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Joe Cada Wants Legal Online Poker

Joe Cada won the World Series of Poker Main Event this year and has been taking on the role as an ambassador for poker. It seems he is really taking this new role seriously and is putting a lot of work and effort in to making poker accepted in the US.

In the States there are always a lot of discussions about gambling on the internet and if it should be regulated or not. Should online gambling become regulated it will have a huge impact on online poker as well. Joe Cada is one of the people who are currently fighting for poker on the internet to be legalized.

Recently he went in front of congress and talked about why online poker should be legal.

In an interview with Time Magazine Joe Cada had the following to say:

I support the right to play online poker. Poker is not gambling. It is a hobby, an activity and a game. Poker is not about luck, it’s about logic, decision making and math.

Play against Daniel Negreanu on Tuesdays at PokerStars

Online poker giant PokerStars are trying to create the same friendly games as you have in your home games by starting something called Team Pro Tuesdays. During the Team Pro Tuesdays at PokerStars.com you will get a chance to play against some of the Team PokerStars Pro’s at the different games and levels.

With this new concept at PokerStars you will now be able to really test your skills against some of the best poker players in the world. If you feel you are not quite ready to start taking on full blooded poker pro’s then you can still sit and watch the games being played and chat with the pro’s at the tables.

During the month of December PokerStars will be running two “Outlast the pro” events where you get to play in a tournament against these poker pro’s for as little as $11. In these tournaments PokerStars are adding $1000 to the prize pool and those players who manage to outlast the pro in the tournament gets to share those $1000.

It gives the tournament an interesting twist. If you have a big stack you will be hoping that the poker pro’s stay in the tournament while you are just waiting for them to bust out if you are short stacked, said Daniel Negreanu about these new tournaments.

Right now PokerStars are offering a 100% bonus up to $600 for players who sign up using the PokerStars marketing code PSP11903.

PokerStars Helping AIDS Research

A lot of players have been winning huge sums of money in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure over the last couple of years. But now the time has come for AIDS research to become a winner and profit from this event as well.

During the next PCA there is going to be a charity tournament with a buy in of $5250 where 50% of the prize pool is going to be donated to amfAR which is a charitable organization who’s goal is to help AIDS research.

Amongst the players that have already signed up for this tournament we find hockey pro Mats Sundin, tennis legend Boris Becker, french rugby player Sebastien Chabal and many other members from Team PokerStars Pro.

Mini FTOPS XIV Starting Today

During November Full Tilt Poker were running their series of online poker tournaments for the fourteenth time. The buy-ins in the regular FTOPS could be considered to be a bit high for the regular low stakes grinders. This is why the good people over at Full Tilt Poker came up with the clever idea to create a Mini FTOPS where the buy-ins are a lot lower so that everyone can have a chance to participate.

Today notes the start of a new series of Mini FTOPS at Full Tilt Poker. Over the next 11 days there are going to be a total of 25 events played and all of them will have a Team FullTilt pro as a host. Amongst these pro’s are players like Howard Lederer who is going to host and participate in the $50 Mini FTOPS Main Event.

Even though the buy-ins are pretty cheap in these events there are still some huge money to be won as there is a total of $4 million in guaranteed prize money.

Below is the full schedule for Mini FTOPS XIV

Wednesday, December 9th

Event #1: $20 + $2 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max
$250,000 Guaranteed
21:00 ET

Thursday, December 10th

Event #2: $20 + $2 Seven-Game Six-Max
$30,000 Guaranteed
13:00 ET

Event #3: $50 + $5 No Limit Hold’em 3x Shootout
$30,000 Guaranteed
21:00 ET

Friday, December 11th

Event #4: $20 + $2 No Limit Hold’em Cubed
$200,000 Guaranteed
13:00 ET

Event #5: $20 + $2 Stud Eight or Better
$30,000 Guaranteed
21:00 ET

Saturday, December 12th

Event #6: $50 + $5 Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max
$100,000 Guaranteed
13:00 ET

Event #7: $10 + $1 No Limit Hold’em with Rebuys
$250,000 Guaranteed
15:00 ET

Sunday, December 13th

Event #8: $24 + $2 No Limit Hold’em Knockout Six-Max
$200,000 Guaranteed
13:00 ET

Event #9: $50 + $5 No Limit Hold’em Heads-Up
$150,000 Guaranteed
15:00 ET

Event #10: $30 + $3 No Limit Hold’em
$400,000 Guaranteed
17:00 ET

Monday, December 14th

Event #11: $20 + $2 Pot Limit Omaha Eight or Better
$30,000 Guaranteed
13:00 ET

Event #12: $100 + $9 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max
$300,000 Guaranteed
21:00 ET

Tuesday, December 15th

Event #13: $30 + $3 No Limit Hold’em 4x Shootout Six-Max
$30,000 Guaranteed
13:00 ET

Event #14: $50 + $5 HORSE
$60,000 Guaranteed
21:00 ET

Event #15: $20 + $2 No Limit Hold’em Turbo
$150,000 Guaranteed
21:00 ET

Wednesday, December 16th

Event #16: $24 + $2 Pot Limit Omaha Knockout
$50,000 Guaranteed
13:00 ET

Event #17: $30 + $3 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max with Rebuys
$250,000 Guaranteed
21:00 ET

Thursday, December 17th

Event #18: $20 + $2 No Limit Hold’em Cashout
$30,000 Guaranteed
13:00 ET

Event #19: $20 + $2 Limit Hold’em Six-Max
$60,000 Guaranteed
21:00 ET

Friday, December 18th

Event #20: $20 + $2 No Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed
13:00 ET

Event #21: $30 + $3 Razz Six-Max
$30,000 Guaranteed
21:00 ET

Saturday, December 19th

Event #22: $250 + $16 No Limit Hold’em Ante From Start Two-Day Event
$400,000 Guaranteed
13:00 ET

Event #23: $10 + $1 Pot Limit Omaha with Rebuys
$75,000 Guaranteed
15:00 ET

Sunday, December 20th

Event #24: $12 + $1 No Limit Hold’em Knockout
$150,000 Guaranteed
13:00 ET

MiniFTOPS XIV Main Event: $50 + $5 No Limit Hold’em
$600,000 Guaranteed
17:00 ET

If you don’t have an account yet at Full Tilt Poker then there has never been a better time to create one. Use the Full Tilt referral code PRULESNET during the sign up process for a 100% bonus up to $600 when you make your first deposit.

New Nightmare for Isildur1 at Full Tilt Poker

Isildur1 must have been hoping that he was just having a bad dream when waking up on Wednesday morning after having lost huge during Tuesday. Isildur1 could be found playing the $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha tables at Full Tilt Poker against Brian Hastings.

After having played for hours Brian Hastings took down the last pot of the day which was worth $59.000, but before that he had been winning a lot more. Over the whole session he took $3.3 million from Isildur1’s bankroll which means that the unknown high stakes Swede is now at a loss at FullTilt again.

Considering Isildur1 is now down $1.6 since he started playing at Full Tilt Poker the talk about him being broke is starting to be a hot topic across the various poker forums. A lot of the railbirds at these poker forums who obviously know it all also agree that Isildur1 should stick to playing No Limit Hold’em as his PLO game is really making his bankroll suffer.

James Akenhead Wins Full Tilt Poker Million VIII

James Akenhead is having an amazing year to say the least. It’s not enough that he managed to get to the final table of the 2009 WSOP Main Event and the 2009 WSOPE Main Event. His latest accomplishment this year is a victory in the Full Tilt Poker Million VIII.

I have reached a lot of final tables without getting a victory this year so to finally get to win a big event like the Full Tilt Poker Million feels amazing. I think I played really well throughout the tournament. I trusted my instinct and my reads and I didn’t make a lot of mistakes during the tournament, Akenhead said in an interview.

Below are the results from the Full Tilt Poker Million VIII

1. James Akenhead – $500.000
2. Juha Helppi – $250.000
3. Dag Martin Mikkelsen – $200.000
4. Luke Schwartz $150.000
5. Craig Wakeham – $100.000
6. Peter Vasilou – $75.000
7. Taylor Caby – $50.000

Isildur1 Back at Full Tilt Poker

After having lost over $5 million at Full Tilt Poker since his peak there has been a lot of speculation about Isildur1 being broke.

Yesterday he made a comeback at the high stakes tables at FullTilt and proved all the railbirds who have been saying that he is broke that they have been wrong. Between the 5th and 6th of December Isildur1 made a $1.6 profit. The statistics at HighStakesdb.com also show that Isildur1 is up about $2.1 million over the last 24 hours after having played 6148 hands.

The two players that have been taking the hardest beatings during this comeback are Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies. Ziigmund is a $1.4 million loser over the last 1116 hands while durrrr is down $562.000 over the last 3766 hands.

It will be very interesting to see if Isildur1 can get another amazing hot streak going. We wouldn’t be surprised if we get to see some new record pots at Full Tilt Poker in the coming days as Isildur1 is clearly looking to make some nice Christmas cash.

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Tom “Durrrr” Dwan Hits Major Hot Streak

In just a couple of days Tom “Durrrr” Dwan managed to lose over $6 million at the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker. The biggest losses were made agains Swedish player Isildur1 who won huge sums of money from Dwan only to lose it all back to other players at FullTilt the last couple of days.

After the many big losing sessions against Isildur1 it looked as if 2009 was going to be a catastrophic year for Durrrr but if he can keep this up might end up having a decent year after all.

To say that Dwan got a dream start to the month of December would be an understatement as he has made a $2 million profit over the first 4 days of the month.

It will be interesting to see if he can keep it up or if it was just a short hot streak.

Johnny Lodden Talks About Isildur1

Johnny Lodden is a player that used to play the highest stakes at the Prima Poker Network before it became the Microgaming Network. He has been winning and losing huge amounts playing online poker which should make him qualified to relate to the situation of Isildur1.

Johnny Lodden, who is now a part of Team PokerStars, looks back on his day as a high stakes gambler on the internet and had the following to say:

“When you have the money online it is different. If I had a bag in front of my with $3 million things would be different. But if you only have chips and and virtual numbers on a computer screen you act different”.

The following part is directed mostly at Swedish high stakes player Isildur1:

“I think he is young and don’t understand the value of money. But I love his No-Limit Hold’em game. I mean, he is really good at Pot-Limit Omaha but he is much better at No-Limit Hold’em”.

New Record Broken at PokerStars

It feels like we are reporting about new records being set at PokerStars at least a couple of times a month. The Russian player who recorded over 40.000 hands played within a 24 hours period at PokerStars.com did not get to hold on to the record for very long.

The record has already been broken by a player who goes under the alias “ChicagoJoey” who managed to play 50.470 hands in just 21 hours. Not only did he break the old record but he also managed to do something that the Russian player failed to do, to make a profit.

“ChicagoJoey” played at the $0.10/$0.25 pot limit and no limit tables and ended up making a profit of $800 after 21 hours and 50.470 hands. This makes it an hourly wage of about $38. But he also won $33.000 from one of his friends in a prop bet for having completed this challenge.

If you want to try to beat this record you will need to have an account at PokerStars. Use the PokerStars marketing code PSP11903 when creating your account together with the deposit bonus code STARS600 for a free bonus up to $600.

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