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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Well known poker pro Phil Laak has gone on to set a new Guinness World Record at Bellagio for the official longest single continuous session of poker ever recorded. The previous record was held by Paul Zimbler a British poker pro which was set last year at 78 hours, 45 minutes and 41 seconds while the official Guinness World Record was recorded as 72 hours and 2 minutes held formally held by Larry Olmsted. Phil Laak was permitted a 5 minute break per hour, but at he times choose to skip the breaks and continue playing at the $10/$20 No-Limit Hold’em at the Bellagio Poker Room in Las Vegas.

According to Laak, he has always wanted to hold a Guinness world record ever since he read the record book in high school he went on to comment that “This has been a wonderful Journey”.

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The Party Poker World Open V is currently showing on television at the moment, filled with intense action on the final table as short stacked Phil Laak manages to win the event within the first five hands of head ups against Jan Veit. A very impressive victory and the first major cash for Laak in 2009 winning $250,000 and the title.

There was some romantic tension when Phil almost knocked out his girlfriend Jennifer Tilly by calling her all-in. Mike Sexton also received the news about his poker hall of fame induction while he was playing on the final table.

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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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PartyPoker King of the Table is a $2 million guaranteed online tournament which was launched as of today and will take place on Sunday 30th November at 12.45 ET with a $600+$40 buy-in and a championship blind structure. Earn just one PartyPoint on Monday 29th of September and you will get access to one of the four special Kingrolls which will guarantee 200 seats for the main event which takes place on the 30th of November.

The Kingrolls are happening this week at PartyPoker at 14.30 ET daily from Tuesday till Friday.

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