Ultimate Bet Poker are hosting their UBOC 5 online poker series in August, the series features 20 tournaments each hosted by a Team UB pro player. The UBOC 5 has more than $4 million in guaranteed prize pools throughout the series.

The UBOC Championship event has a guaranteed Million dollar prize pool and is hosted by Phil Hellmuth. Players can buy-in directly for each event or play the daily satellite tournaments to win a seat in the series.

The Mini-UBOC is also running on the same days and features the same event schedule as the UBOC5 with reduced buy-ins.

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The WSOP 2010 Main Event is officially the 2nd biggest live poker tournament of all time beating last years attendance of 6,494 players registered. The final figures have not yet been calculated but so far there have been more players registered than last years event, the worldwide rescission seems to have not affected the main event registration.

The biggest attendance was recorded at the 2006 WSOP which had 8,773 players entering the main event, the biggest live poker event in the world. That year the prize pool was a staggering $82,512,162 and the event was won by Jamie Gold who won more than $12 million for his first place finish.

Update – 7,319 players registered for this years main event making the total prize pool $68,798,600

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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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