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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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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JC Tran – USA recently won the PartyPoker Premier League III event beating Tony G in the final heads up match on the 30th November. As the chip leader throughout the League JC Tran seem to dominate while other players like Phil Hellmuth and Premier League II champion Andy Black battled to pick up points.

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PartyPoker Premier League III is in full swing and the series will run until 30th November. The event will feature twelve of the current best players in the world playing poker in a new type of league format. Each of the twelve players will get to play six times in the beginning stages. The top 4 players will move forward to the final table and engage in heads up matches until the winner of the final two seats takes first place.

Party Poker Premier League III has a buy-in of $75,000 including $350,000 added, making up a large total of $1.25 million as the prize pool.

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Danish 22 year old Peter Eastgate has won the WSOP title for 2008 as well as the youngest winner of the main event since Phil Hellmuth. Eastgate managed to beat Ivan Demidov heads up at the final table winning over $9 million.

Eastgate played 104 hands against Russian Demidov. In the final hand Eastgate limped in and Demidov checked and the flop revealed K-3-2

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