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888.com is offering its poker players a once in a lifetime opportunity by putting up one seat for the Cannes Charity Poker event.  Here they will get to play alongside some famous A-list celebrities, as well as some super-rich charity donators.
Two stars already confirmed for the event are Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, who are [continue]

A lot has changed atop the PokerStars monthly tournament leaderboard over the last week, as many of the top ten contenders have fallen out of site. Last week’s leader ace_cider fell all the way back to 48th place this week, being replace at the top by grebnrets86, who had a 4000+ chip week. One of [continue]

The trend continued in the first week of March as Patrik Antonius once again dominated the Hold’em tables. Just six days into the month, the Finnish poker pro is already up over half a million dollars. The first huge pot went down between Antonius and Tom Dwan in a heads up match between the two [continue]

High stakes online regulars Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan got together this afternoon for a show of complete gambling degeneracy, a series of two flips worth $400k each. Both players bought in for the max on Dwan’s very own $500/1000 deep heads up PLO table and proceeded to go all in blind two times in [continue]

As the month of February came to an end, no one could catch up to Zackattak13 who picked up nearly 1000 chips on the PokerStars Monthly Tournament Leaderboard in the last four days to secure the first place finish. Zackattak13 received $5000 from PokerStars for his victory this month. BruceWizayne managed to bring in almost [continue]

Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond was the best on the poker tables this week, picking up nearly $300,000 in winnings over the past seven days. A large amount of the winnings came from multiple battles with Gus Hansen, but Galfond also fleeced a number of the top online players in the world throughout the week.
The first big [continue]

With just four days left in the month, the PokerStars monthly leaderboard’s top positions could still go either way. With slightly more than 1000 points separating first and tenth place, a big day could still move anybody into a much different position. Not a lot has changed since last week as far as names go, [continue]

Over the past month, Gus Hansen and Hac Dang (trex313) have been battling heads up constantly. So far, the matches have been swinging vastly in the direction of Dang. However, yesterday, Hansen finally had the upper hand during the match and managed to pick up a solid win. Throughout the day, the two played many [continue]

For the first time this month, a new leader is atop the PokerStars monthly tournament leaderboard. A slow week for baneris resulted in a slide from first to second after holding onto the top position for over two weeks. Meanwhile 1$ickDisea$E picked up nearly 2000 chips over the last seven days to move from fifth [continue]

FTOPS XI continued yesterday night with Event #17, the 6-max rebuy and addon tournament. The tournament had a guaranteed prize pool of $1,000,000 and with a great turnout and lots of rebuys, it managed to surpass that by over $175,000. There were 1,091 entrants to the tournament, 27 of which were Full Tilt pros. During [continue]