Armed robbers stormed the European Poker Tour’s tournament in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday, reportedly making off with $1.1m.

At 2:15pm, four men believed to brandishing a handgun and a machete burst into the Grand Hyatt Hotel where the tournament was being hosted in partnership with Spielbank Berlin Casino. No shots were fired and nobody was seriously injured.

Tournament organisers EPT denied reports that the suspects had been carrying assault rifles and hand grenades and stated that the money stolen was considerably less than had been reported by the media.

2 Months 2 Million Boys

The G4 cable station have made the surprise decision not to renew the poker reality series 2 Months, 2 Million.

2 Months, 2 Million ran for 10 episodes on G4 starting last August. In the show, Four online sharks (GEEKS)  Dani Stern, Brian Roberts, Emil Patel, and Rosenkrantz lived in a rented house in Las Vegas and set themselves the goal of winning $2 million online in 2 months. When it was all said and done the boys finished with just 676k.

Yuval Bronshtein Buys FTOPS Victory

Last night Yuval “yuvee04″ Bronshtein took down/ bought his 4th Full Tilt Poker FTOPS victory. Yes, you heard that correctly “bought” the title.

Event #23 was a $100+$9 PLO rebuy and Bronshtein was the chip leader when the field had withered down to 3 players. Wanting to make sure of his title, Bronshtein came up with a surprising offer to the players:

yuvee04: hey i will give u guys each an extra 5k if i can have the title
yuvee04: and we can end it right here
stalex107: lol cool w me
yuvee04: its obviously important to me

The official results for the final table were:

1st: Yuval “yuvee04” Bronshtein ($72,760.68)
2nd: Specialkmaster ($66,359.96)
3rd: stalex107 ($58,404.16)
4th: Tabalaba ($34,452.00)
5th: jgmrt3 ($26,100.00)
6th: Maksim “GETGOT” Marandeyev ($18,792.00)
7th: geeforce1 ($12,528.00)
8th: why do I call ($9,396.00)
9th: Christian “da_professional” Iocabellis ($6,681.60)

Jeff "rappin" Madsen

“I’ve had success in the past but it feels good to get these big wins,” Madsen said to Borgata Poker Blog. He also said this win “shows me all my hard work is paying off when it comes to working on my game.”

1. Jeff Madsen $625,006
2. Sirous Jamshidi $367,794
3. Tom Marchese $190,027
4. Barkley Hamilton $165,508
5. Nick Kamen $140,988
6. Al Grimes $116,468
7. Dave Fox $91,949
8. Ross Mallor $67,429
9. Chan Pelton $49,039
10. Matt Matros $31,876

Rush Rules

It may sound confusing, but the idea is quite simple: Instead of joining a standard ring game, you’ll join a large rotating player pool and be moved from table to table with every new hand. With the quick fold button you can fold your hand immediately and move to a new one.

Jon "Pearljammer" Turner gets hacked

Jon Turner (Observer): PLEASE HELP
Jon Turner (Observer): FULT TILT PLEASE HELP
XTraCey: good job jon turner
Jon Turner (Observer): I NEED SUPPORT NOW
Jon Turner (Observer): XTRACEY’S ACCT HACKED OBV
Jon Turner (Observer): PLEASE HELP!
XTraCey: this is all your fault
Jon Turner (Observer): what u mean it’s my fault?
XTraCey: i was up 10k
XTraCey: losing it all for u
XTraCey: bud
XTraCey: ur gonna lose this girl 30k
jacmans36 (Observer): jon i think you got it right
Jon Turner (Observer): YOU COULD GO KILL YOURSELF
XTraCey: u shold say sorry
Jon Turner (Observer): first change password back
Jon Turner (Observer): obv lol
Jon Turner (Observer): this is fking retarded
XTraCey: ya your a retard
XTraCey: and john turner is the man
TurTurow77 (Observer): tilt
XTraCey: john turner is the man
oldsock (Observer): e-mail ftp
XTraCey: its all gone
XTraCey: don worry about it

“I’m having a really shitty run,” Lodden said to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. He’s been losing at poker and sports betting.

“I’m worse off now than two years ago when I was broke,” he says.

“It pisses me off that I didn’t win,” he says about Sunday Million. “When you make such a deep run in a big event you just want to win.”

Johnny Lodden

“Yah, I’m burntout,” Deeb wrote. “I hate them. I’m done with them. I’m gunna take rest of year off, hopefully, and go do something else. Yah, poker was good for a while but **** I hate what I’ve become.”

Shaun Deeb

2009 WSOP Champ Joe Cada

Play poker with Joe @ Poker Stars