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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This week online poker players can play for their last chance to win a seat the the 2010 World Series of Poker main event, FullTiltPoker and PokerStars are offering online WSOP qualifiers where players can win prize packages to biggest poker event taking place at the Rio Casino in Las Vegas on the 5th July 2010.

Full Tilt Poker main event week has more than 235 WSOP seats to be won in their daily qualifying tournaments and freeroll, with a 150 seats guaranteed tournament this Sunday.

PokerStars WSOP Mega Satellite to the Main Event has 200 seats guaranteed on Sunday 20th June 2010 which replaces the Sunday Million Tournament.

Whichever Online Poker Room you choose we wish you luck in getting your seat to this years main event when playing 2010 WSOP Main Event Satellites.

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Lacey Jones is the new addition to the Full Tilt Poker team, well known for her modeling, TV presenting and poker career. Lacey Jones new sponsorship deal came about when her contract ended with Absolute Poker last May and Full Tilt Poker signs Lacey Jones.

She will be presenting the Doubles Poker Championship a new FullTilt Poker TV show which will air this coming July. Lacey Jones is the latest pro signed up after Annette Obrestad strengthening the ladies on the team.

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There is lots of action this month with the World Cup kicking off today in South Africa and the World Series of Poker happening in Las Vegas, even Peter Eastgate has chosen to attend the soccer games this year instead of the WSOP however he will still be playing the Main Event.

The atmosphere in South Africa is amazing at the moment with non stop festivities and not a minute of silence as football fans blow their Vuvuzela in anticipation of the opening game Bafana Bafana versus Mexico.

Here is your chance to get in on all the football action, with a free to enter promotion where you could win up to €100,000,000 for predicting the outcome of all the 2010 SWC games.

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Prop Bets are very common amongst top Poker Pros, this year one of the biggest prop bets at the WSOP 2010 is on Tom Dwan “Durrrr” not winning a 2010 WSOP bracelet. Many pros including Mike Matusow (Durrrr’s Full Tilt Poker team mate) and Daniel Negreanu Poker Stars had placed large bets on this, an estimated $9 million in bets.

When Durrrr made the final table of the WSOP event #11 there was a bit of tension at the Rio Casino with many players hoping that Tom Dwan would not succeed. The fear of losing millions grew stronger as Durrrr was heads-up with New Zealand player Simon Watt.

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