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Chris Moorman becomes one of the Brunson 10

The team that will represent the online poker site DoylesRoom.com has been given the name Brunson 10 and it’s starting to take shape as we speak. The latest player to be chosen to represent the poker legend Doyle Brunson’s own poker site is Chris Moorman. Chris is only 24 years old and he is the fourth player to be recruited to the team.

“Moorman reminds me a lot of me, except for the British accent. He’s a poker natural, a legend in the making, and that’s why I’ve handpicked him to be the next member of The Brunson 10,” Doyle told Bluff Magazine.

In the Bluff Magazine ranking of the best online players this year Chris Moorman is in fourth place. When it comes to live games Moorman is up $300.000 for the year but when it comes to online poker he is up $1.8 million during 2009.

It will be interesting to see who the final six players on the Brunson 10 are going to be.

Ziigmund on BIG TILT at Full Tilt Poker

Everyone knows that Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies is playing at the highest stakes at online poker room Full Tilt Poker. And every once in a while he is involved in pots that are worth mentioning in a poker news post. Lately there have been a lot of action in the games where Ziigmund has been involved but unfortunately for him the big pots have not gone his way on the virtual felt. One player that have been taking advantage of this is poker pro Phil Ivey.

During a two hour session against Phil Ivey he managed to lose $1.2 million out of which $400.000 was lost in coin flips. In his blog Ziigmund is blaming the loss on being tilted while playing.

Ziigmund had planned to go to London to play the WSOP Europe events but judging from the chat at FullTilt after the big loss it seems as he might not be going.

Ziigmund: no london
Ziigmund: jumping from balkony
Phil Ivey: lol

Ziigmund continues to rant in his blog but he also gave the impression that he might be going to London after all even though it seems as poker is the last game on earth that he would want to play.

“Im going to fcking London next week where I play fcking EWSOP,fcking EPT and F Cesar cup and those fcking cashgames and heads-up tournaments…I hope Im out of those F bullshit things in first level so I dont have to play that f idiot game,”

Twelve New Poker Pro’s Joins Lock Poker

The online poker site LockPoker is located on the ever growing Cake Poker Network have recently signed a sponsorship deal with twelve non-american poker professionals. The person behind these signings is Randy Kasper from Poker Players International.

The twelve players who are joining Team Lock Poker are:

• Stephen “allinsteve” Devlin from Ireland
• Bjorn Andre “bjolla” Hovden from Norway
• Dan “danloulou” Smyth from Ireland
• Vincent “Diamond8″ Gabel from Belgium
• Elmar “EmmiV” Masson from Iceland
• Joe “Conno!!y” Connolly from UK
• Francisco Costa from Portugal
• Robert Jean Hoogendoorn fron Holland
• Brendon “brendoor” Rubie from Australia
• Maximilian Bassil from Norway
• Bolivar Palacios from Latin America
• Jose Raul Severino from Latin America

Advertising Against the Gambling Ban in Main Stream Media

The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative have decided to start advertising in newspapers who target the “regular people” in order to put a stop to the online gambling ban. The adverts will be found in The Huffington Poker, The Washington Post and Politico.

“As Congress searches for ways to pay for health care reform and other worthy programs, it should end the unsuccessful prohibition of Internet gambling and start collecting taxes on the billions in revenue currently lost to unlicensed, offshore gambling operators,” said Jeffrey Sandman, spokesperson for the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative.

One of the adverts is going to remind the people of another failed ban which was alcohol. In that ad there will be pictures of alcohol smugglers who are rolling out barrels of alcohol while saying, “Stop the ban! It didn’t work with the alcohol, and it will not work with internet gambling.”

Female Hockey Player Joins Team PokerStars

Online poker giant PokerStars.com have just decided to add another player to their ever growing stable of poker pro’s and celebrities. This time it is Fatima Moreira De Melo that have been chosen to join Team PokerStars and start representing them on the various poker tours.

In 2006 Fatima Moreira De Melo was elected the Rotterdam Sportswoman of the year and she has been representing the Dutch national hockey team in more than 100 games. Now she will also represent the worlds largest poker site, PokerStars in the largest poker tournaments both live and online.

This means that Mats Sundin is no longer the only hockey player that PokerStars have chosen to recruit. Hockey and poker is not the only interests of Fatima. She is also a well known face from many different TV-shows in Holland.

If you feel like testing your online poker skills against Fatima then we suggest you head over to PokerStars.com and look for screen name “FatimaDeMelo“.

Gus Hansen Biggest Winner of the Day

Gus “The Great Dane” Hansen have been having a terrible downswing playing online poker this year. But after a long session yesterday it seems like he might be turning it around after ending up the biggest winner at Full Tilt Poker over the last 24 hours. What makes this a great achievment is the fact that he recently went down in stakes from his usual $300/$600 level to $200/$400 where he was playing pot limit Omaha.

After having played 1701 hands Gus Hansen ended up making a profit of $321.217. Brian Hastings and Urindanger were the two players that contributed with the most money towards Gus’s great win. But the biggest pot of the day was played against Cole South in which Gus flopped three of a kind and slow played it to get as much money in the pot as possible, the pot ended up at $110.000.

It wasn’t long ago that we reported about Gus Hansen’s huge downswing this year so it will be very interesting to follow him at the high stakes tables from now on and see if he will keep his winning trend that he just started.

Suspected Cheating Scandal at Pitbull Poker

There has been a lot of talk about a cheating scandal involving “super user accounts” at Pitbull Poker lately. Since the accusations started the staff at Pitbull Poker have stopped replying to customers emails and they are no longer sending out any hand histories to their players. And to top it off there have been a lot of cashout problems lately after Pitbull Poker decided to cap the payout requests at $100 per account.

Pitbull Poker is a tiny poker network in the online poker business and they are now being accused of having a couple of super user accounts playing on their sites. For those of you who are not familiar with super user accounts we can tell you that these accounts are said to have the ability to see all the hole cards of the opponents at the poker table. Since the rumours started about this scandal Pitbull Poker have been avoiding the media which makes the whole situation very suspicious.

Since the people behind PitbullPoker.com haven’t done anything to stop the speculations by providing hand history to their players or making a public statment on one of the poker news sites the traffic at the flash based poker site has gone down drastically. This is probably why they have deicided to cap the payout requests at $100 per account.

The players who were called out as “super users” are no longer playing on the site but some people claim they are still playing, just under different screen names.

We will bring you updates on this scandal as more information is made available to us.

Ex Full Tilt Poker Employee in Lawsuit

The lawsuits within the online poker world are many at the moment. An ex employee at Full Tilt Poker have decided to sue his former employer.

It is a hectic time for the lawyers working for FullTilt at the moment. It’s not enough that they are currently working on the Clonie Gowen lawsuit but now they also have to start working on a lawsuit coming from former employee Jason Newitt.

As for now we don’t have a whole lot of information to give you other than the fact that Jason Newitt have made a lawsauit against his former employer Full Tilt Poker on the grounds that he was fired without proper grounds and the wages stopped being paid to his bank account. He also lost the shares he was holding in the company.

Newitt is the former employee that accidentally forwarded the email in which Howard Lederer is calling Jimmy Fricke a freak and a weird dude.

We will bring you all the details on this lawsuit as soon as they are made available to us.

Children’s Inheritance managed by mother for Gambling use

It had been reported that an Australian woman; a mother from Canberra has been accused of stealing more than $500,000 out of her children’s inheritance. The accused, Katherine Hawcroft, of Latham in the north of Canberra, then proceeded to lose most of this amount by playing the pokies machines.

The woman denies these accusations but will face the ACT Supreme Court today after being charged with a full 229 counts of theft. The money is said to be taken from her three children and two nieces and the court claim they heard that she was entrusted to manage an investment property in the children’s name.

This trust management was meant to last until the youngest one of them turned 25 in 2011 but she supposedly sold the said property in secret back in 2000 and spent the income made. This property was previously owned by her deceased parents and she allegedly spent $523,000 when playing the pokies at two clubs in Canberra during the period November 2000 till April 2003.

This amounts to the majority of the children’s money. During a pre-court hearing, the 229 accusation counts were read out individually and Hawcroft pled as not guilty to all of them.

Is Lady Gaga a Hermaphrodite?

During a press conference, a German reporter from Berlin was told to leave after he questioned Lady Gaga if she has any male gender anatomy. In a cool and relaxed manner, GaGa replied “My beautiful vagina is offended.”

Internet rumours started out this questioning of gender and the issue has been mentioned often lately with online gambling sites such as Paddy Power, posting gambling odds on her sex.

The rumours started out after a video footage of Lady GaGa while onstage in Glastonbury this year when she allegedly appeared flashing something peculiar underneath her dress. Since then, many have brought up doubts and questions about the pop star having both gender organs.

Lady Gaga is due to win a lot of awards at the MTV Video Music Awards tonight with her song “Poker Face“. You can read more about that in this article.

This is the video that started the rumors a while back.

Do you think Lady Gaga is a male, female or both? Feel free to leave your comments below.

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