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It seems that the female poker players are making their presence known in the Poker World lately, Team UB Poker pro Liv Boeree has just won the European Poker Tour San Remo event winning €1,250,000 for her first place win and biggest tournament win to date.

The young UK female poker player eliminated Toni Pettersson in 3rd place giving her a lead going into the heads-up match against Swedish poker player Jakob Carlsson who was chip leader up until that point.

Liv Boeree, who has only been playing poker for four years and had some poker training from Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke and DevilFish in the UltimatePoker ShowDown Poker TV show.

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French Poker players will be happy to hear that online poker, online gambling and sports bets have been made legal when a bill was recently passed in congress. Online Gambling operators must acquire a special permit and they must run by the rules and regulations stipulated by the bill. A gambling tax of 2% will be charged for poker and the fees will be given to gambling addiction programs.

The bill was passed just in time for the french people to place their football bets on the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa in June.

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UltimateBet Poker2nite features current poker news and interviews with some of the biggest poker pros. So far the Poker TV show has featured special guest appearances from Doyle Brunson, Joe Cada, Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke, Andy Bloch and many more.

The cast of the show includes Joe Sebok, Scott Huff (host), Lacey Jones (reporter) and Dana Workman. The Poker2nite episodes have also been uploaded to youtube in case any fans miss out on the television broadcast.

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The World Series of Poker have decided to continue the WSOP Tournament of Champions event, which is possibly the biggest freeroll tournament ever with a million dollar prize pool. Only 27 players will be invited to play this event, fans can vote for their favorite WSOP bracelet winner to participate in this all stars event.

20 players will be selected from the votes received from fans, 5 players who have won the Tournament of Champions throughout the years and the winners of the WSOP & WSOPE main event for the previous year will also be invited including two wild card players.

The Tournament of Champions will be an entertaining event with top players from the past returning to relive their dream, the tournament will be televised on ESPN on the 3rd August 2010

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The Poker Brat Phil Hellmuth is doing very well in the World Poker Tour – Bay 101 Shooting Star he has made the final table and is currently 2nd of the six players that remain in the event.

If Hellmuth wins this event it will be the first WPT title he has ever won, although he does have 11 WSOP bracelets and more than $11 million in tournament earnings to his name. Hellmuth admitted in his blog that he has had a bad year of poker in 2009 where he actually lost money.

This is a good start to the year for Phil Hellmuth and we wish him luck today on the final table.

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