Rafa Nadal is the latest member of Team PokerStars SportStars, the famous Spanish professional tennis player who also goes by the nicknames The King of Clay and El Nino. Rafa Nadal is one of the greatest tennis players of all time winning 11 Grand Slam titles, 7 French Open titles and 2008 Olympic gold medalist in singles.

The 26 year old Rafael Nadal has admitted that he is a rookie when it comes to playing poker, being a learning player PokerStars have set up a video submission competition where players can send Rafael their poker tips to help him quickly get up to speed playing poker.

PokerStars will stand to benefit from their latest sportstar sponsoring as Nadal is Spanish and keeping in mind PokerStars have just opened legally in Spain with their fully licensed pokerstars.es game

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The English Poker Open 2012 is set to take place at Fox Poker Club in London between 18th – 21st September 2012. The £250,000 guaranteed prize pool is sure to attract many players to England for this prestigious UK poker tournament.

Cake Poker have announced their satellite tournaments which offer players the chance to win a prize package worth $5,000 to the English Poker Open 2012. Prize packages included Main Event buy-in and cash for travel and accommodation.

Qualify for your English Poker Open 2012 seat online, satellites start from as little as $2 on Cake Poker.

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Speed Holdem Poker is the new fast paced poker game to be launched in July 2012. Poker sites like Titan Poker and Winner Poker will feature Speed Hold’em poker games in the lobby on the next software update.

The iPoker Network are keeping up with the latest poker trends offering a similar product to Rush Poker and Pokerstars Zoom Poker, which has become extremely popular since it’s release.

Players can expect the same intense poker action with a speed fold option to speed the game up. Instead of facing the same opponents in a regular ring game or tournament, players are directed to a new table when folding.

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An iPhone poker app has recently been launched with the ability to read your poker face, it determines whether you are bluffing or not.

The BluffCam poker bluffing app released by WowWee Inc. is the first of its kind and is exclusive to the new range of Apple iOS products i.e. iPhone 4 /s, 4^th gen iPod touch, iPad 2 or better the iPhone poker app uses the latest in Vital Signs camera technology to monitor your heart rate and skin color for any micro changes and can be downloaded for $0.99.

Everyone knows that showing an unreadable poker face can prove advantageous in any form of poker as facial expressions and heart rate can at times give away vital information known as tells to the more astute poker player about the strength of your poker hand which is known as reading a player.

Players looking to improve their poker face could use the app to help potentially reduce tells they could be inadvertently giving away by learning to reduce their pulse rate, but in reality its more for the novelty of the device to show up your friends.

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Phil Ivey denied 9th WSOP Bracelet in the 2012 WSOP Event 24 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better at the 43rd World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Final Table players included some of top players in the game: Mike Matusow, Scotty Nguyen, Joe Cassidy and Bart Hanson.

Phil Ivey was eliminated in 3rd place leaving Joe Cassidy vs Scotty Nguyen heads-up at the end of Day 3.

Ivey missed his 9th bracelet again after being denied victory earlier this week when he was heads-up with Andy Frankenberger in Event 17: Pot-Limit Hold’em. Phil Ivey is on fire at the 2012 World Series of Poker after boycotting the series in 2011 after Black Friday/Full Tilt Poker where players funds were seized.

The Tiger Woods of Poker misses another opportunity to add a non-holdem bracelet to his collection, but he currently leads the 2012 WSOP player of the year leaderboard in points.

Phil Ivey would have increased his WSOP bracelet earnings lead to 4th place sharing the position with Johnny Moss.

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