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VMA’s show said to be taken by storm with Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face”

Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face,” the chart topper hit has been nominated for many music awards at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards that will take place this Sunday on MTV. The Poker Face song is taken from GaGa’s debut album The Fame.

One of these awards is the Video of the Year award with many aspiring to get the award by showing off sexy poses and bodies. The video was also famous for the MTV forced omission of the word muffin, as this was originally present in the original lyrics and then omitted due its offensive meaning.

Lady Gaga is definitely one of these artists who go overboard; predominantly with her over the top videos and sexy outfits. Sexy and elaborate dance moves that might come across as forced. Ms. GaGa might go over the top during video production but no one can deny her excellent voice and live acoustic performances.

On the other hand, fellow nominee Beyonce with her song “Single Ladies” gives off a natural sex appeal, onstage and on video. Both artists are heavily nominated artists this year and will battle it out on the final night for the big award.

The show will be pod casted on MTV as per annual schedule.

Isabelle Mercier kicked out of Team PokerStars?

During EPT Barcelona it was announced that Isabelle Mercier no longer represents PokerStars as a member of Team PokerStars. It is still unclear if she got kicked off the team or if she quit herself.

It was during the European Poker Tour event in Barcelona that a live commentator “leaked” the information that Mercier was no longer a part of Team PokerStars.

Since the poker sites do not want to give out information regarding the contracts they have with the players we will probably never really get to know the reason behind this seperation.

It will be interesting to see where Mercier will end up next. It could be that she goes straight over to the main competitor Full Tilt Poker as a member of Team FullTilt.

Tournaments Downtime at Cake Poker

The poker players at Cake Poker have been experience a lot of disconnections and have been problems playing in tournaments at Cake Poker. After a while it got to the point where the players were not even able to access their accounts. In order to rectify this situation the people at Cake Poker have decided to stop running all tournaments.

It is still unknown when the tournaments at Cake Poker will be available again but we have been told that they will not re-launch them before the problem has been 100% fixed.

Cake Poker have made an announcement and promised the players that their funds and player information is safe and that no third party has been accessing their information.

The most likely scenario is that all the buy-ins for tournaments will be refunded to the players accounts and the players will also be compensated with some sort of poker bonus.

According to the mangement at Cake Poker it will take a couple of working days to sort out the current issues and they will release an official statement when the problem is solved and the tournaments are back up and running. Until the problem has been sorted the players at Cake Poker will only be able to play cash games as they are still running smoothly.

If you have yet to create an account at Cake Poker now is probably the best time as you can get 33% Cake Poker rakeback plus a $500 signup bonus.

Tom “durrrr” Dwan not accepted in the Poker Hall of Fame

To be voted into the Poker Hall of Fame is probably the greatest honor that you can get as a poker player and only the best of the best will manage to be voted in.

This year there are nine players on the list of players that have been nominated for the Hall of Fame. The player who gets voted in this year will join players like Doyle Brunson, Amarillo Slim and Wild Bill Hickock.

The nine players that have been nominated this year are:

• Barry Greenstein
• Phil Ivey
• Mike Sexton
• Daniel Negreanu
• Men “The Master” Nguyen
• Tom McEvoy
• Dan Harrington
• Erik Seidel
• Scotty Nguyen

From the beginning it was meant to be ten players as Tom “durrrr” Dwan was meant to be one of the candidates but some people thought that he did not fill one of the criterias for being nominated, namely the criteria to have stood the test of time.

The criterias for being nominated to the Poker Hall of Fame are:

• A player must have played poker against acknowledged top competition
• Played for high stakes
• Played consistently well, gaining the respect of peers
• Stood the test of time
• Or, for non-players, contributed to the overall growth and success of the game of poker, with indelible positive and lasting results

Tom Dwan Loses $900K in one session

Tom “durrrr” Dwan is one of the players who are playing at the highest stakes available on the internet. So far he has been very successful doing this but on Thursday he ended up in the red after a very bad session.

Just a couple of days ago Tom Dwan was winning most of the sessions against Patrik Antonius and he almost managed to get back to even in the “Durrrr Challenge“. But outside the challenge it has been hard times for Dwan at the tables. Last Thursday he had a very bad session and ended up losing $900.000 for the day after having played just 1071 hands.

At the same time the Swedish high stakes player DIN_FRU a very strange session where he played only 3 hands and lost $500.

Gus Hansen who has been running bad since forever continued to lose money and he finished the day $178.000 in the red after only 125 hands played.

A player who was more fortunate on the other hand was Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies who managed to win $443.000. It might have been the day of the Finnish players as we can also report that Patrik Antonius ended up with a healthy profit.

If you want to watch these players battle it out on the highest stakes in online poker every day then we suggest you create an account at Full Tilt Poker using the FullTilt referral code TILTEDBONUS which will give you access to watch all of these games for free.

Most downloaded songs revealed – Lady GaGa – Poker Face!

It is now official that Lady GaGa’s “Poker Face” is the all-time most downloaded song.

According to the Official UK Charts Company; this high has been recorded, since the download chart was founded and recognized five years ago. Poker Face is listed as the most downloaded track with a record 779,000 sales.

Another highpoint for Lady GaGa is holding also third place with her first UK single “Just Dance” with another record of 700,000 downloads. Lady GaGa commented on this great outcome; “I am honoured to be the songwriter and performer behind the number one and number three all-time most downloaded songs in history in the UK.”

“Sex On Fire” and “Use Somebody” by Kings of Leon are standing at 2nd and 4th position and number 5 is La Roux’s “In For The Kill“.

Play against Daniel Negreanu for a Million Dollars

Here is the chance for all of you who have been looking for a chance to play heads up against Daniel Negreanu for big money. In a new TV program there will be a chance for one lucky player to take on Daniel Negreanu heads up for a $1 million pay day, without risking any of your own money.

A while back Online Poker News were one of the first to reveal the new TV show “Face the Ace“ that is hosted by Full Tilt Poker and now we can also reveal a new similar TV show but with online poker giant PokerStars.com as the host.

In the TV show “PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge” one player will have the opportunity play heads up against Daniel Negreanu for a $1 million first prize, just like in Face the Ace.

The road to the heads up match against Negranu is very long though.

First you will have to finish in the top 10 in one of the freerolls that are run at PokerStars every day. If you are one of the top 10 finishers you will get to send in a presentational video to FOX and PokerStars. From all of these videos PokerStars will pick out a couple of players who will get to play against other PokerStars professionals and celebrities heads up. If you succeed in those heads up matches your chances of playing against Daniel Negreanu for the million dollar.

As you can see the process of actually reaching the heads up match against Daniel Negranu is very long but should you manage to reach all the way it will be worth all the struggling.

If you do not yet have an account at PokerStars we suggest that you head over and create your account now to participate in these freerolls that are currently running. Use the PokerStars marketing code PSP11903 for a 100% bonus up to $600 when you make your first deposit.

Bodog Poker now open to Canadian Players

Bodog.com, already well known with everyone for their massive and stable online casino already operating for fifteen years in the Asian, American and United Kingdom market, is now opening up to the Canadians too.

They are in fact launching a Canadian portal very soon, finally offering all of their services to these residents too as of September 3rd. Gambling is finally becoming more accepted through the nation of Canada and players are definitely welcoming this new Bodog addition as their new source of entertainment.

It is planned that the Bodog’s Canadian site will appear the same as the other Bodog sites but with the difference that it will be open to Canadian residents only. Bodog will be offering the usual services of the online sports book, a poker room and a casino.

This expansion into the North reaching Canada comes at the same time as Bodog’s 15th anniversary. This means that the Canadian gamblers will benefit from an amazing 15% match bonus when they sign up, without any limit. In addition to this, there will also be the poker room subjected 110% match bonus, which will be distributed as you play.

Gus Hansen moves down in levels

Gus Hansen have lost huge amounts playing online poker this year. Now it looks like he is moving down in levels to try to get his bankroll back to his former glory.

Gus, who is a Full Tilt Poker pro is playing at the highest level you can find on the internet and he is used to the huge swings that comes with it. But now it seems as if the Dane needs a bit more money to feel comfortable playing against players like Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey at the really high stakes tables. Or it could just be that his bankroll is no longer big enough to justify playing at the higher stakes.

The reason behind this speculation is that today when a member of Online Poker News logged on the their FullTilt account to join the rail birds at the high stakes tables he was very surprised to find Gus Hansen playing at the $50/$100 No Limit Hold’em tables instead of his usual $300/$600 limits. It seems as the move down in levels might have been a good move by Gus because while we were watching him play he actually managed to win most of the big hands in which he participated.

Hopefully Gus will manage to turn his bad trend around on these lower limits or else he might be heading the same road as the Swedish player “Maratonas” who after winning over a million at FullTilt in a week managed to lose it all back and more.

So far this year Gus is stuck $2.3 million playing online poker at the FullTilt high stakes tables.

“Durrrr” Wins the Latest Session of the durrrr Challenge

The famous durrrr Challenge is moving forward at a pretty slow pace. The last session was won by Tom “durrrr” Dwan. But if the challenge was to end today the winner would be Patrik Antonius by a very small margin.

The durrrr Challenge is a challenge created by Tom Dwan to the poker world (excluding Phil Galfond) that will last over 50.000 hands. Just a couple of weeks ago this challenge was basically dead as there were very few, if any sessions being played. But lately there has been a lot more action at Full Tilt Poker between Dwan and his first challenger Patrik Antonius.

Earlier in the challenge it was “durrrr” who had a safe and secure lead but after the last couple of sessions the tables have turned and Antonius is now in very small lead. The small lead got even smaller after Dwan won last nights session that lasted for 3 hours with 458 hands being played.

In last nights session durrrr managed to win $26K from Patrik Antonius who is still holding a tiny overall lead as mentioned earlier in this article. But you still have to keep in mind that less than half of the challenge has been played so there are still a lot of hot and cold streaks for both players to go through before the durrrr Poker Challenge is over.

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