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pokerstars brasil poker tourThe PokerStars Brazil Poker Tour is a brand new series of events taking place around Brazil, the first event of the Season kicks-off in Sao Paulo between the 21-25 July 2011. Qualifying tournaments will be running on PokerStars where players can win a Brazil Poker Tour prize package to play the BPT main event.

There are poker freeroll tournaments running where players can win their seat for free, download PokerStars and create a free poker account.

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wsop live streamPokerStars Pro Jason Mercier wins a WSOP Bracelet in Event #35 Pot-Limit Omaha (Six Handed) $5,000 buy-in event. Runner up was Hans Winzeler who put up a tough fight playing Heads-up against Mercier. This is the 2nd WSOP bracelet for Jason Mercier who won an Omaha Event in 2009.

Jason Mercier also won an European Poker Tour title in 2008 where he made two final tables in the same year, Mercier’s total tournament career earnings are now more than $6 million dollars.

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phil hellmuth wsopPhil Hellmuth has another 2nd place finish in the 2011 WSOP, this time it’s not John Juanda preventing Hellmuth from winning his 12th WSOP bracelet. In Event #33: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship, Hellmuth managed to survive a tough playing field of 168 players and was eventually defeated Heads-up against Eric Rodawig.

Phil Hellmuth misses his 2nd attempt at winning a bracelet at this years World Series of Poker, although we have only reached the half way mark of the 58 events in the series. So far Hellmuth has cashed more than half a million dollars for his two 2nd place finishes, not bad even though he hasn’t won Gold yet.

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elky wins wsop braceletPokerStars Bertrand Grospellier ElkY has won his first WSOP bracelet in event #21 Seven-Card Stud World Championship, this was the first time Elky had ever played in a 7 Card Stud tournament. The PokerStars French Pro has already won an EPT and WPT title and more than $7 million in tournament earnings in his career but the WSOP bracelet is one of the biggest accomplishments in poker.

Elky was also a pro gamer on the StarCraft Team who then focused his attention to online poker and then live poker and become a member of Team PokerStars Pros.

The first place prize was $331,639 although winning a WSOP bracelet is worth far more to ElkY than the prize money.

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victory pokerVictory Poker has decided to close it’s doors as an online poker room and operate as a poker affiliate for CakePoker instead. The decision was made by the site owner Dan Fleyshman, all VictoryPoker player accounts have been moved over to Cake Poker since the 1st June.

Victory Poker are yet another victim of Black Friday, VictoryPoker stopped serving the US market, although the decision was made by Fleyshman despite the fact the Cake Poker Network continues to allow USA Poker players to play poker online.

Victory Poker was a new emerging online poker room which showed great potential within the first year of it’s conception, with a long list of poker pros endorsing the brand which included Antonio Esfandiari, Andrew Robl and Sara Underwood.

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