It’s FINALLY that time of year!!

New 2010 WSOP bracelets

Here is the complete schedule for the WSOP 2010

Apart from the WSOP events, there will be daily tournaments at the Rio:
$550 NL Hold’em (every Tue, Wed and Thu from June 1 to 30 at 1pm)
$340 NL Hold’em (Daily from May 27 to July 4 at 7pm)
$100 NL Hold’em (Daily from May 27 to July 4 at 11pm)

Phil 'The Unabomber" Laak

Phil “The Unabomber” Laak will attempt to break the world record in poker endurance this June @ the Bellagio Hotel & Casino. His goal is to top the current record of 78 hours of nonstop heads up poker set by the British player Paul Zimbler in 2009.
Laak’s attempt will start on June 2 at the Bellagio under the supervision of the Guinness Book of World Records judges.

“I have played many enduro sessions of poker, but never anything of this magnitude,” Laak states in a press release. “I know this will test my limits but I love a good challenge and am excited to be trying to beat this record in Vegas’ top poker room.”

Paul Zimbler set the current record of 78 hours last year during the WSOP Europe in London.

Security Risk On The Cereus Network

Yet another reason to STAY AWAY from the Cereus poker network

“The encryption key can be easily identified from a network dump and used to decrypt all information transmitted between the client application and the Cereus servers,” Pokertableratings.com reports.

Joe Cada 2009 WSOP Champion

6th Street: Life After the River is a new reality series starring WSOP Champion Joe Cada & best friends. Go behind the scenes of the 2009 WSOP with Joe.

Party Poker Cash Game

The competition is divided into seven levels. At each level, players will need to play 400 hands in a day with the most profitable players advancing towards the final table which takes place on 7th May.

Level 1: Stakes: 0,50$/1$ no-limit Hold’em – 5th to 9th April (five days)
Level 2: Stakes: 0,50$/1$ no-limit Hold’em – 12th to 16th April (five days)
Level 3: Stakes: 1$/2$ no-limit Hold’em – 19th to 21st April (three days)
Level 4: Stakes: 1$/2$ no-limit Hold’em – 26th to 27th April (two days)
Level 5: Stakes: 2$/4$ no-limit Hold’em – 29th to 30th April (two days)
Level 6: Stakes: 5$/10$ no-limit Hold’em – Play starts at 16:00 ET on 3rd May
Final Table: Panokset: 25$/50$ no-limit Hold’em – Play starts at 16:00 ET on 7th May

To be part of the OCGC, players must opt in before the end of level 1 and play a minimum of 400 hands on one day during each level. They can play on as many days of each level as they choose.

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)

Congrats to Jeff Madsen for taking down the Borgata Winter Open for 625k.  Keep on making us laugh dude.

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

Do you feel that normal online poker is too slow?? Well I got great news for you. This week Full Tilt poker has launched their new idea called Rush Poker. This game will blow your mind and jack up your rakeback!

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.