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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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 FullTilt Poker Mini Series of Poker begins on the 28th May and runs until the 4th of July 2010, enter the 57 online MSOP events in the poker series and win your share of a guaranteed $3 million in prize pools plus a chance to win a 2011 WSOP main event seat.

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BodogPoker have more than 40 WSOP main event prize packages worth $12,000 up for grabs from now until 13th June 2010. There are daily qualifying tournaments starting from a $1 buy-in, where players can play their way to the Bodog Poker main event satellite tournaments.

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Full Tilt Poker MiniFTOPS XVI is scheduled to take place between the 7th – 16th May 2010. The online poker series consists of thirty events with a total of $7 million dollars in combined guaranteed prize pools.

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