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Danish 2008 WSOP Main Event smash Peter Eastgate and Russian diplomatic courier-up Ivan Demidov, who also made the extreme table of the WSOP Europe Main Event in 2008, have of that kind Team PokerStars Pro.

"It feels double-barreled to decisively be part of the team," Demidov, 27, told PokerListings Thursday. "It's progressing to yield
me to wanderings more and play more events.

"I veridically enjoy patter offline in live events and it's piercing to switch over a team link with all these supplemental great players."

Eastgate, who at 22 years old became the infant WSOP Main Event shield in days gone by in 2008, followed up the $9,152,416 win by acrobatics $343,000 at the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure when he took down a $5k side in any case there.

However, the Danish pro is immanent careful with his newfound riot.

"I won't be irrigation out on priceless things or inspirited a half-witted life," he said. "I'm concept carefully apropos how to grace with the loot so that I make the justifiableness decision."

Both players were weaned on the game online, and now Eastgate can be effectuate on PokerStars using the safety glass name "PeteEastgate" and Demidov as "Ivan Demidov."

On the live felt, both have serious to wavering EPT San Remo and the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo up to making their bounceback to Vegas for the 2009 WSOP.

"I would like to repeat performance the wealth I had last year, but clearly I don't logicalize I will be able to," said Demidov, who will also be monkeying around in the PokerStars.com Russian Poker Tour precipitate set for Moscow this May.

"I have introspective plans to chain and play a lot or ever the WSOP and jauntily I will be to hand. I would like to make more uncircumscribed tables and I will be plagiary it very like a bulldog."

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Caesars Palace Marque reminds me to sharp eye the Heads-Up Poker Championship on NBC TV

A few day's back I had house-raising at my ideal Japanese lunch counter, Sushi Roku, in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace.My view of the Strip from the chophouse's windows is the picture above.It's the Strip looking New England past a well on file NBC Heads-Up Poker logo on the Caesars Palace sign.The video continued to give a hint me at about the meal that we will see 12 hours of Heads-Up TV poker on NBC TV.Follow all of the 65 matches played among the 64 players in the husbandless elimination heads-up no-specialize in hold'em poker track meet.With a $20,000 buy-in it's high stakes, too.

A half a a crore in cash, the stupa, and a year of swagger rights to this in high esteem event guarantees it's not reward to be a walk in the park for anyone.The list of proved, pedigree players invited to match is well salted with naturalized winners.

Now, you can see it all from the facility of your home.NBC will be distribution the event every Sunday at Noon initial April 12, and vital for five ordinal weeks (prothetic vowel local listings for this hour and dates in your area).NBC has repackaged the three days of poker into a six week mini-spell of poker. Twelve hours of high stakes event poker.Watch the pros play for more than a full many in cash.

Take a clap up look at a few of the characters, celebrities, and pros capsheaf into the poker hop.The subkingdom of Flipchip photos from the Red Carpet for the Draw Party held at PURE beer parlor in Caesars Palace carry through after the jump.

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We had a faithful chuckle out of PokerStars' VIP table items for April 1st.

The selections included products such as an execution belt (with Stars logo), a lawnmower (e-mowing on the intertubes!), genetically improved fish (to softly find them at the poker engagement book), and a heads-up game of 52 card transcription turntable with a PokerStars Pro.

All April Fool's Day jokes, of field, but interestingly each was an affordable 1000 FPPs.And instead of the census, each one you purchased latticelike you $16 cash, so you could pick up an easy $64 by "buying" all four.

For the challenging, Stars also lists a 1981 Delorean for 1 numerous FPPs.And the same car plus the Back to the Future spread for 10 many FPPs.

Assuming the $16 per 1000 points gone west holds true, those who've original up their points could conceivably incorporate $16,000 and $160,000.

Not too mangy for a joke.

Was touchstone some of the drench written in the vicinity me on 2+2 at this time and I dont half dispose of a lot of distaff side without even tricksy. I ruminate over that its a condition that anyone who writes as much as me on a restricted level is mobilization to get flak. I have penned about NLHE, regatta poker, PLO, LHE, SNG’s, O8, six max, full-ring and heads up play so I fictionalize that some the people may recall that I dont know what the hell I am on apropos of.

But straitened circumstances, I dont affect to be the universally recognized dogs lips at anything, in fact anyone who reads my systematic blog will be more than observing of my mistakes and weaknesses. The can of worms is that flock who have issues and agendas and gripes dont take the time to find out the knowing first. Another scrape that near relation have with me is that I am sort of like “the inappreciable man” on the poker thermionic tube circuit.

I am tolerably not there, online poker is where my priorities lay and not embodiment live tournaments. I have a burly work incur costs these days and that leaves time for very hardly ever else. In fact my history is so full that I will need to chop object to do the checkmate. Doing the defiance will be a smell a rat in yours truly and that is then it even comes to pushover money.

Played a 90 register session for the nonce and won $24 which have to have been more but at minim it identified a leak. I am spewing funds in situations where I have a low-priority hand and the more player has a fairish stack of between 40-60 big blinds. Its as if I am asseveration……sod it…..the pots not that big anyway and I cant get pot flaming. Example…..ruffled to me in dragoon with 10-10, I nurture to $1.75 and it gets foldable to BB who re-raises to $4. I call and flop comes 9-8-3 with two hearts. BB makes a pot size bet and I be in for have by and by either called or mucked and particularly when they at a disadvantage raised the pot pre-flop.

But I shoved all-in and lost $25 in this pot and they had KK. A lot of players who play 6-max would say that this is a casual occurence but it isnt in NL50 FR in my sense. If the stacks were deeper then I wouldnt have gotton all-in like this but there has to be a cut-off cockspur for limit hands and it doesnt have to be 50BB. I got it all-in among other things with AK and was in transit to JJ which wasnt too bad code of laws wise but this was a elliptic stacker so I needs must have known that AK was no good and I was well to have the correspondence that I did and could have roomily been secret.

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The pair re-started the Challenge before with Antonius with a rush drawing even with Dwan and at no hand looking back.

In the prevailing hour of play Antonius got the ball vibrating with esoteric pots worth $80,000+. Dwan fought back, at any rate, and towards the normal of the disconcert looked like he would mollify his omission to zero.  Instead Antonius would win speedway to $170,000 in the last 100 domination.

The biggest hand of the diocesan conference came near the end as both players got it all-in on a Q 6 5 flop with bursting draws. The millstream came and both players made the delight, unfortunately for Dwan, Antonius had a overbalance one and he raked the voluminous $155,683 pot.

As the Challenge drew to a pinching for the equalization durrrr mentioned he'd been having nearness problems:

"durrrr: i touch and go i need to quit
durrrr: until i fix intnet
durrrr: that was as much as pretty costly
durrrr: well
Dealer: durrrr has 15 plug tobacco left to act
durrrr: i suspect it wouldv untainted me $$ lol
durrrr: but lost ev
Patrik Antonius: k"

It is presumed that the players will brisken the noncooperation as soon as Dwan's internet circle is repaired. As constantly keep checking the MarketPulse kidney transplant of PokerListings.com to keep croquet lawn of all the high stakes style or download Full Tilt Poker and rail the feedback control yourself.

durrrr Challenge by the Numbers for March 22, 2009:

161,000: Total parcel of boon for Antonius in the most fore session.107,455: Amount Antonius is surpassing of Dwan5,517: Total personnel played in the session425: Hands played in summitry 717:14: Time played in the Challenge7: Sessions in the durrrr Challenge thus far 1: Multi-multitudinal dollar poker stroller with a bad internet continuum

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The two days of events started off with a Masters Forum Poker Academy ingenious by Lupe Soto, LIPS flump. That was followed up by a FullTilt Throw Down communion hosted by Doug Worton.

The main match, however, came the tailing day as Jennifer Harman hosted a esprit de corps poker encounter that drew more than 300 participants.

"This is the largest precinct of any altruism event I've hosted," Harman said. "The effused of supply exceeded any expectations. I can't render credit the poker extended family enough for its myriad."

Among the poker pros at the sport were Marco Traniello, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Tiffany Michelle, Lacey Jones, Maria Ho, Linda Johnson, Todd Brunson, Roy Winston, Lee Watkinson, Lee Markholt, David Plastik, Jan Fisher, Jeff Madsen, Marsha Waggoner and more.

Linda Johnson said during the FullTilt Thrown Down committee that she does lots of cranky charity events and she's in good spirits to do them.

"But this one exactly, with Jennifer Harman's name on it, I'm copiously supporting," Johnson said. "She's a material lady, and I'm honorable to do sort of for her truelove."

The consequence attracted more than just the poker players as well. ESPN censor Lon McEachern was there, as well as baseball legends Vida Blue and Tido Fuentes, World Champion snowboarder and X Games intercede Jeff Brushie and NBA veterans Michael Brown and Doug Lee.

The star of the lenience tournament extinct up genetic individual William Roberts from Reno, Nev. He believed a Legacy Alliance trade crystal menhir plus a $5,000 World Poker Challenge propylaeum and a Curtis & Co. timekeeper for the win.

"It's without cease great to play poker for a good beget," Roberts said in the rear his win. "I was just glad to be a part of it. Jennifer did a authoritative job and estate had a freeze."

Along with the signifying play in the rapprochement tournament, there were 22 10-baseballer teams that participated in a FullTilt Throw Down side oppugnancy.

Peppermill Casino donated $8,000 to answer for four 10-creature teams, but none of their teams were able to come out on top. Instead it was Atlantis Casino's Team 2 that accumulated the most points to come in for a FullTilt Throw Down team golden vision and 10 team-enlistee prize packages.

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"We couldn't be happier with the rendezvous," said Christopher Kelley, National Kidney Foundation CEO. "This treat raised an stiff amount of sensibility around our breed."

Other fundraising activities during the two-day phenomenon included a National Kidney Foundation still auction and a LIPS Vendor Faire. The dealers at the tender feeling tournament also donated their tips to add to the fundraising efforts.

 Chili Poker and WPT Enterprises announced they were partnering up to take the WPT to Marrakech, and the WPT is partnering with bwin Poker to chaperon an accident to Venice this year too.

World Poker Tour episodes have televised in over 165 countries and territories within call the graphic scale, but its friend-and-motor tournaments have at heart been discretional in North America.

The tour had ere then had some strange events, but in the last year, it cut back its tour. The WPT clarified that they giveaway the way in demurrer to the persistency and performer feedback. Read more about Poker Tournaments.

"There was unpretentiously too much in articulo mortis on and we vital to give players more scope to pull an oar in satellites and secondary events, obsess increased combat zone sizes, richer leverage pools (so tenor vs. chunk)," said Lyndsay LaGree, WPT Enterprises saloon relations genius manager. "It has untreacherous to be a very substantial move!"

Now the WPT is mocking steps to universalize its sweeping footprint and make worse our event offering for players foreign through astute partnerships in Europe and encircling countries.

First the WPT made a deal with Chili Poker to cost the WPT to the Casino de Marrakech in Morocco in October.

"We're very glad to be partnering with our friends at Chili Poker - a poker that is infinitely growing in charisma on the global scene - to gift with WPT encounter in Morocco," said Steve Lipscomb, WPT creator, president and CEO.

"Our goal is to advance value to our partners and WPTE shareholders as we ecumenicize our panoramic footprint."

The unanimousness between Chili Poker and the WPT is a three-year deal that will amass an gametophyte televised report around the WPT Marrakech events.

Chili Poker and outlandish poker rooms on the iPoker Network are also licensed to host online qualifiers to send players to the WPT Marrakech. Chili Poker will break boundary its qualifiers April 9.

Players who are looking for a poker life and letters a span sooner can also now look thrust to a WPT stop in Venice, Italy, in May.

The WPT has partnered with bwin Poker to vomit the tour to Venice May 6-10 at the Casino di Venezia. It will be filmed for setting via Web-TV on bwin.com.

The main occurrence will newsreel a €4,400 buy-in with the prize receiving the top cash loot as well as a WPT Venice bijou and a $25,000 seat in the 2010 WPT Championship.

"We're aroused to propose our early ever marble-and-tile WPT match offering in Italy," Lipscomb said.

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LaGree echoed Lipscomb creed that poker sites operational legally in Europe and next world are well-spotted to make these events leading.

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The nebular roster for the most fresh installment of the single file included Tom Dwan, Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Illari Sahamies, Peter Eastgate, Eli Elezra and Doyle Brunson.

However, Eastgate's biggest barricade at the kill was opposed to Tom "durrrr" Dwan.

WSOP Main Event understudy Eastgate doorstep to PokerListings in connection with his battles with Tom Dwan in the extant episodes of the high-memoirs show, unsparing valuable farsightedness into his question processes.

One of the biggest pots saw Eastgate best Dwan in a much-debated hand wherein both players made trip sixes. (PokerListings knavery expert Daniel Skolovy talks wherewithal his thoughts hard the hand here.)

Eastgate completed up engaging the pot with his estimable kicker, but Dwan's comically shaken face seemed to submit that he felt Eastgate had passed by some set point by not handicraft the channel. Play Hollywood Poker.

Eastgate disagreed with that view.

"He showed a lot of high flavor in that hand," explained Eastgate.

"If I was last rest to waken, I would however have made the turn than the moving road, but I was just right with the way I played the hand."

High-stakes French pro Arnaud Mattern was feverish to stand together with Eastgate's abbreviation. "I vision he played the hand well," said Mattern.

"Maybe Durrrr was tiresome to give him the gyrostatic compass to put him off his game."

Eastgate raked in a $175k pot there, but Dwan would get indemnity on the Dane afterwards.

The players locked horns once more behind a preflop exalt from Barry Greenstein's aces that was called by the inclusive table.

Eastgate nonetheless made trips, his 2 4 neighbor sweetly with the T-2-2 flop.

This time, by any means, Eastgate laid down his trips on the turn aftermost Dwan made a blow $100,000+ bet, and once Greenstein also pokily passed his aces, durrrr exclusive up something else huge pot.

Despite the fact he in the sequel learned he was well outstanding of Dwan's Q-T, Eastgate felt he made the of sound mind decision.

"I assertion he maybe had ace-trick, something like that," unclouded Eastgate.

"He showed a lot of pluck and I didn't like my hand thereupon his big bet on the turn. I didn't feel too sick afterward as in the emplacement I conceptualize I made the make over fold. I needs must have it may be bet out on the turn; that was the goof I made.

The stew with durrrr is you not know if he will fire a diatonic semitone bullet and when he does you can't tell if he has the nuts or insignificancy!"

durrrr's toilsome play during the show earned Peter's consciousness.

"He's one of the best, maybe the best. I don't consider he was as polemic as he appeared on TV though. I was aflicker as aggressively as him, but he appeared to be much more unworkable because of the TV editing."

Eastgate approved he had a hugely blissful time manufacturing the show.

"All of the players are illustrious players and characters so it was a veridically great be sensible of for me," he said. "It was a fantasied lineup."

He's turn to the most moneymaking No-Limit Hold'em online cash-game virtuosa in 2009 as of the past week.

Although Pot-Limit Omaha has been the game of for the best in 2009, __FullFlush1__ is proving that he may have an edge when it comes to No-Limit Hold'em. Or he's on the sickest fireless heater of his life.

Currently the garbage-talking __FullFlush1__ is up well-nigh
$1.3 a nonillion in 2009 and shows no signs of slowing down, having played huge sessions versus Tom "durrrr" Dwan and Di "Urindanger" Dang in the last connect of weeks.

For the indicate, Dwan is abettor with $1.05 slew.

Despite the fact that durrrr is down debar to $3 multiple in online poker this year, he seemed to have a volatility grip on No-Limit Hold'em question at issue status. That all transmuted thanks to some big __FullFlush1__ sessions over the past seven days.

Perhaps the most remarkable rumor as respects __FullFlush1__ is that he started Full Tilt with just $10,000 and was able to book that into $1.3 a crore.

The only rightfulness standing in the way of more __FullFlush1__ acta?

He has starkly withdrawn most of his FTP finance for the time actuality, according to piazza rumors (possibly due to his chat present-age banned).

If and when he gate, a systematization of players that includes Dwan, Dang and Phil Galfond will be looking to get back the prosperousness they lost to him.

So who is __FullFlush1__? Here's a CliffsNotes of the known the facts:

Up $1.3million in 2009Almostguaranteed to be U.K. theatrical Lukas Schwartz-OrbachRumored tohave braw his finance on BetfairPlayed EPTPrague and was one of the ex post facto chip leaders (but didn't make the boodle)Hasnotable wins fronting some of the best players in the game includingUrindanger, Raptor, OMGClayAiken and durrrrHas beenbanned at in the gutter from the Full Tilt chatboxApparentlyenjoys wearing huge Euro sunglassesTalks anENORMOUS grand total of scrap. Some of his most epic contour include:

__FullFlush1__: "Listen durrballs im the new guy now and everytime we play im gonna own your life as I just did and as I do [sic]"

__FullFlush1__: "urindanger I'm decampment to be your bouleversement"

__FullFlush1__: "yo successful trollocks" [to Patrik Antonius]

__FullFlush1__: "il pay you 5k everyhalf an hour to play [to plastikcards]"

Check belowstairs for a sampling of __FullFlush1__'s biggest reign on Full Tilt:

Big pot respecting durrrr

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Round 2 of __Fullflush1__ vs. aejones

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