Full Tilt Poker Pro Erik Seidel has been on the top of his game in 2011 living up to his poker ambassador reputation. This year alone he has achieved so much including the top spot in the poker all time money list after winning the 2011 NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship this weekend.

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High Stakes Poker Season 7 returns to GSN on Saturday 26th February 2011 with a whole lot of changes to the popular poker TV show. We say goodbye to Gabe Kaplan the host of the previous shows who will now be replaced by Norm MacDonald.

Season 7 will also be available in a 3D Poker TV format for viewers who have 3D Tv’s, there will also be no Full Tilt Poker pros featured in the latest High Stakes Poker episodes.

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World Series of Poker have announced two new members for the Poker Hall of Fame, Erik Seidel and Dan Harrington will now make up the 40 members in this elite group of poker ambassadors. The new members will be inducted in a ceremony just before the WSOP final table in November.

There are now 18 living members of the initial 40 members elected, only one or two new members are elected each year.

Eight poker players were nominated for this years Poker Hall of Fame which include Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Chris Ferguson, Barry Greenstein, Scotty Nguyen, Jennifer Harman, Linda Johnson and Tom McEvoy.

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Phil Laak has won his first WSOP bracelet in the opening event of the WSOPE, Laak has achieved almost everything in poker but was lacking a bracelet win. Phil Laak wins WSOPE event, he cashed more than £170,000 for his first place win in the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe event #1 in London beating Andrew Pantling who has chip leader for most of the tournament.

With his arm still in a cast from his recent ATV accident where he almost lost his eye and broke several bones, Laak has a new out look on life since his accident, his red mohawk is something he always wanted to have, he also plans to learn how to play blues on the piano.

Some might think the Unabomber hit his head really hard in the crash or he is going through a midlife crisis one thing is certain it sure has not affected his poker game.

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The International Poker Players Association championship tournament is going to be one of the biggest poker tournaments on the calender. The televised High-roller poker tournament has a buy-in of $250,000 and a prize pool of $12 million, the tournament is limited to a field of 48 players all competing for a first place prize of $5 million at the Monte Carlo Casino in December 2010.

So far the event has already attracted some of the High Stakes Poker pros including Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Tony G and Patrik Antonius.

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