tournament benefiting the Las Vegas Springs Preserve. The event will take place at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on April 1st, 2009 at 2:30 pm and will feature a $230 buy-in, with all of its proceeds going to charity.

Professional poker player and member of the exclusive Team Full Tilt, Jennifer Harman hosted a two day fundraising event in Reno, Nevada last week, raising more than $111,000 for the National Kidney Foundation (NKF)

The Women in Poker Hall of Fame (WiPHoF) has announced that the voting process for the 2009 nominations is now open for all members. The second annual Women in Poker Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Dinner are scheduled to take place on June 5th at the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Go Daddy, the #1 domain name registrar in the world has announced that it has signed an exclusive partnership deal with the professional poker player, Vanessa Rousso, to sponsor the player at the 5th Annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship starting today at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Buenos Aires-native superstar Jose Ignacio Barbero and #1 ranked player in Argentina both online and as a live player has become the first “Poker Gaucho” to sign with the highly acclaimed online poker site FullTiltPoker.com.

Knockout Magazine, the popular men’s magazine known for its beautiful models and innovative editorial, and the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel and Casino have recently announced that the WSOP bracelet winner and member of the UltimateBet Team, Phil Hellmuth has agreed to play in the upcoming Texas Hold’em Knockout Poker Tournament hosted by the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel from April 24th to 27th. 

The 2006 World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold announced that he has signed a multi-year contract with online poker room Aced.com. The former producer and Hollywood talent agent has not been sponsored by an online poker site since he broke his relationship with Bodog Poker only a few weeks after he won the WSOP Main Event and the biggest prize ever paid by the poker tournament series.

World Series of Poker bracelet winner Greg Raymer, and the 2005 World Poker Tour Champion Gavin Smith, will be playing in The Legends of Basketball Par and Poker Celebrity Challenge for Charity event scheduled on February 13th, in Chandler, Arizona.

Professional poker player and member of Team Full Tilt, Jennifer Harman will host a Charity Poker Tournament and Vendor Faire to benefit the National Kidney Foundation.

Queens of Heart founder Lisa Tenner and professional poker players Mike Sexton, "First Lady of Poker" Linda Johnson, and tournament director, writer, and poker instructor Jan Fisher, have joined forces to create PokerGives.org, a non-profit organization created with the mission of providing financial aid and humanitarian efforts to a series of charity organizations through support from the poker industry.

Professional Danish poker player, Gus Hansen will switch the poker tables for a boxing ring to face poker champ Theo Jorgensen in a full-fledged boxing match aimed to launch Hansen’s Online Poker TV Channel. The match will feature a 200,000 Danish Kronen purse (Approximately $34.500) and will be aired live on February 21st, 2009 on Gus TV.

Local player Neil Arce has taken the 2009 Asian Poker Tour Philippines $2500 + $200 Main Event held at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Manila.

Michael Tureniec will be playing a large number of high-stakes tournaments representing Full Tilt, in addition Tureniec will join the exclusive share of players that have an own avatar and private table at Full Tilt Poker, from where he will now play using his real name.

November Nine finalists Ylon Schwartz and Dennis Phillips have both been signed as part of Team PokerStars and soon will be representing the poker room in tournaments and events all over the planet

Twenty two year old Full Tilt Pro and famous online high stakes player, Tom "durrrr" Dwan, has issued a challenge saying that he will put up $1 million to prove the rest of the online poker community that he is the best online player in cyberspace.

The Vietnamese born player finished the current year with 14 cashes for a total of $2,075,323 in prize money, playing eight final tables and winning three major events.