Phil Ivey wins his 8th WSOP bracelet in the Event #37  H.O.R.S.E. with a field of 478 players entered. Ivey lasted till the final table in which he started out as the short stack when the game changed to 7 Card Stud and then RAZZ he managed to control the table and increased his chips from 100k up to a million and then finally won the event heads-up against Bill Chen.

Full Tilt Poker pro Phil Ivey is now tied 5th with Erik Seidel in all time WSOP bracelet winners with Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson both having earned 10 bracelets and Phil Hellmuth who still leads with 11 World Series of Poker bracelets to his name.
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Poker Stars The Big Game a new high stakes televised cash game featuring top poker pros – Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Barry Greenstein and many more.

Poker Stars are running free entry daily freeroll tournaments where online poker players can win their seat to the new PokerStars TV show and be part of all the High Stakes Poker action as a loose cannon player. All qualifying players will get $100k buy-in staked by PokerStars and any profits made will be theirs to keep. This promotion is only available for US and Canadian residents.

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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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UltimateBet Poker2nite features current poker news and interviews with some of the biggest poker pros. So far the Poker TV show has featured special guest appearances from Doyle Brunson, Joe Cada, Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke, Andy Bloch and many more.

The cast of the show includes Joe Sebok, Scott Huff (host), Lacey Jones (reporter) and Dana Workman. The Poker2nite episodes have also been uploaded to youtube in case any fans miss out on the television broadcast.

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The World Series of Poker have decided to continue the WSOP Tournament of Champions event, which is possibly the biggest freeroll tournament ever with a million dollar prize pool. Only 27 players will be invited to play this event, fans can vote for their favorite WSOP bracelet winner to participate in this all stars event.

20 players will be selected from the votes received from fans, 5 players who have won the Tournament of Champions throughout the years and the winners of the WSOP & WSOPE main event for the previous year will also be invited including two wild card players.

The Tournament of Champions will be an entertaining event with top players from the past returning to relive their dream, the tournament will be televised on ESPN on the 3rd August 2010

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