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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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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Fans of GSN’s popular high stakes poker show will be pleased to hear that plans are underway to begin the recording of a new season of the series, with new episodes of High Stakes Poker season 6 being taped from the beginning of October through to November in Las Vegas once key players return from WSOPE and EPT scheduled events. Season 6 of High Stakes Poker will be broadcast in February 2010 it will be produced by Poker PROductions producers of “Poker After Dark”.

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FullTilt Poker just signed Justin ‘BoostedJ’ Smith who will now loose his well known BoostedJ nickname which will be replaced by a red FullTilt Pro “Justin Smith”.

The 21-year old online poker pro Smith finished in the money in five diffrent poker disciplines at this year’s WSOP namely no-limit Hold’em heads-up, limit 2-7 triple draw, no-limit 2-7 single draw, stud 8’s or better plus pot-limit Omaha with an 8th place finish at the $10,000 World Championship Stud 8 or Better event to conclude his World Series of Poker rookie year.

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WSOPE 2009 Schedule, The World Series Of Poker Europe (WSOPE) have set their schedule for 2009, the event will be hosted by BetFair and will run from 17 September through to 1 October 2009 the is set at Leicester Square, Casino at the Empire in London.

In this third series of WSOPE, John Juanda will be looking to defend his 2008 WSOPE main event title for the coveted tournament that offers a total of four gold bracelets which are highly desired items amongst top competing professional poker players. The tournament is bound to attact many of the top names in the game as it has done in the past with television broadcast rights given to ESPN.

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