Andrew Radue

Antonio Esfandiari wins WSOP Big One for One Drop ($18,346,673) in the record breaking million dollar buy-in tournament. Sam Trickett was eliminated within 16 hands of being heads-up against The Magician, who has just made poker history.

Antonio Esfandiari is now in top position for all-time tournament winnings his live tournament winnings total more than $22,800,000. Esfandiari tweeted “This prize is MINE.” and posted a picture of the first place prize money.

Esfandiari now sits in first place on the poker all time money list as the most profitable poker player of all time, Phil Hellmuth also achieved his biggest cash of more than $2.6 million for his 4th place finish.

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There has been some new light shed on the Pokerstars buying Full Tilt Poker rumor, Ray Bitar was arrested at JFK Airport for his indictment charges from Black Friday. The Full Tilt Poker founder has pleaded not guilty to the charges, and willingly turned himself in as part of the process of repaying players.

In an email Ray Bitar sent out to his Dublin staff he revealed that the “deal with PokerStars will very soon make our goal a reality” in repaying players and “PokerStars to guarantee all July salaries” for his staff.

According to the Associated Press the US Gov were working in conjunction with the the Irish authorities to have Ray Bitar extradited. Bitar could be sentenced up to 145 years in prison for charges of fraud.

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The BwinPoker Tour de Poker is currently underway and offers players a chance to win an additional $16,000 in tournament leaderboard prizes. Play the daily online poker tournaments which all feature a buy-in of only $5.50, these events are scheduled to run from 30 June until 22 July 2012.

Sign-up and play the Bwin Poker Tour de Poker tournament series this July.

Bwin Poker Bonus – 100% deposit bonus up to $500

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PartyPoker Summer SuperStars is a new promotion taking place from 2 July – 19 August 2012 at Party Poker. Earn partypoints to get your seat into the daily Party Poker freerolls which offer players a chance to their share of $5,000 in prize pools.

There are also tournament leaderboards running where players can win cash and prizes for finishing in top positions in the daily freeroll tournaments.

Prizes for the three leaderboard winners include:

• WPT Main Event prize package
• WPT Main Event Seat
• WPT National Series Seat

Play for your share of the prizes and become a SuperStars at Party Poker.

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Get a free Poker Stars Micro Millions 2 tourney ticket worth $3.30 when making a deposit of $20 or more on PokerStars. The Pokerstars Micromillions II schedule has been released and features 100 Micro Stakes Poker tournaments.

The online poker tournament series kicks off from the from 12th – 22nd July 2012.

Sign-up for a free poker account using the marketing code below, deposit at least $20 using the pokerstars bonus code ‘MICRO’, this offer is only valid till the 10 July 2012.

Pokerstars marketing code – PSP5693

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