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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.

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

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