Poker Stars test out the latest Nintendo Wii poker game Excitebots: Trick Racing which is actually a racing game which includes various sport challenges including poker. Nintendo gathered some of the world best poker players to challenge their skills in a totally different poker format.

PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu and Full Tilt Poker pros Gavin Smith and Eric Lindgren, and Bodog Poker pro Evelyn Ng take on the challenge to see who will win the Main Event bracelet.

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The 40th Anniversary of the World Series of poker is well underway with the first event being the Casino Employees tournament which started on Wednesday but the real news is the $40,000 Event #2 of the WSOP 2009.

The $40,000 No Limit Hold’em special tournament got underway this Thursday with a total of 201 entrants the $40,000 buy in was designated to highlight the World Series’ 40th year anniversary and has managed to attract a poker star studded tournament, the tournament itself will be conducted over four days with a slow blind structure and deep stacks of 120,000 for starters event, slowed down the structure and gave players plenty of chips to play with. The $40k NLHE will be one of only four WSOP events aimed for broadcast on television by ESPN next summer.

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PokerStars will be raising money for charity at this years European Poker Tour Monte Carlo by hosting their first Ante Up For Africa – AUFA tournament, during the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final.

The charity tournament will feature a field of famous celebrities including pro players, who will all help to raise money and awareness for the Darfur crisis.

PokerStars players can do their bit for charity and win a seat to this prestigious live event.

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Pokerstars Daniel Negreanu attempts to turn a $10 bankroll into $100,000 taking Chris Ferguson’s zero to 10k to a new extreme. Starting with a $10 bankroll Daniel Negreanu will attempt to earn $100,000, exclusive to online PokerStars NL cash games.

You can challenge the legendary KidPoker while playing micro limit games at Pokerstars while he attempts this challenge. Download and use the latest 2009 PokerStars bonus code: STARS50

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Despite high viewer ratings from all the previous episodes of the Game Show Network’s popular televised High Stakes Poker show, the continued production of session five in the series of the popular Poker TV show was nearly halted. Great news though for poker fans is that “High-Stakes Poker” among the best poker shows on television will make a comeback with recording of the new series at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas beginning on 19th December running through until 21 December 2008.

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