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PokerStars has just announced the signing of Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov. You probably remember these two players from last years WSOP final table where they were fighting each other heads up, with Eastgate getting the first prize. When they got back as two of the last nine players for the final of WSOP 2008 they were guaranteed at least around $990K but they showed quickly that this wasn’t enough for them. Peter Eastgate won the whole battle to take home over $9 million.

They have both been seen wearing the PokerStars gear on different poker tours and also on TV Show High Stakes Poker, but they have not until now had a real sponsorship contract. They are now officially part of Team PokerStars.

The popular iPoker room Titan Poker has just announced the coming ECOOP IV, the European Championship of Online Poker. It will begin on May 25th and will contain nightly tournaments with over $4.5 million in total over the two weeks. There will be games with the different poker variations of Texas Hold em, Omaha and also 7 Card Stud. All of these poker games will have guaranteed prize pools worth hundred of thousands.

This is surely a big event for Titan Poker and they will get a lot of attention in the online poker world. Each nightly winner will also get a unique ECOOP IV bracelet, as well as a huge cash prize of course. On June 7th there will be the final event where the total prize pool is $1.5 million.

You can already qualify for this fantastic event, through one of the many qualifiers and satellites at Titan Poker. Many of these satellites have buy-ins for as little as $2.20. Those 2 dollars can turn into a lot of cash if you play your cards right!

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Titan Poker has always been known for having extremely good customer support and now they have once again received the Gambling Online Magazine award for the best poker support. Actually this is the 3rd time in a row that Titan has won this prize.
Gambling Online Magazine has been giving out different awards for poker rooms and casino rooms for over 8 years and it is a lot of prestige in these awards as it is the most read magazine in Europe for this area.

Titan Poker is located in the iPoker Network and is actually the leading poker room on the network. They are announcing that they have put a personal touch to the support, and they will continue to offer the best customer service in the industry.

Titan Poker support is available all hours of the day, all days of the year and you can always reach them via email or livechat. Titan Poker has worked hard to achieve this great support and they have got a good reputation due to this fact. There is also a possibility to have your own dedicated support person, as a VIP player at Titan Poker. Even though you have not qualified as an VIP player, you will still experience great customer support.

Click here if you are looking for a complete Titan Poker review.

One of the old popular online poker rooms has now completely closed down. Founded in Sweden at the right time to grow fast with the poker boom, PokerRoom.com became one of the biggest online poker sites.

In 2005 Pokerroom.com was sold together with the whole Ongame Poker Network for the massive amount of $500 Million. Buyers were the Austria based bwin.com and at the time of the selling, PokerRoom.com was even bigger than PokerStars and all other online poker rooms. The poker room has slowly disappeared by time and now bwin has decided to close the whole pokerroom and move all the players to bwin poker. There won’t be too much difference for the players as bwin is also located on the Ongame network. All players will find info for the move just by logging in and they will also be offered a cash bonus for the problems.

The latest of poker sites that has announced the offer of a Mac friendly poker client is LockPoker.com that is located on the Cake Poker Network. The are now part of the ever growing list of Mac friendly poker rooms.

There have been some reports from different poker players that have tried out this new Mac friendly poker site on the Cake Network, and they all experience a much more stable and fast poker environment compared to the non-download version.

The Mac software of Lock Poker has all the functions that you as a player would be able to find in the normal version used by PC-users. The chat feature is there just as normal and there is also the possibility to play both for real money and play money, if you would like to try it out first. Another great thing is that you can easily adjust the size of the tables, which is really needed if you play several tables at once.

The system requirements to use this Mac friendly version of LockPoker is an Intel Processor and Mac OS X 10.5 or later version.

The number of poker rooms that implements a poker client for Mac users is growing and we are hoping that also more rooms on the Cake Network will follow this trend and accept Mac users to play poker with them.

PokerBonusSource.com has been around for long and is offering poker reviews of the best poker rooms online, poker bonus codes and a lot of other poker related material. Surely you have visited the site sometime. Since a few weeks ago all information is now also available in spanish for those who prefer that instead of english. They will of course also list all the bonus offers and poker rooms for spanish poker players.

Here you can find the top bonus codes available at many poker rooms and players can find the best codigo promocional PokerStars if they are looking to play at this major poker room. There is also listed good promotions for new players at FullTilt Poker.

More content and material will be online on the spanish version shortly so don’t miss to checkout PokerBonusSource again in the near future.

A new auction site has just opened, which allows you to buy tournament seats for real big money tournaments, for a discounted price. So basically you can buy into WSOP and other major tournaments for much cheaper rate.

Try to pre-register now at WebMoneyAuction.com and you will then also get 5 free bids. These auctions are expected to go to bidders at less than 5% of the normal value.

First bidding will be for a $10,000 seat at WPT 2009 Foxwoods Poker Classic but his is just one of the auctions made on the opening day.

During March you will also be able to bid for these tournaments among others; $25K WPT Championship, a $14K EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo seat, and two WSOP Main Event tickets. Buying a WSOP Main Event ticket for 5% of the value means you will get a seat for only $500. There could be over 50 poker and casino packages available every day.

This is really worth checking out if you will get some free time.

If you are interested about the game of poker then these two names must be very familiar for you. Gus Hansen who is known in the poker circuit as “The Great Dane” and Theo Jorgensen the “The Thunder” is taking up on each other on 21st of February, 2009. You can be seeing this particular match live on Hansen’s new free poker channel GusHansenTV.com. This particular “boxing match” as the people are calling in the professional poker circuit, will mark the world premier of this new online TV channel. The event will take place at the time of the EPT event in Copenhagen in February.

If any one of you is travelling to the beautiful city of Copenhagen then make it a point to watch this particular match. All that you need to do is book a ticket which will cost you around $42 USD. Hansen, in his statement to the media said that he is expecting a turnaround of about 3,000 or more people to see this match. There are a lot of exciting thing which will be offered to you during this match.

Experts are saying that it will be a big fight between the two players. Hansen’s current listing stands at +200 while Theo Jorgensen is at -285 and is surely the favourite. In this case Theo will surely start as the favourite while Hansen will be the underdog. NordicBet.com is the company which is offering betting odds for this epic event. The quotients on which you can bet in this match are:

Will Gus Hansen win by knockout? +2600
Will the fight end in a draw? +1400
Will Theo win by a knockout? +850

The outcome of this event is the money ridding between the two parties. In case Hansen wins, then he will collect $25,000 from Jorgensen and if the opposite happens then the bid will go even higher at $35,000. Theo has been gearing up for this event for a long time but people still do not know about the preparations of Hansen. So, you can get the hang of the excitement and suspension for this event. Do not wait any more, because if you do that then the few more tickets that are available will also go burst.

Does any one among you into the game of Poker? I mean Poker on the internet. If you are then this article will give you some amazing news in the next few paragraphs. You all would know that one of the leading sites which host this game on the internet is PartyPoker. It records the highest traffic among all those who are into internet poker worldwide. This site which does not accept US customers is owned by a company called Playtech which trades in the London stock exchange as “PRTY”. You all would know that the premium tournament of PartyPoker till date was the $30,000 guaranteed which takes place every Sunday at 17:45 GMT. The buy in for this particular is $215 and it is one of the most popular games played by the players on the internet.

Now, the great news that you all were looking forward to is that PartyPoker is launching a monthly $1 Million Guaranteed tournament on the first Sunday of every month. So, it will be definitely not a day of rest for those of you who play this game at regular intervals. According to the press release that was issued by Playtech this particular monthly will utilise championship blind structure. There are many possible ways apart from the conventional ones which you can use in order to enter this tournament. The possible way for you will be to check out the online poker rooms lobby in order to get more information.
PartyPoker also launched Palladium Lounge for the players who generate more than 5,000 points in a calendar month. The perks that are included in this service are 24 hour customer service, exclusive promotions and additional deposit methods. There is also the Palladium Lounge Elite which is available for the players who generates more than 75,000 points per quarter or 3, 00,000 points per year. The benefits of this elite club include “snowboarding tips and adventure getaways” and also a chance to “represent PartyPoker.com in televised events”.

The gaming site has very recently added Quick Seat and table preview features to its lobby. This feature will allow the players to open a similar table to the one in which they are playing, without even visiting the lobby. You also have the options of tilling and manual resizing of the tables. So, what are you waiting for, just go out there and check out what is waiting for you in there website. I am sure that you will be flabbergasted after watching it.

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Oleg Suntsov is a common name in the Russian Poker Rooms. Last week in Russia’s St. Petersburg Oleg walked out with the winning money of the Russian Poker Tour Debut sponsored by the PokerStars.com. The final table on last Sunday begins with the seven Russians and two others in the table. Everybody knew from the very beginning that it is going to be a tough game as all of them were the best online players. The 201 initial entrants’ survivors settled their accounts and paid $5,000 entry fee for the table. The final cash amount declared for the table was around One Million US Dollars with approximately $300,000 which resulted in over 10 Million Russian Rubles for the winner.

Few big stars of online Poker was also there on the table that day. The Break out player of 2008 Ivan Demidov and the PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso and the famous Alex Kravchenko were playing in the same room.

Moldava’s Dimitru Gaina had the highest numbers of chips and every one was looking us for a great hand. On the first half of the game Suntsov was having a real tough time but he never gave up. Within in a few minutes he doubled up and made his strong hold on the table. Few of the other players were pushed out of the table in the final.

The last part of the game was breath taking when the contenders fought. Belarusian Vadim Markushevsky had a head on battle with Oleg Suntsov. The winning hand went to Suntsov when the chips went in his hand and the board was showing a 6-9-3-5 combination. Markushevsky showed the top pair of K-9 but Suntsov had a Q-Q for the lead on the table. Oleg Suntsov was declared as the winner of the Russian Poker Tour Debut and he walked away with 10,616,000 Russian Rubles.

The final payout was huge (All amounts in Russian Rubles):

Vadim Markushevsky 5,469,000
Alexander Pantukhin 3,217,000
Sergey Solntsev 2,380,000
Bulat Bikmetov 1,930,000
Sergey Popuk 1,608,000
Anatoly Ozhenilok 1,287,000
Dimitru Gaina 965,000
Evgeny Zaytsev 643,000