Five of the PokerStars Pros returned from the 2011 WSOP with bracelets ElkY, Jason Mercier, Maxim Lykov, Eugene Katchalov and Andre Akkari. To celebrate PokerStars are adding a new million dollar guaranteed tournament series where players can play poker online against Team PokerStars.

Eliminate any member of Team Pokerstars with a red spade next to their name and get a $100 bounty prize. The first ever event in the PokerStars Red Spade Open series kicks-off this Sunday 31st July 2011.

A new Sunday Major has also been added to the tournament schedule The Pokerstars Sunday Cubed, the tournament takes place weekly and is timed perfectly to suited players from Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

PokerStars bonus code – STARS600

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Full Tilt Poker has delayed their license review hearing with the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) until no later than 15 September 2011.

Everyone was hoping the entire ordeal would be quickly and efficiently dealt with, then Full Tilt Poker could reopen, loose a few players, pay out all their outstanding cashouts including American players and affiliates but this turned out not to be the case.
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Bodog Poker will stop accepting US players in 2012, the latest news is that BodogPoker plan to leave the US market when their gaming license expires at the end of the year. Bodog is a UK based company who have recently been approved for a UK gambling license.

While Full Tilt Poker servers still remains closed to the entire World, the hearing to re-instate their gaming license has been further delayed until September 2011.

Carbon Poker has blocked sign-ups from new US Players, but will allow new sign-ups soon.

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The Italian poker rooms with licenses to operate in Italy have now been allowed to offer cash games to their players. For the last two years online poker has been legalized in Italy, however players have been limited to playing only online poker tournaments.

Cash games were previously banned because they were strangely enough labeled as luck based gambling games but tournaments were seen as a skilled game.

While most of the Italians are playing at PokerStars, PartyPoker is offering players a chance to win a share of €50,000 in the Party Poker cash quest promotion exclusive to Italian Poker players.
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Hold’em Manager is one of the best online poker tracking software available. Players using the software gain valuable information for hand analysis using the hand histories of all the online poker rooms you play at.

Players can also see which opponents have been the most profitable providing you with all the statistics you need to improve your poker game. The Hold em Manager HUD let’s you see critical information on your opponents so you can take advantage of their weaknesses.

Keep track of your profits and losses with details graphs and reports of your cash games and tournaments.

Update: Holdem Manager 2 has been released, players can upgrade to HM2 Beta after downloading and installing Holdem Manager.

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